cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
riflip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riflips
Etymology: Pronunciation of the acronym RFLP.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A section of DNA whose length varies among individuals and which is delimited by a base which does not occur within it.
RFLP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RFLPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of restriction fragment length polymorphism.
Related terms: riflip
Erdos number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Erdos numbers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Erdős number.
trade winds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trade wind
like a bat out of hell
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He came tearing around the corner like a bat out of hell and nearly ran us over.
text: Appellee testified that "the train came through like a bat out of hell," and while this language is probably highly figurative, it nevertheless might tend to indicate that the train was running at a very high speed.
ref: 1904, The Texas Civil Appeals Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Civil Appeals of the State of Texas, volume 32, page 594:
text: The Paranoids cast off, backed the Godzilla II out from the pier, turned and with a concerted whoop took off like a bat out of hell, nearly sending Di Presso over the fantail.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 3, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes.
ref: 1977, Jim Steinman, “Bat Out of Hell”, in Bat Out of Hell, performed by Meat Loaf:
synonyms: hell-for-leather
qualifier: simile
glosses: With crazy or excessive intensity or speed.
have a bun in the oven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a bun in the oven
form: having a bun in the oven
form: had a bun in the oven
form: had a bun in the oven
Senses: examples: text: Her parents were surprised to learn that she had a bun in the oven.
text: You really think it's cool for you to hit the sauce with a bun in the oven?
ref: 2004, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, spoken by Steve Zissou (Bill Murray):
qualifier: sometimes considered vulgar
glosses: To be pregnant; to be expecting a baby.
blow chunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows chunks
form: blowing chunks
form: blew chunks
form: blown chunks
Senses: glosses: To vomit chunks of undigested food.
glosses: To suffer from explosive diarrhea.
examples: text: The old version was okay, but the new version blows chunks.
glosses: To be very bad, inadequate, unpleasant, or miserable; to thoroughly suck.
blow out of proportion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows out of proportion
form: blowing out of proportion
form: blew out of proportion
form: blown out of proportion
Senses: examples: text: I don’t think we need to blow it out of proportion. There’s a problem, and we should fix it.
glosses: To overreact to or overstate; to treat too seriously or be overly concerned with.
Synonyms: magnify
exaggerate
make a big thing out of
make a mountain out of a molehill
Related terms: lay it on thick
overreact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊ.vəɹ.ɹiˈækt/
ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹiˈækt/
enpr: ō'vər-rē-ăktʹ
Forms: form: overreacts
form: overreacting
form: overreacted
form: overreacted
Etymology: From over- + react.
Senses: examples: text: Please try not to overreact if she drives badly when she is first learning.
text: overreact to bad news
glosses: To react too much or too intensely.
Derived terms: overreaction
overreactor
overstate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈsteɪt/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈsteɪt/
Forms: form: overstates
form: overstating
form: overstated
form: overstated
Etymology: From over- + state.
Senses: glosses: To state or claim too much.
examples: text: I think it is overstating matters to say that an hour online is spending all night on the computer.
text: He was suggested not to overstate at the interview.
text: In a closely reasoned article in The Guardian, Mr. D. L. Munby, Oxford University's Reader in the Economics and Organisation of Transport, has taken Dr. Beeching to task for overstating his case for withdrawing stopping train services as money-losers.
ref: 1963 July, “News and Comment: Dr. Beeching's overstatement”, in Modern Railways, page 3:
text: Career diplomat Conrad Tribble said on Twitter that multiculturalism “is one of our greatest strengths as a country, and I go to that well often as an American diplomat. It’s hard to overstate the global soft power impact of America’s cultural diversity.”
ref: 2021 January 19, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Nicole Gaouette, “Pompeo attacks multiculturalism, saying it is ‘not who America is’”, in CNN:
text: A Nobel prize-winning US biologist, who has been widely quoted describing a “smoking gun” to support the thesis that Covid-19 was genetically modified and escaped from a Wuhan lab, has said he overstated the case.
ref: 2021 June 9, Peter Beaumont, “Leading biologist dampens his ‘smoking gun’ Covid lab leak theory”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To exaggerate; to state or claim to a greater degree than reality.
Synonyms: exaggerate
overdo
Derived terms: overstatement
overstater
overstatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overstatements
Etymology: From overstate + -ment or over- + statement.
Senses: examples: text: The story he gave was something of an overstatement of the facts.
text: It would hardly be an overstatement to describe Drummond's next design as an outstanding British locomotive class, and possibly his masterpiece.
ref: 1951 November, David R. Webb, “The Drummond 4-4-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 774:
glosses: An exaggeration; a statement in excess of what is reasonable.
examples: text: She had a knack for overstatement.
glosses: The tendency to overstate.
Synonyms: exaggeration
hyperbole
Related terms: understatement
friend of mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friends of mine
Senses: coordinate_terms: friend of ours
qualifier: Mafia
glosses: A personal friend of the speaker/writer who is not a member of the Mafia.
peptone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛptoʊn/
Forms: form: peptones
Etymology: From German Pepton, from Ancient Greek πεπτόν (peptón, “cooked, digested”) derived from πέπτω (péptō, “soften, ripen, boil, cook, bake, digest”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any water-soluble mixture of polypeptides and amino acids formed by the partial hydrolysis of protein.
Derived terms: amphopeptone
antipeptone
bactopeptone
hemipeptone
metapeptone
mycopeptone
neopeptone
parapeptone
peptonic
peptonization
peptonize
peptonoid
peptonuria
polypeptone
propeptone
friend of ours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friends of ours
Senses: coordinate_terms: friend of mine
qualifier: Mafia
glosses: A member of the Mafia in another town or district, but not a direct rival.
eucalypti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eucalyptus
eugenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From eugenic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The controversial U.S. Supreme Court case of Buck v. Bell, a 1926 ruling that upheld the rights of states to eugenically sterilize, without consent, those it considered "unfit".
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 19:
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, eugenics.
eulogistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eulogistic
form: most eulogistic
Etymology: From eulogy + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: But on one fatal occasion I happened to change my tactics and warmly praised a work[…] my eulogistic review of the hated individual, unfortunately for me, appeared, with the result that private spite outweighed public justice and I was immediately dismissed.
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 8:
text: He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Conveying praise or admiration, as in a eulogy.
Derived terms: eulogistically
eulogizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eulogizers
Etymology: From eulogize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who eulogizes.
euphoniously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more euphoniously
form: most euphoniously
Etymology: From euphonious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Then there are flowers to be painted on velvet—the new romance to be read—or some invention of novel embellishment to be discussed with your Mlle. Jacinthe, Hyacinthe, or whatever poetic name may euphoniously designate your Parisian priestess of the mirror.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 93:
glosses: in a euphonious manner
euphorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more euphorically
form: most euphorically
Etymology: From euphoric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a euphoric manner.
eggbeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggbeaters
form: egg beater
Etymology: From egg + beater.
Senses: glosses: A kitchen utensil that uses rotating blades to beat eggs.
examples: text: With a wire eggbeater, lower the oysters into this three or four at a time.
ref: 1919, Herald and Presbyter, page 30:
text: Bleeding.—Bleeding for therapuetic sera are made with trocar and rubber tube into 2-liter Erlenmeyer flasks having a large flat wire eggbeater to support the clot. After the flask is about half-full, it is tilted on the side where the wire is inserted.
ref: 1920, William Hallock Park, Public Health and Hygiene: In Contributions by Eminent Authorities, page 57:
text: Taking advantage of the fact that a wire eggbeater of the type shown [pictured: a flat whisk] is so easily fastened between a camera tilt-head and the tripod, one photographer used such a beater to steady his camera […]
ref: 1944, Popular Mechanics, page 118:
glosses: A (wire) whisk.
glosses: A swimming stroke involving alternating kicks.
examples: text: He scanned the horizon to the south, searching in vain for the eggbeater.
ref: 2008, George Galdorisi, Thomas Phillips, Leave No Man Behind: The Saga of Combat Search and Rescue:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A helicopter.
glosses: An outboard motor.
Synonyms: rotary beater
Coordinate terms: sense: kitchen utensil
word: eggwhisk
sense: kitchen utensil
word: beater
sense: kitchen utensil
word: whisk
egg whisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg whisks
form: eggwhisk
Etymology: From egg + whisk.
Senses: glosses: A whisk (kitchen utensil made of multiple loops of wire) used to beat eggs.
Coordinate terms: eggbeater
beater
green goddess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the stage play The Green Goddess (1921) because of its green color.
Senses: glosses: A variety of salad dressing containing mayonnaise, sour cream, chives and chervil.
wikipedia: en:The Green Goddess (play)
bowling green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowling greens
form: bowling-green
Senses: glosses: A finely-laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of lawn for playing the game of bowls.
Derived terms: as smooth as a bowling green
smooth as a bowling green
Related terms: crown green
bowling-green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bowling green.
green-blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Unable to see the colour green because of an inability of the retinae to respond to that light of that colour.
Derived terms: green-blindness
greenheart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenhearts
Etymology: From green + heart.
Senses: glosses: A type of tree (Chlorocardium rodiei) native to Guyana.
examples: text: For instance, NR employed a timber consultant and tried out different hardwoods before settling on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified greenheart from Guyana.
"Greenheart has a long track record of use in challenging applications," Bartlett says. "It's so naturally durable that it won't require maintenance - it has a design life of 30 years and can last 60. Preservative treatment is unnecessary - it's resistant to attack by shipworm and wood rotting fungi.
ref: 2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 50:
glosses: Timber from the greenheart tree.
glosses: A type of shrub (Colubrina arborescens) native to Florida and the Caribbean.
Derived terms: bastard greenheart
Demerara greenheart
false greenheart
eglantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eglantines
Etymology: From French églantine, Middle English eglentyn, from Old French aiglantin (adj.), from Old French aiglent (“sweetbrier”), from Latin aculentus (with the ending of spinulentus (“thorny, prickly”)), from aculeus (“prickle”), from acus (“needle”).
Senses: examples: text: Come down, we pray thee, ere the hot sun count / His dewy rosary on the eglantine.
ref: 1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, stanza XXIV, page 61:
synonyms: sweetbrier
glosses: A Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips.
sweetbrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetbriers
form: sweet-brier
form: sweet brier
form: sweetbriar
form: sweet-briar
form: sweet briar
form: sweet-breare
Etymology: From sweet + brier.
Senses: examples: text: Is it some ill-fed village hound yielding to the instinct of the chase? or the lost pig which is said to be in these woods, whose tracks I saw after the rain? It comes on apace; my sumachs and sweet-briers tremble.
ref: 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
text: But some woods are more coquettish in their habits; and the breath of the forest of Mormal, as it came aboard upon us that showery afternoon, was perfumed with nothing less delicate than sweetbrier.
ref: 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC:
synonyms: eglantine
glosses: A Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers, and red hips.
egocentrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more egocentrically
form: most egocentrically
Etymology: From egocentric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in an egocentric manner
egocentricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egocentricities
Etymology: From egocentric + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: egocentrism
glosses: The quality of being egocentric.
egoistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more egoistical
form: most egoistical
Etymology: From egoistic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Caring about oneself and the gratification of one's own desires rather than others; selfish.
qualifier: by confusion of the similar words
glosses: Egotistical (tending to talk excessively about oneself).
Derived terms: egoistically
nonegoistical
unegoistical
Related terms: egoism
egoist
greenmail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenmails
Etymology: Blend of greenback + blackmail.
Senses: examples: text: Greenmails typically result in reduced shareholder value.
ref: 2007, S.R. Vishwanath, Corporate Finance, →ISBN, page 681:
text: He's gonna leverage his position, and he's gonna get as much greenmail as he can.
ref: 2013 July 30, Unfinished Business (Suits), season 3, episode 3, spoken by Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman):
glosses: The profiting from an attempted hostile takeover by forcing the target company to buy back the hostile bidder's shares at an inflated price.
Derived terms: anti-greenmail
greenmail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: greenmails
form: greenmailing
form: greenmailed
form: greenmailed
Etymology: Blend of greenback + blackmail.
Senses: glosses: To profit from an attempted hostile takeover by forcing the target company to buy back the hostile bidder's shares at an inflated price.
Derived terms: greenmailer
Related terms: blackmail
egoistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more egoistically
form: most egoistically
Etymology: From egoistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: He was going to ask her to marry him—indeed, he had intended to ask her without more delay. But the words were not spoken yet; instead, he found himself talking egoistically on and on.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 15, in Burmese Days:
glosses: in an egoistic manner
egotistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more egotistically
form: most egotistically
Etymology: From egotistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in an egotistic manner
egregiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egregiousnesses
Etymology: From egregious + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: egregiosity
glosses: The quality of being egregious.
eccentrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eccentrically
form: most eccentrically
Etymology: From eccentric + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: In an eccentric manner.
Derived terms: isoeccentrically
ecclesiastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ecclesiastically
form: most ecclesiastically
Etymology: From ecclesiastic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The ecclesiastically robed Choral Majority put on the best performance of the evening, singing their popular satires on several popular hymns and patriotic anthems.
ref: 1982 December 11, John Kyper, “March for Milk, Moscone: A Memory and a Tradition”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 3:
glosses: in an ecclesiastic manner
eclectically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eclectically
form: most eclectically
Etymology: From eclectic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
ref: 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162:
glosses: In an eclectic manner.
ecologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ecologically
form: most ecologically
form: œcologically
Etymology: From ecological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ecological manner.
glosses: regarding ecology
Derived terms: ecologically friendly
macroecologically
socioecologically
ecstatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ecstatically
form: most ecstatically
Etymology: From ecstatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an ecstatic manner.
ecumenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ecumenically
form: most ecumenically
Etymology: From ecumenical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In the fact that phallic worship has, for so many generations, been looked upon as something to be hidden; in the fact that it received ecclesiastical condemnation where there was no downright denial of its existence; in the taboo so continuously and ecumenically imposed upon its expression; and in the feeling that any discussion concerning it was tantamount to an admission of bawdy tastes; no doubt lie the main reasons for the neglect which the subject has received by writers and historians generally.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page vii:
glosses: In an ecumenical manner; from or by the Christian religion.
glosses: Regarding ecumenism.
echoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈkəʊɪk/
/ɛˈkəʊɪk/
Forms: form: more echoic
form: most echoic
Etymology: From echo + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an echo
glosses: resembling a sound
glosses: resembling a sound
imitative of a sound
glosses: resembling a sound
imitative of a sound
Synonym of onomatopoeic.
synonyms: word: onomatopoeic
Derived terms: anechoic
echoically
echoic memory
hyperechoic
hypoechoic
isoechoic
nonechoic
green monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green monkeys
Senses: glosses: An Old World monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus)
glosses: Any monkey the genus Chlorocebus.
Synonyms: callitriche
vervet
Derived terms: green monkey disease
eclecticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eclecticisms
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From eclectic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In those days she had admired his pluralistic openness of mind, and struggled, in her kitchen, towards a parallel eclecticism, learning to cook the dosas and uttapams of South India as well as the soft meatballs of Kashmir.
ref: 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 255:
text: I am concerned that this encouraging but brief period of success will foster the opinion, already widely held, that the monetary pillar is superfluous, and lead monetary policy analysis back to the kind of muddled eclecticism that brought us the 1970s inflation.
ref: 2006, Robert E. Lucas, in: Panel Discussion: Central Banking: Is Science Replacing Art?, in: European Central Bank (ed.), Monetary Policy: A Journey from Theory to Practice: An ECB Colloquium Held in Honour of Otmar Issing, March 16-17 2006, p. 168
head_nr: 1
glosses: The quality of being eclectic
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: An approach to thought that draws upon multiple theories to gain complementary insights into phenomena
topics: art
arts
head_nr: 1
glosses: Any form of art that borrows from multiple other styles
economizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economizers
form: economiser
Etymology: From economize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who avoids waste
glosses: A heat exchange device in a boiler that improves efficiency and saves fuel.
Related terms: economic
economics
economy
green-winged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having green wings (used in the names of various types of bird)
Derived terms: green-winged macaw
green-winged teal
gnawing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.ɪŋ/
note: intrusive R
ipa: /ˈnɔːɹ.ɪŋ(ɡ)/
ipa: /ˈnɔ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɪŋ
Forms: form: more gnawing
form: most gnawing
Etymology: From Middle English gnawynge; equivalent to gnaw + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Engleitner found the constant gnawing hunger harder and harder to bear. When the rations eventually increased again and the prisoners were given stew, it did not make much difference to Engleitner.
ref: 2013, Bernhard Rammerstorfer, Unbroken Will:
glosses: severe or intense
raw_tags: of pain or hunger
gnawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.ɪŋ/
note: intrusive R
ipa: /ˈnɔːɹ.ɪŋ(ɡ)/
ipa: /ˈnɔ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English gnawynge; equivalent to gnaw + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gnaw
gnawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.ɪŋ/
note: intrusive R
ipa: /ˈnɔːɹ.ɪŋ(ɡ)/
ipa: /ˈnɔ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɪŋ
Forms: form: gnawings
Etymology: From Middle English gnawynge; equivalent to gnaw + -ing.
Senses: examples: the gnawings of mice
glosses: The process by which something is gnawed.
examples: text: The spirit of slavery raves under tormenting gnawings, and casts about in blind phrenzy for something to ease, or even to mock them.
ref: 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4:
text: "If I made them suffer the pains of exile, I would not let them endure also the gnawings of starvation.
ref: 1893, Marietta Holley, Samantha at the World's Fair:
text: But from the time we returned from our first journey, after having spent some months in trying, as some one put it, to "discover America," I felt the gnawings of excited appetite.
ref: 1917, Julian Street, American Adventures:
glosses: A sensation of being gnawed.
gnomish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gnome + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a gnome; gnomelike.
examples: text: Whoever had taken Vanessa had brushed past the gnomish wizard with no more thought than one gave a mosquito, and the result of that encounter had been astonishingly violent—and final.
ref: 2011, David Niall Wilson, Heart of a Dragon:
topics: fantasy
glosses: Belonging to a race of gnomes.
glosses: aphoristic; gnomic
Derived terms: gnomishly
gnomishness
ghastliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghastlinesses
Etymology: From ghastly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In both a mazefull ſolitarineſſe: / In night of ſprites the gaſtly powers to ſtur, / In thee or ſprites or ſprited gaſtlineſſe: […]
ref: c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 96, page 564:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: Francesca felt oppressed as she gazed on the bare walls, the wooden pallet, the crucifix at the foot, where the wan light of the ill-supplied lamp gave a strange ghastliness to the dying agony of the Saviour.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 184:
glosses: The state of being ghastly.
glosses: A ghastly thing.
ghettoize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛtoʊaɪz/
ipa: [ˈɡɛɾoʊ̯aɪ̯z]
Forms: form: ghettoizes
form: ghettoizing
form: ghettoized
form: ghettoized
form: ghettoise
Etymology: From ghetto + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To put (someone) in a ghetto, or to isolate as if in a ghetto.
examples: text: Liberation includes the full range of sexual, social, racial and economic relations with the goal of empowering lesbianism as a valuable, legitimate choice for all women, not settling for a tolerance of ghettoized "deviant lifestyles."
ref: 1982 December 4, Sharon Page, “R2N2 Conference: Revitalizing the Movement”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 3:
glosses: To make (a place) into a ghetto, or to add the characteristics of a ghetto.
Derived terms: deghettoize
ghettoization
ghostliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghostlinesses
Etymology: From ghostly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ghostly.
ghostwritten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ghost + written.
Senses: glosses: Written by a ghostwriter.
ghostwritten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ghost + written.
Senses: glosses: past participle of ghostwrite
ghostwrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of ghostwrite
ghoulishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ghoulishly
form: most ghoulishly
Etymology: From ghoulish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a ghoulish manner.
ghoulishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ghoulish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Those who don’t leave crush up against the windows, stand on chairs to get a better look. A swarming ghoulishness that couples with the horror of palms pressed to steaming glass.
ref: 2019, Julia Armfield, “Stop your women’s ears with wax”, in Salt Slow, Picador, page 86:
glosses: The quality of being ghoulish.
curtal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəːtəl/
Forms: form: curtals
Etymology: From older French courtault (modern French courtaud), from court (“short”) + -ault (pejorative suffix).
Senses: glosses: A variety of short-barrelled cannon.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An early type of bassoon.
glosses: A horse or other animal having a docked tail.
glosses: Anything docked or cut short.
curtal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəːtəl/
Forms: form: more curtal
form: most curtal
Etymology: From older French courtault (modern French courtaud), from court (“short”) + -ault (pejorative suffix).
Senses: glosses: Of horses, having a docked tail.
examples: text: she had loosened her hair and changed into the curtal frock of sunbright cotton that he was so fond of and had so ardently yearned to soil in the so recent past.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 98:
glosses: Physically shortened; short.
examples: text: essays and curtal aphorisms
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Abridged, curtailed.
Derived terms: curtal friar
Related terms: curtal-axe
curtal friar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtal friars
Senses: examples: text: Now, sirs, who hath seen our chaplain? where is our curtal Friar?
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
qualifier: slightly derogatory
glosses: A friar with a short gown.
abidden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɪd.n̩/
Senses: examples: text: I trust the jolly priest hath but abidden by the wine-pot a thought too late. Who saw him since the castle was ta’en?
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: past participle of abide
liard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ljɑː/
ipa: /ljɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -ɑːd
Forms: form: liards
Etymology: From French liard, of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: I waited — not to share the booty, for, so help me God and Saint Withold! as neither I nor any of mine will touch the value of a liard, — I waited but to render my thanks to thee and to thy bold yeomen, for the life and honour ye have saved.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: A small French coin, equivalent to a quarter of a sou.
brown-bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaʊnbɪl/
Forms: form: brown-bills
Etymology: From brown + bill; see bill (“polearm”).
Senses: examples: text: Let the Kanne of ſtrong ale [be] your conſtable, vvith the toaſte his brovvne bill, and ſugar and nutmegs his vvatchmen ſtand in a readineſſe, to entertaine mee euerie time I come by your lodging.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC:
text: The tramp of horses was now heard, and the Lady Rowena appeared, surrounded by several riders, and a much stronger party of footmen, who joyfully shook their pikes and clashed their brown-bills for joy of her freedom.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A type of halberd used by medieval foot-soldiers and constables, painted brown to prevent rust.
cardecu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːdɪkjuː/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹdɪkju/
Forms: form: cardecus
Etymology: From French quart d'écu ‘quarter of an écu’.
Senses: examples: text: A set of hilding fellows there were, whom we dismissed to find them a new master — enough had been done for revenge and profit; the bunch of them were not worth a cardecu.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: A silver French coin worth a quarter of an écu.
leman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛmən/
ipa: /ˈliːmən/
rhymes: -ɛmən
homophone: lemon
Forms: form: lemans
form: leaman
form: lemman
form: lemon
Etymology: From Middle English lemman, variant of leofman, from Old English *lēofmann ("lover; sweetheart"; attested as a personal name), equivalent to lief + man ("beloved person"). In the past, incorrectly asserted to derive from French l'aimant (“the [male] lover”).
Senses: examples: text: Faire Venus seemde vnto his bed to bring
Her, whom he waking euermore did weene,
To be the chastest flowre, that ay did spring
On earthly braunch, the daughter of a king,
Now a loose Leman to vile seruice bound[…].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The prisoner I speak of is better booty—a jolly monk riding to visit his leman, an I may judge by his horse-gear and wearing apparel.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter II, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: One beloved; a lover, a sweetheart of either sex (especially a secret lover; a gallant or mistress).
examples: text: '...They are lost, I tell thee, they are lost. For them there is no heaven nor hell, and in neither shall they praise God’s name.’
‘Father,’ cried the young Fisherman, ‘thou knowest not what thou sayest. Once in my net I snared the daughter of a King. She is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For her body I would give my soul, and for her love I would surrender heaven. Tell me what I ask of thee, and let me go in peace.’
‘Away! Away!’ cried the Priest: ‘thy leman is lost, and thou shalt be lost with her.’
And he gave him no blessing, but drove him from his door.
ref: 1915, Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates: The Fisherman and his Soul:
text: And he sent the news to William the Lyon, sitting drinking the wine and fondling his bonny lemans in Edinburgh Town, and William made him the Knight of Kinraddie[…].
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song:
glosses: A paramour.
Derived terms: lemanry
pyet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪət/
rhymes: -aɪət
Forms: form: pyets
form: piet
form: pyot
Etymology: From pie + -et.
Senses: examples: text: Here cometh the worthy prelate, as pert as a pyet.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: A magpie; a water ouzel.
piet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌɪət/
rhymes: -ʌɪət
Forms: form: piets
form: piot
form: pyet
form: pyot
Etymology: From pie + -ot, with later forms remodelled after -et.
Senses: examples: text: We teach Blacke-birds, Starlins, Ravens, Piots, and Parots to chat[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Some of the domestick Ducks are all white, others all black, others like Piets, partly white, partly black; and others subcineritious, as all wilde ones are.
ref: 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 446:
glosses: The magpie.
Related terms: alt: etymologically unrelated, but coincidentally also a bird
word: piet-my-vrou
pyot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪət/
rhymes: -aɪət
Forms: form: pyots
form: piet
form: pyet
Etymology: Equivalent to pie + -et.
Senses: glosses: A magpie; a water ouzel.
brighten up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaɪtən ʌp/
ipa: /ˈbɹaɪ̯ʔn̩ ʌp/
Forms: form: brightens up
form: brightening up
form: brightened up
form: brightened up
Senses: glosses: To become brighter
raw_tags: said of the weather
examples: text: Her kindness brightened up my day.
text: You can brighten up a room by hanging new wallpaper.
glosses: To make cheerful.
glosses: To become more attractive.
recheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈt͡ʃiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: recheats
Etymology: Probably from Anglo-Norman; compare Old French racheter (“rally”).
Senses: examples: text: [B]ut that I vvill haue a rechate vvinded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an inuiſible baldricke, all vvomen ſhall pardon mee: becauſe I vvill not doe them the vvrong to miſtruſt any, I vvill doe my ſelfe the right to truſt none: […]
ref: [1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], signature [A4], verso:
text: Prior, that last flourish on the recheat hath added fifty crowns to thy ransom, for corrupting the true old manly blasts of venerie.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A series of notes blown on a horn as a signal in hunting to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.
recheat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈt͡ʃiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: recheats
form: recheating
form: recheated
form: recheated
Etymology: Probably from Anglo-Norman; compare Old French racheter (“rally”).
Senses: examples: text: Rechating with his horne, which then the Hunter cheeres,
Whilst still the lustie Stag his high-palm’d head up-beares,
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 216:
glosses: To blow the recheat.
sweetening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetenings
Senses: glosses: The process of making something sweeter.
examples: text: Honey is the oldest of sweetenings.
glosses: A sweetener.
Derived terms: long sweetening
short sweetening
sweetening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sweeten
insisting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɪstɪŋ/
Forms: form: more insisting
form: most insisting
Senses: glosses: Synonym of insistant.
synonyms: word: insistant
Derived terms: insistingly
insisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɪstɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of insist
inventing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnvɛntɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of invent
close-fitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more close-fitting
form: most close-fitting
form: closefitting
Senses: examples: text: Her close-fitting clothes showed off her assets.
text: Though this arrangement was a vast improvement on what had gone before, the engine crew were still very conscious of a side wind round their legs, and it was not until 1892 that R. J. Billinton rectified this, when he built his "D3" Class 0-4-4 bogie tank engines Nos. 363-398, and provided them with waist-high close-fitting cab doors.
ref: 1945 November and December, A. B. MacLeod, “Development of the L.B.S.C.R. Driver's Cab”, in Railway Magazine, pages 335–336:
glosses: Snug, tight, form-fitting.
raw_tags: of clothing etc.
Synonyms: word: clingy
word: figure-hugging
word: as tight as Dick's hatband
word: body-hugging
word: bodycon
word: clingsome
word: close-fitting
word: form-fitting
word: skinny
word: skintight
word: slim-fit
word: slinky
word: snug
word: tight
word: tight-fitting
exclamatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈklæməˌtɔɹi/
Forms: form: more exclamatory
form: most exclamatory
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin exclāmātōrius.
Senses: glosses: Resembling an exclamation.
glosses: Emphatic.
Derived terms: exclamatorily
nonexclamatory
metaphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metaphoric
form: most metaphoric
form: metaphorick
Etymology: From metaphor + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of metaphorical.
synonyms: word: metaphorical
Derived terms: metaphoricity
nonmetaphoric
unmetaphoric
massively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæs.ɪv.li/
Forms: form: more massively
form: most massively
Etymology: From massive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The locomotive was the now inevitable American 2-8-0, No. 2623. There she stood, effectively blocking the level crossing, simmering gently, massively inert. It was almost dark, and one's final sight was of her high, firelit cab, the enginemen nonchalantly leaning out, waiting for the right-away, while impatient road convoys piled up on both sides of the crossing.
ref: 1945 January and February, “Notes and News: American Locomotives in France”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:
text: Some of the most impressive applications of massively parallel computing have been in the context of wide-area distributed platforms.
ref: 2003, Ananth Grama, Vipin Kumar, Anshul Gupta, George Karypis, Introduction to Parallel Computing, 2nd edition, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: In a massive manner, in a way that appears large, heavy or imposing.
glosses: Greatly.
Derived terms: massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online role-playing game
massively parallel
nucleic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Nucleic acids are found in the nuclei of cells.
glosses: Referring to the nucleus of something.
Derived terms: arabinonucleic
binucleic
deoxynucleic
deoxyribonucleic
desoxyribonucleic
endonucleic
heteronucleic
nucleic acid
nucleicity
oligonucleic
polynucleic
ribonucleic
threonucleic
paints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪnts/
rhymes: -eɪnts
Senses: glosses: plural of paint
paints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪnts/
rhymes: -eɪnts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paint
Kingdom County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom County
Senses: glosses: County Kerry.
gate guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gate guards
form: gate guardian
Senses: glosses: A decommissioned aircraft, artillery piece, or tank, displayed near the entrance to an airport or military base.
first bite free
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: the concept that a dog is not considered dangerous until it has bitten someone.
hull splash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hull splashes
form: hull splashing
form: hull splashed
form: hull splashed
Senses: examples: text: Repair parts coverage may block protection sought by boat builders By Jim Flannery Staff Writer Boatbuilders are looking to federal design protection legislation as their best hope for deterring hull splashing, following laut year's Supreme Court ruling against state anti-splash laws.
ref: 1991, United States Congress: House Committee on the Judiciary, Industrial design protection: hearings before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Administration of Justice:
text: During hearings to ban hull splashing, or the copying of hulls, Representative Howard Coble of North Carolina suggested that all hulls be registered with the Copyright office.
ref: 1998 March, Charles Barthold, “The Hull Truth”, in Yachting, volume 183, number 3, page 10:
text: I wouldn't defend hull splashing, put there are probably hundreds of cases where one boat manufacturer develops a design that is "inspired" by, (rather than physically molded from), a competitor's boat, and moving too agressively^([sic]) into that arena begins to tread in the "pointy on one end, blunt on the other" copyright claims.
ref: 2005 December 8, Chuck Gould, “"Hull Splashing" Boat Builders - Beware”, in rec.boats (Usenet):
text: The legislation would make it harder to hull splash, and it would make it easier for companies to register their designs with the government.
ref: 2006 January, “No More Splashing!”, in Tunnel Boat Performance News:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To reverse-engineer the hull of a boat by making a cast of it.
hull splash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hull splashes
Senses: examples: text: A quick look at the underwater profile reveals a deep forefoot and fine entry at the bow that virtually eliminates pounding and helps to reduce hull splash noise.
ref: 1995, Lakeland Boating - Volume 49, page 46:
text: For other hull shapes than Wigley, the hull splash itself may overturn and merge with a breaking wave.
ref: 1997, National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, Twenty-First Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, →ISBN, page 666:
glosses: The wave produced by the hull of a boat hitting the water.
bush baptist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush baptists
form: bush Baptist
form: bush-Baptist
form: Bush Baptist
Senses: examples: I asked Jim what religion he was, and he replied "bush baptist".
glosses: A fictitious religious affiliation, invoked by a person who does not claim or admit affiliation with a particular church.
examples: text: Annesley knew this meant that she was not to tell tales, but about what? Did Uncle Walker want his Bush Baptist religion kept a secret?
ref: 1975, Cicely Louise Evans, The Saint Game, page 80:
text: 1999, American Association for State and Local History, History News, Volumes 54-56, page 69,
The Creole slave revolts in Dominica in 1823, involved bush Baptists and slave catechists who attacked plantations and which led to 250 deaths; […]
text: He had always been there in my time of need and yet he knew I was a bush Baptist.
ref: 2009, Sheryl McCorry, Diamonds and Dust, page 120:
glosses: A person not educated in any particular religion; a religious zealot or proselytiser not educated in religion.