cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bathcubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathcube
batholitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more batholitic
form: most batholitic
Etymology: From batholite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to batholite.
battercakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battercake
bayadeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bayadeers
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bayadère.
bayadeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bayadeer
beanshooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beanshooter
lorentzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lorentzian
form: most lorentzian
Senses: examples: text: We investigate the propagation of the scalar waves in the Witten space-time called "bubble of nothing" and in its remarkable sub-manifold, the lorentzian Hawking wormhole.
ref: 2016, Alain Bachelot, “Waves in the Witten Bubble of Nothing and the Hawking Wormhole”, in arXiv:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lorentzian.
beaverwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beaver + wood.
Senses: glosses: Celtis occidentalis, the common hackberry, a large deciduous tree native to North America.
beauty bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauty bushes
form: beautybush
Senses: glosses: Linnaea amabilis, a deciduous flowering shrub in the family Caprifoliaceae.
beauty bushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beauty bush
Bedouins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bedouin
Bedawin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bedawins
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bedouin.
Bedawins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bedawin
bedboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedboard
bedotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪd
Etymology: From be- + dot + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Scattered with, or as if with, dots.
bedsoniae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedsonia
bedyde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedide
Senses: examples: text: Fayre goddesse, lay that furious fitt asyde,
Till I of warres and bloody Mars doe sing,
And Bryton fieldes with Sarazin blood bedyde,
Twixt that great Faery Queene, and Paynim king.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of bedyed.
beebee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beebees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bibi.
beebee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beebees
Etymology: Phonetic respelling of BB.
Senses: examples: text: Flicking beebees across the visual field of a frog will increase its rate of tongue-flicking, but one should not infer from this experimental result that a function of frog tongue flicking is to catch beebees.
ref: 1995, N. S. Thompson, Perspectives in Ethology, volume 11, page 29:
text: They were rising from the ground; a swarm of angry bees encircling him in a cloud. As he swung his arms, he felt them bouncing off like tiny beebees. The swarm was, for now, content to hum around him without biting, but reality bit, and fear was born anew.
ref: 2001, Carl Bilicska, Vengeance, page 35:
glosses: A ball bearing.
beebees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beebee
beegah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beegahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bigha.
beegahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beegah
beeswinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beeswing + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having the filmy, translucent crust called beeswing.
raw_tags: of wine
examples: the beeswinged eyes of the old man
glosses: Covered with a filmy layer.
beerage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of beer + peerage, coined in the late 19th century in response to the awarding of honours to brewers.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The influence of the brewing industry within the British political system.
beetlebrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beetlebrain
beetfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beetflies
Etymology: From beet + fly.
Senses: glosses: Pegomya hyoscyami, a fly whose leaf miner larvae often damage the leaves of beets and other greens.
beetflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beetfly
beetleheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beetleheaded
form: most beetleheaded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beetle-headed.
beetleweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beetle + weed.
Senses: glosses: Galax urceolata, an evergreen herbaceous perennial plant native to the southeastern United States.
beetlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beetling
beeyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beeyards
Etymology: From Middle English be yerd; equivalent to bee + yard.
Senses: glosses: An apiary.
beeyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beeyard
befinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + fin + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The sky now belonged to the Soviets, and the befinned automobiles that promised to take consumers there seemed silly and indulgent.
ref: 2013, David Gartman, Auto-Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design:
text: ... only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin’ tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell befinned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet ...
ref: 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):
glosses: Having fins.
behaviourisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of behaviourism
bejabers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bejabbers.
bellettrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellettrists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of belletrist.
bellettrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellettrist
plum pudding model
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the plum pudding model
Etymology: The electrons are viewed as negatively-charged "plums" in a positively-charged "pudding".
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An obsolete scientific model of the atom, devised shortly after the discovery of the electron but before the discovery of the atomic nucleus, and according to which the atom is composed of electrons surrounded by a soup of positive charge to balance the electrons' negative charges. It was disproved in 1909.
Related terms: Thomson's hypothesis
digislate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digislates
Etymology: From digi- + slate.
Senses: examples: text: I have us make maps of our territory on digislates we found in a waterlogged cellar at the bottom of a ravine, […]
ref: 2014, Pierce Brown, Red Rising:
text: I used to borrow one of the inventory digislates with general network access, then slip up here to research.
ref: 2016, Tessa Elwood, Split the Sun:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A computer resembling a slate or tablet.
examples: text: A DigiSlate is a clapperboard with the ingenious addition of a digital timecode display (hours : minutes : seconds : frames).
ref: 2003, Chris Jones, The Guerilla^([sic]) Film Makers Movie Blueprint, page 318:
text: A DigiSlate can be set to display either SMPTE or internal (real time) time code.
ref: 2010, Richard W. Kroon, A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms, page 207:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A clapperboard with a digital display.
digislates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digislate
joule-second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joule-seconds
Senses: examples: text: The joule-second is the unit used for Planck's constant.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit equal to a joule multiplied by a second, used to measure action or angular momentum.
remeid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈmid/
ipa: /ɹɪˈmiːd/
ipa: /ɹəˈmid/
ipa: /ɹiˈmid/
Forms: form: remeids
form: remead
form: remede
Etymology: From Middle English remede, from Anglo-Norman and Old French remede. Doublet of remedy.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Commissioners of Burghs […] meet yearly at Inverkeithing “to treat of the welfare of merchandize, the good rule and statutes for the common profit of burghs, and to provide for remeid upon the skaith and injuries sustained within the burghs.”
ref: 1878, William Charles Smith, "Borough" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 64
glosses: Remedy.
Legal redress of a wrong.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: Remedy.
Any correction of a wrong or undesirable thing.
glosses: Remedy.
The proportion by which a coin may acceptably deviate from its ideal weight or proportion of precious metal.
Derived terms: remeid in law
remeid of law
remeid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈmid/
ipa: /ɹɪˈmiːd/
ipa: /ɹəˈmid/
ipa: /ɹiˈmid/
Forms: form: remeids
form: remeiding
form: remeided
form: remeided
form: remead
form: remede
Etymology: From Middle English remede, from Anglo-Norman and Old French remede. Doublet of remedy.
Senses: glosses: To remedy, in its various senses.
remeids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remeid
remeids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remeid
Pickering series
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Edward Charles Pickering.
Senses: glosses: Three lines of singly ionized helium found, usually in absorption, in the spectra of hot stars, produced by transitions of an electron with principal quantum number n=4 state from a higher energy level.
wikipedia: Edward Charles Pickering
remeiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remeid
remeided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remeid
dialogal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dialogal
form: most dialogal
Senses: examples: text: Dialogal existentialism focuses on the role of speech in establishing interpersonal relationships and the realm of the in-between.
ref: 1994, Vincent Shen, Richard T. Knowles, Van Doan Tran, Psychology, Phenomenology, and Chinese Philosophy:
glosses: Of or related to dialogue.
Bornian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bornian
form: most Bornian
Etymology: From Born + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Max Born (1882–1970), German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics.
dialoguers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dialoguer
benchership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bencherships
Etymology: From bencher + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of being a bencher.
bencherships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benchership
benchmarkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benchmarking
benightments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benightment
music of the spheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Music of the Spheres
Senses: examples: text: For sure the milder planets did combine
On thy auspicious horoscope to shine . . .
And then, if ever, mortal ears
Had heard the music of the spheres
ref: 1685, John Dryden, "To Mrs Anne Killigrew"
text: He said that, the people of their island had their ears adapted to hear "the music of the spheres . . .".
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=I to IV):
text: Like that same mystic music of the spheres,
Which no one hears, so loudly though it rings
ref: 1824 March 26, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos XV. and XVI., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and H[enry] L[eigh] Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XV, stanza LXXVII:
text: Like most dreamers, to whom it is given sometimes to hear the music of the spheres, Heyst, the wanderer of the Archipelago, had a taste for silence.
ref: 1915, Joseph Conrad, chapter 1, in Victory: An Island Tale:
text: We once believed in the music of the spheres but now we hear silence—static and silence.
ref: 2006 March 12, Harvey Shapiro, "God Poem" in The Sights Along the Harbor (excerpt), New York Times (retrieved 17 Jan 2016)
glosses: A continuous, glorious, harmonious set of sounds that are not audible to ordinary human beings, said in ancient and medieval Western cosmology to be produced by the movement of the celestial bodies.
examples: text: A further wave of fluorescent balloons gently deflated, exhaling into miniature harmonicas to breathe an eerie music of the spheres.
ref: 1996 October 17, Judith Palmer, “Culture: EVENT The Incident ICA, London”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 17 Jan 2016:
text: As its imagery becomes more surreal and mystically abstract, Mr. Glass's ethereal electronic score, which suggests a Himalyan music of the spheres, gathers force and energy.
ref: 1997 December 24, Stephen Holden, “Movie Review: Kundun”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Jan 2016:
text: The last works of Beethoven—the Symphony No. 9, the "Missa Solemnis," the late string quartets, the final piano pieces and the variations—are music of the spheres, mercurial, mysterious and never to be entirely understood.
ref: 2002 Sept. 19, Tim Page, "'Diabelli' Variations: Beethoven Heard the Cosmic in the Trivial," Washington Post (retrieved 17 Jan 2016)
glosses: Sublime, mysterious music.
Synonyms: harmony of the spheres
musica universalis
musica universalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: Synonym of music of the spheres.
synonyms: word: music of the spheres
Music of the Spheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of music of the spheres.
subfeu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbfjuː/
ipa: /ˌsʌbˈfjuː/
ipa: /ˈsəbˌfju/
ipa: /ˌsʌbˈfjuː/
Forms: form: subfeus
form: sub-feu
Etymology: From sub- + feu. Cognate with subfief and Latin subfeudum, subfeodare.
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A feu sublet by a vassal to a subvassal: a right to hold subinfeudated land in perpetuity in exchange for rent.
Derived terms: sub-feu duty
subfeu duty
subfeu
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbfjuː/
ipa: /ˌsʌbˈfjuː/
ipa: /ˈsəbˌfju/
ipa: /ˌsʌbˈfjuː/
Forms: form: subfeus
form: subfeuing
form: subfeued
form: subfeued
form: sub-feu
Etymology: From sub- + feu. Cognate with subfief and Latin subfeudum, subfeodare.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To subinfeud: to grant land via a subfeu.
subfeus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subfeu
subfeus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subfeu
subfeuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subfeu
subfeued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subfeu
endobenthos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + benthos.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: benthic organisms that live buried or burrowing in the sediment, often in the oxygenated top layer
Related terms: endobenthic
feudlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feudlike
form: most feudlike
Etymology: From feud + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a feud.
bereavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bereaver
Bergamasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bergamask
bergenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bergenias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Bergenia of flowering plants in the family Saxifragaceae.
bergenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bergenia
berryings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berrying
betaware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beta + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A beta version of software.
betterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bettering
bezzant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bezzants
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bezant.
bezzants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bezzant
bhaigan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhaigans
form: baigan
form: bigan
form: bygan
Senses: examples: text: Admitting to stealing the vegetables, Mohammed said, “Boss ah tief the thing, but not me alone.” The bhaigans were valued $100.
ref: 2015 February 7, Azard Ali, “Mother put on a bond for stealing bhaigans”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: brinjal, eggplant, aubergine
Related terms: Blighty
dyke out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dykes out
form: dyking out
form: dyked out
form: dyked out
Senses: examples: text: “[…]So I guess it's either the Upper East Side or I dyke out.” She looked at me deadpan. “Don't get your hopes up, I'm not a lesbian. I haven't even thought about being a lesbian. Not seriously anyway. What about you?”
ref: 2014, Jason Starr, Cold Caller:
glosses: To engage in homoerotic activity with another woman.
raw_tags: of a woman
glosses: Alternative form of deck out.
choola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choolas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chula.
choolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choola
bibliologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibliologists
Etymology: From bibliology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies bibliology.
bibliologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliologist
bicentennially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bicentennial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Every two hundred years.
bicameralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicameralists
Etymology: From bicameral + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of bicameralism.
bicameralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicameralist
biddableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biddable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: biddability
bijwoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bijwoners
form: bywoner
Etymology: From Afrikaans bijwoner.
Senses: glosses: A member of a class of poor white people who were permitted to inhabit shanties on the property of well-to-do Boers in return for semifeudal payments.
bijwoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bijwoner
bilateralness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bilateral + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being bilateral.
billionairess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billionairesses
Etymology: From billionaire + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female billionaire.
billionairesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billionairess
kangaroo stoppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kangaroo stoppies
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A trick involving coming to a stop by rearing up and riding on only the front wheel, then rotating about the vertical axis on that front wheel, to turn about and face the other way, when finally landing the rear wheel.
Hypernyms: stoppie
trick stop
bike trick
Coordinate terms: word: wheelie
english: a similar maneuver in a car, involving stopping with a flip around to face the opposite direction
translation: a similar maneuver in a car, involving stopping with a flip around to face the opposite direction
word: handbrake turn
bioaccumulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioaccumulation
biodestructible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biodestructible
form: most biodestructible
Etymology: From bio- + destructible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being destroyed by natural biological processes.
Related terms: biodegradable
biorhythmics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biorhythm + -ics.
Senses: synonyms: chronobiology
glosses: The study of biorhythms.
kangaroo stoppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kangaroo stoppie
biquintiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biquintile
bishopweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bishopsweed.
bitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bitable
form: most bitable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biteable.
Derived terms: unbitable
bizcacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bizcachas
Senses: glosses: Rare form of viscacha.
bizcachas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bizcacha
biscacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biscachas
Senses: glosses: Rare form of viscacha.
biscachas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biscacha
bladework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blade + work.
Senses: glosses: The skill of handling the blade of an oar in rowing.
blanquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blanquets
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of blanquette.
blanquets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blanquet
blamefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blameful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being blameful.
blameableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blameable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blamableness.
blamableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blamable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being blamable.
unflamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flamed.
Senses: glosses: Not having been flamed.
glosses: Without heat.
blastodisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastodisk
blastomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blastomere + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to blastomeres.
bletherskate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bletherskates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blatherskite.
bletherskates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bletherskate
OOL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OOLs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of object-oriented language.
blushlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blushlessly
form: most blushlessly
Etymology: From blushless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without blushes.
blurbist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blurbists
Etymology: From blurb + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Months later I met one of the blurbists (that's a word in Webster's Fourth) and found that the author in question, aside from being a fine fellow and vice president of an important movie company, had been dying of cancer at the time the blurbs were requested.
ref: 1978 July 23, William Cole, “The Blurb and I”, in The New York Times:
text: We scan the pages of the book to see what the hidden connection between blurbist and blurbee might be.
ref: 1996 August 12, Pico Iyer, “Jacketeering”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A writer of blurbs.
blurbists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blurbist
bobeche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobeches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bobèche.
bobeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobeche
bobwig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobwigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bob wig.
bobwigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobwig
bodysnatching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From body + snatching.
Senses: glosses: The illicit theft of cadavers, especially by exhuming them from graves, to sell to them to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
bolsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolson
boomless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boom + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Another advantage of our boomless staysail is that it can overlap the mast a bit. This gives you a little more sail area and an increase in slot efficiency compared to the shorter-footed boomed staysail.
ref: 2010, Lin and Larry Pardey, The Capable Cruiser: 3rd edition, page 102:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Without a boom.
Derived terms: boomless cruise
boschveld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bushveld.
bousouki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bousoukis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bouzouki.
bousoukis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bousouki
schmucky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schmucky
form: most schmucky
form: shmucky
Etymology: From schmuck + -y.
Senses: examples: text: [Jack Nicholson's character Jonathan:] Bad vibrations? Sandy, I love you, but you're a schmuck. You were always young, Sandy, open. You were schmucky a lot of the time, but maybe schmuckiness is what you need to stay young and open.
ref: 1971, Jules Feiffer's screenplay for Mike Nichols's film Carnal Knowledge
text: I think their principles are very admirable, and Jains, I mean, all I can say, Martha, I don’t know every Jain in the world and I’m sure there are some real schmucky Jains, but I just know that they are, are highly, generally, highly respected and known for being really upstanding people because if you did take these principles to heart and lived by them I think you would be, you know, we’re none of us are perfect but I think it would lead you...
ref: 2015, 1:06:13 from the start, in Believe It or Not - Jainism, Rabbi Gail Nord, YouTube: Gail Nord:
glosses: Characteristic of a schmuck.
Derived terms: schmuckiness
bradypeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bradypeptic
form: most bradypeptic
Etymology: From brady- + peptic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having abnormally slow digestion.
kiss-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiss-ins
Etymology: From kiss + -in, modelled on sit-in, etc.
Senses: examples: text: A group of lesbians from Siberia staged an impromptu kiss-in in Moscow, to which traffic police responded by calling in 800 back-ups.
ref: 1991 August 24, Dawn Schmitz, “USSR Pride Draws 20,000—To Organizers' Surprise”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 2:
glosses: A peaceful form of protest in which people kiss in a public place; especially, a protest with same-gender kissing by LGBTQ people to demonstrate their sexual orientation, protest homophobia, etc.
Related terms: gay-in
kiss-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiss-in
brannigans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brannigan
breakableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From breakable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: breakability
breccial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more breccial
form: most breccial
Etymology: From breccia + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to breccia.
bricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪkən/
rhymes: -ɪkən
Etymology: From brick + -en.
Senses: examples: text: […] in this country, I say, where the people pass at least seven-eighths of their time within doors, it is but natural that the word home should have extended itself into something more than a mere covering—a bricken case for our bodies (like the Italian casa).
ref: 1852, Charles John Chetwynd Talbot Shrewsbury, Meliora, page 260:
text: In a minute or two the train turns the angle of the line, and then through what a bricken wilderness of roofs it seems to be ploughing its way, and how odd the people look, as they slide swiftly by, in their wretched garrets!
ref: 1857, Henry Mayhew, The Great World of London:
glosses: Made of brick.
brickled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brickle
brickles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brickle
brickling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brickle
briquettor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: briquettors
Senses: glosses: A machine that makes fuel briquets.
briquettors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of briquettor
bronchitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronchitic
bronchoscopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bronchoscopy + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to bronchoscopy.
broomstaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broomstaff
browallias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of browallia
brulzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brulzie
brushability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brush + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being brushable.
brushwheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brushwheels
Etymology: From brush + wheel.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of a set of wheels that move each other without cogs or teeth, having the rubbing surfaces covered with stiff hairs, cloth, or leather instead.
brushwheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brushwheel
bryophyllum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɹaɪoʊˈfɪləm/
ipa: /ˌbɹaɪəˈfɪləm/
ipa: /ˌbɹaɪoʊˈfaɪləm/
Forms: form: bryophyllums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Bryophyllum of plants in the family Crassulaceae.
bryophyllums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bryophyllum
bubbletop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubbletops
Etymology: From bubble + top.
Senses: glosses: An automobile with a transparent dome on top, instead of the usual windows and roof.
bubbletops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubbletop
bubinga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubingas
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of large trees of tropical Africa.
Guibourtia spp.
glosses: Any of several species of large trees of tropical Africa.
Didelotia africana
glosses: Any of several species of large trees of tropical Africa.
Copaifera spp.
glosses: Any of several species of large trees of tropical Africa.
Brachystegia spp.
examples: text: Primarily a wetland wood, bubinga thrives in swamps, inundated forests and near rivers and lakes. An equally well-known bubinga includes species Guibourtia demeusei, Guibourtia pellegriniana, and Guibourtia tessmannii. All bubingas are members of the Leguminosae family but go by various commercial names.
ref: 1988, Wood and Wood Products, volume 93:
glosses: Timber of various species of Guibourtia
bubingas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubinga
buckayro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckayros
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of buckaroo.
buckayros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buckayro
bugong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bugongs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bogong.
bugongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bugong
bullyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bully + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The swaggering, domineering behaviour of a bully.
bullswool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlzwʊl/
Etymology: From bull + -s- + wool.
Senses: glosses: bullshit; nonsense
bunglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bŭŋ'gəlsəm
ipa: /ˈbʌŋɡəlsəm/
rhymes: -ʌŋɡəlsəm
Forms: form: more bunglesome
form: most bunglesome
Etymology: From bungle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: They were quite bunglesome working together initially, and she didn't understand why. Sometimes she felt uncomfortable.
ref: 2008, Ericka Courtney, The Gentle Rapist:
text: Furthermore, though there are those who complain of official France, the bunglesome administration, the interminable red tape, I was not one of those who suffered any great inconvenience from these obstacles to progress.
ref: 2012, Burris Jenkins, Facing The Hindenburg Line:
text: These combined odours somewhat dispersed Dan's gloom when he came back in squeaky Sunday shoes and a bunglesome cut-away coat.
ref: 2013, Willa Cather, One of Ours:
glosses: Characterised or marked by bungling; ungainly; awkward; incompetent
yoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yoe
crèmes anglaises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crème anglaise
caladrius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Medieval Latin caladrius, from Byzantine Greek χαλαδριός (khaladriós), from Ancient Greek χαραδριός (kharadriós).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical bird that had healing powers.
sheep ked
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep keds
Senses: examples: text: The sheep-ked, or kaid (Melophagus ovinus), is one of the most common and annoying pests to which the sheep is subject.
ref: 1852, H. D. Richardson, The pests of the farm, with instructions for their extirpation, page 128:
glosses: A wingless blood-feeding ked (louse fly) of sheep, Melophagus ovinus.
louse fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: louse flies
Senses: glosses: A ked (parasitic fly of the family Hippoboscidae).
louse flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of louse fly
tibicos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪ.biːˈkoʊs/
Senses: glosses: Sugar-water or fruit-water kefir.
disparadise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpæɹədaɪs/
Forms: form: disparadises
form: disparadising
form: disparadised
form: disparadised
Etymology: From dis- + paradise.
Senses: examples: text: O Pride, of all heaven-relapsing praemunires the most fearful – thou that ere this had disparadised our first parent, Adam, and unrighteoused the very angels –, how shall I arm mine elocution to break through the ranks of thy hilly stumbling blocks?
ref: 1593, Thomas Nashe, Christ's Tears over Jerusalem; republished in Stanley Wells, editor, Thomas Nashe: Pierce Penniless his Supplication to the Devil, Summer's Last Will and Testament, the Terrors of the Night, the Unfortunate Traveller, and Selected Writings [Stratford-upon-Avon Library; 1], London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., 1964, OCLC 638719383
text: Besides, man is not that famishing thing which the Malthusians represent: indeed they talk as if geometrical increase was original sin, and that Adam and Eve were disparadised from Eden by the pressure of population against the means of subsistence.
ref: 1823, George Ensor, The Poor and their Relief, London: Published by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, →OCLC, page 3:
text: But what indeed is ask'd of me? / Not this, some spirits, it is told, / Have will'd to be disparadised / For love and greater glory of Christ.
ref: 1865, Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Lesley Higgins, The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, volume III (Diaries, Journals, & Notebooks), Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 2015, →ISBN, page 304:
text: Yea, that same awful angel with the glaive / Which in disparadising orbit swept / Lintel and pilaster and architrave
ref: 1913, Francis Thompson, The Works of Francis Thompson, volume II (Poems), London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, →OCLC, page 124:
text: This disparadising of Urania by a snake suggests that [Percy Bysshe] Shelley has finally been able to arouse her by curiously satanic means. It is a troubling suggestion, and it will return with Shelley's later self-images of sexual transgression […]
ref: 1993, Peter Sacks, “Last Clouds: A Reading of ‘Adonais’”, in Michael O'Neill, editor, Shelley, London; New York, N.Y.: Longman, ISBN 978-0-582-08667-8; republished London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-0-582-08667-8, page 184
glosses: To expel or remove from paradise.
wikipedia: Charles-Joseph Natoire
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Derived terms: word: disparadised
disparadises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disparadise
disparadising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disparadise
squirrelable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From squirrel + -able.
Senses: glosses: that can be squirreled
examples: Vote now, as this thread is sure to make its way into squirrelable territory before long!
glosses: the motion that isn't intended to be debated
raw_tags: of the debating or discussion point
Galveston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæl.vɪs.tən/
Etymology: From Galvez + -ton. From Galvez' Town, from Spanish Gálvez. Named after Spanish Vice-Roy of New Spain Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez. The island and bay were renamed Gálvez in 1783 by Spanish navigator José Antonio de Evia, for Bernardo de Gálvez, who supported American Independence. The bay and island were subsequently renamed after the port town that itself took on the name of the island on which it sits.
Senses: glosses: A place in Texas, United States:
A coastal city, the county seat of Galveston County, Texas, United States, located on Galveston Island and Pelican Island.
synonyms: Galveston City
City of Galveston
glosses: A place in Texas, United States:
Ellipsis of Galveston Island: an island of Galveston county, Galveston city, Texas, United States; an a barrier island separating in Galveston bay and the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean.
synonyms: Galveston Island
Island of Galveston
glosses: A place in Texas, United States:
Ellipsis of Port of Galveston: a port in Galveston island, Galveston city, Galveston county, Texas, United States.
glosses: A place in Texas, United States:
Ellipsis of Galveston County: a county of Texas, United States. County seat: Galveston.
synonyms: County of Galveston
glosses: A place in Texas, United States:
Ellipsis of Galveston Bay Area: a region of Texas, United States, surrounding Galveston Bay, on the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic.
glosses: A place in Texas, United States:
Ellipsis of Galveston Bay: a bay of the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic in Texas, United States.
synonyms: Galveston Bay
Bay of Galveston
glosses: A town in Jackson Township, Cass County, Indiana, United States, named after Galveston, Texas.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States, named after Galveston, Texas
Derived terms: Bay of Galveston
City of Galveston
County of Galveston
Galveston Bay
Galveston City
Galveston County
Galveston Island
Island of Galveston
Port of Galveston
Congressman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Congressmen
Senses: glosses: The title for someone who is elected to be a congressman.
newstalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newstalks
Etymology: From news + talk.
Senses: examples: text: "The most obvious and basic expansion of media talk has come with the general boom in newstalk and news magazine programs on both radio and TV."
ref: 2014, Peter Gibian, Mass Culture and Everyday Life:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A television or radio programme in which host conversation with guests or audience members is mixed with news programming.
newstalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newstalk
Lieutenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lieutenants
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of lieutenant (when used as a title before a name)
intercollegiately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intercollegiate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intercollegiate manner.
titularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: titularizes
form: titularizing
form: titularized
form: titularized
form: titularise
Etymology: From titular + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The manager titularized the most outstanding employees.
text: "For instance, in the experiment last alluded to, the Princess Anne (who, though her name was afterwards employed to titularize the exceptional literary epoch of her reign, seems to have had really as little true taste for letters or for art — though […]"
ref: 1869, Alfred Janson Bloor, The Architectural and Other Art Societies of Europe: Some Account of Their ...:
glosses: to assign a title
Related terms: titularization
titularizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of titularize
titularizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of titularize
titularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of titularize
undos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undo
titularising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of titularise
titularised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of titularise
focalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: focalizers
form: focaliser
Etymology: From focalize + -er.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: A character through which the story is told, and whose perspective the story is told from.
focalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of focalizer
focalisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of focaliser
sheva brachot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hebrew שֶׁבַע בְּרָכוֹת (shéva' b'rakhót, literally “seven blessings”).
Senses: examples: text: If at least 10 adults are present, grace after meals culminates with the recitation of the sheva b'rakhot (the seven blessings pronounced during the wedding ceremony) with the blessing over the wine recited last.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 172:
glosses: the seven blessings recited after grace after meals at a wedding feast, and at festivities during the week after or before the wedding.
glosses: a feast at which these blessings are recited
sporangiospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporangiospores
Senses: glosses: A spore produced by a sporangium (in many fungi, such as zygomycetes).
autospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autospores
Etymology: From auto- + spore.
Senses: glosses: An immobile spore that cannot develop flagella.
veganize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: veganizes
form: veganizing
form: veganized
form: veganized
Etymology: From vegan + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: "I am not in any way suggesting that zoos ought to veganize carnivores in their care."
ref: 2015, Lisa Kemmerer, editor, Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, Activism, and the Quest for Common Ground:
glosses: To convert (a recipe, a meal, a person, etc.) to be vegan.
Related terms: vegetarianize
autospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autospore
veganizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of veganize
veganizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of veganize
veganized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of veganize
statismospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statismospores
Senses: glosses: A spore, such as a puffball, that is not actively discharged from the fungal fruiting body.
statismospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statismospore
vegetarianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vegetarianizes
form: vegetarianizing
form: vegetarianized
form: vegetarianized
Etymology: From vegetarian + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert (a recipe, a meal, a person, etc.) to be vegetarian.
Related terms: veganize
vegetarianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vegetarianize
vegetarianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vegetarianize
vegetarianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vegetarianize
clapping game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clapping games
Senses: glosses: An activity in which two or more people stand facing each other and clap hands to a rhyming chant.
Aymaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aymara: members of an indigenous people of South America
adoratrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adoratrice
aegirines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aegirine
bien pensants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bien pensant
alexines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alexine
alismas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alisma
alizarines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alizarine
sisymbrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sisymbriums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Sisymbrium.
angons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angon
AOCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AOC
apiols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apiol
archetiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archetier
arrière-voussures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrière-voussure
ascarides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascaris
astrakans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrakan
atonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For the restoration of gastro-intestinal atonies and ptoses, I administer the hot sodium bicarb. before meals for a considerable period.
ref: 1887, Franklin H. Martin, The Monthly Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine, page 246:
text: In well established chronic gastritis and in cancer, sarcoma, and primary atonies, it is.
ref: 1913, Anthony Bassler, Diseases of the Stomach and Upper Alimen, page 69:
text: As has been seen the intestine is formed of independent organs each one having its own centre of motility, and this explains the existence of localised atonies.
ref: 1927, Alexander Panagioti Cawadias, Diseases of the Intestines, page 144:
glosses: plural of atony
authentifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of authentification
cabris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabri
autostrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autostrade
cafétérias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cafétéria
avicultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aviculture
wild thyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild thymes
Senses: synonyms: Breckland thyme
Breckland wild thyme
creeping thyme
elfin thyme
pellamountain
serpolet
glosses: A flowering plant in the mint family, of species Thymus serpyllum.