cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Herculæan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Herculæan
form: most Herculæan
Etymology: Comparable with Augæan or Europæan.
Senses: examples: text: In the mouth and small eyes may be seen the unspeakable studies of a long life, to which the painter has drawn attention by the inscription upon the gilt edges of a book bound in red, and elegantly decorated, on which Erasmus is leaning, and which runs thus : — ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΙ ΠΟΝΟΙ Erasmi Rodero. ie the Herculæan labours of Erasmus of Rotterdam.
ref: 1857, Dr. Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, John Murray, page 356:
text: The Sibylla Persica, supposed to be the oldest of the sisterhood, holds the book close to her eyes, as if from dimness of sight, which fact, contradicted as it is by a frame of obviously Herculæan strength, gives a mysterious intentness to the action.
ref: 1865, Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art, 2nd edition, volume 1, page 253:
text: Obedient to your well urged petition, I have gone into the Herculæan task of clearing — not the Augæan stables, but what is worse, — my baskets of papers.
ref: 1879, Susan Warner, My Desire, page 429 (R. Carter and Brothers)
text: The Finance Committee, which began its Herculæan labours on the Nawrús or New Year’s Day (March 21) of 1907, and presented its Budget to the Majlis in the following October, comprised 12 members, 5 from Ázarbáyján, 2 from Ṭihrán, 2 from Fárs, and one each from Kirmán, Khurásán and Hamadán.
ref: 1910, Edward Granville Browne, The Persian Revolution of 1905–1909, page 239:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Herculean.
geteld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /je'teld/
[jeˈteɫd]
Forms: form: geteld
form: getelds
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English ġeteld (“tent, tabernacle”). Compare teld, tilt.
Senses: examples: text: Many tents (rounds, getelds) can be put up by one person, if there is some planning done ahead of time about staking ropes, staking floor, ...
ref: 2000 July 8, Tanya Guptill, “Suggestions For a Tent”, in rec.org.sca (Usenet):
text: The geteld our kids use has stood up fine through two or three Pennsics. It requires substantially less wood than a Viking tent, and I think it's a good deal easier to build than a bell, although since I've never built a bell I could easily be wrong.
ref: 2001 January 9, David Friedman, “tent/pavilion question”, in rec.org.sca (Usenet):
text: For the would-be tentmaker on a budget, a "pup-tent" style tent (rectangular sides, triangular ends--the Viking tent and the Saxon geteld are two examples of this style, although their frameworks are dissimilar) is the cheapest and easiest to make.
ref: 2001 April 15, D. Peters, “Nylon tent into Medieval pavilion?”, in rec.org.sca (Usenet):
text: Dov and Thora, who camp next to us at Pennsic, have Getelds that look noticeably taller than ours. We don't waterproof our canvas--just use canvas ...
ref: 2002 August 27, David Friedman, “Help with geteld”, in rec.org.sca (Usenet):
glosses: A tent, of a style historically used by the Anglo-Saxons, which resembles a shelter-half or pup tent.
raw_tags: in the SCA
irremediableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irremediable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being irremediable.
esquisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esquisse
confessant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confessants
Etymology: From French confessant, equivalent to confess + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he poſture of the Confeſſant and the Prieſt in Confeſsion: which is, that the Confeſſant kneeles downe before the Prieſt ſitting in a raiſed chaire aboue him.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “[Apophthegm 213]”, in Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC, page 234:
text: In 2013, though, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that clergy were required to report abuse because confessants "cannot have an objectively reasonable expectation that such a statement will remain confidential."
ref: 2019 July 18, Jacob Wallace, “In 44 States, Clergy Don't Have to Tell Police When Someone Confesses to Child Sex Abuse”, in Newsweek:
synonyms: penitent#Noun
coordinate_terms: confessor
glosses: One who confesses to a priest.
palilogia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: First, there is palilogia, which is an idiosyncrasy of certain rhetoricians and public speakers who deliberately repeat a word or phrase or sentence for the sake of emphasis.
ref: 1970, Macdonald Critchley, Aphasiology and other aspects of language:
glosses: Deliberate repetition of a word or a phrase for the sake of emphasis.
croise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
Forms: form: croises
Etymology: From French crois (“crusader”).
Senses: glosses: A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross.
examples: text: The conquests of the Croises, extending over Palestine and a part of Syria, had been erected into a sovereignty under the name of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
ref: 1760, Edmund Burke, “An Essay towards an Abridgment of the English History. […]. Chapter VII. Reign of Richard I.”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume X, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, book III, page 491:
glosses: A crusader.
croises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croise
millionnaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millionnaires
Senses: examples: text: The large, smooth, florid millionnaire, dreaming only of senatorial honors, the shouts of the multitude, and the adoration of a party press, cowered like a dog under the lash of the "man of society."
ref: 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858:
text: But the state of Dalibard, though prosperous, is not that of the heir to the dead millionnaire.
ref: 1853, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lucretia, Complete:
text: They are all stupid when they are not crafty, and very few of them are crafty. The only wise Republicans are the millionnaires and their conscious henchmen. They know which side their bread is buttered on, and they know why.
ref: 1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter XXIX, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September 1909, →OCLC, page 258:
text: He swallowed it, of course, and for the next five minutes he went charging up and down that pond at a great rate, followed by a green glass monster with the name of a millionnaire brewer blown in its side.
ref: 1914, William Davenport Hulbert, Forest Neighbors:
glosses: Archaic spelling of millionaire.
tripotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That can give rise to three different types of cell
raw_tags: of a stem cell
essorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: French
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Standing, with wings spread, as if about to take flight.
raw_tags: of a bird
examples: essorant spirits, essorant rhetoric, an essorant lark
glosses: Soaring.
martyrise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: martyrises
form: martyrising
form: martyrised
form: martyrised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of martyrize.
martyrises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of martyrise
pané
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /pæˈneɪ/
/pɑˈneɪ/
Forms: form: panés
form: panéing
form: panéed
form: panéed
Etymology: From French.
Senses: examples: text: 2. Trim and flatten the cutlets with the batte. 3. Pané the cutlets in flour, egg and prepared crumbs. 4 Sauté both sides of cutlet […]
ref: 2012, Edward Renold, David Foskett, John Fuller, editors, Chef's Compendium of Professional Recipes, →ISBN, page 206:
text: 1 Pané the chicken suprêmes. Shake off all surplus crumbs.
ref: 2015, David Foskett, Neil Rippington, Patricia Paskins, editors, Practical Cookery, 13th edition, →ISBN, page 68:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To bread; to coat in breadcrumbs or breading.
pbw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of parts by weight.
chess player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chess players
form: chess-player
form: chessplayer
Senses: synonyms: word: chesser
word: chessist
glosses: A human or computer that plays the game of chess.
thumb-sketches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumb-sketch
thumb sketch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumb sketches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thumb-sketch.
thumb sketches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumb sketch
palpons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palpon
thumbsketch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumbsketches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thumb-sketch.
thumbsketches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumbsketch
ground beefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground beef
Pampers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pampers
form: pamper
form: pampers
Etymology: Genericized trademark of Pampers, a brand of disposable diaper, itself from pamper.
Senses: glosses: A disposable diaper brand by Procter & Gamble (P&G).
examples: text: By now it’s late and I have to feed them and change two Pampers, get them ready for bed, then bathe myself and eat before I get settled in.
ref: 2020, Steven Davis, “Bitter Me”, in Mr. Mom, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: A disposable diaper.
Derived terms: pampers
turn on its head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns on its head
form: turning on its head
form: turned on its head
form: turned on its head
form: flip on its head
Senses: examples: text: The crisis turned the formulas that had seemed to work on their head.
glosses: To turn upside-down; to invert.
examples: text: The global economic crisis has managed to turn stock exchanges worldwide on their head.
text: Germany regeared for the second half: same shape, more control. Mexico had lost some of their vim. And before long the game had turned on its head, with Germany able to keep the ball now, Kroos hitting his range, and Mexico less adept at seizing possession, unable to spring forward with such gusto.
ref: 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019:
text: The tie turned on its head just before the hour when Gallagher picked up his second yellow card of the night following a reckless lunge on Ethan Britto and this time referee Fahndrich angered the home supporters by producing red.
ref: 2024 August 29, Alex Mills, “Larne headed for Conference League group stages as Andy Ryan hat-trick secures historic Play-Off joy”, in Belfast Telegraph:
glosses: To completely change.
jequirity beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jequirity bean
bust a cap in someone's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: busts a cap in someone's ass
form: busting a cap in someone's ass
form: busted a cap in someone's ass
form: busted a cap in someone's ass
form: bust a cap in someone's ass
form: bust a cap in someone's ass
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pop a cap in someone's ass.
synonyms: word: pop a cap in someone's ass
stooshie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stooshies
Etymology: Probably from Scots stooshie, possibly a contraction of English ecstasy. Perhaps related to English stoush.
Senses: examples: text: The Traveller going through Customs goes alone, wondering what is causing the stooshie up front and nervously letting someone go before him […]
ref: 1978, Institute of Bankers in Scotland, Scottish Bankers magazine:
text: First of all, there’d been that horrible stooshie over the wifie in Ballygrant with MS who was growing her own cannabis in her greenhouse.
ref: 2003, Christopher Brookmyre, One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night:
text: Ill-will can mak a stooshie, but love can settle a stramash.
ref: 2006, Jamie Stuart, Proverbs in the patter:
text: The right hon. Gentleman is making a great stooshie about time in relation to this Bill, but was it not the case that, when the SNP [Scottish National Party] Scottish Government introduced their continuity Bill in the Scottish Parliament, they operated a ruthless guillotine to prevent proper scrutiny of it?
ref: 2019 October 22, Stephen Kerr, Member of Parliament for Stirling, “Second Reading of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill”, in House of Commons Debates (House of Commons)^(https://web.archive.org/web/20191024000813/https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-10-22/debates/277C5A20-456D-469B-A415-D04AFFD83248/EuropeanUnion(WithdrawalAgreement)Bill), volume 666, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2019, column 860:
glosses: The disruption caused by a disagreement or misunderstanding.
Synonyms: sense: disruption
word: fracas
sense: disruption
word: fuss
sense: disruption
word: mess
sense: disruption
word: outcry
sense: disruption
word: stir
sense: disruption
word: uproar
stooshies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stooshie
death zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death zone
loading zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loading zone
hospitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hospitations
Etymology: From Latin hospes ("guest, visitor").
Senses: glosses: A duty to provide food and lodging for nobles or soldiers and the corresponding right to receive.
glosses: A visit, for learning or for inspection and evaluation.
transplanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transplanters
Etymology: From transplant + -er.
Senses: glosses: Somebody who transplants.
glosses: A machine for transplanting trees.
befrogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more befrogged
form: most befrogged
Etymology: From be- + frog + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah, and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs.
ref: 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Story of the Bald-headed Man”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, pages 66–67:
text: The season was, in local parlance, "on," the elements were assembled; the big windy hotel, the draughty social hall, swarmed with "types," in Charlotte's constant phrase, and resounded with a din in which the wild music of gilded and befrogged bands, Croatian, Dalmatian, Carpathian, violently exotic and nostalgic, was distinguished as struggling against the perpetual popping of corks.
ref: 1904 November 10, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: Adorned with ornamental braid fasteners.
snow leopards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow leopard
dromaeognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: drŏ'mē.ŏgʹnəthəs
ipa: /ˌdɹɒmiːˈɒɡnəθəs/
Forms: form: dromæognathous
Etymology: Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley: binomial translingual Dromæus (“Dromaius”) (from Ancient Greek δρομαῖος (dromaîos, “swift-running”)) + Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos, “jaw”) + English -ous, adjectival suffix
Senses: examples: text: The fourth principal type, the dromæognathous, is not found in any Indian birds.
ref: 1895, Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford, Birds, volume 3, Taylor and Francis, page v:
text: From the fact that the dromæognathous skull is more reptilian than any other type, it would seem that the Ratitæ diverged early from the carinate stock.
ref: 1921, William Aitcheson Haswell, A Text-book of Zoology, 3rd edition, volume 2, Macmillan, page 431:
text: It is well known that the membrane bones of the ostrich palate have a dromæognathous arrangement which is closer to the lacertilian plan than to the characteristic bird type where palatines and pterygoids slide upon a central rostrum.
ref: 1937, Zoological Society of London, “Proceedings”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 107, part 2, page 225:
text: Ægithognathous.—One of the four types of palatal structure distinguished by Huxley. The Dromæognathous type, with large vomer,¹ found in Ratites (Ostrich-like birds) is sharply defined from the others (in which the vomer is more or less reduced), but the latter are by no means so clearly separated from one another, and are connected to a great extent by intermediate conditions.
ref: 1938: Harry Forbes Witherby, Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Norman Frederic Ticehurst, and Bernard William Tucker, The Handbook of British Birds, volume 1, page xxvi (7th Ed.; H. F. & G. Witherby)
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Possessing a palatal structure akin to the emu and the other (now extinct) species of the genus Dromaius.
wikipedia: Thomas Henry Huxley
Derived terms: dromaeognathism
Related terms: topics: palæontology
paleontology
history
biology
natural-sciences
human-sciences
sciences
word: dromæosaur(id)
dromæognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dromaeognathous.
Derived terms: topics: ornithology
biology
natural-sciences
word: dromæognathism
Related terms: word: dromæosaur
roman: palaeontology
word: dromæosaurid
dromæognathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drŏ'mē.ŏgʹnəthĭzm
ipa: /ˌdɹɒmiːˈɒɡnəθɪzm/
Etymology: dromæognath(ous) + -ism
Senses: examples: text: Dromæognathism (Gr. δρομαῖος, dromaios, a runner : genus-name of the emeu). All the Ratite birds, and the tinamous of Carinate birds, are dromæognathous.
ref: 1890, Elliott Coues, Handbook of Field and General Ornithology: A Manual of the Structure and Classification of Birds, Macmillan, page 249:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The particular arrangement in palatal structure typified by the emu and the other (now extinct) species of the genus Dromaius.
Related terms: topics: palæontology
paleontology
history
biology
natural-sciences
human-sciences
sciences
word: dromæosaur(id)
dromæosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dromæosaurs
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of dromaeosaur.
Related terms: topics: ornithology
biology
natural-sciences
word: dromæognathism
topics: ornithology
biology
natural-sciences
word: dromæognathous
topics: palæontology
paleontology
history
biology
natural-sciences
human-sciences
sciences
word: dromæosaurid
dromæosaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dromæosaurids
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of dromaeosaurid.
Related terms: topics: ornithology
biology
natural-sciences
word: dromæognathism
topics: ornithology
biology
natural-sciences
word: dromæognathous
topics: palæontology
paleontology
history
biology
natural-sciences
human-sciences
sciences
word: dromæosaur
dromæosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dromæosaur
dromæosaurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dromæosaurid
nonattached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + attached.
Senses: examples: text: To call it feminist is to imply that we should also imagine plucky, intelligent, nonattached, and resourceful women being torn apart, along with bimbos and cops.
ref: 1991 February 22, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “The Ill and the Sick”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The following day, nonattached cells were harvested by centrifugation and resuspended in growth medium at a density of 1 × 10⁷ per milliliter.
ref: 2001 February 2, Richard J. Fisher et al., “Control of Fusion Pore Dynamics During Exocytosis by Munc18”, in Science, volume 291, number 5505, →DOI, pages 875–878:
glosses: Not attached
gladhand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gladhands
form: gladhanding
form: gladhanded
form: gladhanded
Etymology: From glad + hand.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of glad-hand.
young'un
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʌŋən/
Forms: form: young'uns
form: youngen
form: youngin
form: youngon
form: youngun
Etymology: Univerbation of young + 'un.
Senses: examples: text: "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."
ref: 1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31:
synonyms: word: bairn
word: brat
word: child
word: chit
word: crumb cruncher
word: crumb crusher
word: crumb grinder
word: crumb snatcher
word: fry
word: juvenile
word: kid
word: kiddie
word: little one
word: minor
word: mini-me
word: moppet
word: munchkin
word: nipper
word: slip
word: small fry
word: sprog
word: sprout
word: tart
word: tot
word: tyke
word: youngling
word: youngster
word: young'un
word: youth
word: crib lizard
word: crotch critter
word: crotch dropping
word: crotch fruit
word: crotch goblin
word: crotch monkey
word: crotchling
word: cum cheese
word: cum pet
word: cunt dropping
word: fucklet
word: fuck trophy
word: hump dumpling
word: pet sperm
word: semen demon
word: shitling
word: sperm blossom
word: sperm buttercup
word: sperm bubbles
word: bitchling
word: terence
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Child.
go through the mill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes through the mill
form: going through the mill
form: went through the mill
form: gone through the mill
Senses: glosses: To experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.
examples: text: All know the high estimation debtors held the Act 1861, by the number who went "through the mill" at the close of 1869.
ref: 1877, The Accountant, volume 3, page 3:
glosses: To go through bankruptcy.
dominees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dominee
anticommons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticommons
Etymology: Coined by Michael Heller, based on "tragedy of the commons", a term coined by Garrett Hardin.
Senses: examples: text: However, the recent proliferation of intellectual property rights in biomedical research suggests a different tragedy, an "anticommons" in which people underuse scarce resources because too many owners can block each other.
ref: 1998 May 1, Michael A. Heller, Rebecca S. Eisenberg, “Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research”, in Science, volume 280, number 5364, →DOI, pages 698–701:
text: A substantial amount of current empirical evidence supports the conclusion that an anticommons has not developed.
ref: 2007, Peter K. Yu, Intellectual property and information wealth, page 289:
glosses: The reverse of a commons; a situation in which a resource is subject to fragmented rights, whereby potential users can exclude one another.
nonattainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + attainment.
Senses: examples: text: There's the 1993 [federal air pollution] study on ozone nonattainment coming up.
ref: 1991 November 15, Harold Henderson, “A Dumb Deal”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Carver County was designated as in nonattainment for carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide in 1971 but was redesignated to maintenance in 1999 and 1997 for these pollutants, respectively.
ref: 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, page 84:
glosses: Failure to attain a particular standard.
capoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kapok.
allee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allees
form: allée
Etymology: From French allée (“path”).
Senses: examples: text: He found her walking slowly up and down an allee of elms, through the leaves of which the bright September sunshine sifted down.
ref: 1903, Carter Goodloe, Calvert of Strathore:
text: About $800,000 for a complete interior and exterior remodeling and about $200,000 for landscaping, including an allee of mature trees
ref: 2007 August 5, Tracie Rozhon, “Even a Master Needs Help Sometimes”, in New York Times:
glosses: A tree-lined avenue, often particularly one that is part of a landscaped garden.
obsidious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obsidious
form: most obsidious
Senses: glosses: besieging; besetting, obsessional
Related terms: obsidian
palatoglossi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæl.ət.oʊˈɡlɑˌsaɪ/
ipa: /ˌpæl.ət.oʊˈɡlɔˌsaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of palatoglossus
Floy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɔɪ
Senses: examples: text: Then he would turn his head, and watch the child away, and say to Florence, 'We don't want any others, do we? Kiss me, Floy.'
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Dombey and Son: Chapter 8”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Florence.
snib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: snibs
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: He did not like me coming in except if I was going to bed. I heard him saying to my maw about a snib for the door.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 99:
glosses: A latch or fastening for a door, window etc.
examples: text: ill - strain'd snibs
ref: 1601 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], What You Will, London: […] G[eorge] Eld, for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: A reprimand; a snub.
snib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: snibs
form: snibbing
form: snibbed
form: snibbed
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: Window is snibbed on the inner side. Framework is solid. No hinges at the side. Let us open it.
ref: 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 90:
text: All moved to the front street, where Grierson snibbed on his tail-light and turned to ask the trooper, "They've got the main road ploughed up farther on, haven't they?"
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 162:
glosses: To latch (a door, window, etc.).
wordhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From word + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: You can call them nonstandard, colloquial, informal, casual, slangy, or even signs of the apocalypse, but there's no reason to deny them wordhood.
ref: 2009, Ben Zimmer, Mailbag Friday: "Texted":
glosses: The quality of being a word.
Synonyms: wordness
wordship
Popperian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Popperian
form: most Popperian
Etymology: From Popper + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the philosophy of philosopher Karl R. Popper.
Derived terms: Popperianism
Popperian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Popperians
Etymology: From Popper + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Karl Popper's philosophy.
Related terms: Popperism
salvar kameez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvar kameezes
Senses: examples: text: But even here Kalapriya experimented: the three dancers dispense with their bells and the traditional costume, wearing instead the simple black cotton salvar kameez with red dupatas (sashes).
ref: 2001 May 11, Puja Lalmalani, “Alchemy in Motion”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative spelling of salwar kameez.
la belle indifference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: la belle indifférence
Etymology: From French la + belle + indifférence.
Senses: examples: text: The available evidence does not support the use of la belle indifférence to discriminate between conversion symptoms and symptoms of organic disease. The quality of the published studies is poor, with a lack of operational definitions and masked ratings. La belle indifférence should be abandoned as a clinical sign until both its definition and its utility have been clarified.
ref: 2006, Stone J, Smyth R, Carson A, Warlow C. La belle indifférence in conversion symptoms and hysteria: Systematic review. British Journal of Psychiatry. 188(3):204-209. doi:10.1192/bjp.188.3.204
text: Even now, one pays attention to the complex-indicators which we have studied, especially the physical ones (blushings, twitchings, strikingly soft or loud, quick or slow speech, smiling upon the recounting of severe suffering ("La belle indifference"), symptomatic movements, etc).
ref: 1919, Oskar Pfister, The psychoanalytic method, trans. Charles Rockwell Payne, publ. Moffat, Yard, and Company, New York, pg. 496
text: It is interesting to note that insofar as this supports our hypothesis it accords with the time-worn conception of the hysterical patient with little or no anxiety — la belle indifference.
ref: 1958, Joseph Wolpe, Psychotherapy by Reciprocal Inhibition, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 88:
text: La belle indifference is a way of pretending nothing is happening: it represents a way of showing one's paralysis to others by manipulating their judgment through an attitude of indifference.
ref: 2009, Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 171:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A naive, inappropriate lack of emotion or concern for the perceptions by others of one's disability. Traditionally assumed to be seen in persons with conversion disorder, but evidence does not necessarily support this.
Synonyms: belle indifference
long absent, soon forgotten
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Love fades away when people are distant and do not maintain close physical contact.
bitransitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + transitive.
Senses: examples: text: A clear example of a bitransitive verb is maca 'give'. The verb ìtoa 'say' is a regular transitive verb and so cannot express a beneficiary.
ref: 2011, Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, page 178:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ditransitive.
synonyms: word: ditransitive
examples: text: The critical Fatou components are bitransitive
ref: 2007, Tokyo Journal of Mathematics, volume 30, numbers 1-2, page 539:
text: Let f be the semiprojection defined by the bitransitive relation R. Then [f] is a minimal clone. Moreover, distinct bitransitive relations determine distinct minimal clones.
ref: 2012, Janos Aczel, Aggregating clones, colors, equations, iterates, numbers, and tiles, page 13:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: For a mapping F, given any two sets S₁ and S₂, F²(S₁) has a nonzero intersection with S₂.
bitransitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitransitives
Etymology: From bi- + transitive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ditransitive.
synonyms: word: ditransitive
bitransitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitransitive
Bhagwat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bhagwats
Etymology: Borrowed from Marathi भागवत (bhāgvat). This surname is mostly found in Maharashtra.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Marathi.
might makes right
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ̯t meɪ̯ks ˈɹaɪ̯t/
ipa: [ˈmaɪ̯t me̞ɪ̯ks ˈɹaɪ̯t]
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: might is right
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English might is right, first attested in the 14th century. The concept is expressed by various classical authors; a similar argument is notably attributed to Thrasymachus by Plato in the Republic 340a (in Paul Shorey’s translation, “the advantage of the stronger is just”).
Senses: glosses: What is right or wrong is determined by power and strength; power justifies itself.
wikipedia: Paul Shorey
Plato
Republic (Plato)
Thrasymachus
Related terms: argumentum ad baculum
for my friends
everything
for my enemies
the law
history is written by the victors
kratocracy
kraterocracy
the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must
vae victis
air-raid warden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air-raid wardens
form: air raid warden
Senses: synonyms: word: ARW
glosses: A person whose responsibility was to defend a particular building during an air raid, ensure the blackout was complete, and assist civilians to an air-raid shelter.
synonyms: word: ARW
glosses: A person whose responsibility was to defend a particular building during an air raid, ensure the blackout was complete, and assist civilians to an air-raid shelter.
A member of an Air Raid Precautions organization, dedicated to protecting and sheltering civilians from air raids during World War II.
Derived terms: word: ARW
Related terms: firewatcher
bowie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowies
Senses: examples: text: […] replied that he found it good diggings, and intended to remain, adding that he had a bowie as well as a fossicking knife.
ref: 1912, William Eddrup Adcock, The Gold Rushes of the Fifties, page 82:
text: Bull did not hesitate to obey, for the broad, cold blade of a bowie rested lightly against the back of his neck.
ref: 1921, William Patterson White, The Heart of the Range:
glosses: A Bowie knife.
surge suppressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surge suppressors
Senses: glosses: Synonym of surge protector.
synonyms: word: surge protector
Related terms: extension block
power board
power strip
Syriacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Syriac
unsubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unsub + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsub
unsubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + subbed.
Senses: examples: text: A single designated "overseas news" sub will give agency copy a cursory read through, slug it and send it out unsubbed.
ref: 1985, Southern African Society of Journalists, The Journalist:
text: At the most basic level there need to be folders for unsubbed copy, subbed copy, pictures or artwork, finished pages[…].
ref: 2002, Wynford Hicks, Tim Holmes, Subediting for Journalists, page 116:
glosses: Not subbed:
Not subedited.
glosses: Not subbed:
Not coated with a layer of adhering material.
examples: text: Samples often are lost from unsubbed slides, particularly during the hybridization step.
ref: 1995, Larry J. Kricka, Nonisotopic Probing, Blotting, and Sequencing, page 175:
text: Add 50 mg of gelatin (Fisher Scientific) per liter of H₂O if using unsubbed slides.
ref: 2006, David L. Spector, Robert D. Goldman, Basic Methods in Microscopy: Protocols and Concepts from Cells: A Laboratory Manual, page 115:
glosses: Not subbed:
Not layered with a coating that will help fix the sample in place.
qualifier: microscopy
glosses: Not subbed:
Not provided with subtitles.
souvlakis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of souvlaki
earsplittingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more earsplittingly
form: most earsplittingly
Etymology: From earsplitting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
supertaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertasters
Etymology: From super- + taster.
Senses: examples: text: So keep this benefit in mind the next time you become frustrated with your little supertaster. You may be able to tell if your child is a supertaster by taking a look at the back portion of his tongue with a flashlight and a magnifying glass.
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Pantley, The No-Cry Picky Eater Solution: Gentle Ways to Encourage Your Child to Eat—and Eat Healthy, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Well, you just may be a supertaster. People experience taste differently depending on the number of fungiform papillae on their tongues — also known as those little red bumps you see on your tongue.
ref: 2014, Meri Reffetto, Glycemic Index Diet For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 252:
glosses: A person who experiences the sense of taste with far greater intensity than average, due to abnormally dense and abundant tastebuds.
supertasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertaster
fautors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fautor
firewatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firewatcher
floorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floorer
fluidizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluidizer
soullike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soullike
form: most soullike
Etymology: From soul + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But not only do bodies require immaterial entities to be real; also soullike substances — except the Divine mind — require organic bodies...
ref: 2005, Andreas Blank, Leibniz: metaphilosophy and metaphysics, 1666-1686:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a soul.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of soul music.
amebalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amebalike
form: most amebalike
Etymology: From ameba + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of amoebalike.
inconsequency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inconsequencies
Senses: glosses: inconsequence
inconsequencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inconsequency
Laingian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Laingian
form: most Laingian
Etymology: From Laing + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to R D Laing (1927-1989), Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness and psychosis, or his works or theories.
keepable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more keepable
form: most keepable
Etymology: From Middle English kepeable, equivalent to keep + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be kept or is worth keeping.
keepable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keepables
Etymology: From Middle English kepeable, equivalent to keep + -able.
Senses: examples: text: We get so caught up in the mechanics of staying the execution of all our expensive and exciting keepables that we miss the whole reason to master this, to get clutter under control.
ref: 1995, don Aslett, Don Aslett's Clutter Free!: Finally & Forever, page 83:
glosses: Something that can or should be kept.
boyaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boyau
prosopamnesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rare neuropsychological deficit defined by an inability to remember faces.
Related terms: prosopagnosia
front-runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front-runners
Senses: examples: text: But which stations will be finished first? Custom House and Tottenham Court Road are front-runners - the first because it is a relatively simple overground station and the latter because much of the work for the Elizabeth Line was completed as part of the rebuilding of the London Underground station.
ref: 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “Crossrail Update: Whitechapel barrels on”, in Modern Railways, page 92:
glosses: Alternative form of front runner.
front-runners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front-runner
kaimak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kaymak.
janizaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of janizary
denigrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denigrators
Etymology: From denigrate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Among Baum’s many incarnations were these: military school student, actor, poultry expert, newspaperman, retailer, window dresser, women’s rights advocate, racist denigrator of American Indians and early Hollywood filmmaker.
ref: 2009 August 24, Janet Maslin, “Scarecrow, Lion, Tin Man and Freud, Too”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who denigrates.
icepack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icepacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ice pack.
reargue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reargues
form: rearguing
form: reargued
form: reargued
Etymology: From re- + argue.
Senses: examples: text: There will always be sports fans ready to relive and reargue the merits of celebrated professional sports teams like the 1995 Dallas Cowboys.
ref: 2009 August 24, Brad Stone, “For Sports Obsessed, a Site Tries to Please Every Fan”, in New York Times:
glosses: To argue again.
carryon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from carry on.
Senses: examples: text: One is that new fees on checked bags have created more carryon volume, and some passengers may be overloading seatback pockets — though they said they had not considered this to be a problem.
ref: 2009 August 25, Joe Sharkey, “Seatbacks in Position and Empty, Please”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of carry-on.
carryon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carryons
Etymology: Deverbal from carry on.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carry-on.
compostables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compostable
allicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈælɪsən/
homophone: Allison
Forms: form: allicins
Etymology: From Latin allium (“garlic”) + -cin (“produced by bacteria”, modeled after -mycin, -cin).
Senses: examples: text: The "neck" is not soft and braidable, the cloves are big and fat, there's a round basal plate at the root, and the content of allicin (a healthful compound) is five times that of offshore garlic, Rowe boasts.
ref: 2009 August 26, Susan Sampson, “Touring Ontario's West Coast”, in Toronto Star:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound, diallyl thiosulfinate, obtained from garlic, with a variety of medicinal and antibacterial properties.
Coordinate terms: sense: sulfur compounds from garlic
word: ajoene
Related terms: allin
understimulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: understimulates
form: understimulating
form: understimulated
form: understimulated
Etymology: From under- + stimulate.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, as Wing and Brown (1970) observed, an understimulating "back ward" may lead to withdrawal and a lack of external social stimulation and support.
ref: 1992, Robert Paul Liberman, Handbook of psychiatric rehabilitation:
glosses: To stimulate too little or infrequently; to provide with insufficient stimulation.
understimulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of understimulate
understimulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of understimulate
understimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From understimulate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of understimulate
understimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more understimulated
form: most understimulated
Etymology: From understimulate + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I was severely understimulated. I had no idea what white children did to occupy themselves.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 332:
glosses: Provided with insufficient stimulation.
unglues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unglue
ungluing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unglue
abyssomicins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abyssomicin
abyssomicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abyssomicins
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of polyketide antibiotics, having a spirotetronic tricyclic subunit in their structure, derived from certain marine organisms.
Billett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Billetts
Etymology: Variant of Billet.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Illinois, United States.
keratitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratitis
monobactam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monobactams
Etymology: From mono- + beta-lactam.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various beta-lactam compounds wherein the beta-lactam ring is alone, not fused to another ring.
Hyponyms: aztreonam
tabtoxin
tigemonam
monobactams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monobactam
acyldepsipeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acyldepsipeptides
Etymology: From acyl + depsipeptide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any acyl derivative of a depsipeptide, but especially any of a class of antibiotics having this structure
oxazolidinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxazolidinones
Etymology: From oxazolidine + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of heterocyclic ketones, derived from oxazolidine, useful in organic synthesis.
Derived terms: isoxazolidinone
oxazolidinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxazolidinone
transposases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transposase
acyldepsipeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acyldepsipeptide
isobutylmethylxanthine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + butyl + methyl + xanthine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A certain non-specific inhibitor of phosphodiesterases, which also possesses adenosine antagonist activity.
Synonyms: IBMX
adapiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adapiform
pyrazolopyrimidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrazolopyrimidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of sedative and anxiolytic drugs with similar effects to benzodiazepines, their molecules typified by the linked six-sided pyrimidine ring and five-sided pyrazole ring.
Hyponyms: indiplon
ocinaplon
zaleplon
pyrazolopyrimidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrazolopyrimidine
adapiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈdæpɪfɔː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: adapiforms
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of extinct primate of the infraorder Adapiformes.
zaleplon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzæl.əˌplɑn/
Etymology: Probably from Ancient Greek ζάλη (zálē, “storm, distress”) + -plon (“imidazopyrimidine or pyrazolopyrimidine derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A sedative hypnotic drug of the pyrazolopyrimidine class, mainly used to treat insomnia, rare among such drugs in having been found not to cause an increase in road traffic accidents.
adapoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adapoids
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus †Adapoides of extinct primates.
intermembrane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmbɹeɪn
Etymology: From inter- + membrane.
Senses: examples: text: Between the two membranes is the intermembrane space. Within the intermembrane space are some key proteins, including mitochondrial creatine kinase...
ref: 2006, Michael E Houston, Biochemistry primer for exercise science:
glosses: Between membranes.
adapoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adapoid
lorises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loris