cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
white slaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white slave
pedicled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pedicle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The right PT contained a separate pedicled gyrus in two brains.
ref: 1998 January 9, Patrick J. Gannon et al., “Asymmetry of Chimpanzee Planum Temporale: Humanlike Pattern of Wernicke's Brain Language Area Homolog”, in Science, volume 279, number 5348, →DOI, pages 220–222:
text: (3) Other surgical techniques include the sigmoid neovagina, made from a chunk of the large intestine (which supposedly won't shrink, a common complication), and sensate pedicled neoclitoroplasty, in which the glans, with nerves and blood vessels intact, is whittled down and reinstalled at the vaginal opening as a substitute clitoris.
ref: 2000 September 8, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Having one or more pedicles.
match-makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of match-maker
play Cupid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays Cupid
form: playing Cupid
form: played Cupid
form: played Cupid
Senses: glosses: To act as matchmaker, trying to coerce or induce two people into a romantic relationship.
plays Cupid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play Cupid
playing Cupid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play Cupid
played Cupid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play Cupid
robosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹəʊ.bəʊˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ɹəʊ.bə-/
ipa: /ˌɹoʊ.boʊˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
ipa: /ɹoʊ.bə-/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Etymology: From robo- + -sexual.
Senses: examples: text: “Cut it out, Mom! I'm not interested in any of these gross, ugly losers!” “What about this gross, ugly, smelly loser?” “Fry! What you doing here?” “I'm here to rescue Amy from her robosexual desires.” “If I understand you correctly, I've seen the error of my ways?”
ref: 2010 July 8, Michael Rowe, “Proposition Infinity” (12:16 from the start), in Futurama, season 6, episode 4, spoken by Philip J. Fry (Billy West):
glosses: Sexually attracted to robots.
robosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹəʊ.bəʊˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ɹəʊ.bə-/
ipa: /ˌɹoʊ.boʊˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
ipa: /ɹoʊ.bə-/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Forms: form: robosexuals
Etymology: From robo- + -sexual.
Senses: examples: text: “A pair of deviant robosexuals? Not under my roof.” “What about on the roof?” “Get your mind out of the gutter!” “What about in the gutter?”
ref: 2010 July 8, Michael Rowe, “Proposition Infinity” (10:04 from the start), in Futurama, season 6, episode 4, spoken by Professor Farnsworth (Billy West):
glosses: A person who is sexually attracted to robots.
Coordinate terms: robophilia
Related terms: robosexuality
robosexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robosexual
wasting away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waste away
plasma TV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasma TVs
Senses: glosses: A television having a plasma display.
plasma TVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasma TV
plasma displays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasma display
skonce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skonces
Senses: examples: text: the Garrison was cut off by the Ambuscado, and Veltus seized on the Skonces, which was abandoned.
ref: 1630, John Smith, True travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 47:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sconce.
Gaynerd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
fraternal birth-order effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fraternal birth order effect.
calligraphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more calligraphically
form: most calligraphically
Etymology: From calligraphic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in a calligraphic manner: using calligraphy
white beech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white beeches
Senses: glosses: American beech (Fagus grandifolia), of the eastern US and Atlantic coastal Canada.
synonyms: brown-heart quandong, mountain beech, Mowbullan whitewood, pigeonberry ash, silver quandong, white quandong
glosses: A tree of species Elaeocarpus kirtonii, an Australian rainforest tree.
American beech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American beeches
Senses: glosses: A native American beech; Fagus grandifolia.
Synonyms: white beech
Cub Scouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cub Scout
white beeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white beech
Davy lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Davy lamp
decagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decagon
deleted scenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deleted scene
chest breather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chest breathers
Senses: glosses: A person who inflates the chest as a result of underusing the diaphragm while breathing.
chest breathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chest breather
biblioclasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biblioclasms
Senses: glosses: Destruction of books, especially of the Bible.
Synonyms: libricide
Related terms: biblioclast
biblioclastic
YOYO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: coordinate_terms: KMAG YOYO
KMAGYOYO
KMAG
glosses: Initialism of you're on your own.
grège
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɛʒ/
rhymes: -ɛʒ
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of greige.
grège
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɛʒ/
rhymes: -ɛʒ
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of greige.
colliquant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: melting; liquefying
growth spurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: growth spurts
Senses: examples: text: Donaldson is not by any means one of God’s chosen entertainment-industry stars. He’s not especially handsome, and neither is he particularly funny-looking. At 6ft 5in, and with the sparse reddish beard he nowadays sports, he has the charmingly awkward aspect of a teen who has recently put on a growth spurt and hasn’t quite settled into himself.
ref: 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
glosses: A sudden growth in one's body, especially during adolescence.
Related terms: growing pains
growth spurt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: growth spurts
form: growth spurting
form: growth spurted
form: growth spurted
Senses: glosses: To undergo growth spurts.
mee-maw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mee-maws
Etymology: Variant of meemaw (“grandmother”).
Senses: examples: text: Well, sometimes mee-maws have things to do, like moms and little girls.
ref: 2012, Elizabeth Lynn Casey, Let It Sew, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of meemaw, i.e. mamaw (grandmother).
mee-maw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mee-maws
form: mee-mawing
form: mee-mawed
form: mee-mawed
Etymology: See meemaw (“to mouth”).
Senses: examples: text: So we walked round and mee-mawed at one another. (Mee-mawing is mouthing words at each other without making a sound using exaggerated lip movements. This is the name the weavers, who use this technique all the time, give to it.)
ref: 2009, Stanley Graham, Brown and Pickles, →ISBN, page 290:
text: On working days weavers who had jobs were already mee-mawing across the racket of looms as the van delivered and in hot weather, with weaving shed doors open, the sound bombarded the streets.
ref: 2011, Ernest Dewhurst, A Pennine Childhood, →ISBN:
text: If you're familiar with Les Dawson's infamous creation Ada Shufflebotham, one of the Northern housewives in the 'Cissie and Ada sketches, you'll have an idea who Gran was. Just like Ada, she pursed her lips and silently mouthed the unmentionable things in life, rather than saying them out loud. This was known as 'mee-mawing' and it originiated among the mill workers of Lancashier, because they couldn't be heard above the deafening noise of the looms, even when they shouted. After a while, mee-mawing became a part of daily life, especially when it came to discussing embarrassing or saucy topics. Basically, you mee-mawed anything you didn't want people to overhear, even when there was no one around to listen in.
ref: 2013, Lisa Riley, Never Judge a Book by its Cover: The Autobiography, →ISBN:
text: Bill, who had nudged the other customer out of the shop and locked the door, mee-mawed at him to wait.
ref: 2013, Nick Oldham, Critical Threat, →ISBN:
glosses: To silently make exaggerated movements with the mouth so as to be understood in environment with loud noise, such as that of machinery.
mee-maw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mee-maws
Etymology: See meemaw (“to mouth”).
Senses: glosses: An exaggerated mouthing of a word.
examples: text: Oh,” said Archie, “many folk would pay half-a-crown to see their mee-maws;” and this saying was overheard by a Papist standing by, who, in reporting the remark, was pleased to observe that she had always considered Archibald Wilson a Christian, and had respected him as such, until she heard him describe the ceremonies of her church as "mee-maws!"
ref: 1864, John Henry Gordon, Old Archie [Wilson], the Blacking Man: a pastoral tribute.:
text: Hang you, sir," retorted Pengraig, " you make me mad with your mee-maws and your prickings of him.
ref: 1896, Owen Rhoscomyl, For the White Rose of Arno, page 28:
glosses: A meaningless utterance.
glosses: A policeman.
mee-maw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mee-maws
Senses: examples: text: As the siren screamed it added to the mee-maws, sirens and cacophony of emergency vehicles rushing to the Hyde Park disaster site.
ref: 2016, Barrie Doyle, The Lucifer Scroll, →ISBN:
glosses: The two-tone wailing of a siren.
mee-maw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mee-maws
form: mee-mawing
form: mee-mawed
form: mee-mawed
Senses: examples: text: It is nasal, screeching, yowling, mee-mawing, wailing—every sound excruciating to ears refined.
ref: 1872, Locke's National Monthly - Volumes 1-2, page 309:
text: They could hear the ambulance now, mee-mawing busily outside on the prom.
ref: 2010, Paul Magrs, Hell's Belles, →ISBN:
text: On the Friday I was mee-mawed to hospital with chest pains and, one hour and one angioplasty later, I had two stents in my chest to unblock an artery.
ref: 2015, Ralph Storer, 50 Shades of Hillwalking, →ISBN:
glosses: To make the two-syllable wailing noise of a siren.
Related terms: nee-naw
ncRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ncRNAs
form: ncrna
Etymology: From non-coding RNA.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: non-coding RNA (or a segment of it)
non-coding RNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-coding RNAs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An RNA molecule which is not translated into a protein.
Synonyms: ncRNA
non-coding RNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-coding RNA
ssRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ssRNAs
form: ssrna
Senses: glosses: Initialism of single-stranded RNA.
ssRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ssRNA
Englishization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From English + -ization.
Senses: glosses: making use of the English language as a lingua franca and converting material in the local language into English in an international corporation or other organization
single-stranded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having one strand.
Synonyms: ss
Derived terms: ss
Related terms: double-stranded
RNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RNA
compressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compressures
Etymology: From compress + -ure (compare etymology of pressure).
Senses: examples: text: [W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his vveapon, tho' it vvas not as yet in above half its length.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 194:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: 'Like the compressure of a coiled boa,
Loathly, but irresistible.'
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Match, act 1, page 286:
glosses: Compression.
inferiority complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inferiority complexes
Etymology: Calque of German Minderwertigkeitskomplex (literally “complex of lesser value”), coined in 1920 by Alfred Adler.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A sense of inferiority; the feeling that one is inferior to others in certain aspects.
wikipedia: Alfred Adler
paktong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: paktongs
form: packtong
form: pakfong
form: packfong
form: paitung
form: petong
Etymology: Anglicisation of Cantonese 白銅／白铜 (baak6 tung4, “white copper”).
Senses: examples: text: Chinese export metalwork consists almost entirely of three categories: silverware; pewterware; and paktong, an alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, which the Chinese also described as tutenague, and which was probably worked by white metalsmiths also making pewter.
ref: 1980, James Thomas Herbert Baily, The Connoisseur: an Illustrated Magazine for Collectors, volume 205, page 108:
text: Many German-silver paktongs were soon flourishing under a variety of trade names, […]
ref: 1928, The Metal industry, volume 31, page 227:
text: From the surviving descriptions it seems likely that during the later eighteenth century most paktong items were sold (in England at least) misleadingly under the name tutenag.
ref: 1995, Duncan R. Hook, David R. M. Gaimster, British Museum. Dept of Scientific Research, Trade and Discovery: The Scientific Study of Artefacts from Post-Medieval Europe and Beyond, page 265:
glosses: An alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, of Chinese origin; any of a number of similar alloys developed in imitation of the Chinese product.
Synonyms: sense: alloy of copper, nickel and zinc
word: albata
sense: alloy of copper, nickel and zinc
word: argentan
sense: alloy of copper, nickel and zinc
word: cupronickel
sense: alloy of copper, nickel and zinc
word: electrum
sense: alloy of copper, nickel and zinc
word: German silver
sense: alloy of copper, nickel and zinc
word: maillechort
sense: alloy of copper, nickel and zinc
word: new silver
sense: alloy of copper, nickel and zinc
word: nickel brass
sense: alloy of copper, nickel and zinc
word: nickel silver
sense: alloy of copper, nickel and zinc
word: tutenag
sense: alloy of copper, nickel and zinc
word: white copper
handsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæn(d)zi/
Forms: form: handsier
form: handsiest
Etymology: From hands + -y.
Senses: examples: text: J.D. (internal monologue): Okay J.D., you're a little drunk. And you know what happens when you get drunk. You get handsy. Now control yourself.
Molly: It's tough making new friends in Milwaukee.
J.D. (internal monologue): (feeling up own chest) I said control yourself!
ref: 2005 March 1, “My Best Laid Plans”, in Scrubs, season 4, episode 19, spoken by J.D. and Molly Clock (Zach Braff and Heather Graham):
text: "Listen up." Nate nodded at Angela's root beer. "That's what you should drink on your date with Patrick the Prick. So you'll be alert if he gets all handsy with you."
"He won't get handsy. We're just having coffee."
ref: 2008, Lisa Plumley, Home for the Holidays, Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 96:
text: A more pressing struggle is the one Crystal Castles have to contend with each night: feral fanboys who use Glass' aggressiveness as an excuse to get handsy. "They usually get a mic stand to the head," says Glass, with a shrug […].
ref: 2008 September, Phoebe Reilly, “Thick As Thieves”, in Spin:
text: Her breakout was the 2017 production “Nate” (available as a Netflix special) in which she played a toxic, handsy bro who drove a motorcycle onstage, guzzling beers, groping audience members and creating chaos.
ref: 2025 October 7, Jason Zinoman, “What Clowns! (That’s a Compliment)”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: groping
tactile
touchy-feely
glosses: Prone to touching other people with one's hands, especially in an inappropriate or sexual manner.
examples: text: At a wiry 5 feet 9 inches and 140 pounds, with a handsy, almost ungainly swing, Pavin lacked the power and solid technique that have been the foundation of success for most of the game's elite players.
ref: 1991 May 26, Jaime Diaz, “Pavin Is Making a Strong Bid to Join Game's Elite”, in The New York Times:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Moving the hands and wrists excessively when making a stroke or swing.
Derived terms: handsiness
chiku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chikus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chikoo (“sapodilla”).
estromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: œstromania
Etymology: From estrus + -mania, from Ancient Greek: οἶστρος (oîstros, “passionate frenzy”) + μανία (manía, “madness”).
Senses: examples: text: Disease of the ovaries or of the spinal cord, by reflex irritation, may cause estromania (see "Excess of venereal desire," p. 145), constant desire for the bull.
ref: 1909, Vickers T. Atkinson, Special Report on Diseases of Cattle:
glosses: nymphomania (in humans or other animals)
vicariates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicariate
Ignorance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A personification of ignorance.
condum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condums
Senses: examples: text: These are an improvement on the ordinary French male safe, condum, sheath, or envelope.
ref: 1867, Jefferson B. Fancher, Medical, Matrimonial, and Scientific Expositor, page 434:
text: […] from the wearing of condums during sexual congress; sedentary habits; reading improper literature.
ref: 1875, “Chronic Inflammation of the Prostate Gland”, in The Eclectic medical journal of Pennsylvania, volume 13, numbers 11-12, page 239:
text: I then thought of using an ordinary condum in the same manner as we use the rubber bag in uterine hemorrhage.
ref: 1880, The Epitome: A Monthly Retrospect of American Practical Medicine and Surgery:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of condom.
conglaciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conglaciates
form: conglaciating
form: conglaciated
form: conglaciated
Etymology: From Latin conglaciatus, past participle of conglaciare.
Senses: examples: text: Neither doth there any thing properly conglaciate but water, or watery humiditys
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To turn to ice; to freeze.
weak tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weak-tea
Senses: synonyms: weaksauce
glosses: Weak or feeble arguments, efforts, or proposals.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see weak, tea, husband's tea.
Related terms: weak point
markee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: markees
Senses: examples: text: Tents and markees that were in service
ref: 1815, Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate, Temple University. School of Law, Journal, page 66:
glosses: Archaic form of marquee.
calibratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calibratable
form: most calibratable
form: calibrable
form: calibrateable
Etymology: From calibrate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being calibrated.
turpsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: turpsier
form: turpsiest
Etymology: From turps + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Back at his canvas he drew some more with Prussian blue, wiped his hands on a turpsy rag, and went over to the telephone.
ref: 1960, John Bratby, Breakdown, Hutchinson, published 1960, page 24:
text: There was the fresh, turpsy smell of conifers, and from a quarter of a mile away the salty tang of shifting sea water.
ref: 1996, Chris Pullen, Mercenary 11: Oliver's Army, 22 Books (1996), →ISBN, page 4:
text: I had lived with him, scarcely conscious that he had an individual smell at all. But now I could recognise it at once - soapy, mentholy, a little sweaty, musky, turpsy. I passed the material under my nose, and his presence was filling my head.
ref: 2002, Ronald Frame, Permanent Violet, Polygon, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: soaked in or smelling of turpentine
examples: text: The Sleeping lubra is an oil painting on board, and the underpainting, which has been laid in as a transparent wash, seems to have been mixed with some incompatible substance that has caused the colour to marble, possibly the result of clear enamel being dropped directly into the turpsy film of oil paint.
ref: 1984, Betty Churcher, Molvig: The Lost Antipodean, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 74:
text: But another canvas of the same size [probably Studio II] was only just begun: it had been scribbled all over with a very loose turpsy mixture of ochre-honey colour with a biggish brush.
ref: 2005, Alex Danchev, Georges Braque: A Life, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 269:
glosses: heavily diluted with turpentine
raw_tags: of oil paint
nondesignating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + designating.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Not designating.
bucketless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bucket + -less.
Senses: examples: text: For example, the company in 2004 had to pull the plug on its Pledge Grab-It Go-Mop, the failure of which stemmed from its being the third entry in the burgeoning category of bucketless wet mops.
glosses: Without a bucket.
suprasensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + sensible.
Senses: glosses: Not perceptible by the senses; beyond the experience of the material world
Synonyms: supersensible
supersensory
supersensual
supersensuous
notif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nō′tĭf
ipa: /ˈnəʊ.tɪf/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.tɪf/
ipa: /ˈnəʉ.tɪf/
ipa: /ˈnɐʉ.-/
ipa: /ˈnɐʉ.təf/
ipa: /ˈno.tɪf/
ipa: /ˈnoː.ʈif/
rhymes: -əʊtɪf
Forms: form: notifs
Etymology: Clipping of notification.
Senses: examples: text: After school, I checked my phone, but didn't have any notifs, so I rose to my feet.
ref: 2022, Hitoma Iruma, Non, Adachi and Shimamura (volume 10)
text: “Focus is a beautiful thing,” the prompt says. “Stay in the moment by putting Pinterest down and pausing notifs[…]until the school bell rings.”
ref: 2025 April 22, Dominic Preston, “Pinterest is prompting teens to close the app at school”, in The Verge, Vox Media, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2025:
glosses: notification (from an electronic device)
notifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notif
Theravadin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Theravadins
Etymology: From Pali theravāda, from Sanskrit स्थविरवाद (sthaviravāda).
Senses: glosses: An exponent of Theravada Buddhism.
intellective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪv
Forms: form: more intellective
form: most intellective
Etymology: From Middle French intellectif and its etymon the post-Classical Latin intellēctīvus, from intellegō.
Senses: examples: text: Intellective codes are those that have been designed to organize knowledge about some field, functioning as mental templates for understanding the world. A perfect example of an intellective code is that of trigonometry, […]
ref: 2000, Thomas Albert Sebeok, Marcel Danesi, The Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis:
glosses: Of, related to, or caused by the intellect.
examples: text: 1907, Apollinarianism, article in Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen–Assize,
It is to be found in the seventh anathema of Pope Damasus in the Council of Rome, 381. "We pronounce anathema against them who say that the Word of God is in the human flesh in lieu and place of the human rational and intellective soul. For, the Word of God is the Son Himself. Neither did He come in the flesh to replace, but rather to assume and preserve from sin and save the rational and intellective soul of man."
text: The human is, after all, the only truly intellective animal, and the language he employs is, as Bickerton observes, like no other form of animal communication.
ref: 2000, James B. Reichmann, Evolution, Animal 'Rights,' and The Environment, CUA Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 219:
glosses: Having the capacity to reason and understand.
Derived terms: intellectively
unintellective
jole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joles
Senses: examples: text: Follow! nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jole.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: The same architect has recently been working on the repairs of the cupola of the Exchange, and the steeple of the Bow Church; and, fearful to relate, the dragon and the grasshopper actually lie, cheek by jole, in the yard of his workshop.
ref: 1820, The Sketch Book: The Edinburgh Monthly Review, page 330:
text: 1842, A. H. Pinney, testimony, Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Ohio, Volume 41, page 117,
I was informed, by the guard in the prison who superintended the inspection of the pork, that there were 28 or 31 barrels of joles that were in bad order; that they were not fit for use.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of jowl.
jole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: joles
form: joling
form: joled
form: joled
Senses: examples: text: See how the ſlaue joles their heads againſt the earth.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page line:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of jowl.
Arecibo message
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An interstellar radio message broadcast on 16 November 1974 into the globular cluster Messier 13 in the hope that extraterrestrial intelligence might receive and decipher it.
filibusterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From filibuster + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
examples: text: All this was simply weakness; but in turning from the conduct of the Finances by the administration, to consider its management of Filibusterism, we pass from the consideration of acts of mere debility to the consideration of acts which have a color of duplicity in them. On the Filibusters, as on the Finances, the First Annual Message of the President was outspoken and forcible. It characterized the past and proposed doings of William Walker and his crew, as the common sense and common conscience of the world had already characterised them, as nothing short of piracy and murder.
ref: 1858 April, “Mr. Buchanan's Administration”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 1, number 6:
text: Conservatism has come to mean, with us, filibusterism, the acquisition of our neighbor's land, the extension of negro slavery, the reopening of the slave trade, and placing under the ban of society every publicist who raises his voice against such conservatism.
ref: 1859, “Politics at Home and Abroad”, in Orestes Augustus Brownson, editor, Brownson's Quarterly Review, volume 4, page 214:
text: […] Doc furtively kicked him in the side of the leg, to remind him that the main reason they were there was to hush up even the faintest suspicions that filibusterism was flaring up again in Central America.
ref: 1986, J. D. Hardin, Murder on the Rails, page 30:
glosses: The practice of forcefully and unauthorisedly acquiring control of foreign land.
glosses: The practice of delaying legislation by filibuster or other obstructive tactics.
bad cess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Uncertain. Occurs in print at least as early as 1831, when Samuel Lover used the expression as one already long-established. He unambiguously stated the derivation of cess in the malediction bad cess to be an abbreviation of success. OED speculated that it either was from success or from assessment meaning a military or governmental exaction.
Senses: examples: text: ...and so says the king to himself, "the divil receave the dhrop of that wine they shall get," says he, "... bad cess to the dhrop," says he, "my big-bellied bishop, to nourish your jolly red nose..."
ref: 1831, Samuel Lover, Legends and Stories of Ireland:
text: Bad cess to me, but it's too provokin', so it is; — and why couldn't you tell me so at wanst?
ref: 1834, Samuel Lover, Legends and Stories of Ireland:
text: Bad cess to the villains, but it's themselves that put me into the hobble, the thievin' rogues of the world.
ref: 1836, Philip Dixon Hardy, Legends, Tales, and Stories of Ireland:
text: Seen it with the ould Canal Company, bad cess to them, and all. People are decent enough in ones and twos, and maybe even threes, but they're worse than a lot of bad-mannered dogs when they band together into a crowd.
ref: 1963, Michael Farrell, Thy Tears Might Cease, Hutchinson:
glosses: Bad luck, failure, or evil befalling.
steelwool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of steel wool.
fan fictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fan fiction
deerstalker hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deerstalker hat
Gary Stus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gary Stu
Marty Stus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marty Stu
kinetic novel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinetic novels
Etymology: From KineticNovel, a brand of the Japanese software publishing company Visual Arts.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A visual novel with a fixed plot that the player's actions cannot change.
kinetic novels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinetic novel
visual novel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visual novels
Etymology: Calque of Japanese ビジュアルノベル (bijuaru noberu), from English visual + novel
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: An interactive fiction video game of a style originated in Japan, consisting primarily of narration illustrated by anime-style images.
Related terms: eroge
moege
nukige
visual novels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visual novel
draw sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɔːʃiːt/
Forms: form: draw sheets
form: drawsheet
Etymology: From draw + sheet.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sheet positioned under a bedridden patient to facilitate moving the patient on the bed.
drawsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawsheets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of draw sheet.
drawsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drawsheet
draw sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draw sheet
œsophagitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Acute œsophagitis is a comparatively rare affection of the mucous membrane lining the œsophagus, characterized by painful deglutition.
ref: 1892, Ephraim Fletcher Ingals, Diseases of the Chest, Throat and Nasal Cavities, William Wood & Company, second edition, chapter XXXVIII, page 622:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of esophagitis.
cadee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadees
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of qadi.
contrudes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contrude
contrude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkʌnˈtɹuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: contrudes
form: contruding
form: contruded
form: contruded
Etymology: From Latin contrudo.
Senses: examples: text: She now needed braces, as her teeth were contruded.
text: Were it not for this attachment on the bow, the force of the elastic upon the cuspid over which it would pass would contrude it, unless it was secured to the bow with a band attachment.
ref: 1635, Calvin Case, A Practical Treatise on the Technics and Principles of Dental Orthopedia and Prosthetic Correction of Cleft Palate:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: to crowd or push together (in senses relating to teeth)
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: to crowd or push together (in senses relating to teeth)
to create an abnormal inward curve of any portion of the line of the dental arch
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: to cause a downward or inward curve line of the strata
examples: text: Nothing contrudes him to behave!
glosses: to motivate; to influence
examples: text: Contrude you were the king.
text: Contrude the spot must be one where the tide in the ordinary and regular coul of things flove and reflors. Since th peace in question is not affected I ordinary tides, the right of the purk CASE stated by justices under 20 & 21 Vict. c. 43, the facts of which ofish here were in substance as follows. rended for by the ay
ref: 1888, John Chipman Gray, Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Property: Volume 2:
glosses: to envisage; to imagine
examples: text: We were too tired to take the stairs and decided to contrude ourselves into the small elevator.
text: If beaſts and Birds ſo gratefull be; What then Shall we imagine of theſe thankleſſ Men, But, That there's a Ghinnon to contrude All guilty of ſuch baſe ingratitude?
ref: 1635, Thomas Heywood, The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells: Their Names, Orders and Offices":
text: 3. Flame, if it be much compressed and straightened, is extinguished; as we may see in a candle having a glass cast over it, for the air being dilated by the heat doth contrude and thrust together the flame, and so lesseneth it, and in the end extinguisheth it; and fires on hearths will not flame, if the fuel be thrust close together, without any space for the flame to break forth.
ref: 1860, Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: Volume 14:
glosses: to thrust or crowd together; to cram
Thaler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thalers
Etymology: Borrowed from Austrian German Thaler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Melba toast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Melba toasts
Etymology: Named after Dame Nellie Melba who took the pseudonym "Melba" from Melbourne, her home town, along with toast.
Senses: glosses: A form of very dry, crisp and thinly sliced toast.
wikipedia: Nellie Melba
Related terms: Peach Melba
cuspis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuspes
form: cuspides
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cuspis. Doublet of cusp and cuspid.
Senses: glosses: A point; a sharp end.
cuspides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuspis
buttcheek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttcheeks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of butt cheek.
pixelation ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pixelation ratios
Senses: examples: text: Pixelation ratio is most commonly used to describe the pixelation cause by the use of multiple discreet LEDs to form an LED lamp. Low pixelation ratios are preferable, to most closely mimic fluorescent and incandescent lamps.
glosses: For a pixelated source, the ratio of the average distance between adjacent pixel sources to the average width of the pixel sources.
h/t
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: related: word: ht
word: HT
glosses: Abbreviation of hat tip: used to acknowledge the source of something (e.g. an idea or a piece of media).
hat tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hat tips
form: hat-tip
form: h/t
form: HT
form: H/T
Senses: glosses: A tip of the hat.
glosses: An acknowledgment or expression of gratitude, especially for information or inspiration received.
day trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day trades
form: day-trade
form: daytrade
Senses: examples: text: Netting a quick ten grand on a day trade of 1750 shares, he paid off his credit-card debts and gave his wife a ring with five diamonds.
ref: 1998 May 11, Jeanne Lee, “Sharing The Dell Wealth”, in CNNMoney,com, retrieved 15 Apr 2011:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A transaction in which units of stock or other investment instruments are purchased and then sold within a single market day.
day trade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: day trades
form: day trading
form: day traded
form: day traded
form: day-trade
form: daytrade
Senses: examples: text: No one knows for sure how many people day trade.
ref: 1999 August 9, Daniel Kadlec, “Day Trading: It's a Brutal World”, in Time:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To engage, as a deliberate investment strategy, in the very short-term trading of stocks or other securities, by selling any given security within the same market day during which it was purchased.
Derived terms: day trader
day trading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: day-trading
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of day trade
day-trading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of day-trade
day-trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day-trades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of day trade.
day-trade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: day-trades
form: day-trading
form: day-traded
form: day-traded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of day trade.
daytrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daytrades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of day trade.
daytrade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: daytrades
form: daytrading
form: daytraded
form: daytraded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of day trade.
day trader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day traders
form: day-trader
form: daytrader
Senses: examples: text: CNBC's reaction is colored by its stressed-out day trader's focus on the short term.
ref: 2009 March 12, James Poniewozik, “CNBC Under Fire: Sticking Up for the Big Guy?”, in Time:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A person who practices the short-term investment strategy of trading stocks or other investment instruments by selling any given security during the same market day within which it was purchased.
Related terms: day trade
day-trader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day-traders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of day trader.
tepes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tepe
tepui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛpwi/
Forms: form: tepuis
form: tepuies
form: tepuy
Etymology: From Spanish tepuy, from Pemon tüpü (“rocky system, mountain, tepui”), though sometimes erroneously said to be from Pemon tapüi (“house”) in the sense of ‘house of the gods’. Perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Cariban *tôpu (“stone”), though the Pemon etymon is not a direct descendant.
Senses: examples: text: 2005, P. E. Berry, R. Riina, Insights into the diversity of the Pantepui flora and the biogeographic complexity of the Guayana Shield, Ib Friis, Henrik Balslev (editors), Plant Diversity and Complexity Patterns, page 153,
Once a population becomes adapted to the tepui summit environment, it is more likely to colonize other areas with similar environmental conditions, so it would need to disperse between tepui summits to expand its geographical range.
text: One of the most dominant landscape features in the Gran Sabana is a flight of planation surfaces rising from modern sea level to the summits of the high tepui (Briceño and Schubert 1990).
ref: 2010, Robert A. L. Wray, “Chaper 9: The Gran Sabana”, in Piotr Migoń, editor, Geomorphological Landscapes of the World, Springer, page 82:
text: On the other hand, because birds and small mammals are relatively rare on tepuis, the principal potential vertebrate food for snakes on tepui summits would seem to be frogs, most of which are nocturnal (e.g., species of Tepuihyla, Stefania, Hypsiboas, Pristimantis, Anomaloglossus, and Otophryne).
ref: 2019, D. Bruce Means, César Barrio-Amorós, “13: Islands in the Sky: Snakes on South American Tepuis”, in Harvey Lillywhite, Marcio Martins, editors, Islands and Snakes, Oxford University Press, page 325:
glosses: A type of table-top mountain or mesa found in the Guiana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela.
Related terms: tepuian
every time one turns around
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: whenever one turns around
Senses: examples: text: Whenever I turn around, the boss is checking up on me.
text: Every time you turn around, the price of milk has gone up again.
glosses: Every time, to an annoyingly repetitive or consistent degree.
ninpō
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ninpo.
inner Solar System
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the inner Solar System
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The area of the Solar System that comprises certain objects that are relatively close to the Sun, including Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, while not including the other planets.
outer Solar System
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the outer Solar System
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The area of the Solar System that comprises certain objects that are relatively far from the Sun, including Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, while not including the other planets.
deltoideus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdiəs
Etymology: From deltoid + -eus. From Ancient Greek adjective δελτοειδής (deltoeidḗs). See also: δέλτα (délta), the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.
Senses: glosses: Like a triangle, triangular.
deltoideus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdiəs
Forms: form: deltoidei
Etymology: From deltoid + -eus. From Ancient Greek adjective δελτοειδής (deltoeidḗs). See also: δέλτα (délta), the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.
Senses: glosses: The deltoideus muscle.
Derived terms: deltoid
deltoids
delt
delts
deltoideus muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deltoideus muscles
Etymology: Compound of deltoideus + muscle. Also previously called musculus deltoideus.
Senses: glosses: A triangular muscle that connects the humerus to the shoulder girdle.
Derived terms: deltoid muscle
deltoid muscles
delt
delts
scattered disc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the scattered disc
form: scattered-disc
form: scattered-disk
form: scattered disk
Senses: examples: text: There are presently about 200 known objects in the scattered disc, but some of their orbits are rather uncertain. Obviously, most of these objects are observed at perihelion passage, because their semimajor axes might be as large as hundreds of AU (where they would not be observable); if observational biases are taken into account, the scattered-disc population is probably as large as [that of] the classical [Kuiper] belt.
ref: 2003, B. Bertotti, Paolo Farinella, David Vokrouhlický, Physics of the Solar System, Springer (Kluwer Academic), page 409:
text: The combined mass of the Kuiper belt and scattered disc is only of the order of 0.1M_🜨,^([0.1 Earth mass]) surprisingly low, but this has been a crucial clue in fathoming the evolution of the early solar system.
ref: 2014, Alan Longstaff, Astrobiology: An Introduction, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 66:
text: 2021, Ahmed Sayeed, Dawn of Life, Authors Tree Publishing, page 16,
The scattered disc which overlaps the Kuiper belt but extends out to about 200 AU, is thought to be the source of short-period comets. Scattered-disc objects are thought to have been ejected into erratic orbits by the gravitational influence of Neptune's early outward migration.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
hypernyms: circumstellar disc
glosses: A trans-Neptunian region of the Solar System that overlaps the outer edge of the Kuiper belt, but also extends far beyond it, and is populated sparsely by small Solar System bodies.
Derived terms: scattered disc object
SDO
Related terms: Kuiper belt
Oort cloud
sednoid
fucknugget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucknuggets
form: fuck nugget
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of fuck + nugget.
Senses: examples: text: CINEMA SCOPE New in cinemas this week you'll probably find: "Fucknugget the Famous Clown" *** (G). Fucknugget breaks from his unopinionated dumb-yuk stereotype, and does some frighteningly deep social caricature — a first for this type of work! In the film, Fucknugget, as himself, opens a car wash, but is forced to substitute semen for soap.
ref: 1990, The Gargoyle, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, retrieved 05 Mar 2017:
text: Oh no! Not a shithead! What's next fucknugget? You two are mature! Try being more creative next time.
ref: 1994 January 15, THE MAGIC DRAGON, “Re: Amerikan food.”, in alt.flame (Usenet), retrieved 05 Mar 2017, message-ID <CJo66p.6qB@sunfish.usd.edu>:
text: What the fuck is wrong with you duche^([sic]) bag motherfuckerassmunching twat head that was lucky enough to get my name as their tss victim? Did you sign up just to get a fucking gift or did you actually intend to reciprocate. Fucknugget this is a warning, TSS is a cool thing when we all participate but when one snodler^([sic]) like yourself fucks up and dosen't^([sic]) participate somebody gets understandibly^([sic]) harshed out.
ref: 1995 January 3, Christopher H. Newnan, “TSS”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet), retrieved 05 Mar 2017, message-ID <3ecd72$i58@noc.usfca.edu>:
text: Sorry that you've had bad experience with some fucknugget therapist.
ref: 2002, Regina Polak, Megatrend Religion?: Neue Religiositäten in Europa, Schwabenverlag, →ISBN, page 210:
text: Now the fucknugget tells me he'll give it back. Thinks he can return a bribe like a pair of pants that don't fit.
ref: 2006, Paul Levine, The Deep Blue Alibi, Random House, →ISBN, page 406:
text: When I was a kid, before I copped that he was a world-class fucknugget, he was the smartest man in the world; he knew everything about everything, he could beat up the Hulk with one hand while he bicep-curled grand pianos with the other, a grin from him lit up your whole day.
ref: 2010, Tana French, Faithful Place, Penguin, →ISBN, page 262:
glosses: idiot.
cœmeteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Latin coemētēria; compare cœmeterium.
Senses: glosses: plural of cœmeterium
metanœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The moral change of mind, the metanœa, the transmentation, produced by the successful application of God’s Word and the powerful exhibition of Christ the Saviour, is explicitly declared to be, not a mere restoration to the beneficial enjoyment of an already communicated privilege, but actually, and absolutely, and unreservedly, the grace of REGENERATION itself : […]
ref: 1840, The Church of England Quarterly Review, William Edward Painter, volume IX, article I, page #14:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of metanoia.
furrowest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: furrow + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of furrow
penetratest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: penetrate + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of penetrate