cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bully-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bully-off
penny bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penny banks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of piggy bank.
synonyms: word: piggy bank
penny banks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penny bank
pochéing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poché
pochéd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poché
pochéed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poché
Pont l'Évêque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pont l'Évêques
Senses: glosses: An uncooked, unpressed cow's-milk cheese, originally manufactured in the area around the commune of Pont-l'Évêque in Normandy.
Pont l'Évêques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pont l'Évêque
religify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: religifies
form: religifying
form: religified
form: religified
Senses: glosses: To religionize; to bring under the influence of religion.
religifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of religify
religifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of religify
religified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of religify
religification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of religifying.
Roskopf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roskopfs
Etymology: Invented by Georges Frederic Roskopf (1813–1889), German-Swiss watchmaker.
Senses: glosses: An inexpensive, less accurate lever escapement, used in some clocks and watches.
Roskopfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roskopf
Nanaic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language family of Northeast Asia, a branch of Tungusic.
Nanaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to this family.
Tapirapé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of Brazil.
Tapirapé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Tupí-Guaraní language.
Ewenic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language family of Northeast Asia, a branch of Tungusic.
Ewenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to this family.
backportability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-portability
Senses: examples: text: with backportability in mind
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The quality of being backportable.
backportable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: back-portable
Senses: examples: text: backportable to older releases
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Able to be backported.
Udegheic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small language family spoken in far eastern Russia, a branch of Tungusic.
Udegheic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to this family.
enzuigiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enzuigiris
Etymology: From Japanese 延髄斬り (enzuigiri).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: An attack that strikes the back of the opponent's head.
enzuigiris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enzuigiri
chasapikos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chasapiko
ChFC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ChFCs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of chartered financial consultant.
ChFCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ChFC
changes over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of change over
changing over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of change over
changed over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of change over
champagne cocktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champagne cocktails
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made with sugar, Angostura bitters, champagne and brandy, garnished with a maraschino cherry.
champagne cocktails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of champagne cocktail
chain-link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain-links
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chainlink.
verticalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of verticalise
verticalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of verticalise
Fontanes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fontaneses
Etymology: Borrowed from French Fontanes.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
to a "T"
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of to a T.
Calydonian Boar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A giant boar, who was sent by the goddess Artemis to ravage the area of Calydon.
Calydonian Hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Calydonian boar hunt: the process of hunting the Calydonian Boar.
selfindulgence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfindulgences
Senses: examples: text: A well ordered Conversation is in Reality, and upon the whole, the highest possible Selfindulgence.
ref: 1770, Benjamin Williams, Discourses on various subjects, page 141:
text: Towards the end, the earnest nature of the quest led some, like Charles Borde, to open parody of ascensional eroticism, while still others, like Greuze, transformed it into a mawkish disguise for selfindulgence in which all sense of equilibrium between inner and outer was lost.
ref: 1995, Clive Hart, Kay Gilliland Stevenson, Heaven and the Flesh: Imagery of Desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo:
text: We should firmly oppose going through the motions, excessive bureaucracy, selfindulgence, and extravagance, resolutely combat corruption and other misconduct, preserve Communists’ political integrity, and dedicate ourselves to the cause of the Party and the people.
ref: 2013, Address to the First Session of the 12th National People’s Congress:
text: Like the waltzer, the narrator in “A Telephone Call” is her own worst enemy. Suffering from too much time on her hands—she is evidently not occupied with a job or responsibility for anyone but herself—she can afford the selfindulgence to spend hours focused exclusively on the dubious prospect of a phone call.
ref: 2020 June 22, Nasrullah Mambrol, “Analysis of Dorothy Parker’s Stories”, in Literary Theory and Criticism:
glosses: Alternative form of self-indulgence.
Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary
Etymology: Coined by English linguist Rosamund Moon in a 1989 paper (see first quote).
Senses: examples: text: The dictionary most cited in such cases is the UAD: the Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary, usually referred to as 'the dictionary,' but very occasionally as 'my dictionary.'
ref: 1989, Rosamund Moon, “Objective or Objectionable: Ideological Aspects of Dictionaries”, in English Language Research Journal, volume 3, Birmingham, West Midlands: University of Birmingham, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63; quoted in Words Words Words, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2010, →ISBN, pages 5–6:
text: The individual lexicographer has ceded power to the team, the computerised corpus has come to stand side by side with, if not actually to replace, the readers of earlier research, but what has been termed the 'Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary' is still the court of last resort.
ref: 1996, Jonathon Green, Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 11:
text: This war ended with the death of both men and their replacement by Johnson as authors of the "Unidentified Authorising Dictionary".
ref: 1996 March 24, David Honigmann, “Abecedarians in the war of the words”, in The Independent, London: Independent Digital News & Media Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2022:
text: Have you hear^([sic]) of the Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary?
ref: 2004 June 22, Raymond S. Wise, “tarot”, in alt.english.usage (Usenet):
text: The reference here, certainly, is to a generic compilation, not to any specific collection. This is the 'Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary' identified by Rosamund Moon, and the purpose for which it might be consulted is decidedly utilitarian.
ref: 2018, Elizabeth Knowles, 'And I Quote...', Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 52:
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A fictional supremely authoritative dictionary, supposed to be referenced by laypeople in discussions of "the dictionary".
self indulgence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self indulgences
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, we must avoid any temptation towards hopeless self indulgence. That is, that we despair of the electorate and present policies not to win government, but to indulge ourselves.
ref: 1978, Commonwealth Record (Australia) - Volume 3, Issues 1-25, page 104:
text: This is a handbook for self indulgence.
ref: 1988, Diane Doan Noyes, Peggy Mellody, Beauty & Cancer: A Woman's Guide to Looking Great While Experiencing the Side Effects of Cancer Therapy, page 3:
text: Therefore, what Proverbs is to Godlike wisdom, Ecclesiastes is to man's carnal tendencies and his self indulgences. This book accentuates man's self indulgences, his selfish propensities, his moral depravity, his irreverence for God and the spiritual things of God.
ref: 2004, Ed Marr, Vol 1: Repentance: The Doctrine of God and the Knowledge of Salvation (in the Old Testament), page 268:
glosses: Alternative form of self-indulgence.
self indulgences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self indulgence
petrified carpentry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is, however, often used in woodwork, where it is easier to execute, and it seems possible that its use at Göbekli Tepe constitutes an example of ʻpetrified carpentryʼ.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 228:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The presence in stonework architecture of designs that originated in carved wooden structures.
Tournay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tournays
Etymology: Borrowed from French Tournay.
Senses: glosses: A village in Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitania.
glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Turney
carbonatable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Morphologically carbonate + -able.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a material, capable of being converted to a carbonate
unpost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unposts
form: unposting
form: unposted
form: unposted
Etymology: From un- + post.
Senses: examples: text: There will be arguments, and you'll disagree with someone's point-of-view. You'll even get mad. But once you've posted an angry article, you can't unpost it.
ref: 1997, Ted Pedersen, Francis Moss, Internet for Kids!: A Beginner's Guide to Surfing the Net, page 63:
text: Do you have any photos or texts you wish you could “unpost”?
ref: 2016, Patti Greene, Anchor Me: Laying a Foundation in Bible Study and Prayer:
text: […] and identifying good checkpoints when backups should be taken (in case you have to go back to the previous state), say for example, before starting the posting of transactions, as you can't unpost them easily if you found an issue.
ref: 2017, Rahul Mohta, Yogesh Kasat, J. J. Yadav, Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, page 449:
glosses: To remove or retract (something previously posted, such as an electronic message).
unposts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpost
unposting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpost
pissaladiere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissaladieres
Senses: examples: text: On a flat bread crust, the pissaladiere can be eaten to the heart’s content.
ref: 1998 September 30, Sally Patterson, “Eternally versatile onions”, in The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass., page D2:
text: Watch for tangy pissaladieres with sardines marinated in ginger and lemon, salt-cod ravioli, lamb with olive polenta, and a crunchy parfait of honey and hazelnuts.
ref: 2001, Fodor’s France, →ISBN, page 496:
text: Back home, I kneaded dough for pissaladiere, the flatbread celebrated in Nice.
ref: 2015 February 8, Leah Eskin, “Masterpiece pizza”, in Chicago Tribune, section 6, page 8:
text: If you’ve ever been to Nice, you’ve likely had grilled pissaladiere.
ref: 2017 September 8, “Five Restaurants to Eat at with a Carnivore”, in Swerve (Calgary Herald), page twenty-one:
text: When you pull the large, golden pissaladiere from the oven, everyone who loves anchovies will jump for joy.
ref: 2021 September 1, Sheryl Julian, “For anchovy lovers: the French flatbread pissaladiere, topped with jammy onions”, in The Boston Globe, volume 300, number 63, page G3:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pissaladière.
pissaladieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pissaladiere
biteyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bitey + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “Exactly how hungry are you? Should I give in to my biteyness so that you can fill up, or can it wait until we can find somewhere more private than the side of the road next to a haunted forest?”
ref: 2012, Katie MacAlister, A Tale of Two Vampires (Dark Ones), Signet, New American Library, →ISBN, page 199:
text: For instance, Susie’s parents might help her to de-fuse the word “cat” from those properties of scratchiness and “biteyness” by making nonsense rhymes with the word cat, singing songs about cats, rhyming the word “cat,” making artwork based on the word “cat,” and so on.
ref: 2016, David A. Carbonell, The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It, New Harbinger Publications, →ISBN:
text: Still wary of sudden biteyness, Martigan gingerly turned the man so that his left side pointed up.
ref: 2018, Stephen Kozeniewski, The Ghoul Archipelago, French Press, →ISBN, page 222:
glosses: The quality of being bitey.
djerid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: djerids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jereed.
supertunica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A robe worn by a British monarch at their coronation ceremony.
apple-pieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apple-pie
apple-pied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apple-pie
Peleng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Indonesian islands of Taliabu, Peleng and Batudaka are in a region named Wallacea, after Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th-century naturalist who developed a theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin’s.
ref: 2020 January 9, Karen Weintraub, “Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An island of the Banggai archipelago in the province of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Batudaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Indonesian islands of Taliabu, Peleng and Batudaka are in a region named Wallacea, after Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th-century naturalist who developed a theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin’s.
ref: 2020 January 9, Karen Weintraub, “Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An island of the Togian archipelago in the province of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
hunting pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Maturing at two years old, and able to produce a fawn every year, its rapid rate of reproduction has helped it endure intense hunting pressure.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 259:
glosses: The amount of hunting a particular animal or species is subjected to, usually resulting in greater than normal wariness.
multi-celled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The first (oldest) unit of time is the Precambrian Supereon, which covers much of Earth's history from its origins roughly 4.55 bya to 545 mya. Very primitive, one-celled life-forms arose as early as 4.0 bya and near the end of the era (570 mya) the oldest known fossils of multi-celled organisms appear.
ref: 2015, Joyce A. Quinn, Susan L. Woodward, “Introduction”, in Earth's Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World's Geographic Features, volumes I: A–L, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page xxxi:
glosses: Alternative form of multicelled.
one-celled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From one + celled.
Senses: examples: text: The first (oldest) unit of time is the Precambrian Supereon, which covers much of Earth's history from its origins roughly 4.55 bya to 545 mya. Very primitive, one-celled life-forms arose as early as 4.0 bya and near the end of the era (570 mya) the oldest known fossils of multi-celled organisms appear.
ref: 2015, Joyce A. Quinn, Susan L. Woodward, “Introduction”, in Earth's Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World's Geographic Features, volumes I: A–L, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page xxxi:
glosses: Single-celled, unicellular.
life-form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life-forms
Senses: examples: text: The first (oldest) unit of time is the Precambrian Supereon, which covers much of Earth's history from its origins roughly 4.55 bya to 545 mya. Very primitive, one-celled life-forms arose as early as 4.0 bya and near the end of the era (570 mya) the oldest known fossils of multi-celled organisms appear.
ref: 2015, Joyce A. Quinn, Susan L. Woodward, “Introduction”, in Earth's Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World's Geographic Features, volumes I: A–L, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page xxxi:
glosses: Alternative form of lifeform.
life-forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life-form
olive fruit fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olive fruit flies
Senses: examples: text: Evidence from Drosophila, screwworm flies, olive fruit flies and fish all points to genetic adaptation to captivity involving rare alleles, deleterious in the wild and partially recessive there (Frankham 2008).
ref: 2009, Richard Frankham, “Genetic Architecture of Reproductive Fitness and its Consequences”, in Julius van der Werf, Hans-Ulrich Graser, Richard Frankham, Cedric Gondro, editors, Adaptation and Fitness in Animal Populations: Evolutionary and Breeding Perspectives on Genetic Resource Management, Springer, →ISBN, page 28:
text: According to the University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources department, the olive fruit fly (bactrocera oleae) poses not only a severe economic threat for the state’s cutting edge olive oil industry, but any one, individual fruit bearing ornamental olive tree, untreated on a private property, is at risk of exacerbating the problem.
ref: 2013 November 21, Frances Rivetti, “Olive harvest and the battle against fruit flies”, in Petaluma Argus-Courier, page C1:
text: “That’s a good question whether it can make that big jump from the Rocky Mountains into California, Hester said. “But you know anything is possible.” As proven with both the olive fruit fly and the emerald ash borer, invasive species often take big leaps.
ref: 2016 December 25, Chris Stewart, “Invasive beetle could put olive trees at risk”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 140, number 73, page A21:
glosses: Synonym of olive fly (Bactrocera oleae).
synonyms: word: olive fly
extra: Bactrocera oleae
olive fruit flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olive fruit fly
semimolten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-molten
Etymology: From semi- + molten.
Senses: examples: text: Simply stated, Earth's plates are “floating” atop a thick semimolten mass called the mantle. Convection currents in the mantle move the plates around the surface of the globe.
ref: 2015, Joyce A. Quinn, Susan L. Woodward, “Introduction”, in Earth's Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World's Geographic Features, volumes I: A–L, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page xxxv:
glosses: Partly or somewhat molten.
semi-molten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semimolten.
tool subject
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tool subjects
Senses: examples: text: If supervision of the special subjects increases teaching efficiency by solving the problems of pupil guidance, it is probable that similar help should be given to thtose^([sic]) tool subjects such as reading and language which require a highly specialized technique for mastery.
ref: 1923, Los Angeles School Journal, page 10:
text: Another typical requirement is that of various tool subjects, such as mathematics and foreign languages.
ref: 1972, William Roy Niblett, Robert Freeman Butts, editors, Universities Facing the Future, Jossey-Bass, →ISBN, page 244:
text: These youth often lack the cultural background important for success in the tool subjects such as reading and mathematics.
ref: 1974, Richard J. Mueller, Principles of Classroom Learning and Perception: An Introduction to Educational Psychology, Praeger Publishers, page 153:
glosses: A subject studied to gain a skill used in other subjects.
Coordinate terms: content subject
tool subjects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tool subject
Hanoverian rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hanoverian rats
Etymology: The name was introduced by English naturalist Charles Waterton, a devout Catholic, as a slur on Protestant Hanoverians whose British rule began in 1714, shortly before the species first appeared in Britain.
Senses: glosses: The brown rat, Rattus norvegicus.
wikipedia: Charles Waterton
House of Hanover
Hanoverian rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanoverian rat
olive flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olive fly
war elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war elephants
Senses: examples: text: During the Second Punic War, 218-201 BCE, Hannibal trekked 37 war elephants across the Alps from what is now Spain into Italy.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 273:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any elephant trained and guided by humans for combat.
war elephants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war elephant
dihaploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dihaploid
pseudogamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, pseudogamy.
pseudoreminiscence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoreminiscences
Etymology: From pseudo- + reminiscence.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A false memory.
pseudoreminiscences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoreminiscence
pseudorecollection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudorecollections
Etymology: From pseudo- + recollection.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A false memory.
pseudorecollections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudorecollection
I resemble that remark
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A play on words, with resemble instead of resent.
Senses: glosses: touché; admitting that an opponent's criticism is applicable to oneself
leftback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leftbacks
Senses: examples: text: Barcelona, by contrast, is counting the cost of having Brazilian rightback Daniel Alves and French leftback Eric Abidal missing through suspension and Mexican centreback Rafael Marquez out through injury.
ref: 2009 May 27, Robert Millward, “Clash has all the makings of a classic”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of left back.
exoskeleta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exoskeleton
oriental plane tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oriental plane trees
Senses: examples: text: The oriental plane tree has a most strange history. It is native to southeastern Europe and the Middle East; expanded into western Europe at about the same time that the grapevine, olive, chestnut and walnut were brought west by early farmers.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 278:
glosses: A tree of the species Platanus orientalis.
Synonyms: oriental plane
oriental plane trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oriental plane tree
pulicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That kills fleas.
pulpy kidney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulpy kidneys
Senses: glosses: A form of clostridial enterotoxemia in sheep and goats.
pulpy kidneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulpy kidney
NSSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: nonsuicidal self-injury
onion-y
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more onion-y
form: most onion-y
Senses: examples: text: Speaking of onions, reminds me that perhaps Lily cooks them differently from the way you girls do. The deacon says he thinks her way is admirable because it leaves no onion-y taste in his mouth afterward. She slices and boils them in milk and water—about equal quantities—until they are quite soft, then pours it off and seasons with salt and pepper and adds a little cream and butter. The advantage lies in the boiling and extracting the strong flavor,
ref: 1876 January, Pipsissiway Potts [pseudonym; Rosella Rice], “Home-Life and Character. Pottsville Papers. […] No. 1.”, in Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine, volume XLIV, number 1, Philadelphia, Pa.: T[imothy] S[hay] Arthur & Son, page 48, column 1:
text: Very often you will notice a slightly onion-y smell about the resting burrow of a male platypus.
ref: 1934, F[rancesca] R[aimonde] La Monte, M[icaela] H. Welch, Vanishing Wilderness, New York, N.Y.: Liveright Publishing Company, page 225:
text: Pickled onions pack all the zing of a raw onion, but without the onion-y aftertaste.
ref: 1998 September 30, Sally Patterson, “Eternally versatile onions”, in The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass., page D2:
glosses: Alternative form of oniony.
menuboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menuboard
double-fist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-fists
form: double-fisting
form: double-fisted
form: double-fisted
Senses: examples: text: I saunter around flirting with waitresses and bartenders and strippers, double-fisting vodka
ref: 2009, Tucker Max, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, page 112
text: 2010, Fieldy, Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and Korn, link
I only felt like myself when I was drunk Double-fisting beer was pretty typical for me back in the day.
glosses: To carry and consume (two glasses of an alcoholic beverage), one in each hand.
examples: text: The man double fisting Summer's pussy decided he had enough of this and started to pull both arms out at the same time.
ref: 2003 February 20, DireWolf, “Wild College Girls 07”, in alt.sex.stories.moderated (Usenet):
text: Right now they're double fisting her.
ref: 2012, BJ Klein, College Weekend...a Strange, True Story, link:
glosses: To insert both hands or forearms into the rectum or vagina.
Related terms: double-fisted
saw-trestle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saw-trestles
Senses: glosses: Sawhorse.
actinium-K
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinium K
Etymology: From the former practice of naming the steps in a decay chain sequential letters. Francium was first identified in the naturally occurring actinium series.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of francium.
synonyms: word: francium
wikipedia: Decay chain#Actinium series
anglo-helvetium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anglohelvetium.
sago spleen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sago spleens
Senses: glosses: A spleen in which amyloid has been deposited in the Malpighian corpuscles which appear as translucent, gray bodies that resemble the grains of the sago palm.
Wallace-Woodworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural municipality in south-west Manitoba, Canada, formed in 2015 from the Rural Municipality of Wallace and Rural Municipality of Woodworth.
soy yogurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soy yogurts
Senses: synonyms: soygurt
soy yoghurt
glosses: Nondairy yogurt made from soybeans with sugar to provoke fermentation.
wikipedia: soy yogurt
soy yogurts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soy yogurt
Nemausa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Patron god and namesake of Nîmes in the Roman era.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 51 Nemausa, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 51 Nemausa
Kalypso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Calypso.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 53 Kalypso, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 53 Kalypso
kinesthetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kinesthetizes
form: kinesthetizing
form: kinesthetized
form: kinesthetized
Etymology: From kinesthetic + -ize, on the model of visualize.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:kinesthetize.
glosses: To form a mental representation of the motion of something; to form kinesthesia.
Coordinate terms: list in visualise
kinesthetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kinesthetize
kinesthetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kinesthetize
kinesthetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kinesthetize
audibilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: audibilizes
form: audibilizing
form: audibilized
form: audibilized
form: audiblize
form: audibilise
Etymology: From audible + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Phrasing echoes there, with an almost metallic clang, against the actual electromagnetic “sounder” that audibilizes Morse code in the transmission of telegrams, a device operated at her post from the inner sanctum[…]
ref: 2021 January 28, Garrett Stewart, Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 191:
text: "Rather than concealing or silencing a disability, disablist music audibilizes disability, asserts disability, even claims disability as a fundamental component of its sonic identity.” The British Paraorchestra, for example,[…]
ref: 2022 September 2, Licia Carlson, Shared Musical Lives: Philosophy, Disability, and the Power of Sonification, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Attention to space along with intersectional approaches to retelling women's stories that challenge normative depictions of African women visibilizes people and audibilizes voices of contest and difference. This approach renders more[…]
ref: 2020 December 24, Diana Højlund Madsen, Gendered Institutions and Women’s Political Representation in Africa, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: To make (something) audible.
examples: text: “Audibilize,” Tom Cook Clark was saying to Madden. “When you see them leaning like that, get ready to audibilize.” “Awright, awright, awright,” Oscar Veech shouted, clapping his hands for noapparentreason. “What are you, Conway?”
ref: 1986 January 7, Don DeLillo, End Zone, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Quarterbacks are allowed to audibilize, or change the play at the line of scrimmage. A changed play is called an audible. Quarterbacks usually audibilize when they discover that the defense has guessed correctly and is properly aligned[…]
ref: 2012 June 13, Howie Long, John Czarnecki, Football Rules and Positions In A Day For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
glosses: To make (something) audible.
To call out a new intended American football play; to vocalize a change in the intended play.
Related terms: audialize
audibilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of audibilize
audibilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of audibilize
audibilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of audibilize
velodorsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
phonetics
phonology
sciences
speech-pathology
glosses: Formed when the soft palate lowers to touch the back of the tongue, due to developmental problems in the anatomy of the mouth, as opposed to velar (or more precisely dorso-velar), where the back of the tongue rises to touch the soft palate.
Related terms: 𝼁
𝼃
𝼇
Hargrave and Huxley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England, formed in 2015 from the parishes of Foulk Stapleford, Hatton and Huxley.
speed skater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed skaters
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A person who competes in the sport of speed skating.
Carolina caviar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Carolina Caviar / This makes a great side dish. You can also serve it with wholegrain crackers or pita chips for an hors d'oeuvre or a snack. 2 (15-ounce) cans black - eyed peas, drained and rinsed / 1 small sweet purple onion[…]
ref: 2006, Margaret McCullers Kocsis, Savvy Eating for the Whole Family: Whole Foods, Whole Family, Whole Life, Capital Books, →ISBN, page 218:
text: […] Carolina Caviar / This isn't a real caviar, but rather a salsa made from black-eyed peas that, for Southerners, rivals the flavor of the ritzier roe. It marinates in Italian dressing, so spoon the spicy blend into a serving bowl using a slotted spoon.
ref: 2017 January 20, The Editors of Southern Living, Southern Living Quick & Easy: Over 600 Of Our Best Fast & Delicious Dishes For Everyday Suppers, Time Inc. Books, →ISBN:
text: Carolina Caviar is a popular, hearty tailgating snack and the perfect party dip for New Year's Day, when eating black-eyed peas is said to bring good luck.
ref: 2018 August 6, Perre Coleman Magness, Southern Snacks: 77 Recipes for Small Bites with Big Flavors, UNC Press Books, →ISBN:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A side dish or dip made from black-eyed peas, to which may be added onion, tomatoes, corn, and spices.
glosses: Synonym of pimento cheese.
synonyms: word: pimento cheese
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Carolina, caviar.
Related terms: english: a similar dish, whose recipes may overlap
translation: a similar dish, whose recipes may overlap
word: Texas caviar
speed skaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speed skater
Sonsorolese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sonsorol + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A Micronesian language of Palau, closely related to Tobian, originally spoken on the islands composing the state of Sonsorol, and spreading through migration elsewhere in the country.
Canet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Canets
Etymology: From Catalan Canet via Spanish or from French Canet.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Canet-Plage
New Bilton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A western suburb of Rugby, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4975).
end-of-pier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: End-of-pier comedians and working-class comics preferred to get laughs by cracking jokes about darkies and sambos.
ref: 2003, Sukhdev Sandhu, London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City, HarperCollins, page 227:
glosses: Alternative form of end-of-the-pier.
North Carolina slaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of North Carolina coleslaw.
synonyms: word: North Carolina coleslaw
magnificent bird of paradise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnificent birds of paradise
Senses: glosses: The bird Cicinnurus magnificus.
magnificent birds of paradise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnificent bird of paradise
magnificency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnificencies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of magnificence.
magnificencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnificency
magnificentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magnificent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: magnificence
Schute
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
magnificent frigate bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnificent frigate birds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of magnificent frigatebird.
mag tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mag tapes
Senses: glosses: Clipped compound of magnetic tape.
mag tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mag tape
magpie shrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magpie shrikes
Senses: synonyms: African long-tailed shrike
glosses: A bird of species Urolestes melanoleucus, of Africa.
magpie shrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magpie shrike
African long-tailed shrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African long-tailed shrikes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of magpie shrike.
synonyms: word: magpie shrike
African long-tailed shrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of African long-tailed shrike
magpie-robin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magpie-robins
Senses: synonyms: shama
glosses: Any of various medium-sized birds of the genus Copsychus, found in Africa and Asia.
magpie-robins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magpie-robin
crash boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crash boat
dive boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dive boat
diving boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diving boat
fly-boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly-boat
footboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footboat
Readerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Readership
head boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head boat
Higgins boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Higgins boat
oreboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oreboat
pap boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pap boat
weapons offences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weapons offence
waxy screw shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waxy screw shell
clay courters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clay courter
Mahasanghika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mahasanghika
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mahasamghika.
Mahasamghika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mahasamghika
form: Mahasanghika
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An early school of Buddhism, originally based in Magadha.
demonslayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonslayer
butter boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butter boat
landships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landship
millionaireships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millionaireship
non-shippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-shipper
becunted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cunted.
synonyms: word: cunted
maidenhair spleenwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maidenhair spleenworts
Senses: glosses: The small fern Asplenium trichomanes.
maidenhair spleenworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maidenhair spleenwort
lilims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lilim
lilins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lilin
hostageships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hostageship
sub-internships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub-internship
turtle ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turtle ship
vacuum airships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuum airship
weak links
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weak link
devil's corkscrews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devil's corkscrew
devil's-bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devil's-bit
devils in disguise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devil in disguise
maize dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maize dances
Senses: glosses: A traditional Native American dance associated with the maize harvest.
maize dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maize dance
Tracies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tracy
Hosta virus X
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A virus that infects hosta plants, causing discoloration, mottling, and tissue collapse.
Creigiau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in the north-west of the city of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST0881).
kilt jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilt jackets
Senses: examples: text: From the 1970s, with the decline of all-women bands and the increased integration of women into co-ed bands that began as all-male organizations, many female pipers have worn the same clothing as their male counterparts, which often consists of a kilt jacket, kilt, and sporran.
ref: 2014, Pauline Greenhill, Diane Tye, Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag:
text: Leith wore a red and gray kilt, red tie, white oxford shirt, and a gray kilt jacket left open.
ref: 2016, Hannah Reed, Dressed to Kilt, page 42:
text: An organist wigged out like Rick Wakeman, the diamante lapels of Humza Yousaf’s kilt jacket sparkled, and out in the Mall, the procession began.
ref: 6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A short fitted jacket with decorative (often tassled) buttons on pockets and sleeves.
kilt jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilt jacket
drum horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drum horses
Senses: examples: text: The soul of the Regiment lives in the Drum-Horse who carries the silver kettle-drums. He is nearly always a big piebald Waler. That is a point of honour; and a Regiment will spend anything you please on a piebald.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Rout of the White Hussars”, in Plain Tales from the Hills:
text: “Alexander,” The Life Guards' drum horse, kindly lent for the occasion, carried the 5th Lancer's silver kettle-drums draped with the 16th Lancer's drum banners.
ref: 1963, Cyril Nelson Barclay, History of the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers, 1925-1961, page 194:
text: As they drew closer, I recognized the horse— it was none other than Clarence, the regimental drum horse of the mounted band of the Life Guards, who on parade bears a vast, heavy silver kettle drum on either side just ahead of the saddle.
ref: 2009, Michael Korda, Horse People: Scenes from the Riding Life:
text: A drum horse called Apollo would not behave, skittering sideways determinedly.
ref: 6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A horse that carries a rider and two silver kettle drums in certain ceremonies of state.
examples: text: The Queen, whose profound knowledge of the breeding of horses is well known, became interested in breeding drum-horses in recent years and has provided some to the Household Cavalry and has further potential stock at Hampton Court.
ref: 1993, William Lloyd, Challengers and Chargers: A History of the Life Guards, 1945–92, page 74:
text: Inspections for licensing of stallions are the same for both the Drum Horse and Gypsy Cob.
ref: 2009, The Official Horse Breeds Standards Guide, page 381:
text: There are very few of them in the world, and it is very rare to see Drum Horses, whose antecedents are also small in number.
ref: 2017, Élise Rousseau, Horses of the World, page 55:
text: The drum horse is a breed of draft (or draught) horse originally bred in England to carry kettledrum players and their heavy 300-pound drums during processions that included the English royal family's Household Cavalry.
ref: 2023, Bernadette Johnson, The Big Book of Horse Trivia for Kids:
glosses: A breed of heavy riding horse with thick main and tail and abundant feathers starting at the knees and hocks.
drum horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drum horse
audiblize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: audiblizes
form: audiblizing
form: audiblized
form: audiblized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of audibilize.
audibilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: audibilises
form: audibilising
form: audibilised
form: audibilised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of audibilize.
Wildian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wildian
form: most Wildian
Etymology: From Wild + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the title of his paper at Royaumont has a Husserlian ring, but a peculiarly Wildian intonation: “L'anthropologie philosophique et la crise des sciences européennes.”
ref: 1989, James M. Edie, “John Wild and Phenomenology”, in Eugene F. Kaelin, Calvin O. Schrag, editors, American Phenomenology: Origins and Developments (Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research; 26), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: Of or pertaining to John Daniel Wild (1902–1972), American philosopher, an important proponent of existentialism and phenomenology.
Wildian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wildian
form: most Wildian
Etymology: From Wilde + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wildean (“of or pertaining to Oscar Wilde”).
zero line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero lines
Senses: examples: text: Outside of the main roads and major cities, life in small-town Ukraine rides a razor's edge on the “zero line” where two armies collide.
ref: 2023 March 18, “The Forgotten Villages of Ukraine's 'Zero Line'”, in Rolling Stone:
text: Half an hour's drive from the zero line, an unassuming village house marks an important landmark for those unfortunate enough to need to […]
ref: 2023 April 11, “'They crawl forward 24/7:' On the zero line with Ukrainian infantry north of Bakhmut”, in The Kyiv Independent:
glosses: The very front of the front line, where opposing armed forces meet and engage in direct combat, especially the border between (US forces in) Afghanistan and Pakistan, or between Ukrainian and Russian forces.