cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bologna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈləʊnjə/
ipa: /bəˈlɒnjə/
ipa: /bəˈloʊni/
ipa: /bəˈloʊnə/
rhymes: -əʊni
rhymes: -əʊnə
Forms: form: bolognas
form: boloney
form: baloney
Etymology: From the Italian city of Bologna.
Senses: glosses: A seasoned Italian sausage made from beef, pork or veal.
Synonyms: Bologna sausage
mortadella
bologna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈləʊnjə/
ipa: /bəˈlɒnjə/
ipa: /bəˈloʊni/
ipa: /bəˈloʊnə/
rhymes: -əʊni
rhymes: -əʊnə
Forms: form: boloney
form: baloney
Etymology: Probably from the Polari slang word balonie, respelled under the influence of the preceding homophonous word bologna (“sausage”); alternatively, perhaps simply an extended use of bologna (“sausage”). See baloney for more.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of baloney (“nonsense”).
synonyms: word: baloney
extra: nonsense
Derived terms: dancing bologna
Kambojika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The name of a monarch of a region of ancient India.
neutron bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutron bombs
Senses: glosses: An atomic bomb that produces a greater amount of neutrons, and a lesser amount of blast; the intention being to create equal lethal neutron radiation and blast radii which increases the effectiveness of the weapon against armour while reducing collateral damage.
Synonyms: N-bomb
anthologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈθɒl.ə.dʒɪst/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: anthologists
Etymology: From anthology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: a person who anthologizes
Synonyms: anthologer
anthologiser
anthologizer
anthologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈθɒl.ə.dʒaɪz/
Forms: form: anthologizes
form: anthologizing
form: anthologized
form: anthologized
form: anthologise
Senses: glosses: To gather a collection of written works for publication.
glosses: To include a written work in a published collection of works.
Derived terms: anthologizable
anthologizer
Related terms: anthology
anthologist
anthology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈθɒlədʒi/
ipa: /ænˈθɑləd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: anthologies
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”), from ἀνθολογέω (anthologéō, “I gather flowers”), from ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”) + λέγω (légō, “I gather, pick up, collect”), coined by Meleager of Gadara circa 60 BCE, originally as Στέφανος (στέφανος (stéphanos, “garland”)) to describe a collection of poetry, later retitled anthology – see Greek Anthology. Anthologiai were collections of small Greek poems and epigrams, because in Greek culture the flower symbolized the finer sentiments that only poetry can express. By surface analysis, antho- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Malkin and Stacks, along with Robert Dallek, James McPherson and other contributors to the anthology (edited by Robert Cowley) take such questions as the jumping-off points for exercises in counterfactuality, the historian's term for speculation about how the past might have unfolded if a particular event had happened otherwise.
ref: 2004 September 5, Laura Miller, “Imagine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2021:
glosses: A collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors.
glosses: A work or series containing various stories with no direct relation to one another.
glosses: An assortment of things.
glosses: The study of flowers.
Derived terms: anthologer
anthological
anthologist
anthologization
anthologize
anthologizer
patristic anthology
Related terms: anther
florilegium
franklin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæŋk.lɪn/
Forms: form: franklins
Etymology: From Middle English frankelein (“freeholder”), from Anglo-Norman fraunclein (“a landowner of free, but not noble birth”), from Old French fraunc (“free”), from Frankish *Frankō (“Frank”, literally “freeman”) + Old French -lein (“-ling”), from Frankish *-ling (“-ling”). More at frank, -ling.
Senses: glosses: A freeholder, especially as belonging to a class of landowners in the 14th and 15th century ranking at the bottom of the gentry.
fand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: fands
form: fanding
form: fanded
form: fanded
Etymology: From Middle English fanden, fandien, from Old English fandian (“to try, attempt, tempt, test, examine, explore, search out, seek to know, experience, visit”), from Proto-Germanic *fandōną (“to seek, inquire”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to come, go”). Cognate with North Frisian fanljien (“to visit”), dialectal Dutch vanden, German fahnden (“to search”). Related to find.
Senses: glosses: To seek (to do a thing); try; attempt; endeavour.
glosses: To test; examine; make a trial of; prove.
glosses: To put someone through a trial; test; tempt; entice.
Derived terms: fanding
fand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old English fand, first- and third-person singular preterite of Old English findan (“to find”).
Senses: examples: text: And lent her wary eare to understand
If any puffe of breath or signe of sence shee fand
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past of find.
hereditary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹɛdɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /həˈɹɛdɪˌtɛɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈhɛrəɖɪʈ(ɐ)ri/
Forms: form: more hereditary
form: most hereditary
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hereditarie, from Latin hērēditārius, from hērēditās (“inheritance”), from hērēs (“heir”).
Senses: glosses: Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
examples: text: Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
glosses: Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
examples: text: hereditary rulers
glosses: Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
examples: text: Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
text: Xanthuria is an hereditary disorder in which there is an absence of the enzyme xanthine oxidase which interferes with the metabolic breakdown of purines, leading to an increased excretion of xanthine in the urine and to formation of stones.
ref: 1985, Urology, volume 2, page 12:
glosses: Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
Synonyms: inhereditary
Derived terms: Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy
hereditarian
hereditarily
hereditariness
hereditary disease
hereditary elliptocytosis
hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
hereditary mechanics
hereditary peer
Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy
nonhereditary
semihereditary
unhereditary
Related terms: heir
hereditary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹɛdɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /həˈɹɛdɪˌtɛɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈhɛrəɖɪʈ(ɐ)ri/
Forms: form: hereditaries
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hereditarie, from Latin hērēditārius, from hērēditās (“inheritance”), from hērēs (“heir”).
Senses: glosses: A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
Related terms: congenital
papyrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papyrologies
Etymology: From papyro- + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of papyrus, particularly the branch of archeology concerning ancient texts written on papyrus.
Synonyms: word: papyrograph
Derived terms: papyrological
papyrologically
papyrologist
papyrologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papyrologists
Etymology: From papyro- + -ologist, after the model of earlier papyrology.
Senses: glosses: A student of or expert in papyrology, the study of papyrus and ancient writings on papyrus.
Synonyms: word: papyrographer
Related terms: papyrus
furrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈfɝoʊ/
ipa: /ˈfʌɹəʊ/
rhymes: -ʌɹəʊ
Forms: form: furrows
Etymology: From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar̃šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit पर्शान (párśāna, “chasm”).
Senses: examples: text: Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
text: The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:
glosses: A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
glosses: Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
examples: text: When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.
glosses: A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
Derived terms: backfurrow
cleavage furrow
dead furrow
draw a straight furrow
furrowless
furrowlike
furrowy
iliac furrow
plough a lonely furrow
plough one's own furrow
underfurrow
furrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈfɝoʊ/
ipa: /ˈfʌɹəʊ/
rhymes: -ʌɹəʊ
Forms: form: furrows
form: furrowing
form: furrowed
form: furrowed
Etymology: From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar̃šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit पर्शान (párśāna, “chasm”).
Senses: examples: text: Cart wheels can furrow roads.
text: Morn in the white wake of the morning star / Came furrowing all the orient into gold.
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part III”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
glosses: To wrinkle.
examples: text: As she pored over the company's bewildering tax documents, she furrowed her brows, wrinkled her nose, and began to frown her befuddlement.
synonyms: frown
glosses: To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.
examples: text: If you were bold enough to ask Antonin Scalia questions, you had to be precise. Otherwise the bushy black brows would furrow, the chin would crumple and the pudgy, puckish body would start to rock, eager to get at you.
ref: 2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always Right”, in The Economist:
glosses: to become furrowed
Derived terms: backfurrow
furrowable
furrower
furrowing
underfurrow
unfurrow
unfurrowed
jumbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɐmbɐk/
Forms: form: jumbucks
Etymology: Unknown, from pidgin, possibly from an Australian Aboriginal language, although it appears also to have moved from pidgin to Aboriginal. Numerous derivations have been proposed.
* Mr A. Meston of Brisbane, in the Sydney Bulletin of 18 April 1896, cited Aboriginal words jimba, jombock (also jombok), dombock and dumbog, all meaning "white mist preceding a shower," which a flock of sheep supposedly resembles.
* Charles Harpur in a handwritten footnote in his papers cites Aboriginal word junbuc or jimbuc (his handwriting is unclear), "a kind of kangaroo or wallaby", and states that the aborigines of the Hunter region call the sheep thus for the hairiness of one and the wooliness of the other.
* Also suggested is jumbock ("to communicate").
* An English derivation is suggested in a corruption of the phrase "jump up".
Senses: examples: text: Allan told them all that he thought necessary ; but, as he did not know what jumbucks were, he candidly said so.
“Why, sheep, man, sheep! They are jumbucks in this country.”
ref: 1855, William Howitt, A Boy's Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert's Note-Book, page 128:
text: Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong,
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee.
ref: 1895, “Waltzing Matilda”, Banjo Paterson (lyrics):
text: You may rip a sheep open whilst watching for the boss's boots or yarning to a pen-mate, and then when you have stuffed the works back into the animal, and put a stitch in the slit, and poked it somewhere with a tar-stick (it doesn′t matter much where) the jumbuck will be all right and just as lively as ever, and turn up next shearing without the ghost of a scratch on its skin.
ref: 1896, Henry Lawson, “Across the Straits”, in While the Billy Boils, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson […], →OCLC, page 179:
glosses: A sheep.
jew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuː/
homophone: Jew
homophone: dew
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: jews
form: jewing
form: jewed
form: jewed
form: Jew
Etymology: Transferred use of Jew.
Senses: examples: text: 'You're jewing me on the price, right? Well get this and get it good, I don't get jewed. Not by anybody.' Dan, who had lost the toss and taken the call, wished John a Merry Christmas. The advent of Christmas compounded their problems.
ref: 2001 September 24, Donald R. Bernard, John Goldsmith, Bullion, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 162:
text: Nevertheless, decisions used to be rendered based on long-honored
White traditions or "precedent," and supported by reason and logic. In
today's jewed system, by contrast, one is more apt to read a legal
opinion which cites U.N. resolutions or jewish sociologists than
Black's Law Dictionary.
ref: 2004 June 20, Victor, “The Ten Truths: On Jewish Lawyers & the Jewing of Law”, in alt.california (Usenet):
text: “By God, you're jewing me, that's what it is.” “Take it or leave it.” “Oh, I take it, but you're jewing me.” Max made a sweeping motion with his hand and the two women came down the bar to join them. When he told Helga that everything[…]
ref: 2015 May 12, Herbert Burkholz, Writer-in-Residence, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
text: “And listen to me well: if you're jewing me somehow, you're gonna find yourself chasing your own head around Shower C before the week's out.” “Yes, I understand that,” Andy said softly. And he did [...]
ref: 2017 March 28, Stephen King, Different Seasons: Four Novellas, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Jew.
Derived terms: jew down
jew out
jew up
jew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuː/
homophone: Jew
homophone: dew
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: jews
form: Jew
Etymology: Transferred use of Jew.
Senses: examples: text: The creeks gave us lots of food, too—yellow belly and jew, perch and eel.
ref: 1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151
glosses: The jewfish.
examples: text: It is jews behind the campaign to destroy it, admits WND^([sic]) house jew.
Just as we WN^([sic]) have said all along.
ref: 2004 December 21, Will McDonald, “The Jewing of Christmas”, in alt.california (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Jew (“a Jewish person”).
jew
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuː/
homophone: Jew
homophone: dew
rhymes: -uː
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of d' you, representing colloquial English.
examples: text: How jew do that? ("How'd you do that?")
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of 'd you, representing colloquial English.
tripoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripolis
Etymology: Originally brought from Tripoli in Libya.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sedimentary rock composed of the shells of diatoms etc., used for polishing.
creen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: creens
form: creening
form: creened
form: creened
Etymology: Borrowed from Cornish krena (“to tremble”).
Senses: glosses: To complain; to whine; to moan.
Derived terms: creener
jones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒoʊnz/
rhymes: -oʊnz
homophone: Jones (US)
Forms: form: joneses
Etymology: Ed Boland, in The New York Times, March 2002, attributes the term to heroin addicts who frequented Great Jones Alley in New York City, off Great Jones Street between Broadway and Lafayette Street, although the slang term has obviously been around much longer.
Dan Waldorf states that the use of the term, in the sense of “addiction”, originated among heroin addicts.
Senses: examples: text: You mean you got a little Jones, huh? Was it good?
ref: 1965, Amiri Baraka, The Alternative, as cited in Peter Bruck (ed.), The Black American Short Story in the 20th Century, John Benjamins, p. 196
text: Defendant responded by saying he had some "Jones", a term used to describe heroin.
ref: 1975, unknown author, Northwestern Reporter, page 512:
text: You seem like a smart kid, and dont get me wrong here, we dont want to see you all fucked up, cracked out butt naked on 4th street in the bad side of town, lookin to fuck the 1st millionaire willing to fork over some jones money.
ref: 2000, Priest Opiast Ogden, “Re: Questions about Percocet, Ativan & Xanax”, in alt.drugs.hard (Usenet):
text: Which erodes "quality of life" faster... debilitating chronic pain or a little jones?
ref: 2001, Terminus Est, “Re: Nothing to Fear but Pain Itself”, in alt.support.depression.manic (Usenet):
glosses: Heroin.
examples: text: I’ve got a basketball jones!
text: ... I've got a jones," and she dropped her head.
ref: 1965, Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, MacMillan, page 262:
text: "On the Deuce," he said, "everybody got a jones. They got a crack jones or a smack jones, ..."
ref: 1992, Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, HarperCollins, page 93:
text: And I went through a kind of withdrawal jones thing and drank a bunch and then took a Valium, and it comes in waves.
ref: 1992, Anonymous as cited in Dan Waldorf, Cocaine Changes, Temple University Press, p. 126
text: If you have a jones for one of these old tape-tanglers but lack the cash, space, and/or patience necessary to acquire, house and maintain one, consider M-Tron.
ref: 2003, Ken Hughes, edited by Jim Aikin, Software Synthesizers: The Definitive Guide to Virtual Musical Instruments, Backbeat Books, page 64:
glosses: An addiction or intense craving.
Derived terms: love jones
jones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒoʊnz/
rhymes: -oʊnz
homophone: Jones (US)
Forms: form: joneses
form: jonesing
form: jonesed
form: jonesed
Etymology: Ed Boland, in The New York Times, March 2002, attributes the term to heroin addicts who frequented Great Jones Alley in New York City, off Great Jones Street between Broadway and Lafayette Street, although the slang term has obviously been around much longer.
Dan Waldorf states that the use of the term, in the sense of “addiction”, originated among heroin addicts.
Senses: examples: text: I’m jonesing for some basketball.
text: A lot of people they be jonesing just to hear me rock the mic / They'll be staring at the radio, staying up all night
ref: 1989, Beastie Boys, Shake Your Rump, 0:06:
text: ... when it's their turn to talk, they speak in coonass blue-collar accents about jonesing for crack and getting UA-ed by probation officers.
ref: 1995, James Lee Burke, Burning Angel, Hyperion, page 126:
text: “I have to go now,” she’d say to the grocery clerk. “My mother-in-law is back at the house, jonesing for her lunch.”
ref: 1997, David Sedaris, “True Detective”, in Naked:
text: If you jones for wheat grass, this is your destination.
ref: 2001, Sheridan Becker, Jayne Young, Savvy in the City: New York City, page 3:
text: Caramel colors and aspartame
Phosphoric acid, potassium
Natural flavors, of course caffeine
And now I'm jonesin' for MSG
ref: 2006, J. G. Thirlwell, “Sieve”, in Damp, performed by Foetus:
text: The rain tree at sunset was exquisite, but after a few minutes Pender found himself jonesing for a football game.
ref: 2007, Jonathan Nasaw, Twenty-Seven Bones, Simon & Schuster, page 258:
glosses: Have an intense craving.
glosses: To binge on cocaine and/or alcohol.
jones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒoʊnz/
rhymes: -oʊnz
homophone: Jones (US)
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jone
clementine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛməntaɪn/
ipa: /ˈklɛməntiːn/
Forms: form: clementines
Etymology: From French clémentine, from Clément + -ine, named after French missionary Clément Rodier (1839–1904), who is said to have first bred it. By surface analysis, Clement + -ine.
Senses: hypernyms: tangor
coordinate_terms: mandarin#Etymology_2
Seville orange
sweet orange
tangerine
glosses: A type of small, sweet-tasting orange, the result of a hybrid cross between the willowleaf variety of mandarin orange (Citrus × aurantium f. deliciosa) and a sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). Scientific name: Citrus × clementina.
minneola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪniˈoʊlə/
homophone: Mineola
homophone: Minneola
rhymes: -əʊlə
Forms: form: minneolas
form: mineola
Etymology: *
Senses: synonyms: minneola tangelo
hyponyms: honeybell
glosses: A cross between a tangerine and a grapefruit.
nartjie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nartjies
Etymology: From Afrikaans nartjie (“tangerine”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of naartjie.
ortanique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ortaniques
Etymology: From orange, tangerine, and unique.
Senses: examples: text: Pink grapefruit and ortaniques littered the earth.
ref: 2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 297:
glosses: A cross between an orange and a tangerine.
satsuma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sætˈsuː.mə/
ipa: /sætˈsu.mə/
ipa: /ˈsæt.səˌmɑ/
rhymes: -uːmə
Forms: form: satsumas
Etymology: After a Japanese place name in Kyūshū, 薩摩 (さつま, Satsuma), from where it was first exported to the west.
Senses: examples: text: When satsumas are ready to eat, the skin is so supple, they damn near peel themselves.
ref: 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 188:
synonyms: mikan
glosses: A seedless and easy-peeling cultivar of mandarin orange of Japanese origin; Citrus unshiu.
Related terms: satsumaimo
tangelo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtænd͡ʒələʊ/
Forms: form: tangelos
form: tangeloes
Etymology: Blend of tangerine + pomelo
Senses: glosses: A citrus fruit that is a cross between a tangerine and a pomelo or a grapefruit.
glosses: A red-orange colour, like that of a tangelo.
Synonyms: sense: citrus fruit
word: uglifruit
sense: citrus fruit
word: Citrus aurantium Tangelo Group [= Citrus ×paradisi × Citrus reticulata]
Hyponyms: sense: citrus fruit
word: Citrus × tangelo
Derived terms: Minneola tangelo
Related terms: orangelo
Van der Hum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Susan escorted them to more comfortable seats in the lounge, for coffee and Van der Hum.
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 73:
glosses: A South African tangerine-flavoured brandy liqueur.
ugli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌɡli/
rhymes: -ʌɡli
homophone: ugly
Forms: form: uglis
Etymology: Proprietary name, an alteration of ugly, from the fruit's often lumpy and discoloured appearance.
Senses: examples: text: In a world of fruit — from apples to uglis — why is wine made from grapes?
ref: 2009, Wine Enthusiast, volume 22, numbers 8-13, page 36:
glosses: Citrus × paradisi, a cross between a tangerine, Citrus reticulata and grapefruit Citrus paradisi, grown in the West Indies.
Synonyms: ugli fruit
uniq fruit
ugli fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ugli fruits
form: ugli fruit
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ugli (“type of fruit”).
synonyms: word: ugli
extra: type of fruit
cool grey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cool greys
form: cool gray
Senses: glosses: A light grey colour
cool grey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cool gray
Senses: glosses: Of a light grey colour
lbf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lbf
form: lb_f
Etymology: See lb (“pound”).
Senses: examples: text: The slug is defined as the mass which would accelerate at a rate of 1 ft/s² under a force of one pound-force (lbf). Since 1 lbf is the force exerted on a mass of one pound by a standard gravitational field (of exactly 9.80665 meters per square second), a slug is thus exactly equal to 196133/6096 pounds (about 32.1740485564 lb or 14.593902937206 kg).
ref: 2000 October 9, Gérard P. Michon, “What is a slug, in the [engineering] weight measurement system?”, in Numericana.com:
coordinate_terms: lbm
glosses: Abbreviation of pound-force (“unit of force”).
manx
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mæŋks/
Forms: form: more manx
form: most manx
Senses: glosses: Manx (pertaining to the Isle of Man or to the Manx language)
glosses: manx (colloquial or slang) tailless (referring to the Manx cat)
hoover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuːvə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈhuvɚ/
rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hoovers
form: Hoover
Etymology: Genericized trademark of Hoover, the brand name of one of the first vacuum cleaners, which was sold by The Hoover Company. The American company was founded by William Henry Hoover (1849–1932) and his son Herbert William Hoover, Sr. (1877–1954). The surname Hoover is an Anglicized version of the German Huber, originally designating a landowner or a prosperous small-scale farmer.
Senses: examples: text: "What do you do about dogs that don't like Hoovers?" […] At the first opportunity place the Hoover in the area where your dog is lying calmly, and since it is normally the noise that sends it into those fits of anger, it should be unconcerned with a silent machine. Continue to place the Hoover in those areas that your pet is relaxing until it is familiar with the Hoover being in such close proximity. […] By continuing to distract your pet each time the Hoover is switched on but stationary, you should be able to move it a little closer without causing your pet any alarm.
ref: 2006, William Houston, Party Tricks for Dogs, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
text: And the brooms lined up behind the buckets, and the dusters, dustpans, cloths and brushes, feather dusters and sweepers all lined up bravely to do battle with the thousand upright Hoovers. The Hoovers charged, engines roaring and bags fully inflated.
ref: 2011, Terry Jones, Evil Machines, Clerkenwell, London: Unbound, →ISBN:
text: Vacuuming the house is a very quick way of sprucing it up simply because you can use the hoover to push everything out of the way. Cleaning an average-size room is also the exercise equivalent of ten minutes on the Nordic Skier, while changing the hoover bag is the mental equivalent of doing a Rubik's cube in a dust storm.
ref: 2014, Guy Browning, How to Be Normal: A Guide for the Perplexed, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
Alisha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A modern spelling variant of Alicia.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Related terms: Alicia
Alice
Aleshia
Alecia
abas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑs/
rhymes: (US) -ɑs
Etymology: From Arabic [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A cutaneous disease; the scald-head. porrigo
abas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑs/
rhymes: (US) -ɑs
Etymology: From Arabic [Term?].
Senses: glosses: plural of aba
abas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑs/
rhymes: (US) -ɑs
Forms: form: abas
Etymology: From Arabic [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of abbasi.
abe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbi/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: Probably a- + be.
Senses: examples: text: Let it abe, I say.
ref: 1839, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 1, page 527:
text: But if it amuses her I let it abe.
ref: 1864, Charles Dickens, Household Words, page 186:
text: But let that abe.
ref: 1885, Charles Gibbon, Heart's Delight, page 154:
glosses: To be.
manageress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænɪdʒəˌɹɛs/
Forms: form: manageresses
Etymology: From manager + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: When I worked in a toyshop, I once bought the manageress a sandwich. Do I still work there? No. Our relationship is, therefore, over. Has she given me the quid back? No.
ref: 1999 April 19, Victoria Coren, “I don't love you. PS: you owe me £2.50”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 May 2014:
glosses: A female manager.
Synonyms: word: manager
amazon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.ə.zən/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈæm.əˌzɑn/
note: of Canada
ipa: [ˈɛəm.əˌzɑn]
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈæm.əˌzɒn/
note: of the US
ipa: [ˈɛəm.əˌzɒn]
ipa: /ˈæm.ə.zɔn/
ipa: /-ɒn/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈmezɔn/
Forms: form: amazons
Etymology: From Amazon, from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn).
Senses: examples: text: Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, women athletes are often dubbed amazons.
glosses: A tall, strong, athletic woman.
examples: text: In Triple-guard promotion chess (GPJ) a pawn newly triple-guarded by pieces other than pawns promotes to the combined value of the guarding pieces. Thus after b3 in the opening position a3 promotes to amazon, R+B+N, from triple guard by Ra1, Nb1, Bc1.
ref: 2010 August 21, G. P. Jelliss, “Simple Chess Variants”, in Mayhematics, page 8:
text: The amazon is simply a queen-knight hybrid, capable of moving as either piece.
ref: 2018 October 12, aabicus, “My 7 Favorite Fairy Chess Pieces”, in The Daily SPUF:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the queen and the knight.
glosses: An amazon parrot.
antonyms: mating press
glosses: A position for vaginal sex in which the insertive partner lies on their back with their knees pulled back, and the receptive partner, facing the other person, squats onto the penis.
Derived terms: glamazon
orange-winged amazon
yellow-headed amazon
yellow-naped amazon
Related terms: Amazonian
amazonian
jasper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/
enpr: jăsʹpər
ipa: /ˈdʒæs.pə/
Forms: form: jaspers
Etymology: From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).
Senses: glosses: Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
glosses: An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
glosses: Jasperware pottery.
Derived terms: jasperated
jasperite
jasperization
jasperize
jasperoid
jasper opal
jasperous
jasperware
jasper ware
jaspery
jaspidean
lavender jasper
pseudojasper
riband jasper
xyloid jasper
jasper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/
enpr: jăsʹpər
ipa: /ˈdʒæs.pə/
Forms: form: jaspers
form: jaspering
form: jaspered
form: jaspered
Etymology: From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).
Senses: glosses: To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.
jasper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/
enpr: jăsʹpər
ipa: /ˈdʒæs.pə/
Forms: form: jaspers
Etymology: From the male personal name Jasper.
Senses: qualifier: Somerset
glosses: A wasp.
examples: text: And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper / Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin' / Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
ref: 1957, Meredith Willson, “Ya Got Trouble”, in The Music Man:
text: "I stood there through almost an hour of it before they called Rooster Cogburn to the stand. I had guessed wrong as to which one he was, picking out a younger and slighter man with a badge on his shirt. And I was surprised when an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn."
ref: 1968, Charles Portis, “True Grit”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
text: Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper
ref: 1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits:
text: “That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “The Light over the Ranges”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
glosses: A stranger.
cleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
homophone: Clegg
Forms: form: clegs
form: clegg
form: gleg
Etymology: From Middle English clege, from Old Norse kleggi, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰ-s (“point”); compare with Norwegian Nynorsk klegg, Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb”).
Senses: glosses: A light breeze.
examples: text: Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum.
ref: 1657, Thomas Burton, Diary, section I:
text: Now that was in summer, the time of fleas and glegs and golochs in the fields, when stirks would start up from a drowsy cud-chewing to a wild a feckless racing, the glegs biting through hair and hide to the skin below the tail-rump.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 39:
text: The clegs continue to swarm all around. I wonder how many there are.[…]Remaining seated on the block, I seize clegs out of the surrounding air at random, and with scissors cut out a tiny triangle from the rear edge of each one's right wing before releasing it.
ref: 1998, V. K. Riabitsev, One Season in the Taiga, page 138:
text: Cattle were grazing languidly on the lush grass and flicking their tails to keep away the clegs that constantly plagued them and, having recently suffered a nasty bite from one, I was wary of them myself.
ref: 2007, John T. Wright, An Evacuee's Story: A North Yorkshire Family in Wartime, page 361:
text: Whilst the swarms which surround you are annoying, they do not bite. It is the midges, clegs and ticks you should be on the lookout for.
ref: 2011, Denis Brook, Phil Hinchliffe, North to the Cape: A Trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath, page 49:
glosses: A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
Synonyms: sense: blood-sucking fly of family Tabanidae
word: blind-fly
sense: blood-sucking fly of family Tabanidae
english: genus Chrysops
translation: genus Chrysops
word: deer fly
sense: blood-sucking fly of family Tabanidae
word: gadfly
sense: blood-sucking fly of family Tabanidae
word: horsefly
sense: blood-sucking fly of family Tabanidae
word: tabanid
wampee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒmˈpiː/
ipa: /wɑmˈpiː/
Forms: form: wampees
form: wampi
form: whampee
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 黃皮 /黄皮 (wong⁴ pei⁴⁻², “wampee”, literally “yellow skin”).
Senses: glosses: A tree, Clausena lansium, cultivated in China and the East Indies.
glosses: The fruit of this tree.
synonyms: pickerel weed
pickerel rush
glosses: Pontederia species, especially Pontederia cordata.
sphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsfiː.nɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Etymology: From New Latin sphenoides, from Ancient Greek σφηνοειδής (sphēnoeidḗs, “wedge-shaped”), from σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-form, -like”).
Senses: glosses: Having a wedge shape.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the sphenoid bone which forms the base of the cranium, behind the eye and below the front part of the brain. It has two pairs of broad lateral ‘wings’ and a number of other projections, and contains two air-filled sinuses.
Derived terms: alisphenoid
basisphenoid
ethmosphenoid
frontosphenoid
intrasphenoid
laterosphenoid
mesosphenoid
otosphenoidal
parasphenoid
pleurosphenoid
presphenoid
pterosphenoid
spheno-
sphenoethmoid
sphenofrontal
sphenoidal
sphenoidal sinus
sphenoid bone
sphenoidectomy
sphenoidotomy
sphenoid sinus
sphenomandibular
sphenomaxillary
sphenooccipital
sphenopalatine
sphenoparietal
sphenotemporal
sphenotic
sphenovomerine
sphenozygomatic
temporosphenoid
transsphenoidal
zygomaticosphenoid
sphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsfiː.nɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Forms: form: sphenoids
Etymology: From New Latin sphenoides, from Ancient Greek σφηνοειδής (sphēnoeidḗs, “wedge-shaped”), from σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-form, -like”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The sphenoid bone.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A wedge-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles triangles; the hemihedral form of a square pyramid.
Derived terms: alisphenoid
basisphenoid
orbitosphenoid
presphenoid
sphenoidal
vomer bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vomer bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: ploughshare bone
glosses: The small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
Related terms: vomeronasal
vomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvoʊmə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -oʊmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vomers
Etymology: From Latin vōmer (“ploughshare”).
Senses: examples: example
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
innominate bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌnɒmɪnət ˈbəʊn/
ipa: /ɪˌnɑmɪnət ˈboʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: innominate bones
Etymology: From innominate (“having no name, nameless, unnamed”, adjective) + bone (noun), possibly a calque of Late Latin os innōminātum. It has been suggested that the bone “remains unnamed and unnameable” because it “is of so complex and irregular a form, that it bears no perceptible resemblance to any other known object”.
Senses: examples: text: From this second junction or plexus beneath the gluteus maximum muscle, are given usually three cutaneous nerves to the integument of the buttock: all these perforate the gluteus; one being found near the posterior superior spine of the innominate bone, another, the largest, near the end of the sacrum, and the remaining one being intermediate between the other two.
ref: 1843 February 10, George Viner Ellis, “On the Posterior Divisions of the Spinal Nerves”, in The London Medical Gazette; Being a Weekly Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, volume I (New Series; volume XXXI overall), number 793, London: […] [Wilson and Ogilvy] for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], →OCLC, page 698:
text: On its sides, in the upper two-thirds of its extent, the sacrum is closely united to the two pelvic or innominate''' bones, which, together with it, enclose a basin or cavity, called the pelvis. Examined in early life, each innominate bone is seen to consist of three parts, which meet at the articular cup, called the acetabulum, for the head of the thigh bone.
ref: 1873, John Cleland, “The Skeleton”, in Animal Physiology: The Structure and Functions of the Human Body (Putnam’s Advanced Science Series), New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, […], page 31:
text: A partial innominate bone (Z8623) is known from the original collections[…], but it was probably from a juvenile individual, since the sutures between the ischium and iliac portions of the innominate are not completely fused up; the suture is unfused even within the acetabulum.
ref: 2021, Donald R[oss] Prothero, Erin De Anda, Daniella Balassa, “The Postcranial Skeleton of Capromeryx minor, a Dwarf Pronghorn (Artiodactyla: Antilocapridae) from the Late Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea”, in Spencer G[eorge] Lucas, Adrian P. Hunt, Asher J. Lichtig, editors, Fossil Record 7 (Bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science; 82), Albuquerque, N.M.: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 328, column 2:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: innominate
word: innominatum
word: os coxae
word: os innominatum
word: hip bone
extra: one of two roughly symmetrical parts of the skeleton, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial, and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis
glosses: Synonym of hip bone (“one of two roughly symmetrical parts of the skeleton, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial, and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis”).
Related terms: innominate artery
innominate vein
os coxae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ossa coxae
form: os coxæ
Etymology: From Latin os (“bone”) and coxa (“hip”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of hip bone.
synonyms: word: hip bone
sacrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsækɹəm/
ipa: /ˈseɪkɹəm/
Forms: form: sacra
form: sacrums
Etymology: From Latin os sacrum (“holy bone”), a calque of Ancient Greek ἱερὸν ὀστέον (hieròn ostéon). Apparently so called either because the sacrum was the part of the animal offered in sacrifice or because of a putative belief that it is where a person's soul resides. A third explanation is that the term is a translation of Ancient Greek ἱερόν (hierón), which has two meanings: “holy, sacred”, and “big” — big being a more appropriate description of the sacrum — but compare.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: holy bone
glosses: A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood.
Derived terms: sacral
Related terms: nomen sacrum
sacral vertebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacral vertebrae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the five vertebra that are fused to form the sacrum.
sacral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪkɹəl/
ipa: /ˈsækɹəl/
rhymes: -ækɹəl
Forms: form: more sacral
form: most sacral
Etymology: From Modern Latin sacrālis, from Latin sacrum (“sacred, holy”) + -ālis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of the sacrum.
examples: text: An old site with sacral connotations.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 877:
text: Compromise is awkward when religion is involved, and the several South Asian writing systems are considered sacral.
ref: 2005, Richard Oliver Collin, Revolutionary scripts: the politics of writing systems:
glosses: Sacred.
Derived terms: bulbosacral
caudosacral
craniosacral
dorsosacral
extrasacral
iliosacral
ischiosacral
lumbosacral
postsacral
presacral
sacral dimple
sacralgia
sacrality
sacralize
sacral nerve
sacral vertebra
subsacral
supersacral
suprasacral
transsacral
urosacral
uterosacral
vertebrosacral
sacral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪkɹəl/
ipa: /ˈsækɹəl/
rhymes: -ækɹəl
Forms: form: sacrals
Etymology: From Modern Latin sacrālis, from Latin sacrum (“sacred, holy”) + -ālis.
Senses: glosses: Any of the sacral bones that make up the sacrum.
shinbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinbones
Etymology: From Middle English schinboon, schineboon, from Old English sċinbān (“shin, shinbone”), from Proto-West Germanic *skinubain, from Proto-Germanic *skinōbainą, equivalent to shin + bone. Cognate with Dutch scheenbeen (“shinbone”), German Schienbein (“shinbone”), Danish skinneben (“shin, shinbone”), Swedish skenben (“shinbone”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A segment of an insect's leg.
Synonyms: tibia
shankbone
Derived terms: Shinboner
lumbar vertebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumbar vertebrae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the five vertebrae in the loin or lower back region of the spine.
thoracic vertebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoracic vertebrae
form: thoracic vertebras
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the twelve vertebrae in the chest region of the spine.
thoracic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /θəˈɹæsɪk/
rhymes: -æsɪk
Forms: form: thoracick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θωρακικός (thōrakikós, “suffering in the chest, of the thorax”), from θώραξ (thṓrax, “thorax”).
Senses: examples: text: Those wings were powered by massive thoracic muscles—muscles no longer needed by a flightless queen.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 106:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of the thorax.
Derived terms: abdominothoracic
athoracic
cardiothoracic
caudothoracic
cephalothoracic
cerebrofaciothoracic
cervicothoracic
costothoracic
craniothoracic
dorsothoracic
endothoracic
extrathoracic
hemithoracic
humerothoracic
hydrothoracic
infrathoracic
interthoracic
intrathoracic
mesothoracic
metathoracic
midthoracic
nonthoracic
perithoracic
scapulothoracic
spondylothoracic
sternothoracic
subthoracic
thoracically
thoracic cage
thoracic cavity
thoracic duct
thoracic ganglion
thoracic insufficiency syndrome
thoracic outlet syndrome
thoracic vertebra
thoracic wall
transthoracic
Related terms: thorax
thoracic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θəˈɹæsɪk/
rhymes: -æsɪk
Forms: form: thoracics
form: thoracick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θωρακικός (thōrakikós, “suffering in the chest, of the thorax”), from θώραξ (thṓrax, “thorax”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectoral fins.
inanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭ-năn′-ĭt-ē
ipa: /ɪˈnænɪti/
Forms: form: inanities
Etymology: From French inanité, from Latin inanitas, equivalent to inane + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
examples: text: Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily.
text: It was incessant matter for amazement how these Olympians would talk over our heads - during meals, for instance - of this or the other social or political inanity, under the delusion that these pale phantasms of reality were among the importances of life.
ref: 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 5:
glosses: Something that is inane.
triquetral bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triquetral bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the carpal bones of the wrist.
Synonyms: triquetral
triquetrum
os triquetrum
cuneiform bone
pyramidal bone
cubital bone
os pyramidale
os triangulare
three-cornered bone
triangular bone
triquetral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Three-cornered
Synonyms: triquetrous
triquetral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triquetrals
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The triquetral bone
jimmy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪmi/
rhymes: -ɪmi
Forms: form: jimmies
form: jimmying
form: jimmied
form: jimmied
form: jemmy
Etymology: *
* (chocolate sprinkles): Unknown. There is much speculation that they were named after Jim Crow, but there is little, if any, evidence to support this theory.
Senses: examples: text: The kitchen window had been jimmied.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
glosses: To pry (something, especially a lock) open with or as if with a crowbar.
Derived terms: jimmy-proof
Related terms: jemmy
triquetrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triquetra
Etymology: From Latin triquetrus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The triquetral bone
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An astronomical instrument.
Derived terms: triquetral
triquetrous
triquetrum bone