cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
contact calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contact call
drop someone in it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops someone in it
form: dropping someone in it
form: dropped someone in it
form: dropped someone in it
Senses: examples: text: The poor bastard's in the shit with the syndicate in London. They want thirty grand from him. He's right on the floor at the moment. Seeing that we dropped him in it, yeah and don't forget he doesn't know it was us who had him over.
ref: 2001, William F. Gray, The Villain, →ISBN, page 256:
text: Not so fast. I need to be sure you don't drop me in it.
ref: 2013, Robert Goddard, The Ways of the World, →ISBN, page 142:
text: You weren't really worried, were you? You know I wouldn't drop you in it.
ref: 2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: To put someone in a difficult situation.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, in.
drops someone in it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop someone in it
dropping someone in it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drop someone in it
dropped someone in it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drop someone in it
beglamourment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beglamorment
Etymology: From beglamour + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: She thought of Richard Garnett’s words: “Then is Love blessed, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.” This had been her dream of love—twice over. But from the cup of the body she had drunk only the gall of the senses. And, again and again, she went back in wondering memory to that time of beglamourment.
ref: 1915, Amélie Rives, chapter 20, in Shadows of Flames, New York: Stokes, page 367:
text: In most of the passages included in this anthology the reader will find a tautness, a controlled factuality; no beglamourment, but the closest possible presentation, austere, left to create its own mood without the author’s interference.
ref: 1936, A. J. J. Ratcliff, editor, An Anthology of Modern Prose, London: Thomas Nelson, Introduction, p. 3:
glosses: The act of beglamouring; the state of being beglamoured.
beglamorment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beglamourment.
apophysary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apophyseal.
apophysial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apophyseal.
appendico-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: appendic-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from appendix.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an appendix, especially to the vermiform appendix
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
appendicostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appendicostomies
Etymology: From appendico- + -stomy or appendic- + -ostomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The creation of an opening into the vermiform appendix, typically via the navel
appendicovesicostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appendicovesicostomies
Etymology: From appendico- + vesicostomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The conversion of the appendix into a conduit for urine from the bladder
appersonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appersonations
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The act or process of appersonating
appersonate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: appersonates
form: appersonating
form: appersonated
form: appersonated
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To unconsciously assume the characteristics of another person
Related terms: appersonation
applicand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: applicands
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function, in lambda calculus, that is the subject of application
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: abbreviation of applicandus
apractagnosia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˌpɹæktəɡˈnəʊziə/
/əˌpɹæktəɡˈnəʊʒə/
Senses: glosses: A form of apraxia in which activities such as building, assembling, and drawing are impaired.
DSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DS
apragmatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A state of inactivity caused by schizophrenia or severe depression
aprocarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of propoxur.
synonyms: word: propoxur
apthous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aphthous.
aquacobalamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aquocobalamin.
aquocobalamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The conjugate acid of cobalamin
palma Christi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin palma Christi, “palm of Christ.”
Senses: examples: text: […] but if you finde that their encrease and continuance multiply with your labour, it shall be then good for you to plant in diuers places of your Garden the hearbe called Palma Christi, in other places Garlicke and in other places Onyons, and it is an assured rule that no Moale will come néere where they grow for the strength and violence of their smell, is poysonous and deadly to those blinde vermines.
ref: 1614, Gervase Markham, chapter 7, in The Second Booke of the English Husbandman, London: John Browne, pages 45–46:
text: Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander went ashore upon the island, which they found not to be more than five hundred yards long, and one hundred broad; yet there was a house upon it, and a small plantation, where among other things was the Palma Christi, from which the castor oil is made in the West Indies […]
ref: 1773, John Hawkesworth, chapter 12, in An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty: for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, volume 3, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, page 709:
text: They have never been known to fight, and, indeed, have a tradition that their forefathers, in their first essays at war, made their bows of the Palma-Christi; and, when these broke, they gave up fighting altogether.
ref: 1857, David Livingstone, chapter 3, in Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, London: John Murray, page 64:
text: The cooling palma christi leaves that Janie had bound about her grandma’s head with a white rag had wilted down and become part and parcel of the woman.
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 2, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 26:
glosses: The castor oil plant, Ricinus communis.
Derived terms: palmin
brown leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A condition of timothy grass, with a wide range of contributors, that adversely affects the marketability of timothy hay.
Related terms: brown leaf chameleon
brown leaf rust
Eustonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eustonites
Etymology: From Euston + -ite.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Someone who has signed or otherwise supports the Euston Manifesto; a liberal or leftist who supports a neoconservative foreign policy.
Columbiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Columbiners
Etymology: From Columbine + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe that's what was truly frightening about the Columbiners—not their veneration of Harris and Klebold, but what they articulated about themselves through their very public devotion.
ref: 2020, Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, Scribner, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: One who idolizes the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre, with this fascination often expressed on social media in a fandom-like way.
Columbiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Columbiner
the devil looks after his own
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: On earth, lawyers rarely come to harm because the devil looks after his own.
ref: 2013, Adamu Kyuka Usman Lilymjok, The Mad Professor of Babeldu, page 489:
text: Charlie was often asked how he escaped so many attempts on his life. His reply was, “The Devil looks after his own.”
ref: 2013, Deborah Frethem -, Haunted Tampa: Spirits of the Bay, →ISBN:
glosses: Bad people often prosper unfairly, because the devil helps them.
arabinofuranosyluracil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pyrimidine nucleoside formed in the body by the deamination of cytarabine
kitchari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitcharis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of khichdi.
arabinonucleoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabinonucleosides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any nucleoside in which the sugar is arabinose
Related terms: arabinonucleotide
arabinonucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabinonucleotides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any nucleotide in which the sugar is arabinose
Related terms: arabinonucleoside
arabinopyranosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabinopyranosyls
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from an arabinopyranose
arabinonucleosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arabinonucleoside
arabinonucleotides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arabinonucleotide
arabinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabinoses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any condition caused by faulty metabolism of arabinose
arabinosuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of arabinose in the urine
arabinosyladenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nucleoside that is an arabinosyl derivative of adenine
arachic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of arachidic.
synonyms: word: arachidic
arachidonoylglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An endocannabinoid that is an arachidonoyl derivative of glycerol.
betterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of betterer
lycopodium powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lycopodium powder
jheenga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Alternative form of jhinga.
periovulatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Around the time of ovulation.
algogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The quality or degree of being algogenic; the ability to cause pain.
nondysmenorrheic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nondysmenorrhoeic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Not dysmenorrheic.
dysmorphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysmorphophobia
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The pathologically obsessive rejection of some aspect of one's own appearance; body dysmorphia.
makhorkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of makhorka
atherothrombogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The quality or degree of being atherothrombogenic; the ability to cause atherothrombosis.
analphalipoproteinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analphalipoproteinaemia
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A disorder of lipid metabolism, characterised by the near absence of high-density lipoproteins in the blood.
photopatterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photopattern
suburbanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From suburban + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The spot, however, was very likely twenty-five years since a pleasant little bit of rural suburbanness, and still, until the recent railway changes, retained, to an eye able to see it, something of its old character in the little detached cottages, with the little patches of garden before most of them.
ref: 1865 November 24, “Mr. Dickens's Romance of a Dust-Heap”, in The Eclectic Review, volume 9, number 53:
glosses: The quality of being suburban.
suburbanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suburbanities
Etymology: From suburban + -ity, from Latin suburbanitas.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being suburban.
psychopharmacotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychopharmacotherapies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Treatment of psychiatric disorders through the use of medications.
Hudsonian godwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hudsonian godwits
Senses: glosses: An American wader, Limosa haemastica, gathering on the shores of Hudson Bay to migrate to South America each autumn.
Synonyms: red-breasted godwit
Hudsonian godwits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hudsonian godwit
opioidophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The aversion to prescribing, administering or taking opioid medications for fear of addiction.
hudwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hudwits
Etymology: Blend of Hudsonian + godwit
Senses: examples: text: I'd missed them by a couple of hours. This dip did not bode well for the Hudwit.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 124:
glosses: A Hudsonian godwit.
hudwits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hudwit
mained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
homophone: maned
Etymology: By surface analysis, main (verb) + -ed (past suffix).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of main
maining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of main
coregistrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coregistration
mothballer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mothballers
Etymology: From mothball + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who mothballs something.
glosses: A ship recalled from being mothballed and put back into service.
mothballers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mothballer
oxidizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxidization
hartree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hartrees
Etymology: Named after the British physicist Douglas Hartree (1897–1958).
Senses: glosses: The atomic unit of energy, defined as 2R_∞hc, where R_∞ is the Rydberg constant, h is the Planck constant and c is the speed of light. It equals 4.35974 attojoules.
wikipedia: Douglas Hartree
Derived terms: millihartree
hartrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hartree
lumpenbourgeois
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lumpenbourgeois
form: most lumpenbourgeois
Senses: hypernyms: bourgeois
glosses: Of or pertaining to the lumpenbourgeoisie.
lumpenbourgeois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumpenbourgeois
Senses: hypernyms: bourgeois
glosses: A member of the lumpenbourgeoisie.
waterstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterstones
Etymology: From water + stone.
Senses: glosses: A natural sharpening stone lubricated with water.
waterstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterstone
Waterstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Callery pear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Callery pears
Senses: glosses: Pyrus calleryana, a species of pear tree native to China and Vietnam, in the family Rosaceae.
Callery pears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Callery pear
surpays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surpay
tobeats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tobeat
nostopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fear of returning home, for example after prison or military service.
forbeats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forbeat
pigeonhole principles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigeonhole principle
arboroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of arborescent (“tree-like”).
synonyms: word: arborescent
extra: tree-like
arborvirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arborviruses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arbovirus.
amchoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amchur.
aamchur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amchur.
sheep farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep farmers
Senses: glosses: A farmer with a flock of sheep; a shepherd.
pleometrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to pleometrosis.
Derived terms: pleometrotically
haplometrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to haplometrosis.
Derived terms: haplometrotically
sheep farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheep farmer
diplobionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplobiont
hits home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit home
defeatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From defeating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mathematics is cognitively difficult, technical, abstract, and (for many) defeatingly impersonal: one needs, it seems, to have been inside the dressing room in order to make much sense of the play.
ref: 2006, Reuben Hersh, 18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics, page 97:
text: It seemed defeatingly solid, but the metal building attaching to the frame seemed rusty and fatigued. He pressed against it, and it seemed like it would give way easily.
ref: 2012, Paula Rae Wallace, The Andersons, page 298:
glosses: So as to defeat, or frustrate progress.
bebreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bebreak
gets about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get about
archaeus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaei
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archeus.
gets across
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get across
pig farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig farmers
Senses: synonyms: hog farmer
glosses: A farmer with a pig herd.
Related terms: pig farm
puts over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put over
overputs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overput
gets action
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get action
pig farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pig farmer
archin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arshin.
governancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: governancies
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of governance.
governancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of governancy
archo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arch-.
derobe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: derobes
form: derobing
form: derobed
form: derobed
Etymology: From de- + robe.
Senses: glosses: To disrobe; undress; divest of clothing or status.
derobed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derobe
derobes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derobe
goes around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go around
derobing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derobe
gets at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get at
takes cover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take cover
gets one's skates on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get one's skates on
catches on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catch on
popliteofemoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the popliteus and femur.
catches it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catch it
fabellofibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fabello- + fibular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the fabella and fibula.
cops it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cop it
beats it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beat it
goes to Halifax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go to Halifax
screws around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of screw around
dicks about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dick about
congenital analgesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare condition in which somebody cannot feel and has never felt physical pain.
jokes around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of joke around
zoopraxography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of chronophotography to capture animated images of animal locomotion.
Related terms: zoopraxiscope
clowns about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clown about
sods off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sod off
screws off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of screw off
lifts off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lift off
takes one's leave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take one's leave
ducks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of duck out
clears off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clear off
gets lost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get lost
hotep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊ.tɛp/
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.tɛp/
Forms: form: hoteps
form: Hotep
Etymology: From Egyptian Htp:t*p (ḥtp, “to be content, at peace; contentment, peace”), a common element of Ancient Egyptian personal names, with the vowels taken over from its descendant, Coptic ϩⲱⲧⲡ̄ (hōtp̄); Ancient Egypt is the focus of several Afrocentric conspiracy theories.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Ben gave me a good laugh. As a matter of fact I saw him at City College several years back with his crowd of 'hoteps'. […] He loves to beat up on the black bourgeios^([sic]) and brought a few light skinned freshman girls to tears. He doesn't conceal his feelings about his ostracism and sometimes it can get rather tedious. But if you have a thousand bucks he'll show you the pyramids the way they are *supposed* to be seen, and things will be happy again.
ref: 1993, Mike Bowen, “Black Intellectuals (was: Re: THE CASE AGAINST RAP MUSIC)”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
text: […] and while i'm at it, and i say this out of love for our people, i hope the self-identified “hoteps” and “Pro-Black” people who claim that queerness, trans and nonbinary identities were invented by the west learn from this history and do better […]
ref: 2016, Khari Jackson, my gender is My Gender, page 9:
text: At least half of the millenials^([sic]) are alt-right. We have the alt-right and the black Hoteps uniting. Jews are on the run.
ref: 2018, 4meg...@gmail.com, “Re: The unbearable asymmetry of neo-Nazi bullshit--WAS: Summary of Australian Centurty^([sic]): JEWS somethin'...somethin...”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
glosses: A subscriber to Afrocentric conspiracy theories.
hoteps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotep
Northcott's game
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mathematical game, related to nim, in which players move their pieces up and down a column.
sandlace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sand + lace.
Senses: glosses: Polygonella myriophylla, a rare flowering plant in the knotweed family.
cronyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cronyish
form: most cronyish
Etymology: From crony + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting cronyism; showing undue favour toward one's friends.
pepperberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepperberries
Etymology: From pepper + berry.
Senses: glosses: A large Australian laurel, of species Cryptocarya obovata.
glosses: Edible fruit of this tree, a black globular drupe.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cryptocarya hypospodia
word: rib-fruited pepperberry
taxonomic: Tasmannia lanceolata
word: Tasmanian pepperberry
pepperberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepperberry
leteisi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: shweshwe fabric
pyrenocarpous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a pyrenocarp.
downtake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downtakes
Senses: glosses: An outlet for conveying something downward.
glosses: Material conveyed downward by such an outlet.
downtakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downtake
calandria pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calandria pans
Senses: glosses: A kind of vacuum pan with large tubes that are able to circulate massecuite.
calandria pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calandria pan
paime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A steamed dish of cornmeal, flour, fruit, etc. wrapped in a banana leaf.
pastelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastelle
kenky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kenkey.
konkee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kenkey.
kenke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kenkey.
conkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conkies
Senses: glosses: A Caribbean dumpling somewhat resembling the African dish of kenkey.
conkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conkie
arecaidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid,1-methyl-3,6-dihydro-2H-pyridine-5-carboxylic acid, found in areca nuts
arecaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of arecaidine.
synonyms: word: arecaidine
areolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of areola.
chavelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chavel
argentaffinoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argentaffinomas
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A carcinoid tumor of the gastrointestinal tract
argyriasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argyriases
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of argyria.
synonyms: word: argyria
argyrophil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of argyrophilic.
synonyms: word: argyrophilic
amaranthines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amaranthine
nonsucculent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + succulent.
Senses: glosses: Not succulent.
nonsucculent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsucculents
Etymology: From non- + succulent.
Senses: glosses: A plant that is not a succulent.
nonsucculents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsucculent
crissakes
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chrissakes.
crissake
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chrissake.
lidful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lidfuls
Etymology: From lid + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill the lid of a container.
lidfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lidful
faddery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fadderies
Etymology: From fad + -ery.
Senses: glosses: faddish behaviour or beliefs
fadderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faddery
chicken farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken farmers
Senses: glosses: A farmer who keeps or works with chickens.
chicken farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken farmer
confrontationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confrontationalists
Etymology: From confrontational + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of confrontationist.
synonyms: word: confrontationist
confrontationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From confrontational + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of confrontationism.
synonyms: word: confrontationism
confrontationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confrontationalist
anticonfrontational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticonfrontational
form: most anticonfrontational
Etymology: From anti- + confrontational.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or avoiding confrontation.
babbitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babbitters
Senses: examples: text: Many expert babbitters heat their boxes and shafts to a temperature of about 180° before pouring, which insures them against cold sheets, and generally produces a much finer bearing surface and a more perfect casting.
ref: 1907, Albert L. Clough, The Operation, Care and Repair of Automobiles, page 295:
glosses: A worker who applies Babbitt metal.
hurry-skurries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hurry-skurry
hurry-skurrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hurry-skurry
hurry-skurried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hurry-skurry
ostrich policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostrich policies
Etymology: From ostrich + policy. Referring to the common misconception that ostriches bury their heads in the sand when they notice danger. Perhaps a calque, compare ostrich politics.
Senses: glosses: The tendency to ignore obvious problems and pretend they do not exist; ostrichism.
Related terms: ostrich politics
bury one's head in the sand
head in the sand
breath and britches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] San Antonio Mexicans named Cisco and Pancho, both in black-market sombreros. They were skinny—all breath and britches—and short-timers, soon to go home.
ref: 1990, Lee K. Abbott, “Why I Live in Hanoi”, in Dreams of Distant Lives, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, page 109:
glosses: The minimal qualities that make one a person (especially a man), either
physically (implying extreme thinness) or,
examples: text: “[…] I don’t know a blessed thing but planting. What does she expect me to do? Hire out as an overseer?”
I would, Guy thought clearly, coldly; before I’d accept the slightest favor from anybody. But you haven’t got that, have you, Kil? Reckon you never were anything more than breath and britches.
ref: 1957, Frank Yerby, chapter 22, in Fairoaks, New York: Pocket Books, published 1963, page 295:
text: Man ain’t nothing but trouble, just breath and britches and trouble. Don’t let him feel all over you, now, don’t let a no-good man touch you, else he’ll big you up sho-nuff.
ref: 1966, Margaret Walker, Jubilee, New York: Houghton Mifflin, published 2016, Part I, Chapter 3, p. 54:
text: We’s all God’s creatures and it ain’t in the Bible to sit in the back of no buses or bow down to any man what ain’t nothing but breath and britches.
ref: 1981, John Edgar Wideman, “The Songs of Reba Love Jackson”, in Damballah, New York: Houghton Mifflin, published 1998, page 122:
glosses: The minimal qualities that make one a person (especially a man), either
in terms of character, accomplishments, etc.
examples: text: “[…] Ah don’t want no trashy nigger, no breath-and-britches, lak Johnny Taylor usin’ yo’ body to wipe his foots on.”
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 2, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 27:
glosses: A man of no substance.
impresstaurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impresstaurants
Etymology: Blend of impress + restaurant
Senses: examples: text: At an impresstaurant, the sommelier is both your wine man and your wingman, presenting bottles of Pinot Noir to you with a fancy cumrag draped over his arm.
ref: 2008, Daniel Maurer, Brocabulary: The New Man-I-Festo of Dude Talk, page 68:
text: Across the country, more and more chefs are using fresh, seasonal and sustainable ingredients. And the practice is spreading from high-end impresstaurants to casual local eateries.
ref: 2008, Bill Corsello, Shelley Gallagher, America's Top Restaurants 2009, page 6:
glosses: An upscale restaurant where one might take somebody to impress them.
impresstaurants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impresstaurant
bajajs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bajaj
antigerbil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌæntiˈd͡ʒɜː(ɹ)bɪl/
Etymology: From anti- + gerbil.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Reacting with the immunoglobins found in gerbils.
raw_tags: of an antibody
bedropt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: bedrop + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedrop
divestitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Serving to divest.
Coordinate terms: investitive
investitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Serving to invest.
Coordinate terms: divestitive
flurr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɜː/
ipa: /flʌr/
ipa: /flɝ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: flurrs
form: flurring
form: flurred
form: flurred
Etymology: Related to flurry.
Senses: glosses: To scatter.
glosses: To fly up.
flurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flurr
flurrs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flurr
flurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flurr
fuzzable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fuzz + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Strings are by far the most common primitive that you will use. Strings are everywhere; usernames, IP addresses, directories, and many more things can be represented by strings. Sulley uses the s_string() directive to denote that the data contained within the primitive is a fuzzable string.
ref: 2009, Justin Seitz, Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers:
text: Sulley works by fuzzing the first fuzzable field to be fuzzed. While it is iterating through all the values it wants to try for that field, all the other fields are untouched and remain at their default value.
ref: 2012, Charlie Miller, Dion Blazakis, Dino DaiZovi, iOS Hacker's Handbook, page 172:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Able to be fuzzed, i.e. tested with randomly generated input.
Lovelaces
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lovelace
Lovelaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lovelace
splintage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From splint + -age.
Senses: glosses: The medical use of splints.
tit-tat-to
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of tic-tac-toe.
criss-crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of criss-cross
criss-crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criss-crossings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crisscrossing.
Malteses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maltese (“breed of dog”)
sarcolemmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Etymology: From sarcolemma + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a sarcolemma.
provendering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of provender
provendered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of provender
selenitiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more selenitiferous
form: most selenitiferous
Etymology: From selenite + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: a selenitiferous clay
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Bearing selenite.
turriculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turriculated
form: most turriculated
Senses: glosses: Synonym of turriculate.
synonyms: word: turriculate
subfusiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + fusiform.
Senses: glosses: Almost or imperfectly fusiform.
underwraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underwrap
underwraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underwrap
targumic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From targum + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a targum.
Targumistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a targum.
underwrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underwrap
underwrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underwrappings
Senses: examples: text: Mechanised underwrapping and the rapid, efficient, automatic cross-tying of newspaper bundles are forging the final link of complete automation in the mailing rooms not only of many of the United Kingdom's major newspaper houses but also leading publishing houses in overseas countries.
ref: 1967, World's Press News and Advertisers' Review - Volume 77:
text: In the Power Strap Inc. booth, a demonstration of bundle underwrapping and overwrapping draws rapt attention.
ref: 1991, Presstime - Volume 13, page 24:
text: A threaded screw assembly inside the knob prevents either the overwrapping or underwrapping of the IABP.
ref: 2012, C. Perret, Jean-Louis Vincent, Acute Heart Failure, →ISBN, page 377:
glosses: The act of underwrapping something.
examples: text: How carefully done up — tissue-paper underwrapping as well !
ref: 1901, Edmund Mitchell, Only a Nigger, page 251:
text: An underwrapping of thin polyester urethane foam may be applied next.
ref: 1994, The Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine - Volume 11, page 57:
text: Petey loosened the underwrapping of thin paper carefully, and Sally craned her neck for a first glimpse of the flowers.
ref: 2006, Maritta Wolff -, Night Shift, page 421:
glosses: A material that forms an underwrapped layer.
examples: text: Crystal structures from PDB were analyzed totest whether duplicability of a geneis affected by its underwrapping (Liang et al., 2008).
ref: 2011 -, Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology, →ISBN:
text: However, protein underwrapping is only one cause of dosage effects.
ref: 2011, Katharina Dittmar, David Liberles, Evolution after Gene Duplication, →ISBN:
text: Cross-examination of genetic and structural information revealed that the underwrapping or packing deficiency of a protein, ν, is a molecular quantifier of dosage sensitivity [5] precisely because it constitutes a measure of the reliance of the protein on binding partnerships to maintain the integrity of the native fold.
ref: 2015, Ariel Fernández Stigliano, Biomolecular Interfaces: Interactions, Functions and Drug Design, →ISBN:
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A state of being insufficiently desolvated, so that the main chain of hydrogen bonds in a protein are too accessible, rendering the protein unstable.
underwrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underwrap
underwrappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underwrapping
instellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A generalization of insolation to stars other than the sun.
glosses: The placing of something among the stars.
Related terms: stellar
Victorianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Victorianisms
Etymology: From Victorian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: These [sex manuals] reflect an age in which, it appears, the only hope for heterosexual love is technical know-how. Supposedly designed to free the reader from Victorianism and guilt, these books constitute clumsy, self-conscious attempts to liberate the reader.
ref: 1976 February 7, L. S. Eneri, “New Sex Manual”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 12:
text: It is simply the imposition of more Victorianism into community standards.
ref: 1997 January 9, Morton Kondracke, “TV won't slow 'slouch to Gomorrah'”, in The Greenwood Index-Journal:
text: As [Virginia] Woolf, a founder of the Bloomsberries, famously declared, human nature changed “in 1910, on or about December 10.” That, she thought, was the day that Victorianism died and a new order arose.
ref: 2022, Robert P. Vande Kappelle, Deeper Splendor: Spirituality and Personality in Modern Literature, Wipf and Stock, →ISBN:
glosses: The behaviour or beliefs of the Victorians, especially prudery.
glosses: An expression or idiom characteristic of Victorian times.
Victorianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Victorianism
where the shoe pinches
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Where the cause of trouble or difficulty is found or located.
Related terms: therein lies the rub
wet one's clay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wets one's clay
form: wetting one's clay
form: wet one's clay
form: wet one's clay
form: wetted one's clay
form: wetted one's clay
Senses: glosses: To drink.
ritely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From rite + -ly.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: With the necessary rites.
Seriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Belonging to a section of the Altaic language family, comprising Chinese, etc.
points race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: points races
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: speed skating
glosses: A mass start race where points are awarded for certain accomplishments, such as winning laps or lapping the field.
chrysophilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysophilites
Etymology: From chryso- + -philite.
Senses: glosses: A lover of gold.
chrysophilites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrysophilite
stop-action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Given their early history, it is interesting that Benjamin made no mention of them — but if he had, he would have had to reconsider his thesis that film can only reproduce (and so, dislocate) works of art,' for stop-action provides a classic case of technology being used to create original productions
ref: 1999, John Bell, Puppets, Masks, and Performing, →ISBN, page 181:
glosses: A film technique in which still frames depicting successive positions are displayed to create the illusion of movement.
dance upon nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dances upon nothing
form: dancing upon nothing
form: danced upon nothing
form: danced upon nothing
Senses: synonyms: word: hang
word: swing
word: dance on a rope
word: dance on nothing
word: dance the hempen jig
word: dance the Tyburn jig
word: dance upon nothing
word: dangle
word: hang
word: ride a horse foaled by an acorn
word: stretch hemp
word: string up
word: swing
word: take a ride to Tyburn
word: trine
word: truss
word: wag hemp
glosses: To be executed by hanging.
Related terms: dance the hempen jig
dance the Tyburn jig
dance the Tyburn jig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dances the Tyburn jig
form: dancing the Tyburn jig
form: danced the Tyburn jig
form: danced the Tyburn jig
Senses: synonyms: word: hang
word: swing
word: dance on a rope
word: dance on nothing
word: dance the hempen jig
word: dance the Tyburn jig
word: dance upon nothing
word: dangle
word: hang
word: ride a horse foaled by an acorn
word: stretch hemp
word: string up
word: swing
word: take a ride to Tyburn
word: trine
word: truss
word: wag hemp
glosses: To be executed by hanging.
gyrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyra
postscriptal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a postscript.
majillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: majillions
Etymology: See + -illion
Senses: examples: text: You know how when you break a glass, it shatters all over the floor? It felt like there were a majillion glass bits in my throat. "I'm not sharing it with Francesca. I swear."
ref: 2010, Barbara Dee, This Is Me From Now On:
text: So, since this is a majillion percent your fault, you're going to help me with this situation here. I need both hands, so you open the door, I need both hands, so you open the door, I'll handle Artaud, and you stay out of the way, sound good?
ref: 2015, Andrew Battershill, Pillow:
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
boxes someone's ears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of box someone's ears
boxing someone's ears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of box someone's ears
boxed someone's ears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of box someone's ears
hard-cured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: hard-cured fish
glosses: Cured thoroughly by drying in the sun.