cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
underholes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underhole
underholed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underhole
exclusivize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exclusivizes
form: exclusivizing
form: exclusivized
form: exclusivized
Etymology: From exclusive + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Today, we tend to compartmentalize or exclusivize our thinking far too much.
ref: 1971, Norman H. Crowhurst, Electronic musical instruments:
text: It was probably this ecumenism, or syncretism, that made Mecca so little susceptible to the exclusivizing attractions of Christianity or Judaism. What was the icon, in the eyes of the Quraysh, but one more idol among very many?
ref: 2007, Daniel C. Peterson, Muhammad, prophet of God, page 31:
glosses: To make exclusive.
exclusivizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exclusivize
exclusivizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exclusivize
exclusivized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exclusivize
underhangman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underhangmen
Etymology: From under- + hangman.
Senses: examples: text: […] thou wert dignified enough,
Even to the point of envy, if ’twere made
Comparative for your virtues, to be styled
The under-hangman of his kingdom […]
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
qualifier: Shakespeare
glosses: An assistant or deputy hangman.
underholding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underhold
underheld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underhold
undergraduateship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undergraduate + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or condition of an undergraduate.
underagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underagents
Etymology: From under- + agent.
Senses: glosses: A subordinate agent.
underagents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underagent
underpeep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underpeeps
form: underpeeping
form: underpeeped
form: underpeeped
Etymology: From under- + peep.
Senses: examples: text: The flame […] would underpeep her lids.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To peep under.
underpeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underpeep
underpeeped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underpeep
underpayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpayers
Etymology: From underpay + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who underpays.
underpayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpayer
nontipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontippers
form: non-tipper
Etymology: From non- + tipper.
Senses: examples: text: A widely held opinion was voiced that blacks were perceived to be poor or nontippers. That might explain the disparity in drink prices as bartenders added their own gratuity to the bill.
ref: 2010, Scott S. Ellis, Madame Vieux Carré: the French Quarter in the twentieth century, page 146:
antonyms: tipper
glosses: One who does not leave tips, or gratuities.
nontippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontipper
will-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: will-makers
Senses: examples: text: In the north, will-makers put big investment into such components of the Purgatory industry as Masses for the dead.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 557:
glosses: Someone who draws up a will.
underdrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underdrains
Etymology: From under- + drain.
Senses: synonyms: underdrainer
glosses: An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.
underdrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underdrains
form: underdraining
form: underdrained
form: underdrained
Etymology: From under- + drain.
Senses: glosses: To drain by forming an underdrain or underdrains in.
Related terms: underdrainage
underdrainer
underdraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underdrain
underdrained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underdrain
underdrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underdrain
underdrains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underdrain
underlabourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underlabourers
form: underlaborer
Etymology: From under- + labourer.
Senses: glosses: An assistant or subordinate labourer.
underlaborer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underlaborers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of underlabourer.
underlaborers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underlaborer
underlabourers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underlabourer
underkeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underkeep
underkept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underkeep
underkeeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underkeep
underkeeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underkeep
willmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: willmakers
Senses: examples: text: This is evident in the care with which willmakers - especially poor willmakers - detailed their bequests, down to the names of cows, the location of a particular table or who slept in a certain bed, and the colour of breeches and petticoats.
ref: 1993, Amy Louise Erickson, Women and property in early modern England, page 65:
glosses: Alternative form of will-maker.
willmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of willmaker
understroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)stɹəʊk/
ipa: /ʌndə(ɹ)ˈstɹəʊk/
Forms: form: understrokes
Etymology: From under- + stroke.
Senses: glosses: A lower or underlining stroke in writing.
understroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)stɹəʊk/
ipa: /ʌndə(ɹ)ˈstɹəʊk/
Forms: form: understrokes
form: understroking
form: understroked
form: understroked
Etymology: From under- + stroke.
Senses: examples: text: You have understroked that offensive word, to show it should be printed in italic.
ref: 1733 March 20, letter to Catherine Hyde, Jonathan Swift:
glosses: To underline or underscore.
understroke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)stɹəʊk/
ipa: /ʌndə(ɹ)ˈstɹəʊk/
Etymology: From under- + stroke.
Senses: examples: text: Later in his life Tolstoy was given a Remington understroke typewriter but his spirituality did not incline him to use labor-saving machines.
ref: 2021, Steve Hickey, Second Tolstoy: The Sermon on the Mount as Theo-tactics:
coordinate_terms: frontstroke
glosses: Being or relating to an upstrike typewriter.
confidence trick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confidence tricks
Senses: examples: text: He was telling northern Europeans that some of the devotions which most deeply satisfied them […] were nothing but clerical confidence tricks.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Penguin, published 2010, page 558:
glosses: A method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and having them hand over their money (or other valuables).
Derived terms: con
conman
conwoman
understroked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of understroke
understrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of understroke
understrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of understroke
understroking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of understroke
underfurnish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underfurnishes
form: underfurnishing
form: underfurnished
form: underfurnished
Etymology: From under- + furnish.
Senses: glosses: To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently.
underfurnishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underfurnish
underdig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underdigs
form: underdigging
form: underdug
form: underdug
Etymology: From under- + dig.
Senses: examples: text: Issa found a place where the fence had been underdug, and thought about sneaking into the town. But she couldn't think of anything she wanted to do in there.
ref: 2011, Adam Roberts, By Light Alone, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 348:
glosses: To dig under or beneath (something); to undermine.
underdig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underdigs
form: underdigging
form: underdug
form: underdug
Etymology: Blend of understand + dig (“to understand”).
Senses: examples: text: Fuck givin' body shots I'm hittin' you in yo wig / Ya underdig?
ref: 2000 September 12, “Uptown” (2:06 from the start), in Baller Blockin', performed by Turk ft. B.G.:
text: Niggaz know who I be and what I represent, so my hood stripes could never be in question, you underdig me? I ain't trying to shit on they character, they went out like straight Gs.
ref: 2006, K'wan Foye, Hood Rat, New York, N.Y.: Saint Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 308:
text: […] there are these pipes and boughs and heifer cows and the cows represent the young maidens who are "overwrought" and there are musicians playing songs and people who really like underdig the parade but feel sorta depressed because they know the time will be gone soon like a memory and it's all very cool and written in rhyme which we studied.
ref: 2018, Carolyn Light Bell, “All He Saw Was Summer”, in I Heard a Fish Cry: And Other Stories, Lisbon: Adelaide Books, →ISBN, page 193:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To fully understand or comprehend.
underdigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underdig
underdigs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underdig
underdug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underdig
overniceness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overnice + -ness.
Senses: examples: an overniceness as to legal technicalities
glosses: The quality of being overnice.
undershapen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undershapen
form: most undershapen
Etymology: From under- + shapen.
Senses: examples: text: His dwarf, a vicious under-shapen thing, / Struck at her with his whip, and she return'd / Indignant to the Queen; […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 22–23:
glosses: Under the usual size; dwarfish; small.
underfillings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underfilling
underfill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: underfills
form: underfilling
form: underfilled
form: underfilled
Etymology: From under- + fill.
Senses: glosses: To fill with an insufficient amount.
underfilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underfill
underfills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underfill
underfarmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underfarmers
Etymology: From under- + farmer.
Senses: glosses: An assistant farmer.
underfarmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underfarmer
underproportioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underproportioned
form: most underproportioned
Etymology: From under- + proportioned.
Senses: examples: Scanty and underproportioned returns of civility. — Collier.
glosses: Of inadequate or inferior proportions; small; poor.
thanatourism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thanato- + tourism.
Senses: glosses: Tourism involving travel to sites associated with death and suffering.
Synonyms: dark tourism
thanatotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They were staring with a drugged, thanatotic avidity at the loading bay.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Thanatos, the death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.
examples: text: Eventually, faced with what appears to be an unpalatable corpse, the aggressor departs, and only then - on some occasions up to six hours after it first entered its thanatotic state - does the [possum rise].
ref: 2001, Karl Shuker, The Hidden Powers of Animals: Uncovering the Secrets of Nature, Reader's Digest Association, page 125:
glosses: Of or pertaining to thanatosis.
sweatpant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweatpants
Etymology: From sweat + pant.
Senses: examples: text: Try something made of grippier material — regular cotton sweatpant material isn't bad[…]
ref: 2003, John Capouya, Real men do yoga, page 65:
text: One of the sweatpant pockets gave up Mexican ID, a tin of organic rolling papers, and a Baggie of clean-looking marijuana.
ref: 2010, Jonathan Kellerman, Deception:
glosses: sweatpants
sweatpanted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sweatpant + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing sweatpants.
progressive dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: progressive dinners
Senses: synonyms: progressive supper
safari supper
glosses: A dinner party in which each successive course is prepared and eaten at the residence of a different host.
safari supper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safari suppers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of progressive dinner.
synonyms: word: progressive dinner
groutings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grouting
understrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more understrapping
form: most understrapping
Senses: glosses: Becoming an understrapper; subservient.
underfollowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underfollowed
form: most underfollowed
Etymology: From under- + followed.
Senses: examples: text: He made a fortune by judiciously investing in underfollowed stocks.
glosses: Not adequately followed; having too small a following.
underframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underframe
progressive dinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of progressive dinner
undersetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undersettings
Etymology: From under- + setting.
Senses: glosses: Something set or built under as a support; a pedestal.
undersettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undersetting
underpropper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underproppers
Etymology: From underprop + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, underprops or supports.
underproppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpropper
underprop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underprops
form: underpropping
form: underpropped
form: underpropped
Etymology: From under- + prop.
Senses: examples: text: He hath employed all his wit to frame him selfe anew (as impatient of his fortune) and to underprop or uphold himselfe by his inventions.
ref: , II.12
glosses: To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold, prop up.
underpropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underprop
underprops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underprop
underpropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underprop
subproof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subproofs
Etymology: From sub- + proof.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A proof that makes up part of a larger proof.
subproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subproof
undersetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undersetters
Etymology: From underset + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, undersets or supports; a prop; a support; a pedestal.
undersetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undersetter
underdealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underdealings
Etymology: From under- + dealing.
Senses: examples: text: But mentions not that by his underdealing to debauſh Armies heer at home, [...]
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter XII, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page 122:
glosses: Crafty, unfair, or underhand dealing; trickery.
underdealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From under- + dealing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underdeal
underdealings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underdealing
underback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underbacks
Etymology: From under- + back.
Senses: topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: A vessel that receives the wort as it flows from the mashing tub.
underbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underback
LFN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Lingua Franca Nova.
LFN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LFNs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of long filename.
sincipita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭnsĭʹpĭtə
ipa: /sɪnˈsɪpɪtə/
Etymology: First attested in 1847; from the Latin sincipita, the nominative plural form of sinciput.
Senses: examples: text: Of the three very small specimens, the youngest is entirely of a bright light fulvous hue, without any admixture of dark hairs: the second has a general slight admixture of dark hairs, which predominate on the forehead, vertex, and occiput, while the sincipita continue bright fulvous; the arms and hands, knees, shins, and feet, are as dark as in the adult: the third, but very little larger, is coloured as in the mature animal, except that the terminal three-fourths of its tail continue rufous; and some admixture of the same remains on the sincipita, throat, flanks, and exterior of thighs.
ref: 1847, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, XVI:ii, page 734:
glosses: plural of sinciput
barochoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From barochory + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting barochory.
undermatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undermatch
undermatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undermatch
undershut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + shut.
Senses: glosses: Closed from below.
Oklahomo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Oklahoma + homo
Senses: glosses: Derogatory name for Oklahoma: a state of the United States.
skinny dipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skinny dippers
form: skinnydipper
form: skinny-dipper
Senses: examples: text: The headline of a story in the local paper read “Skinny Dipper Charges Rape.”
ref: 2017 March, Kent L. Koppelman, Values in the Key of Life: Making Harmony in the Human Community, Amityville, New York: Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, →ISBN:
text: After a little horseplay and floating around, April said “Look over there, it's our skinny dipper. […]
ref: 2016 June, Roger Riffelmacher, Rogg's Bar And Grill, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone who swims naked; someone who skinny dips.
holding midfielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holding midfielders
Senses: examples: text: After the restart, QPR holding midfielder Shaun Derry, in a rare advanced position, was inches away from connecting with a cross from Jamie Mackie, who was making his first start since he suffered a double leg break against Rovers in an FA Cup tie in January.
ref: 2011 October 15, Paul Fletcher, “QPR 1 - 1 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: defensive midfielder
cross-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-shots
Senses: examples: text: But the visitors halved the deficit within two minutes when Scott Sinclair burst into the area and, despite going down under Bennett's challenge, stabbed the ball across for Graham to score with a cross-shot.
ref: 2011 October 15, Graham Chase, “Norwich 3 - 1 Swansea”, in BBC Sport:
text: This time there was an English element as Ainsley Maitland-Niles let fly with cross-shot that fizzed to Nicolas Tagliafico at the far post.
ref: 2025 April 17, Simon Stone, “Manchester United 5-4 Olympique Lyonnais”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A shot from one side of the field towards the opposite corner of the goal.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A technique for filming interactions between two people in which the camera looks alternately at one or the other person, with the focus on the person farthest from the camera.
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A shot fired at an animal that is moving across one's field of vision.
hearing trumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearing trumpets
Senses: glosses: A trumpet-shaped acoustic device formerly used as a hearing aid.
Wonn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wonns
Senses: glosses: A surname.
crashproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crashproof
form: most crashproof
Etymology: From crash + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to the damaging effects of a collision.
raw_tags: of a vehicle
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Resistant to crashes (failure of software programs).
smearproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smearproof
form: most smearproof
Etymology: From smear + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to smearing.
stabproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stabproof
form: most stabproof
Etymology: From stab + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: Martin, who wore a stab-proof vest as he sold drugs from behind a plexiglas window inside the shop.
ref: 2023 May 4, Manisha Krishnan, “Man Arrested After Opening Heroin, Cocaine, and Meth Store in Canada”, in Vice:
synonyms: antistab
coordinate_terms: cutproof
;
bulletproof
glosses: Resistant to stabbing attacks.
Related terms: kevlar
asthmatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asthmatick
form: most asthmatick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of asthmatic.
asthmatick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asthmaticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of asthmatic.
valerianaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Valeriana + -aceous
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the flowering plant genus Valeriana.
variciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more variciform
form: most variciform
Etymology: From varic- + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a varix.
varicoceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varicocele
varicocelectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varicocelectomy
aquatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aquatick
form: most aquatick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aquatic.
ænigmatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ænigmatick
form: most ænigmatick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enigmatic.
tnx
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of thanks.
attention seeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attention seekers
form: attention-seeker
Senses: glosses: A person who tries to get attention, typically in a manner considered excessive or inappropriate.
Related terms: attention-seeking
attention-seeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attention-seekers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of attention seeker.
attention-seekers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attention-seeker
attention seekers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attention seeker
heterophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + -phily.
Senses: examples: text: In their review of the impact of heterophily on group process outcomes, Milliken and Martins (1996) acknowledge that past research conflicts on whether heterophily inhibits or facilitates positive group outcomes.
ref: 2002, Mikayla Hughes, The Role of Competence, Perceived Heterophily, and Satisfaction in the Context of University-community Collaborative Relationships:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
antonyms: homophily
glosses: Tendency of individuals to collect in diverse groups.
Derived terms: heterophilous
vinquish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of sheep, associated with granite soils.
chickenpoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chickenpox
veinstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veinstone
quizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quizzy
form: most quizzy
Etymology: From quiz + -y. Sense 2 possibly influenced by English inquisitive.
Senses: examples: text: […] as in all other balls, there was a certain sprinkling of fine ladies, and quizzy gentlemen, as well as of quizzy ladies and fine gentlemen, so that the several partnerships were as it might be, ill or well-arranged; […]
ref: 1811, Edward Nares, Thinks I-to-myself:
glosses: Odd; eccentric.
examples: text: When Drea and I talked to the police yesterday, they were extra quizzy about you.” “Why?” Amber shrugs. “They made it seem like you're a suspect.”
ref: 2011, Laurie Faria Stolarz, Silver is for Secrets:
glosses: Inquisitive, curious.
Derived terms: quizziness
baladin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baladins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of balladine.
kiebosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kibosh.
variformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of various forms; variform.
velvetbreast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velvetbreasts
Etymology: From velvet + breast.
Senses: glosses: The goosander (Mergus merganser).
Derived terms: mountain velvetbreast
velvetbreasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of velvetbreast
venerators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venerator
pagodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pagoda + -ite, because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: agalmatolite
pahi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pahis
Senses: glosses: A large war canoe of Tahiti.
paganity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pagan + -ity; cf. Latin paganitas.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a pagan; paganism.
Arapahos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arapaho
panstereorama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panstereoramas
Etymology: From pan- + stereo- + -rama.
Senses: glosses: A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or similar.
panstereoramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panstereorama
panspermatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panspermatists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panspermist.
panspermatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panspermatist
Panhellenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Panhellenia
form: Panhellenion
Senses: glosses: An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Ancient Greece.
Panhellenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Panhellenists
Senses: glosses: An advocate of panhellenism.
panoramical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more panoramical
form: most panoramical
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of panoramic.
pockwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pock + wood, as formerly used to treat pocks.
Senses: glosses: lignum vitae
queal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: queals
form: quealing
form: quealed
form: quealed
Etymology: From Middle English quelen, from Old English cwelan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwelan, from Proto-Germanic *kwelaną (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to sting, pierce”). Related to Middle Dutch quelen, queilen. Doublet of quail.
Senses: glosses: To faint away.
queal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: queals
form: quealing
form: quealed
form: quealed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quail.
podalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ποδαλγία (podalgía). By surface analysis, pod- + -algia.
Senses: examples: text: Gout and rheumatism are possible causes of podalgia.
synonyms: pedialgia
pododynia
glosses: Pain in the foot.
poenamu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pounamu (“greenstone”).
greenstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenstone
polliwigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polliwig
pointsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointsmen
Etymology: From points + man.
Senses: examples: text: The signalman, as such, was unknown at first. At junctions, or for shunting, the pointsman was responsible both for setting the points and working the appropriate signals, the two being independent. As a result, accidents were comparatively frequent, and the pointsman's job was, at best, a hazardous one.
ref: 1955 April, R. H. Warring, “Some Early Railway Signals”, in Railway Magazine, page 231:
text: At their point of origin, constructing these boxes presented railway companies with an attractive proposition: to remove the need for pointsmen and flagmen operating at several ground-level locations around a railway site by housing one or two men in a signal structure.
ref: 2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 57:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: switchman
glosses: A man in charge of railroad points (switches).
pointsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pointsman
beclap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beclaps
form: beclapping
form: beclapped
form: beclapped
form: beclapp
Etymology: From Middle English biclappen (“to grasp, insnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly”). By surface analysis, be- + clap.
Senses: examples: text: He so besmouched her, and she so beclapped him, and there tumbling together, as merrie as they would wish, I sighed to thinke, what a supper they would haue after break-fast.
ref: 1605, Tourneur, Worldes Folly:
glosses: To grasp, insnare, ensnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly.
Derived terms: umbeclap
beclap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beclaps
form: beclapping
form: beclapped
form: beclapped
form: beclapp
Etymology: From be- + clap.
Senses: examples: text: No one is so beclapped as the author of a popular drama bowing over his own footlights; the artists and romancers of the daily press are modester than they themselves would be willing to admit.
ref: 1886, The Nation, volume 43, page 414:
text: In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […]
ref: 1891, Littell's living age, volume 191, page 260:
text: He who has loved quiet, who has so long shunned publicity, must school himself to be cheered and beclapped and huzzaed by thousands every time he lets himself be seen.
ref: 1903, in New outlook (Alfred Emanuel Smith), volume 74, page 936
glosses: To clap for; to applaud.
polishedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polished + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being polished.
polemoniaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Polemoniaceae + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the plant family Polemoniaceae.
hologramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hologrammes
Etymology: From holo- + -gramme.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of hologram.
polycistrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycistron
hologrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hologramme
polychrests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polychrest
polyfoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyfoil
polygenists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polygenist
polybromides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polybromide
polybasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polybasite
angiogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angiogrammes
Etymology: From angio- + -gramme.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of angiogram.
sonogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sonogram.
seismogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismogrammes
Senses: examples: text: In 1954, Benioff analyzed the seismogramme of the Kamchatka earthquake of 1952 and found a phase with a period of 57 minutes . . .
ref: 1962, Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., Geophysics Series, Issues 1–6,page 112
text: Cover design based on a seismogramme registered on the 18th and 19th of November 1900 during a 'seismic tempest' in Japan.
ref: 1976, J. B. Kloosterman, Catastrophist Geology, page 50:
text: To compare a book to a seismogramme is a mistaken analogy in so far as, I know from experience, simple registering is not involved . . .
ref: 1979, C. Bernstein, Language:
text: A seismogramme of the earthquake recorded in Zurich is shown in figure 3.7 . . .
ref: 1986, A. S. Elnashai, K. Pilakoutas, "The Kalamata (Greece) Earthquake of 13 September 1986", in ESEE Research Report, issues 86–89, Civil Engineering Dept., Imperial College of Science and Technology,page 11
text: . . . it acts to the greatest possible extent as a seismogramme of sensibility and experience.
ref: 2005, Božo Biškupić, Tonko Maroević, Contemporary Croatian Drawing, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia:
glosses: British spelling of seismogram.
polygrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polygram
polychromates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polychromate
polymerisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polymerism
materializable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From materialize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being materialized.
phonogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonogrammes
Etymology: From phono- + -gramme.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of phonogram.
Disneyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Disneyish
form: most Disneyish
Etymology: From Disney + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: In the first act Giselle's cottage and Albrecht's hut look too Disneyish, while the architecture of the background castle is reminiscent of the high baroque of the monastery at Melk and clashes with the costumes.
ref: 1971, The Listener, volume 85:
text: At the end, there's an appearance by the famous stampeding horses, much loved by academic explicators, and a big rainbow, seemingly painted in the sky in Disneyish candy colors.
ref: 1989 May 29, New York Magazine, The Rainbow, volume 22, number 22, page 65:
glosses: Characteristic of The Walt Disney Company or its productions.
Synonyms: Disneyesque
tetragramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetragrammes
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of tetragram.
O'Leary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /oʊ ˈle.ɹi/
Forms: form: OLeary
form: Leary
form: Learie
form: O'Lear
Etymology: From Irish Ó Laoghaire.
The town in Prince Edward Island is named after early settler Michael O'Leary.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A town in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
poppyhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poppyheads
form: poppy head
Etymology: From poppy + head.
Senses: glosses: The seedhead of a poppy.
poppyhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poppyheads
form: poppy head
Etymology: Possibly from poppy + head as above, as many designs resemble fleur-de-lis. Alternatively, the first element may reflect French poupe (“stern”), as they also appear similar to the stern of a ship, or French poupée (“doll”).
Senses: examples: text: Poppy, or poppy head, the more correct term for designating these wooden " Crops," would appear to be derived from the frequent custom of working the terminations into figures of priests, warriors
ref: 1860. Raphael Brandon, Joshua Arthur Brandon, "An analysis of Gothick architecture: illustrated by a series of: Volume 1", Page 98
glosses: A raised ornament frequently having the form of a finial. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.
poppyheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poppyhead
poorbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poorboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poor box.
poorboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poorbox
poorliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poorly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being poorly; ill health.
pathetique
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pathetique
form: most pathetique
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pathetic.
Trojan asteroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trojan asteroid
Lagrange points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lagrange point
gymnarthrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnarthrids
Senses: glosses: Any of the extinct family Gymnarthridae of tuditanomorph microsaurs.
gymnarthrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnarthrid
goniorhynchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goniorhynchids
Etymology: From translingual Goniorhynchus + -id. The genus name itself is from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “angle”) + ῥῠ́γχος (rhŭ́nkhos, “snout”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the extinct microsaur genus †Goniorhynchus (a synonym of †Rhynchonkos).
goniorhynchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goniorhynchid
ostodolepid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostodolepids
Senses: glosses: Any of the extinct family Ostodolepidae of tuditanomorph microsaurs.
ostodolepids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostodolepid
portolans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portolan
tuditanomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuditanomorphs
Senses: glosses: Any of the Tuditanomorpha, a suborder of microsaur lepospondyls.
tuditanomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuditanomorph
postscripted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of postscript
postscripting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of postscript
potentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From potent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being potent; powerfulness; potency; efficacy.
potstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potstones
Etymology: From pot + stone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.
potstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potstone
cardiogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiogrammes
Etymology: From cardio- + -gramme.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of cardiogram.
ideogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideogrammes
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of ideogram.
telegramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telegrammes
Etymology: From tele- + -gramme.
Senses: examples: text: I hope you have a good trip, my love. Send me a telegramme to let me know when you arrive in Montreal.
ref: 2016, Tinnean, “Warrick”, in Destiny’s End, [Petersburg, Va.]: JMS Books LLC, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Rare spelling of telegram.
telegramme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: telegrammes
form: telegramming
form: telegrammed
form: telegrammed
Etymology: From tele- + -gramme.
Senses: examples: text: We urge everyone to telegramme their opposition to the arrest of Francisco Antonio Santos and all others detained, demanding their release and citing the imprisonments as a violation of fundamental political and human rights.
ref: 1974, L.A.W.G. Letter, volumes 2–3, Toronto, Ont.: Latin American Working Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: So it was that Chartier was forced to telegramme en clair, meaning that his contacts with Vichy were open for all to read and were thus largely confined to run-of-the-mill information.
ref: 2003, Nicholas Atkin, “Agents consulaires or agents provocateurs?”, in The Forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940–44, Manchester; New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, chapter 4 (The surveillance of exile: the Vichy consulates), page 158:
text: I was ashamed I hadn’t thought of letting Mother know John was dead. As for Father, it was unlikely he would have given his solicitor instructions to telegramme her.
ref: 2016, Tinnean, “Warrick”, in Destiny’s End, [Petersburg, Va.]: JMS Books LLC, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: Rare spelling of telegram.
potassoxyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From potassium + oxygen + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The radical KO, derived from, and supposed to exist in, potassium hydroxide and other compounds.
cryptogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptogrammes
Etymology: From crypto- + -gramme.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of cryptogram.
epigramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epigrammes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epigram.
Pott's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Percivall Pott (1714–1788), a London surgeon who trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
Senses: glosses: A presentation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that affects the spine, a kind of tuberculous arthritis of the intervertebral joints.
precalculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precalculations
Etymology: From pre- + calculation.
Senses: glosses: A calculation performed in advance.
precalculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precalculation
Young Turk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Young Turks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of young Turk.
young Turks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of young Turk
colour'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colour'd
form: most colour'd
form: colour’d
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of coloured.
Derived terms: uncolour'd
colour'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: colour’d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colour
labour'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labour'd
form: most labour'd
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of laboured.
labour'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of labour
Trojan points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trojan point
chrome dome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrome domes
form: chrome-dome
form: chromedome
Senses: examples: text: Linebacker Carlton Bailey shaved his head last year. . . . Soon, the bald head became the rage among the linebackers. Now, just about every Giants linebacker has a chrome dome.
ref: 1994 July 26, Mike Freeman, “Pro Football: To Put It Baldly, Brooks Is a Leader”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Oct 2011:
glosses: A bald head.
examples: text: Few Presidents have been bald. The last was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Luckily, he ran both times against another chrome dome, Adlai Stevenson.
ref: 2004 July 19, Carolina A. Miranda, “Hair To The Chief!”, in Time:
text: [W]here Patrick's hair lay thick and fair, Carter's was dark and thinning; his scalp gleamed through his comb-over. Soon he'd be a chrome dome.
ref: 2010, F. Paul Wilson, SIMS, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: A person who is bald.
glosses: A robot or artificial intelligence.
examples: text: Airman Wheeler, a rebellious sort who did not like his job anyway, disregarded the orders of his superior, Lieut. William Shortt, to get his hair "clipped close from ear to crown, with only a fringe on top of the head"—a haircut variously known as a white sidewall, an Apache, a chrome-dome.
ref: 1957 August 5, Carolina A. Miranda, “Armed Forces: Scalped”, in Time:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A haircut in which the hair is clipped extremely close to the scalp.
Synonyms: sense: person who is bald
word: baldhead
sense: person who is bald
word: baldy
sense: haircut
word: buzzcut
chrome-dome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrome-domes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chrome dome.
epidemick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epidemick
form: most epidemick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of epidemic.
epidemick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epidemicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of epidemic.
zodiack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zodiacks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of zodiac.
exotick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exotick
form: most exotick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of exotic.
exotick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of exotic.
Lagrangians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lagrangian
conciliarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conciliarist