cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Ambien
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ambiens
Senses: examples: text: The city never sleeps / Better slip you an Ambien
ref: 2009, “Empire State of Mind”, in The Blueprint 3, performed by Jay-Z:
text: But Eckleburg is powerless against her, so I take an Ambien, and then, at 2 AM, the New York City Department of Transportation decides it's the perfect time to rip up the street.
ref: 2010, Patricia Morrisroe, Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia, page 119:
text: Silicon Valley is not going to suddenly take an Ambien and stop innovating.
ref: 2011, Jonathan Handel, Hollywood on Strike!: An Industry at War in the Internet Age, page 389:
text: They ingest Ambien, Seroquel, LSD, Adderall, Oxycodone, cocaine, Flexeril, Percocet, psilocybin mushrooms and codeine.
ref: 2013 June 4, Dwight Garner, “A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: This week’s find: a subreddit devoted to all the wonderfully deranged things people have done while under the influence of Ambien sleeping pills, or while experiencing a visit from the Ambien walrus, as redditors are known to call it.
ref: 2017 February 22, Madison Malone Kircher, “‘Things You Did on Ambien’ Is Peak Reddit”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2018:
text: Roseanne Barr said she was “Ambien tweeting” when she wrote racist remarks on Twitter […]. But on Wednesday the makers of Ambien, the sleep aid, were having none of it.[…] “While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.”
ref: 2018 May 30, Christine Hauser, “Roseanne Barr’s Ambien Defense Is Disputed: ‘Racism Is Not a Known Side Effect’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Trade name of zolpidem, a medication most widely known as a treatment for insomnia.
Derived terms: Ambien defense
Ambien walrus
bilinguality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bilingual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: bilingualism
red-veined darter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-veined darters
Senses: glosses: A Sympetrum fonscolombii dragonfly.
red-veined darters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-veined darter
time-stamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-stamp
time-stamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of time-stamp
time-stamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of time-stamp
time-stamped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more time-stamped
form: most time-stamped
Senses: glosses: Marked with a timestamp.
time-stamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of time-stamp
flabberghast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flabberghasts
form: flabberghasting
form: flabberghasted
form: flabberghasted
form: flabberghast
Senses: examples: text: Skates that are not quite a fit, my dear Smith, / May flabberghast even a chap of your pith.
ref: 1887 January 29, “The ‘Emergency-Man’”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume XCII, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 54, column 1:
text: The old VC flabberghasted at the possibility of three husbands for his niece; the shocked and even molested Vice-Principal knowing little to do, now that he was stripped of his clothes and appearing in those of the prisoner of war […]
ref: 1967, The Pakistan Review, volume 15, Lahore: Ferozsons Ltd., →OCLC, page 7:
text: Our faithful customers never cease to flabberghast us.
ref: 1981, “Our Xmas Present: Up to $150 Worth of Free Imported Classical Recordings”, in Ovation: The Magazine for Classical Music Listeners, volume 2, New York, N.Y.: Ovation Magazine Associates, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
flabberghast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flabberghasts
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
alyauntis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of aliens.
time was
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Time was, the feet of the messengers of peace were glorious, but now their message is mean; […] time was, thou wert exceeding tender of the least sin, and not a day past, but thy cheeks were wet in secret before the Lord; now thou art grown blind […] .
ref: a. 1659, Jonathan Mitchell, editor, The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied [sermons of Thomas Shepard], 1797 edition, volume 2, page 259 http://books.google.com/books?id=uvI2AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA259&dq=glorious
text: I call him poor; but time was, that in our intercourse I was the obliged party.
ref: 1879, John Berwick Harwood, Young Lord Penrith, chapter 34; as serialized in, 1879 June 21, Chambers's Journal, fourth series, number 808; which was reprinted in, Chambers's Journal 1879, page 387 http://books.google.com/books?id=mtwXAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA387&dq=%22but+time+was+that%22
text: Liberal arts and community colleges as well as other teaching-centered institutions have always promoted high standards of teaching excellence. But time was that no one really cared much what instructors in more research-oriented universities did in the classroom, as long as it was legal.
ref: 2010, Linda B. Nilson, Teaching at Its Best, 3rd edition, Jossey-Bass, →ISBN, page xvii:
glosses: It was once true (that)...; there was a time when...
Related terms: once upon a time
long ago
way back when
asstard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asstards
Etymology: From ass(hole) + (re)tard.
Senses: glosses: An extremely stupid person, especially one who causes harm.
cuntbucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuntbuckets
form: cunt bucket
Etymology: From cunt + bucket.
Senses: examples: text: Just fuck you, cuntbucket!
ref: 2001, Vicky Conlan, “Has anyone.....?”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.liverpool (Usenet):
text: But of course she blew a gasket and called me a dirty cuntbucket, said that the toaster was rightfully hers, a deserved piece of the alimony that the courts denied her.
ref: 2005, Dennis Schreiner, Kate Carlo, page 49
text: Well, he's going to get fuck all, little cuntbucket needs a nice bleach injection in his arm (and his his fucking parents^([sic]) arms too, the shitbags)
ref: 2007, Nige, “OT: First happy slapping ...”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet):
glosses: A stupid contemptible person, especially a woman.
Related terms: cumbucket
scarlet letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarlet letter
rape whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rape whistles
Senses: glosses: A whistle intended to be blown by a person who believes he/she is in danger of being raped.
rape whistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rape whistle
trochlea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒk.li.ə/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑk.li.ə/
Forms: form: trochleae
form: trochleas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin trochlea (“case or sheaf containing one or more pulleys, block”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A structure resembling or acting like a pulley.
In the elbow joint, the articular surface of the lower extremity of the humerus, grasped by the trochlear notch of the ulna.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A structure resembling or acting like a pulley.
A pulley-like cartilage through which the superior oblique muscle of the eyeball passes.
Derived terms: trochlear
trochleary
trochleo-
providentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From provident + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the quality or state of being provident; carefulness; prudence; economy
neenish tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neenish tart
ferrolyomesophase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrolyomesophases
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A ferronematic phase of a liquid crystal
ferronematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ferro- + nematic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the nematic phase of a ferrofluid.
magnetoresistant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magnetoresistant
form: most magnetoresistant
Etymology: From magneto- + resistant.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Exhibiting magnetoresistance
picoradians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picoradian
picoradian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picoradians
Etymology: From pico- + radian.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A unit of solid angle equal to 10⁻¹² radians
ultraviscous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + viscous.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having an extremely high viscosity
sarses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarse
sarses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sarse
sarsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sarse
sarsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sarse
check over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: checks over
form: checking over
form: checked over
form: checked over
Senses: examples: text: Can you check this over before I turn it in?
text: The nurse checked him over to be sure he didn't have any serious injuries.
glosses: To read and look for errors or problems.
checks over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of check over
checking over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of check over
checked over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of check over
balded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bald
flabberghasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flabberghast
flabberghasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flabberghast
flabberghasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flabberghast
flabberghasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flabberghast
flabagasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flabagast
flabagasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flabagast
flabagasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flabagast
flabbergasters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flabbergaster
flabbergastering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flabbergaster
flabbergastered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flabbergaster
flabergasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flabergast
flabergasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flabergast
flabergasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flabergast
flabaghasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flabaghast
flabaghasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flabaghast
flabaghasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flabaghast
flabaghasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flabaghast
unjustice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unjustices
Etymology: From Middle English unjustice, equivalent to un- + justice; compare unjust, injustice.
Senses: examples: text: Thrasymachus is willing to attribute to the unjust man power or virtue, but he isunwilling to identify complete unjustice with wisdom or prudence (phronesis).
ref: 1992, Seth Benardete, Socrates' Second Sailing:
glosses: The lack or absence of justice; injustice.
defaecate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defaecates
form: defaecating
form: defaecated
form: defaecated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of defecate.
defaecator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defaecators
Senses: examples: text: Even the most obdurate defaecator is a bit afraid of messing up a sacred place, and so the painters make the snakes as long as possible.
ref: 1960, Jack Lindsay, The Writing on the Wall: An Account of Pompeii in Its Last Days:
text: Unless required as a valuable male, a persistent poor responder, urinator or defaecator observed during training should be discarded as such birds seldom improve.
ref: 1978, P. E. Lake, J. M. Stewart, Artificial insemination in poultry, →ISBN, page 11:
text: These insects rely heavily on crypsis, and as the black faecal pellets on bright green leaves do indeed serve as conspicuous indications of the presence of the defaecator (students used as 'potential pneumorid predators' soon learnt to use these signs).
ref: 2012, Michael N. Bruton, Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals, →ISBN, page 268:
glosses: Alternative form of defecator.
shut the front door
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: What in the Sam Hill just happened to him? Shut the front door.
ref: 2019, Jumanji: The Next Level:
synonyms: shut the fridge
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: shut the fuck up (usually expressing disbelief)
Related terms: STFU
Internaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Internauts
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of internaut.
cardinalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cardinalizes
form: cardinalizing
form: cardinalized
form: cardinalized
Etymology: From cardinal + -ize.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).
examples: text: It hath been before shewed, by the Judgment of the Cardinalized Jesuit, That the Bishops of Rome have no temporal Possessions at all
ref: 1690, John Overall, Bishop Overall's Convocation-book:
glosses: To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
examples: text: the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and crayfishes, which are cardinalised with boyling
ref: 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.
Derived terms: cardinalization
Related terms: ordinalize
dal segno
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian dal segno (literally “from the sign”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: From the last segno.
Related terms: al segno
coachwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coachwomen
Etymology: From coach + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who drives a horse-drawn coach; a female coach driver.
Related terms: coachman
coach driver
coachwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coachwoman
Alaafin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alaafins
Etymology: From Yoruba Aláàfin.
Senses: glosses: A king of the Oyo Empire.
Alaafins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alaafin
depilant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depilants
Senses: synonyms: depilitant
glosses: A substance used to remove hair from leather being processed.
misliving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English myslyvynge, mislifand, equivalent to mislive + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mislive
misliving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English myslyvinge, equivalent to mis- + living.
Senses: glosses: Sinful living.
royalme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royalmes
form: royame
Etymology: From Middle English roialme, from Anglo-Norman roialme, royaume, Middle French roiaume, roielme et al., probably an alteration of reialme (“realm”) after roial (“royal”).
Senses: examples: text: I have had myn erthly joye; and yf I had founden you now so dysposed, I had caste me to have had you into myn owne royame [...].
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XXI:
glosses: A kingdom, a realm.
cat-sitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cat-sit
Tatarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɑːˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌtɑˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Tatarian
form: most Tatarian
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tartarian.
synonyms: word: Tartarian
Tatarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɑːˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌtɑˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Tatarians
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tartarian.
synonyms: word: Tartarian
Tatarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tatarian
QRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QRAs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of quick reaction alert, a military and NATO term to define a higher state of readiness in which aircraft will become airborne within minutes to intercept and identify unknown aircraft or intercept one that has lost contact with air traffic control.
Related terms: topics: military
war
government
politics
word: QRF
photoheliography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From photo- + heliography.
Senses: examples: text: The difficulties of photoheliography consist principally in the rapidity with which the sun's image acts upon the sensitive film.
ref: 1860, Photographic news for amateur photographers, volumes 3-4, page 113:
text: Difficulties of Photoheliography. — Whilst in lunar and stellar photography many of the obstacles to be overcome arose from the deficiency of photographic power in the unenlarged focal images of those celestial objects, the difficulties which have stood in the way of producing good sun-pictures arose in a great degree from the incomparably greater brilliancy in the sun's image, [...]
ref: 1860, Report of the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, volume 29, page 150:
text: First, that the system of photoheliography, which has for some years been carried on at Kew by the zeal of individuals, and partly maintained by private means, has now been brought to a close.
ref: 1872, Nature, volume 5, page 497:
glosses: Heliography (photography of the sun), especially as undertaken using a photoheliograph.
flappergast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flappergasts
form: flappergasting
form: flappergasted
form: flappergasted
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
flobbergrast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flobbergrasts
form: flobbergrasting
form: flobbergrasted
form: flobbergrasted
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of flabbergast.
flappergasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flappergast
flappergasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flappergast
flappergasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flappergast
flobbergrasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flobbergrast
flobbergrasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flobbergrast
flobbergrasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flobbergrast
flabrigasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flabrigast
flabrigasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flabrigast
flabrigasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flabrigast
IRC's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IRC
waiting move
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waiting moves
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A move that is not tactical except in that it puts the burden to move on the opposing player.
waiting moves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waiting move
sorrowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sorrowy
form: most sorrowy
Etymology: From Middle English sorowy, equivalent to sorrow + -y.
Senses: examples: text: With rev’rence I approach’d a hoary seer,
Who, bending o’er his crutch, seem’d lost in woe,
And many a sigh and many a sorrowy tear,
Spoke plain as words “Ah! whither can I go?”
ref: 1803, “The War-Torn Veteran”, in The Evening Post, reprinted in The Balance,, and Columbian Repository, Volume II, page 216
glosses: Sorrowful.
fractogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fractograms
Etymology: From fracto- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A graph of a detection signal vs. time, derived from a field-flow fractionation process, in which various substances present in a fluid get separated based on their flow velocities under some applied external influence, such as an electric field.
spakely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spakely
form: most spakely
Etymology: From Middle English spakely, spakly, equivalent to spake + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Quickly; speedily; nimbly.
Related terms: spake
psammophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæmˈɒfɪləs/
Forms: form: more psammophilous
form: most psammophilous
Etymology: From psammo- (“sand-”) + -philous.
Senses: examples: text: Psammophilous plants tend to have adaptations to resist damage from wind-blown sand.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Arenophilous; sand-loving.
examples: text: Psammophis, the genus of so-called "sand-snakes", does include several psammophilous species.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Sand-loving.
Related terms: psammophile
Psammophis
dot-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dot-bombs
Etymology: Blend of dot-com + bomb
Senses: glosses: A failed dot-com company or venture.
domestic goddess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domestic goddesses
Senses: glosses: A hearth goddess.
glosses: A skilful female homemaker.
driving test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driving tests
Senses: synonyms: road test
glosses: A test required in order to acquire a driver's licence.
dumb cane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumb canes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dumbcane (Dieffenbachia seguine)
vp
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: With ſence whereof whileſt ſo thy ſoftened ſpirit
Is inly toucht, and humbled with meeke zeale,
Through meditation of his endleſſe merit,
Lift vp thy mind to th’ author of thy weale,
And to his ſoueraine mercie doe appeale;
Learne him to loue, that loued thee ſo deare,
ref: 16th century, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne Of Heavenly Love, section 260
roman: And in thy breſt his bleſſed image beare.
glosses: Obsolete typography of up.
yuck factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yuck factors
Etymology: From yuck + factor.
Senses: examples: text: 2006, R.T. Kendall, Out of Your Comfort Zone: Is Your God Too Nice?
The thesis of this chapter is that God uses “yuck factors” to promote His glory.
text: The “yuck factor” is a deeply ingrained psychological thing.
ref: 2011, Charles Fishman, The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, page 145:
text: But it is just as important not to let the yuck factor foreclose a deeper understanding of what deviant globalization is all about.
ref: 2011, Nils Gilman, Steven Weber, Jesse Goldhammer, Deviant Globalization, page 14
text: Recycled sewer water is opposed by many sanitation agencies due to the yuck factor.
glosses: Disgusting part of the nature of something; facet or tendencies (of a thing, idea, etc) to produce a reaction of repugnance or distaste.
Synonyms: ick factor
Hyponyms: icky
yucky
Vietnamese sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vietnamese sandwiches
Senses: glosses: banh mi
rule of reason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A doctrine in antitrust law which applies to contracts which "unreasonably" inhibit trade.
rule of thirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
broadcasting
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
visual-arts
glosses: A normative rule that an image should be mentally or representationally divided in three horizontally and diagonally, and that the focus of the image should not be in the center of the resulting shape.
rule of recognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A notion of what should "count" as law.
royal walnut moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal walnut moths
Senses: glosses: Citheronia regalis, a type of moth. Its caterpillar is the hickory horned devil
hickory horned devils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hickory horned devil
hickory horned devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hickory horned devils
Senses: glosses: A Citheronia regalis moth in its caterpillar stage.
Roussanne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roussannes
Senses: glosses: A white wine grape grown originally in the Rhône wine region of France.
wine grape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine grapes
form: winegrape
Senses: glosses: Any variety of grape especially suited for winemaking, to be fermented into alcohol; usually, its suitability has been imparted by selective breeding.
glosses: Vitis vinifera, the species of grape most commonly used in wine-making.
Hypernyms: grape
fruit
Coordinate terms: table grape
Related terms: grape wine
phylo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, genus, species”).
Senses: glosses: tribes, races or phyla
glosses: genus, species, when referring to living organisms
neonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːənɪzəm/
Forms: form: neonisms
Etymology: Formed irregularly from the Ancient Greek νέον (néon) (neon: neuter singular form of νέος (néos), neos, “new”) + the English -ism; compare the closely related neo- and neon, as well as the earlier synonym neologism.
Senses: examples: text: Now, it will not be denied that in the present day two great sources of the modification of our language are native slang and American neonism.
ref: 1883, S. Mullen, The Melbourne Review, volume 8, page 204:
text: Blurb is a neonism, a modern manufactured word which appears in only the most recent dictionaries.
ref: 1948, Johnson O'Connor, English Vocabulary Builder, volume 2:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase, a neologism.
Related terms: neo
neon
neologism
neonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neonism
Mauritia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mauritius + -ia, from lying underneath Mauritius.
Senses: glosses: A former microcontinent that once formed the landbridge between the subcontinents of Madagascar and India, which was subducted under the African plate, and now partly lie under the region of Mauritius.
nigun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːˈɡuːn/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈnɪɡən/
Forms: form: niguns
form: nigunim
form: niggun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew נִגּוּן (nigún) probably through Yiddish ניגון (nigun).
Senses: examples: text: The Rebbe approached the bima and before responding, sang a nigun that was filled with intense dveykut.
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 95:
glosses: A type of Ashkenazi Jewish worship song.
disterminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disterminate
form: most disterminate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin disterminātus, perfect passive participle of disterminō (“to divide, separate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: […] there is one and the same Church of Christ, however far disterminate in places, however segregated and infinitely severalized in persons, however differing in rites and circumstances of worship, however squaring in by-opinion.
ref: 1624, Bishop Joseph Hall, “Introductory”, in The Peace-Maker, section 3: "On the Fundamental Points of Religion"; republished in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God Joseph Hall, D.D., volume 8, London: C. Whittingham, 1808, page 49:
glosses: separated, divided
Related terms: determination
term
terminate
terminus
distringas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distringases
Etymology: Latin, that you distrain, from distringere. See distrain.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.
divellent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more divellent
form: most divellent
Etymology: From Latin divellens.
Senses: examples: text: divellent energies
glosses: drawing asunder
divulse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: divulses
form: divulsing
form: divulsed
form: divulsed
Etymology: From Latin dīvulsus (“torn apart”), from Latin dīvellō (“to tear apart”).
Senses: examples: text: The divulsing may be done with the Pratt rectal speculum, or with the fingers or thumbs. The fingers should slip far enough into the bowel to grasp the internal sphincter. The muscle is to be stretched quite sharply and then relaxed, […]
ref: 2005, Dean T. Smith, Homoeopathy Before and After Surgery, page 43:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To pull apart forcibly.
immortalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immortalisations
Etymology: From immortalise + -ation or immortal + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of immortalization.
immortalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immortalisation
lobbyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobbyers
Etymology: From lobby + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As a lobbyer, Lemkin was brilliant. When it came to genocide or the Genocide Convention, he was quick to write long and complicated passages in letters on the law as he saw it in regards to genocide.
ref: 2013, Dominik J. Schaller, Jürgen Zimmerer, The Origins of Genocide: Raphael Lemkin as a Historian of Mass Violence:
glosses: Alternative form of lobbier
Portugals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Portugal
inkhorn term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkhorn terms
Etymology: From inkhorn + term, so coined for their increased usage of ink from their length (i.e. one would need to dip their quill into the inkhorn multiple times in order to completely write the word out).
Senses: examples: text: I knowe them that thynke Rhetorique, to stande wholy vpon darke woordes, and he that can catche an ynke horne terme by the taile, hym thei compt to bee a fine Englishe man, and a good Rhetorician.
ref: 1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique, Book 3, London, page 86b:
text: Vaine boaſters, lyers, make-ſhifts, they are all, / Men that remoued from their inkehorne termes, / Bring forth no action worthie of their bread.
ref: 1592 (first performance), Thomas Nash[e], A Pleasant Comedie, Called Summers Last Will and Testament, imprinted at London: By Simon Stafford, for Walter Burre, published 1600, →OCLC:
text: Constant reading of Greek and Latin bred a race of Holofernes pedants who preferred the Latin or Greek term to the English term. Their principle in writing was to use Latino-Greek polysyllabics in a Latino-English syntax. Their strange vocabulary—studded with what some critics call “inkhorn” terms—eventually affected English so powerfully that no non-Latinate Englishman could ever hope to read many works in his own language unless he was provided with explanations of elements unfamiliar to him.
ref: 1958, Harold Whitehall, “Introduction to Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language”, in Leonard F. Dean, Kenneth G. Wilson, editors, Essays on Language and Usage, 2nd edition, New York: Oxford University Press, published 1963, page 4:
text: The prose of these reviews is lucid, succinct, and graceful; Mr. Prescott avoids what he calls “inkhorn terms,” or involved syntax, or the ideas that might call for these.
ref: 1972 July 16, “The perils and rewards of reviewing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A borrowing from another language thought to be pretentious or unneeded, especially from Latin or Greek.
Synonyms: inkhorn word
inkhornism
Related terms: inkhornish
inkhornism
inkhornize
dormitive principle
Graecism
sesquipedalianism
gangan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gangans
Etymology: From Yoruba gángan.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A talking drum of West Africa.
hewes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hewe
in sha Allah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnʃˈɑ.lə/
Etymology: A transcription of the Arabic إِن شَاءَ اللّٰه (ʔin šāʔa llāh).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of inshallah.
lymphes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphe
masticator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masticators
Senses: examples: text: If we can take the liberty of reducing Govani's clever phrasing and paper-thin beards to plain English, Linda Evangelista is a simpleton, Margaret Atwood is a pretentious bore and Angelina Jolie is a goat-like masticator.
ref: 2009 September 6, Cathal Kelly, “Will a gossip king's invites dry up?”, in Toronto Star:
text: We encourage their singing as much as we can," said the brother of the proprietor, himself a diligent masticator of the weed, who attended us, and politely explained to us the process of making plug tobacco; "we encourage it as much as we can, for the boys work better while singing.
ref: 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller:
glosses: Someone who masticates.
glosses: A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people.
glosses: A machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.
trainwrecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trainwreck
tædious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tædious
form: most tædious
Senses: examples: text: How then ſhould I without another wit :
thinck euer to endure ſo tædious toyle,
ſins that this one is toſt with troublous fit,
ref: 16th century, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti, SONNET. XXXIII.
roman: of a proud loue, that doth my ſpirite ſpoyle.
glosses: Archaic spelling of tedious.
mæander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mæanders
Senses: examples: 19th century, Richard Pococke, Description Of The East, &c., CHAP. XI. — Of Antioch on the Mæander, and Aphrodiſias in Caria.
glosses: Archaic spelling of meander.
uræmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of uremia.
winegrape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winegrapes
Etymology: From wine + grape.
Senses: examples: text: With today's processing techniques, winegrape cultivars may also produce nonalcoholic juices acceptable to consumers' tastes.
ref: 2005, Martha Davis, “Working Abstract 2: Suitability of Winegrapes for Juice Production”, in Scientific Papers and Presentations, Appendix 9, page 294:
text: Growers of winegrapes have found cover crops to be compatible with winegrape growing for several reasons, and the result is that 15–30 percent of them use cover crops.
ref: 2007, Keith Warner, Agroecology in Action: Extending Alternative Agriculture through Social Networks, page 151:
ref: 2007, Phylloxera and Grape Industry Board of South Australia, South Australian Winegrape Utilisation and Pricing Survey:
glosses: Alternative form of wine grape.
long ways, long lies
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: /ˈlɒŋ ˌweɪz ˈlɒŋ ˌlaɪz/
Senses: glosses: Someone who returns from a far-off region can tell lies without fear of being contradicted.
Related terms: a lie has no legs
traveller's tale
nutritionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutritionalists
Etymology: From nutritional + -ist, on same model as nutritionist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nutritionist.
palæstra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palæstræ
Senses: examples: text: 6. The palæſtra, properly ſo called, where they practiſed wreſtling, the pugillate, pancratia, and other exerciſes.
ref: 1808, The New and complete American encyclopedia, Volume IV, John Low, page 245:
glosses: Dated spelling of palaestra.
mainstreet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainstreets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Main Street.
arribada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɑɹɪˈbɑːdə/
Forms: form: arribadas
Etymology: From Spanish arribada.
Senses: examples: text: That this week’s arribada came early illustrates the olive ridley’s unpredictability, said Roldán Valverde, a sea turtle biologist from Southeastern Louisiana University.
ref: 2015 September 25, Nicholas St. Fleur, “Costa Rica to Shield Sea Turtles”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A mass nesting of marine turtles.
claw back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: claws back
form: clawing back
form: clawed back
form: clawed back
Senses: examples: text: I was initially refused a refund, but eventually managed to claw back part of the money.
text: Michael Gove has tried to claw his way back into the race to be Britain’s next prime minister with a pledge to govern for “overlooked families and undervalued communities” – and a series of personal attacks on frontrunner Boris Johnson.
ref: 2019 June 10, Heather Stewart, “Gove reboots Tory leadership bid with attack on Johnson”, in The Guardian:
text: To claw back the Republicans’ current four-seat majority [in the House], Ms. DelBene sees an “incredible opportunity” in the 16 seats now held by Republicans in districts that Mr. Biden won in 2020, as well as seats in the blue states of New York and California.
ref: 2024 May 17, Story Hinckley, “Democrats emphasize ‘authenticity’ to take back the House”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
text: It was rescued by 37263, but the 40-minute delay had been clawed back by the end of the day.
ref: 2024 May 29, “Network News: Severn Valley Railway witnesses bumper crowds for May diesel gala”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 16:
glosses: To recover or retake, with great effort, something that was lost, often by a government or official agency.
click through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clicks through
form: clicking through
form: clicked through
form: clicked through
Senses: glosses: To click on a link in order to move to another page.
Derived terms: word: click-through
word: clickthrough
word: click-thru
word: clickthru
cæremonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Contrariwise, the sacred rites and holy Cæremonies (of Ceres) called Eleusinia, hee attempted to transferre out of the Territorie Attica to Rome.
ref: 1899, Suetonius, translated by Philemon Holland, History of twelve Caesars, volume II, page 81:
glosses: plural of cæremony
rocks along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rock along
rocking along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rock along
rocked along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rock along
wreck havoc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Confusion of common wreck with uncommon wreak, both with similar meanings of destruction and similar etymological origins.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of wreak havoc.
miliaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪliˈɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌmɪliˈɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: miliarias
Senses: glosses: A rash caused by blocked, malfunctioning, or underdeveloped sweat glands.
Synonyms: heat rash
sweat rash
prickly heat
red dog
Derived terms: miliarial
Related terms: vasculitis
sweat rash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: miliaria
Synonyms: heat rash
prickly heat
prickly heat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪk li ˈhit/
Etymology: 1730-40, Americanism.
Senses: examples: text: My poor boy, how the prickly heat has marked your forehead! Have you ever tried sulphate of copper in water?
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 82:
glosses: miliaria
Synonyms: heat rash
sweat rash
præpositor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præpositors
Senses: examples: text: 14. Writ was maintained againſt a corporation by name of Præpoſitori Scolarium Domus Beatæ Mariæ de Oxon. without ſaying Præpoſitor. Scolaribus &c.
ref: 1792, Charles Viner, A general abridgement of law and equity, volume VI, page 299:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of prepositor.
formylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: formylates
form: formylating
form: formylated
form: formylated
Etymology: From formyl + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To introduce a formyl group into a molecule
Related terms: formylation
frumentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɹuː.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌfɹu.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: frumentations
Etymology: From Latin frūmentātiō.
Senses: glosses: The distribution of corn to the people (especially to appease them during agitation for social or political change)
phonologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /fəˈnɒləˌd͡ʒaɪz/
Forms: form: phonologizes
form: phonologizing
form: phonologized
form: phonologized
form: phonologise
Etymology: From phonology + -ize.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To shift to a phonemic status by developing a phonetic feature.
phonologization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fəˌnɒləd͡ʒaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: phonologizations
form: phonologisation
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The development of a phonetic feature into a phonemic one.
Derived terms: rephonologization
transphonologization
foeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English foschip, equivalent to foe + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Foeship was still the note, not friendship, and in order to gain the key not only to the origin of gilds, but to their operations and their development, this must be kept in mind.
ref: 1914, George Laurence Gomme, London, CHAPTER VI, The Institution Of The City, page 155
glosses: Condition of possessing any enemies.
glosses: enmity
lashes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lash out
lashing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lash out
lashed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lash out
dacryphilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdækɹɪˈfɪlɪə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δάκρυ (dákru, “tear”) and φίλος (phílos, “loving”) (or dacry- + -philia).
Senses: examples: text: On registration, the user is prompted to complete a 'fetish list', most of which the average layman would need a BDSM dictionary for: acts such as Dacryphilia, Cupping or Klismaphilia.
ref: 2008, The Library Association of Australia, Archives and Manuscripts: The Journal of the Archives Section - Volume 36, Issues 1-2:
text: Dacryphilia is a non-normative sexual interest that involves enjoyment or arousal from tears and crying, and to date has never been researched empirically.
ref: 2015, Richard Greenhill, Mark D. Griffiths, “Compassion, dominance/submission, and curled lips: A thematic analysis of dacryphilic experience”, in International Journal of Sexual Health, volume 27, number 3:
text: Perhaps dacryphilia, arousal by tears, is nearer to the mark -- certainly in Mandogi's Ghost this seems possible, not least because the text effects a seamless (unwounded) transition between the living Mandogi and (of course) his ghost.
ref: 2016, David Punter, The Gothic Condition: Terror, History and the Psyche, →ISBN:
text: The present study depicts the case of Angela M, a straight Romanian woman in her mid-twenties who has a sexual interest in dacryphilia (ie she derives sexual pleasure and arousal from crying and/or tears).
ref: 2016, Richard Greenhill, Mark D. Griffiths, “Sexual interest as performance, intellect and pathology: A critical discursive case study of dacryphilia”, in Psychology & Sexuality, volume 0:
text: FRANKLIN: I don't know. Listen lady, I don't know what you're into-
VAN HELSING: Asphyxiaphilia, dacryphilia, sadism, masochism, androphilia, necrophilia, ass worship, and just overall full fledge kink, what about you?
ref: 2012, Reginald Edmund, Blacula: Young, Black, and Undead:
glosses: A paraphilia in which one is aroused by tears or sobbing.
Synonyms: dacrylagnia
prælude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præludes
Senses: examples: text: But let me tell you, what you have hitherto ſuffered is but a prælude to what’s to follow.
ref: 1706, S. Whately, transl., The epistles of Phalaris, page 109:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of prelude.
prælude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præludes
form: præluding
form: præluded
form: præluded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of prelude.
safe area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safe areas
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: The area of a television image that is expected to be viewable on all television screens, including old ones that typically crop the borders of the image.
Related terms: overscan
giftee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giftees
Etymology: From gift + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who receives a gift.
Related terms: gifter
giftees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giftee
Dutch book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch books
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
synonyms: lock
glosses: A set of trades or bets such that, regardless of the outcome of events, one party strictly profits and another strictly loses.
Derived terms: Dutch booked
Related terms: dutching
œconomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more œconomic
form: most œconomic
Senses: examples: text: What time ſo favourable to an œconomic plan as under an œconomic viceroy ?
ref: 1790, The Parliamentary register, volume IX, page 286:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of economic.
præludes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As if fames and rumors were the reliques of seditions past; but they are no lesse the præludes of Seditions to come.
ref: Compiled 1858, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, volume VI, page 589
glosses: plural of prælude
præludes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prælude