cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Timmy's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Timmie's
Senses: examples: text: Now to end the past 7 days of hell I have gotten the wrong order at Timmy's!!!!!!
ref: 2001, WANDA BRAUGH, “ATTENTION DRIVE THRU EMPLOYEES”, in ott.singles (Usenet):
text: "Where do you want to go?" "Just down to Timmy's." She felt all Canadian-like, calling the Tim Hortons donut chain by the nickname the locals used.
ref: 2011, Robert J. Sawyer, Wonder:
text: Back in the car, I turned on the cruise control at a safe 110 kilometres an hour and, thanks to Timmy's donuts and coffee, I began to wake up.
ref: 2011, Ron MacLean, Kirstie McLellan Day, Cornered: Hijinks, Highlights, Late Nights and Insights:
glosses: Synonym of Tim Hortons.
synonyms: word: Tim Hortons
Synonyms: Tim Hortons
Related terms: Timmies
Tim's
Gilmanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gilmanian
form: most Gilmanian
Etymology: From Gilman + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: While the representation of the ideal is obvious in Herland and in other works featuring utopian landscapes, the impact of Gilmanian idealism spills over, perhaps more subtly, into much of her short fiction as well.
ref: 1997, Denise D. Knight, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction, page 79:
text: In Gilman's union, acceptance for membership requires an initiation ritual of Gilmanian feminism both for men and women.
ref: 2011, Carolina Núņez Puente, Feminism and Dialogics, page 159:
glosses: Of or relating to Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), American sociologist, feminist, writer, and lecturer for social reform.
dialogics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: dialogic writing and interactions generally
Derived terms: antidialogics
perplexer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perplexers
Etymology: From perplex + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who perplexes.
perplexers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perplexer
perplexions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perplexion
zygons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygon
diversional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diversion + -al.
Senses: examples: diversional activity
glosses: Relating to diversion.
bikinied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bikini + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The bikinied models in most of the ESPN2 shows have abs. Many of the malnourished bikinied models in the commercials have visible rib cages. How did the two get conflated into a shared vision of beauty?
ref: 2006, H. Peter Steeves, The Things Themselves, page 75:
glosses: Wearing a bikini.
gallying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gally
technosexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + sexuality.
Senses: glosses: Sexuality relating to technological objects or themes.
Related terms: technosexual
wildnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wildness
backreferencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backreference
backreferenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backreference
conjurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conjure + -able.
Senses: examples: text: conjurable angels or demons
glosses: Able to be conjured.
unconjured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + conjured.
Senses: glosses: Not conjured.
Ashantee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ashantees
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Ashanti.
Ashantees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ashantee
Ashanti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈʃɑːntiː/
/əˈʃæntiː/
Forms: form: Ashantis
form: Ashanti
form: Asante
form: Ashantee
Etymology: From Twi asànté.
Senses: glosses: A member of a nation and ethnic group of Akan origin, found mainly in Ghana and Ivory Coast.
Ashanti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈʃɑːntiː/
/əˈʃæntiː/
Forms: form: Asante
form: Ashantee
Etymology: From Twi asànté.
Senses: glosses: A region in southern Ghana; in full, Ashanti Region.
Derived terms: Ashanti pepper
Ashantis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ashanti
rebusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebus
derivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derivate
derivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derivate
underteacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underteachers
Etymology: From under- + teacher.
Senses: glosses: A lower-ranking teacher; an assistant teacher.
Related terms: undermaster
underteachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underteacher
underteach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underteaches
form: underteaching
form: undertaught
form: undertaught
Etymology: From under- + teach.
Senses: glosses: To teach too little.
underteaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underteach
underteaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underteach
undertaught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underteach
ectocarpene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pheromone found in several species of brown algae (Phaeophyceae).
pentamethylbenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentamethylbenzenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic hydrocarbon, C₆H(CH₃)₅, obtained by methylation of xylene.
pentamethylbenzenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentamethylbenzene
underways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underway
whoop ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whoops ass
form: whooping ass
form: whooped ass
form: whooped ass
Etymology: From English whoop (variant of whip) + ass.
Senses: examples: text: Back in the day, he turned over some tables when he found out thieves were in God's temple and that's what we're doing now, turning over some tables 'cause we found a violator of the law, and we shall whoop ass and teach him...
ref: 2015, Rhonda Cannon Jones, In the Secret Place of Brooklyn Stone, Volume 1, Publishamerica, →ISBN:
glosses: To beat or strike.
examples: text: I said "Hello Papa," and he said, "Well, I'll be darned, I'm gonna get off of this piano and whoop yo' ass."
ref: 1992 August, “Blues brethren”, in SPIN, volume 8, number 5, SPIN Media, →ISSN, page 55:
glosses: To defeat in a fight.
examples: text: Intel knew the K6-III 450 with its 256k built-in cache would whoop ass on the Pentium II series.
ref: 1999 August, Kevin S., “Intel bounces back”, in Maximum PC, volume 4, number 8, Future US, →ISSN, page 18:
text: I felt not like a football player, but like a man on a couch with a really good view. The players on the bench talked about whooping ass and steroid use and the cheerleaders' tits.
ref: 2006, Charlie LeDuff, US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man, Penguin Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To defeat or excel against (someone) in a competitive event.
azo dyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azo dye
anapaest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæ.nə.piːst/
/ˈæ.nə.pɛst/
Forms: form: anapaests
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anapest.
Derived terms: anapaestical
anapaests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anapaest
blueth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bluːθ/
ipa: /bljuːθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
Forms: form: bluth
Etymology: From blue + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I have long been mortified that for these three years you have seen it only in winter: it is now in the height of its greenth, blueth, gloomth, honey-suckle, and seringahood.
ref: 1754, Horace Walpole, letter, 8 Jun 1754
text: […] where it should appear lightly touched with blue. The bluth of the cheeks should rather be rich than glaring: […]
ref: 1772, The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 3:
text: The sky and the distances, as you looked down the Etschthal, had what in Devonshire is called the "blueth" of Italy.
ref: 1905 April, Catholic World:
text: One sits — a small "one" among twenty thousand — drowned in liquid blueth (there ought to be such a word as blueth, even if there isn't) and drowned also in heavenly floods of music.
ref: 1928, Alice M Williamson, Alice in Movieland:
glosses: The state of being blue; blueness.
asymptotic analyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asymptotic analysis
ergodic theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergodic theories
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The study of the properties of dynamical systems over large timescales.
examples: text: They pointed out that the microscopic ergodic theories of John von Neumann and Eberhard Hopf are not relevant to the problem of ergodic behavior in molecules.
ref: 1994, Ahmed Zewail, Femtochemistry: Ultrafast Dynamics of the Chemical Bond - Volume 1:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a number of different formulations or schools of thought within ergodic theory as a whole.
precultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more precultural
form: most precultural
form: pre-cultural
Etymology: From pre- + cultural.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to human life or society before the development of culture.
Auscam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Australian camouflage.
Senses: glosses: A five-colour military camouflage pattern used by the Australian Defence Force.
Jinnah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu جِناح (jināh), from Gujarati ઝીણા (jhīṇā).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Gujarati, chiefly held by members of the Jinnah Family.
glosses: A surname from Gujarati, chiefly held by members of the Jinnah Family.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, lawyer, politician and the founder of Pakistan.
ASADA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.
poinded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poind
poinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poind
poinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poindings
Senses: glosses: A poind.
Derived terms: multiplepoinding
multipoinding
poincianas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poinciana
fretsawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fretsaw
fretsawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fretsaw
implanters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of implanter
againstism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: againstisms
Etymology: From against + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The new Administration had come in on a tidal wave of angry againstism — against Hoover, against Big Business, against the bankers and the speculators, whom the American people blamed severally and jointly for all their troubles.
ref: 1944, Benjamin Stolberg, Tailor's progress: the story of a famous union and the men who made it ..., Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., page 203:
text: The Republican party in those days was not a party of againstism or negativism.
ref: 1950, Collier's, volume 125, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 9:
text: 'Againstism', it may be thought, is not a quality which would necessarily be welcomed among immigrants.
ref: 1970, Sir Anthony Glyn (bart.), The blood of a Britishman, Hutchinson, page 248:
text: There is a glorious tradition amongst Italian soccer fans of againstism - supporting whoever is playing against the team you hate.
ref: 2007, John Foot, Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer, Nation Books, →ISBN, page 314:
text: The protesters displayed what we might call a vague “againstism”: they were against the “government,” the “system,” “hierarchy,” “lack of opportunities,” and ultimately “consumer society” as a whole.
ref: 2012, Bryan-Paul Frost, “Raymond Aron's Pedagogical Constitution and Pursuit of Liberal Education”, in John Von Heyking, Lee Trepanier, editors, Teaching in an Age of Ideology, Plymouth, United Kingdom: Lexington Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 54:
synonyms: contrarianism
glosses: The perspective or activity of being against something, or of having a contrary demeanor in general; a pattern of repeated opposition or criticism.
againstisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of againstism
Rosebud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rosebuds
Etymology: From rosebud.
Senses: glosses: A member of the most junior division of the Girl Guides Association, now called a Brownie.
glosses: Something similar to the ‘Rosebud’ in the movie Citizen Kane in that it is a mysterious clue which provides profound insight into the character of a person.
Rosebud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From rosebud.
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in Victoria, Australia, named after the wreck of the cargo ship "Rosebud".
glosses: A hamlet in Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wilcox County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Warrick County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A small city in Gasconade County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Rosebud County, Montana, United States, probably named after the Rosebud Creek.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Stokes County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Todd County, South Dakota, United States, situated on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.
glosses: A city in Falls County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A river in Alberta, Canada.
Derived terms: Rosebud County
prisoners' bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: base
prison bars
prison base
prisoner's base
glosses: A playground game in which two teams chase and capture any opponents running from their home area.
Hyponyms: beckons wanted
upset prices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upset price
downdrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of downdraw
downdrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of downdraw
downdrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downdraw
downdraws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downdraw
downdraws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downdraw
poliad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: A nymph inhabiting a city.
tinfoil hattery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tinfoilhattery.
stemposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stempost
quhat
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: certaine quhat he wos
glosses: Obsolete spelling of what.
quhich
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of which.
quhow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of how.
quhen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Quhen he was kyng with crone rygnend
ref: 1420, Andrew of Wyntoun, Macbeth and the Weird Sisters:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of when.
quhere
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of where.
shipkiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipkillers
Etymology: From ship + killer.
Senses: glosses: A vessel or missile capable of destroying ships.
shipkillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipkiller
turn over in one's grave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns over in one's grave
form: turning over in one's grave
form: turned over in one's grave
form: turned over in one's grave
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turn in one's grave.
an army marches on its stomach
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Unknown; first attributed to Frederick the Great, and often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte.
Senses: glosses: You must eat properly if you want to perform tasks well.
wikipedia: Frederick the Great
Napoleon Bonaparte
pewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pew
repew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repews
form: repewing
form: repewed
form: repewed
Etymology: From re- + pew.
Senses: examples: to repew a church
glosses: To furnish with new pews.
repews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repew
repewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repew
repewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repew
affirmest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: affirm + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of affirm
Reptonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛpˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɹəpˈ-/
ipa: /ɹɛpˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɹəpˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Reptonians
Etymology: From Repton + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The writer Roald Dahl was an Old Reptonian.
glosses: A student of Repton School, Derbyshire, England.
Reptonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Reptonian
duvetynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duvetyne
biopath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biopaths
Etymology: From biopathy.
Senses: examples: text: One biopath revealed masked tuberculosis with 14 of 46 patients, while another biopath only revealed this problem in 1 of 12.
ref: 1996, Sarah Cant, Ursula Sharma, Complementary and Alternative Medicines: Knowledge in Practice, page 123:
text: Biopaths like this one were low-rated telepaths whose powers lay in speaking to bodies rather than minds.
ref: 2017, K. Hippolite, The Rocket Girl's Tale, unnumbered page:
text: However, all telepathic biopaths were open to the committee members, who closed their eyes to listen to the sing-song voice of their first alien on planet Orthus.
ref: 2019, Darryl Gopaul, Encyclopedia Library, unnumbered page:
topics: literature
media
parapsychology
pseudoscience
publishing
science-fiction
coordinate_terms: empath
telepath
technopath
glosses: A person with the telepathic ability to manipulate the physiology (e.g. heart rate, breathing or brainwaves) and voluntary motor functions of other people or organisms.
examples: text: We have Osteopaths, biopaths and vitapaths, etc.
ref: 1895 October 26, “Introductory Address”, in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 25, number 17, page 691:
text: Speaking generally , owing to ignorance and poverty of the masses as well as due to cross-currents of thought by and through hakims, vaids, homeopaths, chromopaths, “biopaths” ( twelve tissue remedies ) , hydropaths and quacks, collaboration of the population is hardly to be expected.
ref: 1937, League of Nations Publications - Issues 2-9, page 233:
text: Then I ́m recommended through a good friend working as a Biopath to use a flower remedy called holly.
ref: 2014, Helena Öhrström, Messages of Peace from the Pleiades, page 49:
text: Gudrun Jonsson, Biopath, Reflexologist and author of Gut Reaction
ref: 2015, Dr Ernst Schrott, Dr J. Ramanuja Raju, Stefan Schrott, Marma Therapy, page 1:
glosses: A practitioner of biopathy (holistic medical practice)
examples: text: Thus it was the truth , spoken by a biopath in the disguise of a national hero, which led to basic, new answers, to new truths.
ref: 1953, Wilhelm Reich ·, Wilhelm Reich Biographical Material:
text: I do not .. tell public anything about the burning eyes in a woman body who expected orgastic potency from me the king of orgastic potency in the minds of so many frustrated cranks and biopaths;
ref: 1974, Jerome Greenfield, Wilhelm Reich Vs. the U.S.A., page 43:
text: The phantastic thing about it is that in this 20th century it has become a habit of so-called scientists, instead of looking into a microscope and seeing the blue in the bions and the blood corpuscles, instead of putting cancer patients into orgone accumulators and seeing whether it works or not, they run to biopaths in order to listen to opinions about this work, as if natural functions could be judged by opinions.
ref: 1982, Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Sutherland Neill, Beverley R. Placzek, Record of a Friendship, page 254:
glosses: An adherent of the orgone theory of Wilhelm Reich.
Related terms: biopathy
biopathic
biokinesis
biopath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biopaths
Senses: examples: text: The natural clays in the earth's crust, for instance, tend to adsorb Pu ions from dilute water streams, locking them away from human biopaths.
ref: 1978, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Fossil and Nuclear Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration, Nuclear Waste Management, page 39:
text: Thus, the silvipastoral/agroforestry systems are biologically more complex than other biopaths of using land alone through arable farming or sole grass cropping or tree plantations.
ref: 2004, Alternative Land Use Systems for Sustainable Production, page 324:
text: In contrast, biopaths entirely lead to the formation of liquid and gaseous biofuels through fermentation and anaerobic digestion processes.
ref: 2015, Keikhosro Karimi, Lignocellulose-Based Bioproducts, page 40:
glosses: Synonym of biopathway.
synonyms: word: biopathway
uncouthnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncouthness
Cowellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cowellian
form: most Cowellian
Etymology: From Cowell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Henry Cowell (1897–1965), American composer and musician.
glosses: Of or relating to Simon Cowell (born 1959), British TV personality.
rhythmicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhythmicons
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An early transposable keyboard instrument capable of playing notes in periodic rhythms proportional to the overtone series of a chosen fundamental pitch.
rhythmicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhythmicon
biopaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biopath
gnosticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gnosticizes
form: gnosticizing
form: gnosticized
form: gnosticized
Etymology: From Gnostic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Gnostic.
Derived terms: gnosticizer
gnosticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gnosticize
gnosticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gnosticize
gnosticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gnosticize
pandysautonomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandysautonomias
Etymology: From pan- + dysautonomia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Diffuse autonomic dysfunction affecting several domains of the autonomic nervous system,
pandysautonomias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pandysautonomia
preponderated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preponderate
preponderates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preponderate
malecontented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malecontented
form: most malecontented
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of malcontented.
unbrookable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbrookable
form: most unbrookable
Etymology: From un- + brook + -able; analysable as un- + brookable.
Senses: examples: text: Having keenly felt the degradation of his race, and possibly experienced some outrageous act of injustice, or an unbrookable and unforgivable insult, his flashing eyes are immoveably directed toward the King […]
ref: 1844, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine:
text: The original document was in what is known as Hanno O’Nonhanno’s unbrookable script, that is to say, it showed no signs of punctuation of any sort.
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 123:
glosses: Not to be brooked or borne; intolerable.
Derived terms: unbrookably
steakfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steakfish
Etymology: From steak + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of various firm-textured fish.
sugar scoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar scoops
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A reverse transom which flexes inwardly, usually with swim steps.
rising actions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rising action
-geddon
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛdən/
Forms: form: -ageddon
form: -mageddon
Etymology: Back-formation from Armageddon.
Senses: examples: text: Colorado stood at the brink of an outbreak that another Forest Service entomologist would dub “Beetlegeddon.”
ref: 2012, Michael Lanza, Before They're Gone: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks, page 104:
text: Every year, I start with such good intentions. Then comes 'Tomatogeddon'. Horticultural humiliation. But together, we shall learn how to grow respectable, prolific tomato plants.
ref: 2017, Hollie Newton, How to Grow: A Guide for Gardeners Who Can't Garden Yet, page 169:
text: Fears grow of ‘potatogeddon’ after up to 30% of the crop are hit by heavy rains blamed on climate change
ref: 2017 October 16, Eleanor Ainge Roy, “Chipocalypse: potato shortage in New Zealand sparks crisp crisis”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Indicating a disastrous or cataclysmic event or situation involving the referenced person or thing.
Related terms: -pocalypse
Zarfian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zarfian
form: most Zarfian
Etymology: Zarf + -ian
Senses: examples: text: This "game" is obviously an elaborate Rorschach test administered to the unsuspecting denizens of rec.*.if, whose reactions have no doubt been tabulated and incorporated into some sinister Zarfian plot - to what dark end, I shudder to imagine.
ref: 1997, Kory Heath, “So Far - One Lousy Point”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet):
text: Zarfian surrealism without Zarfian skill or subtlety. Beats reader over the head a bit with emotions.
ref: 1998, Jake Wildstrom, “[COMP '98] Reviews (Feel free to hate me for them...)”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet):
text: The “Zarfian Cruelty Scale” rates games as Merciful, Polite, Tough, Nasty, or Cruel. The scale describes how works of IF become unwinnable, especially how and when the interactor (here a player, and one trying to win) learns this.
ref: 2007, Jeremy Douglass, Command Lines, page 88:
glosses: Of or relating to Andrew Plotkin ("Zarf", born 1970), a writer and critic of interactive fiction.
-mageddon
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: text: The North Island's spudmageddon would not impact supply to supermarket customers in the South, he said.
ref: 2014 December 1, Collette Devlin, “Potato shortage ripples through North Island”, in Stuff.co.nz:
ref: 2018 May 31, Dan Zakreski, “'Elmageddon' hits Saskatoon and Regina as trees dump massive volume of seeds”, in CBC.ca:
text: Last year may not have brought the upstate Tickmageddon that some had predicted, but state researchers found plentiful ticks in the field last summer and fall — and more ticks equals more disease.
ref: 2018 August 23, “Lyme diseases cases spiked by 50 percent in Dutchess in 2017”, in Poughkeepsie Journal:
glosses: Alternative form of -geddon.
Related terms: -pocalypse
have one's head read
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's head read
form: having one's head read
form: had one's head read
form: had one's head read
Senses: examples: text: He told the police that he went to a couple of "phrenologists" to have his head read with the idea of getting rid of the pain in his stomach.
ref: 1931 January 1, “Pain stays in head after $8,500 "cure"”, in Deseret News, retrieved 29 Apr 2013, page 3:
text: In the summer of 1849, Walt Whitman walked into an office on Nassau Street in Manhattan to have his head read. Lorenzo Niles Fowler, a phrenologist, palpated 35 areas on both sides of the skull corresponding to emotional or intellectual capacities in the brain.
ref: 2005 January 26, William Grimes, “The Brain: False Assumptions and Cruel Operations”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Apr 2013:
glosses: To have the bumps, indentations, and shape of one's skull examined and interpreted by a phrenologist.
examples: text: "A guy who thinks he gets smart in this horse-race game oughta have his head read."
ref: 1957 January 30, Pete Pederson, “Spinney's Win Baffles Turf Experts”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 29 Apr 2013, page C4:
text: She is not crazy so don't tell me to take her to a doctor to have her head read.
ref: 1959 March 22, “Dear Abby: It's Bird-Bee Time”, in Milwaukee Sentinel, retrieved 29 Apr 2013, page 4D:
text: Mr Gibbs says those who think Mr Obama is like George W Bush need to “have their heads read”.
ref: 2010 August 16, Tony Karon, “Bush left the White House but what else has changed?”, in lebanonwire.com, retrieved 29 Apr 2013:
synonyms: have one's head examined
glosses: To have one's mental health assessed, to receive a psychiatric examination.
Related terms: read someone's mind
collectomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From collect + -o- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Only one thing could be considered and attributed: Leah's collectomania that grew to fanatic proportions after marriage.
ref: 1993, Carl Muller, The Jam Fruit Tree, page 126:
text: Dreiser 's naturalism textually mimics capitalism's collectomania and fetishistic obsession with material objects and facts [...].
ref: 1994, Irene Gammel, Sexualizing Power in Naturalism, page 181:
text: The apparent absence of selection criteria in Warhol's collectomania was also a characteristic of 'Raid the Icebox I', the touring show that he curated in 1969 at the Institute for the Arts in Houston [...].
ref: 2007, Anna Dezeuze, “Unpacking Joseph Cornell”, in Joseph Cornell: Opening The Box, page 223:
glosses: An obsessive desire to collect things.
Synonyms: collectionitis
shell shocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shell shock
shell shocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shell shock
shell shocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shell shock
collectionitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From collection + -itis. Compare French collectionnite.
Senses: examples: text: His answer was one which, with appropriate variations, might have been given by any one of those who, like himself, have been willing sufferers from some form of collectionitis.
ref: 1944, Douglas & Elizabeth Rigby, Lock, Stock and Barrel, page 317:
text: Collectionitis strikes in the most unexpected quarters: it has metamorphosed a butcher into an expert on ancient porcelain and a cab driver into an Orientalist.
ref: 1960, Harper's Magazine, volume 220:
text: With his passion for collecting, Hartwig had formed a habit that is peculiar to those who suffer from ‘collectionitis’: the belief that he alone had the right to talk about a vase that he owned, even after he had parted with it.
ref: 2001, Philippe Rouet, translated by Liz Nash, Approaches to the study of Attic vases: Beazley and Pottier, page 33:
glosses: An obsessive desire to collect things; collectomania.
ARPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑɹ.pə/
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of Advanced Research Projects Agency, renamed to DARPA in 1972.
qualifier: navigation
glosses: Initialism of Automatic Radar Plotting Aid.
examples: text: This reverses the ARPA provision that lowered the reporting threshold to $600 with no minimum on the number of transactions.
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 26:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Acronym of American Rescue Plan Act.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Association for Reformed Political Action.
Derived terms: ARPAbet
ARPANET
Related terms: ARPA-E
crime passionnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹiːmˌpasjəˈnɛl/
Forms: form: crimes passionnels
form: crime passionel
Etymology: Borrowed from French crime passionnel.
Senses: examples: text: If, as she hinted, Dr Serrou had spent the night with Bachelet, the inexplicable brainstorm might have stemmed from a crime passionel.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 50:
text: Stalking, a kind of crime passionnel, confuses our sympathies: how do you feel about someone who loves you but wants to ‘ruin’ you; who massages your ego as she damages your career [...]?
ref: 2013, Nick Richardson, “Internet-Enabled”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 8:
glosses: A crime of passion, especially a murder committed from motives of jealousy.
Geg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gheg.
ARPANET
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɹ.pəˌnɛt/
Forms: form: ARPANET
form: the ARPANET
form: ARPAnet
Etymology: From earlier ARPA (“Advanced Research Projects Agency”) with net for network.
Senses: examples: text: ARPANET went online in September, 1969, and connected four computers located in California and Utah.
ref: 2001, Bryan Pfaffenberger, Computers in Your Future, Pearson College Division, →ISBN, page 267:
text: The ARPANET was especially important to the Internet project, and was often called the backbone network because it was the central WAN that tied researchers together.
ref: 2007, Douglas Comer, The Internet Book […] , Prentice Hall, →ISBN:
text: It allowed the ARPANET, a single network, to develop into the Internet—an internetwork of hundreds of thousands of networks.
ref: 2009, John Cassidy, Dot.Con […] , Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 17:
topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
glosses: Initialism of Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, the world's first operational packet-switching network.
Related terms: Internet
Mithridates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪθrɪˈdeɪtiːz/
rhymes: -eɪtiz
Etymology: From Latin Mithridātēs, from Ancient Greek Μιθριδάτης (Mithridátēs), from Old Persian *Miθradātah.
Senses: glosses: a male given name popularized in Achaemenid and post-Achaemenid Persia
glosses: a male given name popularized in Achaemenid and post-Achaemenid Persia
Name of several kings in the Mithridatid dynasty of Pontus and the Arsacid dynasty of Parthia.
Derived terms: mithridatism
mithridatize
mithridatization
Related terms: Mehrdad
Meredates
Mihrdat
Milad
Mithra
Mithradates
Mithradatkirt
Mithredath
mithridatic
mithridatically
mithridate
Mithridatic
mithridaticon
Mithridatid
mithridatium
mithridatum
open-endedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more open-endedly
form: most open-endedly
Etymology: From open-ended + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It’s a huge all-encompassing environmental force, determining the lives of everyone, open-endedly.
ref: 2013, John Lancaster, “When did you get hooked?”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 7:
glosses: In an open-ended manner; indefinitely; freely.
May–December
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: May-to-December
form: May and December
Etymology: From the lyrics to the song September Song, by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson, first published in 1938, about such a relationship, which includes the line It's a long, long time from May to December.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever fantasy you can’t act out in real life can be fulfilled in fan fiction. May-December relationships are very popular, as are boys transforming into girls.
ref: 2013, Katherine Arcement, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 5:
text: One of the appeals of May/December relationships in fiction, for me, is that gulf of understanding between partners whose life experiences will never share the same footing at the same time, and the frustrations and desires that come with trying to bridge that gulf.
ref: 2024, Blue Delliquanti, Adversary, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to a relationship in which one person is much older than the other.
wikipedia: September Song
Synonyms: May–September
Derived terms: May–December romance
May–December marriage
Related terms: autumn romance
December bride
K/S
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪˈɛs/
Etymology: Initialism from the names of James T. Kirk and Spock, separated by a slash (/).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
synonyms: word: Spirk
hypernyms: slash fiction
glosses: Fan fiction where the characters James T. Kirk and Spock from the science fiction media franchise Star Trek are shown in a homosexual relationship.
wikipedia: James T. Kirk
Spock
fleshlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fleshly: more fleshly
fleshliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fleshly: most fleshly
heautoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heautoscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to heautoscopy.
heautoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἑαυτοῦ (heautoû, “itself”) + -scopy.
Senses: examples: text: Heautoscopy may occur as a symptom in schizophrenia and epilepsy.
glosses: A hallucination in which one sees one's own body from a distance.
Derived terms: heautoscopic
unmindfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unmindful + -ness.
Senses: antonyms: word: mindfulness
word: distraction
word: distractedness
word: harriedness
word: heedlessness
word: inattentiveness
word: mindlessness
word: obliviousness
word: preoccupation
word: nonsentience
word: thoughtlessness
word: unalertness
word: unattentiveness
word: unawareness
word: unconsciousness
word: unmindfulness
word: worry
glosses: The quality of being unmindful.
undisparaging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undisparaging
form: most undisparaging
Etymology: From un- + disparaging.
Senses: glosses: Not disparaging.
narcotist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcotists
Senses: synonyms: druggie
glosses: One who is addicted to a narcotic drug.
narcotists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narcotist
fishweir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishweirs
Etymology: From Middle English fysshwere, from Old English fisċwēr; equivalent to fish + weir.
Senses: examples: text: A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An obstruction placed in tidal waters, or wholly or partially across a river, to trap fish or hinder their passage.
fishweirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishweir
morning suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morning suit
zygomaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
Etymology: Blend of zygo(ma) + maxillary
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the cheekbone and maxilla (upper jawbone).
frontozygomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætɪk
Etymology: From fronto- + zygomatic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: zygomaticofrontal
complanadines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complanadine
lycodines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lycodine
skyling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skylings
Etymology: From sky + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Our actor is either one whose ambitions lead him to hitch his wagon to a star and scorn all sublunary things, or one stolidly content to please — not the aristocratic groundlings, but the skylings.
ref: 1899, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine ... - Volume 26 - Page 124:
text: For the first time I realised with amazing clearness that the sky was no blue expanse overhead but an abyss . . . and that we live in that sky stuck to a speck, the earth, and ought really to be called skylings, not earthlings. Miserable skylings!
ref: 1962, Clifton Reginald Walker, Destination: Amaltheia - Page 60:
text: A Skyling suddenly swooped down and snatched Starz right off the ground and flew off.
ref: 2006, Craig E. Waid, The Misadventures of M.a.d.s.: Lightspeed - Page 66:
hyponyms: skymaiden
glosses: A being from the sky or heavens.
skylings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skyling
failable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more failable
form: most failable
Etymology: From fail + -able.
Senses: examples: text: He must not depend on any thing that is failable; for what shall he do then, when that stock is spent, and he hath no provision left to live upon?
ref: 1682, John Flavel, Preparations for Sufferings, or the Best Work in the Worst Times:
glosses: Capable of failing or becoming exhausted.
Related terms: fallible
wersh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wersher
form: wershest
form: warsh
form: werche
Etymology: From a reduced form of wearish.
Senses: glosses: Insipid; tasteless; delicate; having a pale and sickly look.
wearishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wearish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Insipidity.
pasteable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paste + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This is central command. It's a brand room where ideas flow all over the place. Four walls are best. Windowless is great. Have every wall tapeable, pasteable, stickable, writeable—you get the picture.
ref: 2010, Paul Kurnit, Steve Lance, Breakthrough!, page 66:
text: When the program is first turned on, all menu items are greyed out if there is not pasteable content available from another program.
ref: 2011, Jessamyn C. West, Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, page 125:
glosses: Capable of being pasted, or pasted on.
Related terms: copy-pasteable
cyclopentanoperhydrophenanthrenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclopentanoperhydrophenanthrene
Dantzic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Gdańsk.
gambooge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Gamboge is one of the firſt yellows, which may be made to produce five or six ſorts of Green with verdegreaſe, according as the gambooge is in the greater or leſſer proportion; if it abounds, it will make a tolerable oak green, and being mixt with a greater quantity of verdegreaſe, it will make a fine graſs Green.
ref: 1735, [John Barrow], “GREENS”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume I (A–H), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of gamboge.
gambooge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gambooge
form: most gambooge
Senses: examples: text: The cab stopped, and out jumped a man in a coarse Petersham great coat, whitey-brown neckerchief, faded black suit, gambooge-coloured top-boots, and one of those large crowned hats, formerly seldom met with, but now very generally patronised by gentlemen and costermongers.
ref: 1835 January, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle. Chapter the Second.”, in The Monthly Magazine, or British Register of Literature, Sciences, and the Belles-lettres, volume I (New Series), number 1, London: Published by James Cochrane and Co., Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall, →OCLC, page 121:
text: Beg your pardon, Sir, but this here officer o' yourn in the gambooge tops, 'ull never earn a decent livin' as a master o' the ceremonies any vere.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Showing, among a Variety of Pleasant Matters, how Majestic and Impartial Mr. Nupkins was; and how Mr. Weller Returned Mr. Job Trotter’s Shuttlecock, as Heavily as It Came. With Another Matter, which will be Found in Its Place.”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 256:
text: [W]e can see, about a hundred yards behind, the dilapidated house: old, still yellowish—"gambooge coloured," [Charles] Lamb called it—two-storeyed, with tall, rickety windows.
ref: 1884 January, Percy Fitzgerald, “Sentimental Journeys in London: Old Houses”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume XXXIV, London: Tinsley Brothers, 8, Catherine Street, Strand, W.C., →OCLC, part the third, page 80:
glosses: Archaic form of gamboge.
bonneting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bonnet
bonneting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonnetings
Senses: examples: text: It is quite true that the yells and shrieks, the bonnetings and ticklings, the hat throwing and fighting, give way for the instant to an intense desire to behold the sight, and the immense concourse was momentarily hushed in the depth of its excitement […]
ref: 1998, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 31, page 290:
glosses: The act of a person being bonneted, i.e. having their cap pulled down over their head.
Hookey Walker
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: Hooky Walker
Etymology: UK early 19th century. Etymology unknown.
Senses: glosses: Expressing scornful rejection or disbelief.
Synonyms: fiddlesticks
pull the other one
Walker
bullshit
Derived terms: Walker
wit-cracking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wit-cracking
form: most wit-cracking
Senses: examples: text: another wit-cracking divine, then well known in Penzance
ref: 1870, William Bottrell, Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, page 166:
glosses: Wisecracking; making jokes or witty comments.
wit-crackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wit-cracker
bedouinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bedouin + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Nomadic desert life, like that of the bedouins.
haulms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haulm
symblepharon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪmˈblɛf.ə.ɹɑn/
Forms: form: symblepharons
form: symblephara
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συμ- (sum-) (variant of συν- (sun-), from σύν (sún, “with, in company with, together with”)) + βλέφαρον (blépharon, “eyelid”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A partial or complete adhesion of the eyelid to the eyeball.
sisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sist
sisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sist
symblepharons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symblepharon
symblephara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symblepharon