cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Paducah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈduːkə/
rhymes: -uːkə
Forms: form: Padouca
form: Paduca
Etymology: From Spanish Padoucas, from Dhegihan Pádoka or Pádoⁿka (“Comanche”).
Senses: glosses: The Comanche tribe.
glosses: A city, the county seat of McCracken County, in western Kentucky, named for the Comanches.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Cottle County, in northern Texas, named for the Kentucky city.
Paducah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈduːkə/
rhymes: -uːkə
Forms: form: Paducahs
form: Padouca
form: Paduca
Etymology: From Spanish Padoucas, from Dhegihan Pádoka or Pádoⁿka (“Comanche”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the Comanche people.
Paducahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paducah
ornithoscelidan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɔː(ɹ)nɪθəˈsɛlɪdən/
Forms: form: ornithoscelidans
Etymology: From translingual Ornithoscelida + -an.
Senses: examples: text: comparing the pelvis and hind limb of the ornithoscelidan with that of the crocodile[…]
ref: 1893, Thomas Henry Huxley, Science and Hebrew tradition:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Dinosauria, formerly known as Ornithoscelida.
maqui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Chilean Spanish maqui, from Mapudungun.
Senses: examples: text: But based on independent laboratory tests, maqui berry is not nearly as strong an antioxidant as açai.
ref: 2011, Alexander G. Schauss, Açaí: An Extraordinary Antioxidant-Rich Palm Fruit from the Amazon, 3rd edition, page 136:
text: Maqui berry (Aristotelia chilensis), also known as Chilean blackberry, is an edible berry that grows wild in central and southern Chile. A standardized anthocyanin rich formulation from Maqui berry (Aristotelia chilensis) administered at a dose of 500 mg/kg decreased fasting blood glucose and improved glucose tolerance in hyperglycemic C57/Bl6J mice fed a HF diet (Rojo et al. 2012).
ref: 2013, Diana E. Roopchand, Leonel E. Rojo, David Ribnicky, Ilya Raskin, “7: Anthocyanins and Metabolic Syndrome”, in Taylor C. Wallace, M. Monica Giusti, editors, Anthocyanins in Health and Disease, page 208:
text: Maqui is another strong antioxidant, this time coming from southern Chile.
ref: 2016, Doreen Virtue, Robert Reeves, Nutrition for Intuition, unnumbered page:
synonyms: Chilean blackberry
Chilean wineberry
glosses: A South American shrub (Aristotelia chilensis) native to the Valdivian temperate rainforest ecoregion of Chile and southern Argentina.
glosses: The edible berry of this shrub.
glosses: Misspelling of maquis (“Mediterranean coastal scrub”).
tibrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tibries
Senses: glosses: A fish, the pollock.
signiories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signiory
signiory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signiories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seigniory.
predecessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Senses: examples: text: our predecessive students
ref: 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Philip Massinger, The Old Law:
synonyms: antecedent#Adjective
precedent#Adjective
antonyms: successive
glosses: Going before; preceding.
Related terms: deceased
predecessor
pestiduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛstidʌkt/
Forms: form: pestiducts
Etymology: From Latin pestis (“pest”) + ductus (“a leading”), from ducere (“to lead”).
Senses: examples: text: It [sickness] is an excuſe to them that are great, and pretend, & yet are loth to come; it is an inhibition to thoſe vvho vvould truly come, becauſe they may be made inſtruments, and peſtiducts, to the infectiõ [infection] of others, by their cõming.
ref: 1624, John Donne, “5. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 94:
glosses: That which conveys contagion or infection.
pestiducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pestiduct
penduline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pendulines
Etymology: From French penduline. See pendulum.
Senses: examples: text: The pendulines had hung their white nests / To the reeds and willows;
ref: 1867 December, Frédéric Mistral, “Canto VII”, in An English Version […] of Mr Frédéric Mistral's Mirèio […], Avignon, page 154:
glosses: A penduline tit.
penduline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penduline
form: most penduline
Etymology: From French penduline. See pendulum.
Senses: examples: text: It is their nests that are penduline, intricate hanging baskets of plant down and animal hair.
ref: 2007 November 24, Simon Barnes, “A Crisp morning, ready salted”, in The Times:
glosses: Hanging, pendulous.
raw_tags: of a bird's nest
pendulines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penduline
phonascetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φωνασκέω (phōnaskéō, “to practise the voice”), from φωνή (phōnḗ) + ἀσκέω (askéō).
Senses: glosses: treatment for restoring or improving the voice
stereochromically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stereochromic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of stereochromy.
campanulaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more campanulaceous
form: most campanulaceous
Etymology: Campanulaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling the Campanulaceae, a family of plants including the harebell.
philosophying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of philosophy
philosophied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of philosophy
caryophyllin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of caryophyllene.
ens entium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ens (“being”) + entium (“of beings”). Compare ens.
Senses: examples: text: Pythagoras shadowed the truth somewhat neerer, judgeing that the knowledge of this first cause and Ens entium must be undefined, without any prescription or declaration.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: That there exists a superior Ens Entium that form'd [this] wonderful created World is a mathematical Demonstration. That He influences things by a particular Providence is not so evident.
ref: 1754, Erasmus Darwin, letter, November
text: In the absence of revelation, however, the God of metaphysics and natural theology is itself an abstraction, a mere ens entium, in any case, as Heidegger rightly observes, not the kind of God before whom one can ‘make music or dance.’
ref: 2009, John R Betz, After Enlightenment, Wiley-Blackwell, published 2012, page 328:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The ‘being of beings’; God.
circumpass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: circumpasses
form: circumpassing
form: circumpassed
form: circumpassed
Etymology: From circum- + pass.
Senses: examples: text: Pythagoras hath made God, a spirit dispersed through the Nature of all things, whence our soules are derived. Parmenides, a Circle circumpassing [translating entournant] the heavens, and by the heat of light maintaining the world.
ref: , II.12
glosses: To go around; to span.
circumpassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circumpass
circumpasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of circumpass
circumpassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circumpass
transchange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transchanges
form: transchanging
form: transchanged
form: transchanged
Etymology: From trans- + change.
Senses: examples: text: Heraclides Ponticus […] depriveth God of sense, and maks him remove and transchange himselfe from one form to another; and then saith, that is both heaven and earth.
ref: , II.12
glosses: To transform, transmute.
Exocet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.səʊ.seɪ/
Forms: form: Exocets
Etymology: From French Exocet, from exocet (“flying fish”).
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A French antiship missile.
sans-culottism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sans-culottisms
form: sansculottism
Etymology: French sans-culottisme.
Senses: glosses: Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.
Related terms: sans-culotte
sans-culottic
sans-culottisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sans-culottism
stational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin stationalis: compare French stationnale.
Senses: examples: text: stational church
text: stational liturgy
text: stational worship
topics: Christianity
glosses: Of or relating to a station.
chaetopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaetopods
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Chaetopoda, an obsolete invertebrate phylum (more or less equivalent to the modern Annelida) made up of groups characterized by lateral bundles of bristles called chaetae used for locomotion.
chaetopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaetopod
sensualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sensual + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sensual; sensuality.
paviour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paviours
Senses: examples: text: The ground beneath her feet is extraordinarily smooth, as near as cobble-stones can get to parquetry; she imagines an army of paviours patiently completing it like a jigsaw puzzle while the placid citizens look on.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 238:
glosses: Alternative form of pavior.
lyme grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyme grasses
Senses: glosses: Leymus arenarius, a coarse perennial grass.
buck-basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buck-baskets
Senses: examples: text: Falstaff. […] they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
Ford. A buck-basket!
Falstaff. By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
text: Iane, let the Buck-basket be got ready for the foul-cloaths, de’e hear, and bid the Landress take care to mend all the shifts; these great Ramping-girles do so tear their Linnen, it almost makes me wilde.
ref: 1691, Thomas d’Urfey, Love for Money, or, The Boarding School, London: J. Hindmarsh, act II, scene 2, page 21:
glosses: A basket in which clothes are carried to be washed.
overlash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈlæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: overlashes
form: overlashing
form: overlashed
form: overlashed
Etymology: From over- + lash. Compare dialectal English lash (“extravagant”), lashing (“lavish”).
Senses: glosses: To physically tie additional wires or cables to those that are already attached to a utility pole, accommodating any additional strands of fiber or coaxial cable on existing pole attachments
examples: text: to overlash in phrases
translation: to exaggerate
english: to exaggerate
glosses: To carry to excess.
examples: text: it being well known , that they in their encomiastic speeches , as orators are wont , following the heat and gaiety of fancy , do sometimes overlash
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: To exaggerate.
overlashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overlash
overlashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overlash
brachiolaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɹæki.əʊˈlɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌbɹæki.oʊˈlɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: brachiolarias
Etymology: From Latin brachiolum, diminutive of brachium (“arm”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The second stage of larval development in many sea stars, following the bipinnaria
Related terms: brachiolarian
brachiolarias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brachiolaria
carnified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: All flesh is grasse, is not onely metaphorically, but literally true, for all those creatures we behold, are but the hearbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in our selves.
ref: 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:
glosses: simple past and past participle of carnify
carnifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carnify
carnify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carnifies
form: carnifying
form: carnified
form: carnified
Etymology: From Latin carnificare, from Latin carnis (“flesh”) + facere (“to make”). Compare French carnifier.
Senses: examples: text: The Soul […] digests , sanguifies , carnifies , excerns and doth all those Involuntary operations by it influence and presence
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: To form flesh; to become like flesh.
Derived terms: carnification
recarnify
carnifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carnify
pumy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːmi/
Forms: form: more pumy
form: most pumy
Etymology: Compare dialectal English pummer (“big, large”), and pomey (“pommel”).
Senses: examples: text: A gentle streame, whose murmuring waue did play / Emongst the pumy stones
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30:
glosses: large and rounded
pumy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːmi/
Forms: form: pumies
Etymology: Compare dialectal English pummer (“big, large”), and pomey (“pommel”).
Senses: examples: text: From bough to bough he lepped light ,
And oft the pumies latched
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “March. Ægloga Tertia.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: pebble; stone
Derived terms: pumy stone
lymegrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lyme grass.
spoutfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoutfishes
form: spoutfish
Etymology: From spout + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of marine animals that spout water; especially certain bivalve mollusks that squirt out water when retiring into their holes, for example, the thick shelled river mussel (Unio crassus).
spoutfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoutfish
argillitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more argillitic
form: most argillitic
Etymology: From argillite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or containing, argillite.
Typhoean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Typhoean
form: most Typhoean
Etymology: From Latin Typhoius, from Typhoeus.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Typhon (also called Typhoeus), a hundred-headed giant in Ancient Greek mythology.
Synonyms: Typhonian
colicroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colicroots
Etymology: From colic + root.
Senses: glosses: A bitter American herb of the bloodwort family (Haemodoraceae), with small yellow or white flowers in a long spike.
glosses: Any of several other plants with bitter roots.
Aletris spp. (crow corn)
glosses: Any of several other plants with bitter roots.
Apocynum androsaemifolium (flytrap dogbane)
glosses: Any of several other plants with bitter roots.
Asarum canadense (wild ginger)
glosses: Any of several other plants with bitter roots.
Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly milkweed)
glosses: Any of several other plants with bitter roots.
Dioscorea villosa (Chinaroot, wild yam)
glosses: Any of several other plants with bitter roots.
Liatris squarrosa (scaly blazingstar)
colicroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colicroot
spermatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spermatoid
form: most spermatoid
Etymology: From spermato- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: spermatoid development
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling sperm or semen.
spermatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatoids
Etymology: From spermato- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Something resembling a sperm
soberize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soberizes
form: soberizing
form: soberized
form: soberized
Etymology: From sober + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he instant I beheld her, I was soberized into awe and reverence […].
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make sober.
Synonyms: sober
soberized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soberize
soberizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soberize
soberizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soberize
conceptionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptionalists
Etymology: From conceptional + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A conceptualist.
conceptionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conceptionalist
conceptacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conceptacle
enhoney
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enhoneys
form: enhoneying
form: enhoneyed
form: enhoneyed
Etymology: From en- + honey.
Senses: examples: text: I well perceive they are but scoffers, which sute and apply themselves unto our foolishnesse, thereby to enhonny [translating emmieler] and allure us to these opinions and hopes fitting our mortall appetite.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: A high price to one so afflicted is a temptation and peril; it enhoneys and allures, inflames him with renewed madness for possession.
ref: 1950, Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, Illinois, published 2001, page 551:
glosses: To sweeten (figuratively); to entice, allure.
enhoneys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enhoney
worldbuilder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worldbuilders
Etymology: From world + builder.
Senses: examples: text: Many mistake my approach as hostile to the sacrosanct memory of J. R. R. Tolkien, undoubtedly one of the greatest worldbuilders of the 20th century and indirectly the father of both a literary and a gaming genre.
ref: 2001, Neal Hallford, Jana Hallford, Swords and circuitry: a designer's guide to computer role playing games, page 207:
text: We are weary of theoretical worldbuilders who strive to construct logical designs that weave together all components of the social fabric.
ref: 1989, Stanford M. Lyman, Marvin B. Scott, A Sociology of the Absurd:
glosses: One who constructs a world, especially a convincing fictional world for literature etc.
worldbuilders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worldbuilder
tom yum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tom yam.
corradiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corradiate
imagable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of imageable.
adusted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [T]he ſame Sun which only cheriſheth and gently warmes his Countrey men, halfe parboyle and tanne other people, and thoſe rayes which ſcorch the aduſted ſoyles of Calabria and Spaine, only varniſh and guild the green hony-ſuckled plaines and hillocks of England; […]
ref: 1642, James Howell, “Section XVII”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, Instructions for Forreine Travell. […] (English Reprints; 16), London: [Alex. Murray & Son, 15 June 1869], →OCLC, pages 74–75:
glosses: Adust, burnt.
scillain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Scilla + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.
Related terms: scillitin
smouldry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smouldry
form: most smouldry
Etymology: From smoulder + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A flaming fire ymixt with smouldry smoke
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: smouldering
might could
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: In many Germanic languages and dialects modals can be stacked to combine their meanings; compare Scots micht cud.
Senses: examples: text: "Grammaw, Mr. Hammer said today you know things you won't talk about. That if he knew more about what's goin' on he might could go to the police, or to a lawyer, and maybe have Dunreith Smith arrested again."
ref: 1972-1991, Cyrus Colter, The Rivers of Eros →ISBN, page 133 http://books.google.com/books?id=MY6J8etc8jAC&lpg=PA133&dq=%22he%20might%20could%20go%22&pg=PR6#v=onepage&q=%22he%20might%20could%20go%22&f=false
text: "He might could go there anyway and stay on academic probation for a year and then start running, but they won't accept him if he don't have a high school diploma."
ref: 2002-3, Michael Johnston, In the Deep Heart's Core →ISBN, page 172 http://books.google.com/books?id=_rqWu8NTKBsC&lpg=PA172&dq=%22he%20might%20could%20go%22&pg=PA172#v=onepage&q=%22he%20might%20could%20go%22&f=false
qualifier: double modal / stacked modal
glosses: might be able to (used to soften "could" or make it even more conditional)
raw_tags: used in some dialects
Related terms: might can
might should
double modal
stacked modal
modal stacking
double modal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double modals
Senses: examples: text: The first instances of double modals date back to the seventeenth century.
ref: 2019, Irina S. Lebedeva, Svetlana N. Orlova, “Semantics and pragmatics of the double modal ‘might could’”, in Training, Language and Culture, volume 3, number 2, →DOI:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A sequence of two modal verbs, such as "might could", an impossible construction in standard English, but one used in some dialects, especially Southern US English.
Synonyms: stacked modal
Related terms: modal stacking
stacked modal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stacked modals
Etymology: From modal stacking.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:stacked modal.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A double modal (or, rarely, any string of multiple modals, e.g. a triple modal).
double modals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double modal
modal stacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of double or stacked modals (or, rarely, triple modals), a phenomenon found in some dialects of English, especially Southern US English.
might should
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I've noticed how my knees, lower back, neck, and temples hurt pretty much continuously. I'm thinking that I might should go back to my old midmorning ways, pop those Vienna tops more often, and dice peppers like there's no tomorrow.
ref: 2005, Holly Hughes, Best Food Writing 2005, →ISBN, page 164:
text: I opened the back of my refrigeration truck and, for the first time, understood that I might should go ahead and turn it back into a regular pickup.
ref: 2008, George Singleton, Work Shirts for Madmen, →ISBN, page 58:
text: His sister stopped by the laundry mat to say hello and I told her what I was about to do and said she might should go by the house once he got off work, just to be there for him.
ref: 2011, Melissa Fenton, A Moral Compass, →ISBN:
qualifier: double modal / stacked modal
glosses: should perhaps (used to soften "should" and make it less of a command)
raw_tags: used in some dialects
Related terms: might can
might could
double modal
stacked modal
modal stacking
caplin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caplins
form: caplin
Senses: examples: text: Then the caplin moved off, and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of the muckles as the men stunned them.
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
glosses: Alternative form of capelin.
caplin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caplins
form: capling
Senses: examples: text: no sooner had one snatched away the caplin, than another sprang out of the water at my hand, and actually caught a slight hold of my finger and thumb.
ref: 1832, The Sportsmen's Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine:
glosses: The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass that connect the handle and swingel.
caplins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caplin
kosong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈk˭osɔŋ]
ipa: [-oŋ]
ipa: [ˈk˭ɔsɔŋ]
ipa: [ˈk˭o˧.sɔŋ˦]
Etymology: From Malay kosong (“zero, empty”).
Senses: examples: text: Kopi O Kosong
translation: Black coffee, with no sugar added
english: Black coffee, with no sugar added
text: Prata Kosong
translation: Roti prata, plain.
english: Roti prata, plain.
glosses: Not having additional ingredients, such as milk or sugar; plain.
raw_tags: of food or drink
Related terms: C
di lo
gah dai
gau
O
peng
po
siew dai
cheesers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheeser
puer aeternus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pueri aeterni
Etymology: From Latin puer aeternus (“eternal boy”) (in Ovid, Metamorphoses), after use in German by Carl Jung.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A child-god who is forever young.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An archetype of eternal youth.
examples: text: Michael Jackson, the self-proclaimed King of Pop, eccentric puer aeternus, and singer-songwriter-dancer-entrepreneur, agrees to an out-of-court settlement in a child-molestation suit, reportedly paying out $20 million to settle one of a series of sex-abuse charges brought against him.
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
glosses: A man who remains emotionally childlike.
Synonyms: puer
Coordinate terms: puella aeterna
Related terms: agerasia
permayouth
dickcheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dickcheeses
form: dick-cheese
form: dick cheese
Etymology: From dick + cheese.
Senses: examples: text: ...my tongue erupted with the taste of sweat and stale piss and some stuff I later discovered was called dickcheese.
ref: 2004, John Patrick, Raw Recruits: A Collection Of Stories And Two Erotic Novellas, page 144:
text: He had all that built-up dickcheese.
ref: 2010, Richard Labonté, Best of Best Gay Erotica 3, link:
synonyms: cock cheese
head cheese
glosses: Penile smegma or accumulated dried-out semen underneath the foreskin.
examples: text: Nobody could have done it better than you dickcheese.
ref: 2010, The Hippie, Snowflake Obsidian: Memoir of a Cutter, page 252:
glosses: A term of abuse.
dick-cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dickcheese.
dickcheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dickcheese
big mama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big mamas
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A grandmother.
Related terms: matriarch
matron
big mamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big mama
big momma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big mommas
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Alternative form of big mama.
big mommas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big momma
ensalada chilena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A salad made of sliced tomatoes, onions, and cilantro seasoned with olive oil, lemon juice and salt.
Chilean salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ensalada chilena
Zan Gula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: […] Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Adamawa-Ubangi, Adamawa, Mbum-Day, Bua. There is reported to be no intelligibility between Bon Gula and Zan Gula. Speakers may use Arabic as second language. Together with Bon Gula called 'Gula Guera'.
ref: 1992, Ethnologue: languages of the world (Barbara F. Grimes, Richard Saunders Pittman, Joseph Evans Grimes),page 229
text: Not intelligible with Bon Gula or Zan Gula.
ref: 2003, International encyclopedia of linguistics (William Frawley), volume 1, page 30
text: The highly endangered languages include Barein, Boor (Bowara, Damraw). Fania (Mara, Kobe, Fongoro, Koke), Kindeje (Yaali), Kujange, Laal, Mawa (Mahoura), Miltu, Saba, Sokoro, Tamki, Tunia (tounia, Tunya) and Zan Gula (Moriil).
ref: 2005, Language decline and death in Africa: causes, consequences, and challenges (Herman Batibo), pages 72-73
glosses: An Adamawa language of Chad.
Bon Gula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: […] Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Adamawa-Ubangi, Adamawa, Mbum-Day, Bua. There is reported to be no intelligibility between Bon Gula and Zan Gula. Speakers may use Arabic as second language. Together with Bon Gula called 'Gula Guera'.
ref: 1992, Ethnologue: languages of the world (Barbara F. Grimes, Richard Saunders Pittman, Joseph Evans Grimes),page 229
text: 1995: Banana Marba (Mesa) (65%), Bua (80%), Bon Gula (95%), Gkelendeng […] Jurnam (90%).
ref: 2001, World Christian Encyclopedia: The world by segments : religions, peoples, languages, cities, topics (David B. Barrett, George Thomas Kurian, Todd M. Johnson), page 182
text: Not intelligible with Bon Gula or Zan Gula.
ref: 2003, International encyclopedia of linguistics (William Frawley), volume 1, page 30
glosses: An Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Chad.
Gola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Most De speak Gola fluently and many also speak Vai.
ref: 1971, Rural Africana (Michigan State University, Political Science Department / African Studies Center), issues 13-18, page 13
text: Nevertheless, some still remember how to speak Gola, occasionally uphold their Gola origins, and seem to reflect them in the orientation of certain social values.
ref: 1994, Melissa Leach, Rainforest relations: gender and resource use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone, page 49:
text: The Gola live on the border with Liberia in the provinces of Kenema and Pujehun. They number about 9000, speak Gola and practice Islam […]
ref: 2005, The world guide: a view from the south, volume 2007 (Instituto del Tercer Mundo), page 495
glosses: A language spoken in eastern Liberia.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Gola terms
Gola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Golas
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Italian Gola, a topographic surname from gola (“ravine”) or a variant of Cola.
* Borrowed from Polish Gola, a topographic surname from gola (“heath, moor; place without of trees”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kulaal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: […] who has seen Pairault's material, says of one of these languages, Kulaal, that it 'is a class language which . . . looks like something out of Chari-Hile by Adamawa-Eastern or the other way round'.
ref: 1971, Current Trends in Linguistics: Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa (Thomas Albert Sebeok), page 221
text: Suffixes have probably been 'worn down' and replaced, and in Kulaal, a recent system of concord markers has been created.
ref: 1989, The Niger-Congo languages: a classification and description of Africa's largest language family (John Bendor-Samuel, Rhonda L. Hartell), page 204
text: […] phonology and morphology, and deals briefly with the classification of this group (which includes thirteen sub-dialects, among which we find Lua and Kulaal).
ref: 1995, in Chad (E. George H. Joffé, Valérie Day-Viaud), page 62
glosses: An African language.
Karo Batak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Thus, when Brandstetter compares Karo Batak kilkil "to gnaw", Bisayan baŋkil "to bite" he is justified in regarding this as evidence — albeit very slender evidence — for an "Original Indonesian" root kil.
ref: 1988, Austronesian Root Theory: An Essay on the Limits of Morphology (R. A. Blust), page 12
text: Karo Batak (spoken in Sumatra, Indonesia)
[…]
Table 13: Karo Batak verb forms (Norwood)
ref: 2002, The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems (Fay Wouk, Malcolm Ross), page 2 and page 467
text: […] interrogative pronoun, as in the example in (6) from Karo Batak (Austronesian; Sumatra, Indonesia).
ref: 2005, Martin Haspelmath, The World Atlas Of Language Structures, page 379:
glosses: An Austronesian language that is spoken by the Karo people of Indonesia; ISO code btx.
front runners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front runner
iodid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodids
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of iodide.
iodin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of iodine.
appay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: appays
form: appaying
form: appayed
form: appayed
form: appaid
form: appaid
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of apay.
apays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apay
apaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apay
genitories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genitory
famousest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of famous: most famous
individuums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of individuum
externat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: externats
Etymology: From French externat.
Senses: glosses: A day school.
a-cock-horse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We have yet a thousand medailes and monuments, namely, of that honest woman Faustina, wherein that Eagle is represented, carrying a cock-horse a dead goat up towards heaven those Deified soules.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Then placing the stretcher between his legs in the manner that little boys ride a-cock-horse upon their grand-papa's canes, he began most dolefully to dole out the following ditty.
ref: 1847, E Howard, chapter XX, in The Old Commodore:
glosses: Astride; mounted on something as though on horseback.
extraconjugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + conjugal.
Senses: glosses: extramarital
cock-horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock-horses
Senses: glosses: Something a child can ride as though on horseback; a hobby-horse.
Derived terms: a-cock-horse
cock-horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock-horse
intube
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intubes
form: intubing
form: intubed
form: intubed
Senses: glosses: Synonym of intubate.
synonyms: word: intubate
intubes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intube
démêlé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: démêlés
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quarrel.
synonyms: word: quarrel
étourderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of étourderie
excavatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excavatrix
externats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of externat
youngman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youngmen
Etymology: From young + man. Possible doublet of yeoman.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of young man.
examples: text: There's a youngman staring at him. And now a man cruising which one? Johnny. In a hollow bowl created by the drooping branches of the trees, the man goes down on Johnny. Thirty-two! Johnny counts, waiting anxiously for the youngman also to touch his cock so he can count 33 in rapid succession.
ref: 1967, Johnny Rechy, Numbers, page 247:
text: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I want him to love me, accept me—all of me. Let me be his youngman.
text: It is folly to deny that the scenario of this novel takes place nightly in bars throughout the country. At the Spike in New York, the Gold Coast in Chicago, Herbie's in Boston, the One Way in San Francisco, Mary's in Houston, the Washington DC Eagle . . . leather master meets and initiates youngman; handcuffs bind wrists; cops, corporals, and construction workers spit, piss and ejaculate on men seeking humiliation.
ref: 1974 February 2, Eric Rofes, “For Leathermen Who Have Considered S & M”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 19:
topics: LGBT
glosses: A younger lover or sexual partner.
youngmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youngman
fixly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fixly
form: most fixly
Etymology: From fix + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And when he made the Sunne and fire to be all one, he forgot, that fire doth not tan and blacke those he looketh upon; that wee fixly [translating fixement] looke upon the fire, and that fire consumeth and killeth all plants and hearbs.
ref: , II.12
glosses: Fixedly.
intershine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intershines
form: intershining
form: intershone
form: intershone
Etymology: From inter- + shine.
Senses: examples: text: As a man might say, an overshadowed and darke picture, enter-shining [translating entreluisant] with an infinit varietie of false lights, to exercise our conjectures.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Hearken ! hearken to my story; / Each one bears a separate glory, / And all splendors intershine, / Making all our race divine.
ref: 1855, Thomas Lake Harris, An Epic of the Starry Heaven:
text: This beautiful palatial building, which is a typical Chinese Renaissance style, will certainly enhance the natural beauty of Taiwan and intershine with the art treasures of China (Plate 229).
ref: 1964, Gin-djih Su, Chinese Architecture, Past and Contemporary:
glosses: To shine among or between.
intershining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intershine
verdugal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verdugals
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of farthingale.
verdugals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verdugal
women and children first
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: The earliest known usage of this phrase is from 1912, when RMS Titanic was sinking.
Senses: antonyms: every man for himself
glosses: An exhortation to follow the principle of removing women and children from danger before men.
Related terms: duty
ladies first
lifeboat
life vest
life buoy
the captain goes down with the ship
Sistani Persian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of the Persian language that is spoken mostly in the Sistan region, with distinctive grammar and phonology.
ZHR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Zenithal Hourly Rate.
kangaroo routes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kangaroo route
Zenithal Hourly Rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zenithal Hourly Rates
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The number of meteors a single observer would see in one hour under a clear, dark sky (i.e. up to the limiting apparent magnitude of 6.5).
Zenithal Hourly Rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zenithal Hourly Rate
love box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love boxes
Senses: examples: text: She caressed her own breast and pleasured her moist love box while she waited.
ref: 2008, Henry Willingham, One for the Fellas, →ISBN, page 4:
text: She lowered herself on to her knees until her love box was over his face.
ref: 2009, Meg Philip, Love By Text, →ISBN, page 283:
text: “I want to feel you, Papi,” she whined as her hand made its way down to her neatly shaved love box, which was soaking wet.
ref: 2011, Ashley Coleman, JaQuavis Coleman, Murderville, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: The vagina or vulva.
Synonyms: vagina
vulva
minimum minimorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: glosses: absolute minimum; the least of all minimums.
hepatic portal vein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatic portal veins
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The portal vein.
chief cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chief cells
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
physiology
sciences
glosses: A cell located in the stomach and parathyroid gland that secretes precursor enzymes.
fluid feeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluid feeders
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that subsists on liquids derived from other organisms.
gastric juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastric juices
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A secretion of the gastric glands that includes hydrochloric acid, pepsinogen and mucus.
Synonyms: gastric acid
nervous tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nervous tissues
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The principal constituent of the central and peripheral nervous system comprising neurons and neuroglia cells.
vardingale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vardingales
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of farthingale.
vardingales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vardingale
in total
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: In total, the Reds had 28 shots to their opponent's nine, and 15 corners to the Baggies' three.
ref: 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
text: More than 50 trees fell across a ten-mile section of the line during December's Storm Darragh. In total, more than 70 fell on the line, including around 30 which were uprooted.
ref: 2025 February 5, “Network News: NR to cut back vegetation on Heart of Wales line”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 23:
glosses: Including all aspects of something.
Synonyms: all told
altogether
preoccupates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preoccupate
preoccupating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preoccupate
preoccupated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preoccupate
philodoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philodox
gripe water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gripe waters
Senses: glosses: A home remedy, with varying ingredients, to treat babies suffering from colic or teething problems.
Related terms: dillwater
benshis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benshi
coloriser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorisers
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English spelling of colorizer.
muwashshah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muwashshahat
form: tawashih
form: muwashshahs
form: muwashsha
form: muwashah
form: muwassah
form: muwassaha
form: muwashaha
form: moaxaja
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مُوَشَّح (muwaššaḥ, “girdled”) (plural مُوَشَّحَات (muwaššaḥāt) or تَوَاشِيح (tawāšīḥ)).
Senses: glosses: An Arabic ode, a multi-lined strophic verse poem, generally of five stanzas alternating with a refrain.
glosses: An Arabic song which uses a (frequently secular) text written in this verse as its lyrics.
Related terms: kharja
colonyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From colony + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Though it was now sovereign, the country still felt the after-effects of colonyhood.
glosses: The state of being a colony.
Related terms: colonialism
empirehood
nationhood
statehood
Nashvillian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nashvillians
Etymology: From Nashville + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of Nashville.
Nashvillians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nashvillian
shit the bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shits the bed
form: shitting the bed
form: shit the bed
form: shit the bed
form: shat the bed
form: shat the bed
Senses: examples: text: “[H]ow was I supposed to know Dan Marino would shit the bed and lose that game by nineteen points?”
ref: 2008, Dave Zeltserman, Small Crimes, →ISBN, page 41:
text: “Yep, I totally shit the bed on that exam. Guess I'll be sticking around this place for another year.”
ref: 2012, Tom Ryan, Way to Go, →ISBN, page 6:
text: “We're almost ready. If the damn copier doesn't shit the bed, that is.”
ref: 2013, Stephen King, Under the Dome, →ISBN, page 266:
synonyms: wet the bed
glosses: Of a person or thing, to fail, often in a complete and irreparable fashion.
coordinate_terms: shit one's pants
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shit, bed.
shits the bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shit the bed
shitting the bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shit the bed
Ynde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of India.
croonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹuːnɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of crooning