cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
computators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computator
yieldful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yieldful
form: most yieldful
Etymology: From yield + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of yielding.
synonyms: word: yielding
ungainsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungainsome
form: most ungainsome
Etymology: From un- + gainsome.
Senses: glosses: Unprofitable.
gainworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gainworthy
form: most gainworthy
Etymology: From gain + -worthy.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of affordable.
synonyms: word: affordable
co-vilification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-vilifications
Etymology: From co- + vilification.
Senses: examples: text: We have all attested numerous similar examples of disunion, mutual disparagement, and unprecedented co-vilification so paradigmatically performed by the uneducated and uncultured 'leaders' of the 'Arab' League
ref: 2006 Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis, Pan-Arabism: the inhuman progenitor of Islamic Terrorism (archive)
text: 2017 Major Garrett, August 27 Face the Nation (archive) 47min
To that point Susan, isn't there a co-vilification going on, the president telling the country via Twitter Mitch McConnell is weak and he doesn't understand the rules of the Senate because if he did he would go to fifty one votes on all legislation not just high profile judicial nominees, exempting the supreme court?
glosses: mutual vilification by two or more people
Related terms: co-vilify
witch's hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witches' hats
Etymology: From their conical shape, resembling the hats that witches are popularly believed to have worn.
Senses: glosses: Hygrocybe conica, a small mushroom of the waxcap genus found in North America and Northern Europe.
examples: text: The applicant may need to reserve the parking spaces by the placement of witches hats or by arranging with businesses/clients on the day.
ref: 2018 January 24, “Standard Conditions for On-street (Temporary) Parking Permit”, in City of Newcastle^(https://newcastle.nsw.gov.au/getattachment/Council/Forms-Publications/Forms/Roads-On-Street-(temporary)-Parking-Application-Fo/Standard-Conditions-for-on-street-temp-parking-permit-2018.pdf.aspx?lang=en-AU):
text: Killara residents are fed up with picking up fallen witches hats on Stanhope Road.
ref: 2017 April 6, Rebecca Parish, “No agencies own up as Killara locals search for witches hats owner”, in The Daily Telegraph:
text: The test is conducted over a 20 metre course marked with lines or witches hats, with applicants running continuously between the points.
ref: 2022 December 28 (last accessed), “Multi-stage fitness”, in NSW Police:
glosses: A traffic cone.
examples: text: Tessie had a witch's hat and that made Noddy laugh. "You'll never look bad enough to be a witch!" he said.
ref: 1995, Andrew Geeson, Noddy Annual, Egmont Books, →ISBN, page 51:
text: "Right here," said Lizzie, who had a witch's hat perched on her head. Underneath it she wore a loose black sweater, a long, tattered black skirt, black patterned hose, and ankle-high black boots.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 332:
text: Immediately Victoria took off her headband that had a witch's hat on it and gave it to the girl. “Now you are a proper witch,” she said. The girl smiled and went out trunk or treating.
ref: 2017, Cynthia Staton, Life Lived Not Lost: A Journey of Hope, Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: Alternative form of witch hat.
examples: text: We had finally found the witch, who was wearing a green top hat that seemed a bit out of place. As she looked up towards us, the wind blew the witch's hat off of the witch's head.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see witch, hat.
Synonyms: sense: mushroom
word: conical wax cap
sense: mushroom
word: conical slimy cap
where are the snows of yesteryear
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Quotation from Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Ballad of Dead Ladies," an 1869 translation of François Villon's poem "Ballade des dames du temps jadis" (1533) (in the original, où sont les neiges d'antan?).
Senses: examples: text: Pathetic as its passing is, one cannot honestly regret the old school. I was looking last night at the programme of my very first hall, and received a terrible shock to my time-sense. Where are the snows of yesteryear? Where are the entertainers of 1895?
ref: 1915, Thomas Burke, “An Entertainment Night: Round the Halls”, in Nights in Town: A London Autobiography, London: George Allen & Unwin […], page 44:
glosses: Used to emphasize that life passes quickly.
wikipedia: Ballade des dames du temps jadis
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
François Villon
what's the beef
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: what is the beef
Senses: glosses: Why are you complaining? What are you complaining about?
Yffiniac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Côtes-d'Armor department, Brittany, France.
gambang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gambangs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A xylophone-like instrument with wooden bars, used in Indonesian gamelan and kulintang music.
treasury department
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treasury departments
Senses: glosses: A government department that manages government finances.
Synonyms: treasury
finance ministry
ministry of finance
Hyponyms: english: the UK government ministry
translation: the UK government ministry
word: Exchequer
Derived terms: word: Secretary of the Treasury
word: secretary of the treasury
Related terms: exchequer
public purse
aerophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aerophagy + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or characterised by aerophagy.
pancreatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancreatographies
Etymology: From pancreato- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Radiography of the pancreas, often with the aim of visualising the pancreatic ducts
Related terms: cholangiopancreatography
ERCP
pancreatogram
pancreatographic
cannulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannulators
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: One who cannulates, or a device that aids cannulation.
anarthric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or suffering from anarthria; unable to articulate owing to muscle weakness.
pseudocystography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: pancreatic pseudocystography
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Radiography of a pseudocyst.
hydrocolpos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑδρο- (hudro-), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”), + κόλπος (kólpos, “any hollow space; womb”); essentially equivalent to a surface analysis of hydro- + colp- + -us.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: hematocolpos
hydrometra
hematometra
;
hydrometrocolpos
hematometrocolpos
glosses: A condition characterised by a distended, fluid-filled vaginal cavity.
Related terms: colposcopy
colpotomy
haematometrocolpos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematometrocolpos.
hematometrocolpos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haematometrocolpos
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”), + μήτρα (mḗtra, “uterus”), + κόλπος (kólpos, “any hollow space; womb”); essentially equivalent to a surface analysis of hemato- + metro- + colp- + -us.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having distended, blood-filled uterus and vagina.
Related terms: colposcopy
colpotomy
metroscopy
metrotomy
bronchiolectasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronchiolectases
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Dilatation of the bronchioles.
cretinistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, characterised by, or characteristic of cretinism.
nightblindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From night + blindness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of night blindness.
cryptogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to cryptogenesis
glosses: Alternative form of cryptogenic.
pauciimmune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pauci-immune.
pauci-immune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pauciimmune
Etymology: From pauci- + immune.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Associated with minimal aetiological evidence of hypersensitivity upon IgG immunofluorescence staining.
raw_tags: of vasculitis
echomatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From echo- + (auto)matism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: An echophenomenon.
echomimia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From echo- + German Mimik (“facial expressions”) + -ia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Involuntary imitation of the movements of people in the surroundings.
Related terms: amimia
dysmimia
hypomimia
aphallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: aphallic individual
glosses: Not having a phallus (penis).
Related terms: aphallia
didelphys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δύο (dúo, “two, di-”) + Ancient Greek δελφύς (delphús, “womb”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A uterine malformation where the uterus assumes a paired shape as a consequence of failure of fusion of the Müllerian ducts.
Derived terms: didelphic
uterus didelphys
sonohysterography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An ultrasonographic procedure for the visualisation of the uterine cavity
Related terms: sonohysterogram
hydranencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of hydroanencephalic.
hyperhedonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition in which the individual derives an abnormally heightened level of pleasure from the activities performed.
hyperresonance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + resonance.
Senses: glosses: An increased level of resonance, often as an examination finding on the percussion of an area of the body, especially the chest.
Related terms: hyperresonant
hyperresonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to or characterised by hyperresonance.
monomicrobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: monomicrobic infection
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: monomicrobial
glosses: Relating to, or caused by only one type of microbe.
polymicrobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Polymicrobial.
cenesthopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: coenestopathic
form: cenesthesiopathic
Etymology: From cenestho- (“cenesthesia”) + -pathic (“suffering, disease”).
Senses: examples: text: "Most notably, Huber described a subtype called ‘cenesthetic schizophrenia’, and the term ‘cenesthopathic schizophrenia’ is included within the category ‘other schizophrenia’ (F20.8) in ICD-10 classification."
ref: 2009, G. Rajender, K. Kanwal, et al., “Study of cenesthesias and body image aberration in schizophrenia”, in Indian Journal of Psychiatry, page 195:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or characterised by cenesthopathy.
Related terms: cenesthesic
cenesthesiopathy
cenesthopathy
salpingo-oophoritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salpingooophoritis
Etymology: By surface analysis, salpingo- + oophor- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the Fallopian tube and ovary.
salpingooophoritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of salpingo-oophoritis.
cerebromalacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cerebro- + malacia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abnormal softening of cerebral parenchymal tissue, often secondary to an ischaemic event.
hyperhedonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or characterised by hyperhedonia, i.e. having a heightened level of pleasure from normal activities.
corticosteroidogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corticosteroid + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The endogenous process of production of corticosteroids.
hemivulvectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemivulvectomies
Senses: examples: text: radical hemivulvectomy
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Unilateral excision of the vulvar structures.
hemobartonellosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
science
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: An infectious disease found in cats, caused by Mycoplasma haemofelis.
pyohydronephrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Accumulation of purulent urine in the renal pelvis and calyces.
unutopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unutopias
form: Unutopia
form: untopia
Etymology: From un- + utopia.
Senses: examples: text: The Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area had received $4 million from the Bureau of Public Roads, with which they had done a transportation study which of course produces a Utopia for automobiles, which is unutopia for human beings.
ref: 1970, National transportation act, page 219:
text: But the bleakest Utopia of all, the very first of the Unutopias, had come from Wells long before that.
ref: 1978, The Spectator, volume 240, number 1, page 25:
text: In the following excerpt, Keefer places A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder within the context of Canadian Maritime fiction, focusing on the narrative as an "unutopia" that questions the value of idealistic spiritual and political philosophies.
ref: 2003, Laurie Lanzen Harris, Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism, volume 1213, page 112:
text: The unutopia was bizarrely unutopianly a thing, antiutopianly. Disutopianism.
ref: 2013, Jason Hurlburt, ALLA NAZIMOVA IN GOOGOLPLEXNAIRE, page 78:
glosses: The antithesis of utopia; anti-utopia; dystopia.
lally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lallies
Senses: examples: text: Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vadaïng the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by, or disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.
ref: 1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12:
text: I'll uncross my lallies, runa comb through my riah, rearrange the expression on my eke and troll off for a mince round to vada the bona omis.
ref: 2011 October 25, “Ramblings: Fantabulosa”, in Gayboy, Interrupted, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2020:
text: @bonnie_langford yes very lucky that the bona lallies are still hoofing
ref: 2013 May 29, Gerry Tebbutt, Twitter:
text: Aunt nell the patter flash and gardy loo! / Bijou, she trolls, bold on lallies / slick as stripes down the Dilly.
ref: 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Leg
Derived terms: english: trousers
translation: trousers
word: lally-covers
english: trousers
translation: trousers
word: lally-drags
lallies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lally
thylacinamorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thylacine + -morphic.
Senses: examples: 2017, Rodney Croome, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154731080471811&set=a.10151441171606811.1073741827.608211810&type=3&permPage=1, Facebook
Historians in centuries hence will wonder if the thylacine was an actual animal of flesh and blood or a pantheon of thylacinamorphic deities.
glosses: Having the form of a thylacine.
Massiliote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Massiliotes
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek Μασσαλιῶτης (Massaliôtēs).
Senses: synonyms: Massilian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Massilia (ancient Marseille).
Massiliote
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek Μασσαλιῶτης (Massaliôtēs).
Senses: synonyms: Massilian
glosses: Of, from or relating to Massilia (ancient Marseille).
Massiliotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Massiliote
parliamentarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parliamentarisms
Etymology: From parliamentary + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: England was the historical model for the adoption of parliamentarism and party government in Germany.
ref: 1996, Gerhard Lehbruch, “From State of Authority to Network State: The German State in Developmental Perspective”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 49:
text: German depictions of the Third Republic appeared to warn of the dangers of parliamentarism.
ref: 2000, Mark Hewitson, National Identity and Political Thought in Germany: Wilhelmine Depictions of the French Third Republic, 1890—1914, page 220:
text: This is why some observers argue that German parliamentarism has degenerated.
ref: 2000, Werner J. Patzelt, “What can an Individual MP Do in German Parliamentary Politics?”, in Reuven Y. Hazan, Lawrence D. Longley, editors, The Uneasy Relationships Between Parliamentary Members and Leaders, page 23:
text: By the same token, he developed a categorisation of different parliamentarisms, in order to be able to describe Swedish minority cabinets as being parliamentary governments proper.
ref: 2014, Jussi Kurunmäki, “7: Rhetoric Against Rhetoric: Swedish Parliamentarism and the Interwar Crisis of Democracy”, in Kari Palonen, José María Rosales, Tapani Turkka, editors, The Politics of Dissensus: Parliament in Debate, page 181:
text: 2016, Pasi Ihalainen, European Parliamentary Experiences from a Conceptual Historical Perspective, Pasi Ihalainen, Cornelia Ilie, Kari Palonen (editors), Parliament and Parliamentarism: A Comparative History of a European Concept, 22,
The history part comprises six national or regional (combining the Low Countries and Scandinavia) case studies of discursive processes that have defined parliamentarisms in some formative historical periods.
glosses: The system of government in which the executive branch is legitimised by parliament.
Related terms: parliament
parliamentarian
parliamentarianism
parliamentarisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parliamentarism
tendays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenday
tenday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendays
Etymology: From ten + day.
Senses: examples: text: They're confident of having the main walls complete in just under ten tendays.
ref: 1993, Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon The Deep, page 284:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A period of ten days.
Lord High Admiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lord High Admirals
Senses: glosses: An office in England dating from the 15th century (William IV when Duke of Clarence was the last holder until it was assumed by Elizabeth II in 1964).
Related terms: high admiral
lord admiral
Lord Admiral
Lords Admiral
Admiralty
Sea Lord
sea lord
gardy loo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: [A]ll the chairs in the family are emptied into this here barrel once a-day; and at ten o'clock at night the whole cargo is flung out of a back windore that looks into some street or lane, and the maid calls Gardy loo to the passengers, which signifies, Lord have mercy upon you! and this is done every night in every house at Haddingborough; so you may guess, Mary Jones, what a sweet savour comes from such a number of profuming pans […]
ref: 1771, Tobias Smollet, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, OCLC 277265635, republished in The Novels of Tobias Smollett, M.D.: viz. Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, and Humphrey Clinker (Ballantyne's Novelist's Library; II), London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1821, OCLC 271400557, Dublin: Printed for A. Leathley, J. Exshaw, H. Saunders, W. Sleater, D. Chamberlain [and ten others], page 626:
text: Aunt nell the patter flash and gardy loo! / Bijou, she trolls, bold on lallies / slick as stripes down the Dilly.
ref: 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of gardyloo.
aunt nell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aunt nells
Senses: examples: text: There was an omi down in Hackney, a stevedore, ran the Dalston Number Four Dock. He couldn't fly, see, cos he had something wrong with his aunt nells. His balance was all meshigener—you can't fly if you can't balance. You'd never be off your dish. But he had a daughter—loved her to the death—an' she could fly, and did, on the English Rose.
ref: 2012, Ian McDonald, Be My Enemy (Everness; 2), Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: An ear.
Derived terms: english: earring
translation: earring
word: aunt nell dangler
english: earring
translation: earring
word: aunt nelly fake
aunt nell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aunt nells
form: aunt nelling
form: aunt nelled
form: aunt nelled
Senses: examples: text: @bonnie_langford you're aunt nelling the polari you bona pallone
ref: 2013 May 29, Gerry Tebbutt, Twitter:
text: Aunt nell the patter flash and gardy loo! / Bijou, she trolls, bold on lallies / slick as stripes down the Dilly.
ref: 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To listen; to hear.
aunt nell
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Remain silent; be quiet.
meshigener
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛˈʃɪɡ.nə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪɡnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more meshigener
form: most meshigener
Senses: examples: text: There was an omi down in Hackney, a stevedore, ran the Dalston Number Four Dock. He couldn't fly, see, cos he had something wrong with his aunt nells. His balance was all meshigener—you can't fly if you can't balance. You'd never be off your dish. But he had a daughter—loved her to the death—an' she could fly, and did, on the English Rose.
ref: 2012, Ian McDonald, Be My Enemy (Everness; 2), Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: She swishes / through town, 'alf meshigener, and blows / lamors through the oxy at all / the passing trade.
ref: 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of meshuggener (“crazy”).
heartface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartfaces
Etymology: From heart + face.
Senses: examples: text: You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.
ref: 1967, Barry Took, Marty Feldman, “Gaslight Son of Flicker”, in Round the Horne, spoken by Sandy (Kenneth Williams):
glosses: A term of endearment.
Synonyms: sweetheart
Marxology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Marx + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Hence the tendency common to all the diverse philosophical interpretations of Marx – their common negation, in the context of which the borderline between Marxology and Marxization and between Marxization and revisionism, between ultra-revolutionary and reformist interpretations, becomes no more than relative.
ref: 1970, World Marxist Review - Volume 13, Issues 7-12, page 99:
glosses: The study of the works of Karl Marx.
Derived terms: Marxological
Marxologist
Marxological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Marxological
form: most Marxological
Etymology: From Marxology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Marxology.
chickencoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chickencoop
yttrofluorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yttrofluorite
vardered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of varder
varders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of varder
vardering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of varder
rollercoasting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rollercoasting
form: most rollercoasting
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rollercoastering.
witchish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more witchish
form: most witchish
Etymology: From witch + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: A small-sized book, with a clearly printed assembly of mainly traditional tales and verse for the very young (say four to seven) on ghostly or witchish themes.
ref: 1967, Naomi Lewis, editor, The Best Children's Books:
glosses: Somewhat witchy.
eludeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: elude + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of elude
fewte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English feute, itself from Old French fuite (“the fleeing, flight”), as of what is left and seen from fleeing game.
Senses: examples: text: As wary as wolves through the wood stalking / to the marches rode there Mordred's hunters, / huge and hungry hounds beside them / the fewte followed fiercely baying.
ref: late 1930s, JRR Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur:
text: Madden likewise, in his Glossary to Gawayn, had explained “Wewter,” as denoting the huntsman who tracked the deer by the fewte or odour.
ref: 1968, Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum:
text: Some hounds fell on the fewte left by the fox, Using their craft to cross and cross again.
ref: 2003, John Cummins, The Art of Medieval Hunting: The Hound and the Hawk, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: Signs left by game that is hunted, such as tracks or scent, the track itself.
formylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of formylate
formylating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of formylate
El Shaddai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אֵל שַׁדַּי (ʼĒl Šadạy, “God Almighty”).
Senses: glosses: Epithet of Yahweh, usually translated as "God Almighty", though the exact meaning of "Shaddai" remains uncertain.
postfoundational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + foundational.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to postfoundationalism.
Derived terms: postfoundationally
postfoundationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postfoundational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of postfoundationalism.
self-raising flours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-raising flour
halting problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halting problem
denotification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denotifications
Etymology: From de- + notification.
Senses: glosses: The process of denotifying.
denotifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denotification
fa'afafine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fa'afafine
Etymology: Borrowed from Samoan fa'afafine, from fa'a (“in the manner of”) + fafine (“woman”).
Senses: examples: text: What I wish to emphasize here is that 'traditionally' fa'afafine have been and generally still are initially identified in terms of labour preferences.
ref: 2004, Ulrike Schuerkens, Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds: Social Transformations, →ISBN, page 209:
text: While Pakeha (New Zealanders of European descent) transyouth are invisible in the curriculum through their gender identity, fa'afafine youth are additionally invisible through their cultural identity. There are currently no support groups in Aotearoa/New Zealand for fa'afafine young people.
ref: 2005, James Thomas Sears, Youth, Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia, →ISBN:
text: To begin with, he describes the relationship between his Samoan and fa'afafine identities by saying: 'for me culture is always first and then sexuality', and 'any interaction I have with anybody, the two things I want them to find out about me is the fact that I'm Samoan first and foremost and .... [secondly] that I'm fa'afafine.'
ref: 2006, Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle, The Transgender Studies Reader, →ISBN, page 660:
glosses: A Samoan whose gender is neither male nor female, being biologically male but preferring (or being raised for) traditionally female duties and tasks.
accas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acca
space races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of space race
Mainland China
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Under this strategy we would mine the major harbors and, perhaps, bomb port facilities and even consider blockade. In addition, we would attack systematically the rail lines between Hanoi and Mainland China.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, quoting Walt Rostow, “The Making of a Decision: Vietnam 1967—1968”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 367:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of mainland China.
femophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In truth, my client couldn't afford to pay for their dinner at the fancy restaurant his date had suggested, but in his attempt to overcome his own "femophobia," he ended up paying for them both, feeling put out, and not seeing the guy again.
ref: 2008, Keith W. Swain, Dynamic Duos:
text: In contrast, pro-feminist politics is built on a male alliance with women in addressing misogyny, sexism, homophobia and femophobia, with the additional requirement for men to engage in some reflexivity about their complicity in an oppressive gender order.
ref: 2008, B. Lingard, W. Martino, M. Mills, Boys and Schooling: Beyond Structural Reform, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Such misinterpretation may inadvertently condone homophobia, xenophobia, and/or femophobia by implying that there is a prescribed set of attitudes, behaviors, emotions, and actions that belong to normal (ie aggressive) boys.
ref: 2011, K Sciurba, Reading and seeing themselves: Boys of color and textual (non-) connection:
text: As Stephen Ducat explains, homophobia has its roots in femophobia, or men's fear of their own femininity.
ref: 2012, Jackson Katz, Leading Men: Presidential Campaigns and the Politics of Manhood, →ISBN:
glosses: Fear or disavowal of one's own feminine qualities.
examples: text: Their foremost expressions of love were for young boys and prostitutes (Hunt, 1959:27). There was a transitoriness in the Greek male's relationships with women, one that has been called femophobia (Whitehurst, 1971:3).
ref: 1980, Robert N. Whitehurst, Gerald V. Booth, The Sexes: Changing Relationships in a Pluralistic Society, page 4:
text: Since Freud's 1910 book on Leonardo da Vinci's sexuality, art history has not let up on artists' homosexual proclivities, as if art making was a form of parturition and birth-giving, the artist not just inspired (impregnated) by the studio muse but incorporating her femininity to the degree that every man is feminine but some more so than others. There may never be an end to Van Gogh's severed ear lobe handed to a prostitute, to Cezanne's femophobia, or to Picasso's venereal infection.
ref: 2002, Wayne Andersen, Picasso's Brothel, page 145:
text: We likely find repulsive such saints as St. Louis of Gonzaga, whose search for purity was indistinguishable from a pathological femophobia, and Mary Margaret Alacoque, whose spirit of adoration for God became a swooning incompetence; and we likely find attractive St. Francis, St. Paul, George Fox, and Walt Whitman.
ref: 2009, Stuart Rosenbaum, Pragmatism and the Reflective Life, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: Fear or avoidance of meaningful relationships with women.
Shivalinga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He poured enough water to cause a flood, placed a heap of bel leaves on the Shivalinga, and belted out his impure chanting.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 3
glosses: A columnar or cylindrical representation of the god Shiva, used as a focus for worship in a Hindu shrine or temple.
Related terms: lingam
coups d'oeil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coup d'oeil
shikha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shikhas
form: sikha
Etymology: From Sanskrit शिखा (śikhā).
Senses: examples: text: Murkhdutt, his hands covered with dough, rushed to the front of his room, craned his neck to look out, tried to arrange his shikha with his wrists, and rubbing his eyes looked in the direction of the gate.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 3
glosses: The long lock of hair left on the shaved head of an orthodox Hindu, especially a Brahmin or temple priest.
fergawdsake
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Silver bars had me penned in like an animal. I was in a prison cell, fergawdsake.
ref: 2012, Parker Blue, Make Me, →ISBN, pages 11–12:
text: With her pocket knife, she starts to prise the spikes from his wings. Fergawdsake, she says. Somebody shut Tracker up.
ref: 2014, Moira Young -, Raging Star, →ISBN:
text: “Well, fergawdsake, at least she can read!” Sandra laughed.
ref: 2014, Janet Costello, The Whole She-Bang 2, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of for God's sake.
fergawdsakes
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: And fergawdsakes, when your instructor tells you something, acknowledge by nodding or indicate you didn't understand by appropriate expressions.
ref: 1945 June, John R. Hoyt, “When You Learn To Fly - Get A Tough Instructor”, in Flying Magazine, volume 36, number 6, page 146:
text: Mr. Prestopnick's hat ascended on a rippled brow as he uttered, “Fergawdsakes, reggie ain't my name.
ref: 1952, The Square Peg, page 38:
text: I noticed something else— pine garlands with red bows topped the windows, holiday do-dads seemed to perch on every surface I could see, and there was even a Christmas tree in the corner... with twinkling fairy lights on it, fergawdsakes.
ref: 2011, Parker Blue, Fang Me, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of fergawdsake.
fervorent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fervorent
form: most fervorent
Etymology: From fervor + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: In this city also are the tombs of the first four Caliphs of Islam, each of whom led an exemplary life combining fervorent faith and piety with skillful political leadership.
ref: 1951, Classroom Clipper - Volumes 1-10, page 189:
text: It appears that the BLM plans to manage the Klamath River Canyon as if it is a Wild and Scenic River while holding out its fervorent hope that Congress will act at some time in the future to complete that designation.
ref: 1994, Klamath Falls Resource Area Resource(s) Management Plan (RMP):
text: Al Gore is a fervorent environmentalist, right?
ref: 1997 October 7, Beth Wise, “Promise Creepers Cult”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
glosses: Synonym of fervent.
synonyms: word: fervent
fire-worship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire worship
form: fireworship
Senses: examples: text: They pour no milky draughts, they heat no cauldron. They give no gifts to the Brāhmana.... Their worship was but enchantment, sorcery, unlike the sacred law of fire-worship, wiles and magic.
ref: 2001 -, Edwin Bryant, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture, →ISBN:
text: I do not for one moment say that all conventional ornamental forms have sprung from fire-worship, for this is not the case; but I do assert that all my researches have led me to the conclusion that most Indian and some forms of European ornament, as well as forms which are in common use in Persia, Arabia, and Japan, are due to the influence of this early religion.
ref: 2015, Christopher Dresser, Japan, →ISBN, page 327:
text: Fire-worship brings into view again, though under different aspects and with different results, the problems presented by water-worship.
ref: 2016, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture, →ISBN, page 277:
glosses: The worship of fire or of a fire god or goddess.
fire worship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A flame burned at all times in Greek temples. Ancient Romans practiced fire worship, and they charged young girls known as Vestal Virgins with keeping temple fires lit in the temple of Vesta, goddess of the hearth.
ref: 2014, François Reeves, Planet Heart: How an Unhealthy Environment Leads to Heart Disease, →ISBN:
text: In 1859 there was another attempt to use natural gas commercially at an oil refinery in Baku, not far from Ateshgah and its ancient temple of fire worship, but it too was a short-lived experiment.
ref: 2014, Ustina Markus, Oil and Gas: The Business and Politics of Energy, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Fire worship was a cornerstone of Celtic practice and perpetual fires were kept on Druidic altars and in places of worship.
ref: 2015, Courtney Weber, Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: Alternative form of fire-worship.
fireworship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These brothers did not like the sacrifical form of worship, though they did not discard fireworship and so they were driven out by the sacrifical worshippers.
ref: 1995, Shripad Dattatraya Kulkarni, Dharma and Vedic Foundations, page 22:
text: Similar thought patterns lie behind Malalas' interest in Persian fireworship and Zorastrianism, information on which may derive from an identified Persian informant, Timotheos 'the Persian carrier'.
ref: 2003, Gabriele Marasco, Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity, →ISBN:
text: Not much is known about the religion of the Indus civilization, except that they also had some form of fireworship and sacrifice; they also worshipped a form of Shiva, identified as Pashupati; and even had a cult of mother Goddess.
ref: 2006, Mangesh Venktesh Nadkarni, Hinduism, a Gandhian Perspective, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: Alternative form of fire-worship.
air bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air bearings
Senses: glosses: A bearing in which a thin film of pressurized air is used to provide an exceedingly low-friction load-bearing interface between surfaces.
Coordinate terms: air hockey
air table
Related terms: air cushion
hovercraft
ground effect
opportunity seldom knocks twice
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: lightning never strikes twice in the same place
glosses: Opportune times seldom appear again.
bleed red ink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bleeds red ink
form: bleeding red ink
form: bled red ink
form: bled red ink
Senses: examples: text: The city program was meant to pay for itself, but from the start it was bleeding red ink and was eventually shut down.
glosses: To suffer from severe net losses.
Related terms: in the red
in the pink of health
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: in the pink
pink of health
in the pink of condition
glosses: In very good health.
maladministrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maladministrators
Etymology: From mal- + administrator.
Senses: glosses: A person who is guilty of maladministration.
rideress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rideresses
Etymology: From rider + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female rider; a horsewoman.
FLO/FLO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FLO/FLOs
form: FLO-FLO
form: FLO FLO
form: FLOFLO
form: FloFlo
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of float-on float-off.
Hypernyms: heavy-lift ship
Coordinate terms: english: roll-on roll-off
translation: roll-on roll-off
word: RORO
float-on float-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: float-on/float-off
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A form of marine vessel which allows large floating objects (such as other ships, or oil platforms, etc) to be floated atop and floated off the ship's transport decktop.
Synonyms: topics: transport
nautical
word: flo-flo
topics: transport
nautical
word: flo
topics: transport
nautical
word: flo flo
topics: transport
nautical
word: floflo
topics: transport
nautical
word: FloFlo
topics: transport
nautical
word: FLOFLO
topics: transport
nautical
word: FLO FLO
topics: transport
nautical
word: FLO-FLO
topics: transport
nautical
word: FLO/FLO
Hypernyms: heavy lift ship
Coordinate terms: roll-on roll-off
barristress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barristresses
Etymology: From barrister + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female barrister.
pseudohypertension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + hypertension.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A falsely elevated blood pressure or blood pressure reading, often as a result of age-related arterial stiffness.
ward round
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ward rounds
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A regular visit paid by the medical staff to hospital inpatients under their care, in order to review their progress.
postsystolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: After systole.
Coordinate terms: holosystolic
pansystolic
midsystolic
presystolic
postdiastolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + diastolic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: After diastole.
holodiastolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + diastolic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Occurring through the entire diastole.
net losses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of net loss
net loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net losses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of net operating loss.
synonyms: word: net operating loss
net operating loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net operating losses
Senses: topics: business
finance
investment
glosses: The amount by which the income of a company is less than its expenditure.
Related terms: net operating income
net profit
net loss
BBBB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BBBBs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Bilateral bundle branch block.
CCCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Initialism of centrifugal countercurrent chromatography.
CCCC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Caroline Chisholm Catholic College, Melbourne, Australia.
glosses: Initialism of Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, Massachusetts, US.
glosses: Initialism of Central Carolina Community College, North Carolina, US.
glosses: Initialism of Clark County Community College, Clark County, Nevada, US.
glosses: Initialism of Cloud County Community College, Kansas, US.
glosses: Initialism of Conference on College Composition and Communication.
glosses: Initialism of Cherry Creek Country Club, Colorado.
glosses: Initialism of Carson City Community Center, Nevada.
SSSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of Secondary Security Screening Selection.
PUPPP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌp/
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy.
HELLP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism of the three cardinal features of the syndrome: haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelet count.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A serious pregnancy complication thought to be caused by pre-eclampsia.
instantiatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From instantiate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of instantiable.
synonyms: word: instantiable
shastri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shastris
Etymology: From Hindi शास्त्री (śāstrī).
Senses: examples: text: Sanskrit was for him the language of the shastris, who, despite their learning, were poor and dependent.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 16
glosses: Someone who teaches the shastras.
stick a needle in my eye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks a needle in my eye
form: sticking a needle in my eye
form: stuck a needle in my eye
form: stuck a needle in my eye
Etymology: Originally (and more commonly) used as a second line of the rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: “Do you promise?” Tilley said.
“Stick a needle in my eye.” Mica's mumbled reply came back in a rude singsong.
ref: 2010, Lynn Hones, The Cult of Light and Lies, page 79:
glosses: Synonym of cross my heart and hope to die.
synonyms: word: cross my heart and hope to die
cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cross my heart and hope to die.
synonyms: word: cross my heart and hope to die
neo-Trotskyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + Trotskyism.
Senses: topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: Trotskyist theory updated for the contemporary era.
wash one's dirty linen in public
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: washes one's dirty linen in public
form: washing one's dirty linen in public
form: washed one's dirty linen in public
form: washed one's dirty linen in public
Senses: glosses: Synonym of air one's dirty laundry in public.
synonyms: word: air one's dirty laundry in public
maladministrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maladministrator