cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
crypto currency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crypto currencies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cryptocurrency.
dinnle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dinnles
form: dinnling
form: dinnled
form: dinnled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dindle.
dinnle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinnles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dindle.
excerptum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excerpta
Senses: glosses: An excerpt.
andr-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of andro-, used before vowels
anthrop-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anthropo-, used before vowels.
aethal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ethal.
hemerological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemerology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hemerology.
aque-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aqua-.
Eurocommunists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurocommunist
shuttleport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shuttleports
Etymology: From shuttle + port.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A spaceport from which shuttles depart.
shuttleports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shuttleport
Darby and Joan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: John Darby and his wife Joan were first mentioned in print in a poem published in The Gentleman's Magazine by Henry Woodfall in 1735.
Senses: glosses: A proverbial married couple content to share a quiet life of mutual devotion.
doctorling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doctorlings
Etymology: From doctor + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Such is the infallible decision of our German "theologasters" and doctorlings.
ref: 1853, The Protestant Quarterly Review, volume 10, page 109:
text: That last dreadful clause destroyed the fair vision of each sanguine and sanguinary doctorling, of a “free blow," at lectures and a five dollar diploma.
ref: 1861, Vanity Fair, volume 3, page 6:
glosses: A minor, subordinate, or inferior doctor
doctorlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctorling
bloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blouds
Senses: examples: text: His cruell wounds with cruddy bloud congeald […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 68:
text: It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133:
glosses: Obsolete form of blood.
Derived terms: bloudless
bloud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blouds
form: blouding
form: blouded
form: blouded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of blood.
showedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shewedst
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of show
snowshoe hares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowshoe hare
smotest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: smote + -est
Senses: examples: text: And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 17:5:
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of smite
fabricature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabricatures
Senses: examples: quoted in 1965, James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society
The Romans had Fabricatures of arms near their Great Stations […]
glosses: A manufactory.
hilot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog hilot (“massage”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional healing practice, involving chiropractic manipulation and massage.
non-galactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + galactic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nongalactic.
fortunant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fortunant
form: most fortunant
Senses: examples: text: I have been fortunant enough to have the Laser Version from Japan and a converted PAL from Europe. I love this movie.
ref: 1997 February 19, Randy A. Baker, “Song Of The South”, in alt.disney.collecting (Usenet), retrieved 08 Apr 2022:
text: You are fortunant that your daughter is 13 and is old enough to establish her own relationship with you.
ref: 1998 November 17, Merrie, “Brand new here...”, in alt.support.step-parents (Usenet), retrieved 08 Apr 2022:
text: *A sea otter sets out several sets of scuba gear for less fortunant furs, and a large sign pointing down into the lake. It reads 'Flea Bomb Poker night.'*
ref: 2002 March 3, Jeremy DuCharme, “RP: The Return of Flea-Bomb”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet), retrieved 08 Apr 2022:
text: We were fortunant to get a pair on loan to try for a day. If you can manage the same, I think you will agree that the audio quality is beyond compare...
ref: 2002 April 15, David Kilpatrick, “codecs”, in aus.radio.broadcast (Usenet), retrieved 08 Apr 2022:
glosses: Misconstruction of fortunate.
Related terms: fortunantly
unfortunant
unfortunantly
fraglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fraglets
Etymology: Shortened fragment + -let.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A fragment of distributed code in a bio-inspired network.
subabbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subabbots
Etymology: From sub- + abbot.
Senses: glosses: an abbot with another abbot as their superior
fungenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fungendas
Etymology: Blend of fun + agenda
Senses: examples: text: “So, Jenny. What's on tonight's fungenda? (gasps) Hold that thought, girlfriend. There's a bunch of glass in my hair.”
ref: 2021 May 16, John Solomon & Emily Spivey, “Haul Force One” (14:33 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Louise (Emily Spivey):
glosses: An agenda of planned fun or activities.
fungendas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fungenda
airstruck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of airstrike
not your circus, not your monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: It's none of your business, or not your responsibility; an exhortation to stay out of a volatile or delicate situation.
resyndication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resyndications
Etymology: From re- + syndication.
Senses: glosses: syndication again
resyndications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resyndication
unsyndicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + syndicated.
Senses: glosses: Not syndicated.
nonsyndicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + syndicated.
Senses: glosses: Not syndicated.
polycytosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycytosine
Victoria plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Victoria plums
Etymology: Named in honour of Queen Victoria (1819–1901).
Senses: glosses: A variety of English plum with yellow flesh and a red or mottled skin.
Victoria plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Victoria plum
chrysanthemin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chrysanthemum + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An anthocyanin, the 3-glucoside of cyanidin, found in various plants and fruits including peaches and lychees.
Synonyms: kuromanin
cyanidin-3-glucoside
C3G
Hypernyms: anthocyanin
high chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high chair
subabbots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subabbot
diphenylaminechlorarsine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of adamsite.
synonyms: word: adamsite
aethalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ethalic.
awreet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɔːɹiːt/
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of all right, representing Scottish and Northern England English.
awreet
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɔːɹiːt/
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of all right, representing Scottish and Northern England English.
awreet
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ɔːɹiːt/
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of all right, representing Scottish and Northern England English.
snow monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌŋki
Forms: form: snow monkeys
Senses: glosses: The Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata.
snow monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow monkey
monkeyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkeyisms
Etymology: From monkey + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Tomfoolery; silly or foolish behaviour.
glosses: The Darwinian theory of evolution.
cubic decimetre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubic decimetres
form: cubic decimeter
Senses: glosses: A unit of volume equal to that of a cube having sides each one decimetre in length, equal to 10⁻³ cubic metres and 1 litre. Commonly used in fluid measure and for engine sizes.
Synonyms: dm3
㍹
Related terms: acre
centimetre
cubic metre
cubic foot
cubic inch
cubic yard
foot
inch
kilometre
metre
mile
square centimetre
square foot
square inch
square kilometre
square metre
square mile
square yard
yard
cubic decimetres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubic decimetre
cubic decimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubic decimeters
Senses: glosses: US spelling of cubic decimetre.
cubic decimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubic decimeter
begging letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: begging letters
Senses: examples: text: I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.
ref: 1850 May, Charles Dickens, “The Begging-Letter Writer”, in Household Words:
glosses: A letter in which the writer asks for money.
begging letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of begging letter
Round Table
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Round Table
Etymology: From Middle English rounde table, table rounde, a calque of Old French table rounde.
Senses: examples: text: Then, after a while, King Arthur said: "Let us go and see if, haply, this youth's name is marked upon any of the seats of the Round Table, for I think it should be there."
ref: 1905, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 21:
qualifier: Arthurian legend
glosses: King Arthur's table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his knights congregate, all having equal status since the table has no head.
wikipedia: King Arthur
chumocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chumocracies
Etymology: From chum + -ocracy.
Senses: examples: text: How thrilling it would have been[…] if [Sadiq] Khan had denounced the [Thames garden] bridge in every way: […] as a symbol of the chummery – the chumocracy, even – that so offends the democratic and egalitarian traditions he is proud to represent.
ref: 2016 May 21, Ian Jack, “This garden bridge is an oddity born of the chumocracy”, in The Guardian:
text: The sums are so vast, the secrecy so shocking, that “chumocracy” doesn’t begin to capture what Britain has become – redolent as we are of banana republics, the Russian oligarchy and failed states.
ref: 2021 February 22, Polly Toynbee, “The Covid contracts furore is no surprise – Britain has long been a chumocracy”, in The Guardian:
text: Mr Hancock secretly appointed her [Gina Coladangelo] to his department as an unpaid adviser on a six-month contract in March last year. It sparked claims of a “chumocracy” when it became public knowledge in November.
ref: 2021 June 25, Rob Pattinson, Harry Cole, “Matt Hancock's secret affair with aide exposed after office snogs during Covid”, in The Sun:
glosses: A form of oligarchy: government characterised by nepotism and the frequent appointment to public office of friends or those of similar social background to those in power.
Related terms: chummery
chumocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chumocracy
tail question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail questions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tag question.
synonyms: word: tag question
tail questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tail question
Anaximenean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Anaximenean
form: most Anaximenean
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Ancient Greek philosopher Anaximenes.
Hyponyms: Milesian
substratal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From substrate + -al, substratum + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a substratum.
examples: text: The West African languages that were substratal to most of the Atlantic creoles have regularly overt copulas […].
ref: 2018, John H. McWhorter, The Creole Debate, Cambridge University Press, page 10:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Specifically, pertaining to a substrate language.
superstratal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsupə(ɹ)ˈstɹeɪt.əl/
Etymology: From super- + stratal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a superstratum.
monosialogangliosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monosialoganglioside
quadruple bluffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadruple bluff
quadruple bluffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quadruple bluff
quadruple bluffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quadruple bluff
Adell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *aþalaz.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Adel.
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A township with a very small population in Sheridan County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A village in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States.
eqn.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of equation.
greenhousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of greenhouse
greenhoused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of greenhouse
Hasselback potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Referring to the Hasselbacken Restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden, where the dish originated.
Senses: glosses: A dish of potatoes sliced very thin, but with the bottoms left intact, and then baked and optionally scalloped with cheese.
Lebanon cedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lebanon cedars
Senses: glosses: Cedrus libani subsp. libani, a cedar that grows in Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, northwest Jordan, western Syria, and south-central Turkey.
Synonyms: cedar of Lebanon
Lebanon cedars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lebanon cedar
Jezreel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew יזרעאל (literally “God sows”). Possible doublet of Israel, but this is debated.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Israelite city, located on a hill overlooking the southern edge of a valley of the same name.
glosses: The valley in which this site is located.
Related terms: Zir'in
a village later located on the same site
snow alga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow algae
Senses: glosses: Chlamydomonas nivalis, the alga responsible for watermelon snow.
Synonyms: sense: watermelon snow
word: pink snow
sense: watermelon snow
word: red snow
sense: watermelon snow
word: blood snow
Related terms: ice alga
snow algae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow alga
train time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: train times
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The time when a scheduled passenger train departs or arrives according to the timetable.
lek paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The apparent paradox that additive genetic variation is maintained despite persistent female choice for particular male traits.
ecosystem engineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecosystem engineers
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that creates, significantly modifies, maintains or destroys a habitat.
ecosystem engineers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecosystem engineer
thumb ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumb rings
Senses: glosses: A ring worn over the end of the thumb to protect it during archery.
thumb rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumb ring
power creep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powercreep
Senses: topics: video-games
qualifier: collectible games; roleplaying games; collectible games; roleplaying games
glosses: The situation where successive updates or expansions to a game introduce more powerful units or abilities, leaving the older ones underpowered.
Related terms: feature creep
Pacific Rim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪm
Forms: form: the Pacific Rim
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: Pac Rim
coordinate_terms: Asia-Pacific
APAC
Indo-Pacific
Ring of Fire
glosses: The lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean.
Gravettian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined by English archaeologist Dorothy Garrod in 1938, named after the site of La Gravette in the Dordogne region of France, where the characteristic tools were first found and studied.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, two additional Gravettian sites, Troyanove 4 and Ozerove, have been explored in central Ukraine (Zaliznyak et al. 2007).
ref: 2020, Malcolm C. Lillie, Inna D. Potekhina, editors, Prehistoric Ukraine: From the First Hunters to the First Farmers, Oxbow Books, →ISBN, page 73:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: Solutrean
glosses: Of or relating to a specific archaeological tool-making industry of the European Upper Paleolithic era prevalent before the last glacial maximum, c. 33000–20000 BCE.
Derived terms: Epigravettian
mediocritist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediocritists
Etymology: From mediocrity + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A mediocre person.
mediocritists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediocritist
fan heater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fan heaters
Senses: glosses: an electric heater fitted with a fan which blows out hot air.
lunch break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunch breaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lunchbreak.
studentess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: studentesses
Etymology: From student + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female student.
studentesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of studentess
resubmittals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resubmittal
fan heaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fan heater
Hock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Hock process
Hock tide
NIMBYs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NIMBY
instructoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instructoresses
Etymology: From instructor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of instructress.
instructoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instructoress
Cotswold stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A yellow oolitic Jurassic limestone.
advisoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advisoresses
form: adviseress
Etymology: From advisor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female advisor.
advisoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advisoress
conductoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conductoresses
Etymology: From conductor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conductress.
needs must when the devil drives
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: drive[s:]
Etymology: Originally “needs must he go whom the devil drives”, where needs is an adverb with the sense “of necessity”.
Senses: examples: text: He needs must goe, the Devil drives.
ref: 1664, Charles Cotton, Scarronides; or, Virgile Travestie:
text: My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.
ref: 1623, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well:
text: I doubt we can make it on foot, laden as we are. Dear me! I think we had better have a cab. An extravagance, of course, but needs must where the devil drives, eh?
ref: 1956, Gerald Durrell, “The Talking Flowers”, in My Family and Other Animals, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1959 (1974 printing), →OCLC, page 221:
glosses: There is sometimes no choice but to do some specific thing.
Synonyms: word: needs must
word: necessity knows no law
lunch breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunch break
Brexiteers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brexiteer
cantoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantoresses
Etymology: From cantor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female cantor.
cantoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantoress
benefactoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benefactoresses
Etymology: From benefactor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of benefactress.
benefactoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benefactoress
oil lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil lamp
downily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more downily
form: most downily
Etymology: From downy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a downy manner.
family guy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: family guys
Senses: glosses: Synonym of family man.
synonyms: word: family man
dissimulatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissimulatresses
Etymology: From dissimulator + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female dissimulator; a woman who dissimulates, especially in a sexual context.
dissimulatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissimulatress
dictatoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictatoresses
Etymology: From dictator + -ess.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dictatress.
dictatoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictatoress
copulatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copulatresses
Etymology: From copulator + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female copulator.
drovest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: drove + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of drive
usedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: usedest
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of use
conjugals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for conjugal relations or similar.
Senses: glosses: Sexual activity between a married couple.
trackerphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trackerphones
Etymology: From tracker + phone.
Senses: glosses: A small hand-held positioning device whose main functionality is tracking people or things, and which also allows hands-free voice calling.
senatoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senatoresses
Etymology: From senator + -ess.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of senatress.
senatoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of senatoress
historiola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historiolas
form: historiolae
Etymology: From Latin historiola, from historia.
Senses: examples: text: [A] Mandaic specimen from Kutha (BM 91715) which contains two independent incantations separated by a line: a historiola relating the expulsion of a particular lilith and the report of a dream purportedly dreamt by the client[.]
ref: 2004, The Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, volume 29, page 31:
glosses: A spell which invokes a mythical narrative, asking for the events it describes or similar ones to be enacted (as found in some Greek, Egyptian and other inscriptions).
lilith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liliths
Etymology: See Lilith
Senses: examples: text: [A] Mandaic specimen from Kutha (BM 91715) which contains two independent incantations separated by a line: a historiola relating the expulsion of a particular lilith and the report of a dream purportedly dreamt by the client[.]
ref: 2004, The Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, volume 29, page 31:
text: It describes the liliths who are divorced with these words: “naked are you sent forth, nor are you clad, with your hair disheveled and let fly behind your backs.” And indeed, the drawing of the lilith depicts her as naked[.]
ref: 2013, Practicing Gnosis: Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy, page 384:
text: A drawing and a few inscriptions indicate the appearance of a lilith, as a young naked woman with long dishevelled hair and prominent breasts and genitals […].
ref: 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 68:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A type of female Mesopotamian demon, typically seen as coming to men in dreams and as endangering women during pregnancy or childbirth.
liliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lilith
Semitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Semitic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a Semitic manner.
scholaress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scholaresses
Etymology: From scholar + -ess.
Senses: glosses: Female equivalent of scholar.
cantress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantresses
Etymology: From cantor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female cantor.
Ziocon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ziocons
Etymology: Blend of Zionist + neoconservative
Senses: glosses: A neoconservative Zionist
do out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does out of
form: doing out of
form: did out of
form: done out of
Senses: examples: text: That swindler did me out of £100.
text: "Nevermind, I'll give you a hundred dollars for it," said the king; "you did me out of horse and saddle the other day, and the bridle too, but I'll let bygones be bygones, if I get the pot."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 196:
glosses: To use unfair means to deprive (someone) of (something).
piglice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of pig + police.
Senses: glosses: The police.
Tayler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Taylor.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A female given name.
justificanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of justificandum
justificandum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: justificanda
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: That which is to be justified.
Tomb-Sweeping Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tomb Sweeping Day.
electric flux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric fluxes
Senses: topics: electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measure of flow of the electric field through a given area.
Derived terms: electric flux density
largies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of largie
autofellate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autofellates
form: autofellating
form: autofellated
form: autofellated
Etymology: From auto- + fellate.
Senses: glosses: To perform autofellatio.
Derived terms: autofellator
Related terms: autofellatio
madescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more madescent
form: most madescent
Senses: glosses: Becoming damp or moist.
autofellator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autofellators
Etymology: From autofellate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who performs autofellatio.
autofellates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autofellate
autofellating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autofellate
autofellated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autofellate
librandus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of librandu
legaturas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legatura
microdynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microdynamics.
macrodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + dynamics.
Senses: glosses: large-scale dynamics
macromodel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macromodels
Etymology: From macro- + model.
Senses: glosses: A macroscale model.
macromodel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: macromodels
form: macromodeling
form: macromodelling
form: macromodeled
form: macromodeled
form: macromodelled
form: macromodelled
Etymology: From macro- + model.
Senses: glosses: To model on a large scale.
macromodels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macromodel
meliorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meliorants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ameliorant.
nabby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæ.bɪ/
ipa: /ˈna.bɪ/
ipa: /ˈna.bi/
ipa: /ˈnæ.bi/
Forms: form: nabbies
form: nabbie
form: naby
Etymology: Of uncertain origin, but perhaps an alteration of the adjective nobby (“elegant, graceful”), on account of the appearance of such skiffs.
Senses: glosses: A skiff used for fishing.
nabbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nabby
glosses: plural of nabbie
koftgaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of koftgari.
Acroyoga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acro-yoga
Etymology: Trademark from late 20th century. Blend of acrobatics + yoga.
Senses: glosses: A physical practice that combines yoga and acrobatics.
microphytoplanktonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to microphytoplankton.
coping saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coping saws
Senses: examples: text: The coping saw, with its small U-shaped metal frame and 6-inch-long 14-point blade, is in a good many respects a bow saw in miniature.
ref: 1998, Alan Bridgewater, How to Use & Care for Woodworking Tools, page 11:
coordinate_terms: fretsaw
jigsaw
sabre saw
glosses: A thin-bladed saw for cutting wood into curved shapes.
The S*n
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the S*n
Etymology: From the name of the UK newspaper The Sun, implying that even referring to it by name is offensive. Used particularly in Liverpool since shortly after the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, which The Sun falsely attributed to hooliganism by Liverpool FC fans.
Senses: examples: text: Billionaire entrepreneur Lord Sugar has slammed The S*n newspaper for their Hillsborough coverage after they mocked him for falling for a Twitter hoax.
ref: 2016 January 1, Dan Kay, “Lord Sugar slams The S*n over Hillsborough and backs Liverpool boycott”, in Liverpool Echo:
qualifier: especially Liverpool
glosses: Censored spelling of the Sun, a British tabloid newspaper.
wikipedia: Hillsborough disaster
Liverpool FC
The Sun (United Kingdom)
paving stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paving stones
Senses: glosses: One of many flat stones used to pave an outdoor area.
Related terms: paving slab
gigundo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒaɪˈɡʌndəʊ/
Forms: form: more gigundo
form: most gigundo
Senses: examples: text: So key in a few gigundo numbers and let the calculator do some gargantuan number-crunching.
ref: 1974, Wallace Judd, Games, Tricks, and Puzzles for a Hand Calculator, dilithium Press, published 1978, page 25:
text: “They're gigundo, aren't they?”
“Not as gigundo as my father said.”
ref: 2015, Rob Levandoski, Fresh Eggs:
glosses: Bigger than gigantic.
Männleins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: männleins
form: Mannleins
form: mannleins
Senses: glosses: plural of Männlein
faspa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Plautdietsch Faspa. Cognate to English vesper.
Senses: examples: text: [page 130] Tomorrow, a group of couples their age would come for “faspa.”
[footnote] Afternoon lunch or tea. The word is possibly derived from “vespers.”
[page 131] “You wait and see,” Franz said with a laugh, “those will be girls who will be left old maids! Why, what will people eat for faspa? I wouldn’t have married Hilda before I knew what kind of tvaybak she baked!”
ref: 2011, Milly Janzen Balzer, Heldin: Coming to Terms, Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse
text: [page 60] “[…] Do you want something to eat?” ¶ “Oh sure, Mama. Nothing much, I had faspa at the farm. Maybe just some bread and ham and moos. […]”
[page 198] Faspa: Simple afternoon meal, often consisting of tweiback, cheese, jam, and cake.
ref: 2005, Adele Dueck, Nettie’s Journey, Regina, Saskatchewan: Coteau Books, page 60:
text: Clearly indicating the spaciousness of their house are the notes that the Kroekers regularly hosted the worship service of the town’s largest church; and inevitably this was a time, too, when at least some of Margaretha’s brothers and sisters, the Pletts of Blumenort and Blumenhof, and other church friends from neighbouring villages would say for lunch and perhaps for Faspa.
ref: 2001, Royden Loewen, “From the Inside Out: The World of Mennonite Diaries”, in Robert Wardhaugh, editor, Toward Defining the Prairies: Region, Culture, and History, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, page 69:
text: Occasionally I found myself sitting at the Sunday Faspa table with him at the home of one of my close friends, and observed him and listened to his casual comments with great attention.
ref: 1988, Al Reimer, “Coming in Out of the Cold,” in Harry Loewen ed., Why I Am a Mennonite, Kitchener, Ontario: Herald Press, page 258
glosses: A light afternoon meal, observed in Mennonite tradition.
viscerality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visceralities
Etymology: From visceral + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The viscerality of the paper experience is still unparalleled by any virtual experience, and this can have further consequences.
ref: 2013, Paul Cobley, Peter J. Schulz, Theories and Models of Communication:
synonyms: visceralness#Noun
glosses: The state or quality of being visceral.
A quality of being related to the physical as opposed to the virtual or imaginary world or reality.
synonyms: visceralness#Noun
glosses: The state or quality of being visceral.
An impact a player has on the world in a game.
qualifier: roleplaying games
visceralities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viscerality
bitter apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitter apples
Senses: glosses: Citrullus colocynthis, a vine that bears a hard, bitter fruit.
glosses: A bitter preparation applied to an object to discourage dogs from chewing on it.
Synonyms: sense: Citrullus colocynthis
word: colocynth
sense: Citrullus colocynthis
word: bitter cucumber
sense: Citrullus colocynthis
word: desert gourd
sense: Citrullus colocynthis
word: egusi
sense: Citrullus colocynthis
word: vine of Sodom
sense: Citrullus colocynthis
word: wild gourd
phorozooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phorozooids
Etymology: From phoro- + zooid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A zooid of the sexual generation of some free-swimming tunicates which though it becomes free-swimming does not mature sexually.
babiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baby + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of babyness.
matter of life or death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matters of life or death
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of matter of life and death.
phytoindole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoindoles
Etymology: From phyto- + indole.
Senses: glosses: An indole that naturally occurs in plants.
endocellulase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocellulases
Etymology: From endo- + cellulase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cellulase that hydrolyses glycoside links within (rather than at the ends of) cellulose chains.
Related terms: exocellulase
single-tasking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of an operating system, etc., only capable of execution of one task (program or app) at a time, not many tasks simultaneously.
Britishize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Britishizes
form: Britishizing
form: Britishized
form: Britishized
form: Britishise
Etymology: From British + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make or become British.
Britishify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Britishifies
form: Britishifying
form: Britishified
form: Britishified
Etymology: From British + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make British.
V-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Shaped like the letter V; especially, designating one of the two major types of valley (the other being U-shaped), typically formed by flowing water.
Derived terms: V-shaped body
V-shaped passage grave
V-shaped recession
V-shaped valley
Related terms: A-shaped - B-shaped - C-shaped - D-shaped - E-shaped - F-shaped - G-shaped - H-shaped - I-shaped - J-shaped - K-shaped - L-shaped - M-shaped - N-shaped - O-shaped - P-shaped - Q-shaped - R-shaped - S-shaped - T-shaped - U-shaped - V-shaped - W-shaped - X-shaped - Y-shaped - Z-shaped
V-sign
kufiyyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kufiyya
plet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pleated; plated; folded.
shearing shed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shearing sheds
Senses: glosses: A building in which sheep are sheared.
regulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regulants
Senses: examples: text: plant growth regulants
glosses: That which regulates; a regulator.
undisappointable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + disappointable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be disappointed.
kunefes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kunefe
plumbata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumbatae
form: plumbata
Etymology: From Latin plumbāta.
Senses: examples: text: The plumbata was an ancient Roman version of the lawn dart—a weighted projectile with a sharp point that was lobbed underhanded toward its target. And like the lawn dart, the plumbata killed its share of people. […] A typical Roman legionary could carry up to four plumbata inside his shield, […]
ref: 2013, John O'Bryan, A History of Weapons: Crossbows, Caltrops, Catapults & Lots of Other Things that Can Seriously Mess You Up, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 68:
text: "These plumbata make marching difficult," he complained to Claudius, who was marching beside him.
ref: 2016, Rexford Walker, Strike of Venus, →ISBN:
glosses: A lead-weighted dart, used by soldiers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
plumbatae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumbata
podite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πούς (poús, “foot”) + -ite (“bodypart”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A limb of a crustacean when ambulatory.
Derived terms: basipodite
carpopodite
coxopodite
dactylopodite
endopodite
epipodite
exopodite
gnathopodite
gonocoxopodite
ischiopodite
meropodite
propodite
protopodite
telopodite
ICNCP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants.
Related terms: cultigen
cultivar
grex
Group
cultivar-group
stiria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stiriae
Etymology: From Latin stīria (“icicle”).
Senses: examples: text: the Microscope can afford us hundreds of Instances of Points many thousand times sharper: such as […] the ends of the stiriæ or small parallelipipeds of Amianthus […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section I:
glosses: An icicle-shaped concretion.
tabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabbers
Etymology: From tab + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Mail tabbers are an economical and timesaving alternative for mass mailings, such as newsletters and brochures. Instead of inserting the pages inside an envelope, which then needs to be sealed, a tabber places a small adhesive tab (or wafer seal) on folded sheets of paper to securely hold them shut.
ref: 2013, Entrepreneur magazine, Grant-Writing Business: Step-by-Step Startup Guide:
glosses: A device for applying an adhesive tab.
examples: text: Under this system, outstanding freshmen cadets (green tabbers) are picked during the first semester, and "marked" with green shoulder tabs and green plastic lapel discs.
ref: 1963, Army, volume 14, page 37:
text: But the sensitivity of the issue still lingered. To this day ex-servicemen still identify themselves as "Red Tabbers" or "Red Tab", […]
ref: 1978, Papers in International Studies: Africa series, page 35:
glosses: One who wears a tab of a specified kind.
examples: text: OmniWeb has a reputation for fast browsing, but if you're a card-carrying member of TA (Tabbers Anonymous), you need the 5.0 beta version to get that feature.
ref: 2004, Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest, Google: The Missing Manual, page 172:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A user who switches between tabs.
restipulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: restipulates
form: restipulating
form: restipulated
form: restipulated
Etymology: From re- + stipulate.
Senses: glosses: To stipulate again.
Related terms: restipulation
mettest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: met + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of meet
rudite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rudites
Etymology: From Latin rudus (“debris”) + -ite.
Senses: glosses: psephite
Related terms: rudaceous
investorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From investor + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly for the foreseeable future the commission will be concerned with the contemporary issues of the day — consumerism, environmentalism, inflation, and now investorism. The new investorism comes as a result of investors' feeling that the PUC has given too much attention to consumers in the past.
ref: 1979, A. Janell Anderson, Decisionmaking in the California P.U.C, page 57:
text: Contrary to mainstream Wall Street assumptions, it was the state that catalyzed both mass investment and investorism during the First World War through the mass selling of Liberty war bonds to some 30 million middle-class Americans.
ref: 2009, Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, →ISBN, page 180:
text: Indeed historian Julia Ott has shown how the federal government's impetus for the investing craze (known as “investorism”) built upon such an ideology.
ref: 2012, Thomas Welskopp, Alan Lessoff, Fractured Modernity, →ISBN:
glosses: An ideology that stresses the importance of investment for the health of the economy.
isoreticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + reticular.
Senses: examples: text: For articles that report a series of compounds that have the same underlying topology (isoreticular), we counted such compounds as a single occurrence; however, the trend remains unchanged even when the total number of compounds belonging to such isoreticular series is counted as multiple occurrences.
ref: 2005, Nathan W. Ockwig, Development and illustration of a unified conceptual framework for the design of extended metal-organic structures, page 47:
text: Importantly, an isoreticular series of porous materials containing the basic zinc acetate SBU and dicarboxylate ligands exists.
ref: 2009, Stuart R. Batten, Suzanne M. Neville, David R. Turner, Coordination Polymers: Design, Analysis and Application, →ISBN, page 175:
text: Nevertheless, there exist few examples where similar reaction conditions lead to a family of isoreticular compounds.
ref: 2013, Fransesc X. LlabrÚs i Xamena, & Jorge Gascon, Metal Organic Frameworks as Heterogeneous Catalysts, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: Having the same or similar structural topology.
rubricans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubrican
student number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: student numbers
Etymology: From student + number.
Senses: glosses: A code assigned to a student upon entering an educational institution, and used to identify the student in official documents.
student numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of student number
sarpes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarpe
sarpat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi सरपत (sarpat), from Sanskrit शर (śara, “arrow, reed”) + पत्त्र (pattra, “leaf”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of sugarcane or sugarcane-like grasses found in India, of the genera Saccharum and Tripidium.
glosses: The leaf of such a plant.
Related terms: munja
full bathrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full bathroom
titillator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titillators
Etymology: From titillate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who titillates
retorture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retortures
form: retorturing
form: retortured
form: retortured
Etymology: From re- + torture.
Senses: glosses: To torture again.
half bathrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half bathroom
tonges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonge
comfort stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comfort station
thanQ
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Informal spelling of thank you.
Baniwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baniwas
form: Baniwa
form: Baniva
form: Baniua
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of South American Indians inhabiting the Amazon Region, in the border area of Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela and along the Rio Negro and its tributaries.
Baniwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baniva
form: Baniba
Senses: glosses: An Arawakan language spoken in Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil.
Synonyms: Karu
Tapuya
Tapuia
Izaneni
Hyponyms: english: sometimes considered a separate language from the Baniwa language(s)
translation: sometimes considered a separate language from the Baniwa language(s)
word: Curripaco
word: Carutana
word: Siusi