cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bellower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellowers
Etymology: From bellow + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And these [oxen] the wittie-borne
(Argicides,) set serious spie vpon:
Seuering from all the rest; and setting gone
Full fiftie of the violent Bellowers.
ref: c. 1624, “A Hymne to Hermes”, in George Chapman, transl., The Crowne of all Homers workes Batrachomyomachia or the battaile of frogs and mise. His hymn’s - and - epigrams, London, page 56:
text: 1794, Robert Jephson, Roman Portraits, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, lines 558-561, p. 38,
Besides, the scent of mischief lur’d along
(The scum of towns) a numerous noisy throng;
Bellowers, unfit to govern or obey,
Who little heed the cause, but love the fray;
text: ‘A—hem!’ cried the same voice; and that, not in the tone of an ordinary clearing of the throat, but in a kind of bellow, which woke up all the echoes in the neighbourhood, and was prolonged to an extent which must have made the unseen bellower quite black in the face.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “chapter 41”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
text: Mic-swinging lead bellower Roger Daltrey stuck to singing, while sometime-vocalist Pete Townshend proved his guitar game was as strong as his aptitude and willingness for pithy, insolent commentary.
ref: 2016 October 10, Brad Wheeler, “Roger Waters, The Who get political at Desert Trip”, in The Globe and Mail:
glosses: One who bellows.
glosses: A town crier.
bellowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellower
bibliophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From biblio- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Having, or pertaining to, bibliophilia (the love of books).
Derived terms: bibliophilically
unbibliophilic
bittersweetness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bittersweet + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being bittersweet.
Synonyms: poignancy
cavaquinho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kavaˈkiːnjuː/
Forms: form: cavaquinhos
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese cavaquinho, from the diminutive of cavaco (“fragment of wood”).
Senses: examples: text: One person came back with a guitar, another with a Brazilian-style ukulele called a cavaquinho, and a third with a tambourine and a tantam drum with a long, thick neck.
ref: 2022 February 7, Jonathan Blitzer, “How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
glosses: A small guitar-string instrument of Portuguese origin, with four wire or gut strings, played with a plectrum.
Synonyms: braguinha
braguinho
cavaquinhos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavaquinho
cossetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cosset
cossetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cosset
dadlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dadlike
form: most dadlike
Etymology: From dad + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He put his hand around the back of my neck in a friendly, dadlike way.
ref: 2005, Brian Sloan, A Really Nice Prom Mess:
text: He still has that dadlike tone that means I must obey him, so I sit.
ref: 2007, Laura Preble, Queen Geeks in Love:
text: For most apes and probably for early hominids, we wouldn't expect much dadlike behavior.
ref: 2008, Robert Engelman, More:
glosses: Befitting a dad; fatherly.
didacticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: didacticisms
Etymology: From didactic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An artistic philosophy that emphasises instructional and informative qualities over mere entertainment.
glosses: A work, statement, etc. of this kind.
Derived terms: didact
didactic
didactical
didactically
didacticist
didacticist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more didacticist
form: most didacticist
Etymology: From didactic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to didacticism.
didacticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: didacticists
Etymology: From didactic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A didacticist artist or writer.
Derived terms: didact
didactic
didactical
didactically
didacticism
didacticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of didacticist
show the flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows the flag
form: showing the flag
form: showed the flag
form: shown the flag
form: showed the flag
Senses: glosses: To display the flag of one's country, especially as an expression of patriotic pride.
examples: text: A few suggestions are given . . . maintaining an effective naval squadron to show the flag and protect American interests.
ref: 1896, John Barrett, “America's Interest in Eastern Asia”, in North American Review, volume 162, number 472, pages 263–264:
text: On a routine cruise to "show the flag," the British warships Amphion and Contest steamed into the harbor of Santa Ana Island in the southern Solomons (which are under a British protectorate).
ref: 1947 September 29, “Martin Lo”, in Time:
text: Cruisers perform routine independent "show the flag" patrols in settled systems and lead flotillas of frigates in small engagements, such as pirate suppression campaigns.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Starships: Cruisers Codex entry:
glosses: Of a naval vessel or military force, to identify itself by displaying the flag of its country of origin, especially in order to establish an authoritative presence and to exert diplomatic or political influence.
examples: text: Henry Kissinger stopped off in Kabul to show the flag for a few hours in 1974.
ref: 1980 January 28, “‘Who Lost Afghanistan?’”, in Time:
text: The Bush–Cheney re-election campaign will send a high-profile team of surrogates to both Iowa and New Hampshire in the coming days to train and motivate Republican activists and to "show the flag" in states in which the Democratic presidential race has dominated political debate.
ref: 2004 January 19, “Bush operatives moving to primary states”, in CNN, retrieved 04 Jan 2009:
glosses: To represent one's country or some other group in a manner intended to suggest the authority or importance of that country or group.
Related terms: gunboat diplomacy
economywide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From economy + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Throughout the economy.
intonational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intonation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to intonation.
Derived terms: intonationally
intonational phrase
intonationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intonational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intonational context.
kaffiyehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaffiyeh
polycarboxylic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycarboxylic acid
in-betweener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: in-betweeners
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of inbetweener.
in-betweeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of in-betweener
babyface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babyfaces
Etymology: From baby + face.
Senses: examples: text: The smooth babyface of the man in the chair broke into a shy smile; he looked at the camera and said, "Hello, folks. Excuse me for sitting down. I'm still weak."
ref: 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter VI, in Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 43:
text: [Jim] Freedman began his analysis by noting two important facts about professional wrestling: First, that heels triumph considerably more often than do babyfaces and, second, that they triumph by different means, relying on secret holds, sly managers, secret weapons, and illegal maneuvers, whereas babyfaces trust to their physical abilities and athletic training alone.
ref: 1989, Bruce Lincoln, “The Dialectics of Symbolic Inversion”, in Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part III (Classification), page 158:
text: A babyface’s success depends a great deal on the heels he’s facing. It’s all in how you make them look. A good heel will make your babyface look like Superman.
ref: 2007 October, Dave Batista [i.e., Dave Bautista]; with Jeremy Roberts, “Evolution”, in Batista Unleashed, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: Alternative form of baby face.
babyfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babyface
karmically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From karmic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a karmic context.
laceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lace + -less.
Senses: examples: 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.
qualifier: basketballs
glosses: Without laces.
raw_tags: of shoes
clankingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clankingly
form: most clankingly
Etymology: From clanking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Then he snored gently, the dog clankingly searching for fleas beside the planter’s chair, unaware as yet of her booked passage to India.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 203:
glosses: With a clanking sound.
clinkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clinkingly
form: most clinkingly
Etymology: From clinking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a clinking sound.
crunchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crunchingly
form: most crunchingly
Etymology: From crunching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As I stood there someone stepped crunchingly on the gravel path before the shuttered windows. I turned, and there was Pengelly.
ref: 1931, Hugh Walpole, Above the Dark Tumult, page 46:
text: He bites crunchingly through the breast, tearing through skin, flesh and bone till his teeth meet..
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 183:
glosses: With a crunching sound or action.
unscannable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + scannable.
Senses: examples: text: There is no prototype for the new bills, but Treasury officials said the final design work on the portrait adjustment, matching watermark security threads and unscannable threads had been authorized by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen.
ref: 1994 July 14, “Greenbacks to Get High-Tech Makeover”, in The New York Times:
glosses: That cannot be scanned.
leeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more leeringly
form: most leeringly
Etymology: From leering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a leering manner.
multiorgasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiorgasms
Etymology: From multi- + orgasm.
Senses: glosses: Multiple orgasm with no refractory period.
Derived terms: multiorgasmic
multiorgasmically
multiorgasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiorgasm
maskless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæskləs/
Etymology: From mask + -less.
Senses: examples: text: “One-way masking works,” Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease specialist at Johns Hopkins University, said. When he is treating tuberculosis patients, they are typically maskless, and he wears an N95 mask to protect himself.
ref: 2022 April 22, David Leonhardt, “Maskless Flying”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: unmasked
antonyms: masked
glosses: Without a mask; lacking a mask or masks.
Derived terms: masklessness
megajerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megajerks
Etymology: From mega- + jerk.
Senses: examples: text: "I guess Valerie's death is probably why Devin's been such a megajerk," Joelle told the filly as she groomed her later.
ref: 1998, Karle Dickerson, The Forgotten Filly:
text: I love him, and he's had a bad time since Mom died, which is why I can forgive him for being such a megajerk, but he's not exactly gracious company...
ref: 2005, Lisa Marie Rice, Woman on the Run:
text: Or maybe they've — you've — had a run-in with the gum-popping, eye-rolling, demanding megajerks; the chatty, bargain-hungry Target cashier; or an irritated armchair film critic like Aunt Linda...
ref: 2009 January 4, Melena Ryzik, “She's really shy, but that's a secret”, in New York Times:
glosses: A particularly objectionable jerk.
megajerks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megajerk
misprice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misprices
form: mispricing
form: mispriced
form: mispriced
Etymology: From mis- + price.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, in all contexts, markets instill antisocial motivations in buyers and sellers, misprice items that are exchanged, misdirect aims regarding what to produce in what quantities and by what means, misremunerate producers, introduce class division and class rule, and embody an imperial logic that spreads itself throughout economic life.
ref: 2008, Chris Spannos, Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, page 96:
glosses: To price incorrectly or unsuitably.
misprices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misprice
mispricing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misprice
mispricing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispricings
Senses: examples: text: And the third uses computers and statistics to profit from short-term mispricings in stocks.
ref: 2009 January 11, Tim Gray, “How Three Mutual Funds Steered Away From the Cliff”, in New York Times:
glosses: A situation in which something has been mispriced
raw_tags: of misprice
mispriced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misprice
neuroimage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neuroimages
form: neuroimaging
form: neuroimaged
form: neuroimaged
Etymology: From neuro- + image.
Senses: glosses: To produce an image of the structure or function of part of the brain.
neuroimage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroimages
Etymology: From neuro- + image.
Senses: glosses: An image of this kind.
neuroimaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnjʊəɹəʊˈɪmɪdʒɪŋ/
Etymology: From neuro- + imaging.
Senses: examples: text: Adrian Raine [...] recently carried out a neuroimaging experiment that supports the idea that violence arises from an imbalance between impulses from the limbic system and self-control from the frontal lobes.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 722:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The generation of images showing activity in the nervous system, usually and especially brain activity.
Hyponyms: english: MRI of brain
translation: MRI of brain
word: MRI of head
english: CT of brain
translation: CT of brain
word: CT of head
word: brain imaging
Coordinate terms: neurodiagnosis
neuroexamination
neuroprognosis
Related terms: neuroimager
neuroimaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnjʊəɹəʊˈɪmɪdʒɪŋ/
Etymology: From neuroimage + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neuroimage
neuroimaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of neuroimage
neuroimages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of neuroimage
neuroimages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroimage
neurolinguistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + linguistic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to neurolinguistics.
Synonyms: neurolinguistical
Related terms: neurolinguistically
neurolinguistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + linguistical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to neurolinguistics.
Synonyms: neurolinguistic
Derived terms: neurolinguistically
neurolinguistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From neurolinguistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a neurolinguistic context.
neuromarketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + marketing.
Senses: glosses: A marketing discipline that studies consumers' sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective responses to marketing stimuli.
nonsighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sighted.
Senses: glosses: Lacking sight; blind.
noxiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more noxiously
form: most noxiously
Etymology: From noxious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a noxious manner.
nocuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nocuously
form: most nocuously
Etymology: From nocuous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nocuous manner.
porgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porgy
glosses: plural of porgie
overexplain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overexplains
form: overexplaining
form: overexplained
form: overexplained
Etymology: From over- + explain.
Senses: glosses: To explain at unnecessary length or in too much detail.
Derived terms: overexplainer
overexplains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overexplain
overexplaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overexplain
overexplained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overexplain
overschedule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overschedules
form: overscheduling
form: overscheduled
form: overscheduled
Etymology: From over- + schedule.
Senses: glosses: To overfill the schedule of.
overschedules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overschedule
overscheduling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overschedule
overscheduled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overschedule
pitchwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitchwomen
Etymology: From pitch + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female pitchman; a saleswoman.
pitchwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitchwoman
photographeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photographeresses
Etymology: From photographer + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Ring has become a crack amateur photographeress, and recently favored her Oberlin friends with some beautiful "snap shots" of French peasant women...
ref: 1891, The Oberlin Review:
text: "The photographeress?" "The woman photographer of your firm." "She's not here now. She's off taking pictures of Southern coastal trees."
ref: 1975, E M Broner, Her Mothers:
text: As your charming photographeress cannot explain by word what she wishes...
ref: 1998, Heinz K Henisch, Positive Pleasures: Early Photography and Humor:
glosses: A female photographer.
Synonyms: camerawoman
photographess
photographeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photographeress
camgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camgirls
form: cam girl
Etymology: From cam + girl.
Senses: examples: text: […] drawing viewer registration fees, selling advertising space, or by inviting viewers to send gifts to the camgirl from a linked wish list.
ref: 2004, Anita Harris, Future Girl:
text: Some sites even provide directories of camgirl pages, allowing users to search for sites by the camgirl's age, her location […]
ref: 2004, Paul Bocij, Cyberstalking:
text: […] a network of singles, pay-for-play camgirl shows, and "interactive 3D sex fantasy games".
ref: 2006, Annalee Newitz, Charlie Anders, She's Such a Geek!:
synonyms: camwhore
glosses: A girl or woman who publishes or broadcasts webcam photographs or videos of herself, often for adult entertainment.
Coordinate terms: camboy
camgirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camgirl
playwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playwritings
form: play-writing
Etymology: From play + writing.
Senses: topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: The writing of plays.
playwriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playwriters
Etymology: From play + writer.
Senses: glosses: One who writes plays; a playwright.
playwriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playwriter
pseudonymously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pseudonymous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “I’m an oversharer,” she said. In addition to posting her most interesting interactions to Reddit, she is writing a book about the relationship online, pseudonymously.
ref: 2025 January 15, Kashmir Hill, “She Is in Love With ChatGPT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Under a pseudonym.
topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to pseudonymization.
rescan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rescans
form: rescanning
form: rescanned
form: rescanned
Etymology: From re- + scan.
Senses: glosses: To scan again.
rescan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rescans
Etymology: From re- + scan.
Senses: glosses: A repeated scan; the act or result of scanning again.
rescans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rescan
rescans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescan
rescanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rescan
rescanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rescannings
Senses: glosses: The act of scanning again.
rescanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rescan
selectiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selectivenesses
Etymology: From selective + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being selective; discernment.
Related terms: selectivity
socializer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socializers
Etymology: From socialize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In public he put on a performance that was at once outraged and outrageous, but usually he did not carry grudges into his private life. Exuding the backslapping air of a socializer who loved to gamble and drink, he could not understand why people whose careers he had ruined and publicly ridiculed would be hostile to his friendly advances.
ref: 1983 August 13, John Kyper, “Flamboyant Inquisitor”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 14:
text: I remember reading an article that described three personality types – socializers, loners, and aloners.
ref: 2013, Margaux Joy DeNador, The Art of Living a Life You Love, page 158:
glosses: One who socializes.
socialiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socialisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of socializer.
socializers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socializer
socialisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socialiser
transdisciplinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transdisciplinary
form: most transdisciplinary
Etymology: From trans- + disciplinary.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: crossdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, pluridisciplinary
coordinate_terms: crossfunctional
glosses: Holistically encompassing more than one academic discipline; (sometimes) transcending disciplinarity.
Related terms: transdisciplinarian
transdisciplinarity
unranked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ranked.
Senses: examples: text: That’s exactly what Twitch streamer Bogur did when he set out on a quest to rise from unranked all the way to Grand Master by strictly playing Winston, but that’s not all.
ref: 2022 September 6, Michael Gwilliam, “Overwatch streamer goes from unranked to GM with no sound or HUD”, in Dexerto:
glosses: Not ranked.
unsensationalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sensationalized.
Senses: glosses: Not sensationalized; reported in a reasonable manner.
unsensationalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sensationalised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unsensationalized.
unassailably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈseɪləbli/
Forms: form: more unassailably
form: most unassailably
Etymology: From unassailable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Blank sightless eyes closed speechless mouth destined eternally to rigid frigidity (frigor mortis). Impenetrable, not an orifice in sight. Inviolably inviolate body unassailably confined within a wall of stone ("leda, lada, aflutter afraida, so does your girdle grow!").
ref: 1991, Ailbhe Smyth, “The Floozie in the Jacuzzi”, in Feminist Studies, volume 17, number 1:
text: Contrary to his assertion, however, virtually all relevant researchers say the link between CFCs and ozone depletion is based on unassailably solid scientific evidence.
ref: 1995, Ross Gelbspan, “The Heat Is On: The Warming of the World’s Climate Sparks a Blaze of Denial”, in Harper's Magazine, footnote 2:
text: [H]owever hard she pushed the tough-talkin' shtick, she remained doe-eyed, glowing and somehow unassailably demure.
ref: 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: In an unassailable manner.
victimizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victimizers
Etymology: From victimize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who victimizes.
Synonyms: aggressor
bully
victimiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victimisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of victimizer.
victimizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victimizer
victimisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victimiser
toweringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more toweringly
form: most toweringly
Etymology: From towering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a towering manner.
boomingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more boomingly
form: most boomingly
Etymology: From booming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'Mid this spectacle of wide and wanton spoil, insular noises of falling rocks would boomingly explode upon the silence and fright all the echoes, which ran shrieking in and out among the caves, as wailing women and children in some assaulted town.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, Book 25, Chapter 4:
text: Then, impelled to some gesture, he raised his voice and in one of his first basso notes called boomingly and without reticence for the waiter.
ref: 1928 July 28, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Basil: The Freshest Boy”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
text: A questioner from the floor […] accused him of being too rich to care about ordinary people; and while Gerald boomingly deplored the statement you could see it sinking and settling in his flushed features as a kind of acclaim.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 13, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
text: The wise king Mufasa (boomingly voiced in both the original and the Favreau remake by the late, great James Earl Jones) is murdered; the evil uncle Scar takes over Pride Rock; Mufasa’s son Simba returns to overthrow Scar; the animal kingdom rejoices and everyone lives happily ever after.
ref: 2024 December 18, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Disney's taxidermized IP is brighter and livelier in Mufasa: The Lion King”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 13 Jan 2025:
glosses: In a booming manner; loudly.
temsirolimus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + sirolimus.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An intravenous drug for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma, a derivative of sirolimus.
sirolimus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈɹoʊ.lɪm.əs/
Forms: form: rapamycin
Etymology: From [Term?] + (mac)rol(ide) + -imus (“immunosuppressant”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An immunosuppressive drug C₅₁H₇₉NO₁₃ that is a macrocyclic lactone obtained from a soil bacterium Streptomyces hygroscopicus and is taken orally especially to prevent rejection of transplanted organs.
Derived terms: english: rapamycin derivative
translation: rapamycin derivative
word: -rolimus
antiproliferative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + proliferative.
Senses: glosses: Tending to suppress cell growth, especially the growth of malignant cells into surrounding tissue
Derived terms: antiproliferatively
antiproliferative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiproliferatives
Etymology: From anti- + proliferative.
Senses: glosses: Such a material
everolimus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -rolimus (“rapamycin derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A derivative of rapamycin, used as an immunosuppressant to prevent rejection of organ transplants.
sexualise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sexualises
form: sexualising
form: sexualised
form: sexualised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sexualize.
sexualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexualizations
Etymology: From sexual + -ization or sexualize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: We are inclined to doubt Pott's confident assumption that sexualization is a necessary consequence of personification.
ref: 1895, The Century Dictionary page 5538 quoting Classical Rev III pg 395
related: word: sexualisation
antonyms: desexualization
glosses: The act or process of sexualizing.
Related terms: objectification
sexualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexualisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sexualization.
sexualises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sexualise
sexualising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sexualise
sexualised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sexualise
unsighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sighted.
Senses: examples: text: With all the wealth, the enhanced comfort and emancipation, the goal is still unneared, and we may say even unsighted.
ref: 1876, Charles De Berard Mills, The Indian Saint, Or, Buddha and Buddhism, page 171:
glosses: Not sighted; unseen.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Not furnished with a sight.
examples: text: Life for an unsighted person can be as interesting and challenging as for anyone else.
ref: 2002, Margaret S. Tuller, The "Sweet" Uses of Adversity, page 262:
glosses: Without the sense of sight; blind.
Discordianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Discordianists
Etymology: From Discordian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A Discordian; one who subscribes to Discordianism.
Discordianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Discordianist
reactionarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reactionarily
form: most reactionarily
Etymology: From reactionary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reactionary manner.
Guardianista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪstə
Forms: form: Guardianistas
Etymology: From Guardian + -ista.
Senses: examples: text: And so the Guardianista is prepared for a tragic story of injustice and retribution, brought about by the evil that stalks the dark corners of cyberspace.
ref: 2005, Tim Worstall, 2005: Dispatches from the Blogosphere:
text: […] the shrieking 'Guardianista' class and poor old Trevor Norris, because Trevor Norris was a local pain in the arse who'd once opposed a Heath development […]
ref: 2007, Adam Thorpe, Between Each Breath:
text: But if councils were still run part-time by engine drivers — not self-regarding, pious Guardianistas — at the very least we'd get our dustbins emptied once a week.
ref: 2007 December 10, “Better an engine driver than a Guardianista!”, in Daily Mail:
glosses: A reader of the Guardian newspaper, regarded as middle-class, excessively liberal and politically correct, etc.
Guardianistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Guardianista
wackyparsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wackyparse
misparse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈpɑː(ɹ)s/
ipa: /ˈmɪspɑː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: misparses
form: misparsing
form: misparsed
form: misparsed
Etymology: From mis- + parse.
Senses: glosses: To parse incorrectly.
Related terms: mislexicalize
mistokenize
misparse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈpɑː(ɹ)s/
ipa: /ˈmɪspɑː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: misparses
Etymology: From mis- + parse.
Senses: glosses: An instance of incorrect parsing; a misparsing.
misparses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misparse
misparsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misparse
misparsing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misparsings
Senses: glosses: An instance of incorrect parsing.
misparsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misparse
contracyclically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From contracyclical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contracyclical manner.
strumpetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strumpet + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: However, these abandoned women had other prospects besides mere strumpetry […]
ref: 1940, Sydney Horler, Malefactors' Row:
text: […] how capitalism had taken young male proletarians to be slaughtered in wars for markets and how their sisters were thrust into strumpetry.
ref: 2001, Tibor Fischer, Under the Frog:
glosses: Whoredom; prostitution.
examples: text: “Political itching"—a reference, perhaps, to the duchess's notorious political and sexual intriguing, and carrying the implicit suggestion that her strumpetry led to her contraction of “the itch," or venereal disease.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull, Undertaker of the Mind, page 240:
glosses: Behaviour suited to a strumpet; brazenness, sluttishness.
Discordians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Discordian
verbalisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From verbalise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of verbalizable.
verbalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From verbalize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be verbalized, or expressed in words.
Synonyms: sayable
speakable
utterable
earthquake engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of the behavior of buildings and structures subject to seismic loading
torturess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torturesses
Etymology: From torturer + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: […] like Masoch himself in his personal life, draw up quasi-legal documents granting specific powers to the torturess for a certain length of time.
ref: 1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari:
text: Furthermore, sadism and masochism do not meet somewhere in the middle. The masochist does not want a sadistic torturess […]
ref: 2003, David Cotter, James Joyce and the Perverse Ideal:
text: The gulf between the female characters and their performance as the torturess, for example Wanda's reincarnation as the titular Venus in furs […]
ref: 2005, Catherine Constable, Thinking in Images:
glosses: A female torturer.
torturesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torturess
speakable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English spekabyll; equivalent to speak + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be spoken; utterable, verbalizable.
examples: text: Once the group knows that suicide is a speakable topic […]
ref: 2004, Robert I. Yufit, David Lester, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Suicidal Behavior:
text: 2016, Major Kwark in Ratchet and Clank (film), 75m
Arrest this man for his speakable crimes against the galaxy.
glosses: Acceptable as a topic of discussion; not subject to taboo.
examples: text: Redouble then this miracle, and say, / How cam'st thou speakable of mute […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of speech.
tormenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tormenters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tormentor.
tormenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tormenter
tormentress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔɹˈmɛn.tɹəs/
Forms: form: tormentresses
Etymology: From Middle English turmenteresse. By surface analysis, tormentor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentresse of glory and honour.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
text: But if the victim Lavinia offers a prime example, her tormentress Tamora provides a no less striking model of another kind.
ref: 1996, Gordon Williams, Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution:
text: "Tell me," I repeated, but, alas ! miserably out of tune. My confusion rapidly increased, when the fair tormentress, turning towards me, said, perhaps it is my fault — I am not playing correctly?"
ref: 1836, The Meerut Universal Magazine, volume 2, page 390:
synonyms: tormentrix
glosses: A female tormentor.
tormentresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tormentress
Titanesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Titaness
PIM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIMs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: PKM
glosses: Acronym of personal information management.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Acronym of personal information manager, a kind of software with the functionality of a personal organizer.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Acronym of platform-independent model.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of penalties in minutes: the total number of penalties accrued by a player during a set time period (such as a career, a season, or a tournament).
dooced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dooced
form: most dooced
Senses: glosses: Deuced.
dooced
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dooced
form: most dooced
Senses: examples: text: Should have liked to belong to that set, only they drank so dooced hard.
ref: 1884, George Augustus Sala, Quite Alone, page 18:
text: "Dooced good fishing in Blankshire," threw in Charlie Mayne.
ref: 1878, John Byrne Leicester Warren, Salvia Richmond:
glosses: Deuced.
dooced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Coined in 2002 from Dooce, the pseudonym of American blogger Heather Armstrong, who was dismissed for blogging about her work and colleagues, + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Bill Poon in California got dooced from a burger joint when he posted a picture of his boss on MySpace.
ref: 2007, Erik Ringmar, A Blogger's Manifesto:
text: Careless blogging can get you dooced.
ref: 2007, Laurie J Mullins, Management and Organisational Behaviour:
glosses: Dismissed from one's job as a result of one's actions on the Internet.
deuced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: d(y)o͞oʹ-sĭd
enpr: d(y)o͞ost
ipa: /ˈd(j)uːsɪd/
ipa: /d(j)uːst/
rhymes: -uːsɪd
rhymes: -uːst
Forms: form: more deuced
form: most deuced
Etymology: From deuce + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The Prince don’t marry nowadays, as you say: unless the Princess has a doosid deal of money in the funds, or is a lady of his own rank.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 30, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Damned.
deuced
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: d(y)o͞oʹ-sĭd
enpr: d(y)o͞ost
ipa: /ˈd(j)uːsɪd/
ipa: /d(j)uːst/
rhymes: -uːsɪd
rhymes: -uːst
Forms: form: more deuced
form: most deuced
Etymology: From deuce + -ed.
Senses: qualifier: degree
glosses: Damned.
Synonyms: deucedly
hologrammatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hologrammatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Whether or not the biological universe exists hologrammatically in each of us, we can see that we are in the bare infancy of understanding the genetic code and who we are.
ref: 1985, Between the Species: A Journal of Ethics, page 9:
text: The most insightful diagnoses and deepest modes of healing likewise operate hologrammatically.
ref: 2001, Richard Grossinger, Planet Medicine: Origins, page 534:
text: Both coexist hologrammatically, that is, every part contains the whole.
ref: 2007, David Richo, The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know:
glosses: In a hologrammatic fashion.
discernability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From discern + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being discernable.
Synonyms: noticeableness
perceptibility
womynhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From womyn + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Reclaiming my true womynhood, learning to truly know and love myself and other wimmin has taken time.
ref: 1980, Susan J Wolfe, Julia Penelope, The Coming Out Stories:
text: Indeed, the opera recovers the bound and raped bodies of Afro-Asian womynhood as evidence of the need for a transracial feminist dialectic...
ref: 2004, Bill Mullen, Afro-Orientalism:
text: In one brave and defiant performance, she redefined the patriarchal constructions of beauty, femininity, and womynhood for all who saw her.
ref: 2008, Laurie J Kendall, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival:
glosses: Feminist spelling of womanhood
transracially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transracial + -ly or trans- + racially.
Senses: glosses: In a transracial manner or context.
transracial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + racial.
Senses: examples: text: transracial adoption
translation: adoption by person(s) of one race of a child of another race
english: adoption by person(s) of one race of a child of another race
synonyms: transrace
glosses: Encompassing more than one race of people; interracial.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:transracial.
hyponyms: transblack
glosses: Identifying as a member of a different race of people than the race into which one was born.
Related terms: RCTA
transethnic
interethnic
transnationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transnational + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In a world where gay politics are becoming more visible transnationally and globally, rainbow washing serves to paint a picture of a false reality […]
ref: 2016, Abbie E. Goldberg, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, page 759:
glosses: In a transnational manner or context.
unowning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + owning.
Senses: glosses: Not owning, not possessing property or goods.
scooch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skut͡ʃ/
rhymes: -uːtʃ
Forms: form: scooches
form: scooching
form: scooched
form: scooched
form: scootch
form: skooch
form: skootch
Etymology: A variation of scouch. The verb sense "shift, scoot" is probably influenced by scoot.
Senses: examples: text: "We could watch it all night," Joselle would add, scooching closer to her mother. "If it was on all night."
ref: 1992, Kevin Henkes, Words of Stone:
text: Lying on your side, start rocking back and forth, scooching to and fro and kicking.
ref: 1998, George Ostrom, Shannon Ostrom, Nature:
text: Turning over onto his back, he scooched down farther into his bag. It was the kind of sleeping bag with a hood built into it, so he pulled on the drawstring...
ref: 2002, Andrew Clements, A Week in the Woods:
glosses: To shift, move aside, or scoot over.
examples: text: Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To crouch.
Derived terms: scooch over
scooch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skut͡ʃ/
rhymes: -uːtʃ
Forms: form: scooches
form: scootch
form: skooch
form: skootch
Etymology: As with skoosh, a variant of skosh.
Senses: examples: text: Clan of the Papaya Whip Stymphalian Bird (just a scooch too long and would probably be better fit for a dessert at Bennigans), Pitchfork Shoebox Clan (maybe if you were a […])
ref: 2008, Douglas Sarine, Kent Nichols, Ask a Ninja Presents The Ninja Handbook: This Book Looks Forward to Killing You Soon, Crown Archetype, →ISBN:
text: Strolling to the stereo, Ronny turned the volume dial a scooch to the left, looking at the chef with what Jimmy's father would've called a smack-me face. “Hurry it up.” Chef Alfred was tasting the stock. He rapped the spoon against the ...
ref: 2018, Lillian Li, Number One Chinese Restaurant: A Novel, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 80:
text: “Just a scooch?” she adds in a higher-pitched voice pinching her fingers together to highlight a small imaginary space on a spectrum […]
ref: 2018, Jessalynn Keller, Maureen E. Ryan, Emergent Feminisms: Complicating a Postfeminist Media Culture, Routledge, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: skosh
word: skoosh
word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A small amount; a skosh.
scooching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scooch
scooches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scooch