cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
QTBIPOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QTBIPOC
form: QTBIPOCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of queer or/and trans black, indigenous, or/and (other) person/people of color.
JFF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Jamaica Football Federation.
iron-willed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iron-willed
form: most iron-willed
Senses: glosses: Extremely strong-willed.
Hypernyms: willful
for more
obstinate
Related terms: iron-fisted
iron-handed
iron-hearted
IRO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of International Refugee Organization.
Islands of the Blessed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Islands of the Blest.
glosses: The Fortunate Isles (Cape Verde).
ISOO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Information Security Oversight Office.
Isthmian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or from the Isthmus of Corinth
ITC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Independent Television Commission.
glosses: Initialism of Indonesia Trading Company.
glosses: Initialism of Imperial Tobacco Company.
glosses: Initialism of Indian Tobacco Company.
examples: text: But given the size of the three countries’ economies, and the fact that NAFTA already eliminated most tariffs and trade barriers between them, “the impact of the agreement on the US economy is likely to be moderate,” the ITC report said.
ref: 2019 April 18, Katie Lobosco and Haley Byrd, “Trump’s NAFTA replacement would have modest but positive impact, report finds”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of International Trade Commission.
JDL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Jewish Defense League.
jenny-longlegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cranefly.
JET
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Journal of Evolution and Technology.
wokedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From woke + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The world or sphere of wokism.
JICRAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Joint Industry Committee on Radio Audience Research.
job-hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: job-hunts
form: job-hunting
form: job-hunted
form: job-hunted
Senses: glosses: To search for a job
Related terms: jobhunter
jobhunting
jump-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jump-offs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jumpoff.
jump suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jump suits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jumpsuit.
jump pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jump passes
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pass to a teammate made while jumping
Kalahari Desert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kalahari Desert
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kalahari.
synonyms: word: Kalahari
Joe Six-Pack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Joe Sixpack.
Gallwey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gallweys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
sheds a tear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shed a tear.
good heav'ns
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of good heavens.
shedding a tear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shed a tear
sheds tears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shed tears.
shedding tears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shed tears
deliuer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deliuers
form: deliuering
form: deliuered
form: deliuered
Senses: examples: text: Deliuer me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 32:11:
glosses: Obsolete typography of deliver.
turkesterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ecdysteroid originally isolated from Ajuga turkestanica.
USDT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States Department of the Treasury.
BnB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BnBs
form: B&B
form: B & B
form: B and B
Senses: glosses: Initialism of bed and breakfast.
BnBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BnB
B & Bs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of B & B
B and Bs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of B and B
DAI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: lifestyle
synonyms: DA3
glosses: Initialism of Dragon Age: Inquisition.
thringed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of thring
glosses: past participle of thring
white arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white arms
Etymology: Calques exist across Romance languages and English (for example, arme blanche and arma blanca). The uncommonness of the term in English might suggest that the English term was calqued from the French but was not widely adopted.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cold weapon.
synonyms: word: cold weapon
white arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white arm
skin a flint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skins a flint
form: skinning a flint
form: skinned a flint
form: skinned a flint
Senses: examples: text: Deed, it wasn't Jane, for she just hates ye; she always says ye're an ould miser, an' ye'd skin a flint.
ref: Fitzpatrick, Kathleen (1937), The Weans at Rowallan, page 54
glosses: Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money.
examples: text: The old women used to say that he would have skinned a flint to have saved a halfpenny, if he had spoilt a sixpenny knife in doing it.
ref: Miller, Thomas (1847), The Boy's Spring Book, page 33
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see skin, a, flint.
Derived terms: skinflint
doggy dog
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of dog eat dog.
nip in the butt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nips in the butt
form: nipping in the butt
form: nipped in the butt
form: nipped in the butt
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of nip in the bud.
sneak peak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sneak peek.
hunger pang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunger pangs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A burning pain in the gastrointestinal area that occurs with mild hunger and is alleviated by food or antacids.
glosses: Pain that results from severe hunger.
East and West Buckland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in North Devon district, Devon, England, with East Buckland and West Buckland as the main settlements.
non-friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-friends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonfriend.
un-friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: un-friends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unfriend.
un-friend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: un-friends
form: un-friending
form: un-friended
form: un-friended
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unfriend.
non-friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-friend
un-friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of un-friend
un-friends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of un-friend
un-friending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of un-friend
un-friended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of un-friend
back-friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-friends
Senses: examples: text: And ſo far is our Church from encroaching upon the Civil Povver, as ſome, vvho are Back-Friends to both, vvould maliciouſly inſinuate; that vvere it ſtripped of the very Remainder of its Privileges, and made as like the Primitive Church for its Bareneſs, as it is already for its Purity, it could chearfully, and vvhat is more, loyally, vvant all ſuch Privileges; […]
ref: 1666 December 5 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar); first published 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preach’d at Lambeth-Chapel on the 25th of November, 1666. [Julian calendar] upon the Consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God Dr. John Dolben, Lord Bishop of Rochester”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] H[eptinstall] for Thomas Bennet, […], →OCLC, page 206:
text: Tho they give us neither VVine nor Ale; yet if they give us a Cup of cold VVater in the time of need, in the name of Diſciple, in the name of Miniſters, they ſhall not loſe their Revvard. Novv, vvell's us for our Back-friend, he vvill ay maintain our Cauſe; […]
ref: 1707, Michael Bruce, “Sermon II. On Psalm 140. Verses 12, 13.”, in Good News in Evil Times for Fainting Believers, or The Summ of a Lecture upon Jeremiah 45 Chapter; […], [S.l]: [s.n.], published 1708, →OCLC, pages 63–64:
text: It is even as I suspected, my lord, […] Ye have back-friends, my lord, that is, unfriends—or, to be plain, enemies—about the person of the Prince.
ref: 1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, pages 88–89:
text: I would always have been able to keep up my spirits with the reflection, that I had, in case of the worst, a stout back-friend in this uncle of mine. But now I have seen him, and, woe worth him, there has been more help in a mere mechanical stranger than I have found in my own mother's brother, my countryman and a cavalier.
ref: 1823, [Walter Scott], “The Bohemians”, in Quentin Durward. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 123:
text: […] Corrie bit another atom from off the corner of his nail. He had a troublesome "back-friend" or "agnail," at which he often bit.
ref: 1866, E[liza] Lynn Linton, “Margaret and Ainslie”, in Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 121, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of backfriend.
back-friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-friend
Bangka Belitung Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Bangka-Belitung
glosses: A province of Indonesia. Capital: Pangkal Pinang.
East Buckland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in East and West Buckland parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6731).
glosses: A hamlet in Thurlestone parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6843).
Related terms: West Buckland
desize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desizes
form: desizing
form: desized
form: desized
Etymology: From de- + size.
Senses: examples: text: In order to desize the fabrics which have been treated for weaving, they must be treated in very hot soap baths […]
ref: 1923, Maurice Ernest Bouvier, "Process of Treating Fabrics for Removing Sizing or Gum Therefrom", U.S. Patent 1,517,888
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To remove sizing material from (a fabric).
Pangkal Pinang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Malay Pangkal Pinang, from pengkal (“base”) and pinang (“betel nut, Areca catechu”).
Senses: glosses: A city, the provincial capital of the Bangka Belitung Islands, Indonesia.
miner's cough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of black lung.
synonyms: word: black lung
Sister Minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sisters Minor
Etymology: Calque of Medieval Latin sorores minores (“lesser sisters”) and its variants in Norman, Middle French, and Italian. Doublet of Sister Minoress.
Senses: examples: text: ...any Graunte by us made unto the Abbas, Covent and Susters Minores withoute Algate of oure Citee of London...
ref: 1473, Rolls of Parliament, volume VI, page 78:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
synonyms: word: Poor Clare
extra: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: A nun of the Order of Mary Immaculate.
Coordinate terms: Friar Minor
Sisters Minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sister Minor
cowboy-hatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: wearing a cowboy hat
cowgirl hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowgirl hats
Senses: glosses: A variation of the cowboy hat designed to be worn by women.
cowgirl boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowgirl boots
Senses: glosses: A variant of the cowboy boot designed to be worn by women.
dinosaur hunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinosaur hunters
Senses: glosses: A person who searches for dinosaur fossils
Sister Minoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sisters Minoress
form: sister minoress
Etymology: From sister + Minoress, q.v. Doublet of Sister Minor.
Senses: examples: text: ...the Abbesse and Covent of the Susters Meneresses withoute Algate...
ref: 1451, Rolls of Parliament, volume V, page 224:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
synonyms: word: Poor Clare
extra: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare
Sisters Minoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sister Minoress
West Buckland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in East and West Buckland parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6531).
glosses: A small village in Thurlestone parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6743).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1720).
Related terms: word: East Buckland
sister minoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sisters minoress
Senses: examples: text: It appears that Catharine became a sister minoress of the house of Brisyerd, in Suffolk.
ref: 1823, William Hutchinson, History and Antiquities of Durham, volume III, page 84:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sister Minoress.
sisters minoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sister minoress
Emme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Emily.
Emme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Emme.
Senses: glosses: A river in Bern and Solothurn cantons, Switzerland.
Hanslip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
patsoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patsocs
Etymology: Shortened from patriotic socialist.
Senses: topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A supporter of socialist patriotism.
topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A Marxist-Leninist who supports chauvinist positions.
Related terms: authcom
hamsick
tankie
patsoc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Shortened from patriotic socialist.
Senses: topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: Supporting socialist patriotism.
topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: Supporting Marxism-Leninism but also chauvinist positions
sitdram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitdrams
Etymology: Blend of sitcom + drama.
Senses: examples: text: I like comedy, and occasionally watch a little stand up on Comedy Central, but I've never liked the sitcom format, or sitdram, or whatever. Always seemed too prepackaged to me, too pat.
ref: 2000 March 6, Magog, “sorta off topic”, in alt.startrek.borg (Usenet), retrieved 07 Jun 2022:
text: As for AMC, I don't think you can put a 5-day a week soap in the same class as a sitcom or sitdram.
ref: 2001 May 8, Aisling Willow Grey, “AMC: When do you think it jumped the shark?”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet), retrieved 07 Jun 2022:
text: What set ER apart, IMO, was that it seemed not to be just another hospital show. For me, it is when they leave the hospital situations that the show loses its edge and becomes just another TV sitdram.
ref: 2002 March 12, Edie, “OT-ER swordfight”, in alt.tv.highlander (Usenet), retrieved 07 Jun 2022:
glosses: A dramatic sitcom.
sitdrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sitdram
Kokshetau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kazakh Көкшетау (Kökşetau, literally “blueish mountain”). Named after the highest mountain in Akmola Region "Mount Kokshe" (947 m), located 60 miles away from the city.
Senses: glosses: A city, the regional capital of the Akmola Region, Kazakhstan.
wikipedia: Mount Kokshe
minorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minorites
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Minorite: a Franciscan.
minorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minorite
Greyfriar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greyfriars
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of greyfriar.
Grey Friar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grey Friars
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of grey friar.
Grey Friars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grey Friar
Gray Friar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gray Friars
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of gray friar.
Gray Friars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gray Friar
Grayfriar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grayfriars
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of grayfriar.
Grayfriars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grayfriar
bedroom set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedroom sets
Senses: glosses: A suite of furniture for the bedroom.
bedroom sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedroom set
border morris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: border dancing
glosses: A vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from the villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
toilet roll cosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilet roll cosies
Senses: glosses: A cover made of wool or other material, designed to be placed over an extra toilet roll which is not yet in use.
toilet roll cosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toilet roll cosy
toilet-roll cosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilet-roll cosies
Senses: glosses: A cover made of wool or other material, designed to be placed over an extra toilet roll which is not yet in use.
toilet-roll cosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toilet-roll cosy
loo-roll cosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loo-roll cosies
Senses: glosses: toilet-roll cosy
loo-roll cosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loo-roll cosy
loo roll cosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loo roll cosies
Senses: glosses: toilet roll cosy
loo roll cosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loo roll cosy
loo-roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loo-rolls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of loo roll.
loo-rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loo-roll
Hydeia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
halloweekend
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Halloweekend.
Halloweeks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Halloweek
cushion cosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cushion cosies
Senses: glosses: A type of cover made out of a textile material, which slips over cushions, especially sofa and armchair cushions.
cushion cosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cushion cosy
cushion-cosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cushion-cosies
Senses: glosses: A type of cover made out of a textile material, which slips over cushions, especially sofa and armchair cushions.
cushion-cosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cushion-cosy
dirty coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Due to the smell it gives off when burned.
Senses: examples: text: Lignite's nickname “dirty coal,” suggests its one major drawback, but its allure is clearly its cost. Lignite is cheaper than most other energy sources.
ref: 1978 February 14, “Texas Turning to Its Reserves of Lignite”, in New York Times:
glosses: lignite
singulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […]of the procedure in the present analysis is limited to a comparison of Hajnal’s “singulate” means for the 1948 and 1960 Census data.
ref: 1966, Philippine Sociological Review, page 7:
text: Quebec children left home slightly earlier than their Maritime counterparts: the singulate mean age at marriage for Québécoise women was 25 compared to 26 among Nova Scotian women, while the singulate mean age at marriage for Québécois men was 27 compared to 29 for men in Nova Scotia.
ref: 2008, Lisa Yvette Dillon, “Ambiguity and Discontinuity in the Lives of Elderly Women”, in The Shady Side of Fifty: Age and Old Age in Late Victorian Canada and the United States, McGill-Queen’s University Press, page 153:
text: The same equivalence holds between singulate means (adding bars) and ordinary means (adding bands), whether we work with averages ₙSₓ or exact-age values sₓ.
ref: 2014, Kenneth W. Wachter, Essential Demographic Methods, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 211:
glosses: Pertaining to being single (not in a marriage).
Derived terms: english: singulate mean age at first marriage
translation: singulate mean age at first marriage
word: SMAFM
english: singulate mean age at marriage
translation: singulate mean age at marriage
word: SMAM
singulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: singulates
form: singulating
form: singulated
form: singulated
Senses: examples: text: This device singulates the kernels permiting^([sic]) them to pass single file over a photo sensor (photodiode array) used to evaluate length.
ref: 1980, Miscellaneous Publication, page 57:
text: The fingers pick a fruit off at the joint of its peduncle after the suction cup singulates it by vacuum from other fruits in the same cluster.
ref: 1998, M. Monta, N. Kondo, K.C. Ting, “End-Effectors for Tomato Harvesting Robot”, in S. Panigrahi, K.C. Ting, editors, Artificial Intelligence for Biology and Agriculture, Springer Science+Business Media, page 11:
text: Cleans debris as it unscrambles & singulates logs
ref: 2002, Logging & Sawmilling Journal, page 24:
text: Katz et al. [14] present an interactive segmentation algorithm to singulate cluttered objects using pushing and grasping.
ref: 2020, Andreas Eitel, Nico Hauff, Wolfram Burgard, “Learning to Singulate Objects Using a Push Proposal Network”, in Nancy M. Amato, Greg Hager, Shawna Thomas, Miguel Torres-Torriti, editors, Robotics Research: The 18th International Symposium ISRR (Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics; 10), Springer Nature Switzerland AG, →ISBN, page 407:
glosses: To isolate from others; to separate off as a single item.
Related terms: singulation
Depoyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Depoyans
form: Depoian
Etymology: From Armenian Տեփոյան (Tepʻoyan) (Western Armenian pronunciation).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Depoian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Depoians
Etymology: Variant of Depoyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Depoians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Depoian
Depoyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Depoyan
Antarctic beech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Antarctic beeches
Senses: glosses: A species of beech tree, Nothofagus moorei, endemic to South America.
Antarctic beeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Antarctic beech
guillotinee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guillotinees
Etymology: From guillotine + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: […]; a cardboard guillotine with a cardboard guillotinee that her father had made from an eggbox;
ref: 1959, The Paris Review, page 79:
text: Most of the time, he had the unpleasant job of first assistant, the guy who has to drag the ‘guillotinee’ through the lunette by his head and hold him steady while the blade comes down.
ref: 2003, Piers Letcher, “Eccentric Pioneers”, in Eccentric France: The Bradt Guide to Mad, Magical and Marvellous France, Bradt Travel Guides Ltd; The Globe Pequot Press Inc, →ISBN, page 68:
text: He [Pierre-Simon Laplace] was friends with the chemist, taxman and guillotinee Antoine Lavoisier (see Chapter 7), and together they produced influential work on the nature of heat.
ref: 2021, Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry, Rutherford & Fry’s Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything, Bantam Press, →ISBN:
glosses: One who is guillotined.
Coordinate terms: guillotiner
guillotinees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guillotinee
bionumerical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + numerical.
Senses: glosses: biological and numerical
bursocentesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bursocenteses
Etymology: From burso- + -centesis.
Senses: glosses: paracentesis of the bursa
colayered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + layered.
Senses: glosses: layered with another
deinsertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deinsertions
Etymology: From de- + insertion.
Senses: glosses: The undoing of a previous insertion
haemotransfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemotransfusions
Etymology: From haemo- + transfusion.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemotransfusion.
intercontextual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + contextual.
Senses: glosses: Between contexts
Derived terms: intercontextuality
interscalenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + scalenic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interscalene.
palmaromedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: palmar and medial
pseudovelocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudovelocities
Etymology: From pseudo- + velocity.
Senses: glosses: The apparent velocity of a shock wave
pseudovelocities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudovelocity
radioscaphoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + scaphoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the radius and the scaphoid
retropectoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + pectoral.
Senses: glosses: Behind the chest wall
scaphotrapeziotrapezoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or connecting the scaphotrapezium and the trapezium
scaphotrapezium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaphotrapeziums
Etymology: From scapho- + trapezium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The scaphoid trapezium
supercapacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercapacities
Etymology: From super- + capacity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The capacity of a supercapacitor
unpunishability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + punishability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being unpunishable
uncongruent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncongruent
form: most uncongruent
Etymology: From un- + congruent.
Senses: examples: text: What she has said, and what she has done, are different things, uncongruent, so this leads me to believe something is amiss in her motivations. Am I judging her? No. Do I dislike her? No. Do I think she has good intentions? Of course. But you know all too well what they say about intentions, right Joe? It matters what people do more than what they say.
ref: 2000 July 29, Lilly Willow, “dear Rowan”, in alt.religion.wicca (Usenet), retrieved 08 Jun 2022:
text: I would _hate_ it if my vision were entirely uncongruent with other people's. It's hard enough to share esthetic experience as it is.
ref: 2000 November 30, Lucy Kemnitzer, “Mutant Female Tetrachromats Among Us”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), retrieved 08 Jun 2022:
text: You HAVE made an ILLOGICAL uncongruent and DELUSIONAL statement so soon after your return. I am sooooOOOOO glad YOU ARE back. Susan HAS not stated that Dr. Berjis defrauded the US Government by 100 millions dollars US; it is obvious that you CARE NOTHING about the FRAUD beig perpetrated by health care professionals; your sole INTERIST is that the accused is a BAHOOOOOOOOOOOOVEYEYYEYEYEY.
ref: 2005 April 28, All_Bad, “SUSAN MANECK PhD needs RIM job”, in talk.religion.bahai (Usenet), retrieved 08 Jun 2022:
glosses: Incongruent.
Restuccia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Restuccias
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Restuccia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
xenofobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenofobe
Cottier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cottiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French Cottier, or a variant of Cotter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Demmons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Demmonses
Etymology: Patronymic or plural form of Demmon.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Demmonses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Demmons
Cottiers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cottier
Deahl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deahls
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Diehl.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Cudjoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cudjoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Akan Cudjoe.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Akan.
Cudjoes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cudjoe
Deahls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Deahl
Emswiler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Emswilers
Etymology: Probably a respelling of German Emmersweiler, a habitational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Eom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eoms
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 엄 (eom), which is written using the same character as the Chinese surname 嚴 /严 (yán).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Korean.
Eoms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eom
Emswilers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Emswiler
Eatherton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eathertons
Etymology: Probably a variant of Atherton.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Effertz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Effertzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Effertz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Effertzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Effertz
Eathertons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eatherton
Donaho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Donahos
Etymology: Variant of Donahue.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Donahos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Donaho
DiNovo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: DiNovos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Di Novo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Dommer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dommers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dommer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Dommers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dommer
DiNovos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of DiNovo
McGarrity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGarritys
Etymology: Variant of McGarity.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Delpino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Delpinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Delpino; this surname is also well-attested in South America.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Ibarlucea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ibarluceas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Ibarlucea, from Basque ibar (“valley”) + luzi (“long”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ibarluceas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ibarlucea
McGarritys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGarrity
Delpinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Delpino
golfwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From golf + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: He and Chuck met in the street often, the engineer standing at attention, the banker relaxing at the wheel. Alfred in a suit and Chuck in golfwear.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Clothing for playing golf in.
nonprescribing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prescribing.
Senses: examples: a nonprescribing therapist
glosses: That does not prescribe.
reattenuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reattenuates
form: reattenuating
form: reattenuated
form: reattenuated
Etymology: From re- + attenuate.
Senses: examples: text: A crowd mostly of old people had converged on the gate and reattenuated in the long, bright corridor beyond it.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: To attenuate again.
reattenuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reattenuate
reattenuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reattenuate
reattenuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reattenuate
reattenuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of reattenuating.
redampen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redampens
form: redampening
form: redampened
form: redampened
Etymology: From re- + dampen.
Senses: examples: text: To prepare a shirt for pressing she sprinkled it with water and left it rolled up in a towel. When it was thoroughly redampened she ironed the collar first and then the shoulders, working down.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: To dampen again.
redampened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redampen
redampens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redampen
redampening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redampen
dislodgable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dislodgable
form: most dislodgable
Etymology: From dislodge + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The dinner table, for example, possessed an underside that Chipper explored by resting his chin on the surface and stretching his arms out below. […] Even more rewarding were the patches of booger he’d left behind during previous vigils. […] They were agreeably dislodgable and pulverizable.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Alternative form of dislodgeable.
postacquisitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + acquisitional.
Senses: examples: text: The Wroths defended their postacquisitional restructuring of the Arkansas Southern.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Following acquisition.
NATs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NAT
spoonload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoonloads
Etymology: From spoon + load.
Senses: examples: text: “I would completely love it,” Jonah said, hoisting another spoonload of ice cream. “I think it might turn out to be the best Christmas I ever had.”
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: A generous spoonful.
spoonloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoonload
forkload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forkloads
Etymology: From fork + load.
Senses: examples: text: If he was talking to Hunter, he was wasting his time—Hunter was preoccupied shoveling forkloads of Cecily's fries onto his own plate.
ref: 2014, Melissa de la Cruz, Birthday Vicious, page 30:
glosses: A generous forkful.
forkloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forkload
bolsterment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bolster + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Because Caroline and Caleb had paid no attention to him when he made the first martini, he now made a second, for energy and general bolsterment, and officially considered it his first.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: The process of bolstering.
Daghistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dagestan.
Derived terms: Daghistani
Daghistani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dagestani.
Daghistani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daghistanis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dagestani.
Dāghistān
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dagestan.
nonambition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + ambition.
Senses: examples: text: Gary, cushioned by Caroline’s inheritance, was free to cultivate nonambition and to be, as a boss, the perfect strict and loving father that he could only halfway be at home.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Absence of ambition; the quality of being unambitious.
Fronsac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fronsacs
Etymology: Borrowed from French fronsac, named after the commune of Fronsac in the Gironde département.
Senses: examples: text: He’d used the last $220 of credit on his Visa card to buy eight bottles of a rather tasty Fronsac, and on Saturday night he’d thrown one last dinner party to rally his supporters on the faculty.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: A red wine from the Bordeaux region.
Fronsacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fronsac
inseminatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: the inseminatory parts of the reproductive system
glosses: Relating to insemination.
Maytag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maytags
Etymology: * (surname): Americanized form of German Maitag.
* (washing machine): The Maytag Washing Machine Company was founded in 1893 by businessman Frederick Maytag.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Maytag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maytags
Etymology: * (surname): Americanized form of German Maitag.
* (washing machine): The Maytag Washing Machine Company was founded in 1893 by businessman Frederick Maytag.
Senses: examples: text: The last thing I want to have to do on a good sunny day is sit in a laundromat and listen to automatic Maytags fill and drain themselves of gallons of water.
ref: 1983, Monterey Life, volume 4, numbers 7-12, page 45:
text: Enid’s alchemical lab beneath the kitchen contained a Maytag with a wringer that swung over it, twinned rubber rollers like enormous black lips.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: A washing machine made by the Maytag company.
Maytags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maytag
ratborne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rat + -borne.
Senses: examples: text: And your Caribbeans with their spliffs and their potbelly toddlers and their like daily barbecues and ratborne hanta viruses and sugary drinks with pig blood at the bottom? Slam the cell door, eat the key.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
hypernyms: rodentborne
glosses: Transmitted by rats.
muskratty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muskratty
form: most muskratty
Etymology: From muskrat + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Gary and Chipper, her fifth-grader and her first-grader, had the chlorination of the Y about them. With their damp hair they looked riparian. Muskratty, beaverish.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a muskrat.
scotchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scotchy
form: most scotchy
Etymology: From Scotch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Because he was expected to drive to The Nutcracker, Gary couldn’t do as much drinking as he might have wished before dinner. […] [H]e laid his scotchy head on the cold pillow and turned out the light in his old St. Judean bedroom […]
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: Inspired by a Sazerac, here's a superboozy, herbal-Scotchy drink that'll relax your shoulders, loosen your tongue, and clear your mind . . . basically, everything you need a stiff drink to do.
ref: 2018, Carey Jones, John McCarthy, Be Your Own Bartender:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Scotch whisky.
Pernod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛɹˈnoʊ/
ipa: /pɛəˈnəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: Pernods
Etymology: From the company name, after Henri-Louis Pernod, a Swiss distiller.
Senses: glosses: An anise-flavoured pastis apéritif made by the Pernod Ricard company.
Derived terms: Pernod and black
Pernods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pernod
Scotchkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotchka
noncashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cashable.
Senses: glosses: Not cashable.
scarfable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scarfable
form: most scarfable
Etymology: From scarf + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Chipper […] understood how his entire dinner might be scarfable in no time, his duties discharged and his freedom regained, and he actually picked up his fork and made a pass at the craggy wad of rutabaga […]
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: We take great pleasure in creating scarfable rations from the mostly mismatched, donated ingredients available to us.
ref: 2014, Garth Battista, Bicycle Love:
glosses: Able to be devoured.
crushlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crushlike
form: most crushlike
Etymology: From crush + -like.
Senses: examples: text: She had a white-flecked black pageboy and rosy cheeks and big blue eyes with which she was staring at Enid unabashedly, in the way of someone very smart or very stupid. Such a crushlike intensity of looking suggested hunger.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a crush (infatuation).
hobbylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hobbylike
form: most hobbylike
Etymology: From hobby + -like.
Senses: examples: text: With the lifting of his “depression,” he’d developed a new interest, hobbylike in its intensity, in framable and collectible railroad memorabilia, and he could happily have spent the whole day—the whole week!—pursuing it. . .
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hobby (interest).
mantislike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mantislike
form: most mantislike
Etymology: From mantis + -like.
Senses: examples: text: She had large round eyeglasses and a radial distribution of face wrinkles which together gave a mantislike impression.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mantis.
geri chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geri chairs
Senses: examples: text: She was glad, if nothing else, to have his body back. She’d always loved his size, his shape, his smell, and he was much more available now that he was restrained in a geri chair and unable to formulate coherent objections to being touched.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Clipped compound of geriatric chair.
geri chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geri chair
geriatric chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geriatric chairs
Senses: synonyms: geri chair
glosses: A padded reclining chair on casters for the use of geriatric patients with limited mobility.
geriatric chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geriatric chair
haemoglobinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haemoglobinous
form: most haemoglobinous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemoglobinous.
hemoglobinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hemoglobinous
form: most hemoglobinous
form: haemoglobinous
Etymology: From hemoglobin + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: In the morning the blood was crowded with commuters, the glucose peons, lactic and ureic sanitation workers, hemoglobinous deliverymen carrying loads of freshly brewed oxygen in their dented vans, […]
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Of or relating to hemoglobin.
Trotskyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Trotskyish
form: most Trotskyish
Etymology: From Trotsky + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: She was wearing a yellow shift with a red floral print, black sandals, and a pair of Trotskyish round plastic glasses; […]
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
neurofactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurofactors
Etymology: From neuro- + factor.
Senses: examples: text: The remorse neurofactor (Factor 26) flooded the sites in Gary’s brain specially tailored by evolution to respond to it.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: McNamara et al. (1991) suggested that neurofactors located within the thoracic ganglion may alter the apparent ionic permeabilities of this freshwater prawn.
ref: 2008, Michael Bernard New, Wagner Cotroni Valenti, Freshwater Prawn Culture, page 33:
glosses: A neurological factor.
neurofactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurofactor
sinusy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sinusy
form: most sinusy
form: sinussy
Etymology: From sinus + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Sleep eluded even Alfred. Each sinusy gasp of Enid’s seemed to pierce his ear the instant he was poised afresh to drop off.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the sinuses.
sinussy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sinussy
form: most sinussy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sinusy.
tamperproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tamperproof
tamperproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tamperproof
tamperproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tamperproof
Gibson's paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First used by John Maynard Keynes in A Treatise on Money (1930). Named after British economist Arthur Herbert Gibson, who noted the correlation in a 1923 article for Banker's Magazine (though it had previously been noted by Thomas Tooke).
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The observation that the rate of interest and the general level of prices are positively correlated.
aviator shades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aviator sunglasses.
synonyms: word: aviator sunglasses