cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ULDB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ULDBs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of ultra light displacement boat, ultra lightweight racing sailboat that is especially fast when running downwind under spinnaker, developed and popularized in California, home of major downwind races.
marginalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɑː.dʒɪ.nə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: marginalisations
Etymology: From marginalise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of marginalization.
olfactometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From olfacto- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The study and measurement of smells.
hang the moon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs the moon
form: hanging the moon
form: hung the moon
form: hung the moon
Senses: examples: text: "Everybody in the 8th Wing thinks he hung the moon," says one of Olds's aviators. "We'd follow him anywhere."
ref: 1967 June 2, “The Old Man and the MIGs”, in Time:
text: If I had two dozens roses and an older bottle of wine,
If I really could have hung the moon,
Would it change your mind?
ref: 1989, Mac McNally, Two Dozen Roses:
text: Did you really think last night would last forever?
Did you really think that guy hung the moon?
Right now you hate yourself 'cause you know better
But there's no use crying over spilled perfume.
ref: 1994, Pam Tillis, Dean Dillon, Spilled Perfume:
glosses: To place the moon in the sky: used as an example of a superlative act attributed to someone viewed with uncritical or excessive awe, reverence, or infatuation.
Derived terms: think one hung the moon
housewifely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more housewifely
form: most housewifely
form: housewively
Etymology: From Middle English *houswyfely, *houswijfli, *houswiflich, suggested by houswifliche (adverb), equivalent to housewife + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] to make the yong women sobre minded, to loue their husbands to loue their children, to be discrete, chaste, housewifely, good and obediente vnto theyr owne husbands […]
ref: c. 1550, Thomas Becon, “A generalle prayer that all Men may walke in their vo[c]acion and callynge”, in The Flour of Godly Praiers, London: John Day:
text: A wholesome good housewifely Countrey Wench is worth a thousand of you, in sadness.
ref: 1676, Thomas Shadwell, The Virtuoso, London: Henry Herringman, act I, page 12:
text: […] as for the Maid, she was […] very handy and housewifely in any Thing that was before her; an excellent Manager, and fit indeed to have been Governess to the whole Island […]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 191:
text: […] her stepfather […] waited on, looking into the fire and keeping the kettle boiling with housewifely care, as if it were an honour to have her in his house.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 18, in The Mayor of Casterbridge, volume 2, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 240:
text: […] I thought my father was mean and cruel. He had enjoyed his Mexican holiday, and still was unable to proffer a bit of kindness to the woman who had waited patiently, busying herself with housewifely duties.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 31, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 207:
glosses: Befitting a housewife.
Synonyms: housewifey
housewifish
Derived terms: housewifeliness
unhousewifely
Related terms: huswifely
incorrectness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incorrectnesses
Etymology: From incorrect + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being incorrect.
Synonyms: wrongness
Derived terms: political incorrectness
nonfatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-fatal
Etymology: From non- + fatal.
Senses: glosses: Not fatal; from which death will not result.
Derived terms: nonfatally
nonfatal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfatals
form: non-fatal
Etymology: From non- + fatal.
Senses: examples: text: For this same period there have been four fatals and 44 nonfatals in gassy mines.
ref: 1969, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education, Hearings, page 90:
glosses: An incident not causing death; a nonfatality.
nonfatally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + fatally.
Senses: glosses: In a nonfatal manner; in a manner which does not result in death.
slatterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slattern
dabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæbd/
rhymes: -æbd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dab
Peter Pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æn
Forms: form: Peter Pans
Etymology: From the eponymous character in the novel Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie.
Senses: examples: text: "A Peter Pan if ever there was one. Hopeless at school. Incapable either of competing or co-operating."
ref: 1962, Aldous Huxley, Island:
glosses: A man who acts like a child and does not accept the responsibilities of adulthood.
wikipedia: J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
Derived terms: Peter Pan collar
Peter Pan generation
Peter Pan syndrome
Related terms: John-a-dreams
estro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With spiro and estro from Vanuatu / What the hell do you think that'll do to you?
ref: 2019, glass beach, “yoshi’s island”, in the first glass beach album:
synonyms: E
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: Clipping of estrogen.
magnetic anisotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The dependence of any magnetic property of a material on the direction in which it is measured.
bet the farm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bets the farm
form: betting the farm
form: bet the farm
form: bet the farm
Etymology: Possibly nothing more than a case of real estate as wager stakes, but also plausibly because farmers cannot avoid gambling and the stakes are financial ruin: they must make many decisions (such as which crops to plant each year, and how to manage livestock), and outside factors such as weather or changing commodity markets can dash their hopes. Thus, when making a decision they must ask themselves whether they are confident enough to bet the farm as the wager stakes.
Senses: examples: text: I'd be surprised if those two are still dating come Christmas, but I'm not betting the farm on a breakup just yet.
text: Since Rupert Murdoch famously bet the farm on Premier League football to rescue Sky TV in 1991, it has been the catnip that has underpinned subscriber loyalty and, even in a far more complicated media landscape, is seen as so vital as to be worth almost any price.
ref: 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London:
glosses: To be absolutely certain, to have no doubts.
glosses: To make a substantial wager or risk.
Synonyms: bet one's bottom dollar
bet one's boots
bet the ranch
bet the house
Related terms: buy the farm
give away the store
play with house money
eka-radium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + radium.
Senses: glosses: unbinilium
sticky fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You'd better lock up your belongings before handing your keys to a valet; some of them have sticky fingers.
text: ‘She was great,’ Bennie said. ‘I was crazy about her. But it turned out she had sticky fingers.’ He glanced at Alex. ‘She stole things.’
ref: 2010, Jennifer Egan, “Pure Language”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:
glosses: An inclination to steal.
examples: text: There are too many sticky fingers around for me to leave my purse unattended.
glosses: Petty thieves.
Derived terms: sticky-fingered
sticky fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sticky finger
Related terms: five-finger discount
long arms
pilfery
eka-francium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + francium.
Senses: glosses: ununennium
little one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little ones
form: littlun
form: littl'un
Senses: examples: text: The toy store was full of little ones.
text: ⁠I do but sing because I must,
And pipe but as the linnets sing:
And unto one her note is gay,
⁠For now her little ones have ranged;
⁠And unto one her note is changed,
Because her brood is stol’n away.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 36:
synonyms: word: bairn
word: brat
word: child
word: chit
word: crumb cruncher
word: crumb crusher
word: crumb grinder
word: crumb snatcher
word: fry
word: juvenile
word: kid
word: kiddie
word: little one
word: minor
word: mini-me
word: moppet
word: munchkin
word: nipper
word: slip
word: small fry
word: sprog
word: sprout
word: tart
word: tot
word: tyke
word: youngling
word: youngster
word: young'un
word: youth
word: crib lizard
word: crotch critter
word: crotch dropping
word: crotch fruit
word: crotch goblin
word: crotch monkey
word: crotchling
word: cum cheese
word: cum pet
word: cunt dropping
word: fucklet
word: fuck trophy
word: hump dumpling
word: pet sperm
word: semen demon
word: shitling
word: sperm blossom
word: sperm buttercup
word: sperm bubbles
word: bitchling
word: terence
glosses: A young child.
examples: text: "How about you, little one? What do you think of me?"
ref: 2014 January 14, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 481 - Lady:
glosses: A term of endearment, especially toward a child.
eka-radon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + radon.
Senses: glosses: The unstable, radioactive, chemical element with atomic number 118, now named oganesson.
scopie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scopies
Etymology: From scope + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: I always thought we were paid more BECAUSE of the boredom factor. Certainly the air traffic sections worked just the same shifts, and stood their turn at ground defence like us scopies so no cause for a scopie premium there !
ref: 1999 February 24, Roger Gilmartin, “Leaving the RAF”, in uk.people.ex-forces (Usenet):
text: I don't regret joining as a scopie even though I wanted to be a Telecomms techie!
ref: 1999 March 1, Gordon Clark (author), “Re:Leaving the RAF”, in uk.people.ex-forces (Usenet):
text: Yup - Buchan scopie 75 - 77. What a good radar that was.
ref: 1999 August 19, Roger G, “Type 80 Radar”, in uk.people.ex-forces (Usenet):
text: Perhaps this site is something to do with the Scopies at Boulmer?
ref: 2000 February 23, Steve McNamara, “RAF Brownside”, in uk.rec.subterranea (Usenet):
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An aerospace systems operator (ASOp) or fighter controller (FC) in the Royal Air Force.
Chicana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈkɑːnə/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈkɑnə/
other: /t͡ʃɪˈkænə/
Forms: form: Chicanas
Etymology: From Spanish chicana.
Senses: glosses: A female Chicano.
Chicana
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈkɑːnə/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈkɑnə/
other: /t͡ʃɪˈkænə/
Etymology: From Spanish chicana.
Senses: glosses: feminine singular of Chicano
Related terms: Chican@
Chicanx
Chicanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chicana
Scopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scopie
eka-polonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + polonium.
Senses: glosses: livermorium
eka-bismuth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + bismuth.
Senses: glosses: moscovium
Algernon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old French als gernons (“having mustaches”), from als (contraction of a and les) + gernon, variant of grenon (“mustache”), from Vulgar Latin *granonem (“facial hair, mustache”), from Proto-Germanic *granō (“awn, beard-hair, hair-tips, mustache”), related to Old High German grana, granu (“mustache”), Old Norse grǫn (“mustache, (upper) lip”), Old English granu (“mustache”).
Mustaches were often a prominent cultural component for men of early medieval Germanic societies, whence the name originates from. However, the particular distinction owing this name vis-a-vis other families is unclear.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French.
eka-lead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + lead.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flerovium.
synonyms: word: flerovium
boundary rider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boundary riders
form: boundary-rider
Senses: examples: text: For these sixty-seven and a half miles of fence we must have three men known as boundary riders. A boundary rider is one whose duty is to see that the fence is in order.
ref: 1892, National Association of Wool Manufacturers, Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, volume 22, page 348:
text: No. 2 shows a boundary-rider. This out-back servant of the State has about 70 miles of fencing to look after and inspects the whole every six days.
ref: 1908, Western Australian Department of Agriculture, Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia, volume 17, page 709:
text: When profits were high enough to finance improvements, therefore, fences replaced hurdles and boundary riders replaced shepherds.
The boundary rider was responsible, as the name suggests, for riding the run boundaries and checking the fences were secure. He was also responsible for keeping the native dog population under control.
ref: 1988, Jan Walker, Jondaryan Station: The Relationship between Pastoral Capital and Pastoral Labour, 1840-1890, page 79:
text: Patterson was a boundary rider and lived with his wife at ‘Old Pratts’ dam hut.
ref: 2010, Brian Sawers, The Sawers from Pitcairn, page 130:
glosses: A person employed to travel along the boundary of a station, to check and maintain the fencing.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A commentator on Australian rules football games who reports from the boundary of the field of play, and interviews players on the interchange bench as well as coaching and medical staff.
Bosniak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bosniaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Bòšnjāk (“Bosniak”), from Bȍsna (“Bosnia”). Equivalent to Bosniac: Bosnia+-ac.
Senses: glosses: A person belonging to an autochthonous South Slavic people living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandžak region of Serbia and Montenegro.
glosses: A person typically characterized by their ties to the Bosnian historical region, traditional adherence to Islam, and common culture and language.
Coordinate terms: Albanian
Balkan
Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnian
Croat
Croatian
Herzegovina
Herzegovinan
Herzegovinian
Serb
Serbian
Yugoslav
Yugoslavian
Related terms: Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnian
unenlightened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenlightened
form: most unenlightened
Etymology: From un- + enlightened.
Senses: glosses: Not enlightened; ignorant in general or of some particular fact.
panspermist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panspermists
Senses: glosses: An advocate of panspermism; one who believes that life on Earth originated in outer space.
panspermists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panspermist
pandeiro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pænˈdɛəɹəʊ/
Forms: form: pandeiros
Etymology: From Portuguese pandeiro, from Latin pandurium.
Senses: glosses: A type of hand-held frame drum with a round wooden frame and six pairs of metal discs fit along the sides, and an animal skin or nylon head; similar to a tambourine but with head tension that can be tuned and crisper, drier, and less sustained jingles, used in a number of Brazilian music forms.
glosses: A square double-skinned frame drum, often with a bell inside, used in medieval Spanish/Moorish music.
anorexiant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anorexiants
Etymology: From anorexia + -ant.
Senses: glosses: A thing, especially a medication, that promotes a decrease in body weight or a reduction in appetite.
Anand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːnənd/
Forms: form: Anands
form: Ananda
form: Nanda
Etymology: From Sanskrit आनन्द (ānanda, “joy, delight, pleasure”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
glosses: A surname from Sanskrit.
glosses: A Khukhrain Punjabi surname.
glosses: A city in Gujarat, India.
rock candy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock candies
Senses: glosses: A form of confectionery made by crystallizing sugar around a string.
Related terms: rock sugar
rock sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock sugars
Senses: synonyms: word: misri
glosses: White or brown sugar that has been crystallized into chunks.
Related terms: rock candy
nasi'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative form of nasi.
moma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: momas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of momma
hist
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: hissed
Senses: glosses: An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
examples: text: "My worthy Nelly! I am greatly rejoiced to find it is no other than thee. Hist! child, hist! Should Ishmael gain a knowledge of our plans, he would not hesitate to cast us both from this rock, upon the plain beneath. Hist! Nelly, hist!"
ref: 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie: Chapter XI:
text: 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Scenes from "Politian", 2009 [1902], Charles F. Richardson (editor), The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1: Poems, page 87,
Hist! hist! thou canst not say / Thou hearest not now Baldazzar?,
text: There’s a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist—hark! By Jove, I have it!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 99”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.
Synonyms: sense: utterance used to attract someone's attention
word: psst
word: hey
word: yo
sense: injunction to be quiet
word: hush
sense: injunction to be quiet
word: shh
sense: injunction to be quiet
word: shush
sense: injunction to be quiet
word: whist
sense: injunction to pay attention
word: hark
hist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: hissed
Forms: form: hists
Senses: examples: text: 'A tinker!' repeated Sir Hugh, quite loud, in defiance of the signs and hists! hists! of Camilla, 'good lack! that's a person I should never have thought of!'
ref: 1796, Fanny Burney, Camilla, unnumbered page:
glosses: An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.
hist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: hissed
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of history.
Derived terms: althist
hist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: hissed
Forms: form: hists
form: histing
form: histed
form: histed
Senses: examples: 1952, R. A. Atkinson, Uncle Aaron Peddles a Possum, 2010 [1976], J. Mason Brewer (editor), Dog Ghosts and The Word on the Brazos (Combined edition), page 30,
When he spy de train a-comin' 'roun' de curve, he hists de hankershuf way up ovuh his haid for hit to stop, an' when de engineer rech de spot whar Unkuh Aaron stannin', he jumps down outen his seat to de groun' an asts Unkuh Aaron de why he stop de train.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hoist.
h'm
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Form of hmm
desaparecido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desaparecidos
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish desaparecido.
Senses: examples: text: And Timerman's memoir, Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number, was the book above all that clothed in living, hurting flesh the necessarily abstract idea of the desaparecido: the disappeared one or, to invest it with the more sinister and grisly past participle with which it came into the world, the one who has been “disappeared.”
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 193:
text: The French missionaries aided the mothers of Argentina's desaparecidos by accompanying them to police stations and military barracks looking for news of their children, before being kidnapped themselves by Astiz.
ref: 2011 October 27, Uki Goni, The Guardian:
glosses: One of the people who disappeared during the 1976-1983 military rule in Argentina, presumed to have been killed by members of the regime.
glosses: One of the people who disappeared during the 1972-1981 martial law in the Philippines, presumed to be killed by the military.
houseclean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: housecleans
form: housecleaning
form: housecleaned
form: housecleaned
Etymology: From house + clean.
Senses: glosses: To clean the interior and furnishings of a residence.
glosses: To make major reforms; to clean house.
glosses: To clean the interior and residential furnishings of.
glosses: To rid of undesirable personnel and procedures.
Derived terms: housecleaner
houseful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housefuls
form: housesful
Etymology: From Middle English housful, equivalent to house + -ful.
Senses: glosses: as many as a house will hold
housewares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houseware
hucksterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hucksterisms
Etymology: From huckster + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a huckster; hucksterish behavior.
humph
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /h(ʌ)mf/
ipa: [həɱf]
ipa: [hɱ̩f]
ipa: [ɱ̊ɱ̩f]
rhymes: -ʌmf
Forms: form: hmph
form: hmpf
form: humf
Etymology: A natural utterance, first recorded in the mid-16th century.
Senses: examples: text: `Beauty is too rare upon it. Give me no thanks, who am made happy by thy coming.' `Humph! old fellow,' said Leo aside to me in English, `the lady is very civil.'
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: "There!" panted Pollyanna, hastily plucking a pink from a vase near by and tucking it into the dark hair where it would give the best effect. "Now I reckon we're ready to be looked at!" And she held out the mirror in triumph.
"Humph!" grunted the sick woman, eyeing her reflection severely. "I like red pinks better than pink ones; but then, it'll fade, anyhow, before night, so what's the difference!"
ref: 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:
glosses: A sound, usually made with a closed mouth pouting, indicating annoyance, indignation, disapproval, doubt, or sighing.
Synonyms: humbug
humph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /h(ʌ)mf/
ipa: [həɱf]
ipa: [hɱ̩f]
ipa: [ɱ̊ɱ̩f]
rhymes: -ʌmf
Forms: form: humphs
form: humphing
form: humphed
form: humphed
form: hmph
form: hmpf
form: humf
Etymology: A natural utterance, first recorded in the mid-16th century.
Senses: glosses: To utter "humph!" in doubt or disapproval.
honeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌniz/
rhymes: -ʌniz
Senses: glosses: plural of honey
honeys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌniz/
rhymes: -ʌniz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of honey
mammifera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Most mammifera exhale, in the rutting season, peculiar emanations serving to announce to the male the presence of the female, and excite in him the sexual desire.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 80:
glosses: Mammiferous animals; mammalians; mammals.
antonomasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntənəʊˈmeɪzɪə/
ipa: /ænˌtɒnəʊˈmeɪzɪə/
ipa: /ˌæntənəˈmeɪʒə/
Forms: form: antonomasias
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin antonomasia, Ancient Greek ἀντονομασία (antonomasía, “antonomasia”).
Senses: glosses: The substitution of an epithet or title in place of a proper noun.
examples: text: Antonomasia proper names imparts
From kindred, country, epithets, and arts.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Antonomasia.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 70:
glosses: Use of a proper name to suggest its most obvious quality or aspect.
Synonyms: autonomasia
autonomasy
Coordinate terms: eponym
little ones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little one (A term of endearment toward children.)
protractile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protractile
form: most protractile
Senses: examples: text: A cat's claws are protractile.
glosses: That can be protracted.
sweeties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetie
glosses: plural of sweety
retractile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retractile
form: most retractile
Senses: glosses: That can be retracted (as a cat's claws)
Derived terms: irretractile
nonretractile
unretractile
spiccato
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spiccato
form: most spiccato
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian spiccato, past participle of spiccare (“to detach, to separate”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Detached; separated; with every note performed in a distinct and pointed manner.
spiccato
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spiccato
form: most spiccato
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian spiccato, past participle of spiccare (“to detach, to separate”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Played in that style.
spiccato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiccatos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian spiccato, past participle of spiccare (“to detach, to separate”).
Senses: examples: text: Most libraries have smooth, buttery legatos and exciting, natural-sounding spiccatos.
ref: 2019, Gina Zdanowicz, Spencer Bambrick, The Game Audio Strategy Guide: A Practical Course:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A manner of playing a stringed instrument such that the bow is bounced off the strings after each note.
primitivo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian primitivo. Doublet of primitive.
Senses: glosses: A grape variety from Puglia, genetically identical to zinfandel; the red wine made from this grape.
eka-thallium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + thallium.
Senses: glosses: nihonium
hierophanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪəˈɹɒfəniːz/
Senses: examples: text: For example, the symbolism of the moon implies a system of hierophanies which cluster about the moon.
ref: 1991, Robert D. Baird, Category Formation and the History of Religions, page 75:
text: The major themes in Eliade’s thought are symbol, myth, and ritual¹, hierophanies, the sacred and the profane, the coincidentia oppositorum, the repetition of archetypal structures², illud tempus, and homo religiosus.
ref: 1994, Subrata Kumar Chakrabarti, “1: Hierophany”, in Offshore Structure Modeling, page 7:
glosses: plural of hierophany
eka-mercury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + mercury.
Senses: glosses: copernicium.
Synonyms: copernicium
ununbium
LFB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of London fire brigade.
sweethearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetheart
eka-gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + gold.
Senses: glosses: roentgenium
eka-platinum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + platinum.
Senses: glosses: darmstadtium
reproves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reprove
eka-iridium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + iridium.
Senses: glosses: meitnerium
aegides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːd͡ʒɪdiːz/
Senses: examples: text: The robe and aegides of the statues of Minerva the Greeks have made in imitation of the Lybians, for except that the robe among the Lybians is of leather and the fringes of the aegis are not serpents but strips of leather, the adorning is entirely the same. And the very name is an acknowledgement that the vesture of the palladium is derived from Lybia, for the Lybian women put around the robe their goat skins tasselled and stained with madder (ἐρευθεδάνω) and from these goat skins, (ἐχ δὲ τῶν αἰγἑων τουτἑων) the Greeks have taken the word aegis.
ref: 1837, F. M. Hubbard, quoting Herodotus, “Article III. An Inquiry into the Commerce of Ancient Egypt.”, in Bela Bates Edwards, editor, The American Biblical Repository, volume X, number 27, New York, N.Y.: Gould & Newman, publishers and printers; Boston, Mass.: Perkins & Marvin and Crocker & Brewster; Cincinnati, Oh.: Truman & Smith, →OCLC, page 49:
text: The outside string is balls of carnelian. The centre figure is Hathor in ivory. Beneath it is a necklace of “blue-glaze aegides of […]
ref: 1931, John Garrow Duncan, Digging Up Biblical History: Recent Archæology in Palestine and Its Bearing on the Old Testament, page 235:
text: […] metal face-masks that are occasionally worn as plastrons by suncult kings in Africa. Wainwright remarks that similar things have been called aegides.¹
ref: 1955, South African Association for the Advancement of Science, South African Journal of Science, page 239:
text: We normally do not attempt to record in the Bulletin those publications of the staff which appear under other aegides, but this is of such general interest […]
ref: 1958, University Museum Bulletin, University of Pennsylvania University Museum, page 32:
text: Herodotus compared the goat-skin dresses (aegides) of the Libyan women in his own day to the aegis of Athena, the only difference being that whilst the former had leathern fringes, that of the goddess had one of snakes.
[…]
ref: 1972, William Ridgeway, The Origin of Tragedy: With Special Reference to the Greek Tragedians, chapter 2 — The Rise of Attic Tragedy, page 90
roman: Such aegides were still worn by the Lycians serving in the host of Xerxes, who according to Herodotus were emigrants from Crete.
glosses: plural of aegis.
aegises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aegis
sunk cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunk costs
Senses: examples: text: sunk costs fallacy
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A cost that has already been incurred and which cannot be recovered to any significant degree.
trinomials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trinomial
indispensability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indispensabilities
Senses: examples: text: In thinly-peopled spots, I have known brick-layers on tramp, coming up with bricklayers at work, to be so sensible of the indispensability of lookers-on, that they themselves have sat up in that capacity, and have been unable to subside into the acceptance of a proffered share in the job, for two or three days together.
ref: 1869, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in The Uncommercial Traveller:
synonyms: indispensableness
glosses: The characteristic of being indispensable.
examples: text: Beetle: Yes, I am certain I can be helpful. Indispensable!
Monkey: In what way?
[Beetle displays his ability with bow and arrow, firing multiple arrows on the same spot]
[…]
Beetle: Just tell me of our quest, and I will immediately demonstrate my numerous indispensabilities.
ref: 2016, Kubo and the Two Strings (movie)
glosses: Something indispensable.
Derived terms: Quine-Putnam indispensability argument
whale oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whale oils
Senses: glosses: Any of various oils and fats extracted from the blubber of whales and used in the manufacture of soap and lubricants (formerly as an illuminating oil).
Related terms: sperm oil
spermaceti
actionability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actionabilities
Etymology: From actionable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being actionable.
spermaceti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌspɜːməˈsiːti/
ipa: /spɚməˈsiːti/
ipa: /spɚməˈsɛti/
ipa: /spɚməˈsɪti/
Etymology: From Latin sperma (“sperm”) + Latin cētī (“of the whale”, genitive of cētus).
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 77, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: A wax obtained from the head of sperm whales and used to make cosmetics, etc.
Derived terms: spermaceti organ
spermaceti whale
hyracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyracoids
Senses: glosses: An animal of the order Hyracoidea, i.e. a hyrax.
hyracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyracoid
form: most hyracoid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the hyraxes (order Hyracoidea).
glosses: Displaying characteristics typical of hyraxes.
suffusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suffusive
form: most suffusive
Etymology: From suffuse + -ive?
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to suffusion.
improvisational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more improvisational
form: most improvisational
Etymology: From improvisation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Having the nature of an improvisation.
Derived terms: improvisational comedy
improvisationalist
improvisationally
improvisational theatre
rectifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rectifiable
form: most rectifiable
Etymology: From rectify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be rectified; correctable; fixable.
packrattery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From packrat + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: But packrattery soon precluded any Williamsburgish consistency.
ref: 1977, Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, Stormy Weather: Crosslights on the Nineteen Thirties: An Informal Social History of the United States 1929–1941:
text: Many stories were tape-recorded at family reunions through the years (we also are record keepers, given a little leeway for chaos and packrattery).
ref: 1999, Ina Dillard Russell, Roots and Ever Green: The Selected Letters of Ina Dillard Russell:
text: Remember the first principle of packrattery: Stuff will accumulate proportionate to the space and place made available for it.
ref: 2006, Don Aslett, Weekend Makeover: Take Your Home from Messy to Magnificent in Only 48 Hours!:
text: Most of our books are not on the floor, at least, but on one shelf I see “The Soul of a New Machine” next to “All the King’s Men” topped by “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Why? I have no idea. It’s packrattery, but I can usually lay my hands on the volumes I need.
ref: 2023 February 2, Rebecca Clarke, “Alex Prud’homme Wishes He Was in the Room Where It Happened”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The behavior of a packrat; a tendency to collect miscellanea or bric-a-brac, often to excess.
silanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silanizations
Etymology: From silane + -ization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The covering of a surface which contains hydroxyl groups (metal oxides, glass, etc) with a coating that contains silane-like molecules, thus making the surface chemically inert.
Related terms: silanize
Sumeria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /suˈmɪəɹi.ə/
ipa: /səˈmɪəɹi.ə/
ipa: /suˈmɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /səˈmɛəɹi.ə/
homophone: Samaria stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪəɹi.ə
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: From Sumer + -ia.
Senses: glosses: Sumer.
lump together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lumps together
form: lumping together
form: lumped together
form: lumped together
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: combine; aggregate
text: In this discussion, we will lump together various breeds of spaniels, because the differences among them don't matter for our practical purposes here.
text: People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, but in fact they are different creatures.
text: April 14, 2007, The Guardian, The poorest of the poor
"Those who asked the authorities for help were a mixed bag: elderly, unemployed, sick or injured, widows, orphans, the mentally ill; all were lumped together in a "one size fits all" welfare system."
antonyms: separate#Verb
segregate#Verb
sequester#Verb
;
differentiate#Verb
distinguish#Verb
glosses: To put different items or groups together and regard or treat them as one single group (either knowingly or unknowingly, and either advisedly or unadvisedly).
shrubland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrublands
Etymology: From shrub + land.
Senses: glosses: Land that is covered mostly with shrubs.
shrublands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrubland
cast fossil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cast fossils
Senses: glosses: A fossil formed when an animal, plant, or other organism dies, its flesh decays and bones deteriorate due to chemical reactions; minerals gradually enter into the cavity, resulting in a cast, which is in the general form of the original organism.
Related terms: english: the rock that surrounds the cast fossil in which the cavity is in the shape of the fossil
translation: the rock that surrounds the cast fossil in which the cavity is in the shape of the fossil
word: mold fossil
apparence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apparences
Etymology: From Middle English apparence, from Middle French aparence, from Latin appārentia. Doublet of apparency and appearance.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apparency.
klinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klinkers
Senses: glosses: Dated form of clinker.
cast fossils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cast fossil
heightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heighten
heightening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heightenings
Senses: examples: text: For them, there was "an increase in total lymphocyte production, and a higher IG antibody response," among other heightenings.
ref: 2003, Gary Null, Germs, Biological Warfare, Vaccinations: What You Need to Know:
text: There are flourishes and coloratura passages in this art, heightenings and sharpenings of the line that serve only to give the needy linear system a value of its own in confrontation with nature.
ref: 1970, Heinrich Wölfflin, Drawings of Albrecht Dürer, page 4:
glosses: The act by which something is heightened or increased.
prilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prill + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Availability of NH₄⁺ N in the surface soil (0-15 cm) was initially lower from deep-placed USG compared with prilled urea split and neem-coated urea, but increased up to 45 d after transplanting (Patel et al 1989).
ref: 1998, S. K. Mohanty, U. Singh, V. Balasubramanian, K. P. Jha, “Nitrogen placement technologies for productivity, profitability, and environmental quality of rainfed lowland rice system”, in V. Balasubramanian, J. K. Ladha, G. L. Denning, editors, Resource Management in Rice Systems: Nutrients, page 61:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
manufacturing
mining
glosses: formed into pellets
prilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From prill + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prill
homi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑmi/
rhymes: -ɒmi
Forms: form: homis
Etymology: Clipping of homicide.
Senses: examples: text: I just sold a swammy with ten homis on it
ref: 2013 May 13, French Montana featured by A$AP Ferg, “Work REMIX”, in Trap Lord:
glosses: A homicide.
aetiologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aetiology
choking bloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choking blooms
Senses: glosses: An event in which a colony of plants, algae, or bacteria becomes so widespread in a body of water that it draws enough oxygen out of the water to kill other inhabitants of that ecosystem, and eventually becomes unable to sustain itself.
choking blooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choking bloom
Germanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From German + -oid.
Senses: glosses: German-like; Germanic; similar to German, but ambiguous as to definite origin.
morbidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morbidity
ABR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ABRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber.
glosses: Initialism of accredited buyer representative, a designation used by realtors in the United States.
CCIM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CCIMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of certified commercial investment member, a designation used by realtors in the United States.
magic up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: magics up
form: magicking up
form: magicked up
form: magicked up
Senses: examples: text: The landlady magicked up a large breakfast for us and our unexpected guest.
glosses: To create something or cause something to come forth, by magic or by some other unexplained means.
Related terms: conjure
stoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoae
form: stoæ
form: stoai
form: stoas
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στοά (stoá).
Senses: examples: text: They could not vote, attend the theater, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson:
glosses: In Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; specifically, the Great Hall in Athens.
Synonyms: porch
Related terms: stoic
isht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: God, don't you guys have anything else better to do than get excited over MKIII? I mean, it's not even out yet, and you're writing faq's^([sic]) about all the info that's currently out, and isht like that.
ref: 1995 January 18, KNU-Flo, “What's this isht bout MKIII faqs”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet):
text: I'm faster than you're^([sic]) girlfriend on a Saturday night / Making all the lonely boys say man that isht is tight
ref: 1999 July 4, Tlalocelotl Tlatoani, “"Get Down" - Ocelot verse”, in alt.rap (Usenet):
text: I hate isht like this. I mean it's bad enough people don't trust the news and it's bad enough we have to continuously struggle for equality in the workplace, but when isht like this happens... it gives others alot^([sic]) of ammunition. Against media, against minorities, etc.
ref: 2003 May 20, Steve S. Jackson, “F*** a handout”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):
glosses: Shit (in various senses).
Derived terms: ish
dampest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of damp: most damp
cithara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citharas
form: citharai
form: citharae
form: citharæ
form: kithara
Etymology: From Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of cither, guitar, kithara, kissar, and zither.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar.
Related terms: citharist
citharoedic
citole
fack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æk
Forms: form: facks
form: fec
Etymology: From Middle English *fak, fec, fæc (“space, compartment”), from Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; period of five years, lustrum”), from Proto-West Germanic *fak, from Proto-Germanic *faką (“division, department, space”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-, *paǵ- (“to fasten, fix”). Cognate with West Frisian fek, Dutch vak (“section, compartment”), German Fach (“compartment”), Swedish fack (“compartment, box, department”), Latin pangō (“fasten, fix”). Doublet of Fach.
Senses: glosses: One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.
fack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æk
Forms: form: facks
form: facking
form: facked
form: facked
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fuck.
Derived terms: fack off
copepod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊpɪpɒd/
Forms: form: copepods
Etymology: From translingual Copepoda, from Ancient Greek κώπη (kṓpē, “handle”) + -pod.
Senses: examples: text: To eat, the whale takes a wide-open gulp of water and closes its jaws to a slit so that as it pushes its tongue forwards and upwards, water is forced through the baleen while the copepods, krill and other animals it likes to eat remain in its mouth.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 270:
glosses: Any of very many small crustaceans of the subclass Copepoda; they are widely distributed and ecologically important.
Derived terms: copepodid
copepodite
copepodology
underreported
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underreport
underreported
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underreported
form: most underreported
Senses: glosses: Reported as smaller or lesser than reality
pull one's head in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls one's head in
form: pulling one's head in
form: pulled one's head in
form: pulled one's head in
Etymology: Perhaps from the habit of soldiers poking their heads out of army troop trains to make smart remarks, or in reference to a turtle drawing its head inside its shell for protection. Australian from circa 1930.
Senses: examples: text: I really should have pulled my head in once they produced that evidence.
text: “Come on. Get yer gear off. Get yer gear off like mine,” the fanstopper Australian shouted, standing and pointing to his own bare chest. Two of his friends pulled him back down into his chair.
“Pull your head in,” one of them said.
ref: 1968, John Rowe, Count Your Dead, published 2003, page 68:
text: ‘But you have got to pull your head in a little bit,’ he said. ‘We love your aggression and your toughness, but all the other stuff is hurting you – we need to pull you into line.’
ref: 2011, Barry Hall, Michael Cowley, Pulling No Punches, unnumbered page:
text: Denis also told me to me pull my head in on The Footy Show, but that was never going to happen. I loved being the class clown on that show too much.
ref: 2012, Brendan Fevola, Adam McNicol, Fev: In My Own Words, unnumbered page:
glosses: To withdraw; to discontinue what one is doing or saying; to back off.
Related terms: stick one's neck out
wind one's neck in
kraton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kratons
form: keraton
Etymology: From Javanese ꦏꦿꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ (kraton).
Senses: examples: text: A Javanese chronicle on tree bark […] has been recently expertly rendered into English summary, and details how complete confusion and chaos unfolded inside the kraton.
ref: 2020, Sujit Sivasandaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 236:
glosses: A Javanese or Balinese royal court or palace.
dogges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogge
obeisaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obeisaunce
Christin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Christins
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Swedish.
Christa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krista
Etymology: Contraction of Christina and Christiana. Rare until the second half of the 20th century, reinforced by the German Christa.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Kerstin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kirsten.