cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
get-there-itis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From get there + -itis.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The determination of a pilot to reach a destination even when conditions for flying are very dangerous.
Related terms: get-up-and-go
go fever
go-itis
pack-horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pack-horses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of packhorse.
pack-horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pack-horse
pseudometalophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudometaloph
pawn chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pawn chains
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A locked diagonal formation of pawns, each one supported by a friendly pawn diagonally behind and blocked by an enemy pawn directly ahead.
pawn chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pawn chain
King's Pawn Game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: King's Pawn Games
Senses: glosses: A chess opening characterized by the move 1.e4, in which the white king's pawn advances two squares.
Synonyms: King's Pawn Opening
Hyponyms: Alekhine's Defence (1... Nf6)
Caro-Kann Defence (1... c6)
French Defence (1... e6)
Nimzowitsch Defence (1... Nc6)
Open Game (1... e5)
Scandinavian Defence (1... d5)
Sicilian Defence (1... c5)
Sicilian Defence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sicilian Defense
form: Sicilian defense
form: Sicilian defence
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.e4 c5, in which both the white king's pawn and the black king's bishop's pawn advance two squares as the first moves.
Queen's Pawn Game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A chess opening characterized by the move 1.d4, in which the white queen's pawn advances two squares as the first move.
French Defence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.e4 e6, in which the white king's pawn advances two squares and the black king's pawn advance one square.
Caro-Kann Defence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Horatio Caro and Marcus Kann.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.e4 c6, in which the white king's pawn advances two squares and the black king's bishop's pawn advances one square.
blowies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowie.
glosses: plural of blowy.
centipawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centipawns
Etymology: From centi- + pawn.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
computer
computing
engineering
games
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One hundredth of the value of a pawn, especially for calculation purposes in computer chess.
Related terms: millipawn
centipawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centipawn
Indian Defence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Attributed to the use of this opening by the Indian player Moheschunder Bannerjee against John Cochrane.
Senses: glosses: A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.d4 Nf6.
Dt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Alternative form of DT (“detective”).
lick-spittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lick-spittles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lickspittle.
Tuzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Montenegro.
Rusi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of RUSI.
cray-cray
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cray-cray
form: most cray-cray
form: cra-cra
form: cray cray
Etymology: From crazy by shortening and reduplication.
Senses: examples: text: “Lewis again. The boy cannot get over our breakup. He's like this little puppy dog that follows me around, and it's just driving me cray-cray.”
ref: 2011, Jessica Verday, The Hidden, Simon Pulse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 90:
text: "What fascinates me about Loki is that there is a glimmer of redemption in him somewhere, that he's not cray-cray (crazy). […]
ref: 2012 April 27, “Hiddleston: There's hope for Loki”, in Belfast Telegraph:
text: “Are you high?” asked Dove suspiciously. She squinted at Patsy. “Because that's cray-cray.”
ref: 2013, Michele Bardsley, Only Lycans Need Apply, Signet Eclipse, published 2013, →ISBN:
glosses: Crazy.
Synonyms: insane
cray cray
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cray cray
form: most cray cray
Senses: examples: text: what? you say aldie collabos are selling like cray cray?
ref: 2012, Kevin Burrows, Lawrence Schlossman, Fuck Yeah Menswear: Bespoke Knowledge for the Crispy Gentleman, Touchstone, →ISBN, page 69:
text: I mean, who says girls can't be involved with football? Whoever said that was cray cray!
ref: 2012, Tiger Green, Sacking Obesity: The Team Tiger Game Plan for Kids Who Want to Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Win On and Off the Playing Field, HarperOne, →ISBN:
text: Another cray cray friend of mine, F, would do some real fucked-up shit to keep her man interested.
ref: 2012, Heather Rutman, The Girl's Guide to Depravity: How to Get Laid Without Getting Screwed, Running Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of cray-cray.
denerdify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: denerdifies
form: denerdifying
form: denerdified
form: denerdified
Etymology: From de- + nerd + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To remove an individual's nerdy characteristics.
designer dyke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: designer dykes
Senses: qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: Synonym of lipstick lesbian.
synonyms: word: lipstick lesbian
designer dykes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of designer dyke
watch house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watch houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of watchhouse.
EOFY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of end of financial year.
Related terms: EOFYS
raias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raia
divertimentos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divertimento
Sprachbünde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sprachbund
ungut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unguts
form: ungutting
form: ungutted
form: ungutted
Etymology: From un- + gut.
Senses: examples: text: [L]et it be a great Honour for one to be a Butcher, by killing, flaying, ungutting, and quartering a wild Beast.
ref: 1713, Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante, or the Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (translated from the Iralian of Giordano Bruno into English by WIlliam Morehead) The Third Dialogue, page 261
text: We killed two rattlesnakes, ungutted them
And ate them, sliced up, fried like chicken.
ref: 1958, Tri-quarterly, volumes 1-3, page 42:
glosses: To gut, to remove the guts of.
seventeen-year locust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seventeen-year locusts
Senses: glosses: Certain periodical cicadas, of genus Magicauda, a brood of which was to emerge in the US in 2024, together with a brood of thirteen-year cicadas, such co-emergence occurring only once in more than 200 years.
Hyponyms: cicada
periodical cicada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periodical cicadas
Senses: examples: text: An emergence is when a throng of periodical cicadas rises from the ground as soon as the soil reaches about 64 degrees Fahrenheit. The groups of magicicadas, known as broods, surface only once every 13 or 17 years depending on the species.
ref: 2013 May 3, Megan Buerger, “Bugged by Cicada Swarm? Don't Be”, in Wall Street Journal:
glosses: Any of certain species of cicadas, especially in genus Magicicada, which are known for their 17- and 13-year life-cycles, during most of which they develop underground, emerging in large numbers for a short time as large and audible adults, all those emerging in a year constituting a brood.
Hypernyms: cicada
Hyponyms: seventeen-year locust
decim periodical cicada
Related terms: eclosion
Nibelung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nibelungs
form: Nibelungen
Etymology: From German Nibelung, singular form corresponding to plural Nibelungen; from Old High German nibel (“mist”) + patronymic ending -ung, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *nebulaz + *-ungō.
Senses: examples: text: […] and at the same Time flattered himself, that the Lombards and People of Acquitaine, whom he had lately conquered, having Kings of their own, would not be so easily tempted to shake off the Yoke, as if their Countries were made Provinces of France. [footnote] Eginhard. in vit. Carol. Chron. Nibelung. in appendice. Annal. Moiffiac.
ref: 1759, Archibald Bower, The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome to the Present Time, volume 4, London: Author, Hadrian, Ninety—Fourth Bishop of Rome, page 62:
text: The Song of the Nibelungen, and the Lament.
ref: 1814, Robert Jamieson, Walter Scott, Henry William Weber, Illustrations of northern antiquities, from the earlier Tentonie and Scandinavian romances: being an abstract of the Book of heroes, and Nibelungen lay; with translation of metrical tales, from the Old German, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandie languages; with notes and dissertations., Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ballantyne and co., for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Of the Teutonic Cyclus of Romance, page 25:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A member of a supernatural underground race that guarded treasures and gold searched for and eventually seized by Siegfried.
Related terms: Nibelungenlied
Rhine gold
ʻāina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻāina.
Senses: examples: text: There is that polynesian concept of "aina" which is, at least for me, concept of "Blut and Boden" on steroids.
ref: 2000 August 3, S. Kolarich, “Question: How to ̼effectivly ^([sic]) fight against Pacific Apartheid?”, in soc.culture.pacific-island (Usenet):
text: All genres of Hawaiian literature, with the exception of translated works from other languages, reflect our people's close relationship to and deep love for the ʻāina.
ref: 2014, James H. Cox, James Howard Cox, Daniel Heath Justice, The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature, Oxford Handbooks, →ISBN, page 103:
text: The genealogical kinship we share with the ʻāina and the lani.
ref: 2016 June 3, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 95:
glosses: land in a Hawaiian cultural context.
moon-calf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon-calves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mooncalf.
quick-change artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quick-change artists
Senses: examples: text: Only then Nombe must be something of a quick-change artist since but a little while before she was beyond doubt personating the dead Mameena.
ref: 1917, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 17, in Finished:
text: [T]he lead can change hands in this tournament faster than a quick-change artist's costume.
ref: 1940 May 17, “Thompson And Sarazen Lead”, in Telegraph-Herald, Iowa, USA, retrieved 24 May 2013, page 1:
text: Here, too . . . are a kindly priest, a mysterious hermit, a good-hearted mother, a love-smitten young noblewoman, flashing swordplay, and taverns and palaces teeming with cooks and bakers and servants and idlers and criminals, all brought to vivid life by a well-chosen dozen-member cast of quick-change artists.
ref: 2002 July 2, Lawrence Van Gelder, “Theater Review: Tuneful and Faithful to Twain's Tale”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 May 2013:
glosses: An entertainer whose performances involve rapid changes of costume.
examples: text: Mr. Churchill, with his well-known ability as a quick-change artist, had become a full-blooded protectionist
ref: 1931 September 17, “The Budget”, in Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, retrieved 24 May 2013, page 9:
text: The worst part, the refugees say, is maneuvering survival in a war whose combatants are often quick-change artists, looking like a neighbor by day and a killer by night.
ref: 1998 August 19, Diana Jean Schemo, “Colombian Rebels Broaden Offensive”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 May 2013:
text: Pharmaceutical manufacturers have already been hampered by HIV's talent as a quick-change artist.
ref: 2001 June 24, Christine Gorman, “Cover Stories”, in Time:
glosses: Someone who rapidly changes their views, occupations, appearance, behavior, etc.; something that rapidly changes its form or function.
look-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: look-backs
form: lookback
form: look back
Etymology: Deverbal from look back, equivalent to look + back.
Senses: examples: text: Standardized tests allow for students to engage in look-backs but, unfortunately, many students do not utilize this opportunity.
ref: 2008, JoAnne Schudt Caldwell, Comprehension Assessment:
glosses: A look in a backward or retrospective manner; an additional or secondary look; a review.
Derived terms: lookback time
Related terms: word: look back
look-backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of look-back
lookback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lookbacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of look-back.
examples: text: Another interesting path-dependent option is the lookback option. A lookback call allows you to buy the asset at the lowest price and a lookback put allows you to sell it at the highest price attained during the life of the option.
ref: 2009, Don M. Chance, Robert Edwin Brooks, An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management:
text: The principle of a lookback option is to give the investor the maximum payoff based on perfect hindsight.
ref: 2011, Frans de Weert, Exotic Options Trading:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A kind of exotic option whose payoff depends on the optimal (maximum or minimum) underlying asset's price occurring over the life of the option.
Lorentzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lorentzian
form: most Lorentzian
Etymology: From Lorentz + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928), Dutch physicist.
Lipschitzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lipschitzian
form: most Lipschitzian
Etymology: From Lipschitz + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the function f(y,t) is Lipschitzian […]
ref: 2010, Giancarlo Gandolfo, Economic Dynamics, 4th edition, Springer, page 425:
glosses: Of or relating to Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), German mathematician.
Haussmannian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Haussmannian
form: most Haussmannian
Etymology: From Haussmann + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Paris’ 1900s-era Haussmannian apartment buildings are charming, but they’re impossible to keep cool.
ref: 2025 July 2, Colette Davidson, “Facing blistering heat, the French ponder the unthinkable: Air conditioning”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Of or relating to Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809–1891), French civic planner involved in the extravagant rebuilding of Paris in the 1860s.
Nimzo-Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Finally in this chapter we look at an example of the Nimzo-Indian, in which the black bishop chooses b4 rather than g7.
ref: 2008, Neil McDonald, Chess success: planning after the opening, page 256:
glosses: The Nimzo-Indian Defence.
barbituate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑɹˈbɪt͡ʃu.ɪt/
ipa: /ˌbɑɹˈbɪt(j)u.ɪt/
Forms: form: barbituates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barbiturate.
barbituates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barbituate
Grassmannian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grassmannians
Etymology: From Grassmann + -ian, after Hermann Grassmann (1809–1877), German mathematician and polymath.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A space which parameterizes all linear subspaces of a vector space of a given dimension.
wikipedia: Hermann Grassmann
Grassmannians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grassmannian
Durassian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Durassian
form: most Durassian
form: Durasian
Etymology: From Duras + -ian, or from French durassien.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Marguerite Duras (Marguerite Donnadieu; 1914–1996), French writer and film director.
Hubble time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hubble times
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: A constant defined as 1/H_0, where H_0 is the Hubble constant. 1/H_0 is equal to 4.55×10¹⁷ seconds or 14.4 billion years.
hushful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hushful
form: most hushful
Etymology: From hush + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of, pervaded by, or characteristic of stillness or silence; tending to hush to rest.
Derived terms: hushfully
cullied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cully
cullying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cully
mocketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: mock + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mock
mockest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: mock + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of mock
carnosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carnosaur
inosculated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inosculate
inosculates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inosculate
blasphemings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blaspheming
blasphemest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: blaspheme + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of blaspheme
smothered mate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smothered mates
form: smother mate
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A checkmate, delivered by a knight, in which the mated king is unable to move because he is surrounded (or smothered) by his own pieces.
smothered mates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smothered mate
unhypnotisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhypnotisable
form: most unhypnotisable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unhypnotizable.
Alekhine's Defence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Alexander Alekhine.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A chess opening characterized by the moves e4 Nf6.
wikipedia: Alexander Alekhine
skellied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skelly
skellying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skelly
œstromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Symptoms of œstromania appeared about the first of last April, and continued until the time of the operation, or over five months; showing when driven, the usual disagreeable actions, and especially when met or passed by another animal on the road, at such times voiding urine and switching the tail, thereby casting fluid upon the vehicle and its occupants.
ref: 1878, American Veterinary Review, volume 2, page 445:
glosses: Obsolete form of estromania.
Spreewald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Spreewald.
Senses: glosses: A forested wetland area in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany.
algebraic notation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algebraic notations
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess which employs a single uppercase letter for each piece and a letter-number coordinate for each square.
examples: -5<x<5
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A method for recording domain and range of a function.
smallmouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smallmouth
invertivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invertivores
Senses: glosses: Any invertivorous organism
Derived terms: macroinvertivore
microinvertivore
Related terms: invertivory
invertivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invertivore
invertivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Feeding on invertebrates.
Derived terms: macroinvertivorous
Related terms: invertivore
invertivory
attritor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attritors
Etymology: From attrit + -or.
Senses: glosses: A type of grinder in which particles suspended in a liquid are moved by paddles and are ground as they collide with each other or with the grinding medium.
Scandinavian Defence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.e4 d5, in which both the white king's pawn and the black queen's pawn advance two squares as the first moves.
intenerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intenerate
intenerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intenerate
intenerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intenerate
attritors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attritor
congou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒŋɡuː/
Forms: form: congous
form: congo
form: kongo
Etymology: From Chinese 工夫, possibly Hokkien 工夫 (kang-hu). Compare kung fu.
Senses: glosses: A kind of Chinese black tea.
swingles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swingle
swingles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swingle
pasquin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpæskwɪn/
Forms: form: pasquins
Etymology: From Pasquino, a mutilated statue at Rome, set up against the wall of the palace of the Orsini; so called from a witty cobbler or tailor, near whose shop the statue was dug up. On this statue it was customary to paste satirical notes.
Senses: glosses: A lampooner.
examples: C. 1687, John Dryden, Epistle to Henry Higden
The Grecian wits, who satire first began, / Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man.
glosses: A lampoon; a pasquinade.
pasquin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpæskwɪn/
Forms: form: pasquins
form: pasquining
form: pasquined
form: pasquined
Etymology: From Pasquino, a mutilated statue at Rome, set up against the wall of the palace of the Orsini; so called from a witty cobbler or tailor, near whose shop the statue was dug up. On this statue it was customary to paste satirical notes.
Senses: glosses: To lampoon or satirize.
pasquins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pasquin
you understood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [The subject of the] sentence is you-understood. The word you usually does not appear before the imperative verb. The reader or listener simply understands that you is implied. Here are a few examples to get you thinking: Eat a balanced diet.[…]
ref: 2011 March 16, Geraldine Woods, English Grammar For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The unstated subject of a command sentence, where it is assumed the subject is the person to whom the command is directed.
tropic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 3-hydroxy-2-phenylpropanoic acid, a laboratory reagent used in the chemical synthesis of atropine and hyoscyamine.
shpeals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shpeal
national academies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of national academy
academic disciplines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of academic discipline
tree-cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree-crickets
form: tree cricket
Senses: glosses: A cricket of the subfamily Oecanthinae.
Derived terms: snowy tree-cricket
technological university
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technological universities
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A university specialising in the study of engineering, science and technology.
Synonyms: institute of technology
technical university
university of technology
technological universities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technological university
academy figures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of academy figure
Academies of Sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Academy of Sciences
high societies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high society
upper middle classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upper middle class
snowy tree-cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowy tree-crickets
Senses: glosses: Oecanthus fultoni, a cricket of a delicate greenish-white color, often injuring raspberry bushes by laying its eggs in the young shoots.
lower middle class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lower middle classes
Senses: glosses: A social and economic class lying above the lower class and below the upper middle class.
lower middle classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lower middle class
lower classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lower class
narrow-winged tree cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrow-winged tree-cricket
form: narrow-winged tree crickets
Senses: glosses: Oecanthus niveus.
metagnomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛˈtæɡ.nə.mi/
ipa: /məˈtæɡ.nə.mi/
ipa: /ˌmɛ.təˈno.mi/
Etymology: From meta- (“beyond”) + -gnomy, from physiognomy.
Senses: glosses: Divination, clairvoyance.
Related terms: metagnome
metagnomic
roameth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: roam + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roam
suck-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suck-ups
form: suckup
Etymology: Deverbal from suck up.
Senses: examples: text: Dulcie was already holding Lidiaʼs hand, and she didnʼt even know her! What a suck-up.
ref: 2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 139:
glosses: A person who sucks up, or plays up through adulation or flattery or other such devices to win another's favour; a brown-noser.
Synonyms: brown-noser
teacher's pet
goody-two-shoes
kiss-up
suck-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suck-up
archaicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɑː(ɹ)ˈkeɪ.ɪ.saɪz/
Forms: form: archaicizes
form: archaicizing
form: archaicized
form: archaicized
form: archaicise
Etymology: From archaic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To archaize.
Chud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: Chuds
form: Chud
form: Chude
Etymology: From Russian чудь (čudʹ). Doublet of tuath.
Senses: examples: text: In the meantime, the Chuds tied [her] foot so that she would not escape. When Liaine returned with his brother Aripi and son Peairi, he found the Sami camp smouldering and empty.
ref: 1998, Michael P. Robinson, Karim-Aly S. Kassam, Leif Rantala, Sami Potatoes: Living with Reindeer and Perestroika, Bayeux Arts Incorporated, →ISBN, page 76:
text: Some Chuds had attained a prominent position at the court of the early Russian princes. Military campaigns against the Chuds are mentioned in the chronicles from the 11th century. They were defeated by Prince Iaroslav Vladimirovich [...]
ref: 2015, Anti Selart, Livonia, Rus’ and the Baltic Crusades in the Thirteenth Century, BRILL, →ISBN, page 62:
text: [...] turned to another region which paid tribute to Pskov, the land of the Chuds (Estonian Finns). [...] Iuriev or Tartu as it became known was nominally under a Chud elder called Vetseke but had a garrison from Pskov.
ref: 2016, Alexander Basilevsky, Early Ukraine: A Military and Social History to the Mid–19th Century, McFarland, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: A member of any of several Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia.
raw_tags: in early Russian annals
used in the plural
Chude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chudes
form: Chude
Senses: examples: text: 'Walked around as a Chude - small, pitiful, was afraid of everyone.' [...] Even now they are called "the sauna-Chudes" (Limerov 1998: 39).
ref: 2004, Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore:
text: Bronze vases embellished with the bas-reliefs of such animals as deer, eagle, wolf and griffons show that the Chudes were possessed both of taste and great skill in metal working.
ref: 2005, Gene Matlock, Christianity--Mankind's First Worldwide Religion!, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of Chud.
medieval studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: medievalism
word: medievalistics
word: medievistics
glosses: The study of the Middle Ages.
Double King's Pawn Opening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Open Game
relative pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relative pins
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A pin in which moving away the pinned piece would allow capture of a piece other than the king.
Related terms: absolute pin
partial pin
absolute pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absolute pins
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A pin in which moving away the pinned piece would illegally expose the king to check.
Related terms: relative pin
partial pin
relative pins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relative pin
absolute pins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute pin
Amsterdam Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Amsterdam + time.
Senses: synonyms: Dutch Time
glosses: A time zone formerly used in the Netherlands, referring to UTC+00:20.
Dutch Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch + time.
Senses: glosses: Amsterdam Time.
partial pins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partial pin
partial pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partial pins
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A pin where a rook or queen is pinned along a file, or a bishop or queen is pinned along a diagonal.
Related terms: absolute pin
relative pin
advanced pawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advanced pawns
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A pawn that is on the opponent's side of the board (the fifth rank or higher).
advanced pawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advanced pawn
passed pawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passed pawn
backward pawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backward pawn
backward pawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backward pawns
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A pawn that is unable to advance without being threatened by an enemy pawn and is not defensible by pawns of the same color.
doubled pawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doubled pawns
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A pawn that is on the same file as a friendly pawn.
Related terms: tripled pawn
doubled pawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doubled pawn
diestocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diestock
pan-Romance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + Romance.
Senses: examples: text: -mente is a pan-Romance adverbial suffix.
glosses: encompassing every Romance language
cootch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cootches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cooch.
cootches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cootch
shizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪz
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shiz.
mutawwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutaween
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mutawa.
Anderson shelter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anderson shelters
Etymology: Named after Sir John Anderson, who initiated the development of the shelter.
Senses: examples: text: The now familiar Anderson air-raid shelter, officially described as "the galvanised corrugated steel shelter," was manufactured in sections by numbers of firms in different parts of the country.
ref: 1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 313:
glosses: An air-raid shelter made from curved and straight galvanised corrugated steel panels.
Anderson shelters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anderson shelter
bain't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: "I aint afeard at all, I thank God!" said Christian strenuously. "I'm glad I bain't, for then 'twon't pain me... I don't think I be afeard—or if I be I can't help it, and I don't deserve to suffer. I wish I was not afeard at all!"
ref: 1871, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native:
text: "Bain't you glad that we've become gentlefolk?"
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 51:
glosses: be not
Raetia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːʃə/
/ˈɹiːʃi.ə/
Forms: form: Rætia
form: Rhaetia
form: Rhætia
Etymology: From Latin Raetia.
Senses: glosses: A Roman province bordered on the west by the Helvetii, on the east by Noricum, on the north by Vindelicia, on the west by Cisalpine Gaul and on south by Italy, which occupied the region which is today central and eastern Switzerland, southern Bavaria, most of Tirol and part of Lombardy.
Derived terms: Rhaetian
Romæan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Romæan
form: most Romæan
Senses: examples: text: Balkanland was once Romæan, and could again have become Romæan under a government either Hellenic or Moslem.
ref: 1910, Don Daniel Quinn, chapter I, in Helladian Vistas, page 2:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Romaean.
Romæan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romæans
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Romaean.
glintingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more glintingly
form: most glintingly
Etymology: From glinting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: glintingly scaled and gorgeously crested humanoid lizards
ref: 1964, Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer:
glosses: So as to glint.
beenie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beenies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beanie.
beenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beenie
endowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endower
endowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of endower
inexorcisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + exorcisable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being exorcised.
semidoubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semidouble
starvations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starvation
startuppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of startupper
Pharisæan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pharisæans
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Pharisean.
Pharisaean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pharisaeans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pharisean.
Pharisaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pharisaean
form: most Pharisaean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pharisean.
Pharisean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Phariseans
form: Pharisaean
form: Pharisæan
Senses: glosses: A Pharisee.
Pharisean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pharisean
form: most Pharisean
form: Pharisaean
form: Pharisæan
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of pharisean.
Phariseans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pharisean
gaybos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaybo
streetwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From street + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: It was a large front room on the first floor, over a chandler's shop in an old-fashioned house in Montague Street, Whitechapel. Its shape was peculiar—an oblong stretching streetwards, interrupted in one of the longer walls by a square.
ref: 1931, Israel Zangwill, The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies:
glosses: Toward the street.
salited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin salitus + -ed
Senses: examples: text: salited magnesia
text: They contain aerated calcareous earth, common salt, salited lime and flinty powder, vitriolated tartar, with aerated fossil alkali, in quantities suitable to the order in which they are arranged.
ref: 1784, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, volume 58, page 85:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: salted
enochlophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Those who suffer enochlophobia, demophobia or ochlophobia–the fear of crowds–are not being entirely irrational.
ref: 2003 January 31, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney:
glosses: Fear of crowds.
Related terms: ochlophobia
B.S.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And there was a time when women were told to go to college not for a B.A. or a B.S. but for an “MRS. Degree,” with the expectation of walking right off the graduation stage and down the aisle.
ref: 2020 May 15, Amisha Padnani, “Is Marriage a Prize?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 May 2020:
text: Still, he said, “I’m so tired of all this political correctness. It’s such B.S.”
ref: 2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2021:
glosses: Alternative form of BS.
B. S.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of BS.
Related terms: B. A.
Bitcoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bitcoins
Senses: examples: text: And at least one group that was collecting donations in Bitcoins has decided against using them because of possible legal entanglements. […] “I’ve sold 24 collars, 13 leashes and 1 pair of ‘Disco Knickers’ with Bitcoin over the last few months,” she wrote in an e-mail. “The first order I had was for 42 BTC, which was worth about $40 at the time, but now those coins would be worth around $680! Originally I had a fixed Bitcoin price, but now I do a conversion based on the exchange rate.”
ref: 2011 July 3, Noam Cohen, “Speed Bumps on the Road to Virtual Cash”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bitcoin.
BitCoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BitCoins
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bitcoin.
Bitcoins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bitcoin
BitCoins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bitcoins, plural of BitCoin
bitcoins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitcoin
A.U.'s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AUs
Senses: glosses: plural of A.U. (astronomical units)
Australian dollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Australian dollar
gymnotiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the Gymnotiformes.
gymnotiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnotiforms
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Gymnotiformes.
Themistoclean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Themistoclean
form: most Themistoclean
Etymology: From Themistocles + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Themistocles (Greek: Θεμιστοκλῆς; circa 524–459 BC), Athenian politician and general.
Swedophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swedophone
stived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stive
stiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stive
silicifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of silicify
silicifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of silicify
terrestrialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From terrestrial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being terrestrial; terrestriality.
crazyquilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crazyquilts
Senses: examples: text: The mind becomes a rag-bag of information capable of affording nothing in production but a crazyquilt of information.
ref: 1914, John Vietch Shoemaker, Health and Beauty, page 201:
text: The staggered effect of random building resulted in a crazyquilt of dead ends and narrow, jagged alleyways.
ref: 2003, Loren W. Cooper, A Slow and Silent Stream, page 88:
text: The plains was a crazyquilt of immigrant/ethnic communities of Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Germans, Russian Germans, Poles, Czechs, Russians, Eastern European Jews, and others.
ref: 2005, Edwin S. Gaustad, Unto A Good Land: A History Of The American People - Volume 1, page 568:
glosses: Alternative spelling of crazy quilt.
crazyquilt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crazyquilt
form: most crazyquilt
Senses: examples: text: World War II drained the community of physicians and health personnel, created housing shortages and job mobility, and served to push more people into a crazyquilt variety of nursing homes which seemed to assure housing and medical care.
ref: 1975, Ruth I. Knee, Human Factors in Long Term Health Care, page 63:
text: Furthermore, groundwater doctrines follow a much more crazyquilt pattern, and several states have unique statutory approaches to groundwater.
ref: 2000, Joseph L. Sax, Legal Control of Water Resources: Cases and Materials, page 758:
text: The stark glare reflecting from the screen spread a crazyquilt pattern of light and shadow across the vaulted ceiling above.
ref: 2013, Douglas Schofield, Succession, page 37:
glosses: Formed by a seemingly random assortment of things.
Derived terms: crazyquilted
crazyquilting
crazyquilts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crazyquilt
MACOS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Man: A Course of Study. A controversial education programme in the 1970s.
crannying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cranny
y'knew
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /jəˈnu/
Senses: examples: text: 'Why didja leave him with your husband if y'knew he was zonked outta his skull?' the detective demanded.
ref: 1985, Jackie Collins, Lucky:
glosses: Contraction of you knew.
vacay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪkeɪ/
Forms: form: vacays
form: vaca
form: vaycay
form: vay-cay
Etymology: Clipping of vacation, with -y to clarify pronunciation. Compare cray (“crazy”).
Senses: examples: text: I don’t know if Italy is quite the right vacay spot for you, Mary Cherry. Too much pasta.
ref: 2000, Nancy E. Krulik, Popular: From the Mouths of Babes - Book #3, page 88:
text: She and beau Glenn were going to the Caymans for a little vacay in Aug.
ref: 2000, Alumnae Bulletin, volumes 93–94, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College Alumnae Association, page 43:
synonyms: word: leave
word: holiday
word: annual leave
word: break
word: day off
word: getaway
word: holiday
word: leave
word: leave of absence
word: pause
word: recess
word: time away
word: time off
word: vac
word: vacation
word: vaca
word: vacay
glosses: A vacation.
Related terms: staycay
vacay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪkeɪ/
Forms: form: vacays
form: vacaying
form: vacayed
form: vacayed
form: vaca
form: vaycay
form: vay-cay
Etymology: Clipping of vacation, with -y to clarify pronunciation. Compare cray (“crazy”).
Senses: examples: text: You're tired of movin', your body's achin' / We could vacay, there's places to go / Clearly, this isn't all that there is
ref: 2016, “White Ferrari”, in Blonde, performed by Frank Ocean:
text: The shameless PDA continues! Bachelor In Paradise’s most hands-on couple, Amanda Stanton and Josh Murray, returned to paradise as the couple vacayed on the beautiful beaches of Cancun, Mexico.
ref: 2016 October 19, Lauren Crawford, “Can’t Keep Their Hands To Themselves! ‘Bachelor In Paradise’s’ Amanda Stanton & Josh Murray Get Hot & Heavy While Vacationing In Cancun!”, in OK!:
glosses: To vacation (to spend or take a vacation).
crazyquilted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crazy + quilted.
Senses: examples: text: A few prisoners end up with bodies crazyquilted with motley scars and skin patches, but to these men, in the context of a prison economy, it seems well worth it.
ref: 1973, Samuel E Wallace, Total Institutions, page 34:
text: That his crazyquilted literary career paralleled his frustrated life compounds the pathetic situation, yet many a reader of Irish literature must have breathed a sigh of relief when it became apparent that the intricacies and vagaries of At Swim were abandoned for the comic fantasies of the later novels.
ref: 1983, Dennis Jackson, Irish Renaissance Annual - Volume 3, page 15:
text: I cleared my sight of browns, found gayer colors on our crazyquilted ground.
ref: 2011, Jay Albrecht, Angelic Asides, page 17:
glosses: Formed like a crazyquilt, by a seemingly random assortment of things.
crazyquilting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In Mayence, Cologne, Treves, Metz, Spires, and Worms-—which latter, by a refinement of crazyquilting, was until the reign of Otto II one-third secular and two-thirds ecclesiastical—the bishops ruled and taxed their lews, with or without royal consent.
ref: 1936, Marvin Lowenthal, The Jews of Germany: A Story of Sixteen Centuries, page 71:
glosses: The process of making a crazyquilt.
-styly
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to styles.
Derived terms: monostyly
distyly
tristyly
polystyly
rear-ender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rear-enders
Etymology: From rear end + -er.
Senses: glosses: A minor automobile accident in which contact is made between the front of one vehicle and the rear of another.
T-cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-cell
tropæolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The asserted fact that free hydrochloric acid is absent from the fluid removed by a siphon in cases of cancer of the stomach has been lately much discussed in Germany, and Dr Van der Welden, of Strassburg, introduced an alcoholic solution of tropæolin as a test with this object.
ref: 1891, Charles Hilton Fagge, Philip Henry Pye-Smith, Text‐book of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, volume II, page 199:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of tropaeolin.