cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
queerdos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queerdo
magistricides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magistricide
owari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oware.
steadfastnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steadfastness
delegalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delegalizes
form: delegalizing
form: delegalized
form: delegalized
form: delegalise
Etymology: From de- + legalize.
Senses: glosses: To make no longer legal.
delegalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delegalize
delegalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delegalize
delegalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delegalize
flatulently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From flatulent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a flatulent manner or fashion.
pleasuredome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleasuredomes
form: pleasure dome
Etymology: From pleasure + dome.
Senses: examples: text: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
ref: 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 55:
text: In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a pleasuredome erect / Moving on, keep moving on, yeah / […] We're a long way from home / Welcome to the pleasuredome
ref: 1984, “Welcome To The Pleasuredome”, performed by Frankie Goes to Hollywood:
text: Then again, sampladelia may equally be a component of a Krokerite dystopia of "cold seduction": "a cool hallucinatory culture of special effects personalities moving at warp speed to nowhere," a virtual-reality pleasuredome where the self is a will-o'-the-wisp buffeted by "ceaseless movement in the eddies of cultural matter."
ref: 1999, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 47:
text: When Michael agreed to be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in 1993, more than a hundred million people around the world became privy to the fantasy of Neverland, his California pleasuredome.
ref: 2009, Adrian Grant, Michael Jackson: The Visual Documentary, Omnibuss Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
text: The noise level thudded beyond deemed acceptability for a construction site, let alone a pleasuredome.
ref: 2012, Bruce Clark, Paradise for Beginners, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., →ISBN, page 174:
glosses: A place where one can relax, entertain or recreate.
pleasure dome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleasure domes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pleasuredome.
pleasuredomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleasuredome
pleasure domes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleasure dome
kissing and making up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kiss and make up
kisses and makes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kiss and make up
kissed and made up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kiss and make up
life-support
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of life support.
tasselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tassel
tasselling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tassellings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tasseling.
cholesterols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cholesterol
broadbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadbills
Etymology: From broad + bill.
Senses: glosses: Any of several ducks having a broad bill, including the shoveler.
glosses: Any of several small passerine birds of the family Eurylaimidae (Asian and Grauer's broadbills) or Calyptomenidae (African and green broadbills).
glosses: A swordfish, Xiphias gladius.
Derived terms: African broadbill
Asian broadbill
Grauer's broadbill
green broadbill
clypeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a clypeus
Derived terms: frontoclypeal
postclypeal
supraclypeal
coarctate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈɑːk.teɪt/
ipa: /koʊˈɑɹkˌteɪt/
ipa: /ˈkoʊˌɑɹkˌteɪt/
ipa: /koʊˈɑɹk.tɪt/
ipa: /ˈkoʊˌɑɹk.tɪt/
Forms: form: more coarctate
form: most coarctate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin coarctātus, perfect participle of coarctō (“to press together, compress, contract, confine”), from co- (“being or bringing together, co-”) + arctō (“to draw or press close together”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pressed close together, constricted, narrowed, compressed.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: (of the pupa of certain flies) Enclosed in a rigid case formed by the larval cuticle or puparium.
coarctate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈɑːk.teɪt/
ipa: /koʊˈɑɹkˌteɪt/
ipa: /ˈkoʊˌɑɹkˌteɪt/
ipa: /koʊˈɑɹk.tɪt/
ipa: /ˈkoʊˌɑɹk.tɪt/
Forms: form: coarctates
form: coarctating
form: coarctated
form: coarctated
Etymology: From the above adjective, for more see etymology at -ate.
Senses: glosses: To press together; to crowd.
glosses: To restrain; to confine.
Related terms: coarctation
coastguardsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coastguardsmen
Etymology: From coastguard + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A member of a coastguard.
Synonyms: coast guarder
Coordinate terms: coastguardswoman
coastguardsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coastguardsman
coastland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊstlənd/
/ˈkəʊstˌlænd/
Forms: form: coastlands
Etymology: From coast + land.
Senses: glosses: Coastal land.
Derived terms: coastlander
depublish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depublishes
form: depublishing
form: depublished
form: depublished
Etymology: From de- + publish.
Senses: examples: text: […] the California Supreme Court declined either to depublish or accept the case for review even though it received extensive amicus briefs in support of United California Bank's petition from six leading California banks […]
ref: 1991, West's California reporter:
text: For example, in the courts of the state of California, the Supreme Court can “depublish” or remove from all official records, and thus from legal authority, prior case opinions it delivered but has since decided are not good examples of legal analysis.
ref: 2015, Justin B. Richland, Sarah Deer, Introduction to Tribal Legal Studies, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 123:
topics: law
glosses: To remove legal opinions from the record such that they can no longer be used as precedent.
dissyllable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissyllables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of disyllable.
Derived terms: hyperdissyllable
ten pound Pom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten pound Poms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ten pound tourist.
synonyms: word: ten pound tourist
distichous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪstɪkəs/
Etymology: From distich + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Arranged in two rows on each side of an axis.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: In the form of a distich.
Derived terms: distichously
Related terms: topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: alternate
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: decussate
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: multijugate
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: opposite
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: spiral
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: whorled
goosey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goosy.
goosey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gooseys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goosy.
goosy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: goosier
form: goosiest
form: goosey
Etymology: From goose + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a goose; anserine
glosses: foolish; silly
goosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goosies
form: goosey
form: goosie
Etymology: From goose + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Goosey, goosey! " he called, and pretended to be strewing corn out of his hands as when feeding geese.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 272:
glosses: A goose.
glosses: A foolish person; a silly.
Derived terms: loosy-goosy
ignitron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈnaɪˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈɪɡ.nɪˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ɪɡˈnaɪˌtɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈɪɡ.nɪˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: ignitrons
Etymology: From ignite + -tron.
Senses: examples: text: After the completion of final tests, BB-30003 went into service in September, 1959, hauling heavy express trains in the Eastern Region of the S.N.C.F. on the same schedules as the Class "BB-16000" locomotive fitted with S-W ignitrons.
ref: 1960 March, “Silicon Rectifiers for a French dual-frequency Bo-Bo locomotive”, in Trains Illustrated, page 167:
glosses: A form of rectifier having a pool of mercury as cathode.
poster children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poster child
sphairistike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek sphairistike, "skill in playing at ball".
Senses: examples: text: The new appliances of the game sold under the rather too learned name of ‘sphairistikè’ have been lightened without, like their ancient representatives, being increased in size.
ref: 1875, The Edinburgh review: or critical journal, A. Constable, page 72:
text: He observed that a wholesaler who supplied my grandfather with goods continued to advertise the implements of a new game, called "Sphairistike."
ref: 1941, Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, Come what may: an autobiography, Little, Brown and company, page 7:
text: At that time, he had not given a thought to his new game, and, as a consequence, the pastures around Rhysnant Hall are not likely to have been the place where the Major would have pitched his sphairistikè nets.
ref: 1998, Heiner Gillmeister, Tennis: a cultural history, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 181:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An early racquet sport that evolved into tennis.
Synonyms: stické
spirogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirograms
Etymology: From spiro- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A graph of respiratory movement
Related terms: spirograph
subcollections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcollection
second-guesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of second-guess
second-guessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-guessings
Senses: glosses: The act or habit of vetting, evaluating; criticizing or correcting, often by hindsight, by presuming to have a better idea, method, etc.
glosses: The act or habit of anticipating or predicting someone's actions or thoughts by guesswork.
second-guessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of second-guess
second-guessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of second-guess
Richard Snary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Richard Snaries
Etymology: A pun involving the name Dick (short for Richard) and the Early Modern English pronunciation of dictionary as /ˈdɪksnæːrɪ/, /ˈdɪksnɛːrɪ/ (see dixnary, dixery).
Senses: examples: text: Talke not to me of Dick snary, nor Richard-snary; I care not how little I come neare them.
ref: 1627, William Hawkins, Apollo Shroving, Composed for the Schollars of the Free-schoole of Hadleigh in Suffolke:
text: A country lad, having been reproved for calling persons by their Christian names, being sent by his master to borrow a dictionary, thought to show his breeding by asking for a Richard Snary.
ref: 1796, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue:
text: I still didn’t see anything in it but the meaningless sort of humor that used to make richardsnary the thieves’ word for dictionary.
ref: 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest:
glosses: A dictionary.
wikipedia: Early Modern English
get freaky
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets freaky
form: getting freaky
form: got freaky
form: got freaky
form: gotten freaky
Senses: examples: text: I saw the couple getting freaky in a video on the Internet.
text: Let me do all the things you want me to do / Cause tonight, baby, I wanna get freaky with you
ref: 1992, “Freak Me”, in Roy Murray, Keith Sweat (lyrics), Lose Control, performed by Silk:
text: She say^([sic]) we don't got enough room to get freaky in here / 'Cause it's just a two-seater
ref: 2019, “Hot Shower”, in The Big Day, performed by Chance the Rapper:
synonyms: word: get busy
word: get it on
word: get one's freak on
word: get some
word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
glosses: To have sex.
sentienda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sentiendum
sentiendum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentienda
Senses: glosses: That which is to be felt, or perceived by the senses.
iguanodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iguanodons
Etymology: From Spanish iguana (from Taíno *iwana) + translingual -odon.
Senses: examples: text: August the twenty-eighth - the day we saw five live iguanodons in a glade of Maple White Land.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Any large dinosaur of the genus †Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
incorporative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incorporative
form: most incorporative
Etymology: From incorporate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That serves to incorporate.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Polysynthetic.
natriuresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌneɪ.tɹɪ.jʊ(ə)ˈɹiː.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌnæt.ɹɪ.jʊ(ə)ˈɹiː.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌneɪ.tɹiː.jʊˈɹiː.sɪs/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Forms: form: natriureses
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from natr- + -i- + -uresis; those combining forms are ultimately from New Latin natrium (“sodium”) + Ancient Greek οὔρησις (oúrēsis, “a making water”).
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: excretion of sodium in the urine.
wikipedia: classical compound
Derived terms: antinatriuresis
natriuretic
neoplasticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-plasticism
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A style of abstract painting, developed by Piet Mondrian, that used only vertical and horizontal lines with the spaces filled in black, white, grey, and primary colours
Related terms: De Stijl
venturis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venturi
nothosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nothosaurs
Etymology: From scientific Latin Nothosaurus (genus name).
Senses: examples: text: Nothosaurs were equipped with large, slightly curved teeth, which could provide a scissor-like bite like crocodiles.
ref: 2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 68:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: An extinct marine reptile of the order Nothosauroidea, from the Triassic period.
orbitosphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From orbito- + sphenoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the orbit and the sphenoid bone
orbitosphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orbitosphenoids
Etymology: From orbito- + sphenoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The orbitosphenoid bone
phoneticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phoneticists
Etymology: From phonetic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An expert in phonetics.
glosses: One who advocates a phonetic system of spelling.
pronator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pronators
form: pronatores
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any muscle that produces pronation
Derived terms: pronator quadratus
pronator teres
ridgepiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridgepieces
Etymology: From ridge + piece.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ridgepole.
synonyms: word: ridgepole
scenography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: scenographies
Etymology: From Latin scenographia, equivalent to scene + -ography.
Senses: glosses: The design of theatrical sets.
glosses: The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane.
examples: text: The Walls or Partitions are represented by the Letters C. C. C. but these are all more exactly seen in the Scenography, in which D. and E. shows two Caves with their Walls turn’d over with Arches.
ref: 1705, Thomas Greenhill, Νεκροκηδεία or The Art of Embalming:
glosses: A representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye.
Related terms: scenographer
scenographic
sideless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From side + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It's a sideless wagon, but it should hitch up to something the horses can pull […]
ref: 2013, Abrey Davis, Dead States: Remnant:
text: However, some things don't change. The elevated terminus has a platform canopy that's neither use nor ornament. Its high sideless roof offers little protection from rain or winds off the Thames!
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 56:
glosses: Lacking a side; open at the sides.
spadefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spadefishes
form: spadefish
Etymology: From spade + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of several marine fish of the family Ephippidae
glosses: Polyodon spathula, the American paddlefish.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Tripterodon orbis
word: African spadefish
taxonomic: Chaetodipterus faber
word: Atlantic spadefish
taxonomic: Platax orbicularis
word: circular spadefish
taxonomic: Platax boersii
word: golden spadefish
taxonomic: Platax batavianus
word: hump-headed spadefish
taxonomic: Platax teira
word: longfin spadefish
taxonomic: Platax pinnatus
word: pinnate spadefish
taxonomic: Ephippus orbis
word: round spadefish
tideline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidelines
Etymology: From tide + line.
Senses: glosses: A line of floating debris, seaweed etc. that marks the boundary between two surface currents.
transcortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + cortical.
Senses: examples: text: Because association fibers are compromised in the transcortical aphasias, Lichtheim (1885) called what we know as transcortical aphasia commissural dysphasia or white matter dysphasia.
ref: 2007, Robert H. Brookshire, Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the two parts of the cerebral cortex
unalleviated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unalleviated
form: most unalleviated
Etymology: From un- + alleviated.
Senses: glosses: relentless
unicuspid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + cuspid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a single cusp
unicuspid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unicuspids
Etymology: From uni- + cuspid.
Senses: glosses: Such a tooth
Related terms: unicuspidal
womanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: womanisms
Etymology: From woman + -ism. Coined by Alice Walker in 1983.
Senses: examples: text: Although womanism raises the issue of gender, it simultaneously offers a distance from the “enemy,” in this case, Whites generally and White women in particular.
ref: 2001, Sheila Ruth, editor, Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to Women's Studies, McGraw-Hill:
text: In line with femalism, African womanism is committed to the quest for total freedom of the colonized African men and women.
ref: 2004, Chioma Carol Opara, Her Mother's Daughter: The African Writer as Woman, page 20:
text: Feminism is the form of women's organisation that is prioritised both in the media and academia, but many black women have turned to womanism in an attempt to counter the ways in which the combined oppressions of race and gender affect our lives. Womanism is not just feminism for women from minorities; it is based in our spirituality, honouring our foremothers and a desire to support both men and women.
ref: 2010 April 10, Renee Martin, “I'm not a feminist (and there is no but)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An extension to feminism that incorporates respect for women of all races and classes.
Derived terms: ecowomanism
Related terms: womanist
womanistic
Bua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ’Ba
form: Boa
form: Boua
form: Bwa
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in Chad
Bua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Buas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Bua.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
iguanodons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iguanodon
agrestal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agrestal
form: most agrestal
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That grows wild in cultivated fields
bloused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blouse + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever you do, when a good number has been recommended to you, never, by any chance, attempt to go yourself to the donkey-shed, but send for the animal; else you will be assailed, and tossed to and fro for an hour, by the red-capped, blue-bloused attendant, pushed and jostled, and stunned with their exclamations and attempts to address you in English, until a police officer comes to your rescue, recommends a particular animal, and away you go—having previously made a bargain to pay, either by the hour or according to distance.
ref: 1837, [Augustus] Granville, “Ems, or Bad-Ems”, in The Spas of Germany, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 518:
text: There was a bloused and bearded Frenchman or two; but the majority were, as was to have been expected, the oppressed, the starved, the untaught, the despairing, the insane;[…].
ref: 1850, [Charles Kingsley], “A Patriot’s Reward”, in Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 168:
text: Nine-tenths of Englishmen hurrying through France find the monotony dreary, the same unfenced, wide-spreading sketches of land, the same bloused and sabotted peasantry, the same poplars on the road sides, and lime trees in the public places of the towns.
ref: 1852 January, Angus B. Reach, “A Look into the Landes”, in Colburn’s United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, part I, number 278, London: Colburn & Co., […], page 81:
text: As we marched by, and these citizen-soldiers, who were fresh in their picturesque zoo-zoo uniforms, or as they are sometimes called, “Night-drawers Cadets,” the dirty-looking old blue-bloused veterans chaffed them most unmercifully.
ref: 1898, J[oseph] O[rton] Kerbey, “Gettysburg—The Sharpshooters—A Council at Meade’s Headquarters—Is the Honor Due to Howard or Hancock?—The Charges of the Pennsylvania Reserves—Kilpatrick Under Fire—Good-By”, in Further Adventures of the Boy Spy in Dixie, Washington, D.C.: The National Tribune, page 354:
text: She indicated Elise, bloused and jeaned, sitting cross-legged on the floor by the fire.
ref: 1984, David Storey, Present Times, Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: Wearing a blouse.
bloused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From blouse + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blouse
cutwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutworks
form: cut work
Etymology: From Middle English cut-werk, equivalent to cut + work.
Senses: glosses: A form of embroidery in which intervening fabric is cut away.
fiberless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fiberless
form: most fiberless
Etymology: From fiber + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking fibers
Derived terms: fiberlessness
fibrocystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fibro- + cystic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Having increased fibrosis together with increased cystic spaces.
fibrositis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrosites
form: fibrositides
Senses: glosses: fibromyalgia
fibrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fibrously
form: most fibrously
Etymology: From fibrous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fibrous manner
flowerheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flowerhead
inflexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inflexed
form: most inflexed
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: inflected
infodemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: infodemics
Etymology: Blend of information + epidemic. Coined by American writer and foreign policy strategist David Rothkopf in 2003 in the context of the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak, see quotations.
Senses: examples: text: […
ref: 2003 May 11, David J. Rothkopf, “When the Buzz Bites Back”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2020:
glosses: An excessive amount of information concerning a problem such that the solution is made more difficult.
examples: text: But his inclination to prioritise free speech over moderation would soon become a flashpoint with a White House trying to battle a so-called “infodemic” of online conspiracies about the disease and the vaccine.
ref: 2025 June 21, Hannah Murphy, “The truth about Mark Zuckerberg's masculinist makeover”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
glosses: A wide and rapid spread of misinformation.
infodemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Senses: glosses: Relating to infodemiology.
infoholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infoholics
Etymology: From info- + -holic.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand the production of concordances in itself is scarcely less "dangerous" than the undue enthusiasm for on line retrieval systems rightly characterised as "infoholics" by some reviewers.
ref: 1982, Manfred Thaller, “Historical Software Section”, in Historical Social Research, volume 7, number 3, page 78:
text: We've become infoholics. Try a vacation without TV or newspapers. . . .
ref: 1989, R. Patton Howell, Wars End, 1992: The Revolutionary New Thought in the European Community:
text: Naomi is something of an infoholic, an avid reader of newspapers and magazines and, increasingly, a user of the Internet.
ref: 1997, Helen Wilkinson, Tomorrow's Women:
glosses: A person who has an insatiable desire for news and information, especially when obtained online.
interlobular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + lobular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between lobules.
intermediateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intermediate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being intermediate
intermediator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermediators
Senses: glosses: An intermediate agent; a mediator.
Coordinate terms: intermediatrix
ironbark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌɪənbɑːk/
Forms: form: ironbarks
form: iron-bark
Etymology: From iron + bark.
Senses: glosses: Any of several unrelated eucalypts that have dark, deeply furrowed bark.
examples: text: The tents and sheets are made of the best Canadian duck, tanned for the purpose of preservation with a strong extract of iron-bark and wattle-bark.
ref: 1901, “Progress in the Fruit Industry of Queensland”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, page 16:
text: When he had trimmed a bit of ironbark to size, or knocked the worst splinters off a split fence post, he would swing it around his head a few times before crashing it down on the rails.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 319:
glosses: The hard wood of these trees, as used in building and construction.
Derived terms: silver-leaved ironbark
litoptern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈtɒptəːn/
Forms: form: litopterns
Etymology: From modern Latin Litopterna (order name), from Ancient Greek λῑτός (lītós, “smooth”) + πτέρνη (ptérnē, “heel-bone”).
Senses: examples: text: [C]ertain litopterns like the camel-like Macrauchenia also lived on until within 15,000 years before the present.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 73:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An extinct hoofed mammal of the order †Litopterna, from the Cenozoic period.
mohairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mohair
muslined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muslined
form: most muslined
Etymology: From muslin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Decorated with, or dressed in muslin
oilless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oilless
form: most oilless
Etymology: From oil + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Even oil-less, Central Asian Afghanistan was perceived by many Muslims as the object of a crusading infidel occupation, driven by Israel and designed to establish bases or extract cheaper oil.
ref: 2011, Rory Stewart, “Here we go again”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:
glosses: Lacking, or not using, oil.
Derived terms: oillessness
orthotropous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, orthotrope + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing straight and having the micropyle at the apex
raw_tags: of an ovule
Derived terms: orthotropously
Related terms: orthotropic
overstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overstitches
Etymology: From over- + stitch.
Senses: glosses: An embroidery stitch made over another
overstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overstitches
form: overstitching
form: overstitched
form: overstitched
Etymology: From over- + stitch.
Senses: glosses: To sew with these stitches
semifitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + fitted.
Senses: glosses: Partially fitted (with appliances etc)
glosses: That partially conforms to the outlines of the body
sundrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sun + drops.
Senses: glosses: evening primrose
Derived terms: Ozark sundrops
thistlelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thistlelike
form: most thistlelike
Etymology: From thistle + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The thistlelike leaves of artichokes glowed silver.
ref: 2009 June 12, Dwight Garner, “Living Off the Land, Surrounded by Asphalt”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having the form or characteristics of a thistle
understored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more understored
form: most understored
Etymology: From under- + stored.
Senses: glosses: Having fewer stores (shops) than are needed by the available market
urticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: urticates
form: urticating
form: urticated
form: urticated
Etymology: From or formed like (post-Classical?) Latin urticatus, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”).
Senses: glosses: To have or produce a stinging sensation, as of nettles or urticating hair.
urticate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From or formed like (post-Classical?) Latin urticatus, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”).
Senses: examples: text: In certain cases of erythemata there was an urticate look.
ref: 1912, The British Journal of Dermatology, volume 24, page 278:
glosses: Marked by the presence of wheals.
unquailing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unquailing
form: most unquailing
Etymology: From un- + quailing.
Senses: glosses: Without quailing; brave.
Derived terms: unquailingly
playsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: plā'səm
ipa: /ˈpleɪsəm/
rhymes: -eɪsəm
Forms: form: more playsome
form: most playsome
Etymology: From play + -some.
Senses: examples: text: I have heard his brother Edm and M'r Wayte his schoole fellow &c, say that when he was a Boy he was playsome enough: but withall he had even then a contemplative Melancholinesse.
ref: c. 1690, John Aubrey, "On Thomas Hobbes" in Characters from the Histories & Memoirs of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1918)http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13751/13751-8.txt
text: Sweet Frankie lives in Elfindale;
Where all the flowers are fair, and frail
(Like her fair self,) a slender fairy,
And like a zephyr, playsome, airy,
But lovelier far, than buxom Mary.
ref: 1855, James Avis Bartley, “Elfindale”, in Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems:
text: An' down below's the cloty brook
Where I did vish with line an' hook,
An' beat, in playsome dips and zwims,
The foamy stream, wi' white-skinned lim's.
ref: c. 1880, William Barnes, The girt woak tree that's in the dell:
glosses: Playful; frolicsome.
Synonyms: carefree
merry
sportive
wanton
Derived terms: playsomely
playsomeness
velamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velamens
form: velamina
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vēlāmen.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A covering membrane or velum
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A spongy, usually pale, multiseriate epidermis (i.e. consisting of multiple layers of cells) covering the roots of some kinds of plants, especially plant species with an epiphytic or semi-epiphytic habit. Examples include various orchid and Clivia species
cryovolcanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌɪəʊvɒlˈkanɪk/
Etymology: From cryo- + volcanic.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: of or pertaining to a cryovolcano
Hypernyms: volcanic
Derived terms: cryovolcanically
popularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popularity
unparametrised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unparameterized.
monographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monograph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a monograph or treatise.
glosses: Drawn in lines without colours.
Derived terms: monographically
Arians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹɪənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Arian
Song
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: so͝ong
Forms: form: Sung
form: Soong
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 宋 (Sòng).
Senses: examples: text: A 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty sold at auction for $37.7 million on Tuesday, breaking the record for Chinese porcelain, auction house Sotheby?s said.
The small piece -- which dates from 960-1127 -- broke the previous record of $36.05 million set in 2014 for a Ming Dynasty wine cup which was sold to a Shanghai tycoon.
ref: 2017 October 3, “Bowl sells for Chinese porcelain record $37.7 million: Sotheby?s”, in France 24, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2017, Live news:
text: The brightest supernova in your Milky Way galaxy to be visible from Earth was seen and recorded by the Chinese during the Song Dynasty on the 4th of July in A.D. 1054.
ref: 2025, Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Stars, Near & Far”, in Just Visiting This Planet, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century (Science / Astronomy), Blackstone Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 90:
glosses: A former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan.
glosses: A former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China.
glosses: The era of Chinese history during which the dynasty reigned.
glosses: A surname from Chinese.
glosses: A river in China; any of various minor rivers in China.
Synonyms: sense: Chinese rivers
word: Songjiang
sense: Chinese rivers
word: Song Jiang
Derived terms: Northern Song
Southern Song
Song
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: so͝ong
Senses: glosses: A river in Papua New Guinea.
Song
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: so͝ong
Senses: glosses: A local government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
Song
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: so͝ong
Forms: form: Songs
Etymology: Derived from Khmer សុង (song).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Khmer.
Song
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: so͝ong
so͞oʹu̇ng
so͝ong
Etymology: Derived from Thai สอง (sɔ̌ɔng).
Senses: glosses: A district of Phrae Province, Thailand.
Grau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Graus
Etymology: * As a German surname, borrowed from German Grau, a nickname for someone with grey hair or beard.
* As a Catalan and southern French surname, from Occitan and Catalan Grau, a topographic surname from grau (“degree, level”).
* Also as a Catalan surname, reduced from the personal name Guerau; see Gerald.
* As a French surname, from Old French grau (“kind of fork”), from Frankish/Germanic, probably related to Old Norse grein (“fork, branch”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
unquailingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unquailingly
form: most unquailingly
Etymology: From unquailing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Emily looked across at the girl. Large, steady, purplish-grey eyes gazed into beady, twinkling, black ones—gazed unquailingly—with something in them that cowed and compelled. The black eyes wavered and fell, their owner covering her retreat with another giggle and toss of her short braid of hair.
ref: 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:
glosses: Without quailing; bravely.
playsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From playsome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being playsome.
Synonyms: playfulness
personability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being personable.
Synonyms: personableness
personableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From personable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] I know no other set of men but what lose something of their personableness when they cease to be quite young.
ref: 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey:
text: Osborn's personableness was not of a kind attractive to the unbiassed male observer.
ref: 1901, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst:
text: His charm and personableness had contributed greatly to the magic of monarchy.
ref: 2014, Anne Edwards, Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, page 383:
glosses: The quality of being personable.
Synonyms: personability
personably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more personably
form: most personably
Etymology: From personable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a personable manner.
unpersonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpersonable
form: most unpersonable
Etymology: From un- + personable.
Senses: examples: text: By the time I had finished the looking-glass showed a not unpersonable young man.
ref: 1915, John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps:
glosses: Not personable.
prechew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prechews
form: prechewing
form: prechewed
form: prechewed
Etymology: From pre- + chew.
Senses: examples: text: In “A Man Among Wolves,” a bizarre and riveting nature documentary that will be shown tonight on the National Geographic Channel, a British former gamekeeper named Shaun Ellis feeds wolf cubs prechewed food from his own mouth.
ref: 2007 April 16, Susan Stewart, “Kiss and Howl: This Man Is a Wolf’s Best Friend”, in New York Times:
glosses: To chew (food) in advance.
prechews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prechew
prechewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prechew
prechewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prechew
electrostimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrostimulations
Etymology: From electro- + stimulation.
Senses: glosses: Stimulation with electricity, sometimes used in medicine.
electrostimulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrostimulation
flannelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flannelly
form: most flannelly
form: flannely
Etymology: From flannel + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of flannel material.
planthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plant + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or period of being a plant.
polychordal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polychordal
form: most polychordal
Etymology: From polychord + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a polychord.
polychords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polychord
projicients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of projicient
binagoongan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog binagoongan (literally “that to which bagoong (shrimp paste) is applied”).
Senses: glosses: A sautéed pork dish of the Philippines, flavoured with shrimp paste.
asshattery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsehattery
Etymology: From asshat + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: […] we can only speculate that Pratt's imminent departure is the reason her August editor's letter was so full of bitter, reader-insulting asshattery.
ref: 2005, Bitch: feminist response to pop culture, numbers 27-30:
text: It was such a momentous culmination of prophetic asshattery that even the elements themselves, Earth, Water, Wind, Fire, Toilet Cake, were forced to stand up and take notice.
ref: 2009, Nathan Smithe, The Bible 2.0:
text: In retrospect, the misunderstanding about the plan was forgivable[…]but the genuine asshattery on his part was not picking up the phone to call me.
ref: 2016, Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: The obnoxious behaviour of an asshat.
Synonyms: assclownery
assholery
douchebaggery
douchery
hypergamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypergamous
form: most hypergamous
Etymology: From hyper- + -gamous.
Senses: examples: text: This is, in fact, an issue on which modern anthropologists have been divided, particularly among those north Indians who are held to practise hypergamous 'upward' marriage.
ref: 1999, Susan Bayly, Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age, Cambridge University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Readers can't help siding with Jane's heroines, so sympathetically portrayed in their efforts to get the right man, whereas Becky Sharp may well represent male distrust of scheming hypergamous females.
ref: 2005, David P. Barash, Nanelle R. Barash, Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature, Dell, published 2008, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Some Chinese citizens even praised male Chinese citizens they knew for having enough status, wealth, charm, and good looks to attract non-Chinese women, who were presumed to desire the same hypergamous relationships that Chinese women were presumed to desire.
ref: 2011, Vanessa L. Fong, Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hypergamy.
Derived terms: hypergamously
doppelbock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒ.p(ə)lˌbɒk/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.p(ə)lˌbɑk/
Forms: form: doppelbocks
Etymology: From German Doppelbock (“double bock”).
Senses: examples: text: As with so many beer styles, we have monasteries to thank for doppelbock, in particular the devout monks of St. Francis of Paula.
ref: 2007 April 18, Eric Asimov, “With Bocks, It’s All About the Malt”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Bavarian speciality beer, deep gold to dark brown, with a large, creamy, persistent head and a strong malty aroma.
doppelbocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doppelbock
hypergamously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypergamously
form: most hypergamously
Etymology: From hypergamous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At the middle and lower levels of the status hierarchy among Kanbis and Rajputs, families faced a double financial burden of dowry payment for marrying their daughters hypergamously and bride price for marrying sons.
ref: 2007, L. S. Vishwanath, “Female Infanticide, Property and the Colonial State”, in Tulsi Patel, editor, Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies, Sage, →ISBN, page 278:
text: Ravi had married hypergamously—he had married up—and Vimalesh hypogamously, down.
ref: 2010, Patrick Smith, Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 179:
text: Kamil's parents disapprove of Marilyn because her family is poor and lower class. Like Cinderella, Marilyn wants to marry hypergamously.
ref: 2011, Jeannette Marie Mageo, Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 68:
text: “Some sugar babies will refer to themselves as not sugar babies, but that they’re just dating hypergamously,” Ms. Upadhyay said.
ref: 2025 July 29, Jesse McKinley, quoting Srushti Upadhyay, “David Geffen’s Divorce Gives New Meaning to Hypergamy”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a hypergamous manner.
nondeployed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deployed.
Senses: glosses: Not deployed.
overbake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbakes
form: overbaking
form: overbaked
form: overbaked
Etymology: From over- + bake.
Senses: examples: text: It’s for an eight-inch pan, and the only thing you need to fear is overbaking; somewhere between 20 and 25 minutes is just about right.
ref: 2007 April 18, “Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: To bake for too long.
overbakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbake