cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phosphoryls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoryl
photobiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + biologic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of photobiological.
synonyms: word: photobiological
photochromisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photochromism
photoduplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + duplicated.
Senses: glosses: photocopied
photogeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + geological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to photogeology.
photogeologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photogeologists
Etymology: From photo- + geologist.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out photogeology.
photogeologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photogeologist
photoinductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + inductive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to photoinduction.
photoperiodisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoperiodism
photoreceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoreception
phthalins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phthalin
phuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phut
phuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phut
phutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phut
phutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phut
phrenologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phrenology
phylloclades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phylloclade
phylloxeras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phylloxera
gargoyleish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gargoyleish
form: most gargoyleish
Etymology: From gargoyle + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Malcolm’s nephew Stevie, a similarly gargoyleish presence, takes his place on rhythm guitar, while Chris Slade – who had a spell with the band in the 80s – replaces Rudd.
ref: 2015 July 6, Michael Hann, “AC/DC review – rock'n'roll reduced to its purest essence”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Characteristic of a gargoyle.
physicalnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physicalness
phytoplankters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytoplankter
physiographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physiography
phytologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytology
phytogenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytogeny
piaffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of piaffe
piaffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of piaffe
flagellomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flagellomeres
Etymology: From flagello- + -mere.
Senses: examples: text: Stone (personal correspondence) has suggested the use of the term flagellomere, on morphological grounds, instead of the usual "segments" of the flagellum […]
ref: 1968, NM Jorgensen, MT James, “Evolution of the antenna in the Stratiomyidae (Diptera”, in Annals of the Entomological Society:
text: Dorsa and ventral lobes of flagellomeres not symmetrical: ventral lobe slightly longer than dorsal lobe.
ref: 1999, Judith E. Winston, Describing Species: Practical Taxonomic Procedure for Biologists, A fossil insect, a new woodgnat, Valesguya disjuncta, page 221:
text: On various Anthemideae genera. 3 Antennae with 8, occasionally 9 flagellomeres.
ref: 2015 July 2, Dorchin N, Astrin JJ, Bodner L, Harris KM, “Morphological and Molecular Revision of the Genus Ozirhincus (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)—Long-Snouted Seed-Feeding Gall Midges on Asteraceae”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 7, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A segment of the flagellum of the antenna of an insect or crustacean.
Derived terms: basoflagellomere
distiflagellomere
flagellomeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagellomere
super-centenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: super-centenarians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supercentenarian.
super-centenarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of super-centenarian
glycostructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycostructures
Etymology: From glyco- + structure.
Senses: examples: text: Intermediate glycostructures have different numbers of galactose, mannose, and sialic acid residues.
ref: 2015 July 2, Ligabue-Braun R, Sachett LG, Pol-Fachin L, Verli H, “The Calcium Goes Meow: Effects of Ions and Glycosylation on Fel d 1, the Major Cat Allergen”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 7, →DOI:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A structure of glycoproteins.
glycostructures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycostructure
hydrosonography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + sonography.
Senses: examples: text: RPL women had normal menstrual cycles, no uterine anomalies (by hysterosalpingography, hydrosonography or hysteroscopy) and no antiphospholipid syndrome (APS).
ref: 2015 July 2, Nagirnaja L, Nõmmemees D, Rull K, Christiansen OB, Nielsen HS, Laan M, “Annexin A5 Promoter Haplotype M2 Is Not a Risk Factor for Recurrent Pregnancy Loss in Northern Europe”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 7, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An ultrasound involving the injection of a fluid into the endometrial cavity.
Derived terms: hydrosonographic
labyrinthulid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labyrinthulids
Etymology: From the ICZN order name Labyrinthulida.
Senses: examples: text: The detritivores thraustochytrids and labyrinthulids have been associated with 22:5ɷ6 and 22:4ɷ6.
ref: 2015 July 2, Pethybridge HR, Parrish CC, Morrongiello J, Young JW, Farley JH, Gunasekera RM, et al., “Spatial Patterns and Temperature Predictions of Tuna Fatty Acids: Tracing Essential Nutrients and Changes in Primary Producers”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 7, →DOI:
glosses: Any protist in the order Labyrinthulales (syn. Labyrinthulida), the slime nets, which produce a network of filaments or tubes inside of which the cells move and from which they obtain nutrients.
Coordinate terms: thraustochytrid
labyrinthulids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labyrinthulid
thraustochytrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thraustochytrids
Etymology: From the ICZN name, Thraustochytrida.
Senses: examples: text: The detritivores thraustochytrids and labyrinthulids have been associated with 22:5ɷ6 and 22:4ɷ6 [34 ].
ref: 2015 July 2, Pethybridge HR, Parrish CC, Morrongiello J, Young JW, Farley JH, Gunasekera RM, et al., “Spatial Patterns and Temperature Predictions of Tuna Fatty Acids: Tracing Essential Nutrients and Changes in Primary Producers”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 7, →DOI:
glosses: Any protist in the order Thraustochytriales (syn. Thraustochytrida), that produce a network of filaments or tubes, on which the cells move and from which they absorb nutrients.
Coordinate terms: labyrinthulid
thraustochytrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thraustochytrid
picarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picarian
postischemia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + ischemia.
Senses: examples: text: Additional control (sham) and postischemia groups received SAA+ cells.
ref: 2015 July 2, Kelly KJ, Zhang J, Han L, Kamocka M, Miller C, Gattone VH II, et al., “Improved Structure and Function in Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Rat Kidneys with Renal Tubular Cell Therapy”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 7, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: After an ischemia.
pickaroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickaroons
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of picaroon.
pickaroons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickaroon
plastoglobulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastoglobuli
Senses: examples: text: Scattered 70S ribosomes and a plastoglobulus can be seen between the thylakoid stacks in C1.
ref: 2015 July 2, Schmidt M, Horn S, Ehlers K, Wilhelm C, Schnetter R, “Guanchochroma wildpretii gen. et spec. nov. (Ochrophyta) Provides New Insights into the Diversification and Evolution of the Algal Class Synchromophyceae”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 7, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of plastoglobule.
pictorialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pictorialism
picturals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pictural
piecened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of piecen
piecens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of piecen
piecening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of piecen
piecening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piecenings
Senses: glosses: A piecing.
photoporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + poration.
Senses: examples: text: Light: photoporation uses lasers to permeabilize cell membranes, with two principles described for gene therapy.
ref: 2015 July 2, Jumelle C, Mauclair C, Houzet J, Bernard A, He Z, Forest F, et al., “Delivery of Molecules into Human Corneal Endothelial Cells by Carbon Nanoparticles Activated by Femtosecond Laser”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 7, →DOI:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of using light to create pores in a cell membrane
Related terms: photoporate
pigheadednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigheadedness
neckbanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of neckband
neckbanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neckband
pikestaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pikestaff
pikakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pikake
pileless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pile + -less.
Senses: examples: a pileless carpet
a pileless platform at an oil refinery
glosses: Without a pile or piles (in various senses).
pilocarpines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilocarpine
rhyming dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhyming dictionaries
Senses: glosses: A reference work that provides lists of rhymes for any given word.
Synonyms: dictionary
rhyming dictionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhyming dictionary
cis-lunar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cislunar.
trans-lunar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of translunar.
trees of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree of life
teknonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tecno- + -onymy.
Senses: glosses: The cultural practice of referring to parents by the names of their children.
blow someone's cover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows someone's cover
form: blowing someone's cover
form: blew someone's cover
form: blown someone's cover
Senses: examples: text: Iskander's role as a G.A.M. operative was secret—until I unwittingly blew his cover that day.
ref: 2007 February 15, Andrew Marshall, “The Escape Artist”, in Time, retrieved 06 Jul 2015:
text: Others have tried to blow his cover: George Galloway, a left-wing British politician and supporter of the Palestinian cause, published Mr. Mahmood’s photo on his website in 2006 and accused Mr. Mahmood of disguising himself as an Arab businessman and trying to entice him to make anti-Semitic comments over lunch.
ref: 2014 November 19, Katrin Bennhold, “A Tabloid ‘Fake Sheikh,’ Bane of Crooks and Royalty, Finds He’s Now the Story”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Jul 2015:
text: [O]ne of her adopted brothers said that she had asked him not to reveal that she is white. "She took me aside and just told me not to blow her cover," Ezra Dolezal, one of her African American adopted siblings, told KREM-TV.
ref: 2015 August 24, Payton Guion, “Rachel Dolezal steps down as local NAACP president amid race controversy”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 06 Jul 2015:
glosses: To reveal that someone's behavior, situation, or identity has been fabricated or deliberately misrepresented for an ulterior motive.
examples: text: This spy film purports to be inspired by the true story of Kim Philby (1912-1988), a British intelligence officer and Soviet spy during the 1940s and '50s who gained international notoriety when he blew his cover and defected to the USSR in 1963.
ref: 1984 August 24, Lawrence Van Gelder, “The Jigsaw Man (1984): Review Summary”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Jul 2015:
glosses: To reveal that one has fabricated or deliberately misrepresented one's own behavior, situation, or identity for an ulterior motive.
Related terms: blow up someone's spot
give the game away
fibrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fibrational
form: most fibrational
Etymology: From fibration + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Applying the fibrational form of the Yoneda lemma, we develop a general calculus of modules, proving that they naturally assemble into a multicategory-like structure called a virtual equipment, which is known to be a robust setting in which to develop formal category theory.
ref: 2015, Emily Riehl, Dominic Verity, “Kan extensions and the calculus of modules for ∞-categories”, in arXiv:
topics: algebraic-topology
mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Of or pertaining to a fibration.
nonmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + monic.
Senses: examples: text: We obtain analogous partial results for the case of nonmonic or reducible polynomials by studying their GL2(K[x])-orbit and by establishing some combinatorial constraints on their Newton polytope.
ref: 2015, Denis Simon, Martin Weimann, “Plane Curves With Minimal Discriminant”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not monic.
rheonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rheonomy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: We show how the superspace constraints (a.k.a. rheonomic parametrisation) are translated from the space of superforms […]
ref: 2015, Leonardo Castellani, Roberto Catenacci, Pietro Antonio Grassi, “Hodge Dualities on Supermanifolds”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a mechanical system whose constraint equations explicitly contain or are dependent upon time.
Synonyms: rheonomous
dream house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dream houses
form: dreamhouse
Senses: examples: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
"Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" By Eric Hodgins, William Steig
synonyms: dream home
glosses: One's ideal house or home.
examples: text: Sometimes the dream house was situated on top of a hill, so she was looking down on the road. Other times the dream house was located down the slope of the hill, so she was looking up.
ref: 2012, Robert Moss, Dreaming the Soul Back Home:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dream, house.
scleronomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sklə.ɹəˈnɒm.ɪk/
ipa: /sklə.ɹəˈnɑːm.ɪk/
Etymology: From scleronomy + -ic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a mechanical system whose constraint equations do not explicitly contain or are not dependent upon time.
Synonyms: scleronomous
dream houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dream house
pivotability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pivot + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: We show an individual's pivotability is a weakly increasing function of his rank.
ref: 2015, Roland Pongou, Bertrand Tchantcho, Narcisse Tedjeugang, “A Ladder Tournament”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality or state of being pivotable.
distality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, distality characterizes these strong regularity properties.
ref: 2015, Artem Chernikov, Sergei Starchenko, “Regularity lemma for distal structures”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality or state of being distal.
equisingular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + singular.
Senses: examples: text: As an application, we show that a family (X#95;t,0) is Zariski equisingular if and only if it is Whitney equisingular and the numbers of cusps and double folds of a generic linear projection are constant on t..
ref: 2015, J. J. Nuño-Ballesteros, B. Oréfice-Okamoto, J. N. Tomazella, “Equisingularity of map germs from a surfasse to the plane”, in arXiv:
glosses: Having a single singularity.
Related terms: equisingularity
pigfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigfests
Etymology: From pig + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: Next to her cans of Ensure, there is also a Tupperware container she has ready for me to bring home—a veritable pigfest for my children.
ref: 1996, Joy Horowitz, Tessie and Pearlie: A Granddaughter's Story, Touchstone, →ISBN:
text: The two days become a virtual pigfest, during which pretty much anything is fair game to eat — Burger King sandwiches, McDonald's fries, Dairy Queen banana splits, all the Dunkin' Donuts holes you want, pizza, chocolate, soda pop, and even sugar sandwiches!
ref: 2000, Ironman's Ultimate Guide to Bodybuilding Nutrition, McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 71:
text: Mom and my dad's sister, Helen, and her three kids, Kristen, John, and Mark, went into town for groceries to make side dishes for our pigfest, cheesy baked carrots and Caesar salad.
ref: 2006, Sarah Grace McCandless, The Girl I Wanted to Be, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: An instance of gorging or binge eating.
sex dungeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex dungeons
Senses: examples: She has even built herself her own private dungeon. But Melissa's sex dungeon wasn't her secret
So You've Been Publicly Shamed By Jon Ronson
If a couple dresses in leather and studs, then visits a sex dungeon to meet friends for consensual sessions of sadomasochistic bondage and domination (“BDSM”), should they be considered deviants if they enjoy their activity?
What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know About Sex By Stephanie Buehler
She developed a sex amusement park called Climaxland that had the largest sex dungeon in the world.
"Brain Defying Tales"
glosses: A dungeon-like location designed and equipped for BDSM sexual activities.
Related terms: red room
sex dungeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex dungeon
pigfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigfest
nongypsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + gypsy.
Senses: examples: text: Gypsies enjoy a reputation for natural musicianship, and their passionate repertoire has inspired nongypsy composers such as Liszt, Brahms, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Strauss.
ref: 1988 November 11, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2020:
glosses: Not a Gypsy.
nongypsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nongypsies
Etymology: From non- + gypsy.
Senses: examples: text: English gypsy Pat Skye Lee, twenty, is breaking centuries of tradition by marrying a nongypsy.
ref: 2011, Jim Nally, Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone who is not a Gypsy.
nongypsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nongypsy
majick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Burger, though, is a discarder rather than a collector; what items there are have a personal or aesthetic appeal: a few bits of stone that look like a miniature segment of Stonehenge; a pack of Max Maven playing cards, named after a famous "mentalist," a good friend of Burger's; a couple of trick devices, including one shaped like a skull; and a few lavishly weird "bizarre majick" books, these the work of Tony Andruzzi, a local magician.
ref: 1988 November 4, Bill Wyman, “Do You Believe in Magic?”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Mica, Kai, and Matthias find themselves at the epicenter of miracles, strange majick, and disaster.
ref: 2011, David Scherer, Majicians' Journey: The Prophecy, →ISBN:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of magic.
majick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When Dieter was far enough away from the house, he took out the majick fire light.
ref: 2011, Diana Winter, The Last Snow Dragon, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of magic.
reactionaryism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reactionarism
form: reactionism
Etymology: From reactionary + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: To accuse a movement of being reactionary, we must understand what is meant by reactionaryism.
ref: 2000, Advocate of Dialogue, →ISBN, page 165:
text: I have never believed that a threat of reactionaryism exists in Turkey.
ref: 2012, Revolutionaries and Reformers, →ISBN, page 147:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The advocacy of reactionary political positions.
remoisturize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remoisturizes
form: remoisturizing
form: remoisturized
form: remoisturized
Etymology: From re- + moisturize.
Senses: examples: text: The can was seized soon thereafter, and as the judge's trial got under way, an IRS lab was remoisturizing the ashes and reconstructing checks.
ref: 1988 April 29, John Conroy, “Follow the Money”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2016:
text: A remoisturizing shower does not work if the water pump is not on.
ref: 2000, Tappi Journal - Volume 83, page 49:
text: The remoisturizing post-straightening conditioner minimizes hair shaft brittleness and breakage.
ref: 2004, Zoe Diana Draelos, Hair Care: An Illustrated Dermatologic Handbook, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: To moisturize something that has been dried out.
remoisturizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remoisturize
remoisturizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remoisturize
remoisturized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remoisturize
nonreviewable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reviewable.
Senses: examples: text: Superman! the other effort by North Avenue Productions, is still in the nonreviewable developmental stage; but judging from the preview I saw last weekend, director Evan Gore and his company are making an effort to steer clear of the problems Hogan's Gyros has fallen prey to.
ref: 1988 October 28, Albert Williams, “Clever Conceptualizing”, in Chicago Reader:
text: A request for a nonreviewable ruling must be submitted by an issuer or holder.
ref: 1996, United States. Internal Revenue Service, Internal Revenue Bulletin, page 47:
text: An important aspect in the statement of the rules is the distinction between reviewable and nonreviewable plays.
ref: 2008, Michael Austin, Football and Philosophy: Going Deep, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: Not able to be reviewed.
Synonyms: unreviewable
multiunits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiunit
hogshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hog + shit.
Senses: examples: text: Take hogshit for instance.
ref: 1978, Albert D. Werder, A Spartan education, →ISBN, page 156:
text: It was the odor of slop and mud and hogshit so layered by time that it seeped out of the ground and grass and weeds and trees and, it seemed, out of the very brick and mortar of the house.
ref: 1968, Harry Crews, The Gospel Singer, page 74:
synonyms: pigshit
coordinate_terms: bullshit
cowshit
goatshit
horseshit
sheepshit
glosses: The excrement of a hog.
examples: text: All that hogshit about mental disorders and dream states and such.
ref: 2007, Robert McCammon, The Queen of Bedlam, →ISBN, page 343:
glosses: Synonym of hogwash: bullshit, malarkey, nonsense.
synonyms: word: hogwash
extra: bullshit, malarkey, nonsense
semitortured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + tortured.
Senses: examples: text: One of the cleverest--and most instructive for the uninitiated--bits is from a fictitious play called Shut Up and Listen, a play in which nobody talks but the semitortured artist character that Nutter wrote for himself.
ref: 1988 September 16, Diana Spinrad, “Oh My . . . Nuts! A Musical Tribute to the Late Great Mark Nutter”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
text: And thus began what is by far the most horrendous chain of events in my young, semitortured life.
ref: 2010, Megan McCafferty, The Complete Jessica Darling Series, →ISBN:
text: Was that really her making that low, hungry, almost semitortured sound deep down in her throat?
ref: 2012, Penny Jordan, A Little Revenge: The Mistress Assignment\Lover by Deception, →ISBN:
glosses: Somewhat tortured.
butcherblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butcherblocks
Senses: examples: text: A butcherblock counter must be kept dry and well sealed to avoid cracking.
ref: 1998, Dean Johnson, Kitchens: How to, →ISBN:
text: The wooden bench under me was four stout legs glued to a butcherblock slab.
ref: 2014, Chris Knopf, A Billion Ways to Die, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of butcher block.
doghair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dog + hair, by analogy with the thick hair on the back of a dog.
Senses: examples: text: Doghair stands result from too many pine trees regenerating following fire or clearcutting which opens the forest canopy.
ref: 1983, United States. Bureau of Land Management. Platte River Resource Area, Forest ecology/plant identification trail, page 7:
text: The acres of doghair will continue to decline, due to the experimental program.
ref: 1990, Olympic National Forest (N.F.), Land and Resource(s) ..., page 142:
text: In front of us was a stand of doghair pine, the kind of stunted, thin trees that grow close together like grass, each stem maybe three to six inches in diameter.
ref: 2001, I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions, →ISBN, page 55:
topics: business
forestry
hypernyms: forest#Noun
thesaurus:forest
glosses: Pine forest where the trees have grown extremely thin and close together.
examples: Holonyms: coat, pelt
hypernyms: hair#Noun
coordinate_terms: dog fur#Noun
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fur#Noun
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dog, hair.
Related terms: hair of the dog
manjuice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of man juice.
manjuices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of man juice.
rectagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rectagraphs
Etymology: Blend of rectangle + graph
Senses: examples: text: Such graphs are known to be halved graphs of bipartite rectagraphs, which are connected triangle-free graphs in which every 2-path lies in a unique quadrangle.
ref: 2015, Joanna B. Fawcett, “Locally triangular graphs and normal quotients of the n-cube”, in arXiv:
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A triangle-free connected graph where any two vertices have 0 or 2 common neighbors.
rectagraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rectagraph
triangle-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From triangle + -free.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of an undirected graph in which no three vertices form a triangle of edges.
isoradial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + radial.
Senses: examples: text: The critical surface for random-cluster model with cluster-weight q#92;ge 4 on isoradial graphs is identified using parafermionic observables.
ref: 2015, Vincent Beffara, Hugo Duminil-Copin, Stanislav Smirnov, “On the critical parameters of the q>4 random-cluster model on isoradial graphs”, in arXiv:
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a planar graph: where each face is inscribable in a circle of common radius.
TARDIS blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the color of the TARDIS, a time machine and spacecraft shaped like a police box, from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Senses: examples: text: (#003B6F)
text: He wore a black button-down shirt and gray slacks. […] On his feet, he wore his lucky shoes. The TARDIS blue was the only real color on him.
ref: 2014, Michele Zurlo, Kiss Me by Moonlight, Omnific Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: The dark blue color of a traditional police box.
TARDIS blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the color of the TARDIS, a time machine and spacecraft shaped like a police box, from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Senses: examples: text: She wears a tacky T.A.R.D.I.S blue cardigan, buttoned to the max, over khaki slacks.
ref: 2014, Emma Gray, Groupies, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 39:
text: She took a long drag and put the cigarette out in the blue ashtray on the living room table. Alex had given it to her two months after they first met. It was an odd, almost circular shape, but it was TARDIS blue and he thought Die might like it.
ref: 2015, Lucia Moroşanu, When Impossible Events Occur, →ISBN:
glosses: Of this dark blue color.
tosses salad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toss salad
tossing salad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toss salad
headground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headgrounds
Etymology: Blend of head + background.
Senses: examples: text: One Hollywood Flood-Lite was used, subdued to 20 amperes and screened by lowering the Lite back of a small headground, until detail in the composition was almost lost to the eye.
ref: 1922, Abel's Photographic Weekly - Volume 30, Issues 776-783, page 567:
text: But a card table was folded up and made as fine a headground as one could wish.
ref: 1927, American Photography - Volume 21, page 12:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A background used for a headshot.
headgrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headground
prepsychedelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + psychedelic.
Senses: examples: text: Lehrer's songs--cynical and sarcastic, Tin Pan Alley style black humor, as if Lenny Bruce teamed up with Lerner and Loewe--were welcome assaults on the bland conformism of their day, the prepsychedelic early 1960s; we could use some of that biting comedy in the yuppified 80s, and David Whitehouse and Andy Miller, whose songs form the spine of this brief show, seem willing to oblige.
ref: 1988 November 11, Albert Williams, “An American Dream”, in Chicago Reader:
text: By the time of their second album, The Fugs (which actually made the top forty), the group had evolved into a kind of primitive clatter marked by lustful evocations and mantralike prepsychedelic trance-Rock.
ref: 2002, Joe S. Harrington, Sonic Cool: The Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Related to or characteristic of the period preceding the Psychedelic era of the late 1960s.
reenroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reenrolls
form: reenrolling
form: reenrolled
form: reenrolled
Etymology: From re- + enroll.
Senses: examples: text: These young people, chosen at random, had been in 4-H Club work for 1 year, but had not reenrolled for the second.
ref: 1966, Meeting the Basic Needs of First-year 4-H Club Members, page 3:
text: After a difficult period with some successes, she reenrolled in school.
ref: 1988 May 13, Richard J. Nitti, “Our Gang Problem”, in Chicago Reader:
text: In addition, some students who reenrolled in school subsequently left the Louisiana public school system.
ref: 2006, John F. Pane, Student Displacement in Louisiana After the Hurricanes of ..., →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: To enroll again
Related terms: reenrollment
Old World vulture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Old World vultures
Senses: glosses: Any of the large scavenging birds found in the Old World and belonging to the family Accipitridae.
Coordinate terms: New World vulture
reenrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reenroll
reenrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reenroll
reenrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reenroll
Amerindianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Amerindianizes
form: Amerindianizing
form: Amerindianized
form: Amerindianized
Etymology: From Amerindian + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Amerindianizing the Image of the School
Early in the 1970s the Quebec office of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development established a training program for Indian teachers called the Amerindianization of the Schools […]
ref: 1985, Barbara Burnaby, Promoting Native Writing Systems in Canada, number 24, page 21:
text: Their strong wind seems anglicized when compared to Asturias's Amerindianized one.
ref: 1992, Louise Fiber Luce, The Spanish-speaking world: an anthology of cross-cultural perspectives:
text: The challenge for Indians, he says, is to “Amerindianize” (as he puts it) our technological society […]
ref: 2005, Ute Lischke, Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and Their Representations, page 129:
text: In turn, the Amerindianizing of his Spanish heritage (through his mother's mixed background) carries “vestiges of Trinidad's original, 'authentic,' and somewhat romanticized past, in the form of aboriginal blood.
ref: 2007, Jocelyne Guilbault, Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics, page 125:
glosses: To make Amerindian.
bumhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bum + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: You had Commies, capitalists (ruined, but adhering), even monarchists, in bumhood.
ref: 1993, Barry Hannah, Bats Out of Hell, →ISBN, page 186:
text: It had been depressingly easy to transform him to bumhood.
ref: 2002, Douglas Preston, The Cabinet of Curiosities: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: In La Chienne, Simon performs as Legrand, a well-starched civil servant and uppity colleague destined for a fall into the arms of the ruinous Lulu, and thence into bumhood, to the status of one scorned and reviled.
ref: 1996, Identity Papers, →ISBN:
glosses: The state of being a bum.
skeletal muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeletal muscle
gumshoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gumshoe
gumshoeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gumshoe
slapable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slap + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, I will point out the beauty of the little Dutch girl, of the little Argentinian (Maria Alba), the athletic perfection of Louise Brooks, who is as attractive and slapable as ever.
ref: 1974, Stanley Hochman, American film directors, page 159:
text: The ones in transit are usually the worst, arguably slapable: the one who kicks the back of your airplane seat all the way to Newark, or those private-school urchins with the high voices yapping materialistic nonsense on the express bus.
ref: 1988 November 25, Regina Mary White, “Traveling With Children”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016:
text: In any other circumstances this would be a slapable offence.
ref: 2014, How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit?, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of slappable.
overedit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overedits
form: overediting
form: overedited
form: overedited
Etymology: From over- + edit.
Senses: examples: text: Killers seems as if it's been overedited, underwritten, and, as a last resort, jury-rigged.
ref: 1988 June 17, Tom Boeker, “Killers”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
text: The quick cuts made the film almost overedited.
ref: 2005, Jay Brody, Brody's Guide to the College Admissions Essay, →ISBN, page 70:
text: He felt Billings overedited him and made capricious changes.
ref: 2012, Robert Goldsborough, The Missing Chapter, →ISBN:
glosses: To edit something too much.
nonpeer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + peer.
Senses: examples: text: During that time a number of goals are accomplished: detoxification and stabilization, if necessary; education about PAD; introduction to group therapy and AA groups, including a weekly peer group (other doctors) as well as a nonpeer group.
ref: 1988 July 29, Laurence Gonzales, “When Doctors Are Addicts”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2010:
text: I refer to these as natural nonpeer ties.
ref: 1996, Martin Bloom, Primary Prevention Practices, →ISBN, page 244:
glosses: Not involving or including peers.
nonpeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonpeers
Etymology: From non- + peer.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a peer; somebody outside of a peer group.
Andean condor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Andean condors
Senses: glosses: A South American bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae, Vultur gryphus.
overedited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overedit
overediting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overedit
overedits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overedit
blubberer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blubberers
Etymology: From blubber + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I laughed and cried (for I am one of the blubberers) when she bade me.
ref: 1882, Thomas Twining, Recreations and Studies of a Country Clergyman of the ..., page 111:
text: ) Some of the loudest blubberers are developers who, having made enormous profits as a result of local, state, and federal subsidies, complain that government doesn't do enough for them.
ref: 1988 December 9, Ben Joravsky, “Property-tax assessments rise; north siders are revolting”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2020:
glosses: Someone who blubbers.
blubberers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blubberer
miniessay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniessays
Etymology: From mini- + essay.
Senses: examples: text: On the same program, and much more interesting as filmmaking, are three highly original independent shorts by New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion, all of them made while she was attending the Australian Film and Television School: Peel (1981) and A Girl's Own Story (1984) are about family quarrels and transgressions; the remarkable Passionless Moments (1984), made with Gerard Lee, is a series of fictional miniessays that defy description.
ref: 1988 August 19, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Cane Toads: An Unnatural History/Films by Jane Campion”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
text: He called them miniessays to flatter the kids into writing them.
ref: 2007, John L'Heureux, An Honorable Profession: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: A brief essay.
miniessays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniessay
integralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: integralists
Etymology: From integral + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Those who start out by vilifying the so-called integralists or traditionalists or arch-conservatives seem always to end by attacking the hierarchical structure of the Church itself and its authoritarian pope.
ref: 1988 June 24, John C. Prendiville, “The Papal Chase”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The curial integralists, who formed the small, vocal minority at Vatican II, gave voice in its debates to the vision of the Church that had gained popular credence in the wake of Vatican I.
ref: 1993, Donald L. Gelpi, Committed Worship: Adult conversion and initiation, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: An adherent of Catholic Integralism, an anti-pluralistic movement within Roman Catholicism.
warehousy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warehousy
form: most warehousy
Etymology: From warehouse + -y.
Senses: examples: text: We want to see how far our readers can get the best impression of an ordinary, commonplace, ugly, commercial, shoppy or warehousy street.
ref: 1902, Practical Junior Photographer, page 277:
glosses: Having many warehouses.
examples: text: So many Scotch and even Glasgow goods, and above all the old fusty warehousy smell, put me very much in mind of Candleriggs Street.
ref: 1925, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Early letters of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman to his ..., page 70:
text: Do a jig or a square dance in the large, warehousy space.
ref: 1990, Paul Deblinger, Culpepper's Minneapolis and Saint Paul, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a warehouse.
integralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of integralist
overdeliberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + deliberate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The other a conservative, sensory child with a tendency to overdeliberation.
ref: 1908, American Motherhood - Volume 26; Volume 43, page 422:
text: His behavior is characterized by overdeliberation and extreme caution.
ref: 1913, William Alanson White, The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases:
text: This, however, only encouraged in the quartet a strain of overdeliberation.
ref: 2011, Allan Brown, Nileism: The Strange Course of the Blue Nile, →ISBN:
glosses: Deliberating too much.
feetfirst
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From feet + first.
Senses: examples: text: So DeCamilli, sliding feetfirst, undercuts the Bomber and sends him sliding into the wall.
ref: 1988 December 9, Ben Joravsky, “No-Ice Hockey”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
text: When we are still worried about our lack of experience and ability to swim, we jump in feetfirst.
ref: 2012, Dottie Escobedo-Frank, ReStart Your Church, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: With one's feet going first.
feetfirst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From feet + first.
Senses: examples: text: On the feetfirst top-top with a 19-inch hole, your body is tilted to about a 35-degree angle on entry.
ref: 1965, United States. 6570th Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories, AMRL-TR. - Issue 65, page 22:
glosses: With one's feet going first.
Related terms: headfirst
modelish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more modelish
form: most modelish
Etymology: From model + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Her fellow San Franciscan Fraser is a long-haired, 24-year-old ex-baseball player with rugged, modelish looks.
ref: 1988 July 15, Albert Williams, “Prison Drama”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2015:
text: She is tan and beautiful in a modelish way and Duane is crazy about her and they travel a lot.
ref: 2014, Garrison Keillor, The Keillor Reader, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling a fashion model.
lunchmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lunch + making.
Senses: examples: text: If I can't even swing elementary lunchmaking my career in politics may just grind to a halt here and now.
ref: 1988 December 2, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
text: And you can imagine by now how seriously expert I am at the lunchmaking gig.
ref: 2007, Kelly Harland, A Will of His Own, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: The activity of making lunches.
lobotomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobotomists
Etymology: From lobotomy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I can imagine a lobotomist saying, "Do you want your daughter dead or lobotomized?"
ref: 1988 December 2, Timothy Beneke, “The Case Against Therapy”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2021:
text: Freeman's career as a lobotomist was fairing as badly in the eye of the medical profession as the procedure was.
ref: 2010, Mary de Young, Madness: An American History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment, page 232:
glosses: Someone who performs lobotomies.
lobotomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobotomist
preacherlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preacherlike
form: most preacherlike
Etymology: From preacher + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The preacherlike man asked his friend, who had become silent.
ref: 1988 May 13, Rod McCollom, “Fund-Raiser”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Looking like no stranger to hard work, Jim was tall and lean with a deep, resonant, preacherlike voice and manner.
ref: 2013, K. T. Berger, Where the Road and the Sky Collide, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a preacher.
china clay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: china clays
Etymology: From its chief original use in Jingdezhen, China.
Senses: examples: text: Particularly engaging management's attention is the expanding market for china clay, which is mined in a sector of the Cornwall peninsula between St Austell in the south and Newquay in the north.
ref: 1964 July, G. Freeman Allen, “The Traffic Divisions of British Railways–2: Plymouth—test-bed for road-rail co-ordination: Part Two”, in Modern Railways, page 29:
glosses: Synonym of kaolin.
synonyms: word: kaolin
bizen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪzən/
Forms: form: bizens
form: byzen
form: byzont
Etymology: From Middle English bysen, partly from Old English bȳsen (“example, pattern, model, similitude, parable, parallel, rule, command, precept”), and partly from Old Norse býsn (“a wonder, a portentous thing”), both from Proto-Germanic *būsniz (“command, precept”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to ask, beg”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, perceive fully”).
Senses: examples: text: She's a shem and a bizen to all the heale town.
ref: 1823, Robert Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, page 155:
text: […] and a bizen like this.
ref: 1866, Eliza Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg, page 97:
text: It'll be a sham an' a bizen, if we cannot find him a menseful of a dinner.
ref: c. 1874, E. Waugh, Jannock ii. 13, as quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary and in the quotation, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1887), of J. H. Nodal and G. Milnar's Gloss[ary of the] Lancashire Dial[ect] (1875)
glosses: Something monstrous or portentous; a shocking sight; sorry spectacle; disgraceful thing.
glosses: Something serving as a warning or an example to be avoided.
Akitsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The name of several towns in Japan.
non-modern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonmodern.
MTG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: Initialism of Magic: The Gathering.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
California condor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: California condors
Senses: glosses: A New World vulture, Gymnogyps californianus, the largest North American land bird.
condoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condoner