cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Herbartianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Herbartian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The Herbartian system of education.
herbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more herbish
form: most herbish
Etymology: From herb + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The Leaves are of a herbish Taste, and pretty strong. The Root is very much of a sweetish Taste; the Flowers are without Smell.
ref: 1741, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, A Voyage Into the Levant, page 216:
glosses: herby
Herculid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Herculids
Senses: glosses: Each of a shower of meteorites which fall from the area of sky around the constellation Hercules.
Herculids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Herculid
hereditivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: heredity
herohead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1916 (first published), a. 1894 (written), Robert Louis Stevenson, "Men are Heaven's Piers", in New poems and variant readings
By spells to make the fuel burn / And keep the parlour warm, to turn / Water to wine, and stones to bread, / By her unconquered hero-head.
glosses: herohood
hexastichous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Arranged in six rows.
hexosaminic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hexosamine.
hidalgism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hidalgoism.
hieroglypher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hieroglyphers
Senses: glosses: A writer of hieroglyphics.
Brezoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Brezoi.
Senses: glosses: A town in Vâlcea County, Romania.
hieroglyphers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hieroglypher
hieroglyphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hieroglyph +
head_nr: 2
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: The study of hieroglyphics.
Sălciua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Sălciua.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Alba County, Romania.
hieroglyphize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hieroglyphizes
form: hieroglyphizing
form: hieroglyphized
form: hieroglyphized
Senses: glosses: To write or convey by means of hieroglyphics.
hieroglyphized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hieroglyphize
hieroglyphizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hieroglyphize
hieroglyphizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hieroglyphize
Săvădisla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Săvădisla.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Cluj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Săvădisla, Cluj County, Romania.
hieroglyphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈɹɒ.ɡlɪ.fi/
ipa: /haɪɚˈɑ.ɡlɪ.fi/
rhymes: -ɒɡlɪfi
Senses: glosses: The use of hieroglyphics.
hingewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hinge + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a hinge.
hippophagistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hippophagous (“feeding on horseflesh”).
synonyms: word: hippophagous
extra: feeding on horseflesh
hirudiniculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The commercial production of leeches.
ostraculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The commercial production of oysters.
historicodogmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From historico- + dogmatic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to history and dogmatics.
historicoprophetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From historico- + prophetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to history and prophecy.
historiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a historiology.
hobbyhorsically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hobbyhorsically
form: most hobbyhorsically
Etymology: From hobbyhorsical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hobbyhorsical manner.
hogyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hogyards
Etymology: From hog + yard.
Senses: synonyms: swineyard
glosses: A yard for keeping pigs.
hogyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogyard
homelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homelets
Etymology: From home + -let.
Senses: examples: text: We found a cottage of stone, from whose thatched roof a dormer-window, brilliant with flowers, peeped out through the foliage which half concealed the tiny homelet.
ref: 1895, Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe, A Literary Pilgrimage Amongst the Haunts of Famous British Authors, page 183:
glosses: A little home.
homelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homelet
homeopathician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeopathicians
Senses: glosses: A homeopath.
homeopathicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeopathician
Homerical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Homerical
form: most Homerical
Etymology: From Homeric + -al or Homer + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Homeric.
Thurgoland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2801).
homoeopathician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoeopathicians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homeopathician.
homoeopathicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoeopathician
hookish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hookish
form: most hookish
Etymology: From hook + -ish.
Senses: examples: a hookish nose
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hook.
hoofish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hoofish
form: most hoofish
Etymology: From hoof + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese feet.
ref: 1856, Lady Emmeline Charlotte E. Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South, page 56:
text: This spreading warmth, so freely shed, / Is token that ye are not dead, / Nor tranced beneath the hard, brute heel / Whose hoofish tread yet leaves you leal / To all the thoughts that gather round […]
ref: 1862, Mrs. Newton Crosland, Mrs. Blake: A Story of Twenty Years, volume 2, page 245:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hoof.
hoodful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoodfuls
Etymology: From hood + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I cautiously raised the hood, freed a hoodful of smoke-steam, but there was no flame. As the smoke blew away I leaned over the radiator. I didn't expect to see anything that made sense to me; I don't know a distributor from a water pump.
ref: 1960, Berry Fleming, The Winter Rider, page 24:
glosses: Enough to fill a hood.
hoodfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoodful
Hopcalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hopcalites
Etymology: Trade name, from the names of Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, where the research was carried out, + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Any of various mixtures of mainly oxides of copper and manganese, used as catalysts for the conversion of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide when exposed to the oxygen in the air at room temperature.
Hopcalites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hopcalite
horizontic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horizontic
form: most horizontic
Senses: glosses: horizontal
Derived terms: horizontically
horizontical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horizontical
form: most horizontical
Senses: glosses: horizontal
horrorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horrorous
form: most horrorous
Etymology: From horror + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: When brooding o'er the past, I dwell / On how in wicked hands you fell, / Your end I seem to picture well, / A doom too horrorous to tell!
ref: 1964, Francisco Balagtas, Mabini's Version of "Florante at Laura", page 33:
glosses: horrifying
hostager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hostagers
Etymology: From hostage + -er.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hostage: a person held by another.
synonyms: word: hostage
extra: a person held by another
hostagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hostager
hotelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hotelizes
form: hotelizing
form: hotelized
form: hotelized
Etymology: From hotel + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: […] and there is nothing to be seen there except Mr. Franck's hotel, a fine old palace of the kind which hotelize so well.
ref: 1886, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 551:
text: This, we believe was the first hospital to hotelize its rooms, and, quoting again from THE HOTEL MONTHLY (this from the issue of May 1924): "One of the great movements of today is the hotelizing of hospitals."
ref: 1937, John Willy, Hotel Monthly, volume 45, page 14:
text: The former Kolb's is now slated for renovation into a hotel, joining the modern corner structure, which was hotelized in 2000 […]
ref: Richard Campanella, Time and Place in New Orleans: Past Geographies in the Present Day (page 107)
glosses: To make into, or similar to, a hotel.
hotelizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hotelize
hotelizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hotelize
hotelized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hotelize
hotelization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One indication of the "hotelization" of a household is that people treat common areas as if they expect a maid to do all the cleaning!
ref: 1995, Richard C. Lamb, Jr., Following Jesus in the "Real World", page 103:
text: The example of the rampant 'hotelization' of city centres since the arrival of Airbnb is not an isolated change.
ref: 2020, Gert de Roo, Claudia Yamu, Christian Zuidema, Handbook on Planning and Complexity, page 95:
glosses: The process of hotelizing.
hospitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hospitious
form: most hospitious
Etymology: From Latin hospitium + -ous.
Senses: glosses: hospitable
hubshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hubshis
form: habshi
Senses: glosses: A black person.
habshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habshis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hubshi.
habshis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habshi
hubshis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hubshi
humetty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a cross humetty
glosses: Alternative form of humetté.
Hurufism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Sufi doctrine based on the mysticism of letters.
Hurri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ancient Hurrian people.
hurroosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurrooshes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hooroosh.
hurrooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hurroosh
hursinghar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: night jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis).
tree of sorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trees of sorrow
Senses: glosses: Night jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis).
trees of sorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree of sorrow
hushfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hushfully
form: most hushfully
Etymology: From hushful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hushful manner.
hussydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hussy + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: But their veneer of gentility was always ready to peel off, laying bare the cheap underlay of vulgar hussydom, […]
ref: 1996, Rosalind J. Marsh, Women in Russia and Ukraine, page 58:
glosses: The realm or sphere of hussies.
huskanaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌskənɔː/
Forms: form: huskanaws
Senses: coordinate_terms: huskanasquaw
glosses: A Powhatan initiation ritual for boys, involving fasting and narcotics.
huskanaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huskanaw
huskanasquaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌskənəˌskwɔː/
Forms: form: huskanasquaws
Senses: coordinate_terms: huskanaw
glosses: A Powhatan initiation ritual for girls.
huskanasquaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huskanasquaw
Huterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Huterian
form: most Huterian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hutterian.
Huterian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Huterians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hutterian.
Huterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Huterites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hutterite.
Huterites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Huterite
Huterians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Huterian
Hutsul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hutsuls
form: Gutsul
form: Hutzul
Senses: glosses: A member of an East Slavic ethnic group spanning parts of western Ukraine and Romania.
Hutsuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hutsul
Hutsulian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hutsulian
form: most Hutsulian
Etymology: From Hutsul + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Hutsul ethnic group.
teak moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teak moths
Senses: glosses: Any moth of the family Hyblaeidae.
teak moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teak moth
hydrophobical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hydrophobic.
hylobatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hylobatine
synonyms: word: hylobatine
hypalgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈpæld͡ʒɪlk/
Etymology: From hypalgia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to hypalgia.
hypercarnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypercarnal
form: most hypercarnal
Etymology: From hyper- + carnal.
Senses: glosses: Extremely carnal.
hyperconservatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + conservatism.
Senses: examples: text: That so few of the churches fell into the hyperconservatism is due to the fact that the majority of the pastors had come under the influence of progressive leaders.
ref: 1964, Norman Hill Maring, Baptists in New Jersey: A Study in Transition, page 140:
glosses: The quality of being hyperconservative.
hyperconservative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperconservative
form: most hyperconservative
Etymology: From hyper- + conservative.
Senses: glosses: Extremely conservative.
Hypergon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hypergons
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A wide-angle lens, forming a flat field, constructed symmetrically with two deep meniscus elements that almost form a sphere.
Hypergons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hypergon
Schönhardt polyhedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schönhardt polyhedra
Etymology: Named after German mathematician Erich Schönhardt, who described it in 1928.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The simplest non-convex polyhedron that cannot be triangulated into tetrahedra without adding new vertices.
hypersensualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hypersensual.
hypodermatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hypodermatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: hypodermically
hypoeliminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoeliminators
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A solution used to remove sodium thiosulfate ("hypo") from fixed plates or prints.
hypoeliminators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypoeliminator
hysteralgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hysteralgia.
hysterotraumatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: traumatic hysteria
hypothesization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypothesizations
Senses: examples: text: The "doctrine of invariant sequence" is ...less a true doctrine than a special definition of cognitive development ..., less a dogma than the hypothesization of logically necessary culturally invariant temporal sequences in the way children change their minds...
ref: 1976, Theodore Schwartz, editor, Socialization as Cultural Communication, University of California Press:
glosses: An act or process of hypothesizing, of forming a hypothesis or hypotheses, typically concerning a particular topic of research or basis for action.
hypothesizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypothesization
Heyrod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9700, SJ9799).
January 6
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: 1/6
form: 1-6
form: one-six
form: J6
form: J-6
Etymology: From the date, by metonymy.
Senses: examples: text: This particularly disturbed me after the January 6 mob attack on Capitol Hill, because it all felt part of the same programme.
ref: 2021 January 22, Lilah Raptopoulos, “My tug-of-war with algorithms”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2021:
text: It was finally time, per Trump’s instructions, to march down Pennsylvania Avenue. The rest you know all about, despite efforts by most Republicans in Congress to hide the truth of January 6.
ref: 2021 June 14, Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Capitol Riot Was Prologue”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2021:
text: This pattern is repeated by the organisation “Condemned USA”, itself run by a January 6 convict, which raises money through nine GiveSendGos for defendants/convicts.
ref: 2024 December 24, Rebecca Visser, “Crowdfunding Conspiracists: Grassroots Giving to January 6 Participants”, in International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, page 8:
glosses: The attack against the United States Congress at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Ta-teng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 大嶝 (Dàdèng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-têng⁴.
Senses: examples: text: Causeways Built
No one can accurately gauge Red Chinese intentions. But there can be no doubt of their activity all along the China coast facing Formosa. A concrete causeway has been built, linking Amoy with the mainland. (Amoy is four miles from Quemoy.) Another causeway, linking Ta-teng Island (six thousand meters off Quemoy’s northern end) with the mainland is almost completed.
ref: 1956 February 22, John C. Caldwell, “Shadow On Formosa”, in National Review, volume I, number 14, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:
text: Every few minutes he would peek out furtively from under his jacket to look at the coast of Amoy. When they arrived at Ta-teng island, the general took him on a tour of the underground tunnels and showed him the sheer cliffs bordering the coast of the[...]
ref: 1976, Chinese Pen, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:
text: [...]even a trench, let alone any fortifications on Quemoy. The only guns they had then were four 42 mm cannons. The difference between then and today, was that scientific? Then he took the report to Ta-teng⁴ Island on a rubber raft. The waves were fairly rough that day and the general also told the frogmen to try a few[...]
ref: 1982, Nancy Ing, Winter Plum: Contemporary Chinese Fiction, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 90:
glosses: Alternative form of Dadeng.
apeture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aperture.
at the top of the heap
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: antonyms: at the bottom of the heap
glosses: In the highest strata; at the height of status, success, etc.
in the palm of one's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The vamp melted into his sizzling hit, "Don't Stop," and in a matter of seconds the audience was in the palm of his hand.
ref: 1983 April 9, Charles Fuller Jr., “Sylvester Sparkles”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
text: Opinion polls in the wake of the interview showed support for the princess at 92 percent. She had the public in the palm of her hand.
ref: April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: Being fully controlled or influenced by something.
Ravensbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A minor river in south-east Greater London, England, which joins the Thames at Deptford. Ravensbourne railway station is near this river.
glosses: A minor river in the borough of Havering, north-east Greater London, which joins the River Rom (or Beam).
glosses: A locality and national park in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, beside Otago Harbour.
temperature-humidity indices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temperature-humidity index
mobile data
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Yet O2 says that while it has doubled the number of iPhone users, mobile data use is doubling every 4 months, equivalent to an eightfold growth every year.
ref: 2010 June 11, Charles Arthur, “Why file-sharing has killed 'unlimited' mobile data contracts”, in The Guardian:
text: The analysis of mobile data plans in 230 countries revealed that the UK ranked a “disappointing” 136th when the cost of one gigabyte (1GB) of mobile data was looked at.
ref: 2019 March 5, Rupert Jones, “UK among countries with priciest mobile data plans in Europe”, in The Guardian:
text: By turning off mobile data, you end up with a dumb or minimalist phone while out and about, but a fully internet-connected smartphone while at home, at work and in coffee shops and restaurants that provide Wi-Fi.
ref: 2019 March 23, Mike Elgan, “Why you should stop using mobile data”, in Computerworld:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
synonyms: data
glosses: Internet data transfer over a cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi.
break one's neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks one's neck
form: breaking one's neck
form: broke one's neck
form: broken one's neck
Senses: synonyms: word: break one's back
word: bust one's ass
word: work one's ass off
glosses: To make extraordinary efforts to achieve an end; to exert oneself in pursuit of a goal.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, neck.
Shintōist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shintōists
Senses: examples: text: It has been said that a Japanese is a Shintōist in life and a Buddhist at death; and it is also true that he may be during life, at one and the same time, a devotee of both.
ref: 1913, Ernest Wilson Clement, A Handbook of Modern Japan, page 253:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Shintoist.
Shintōists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shintōist
Shintōism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Shintoism.
HNIC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Head nigga in charge.
Estelnic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Estelnic.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Covasna County, Romania.
Pașcani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Pașcani.
Senses: glosses: A city in Iași County, Romania.
Păscoaia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Romania.
Vasilați
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Vasilați.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Călărași County, Romania.
Tiree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /taɪˈɹiː/
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Tiriodh, from Old Norse Týrvist (literally “Tyr’s abode”).
Senses: glosses: An island in the Inner Hebrides, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid refs NL94, NM04).
Paokang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization borrowed from Mandarin 保康 (Bǎokāng).
Senses: examples: text: Ho Lung’s troops have in the mean- time arrived at Paokang and Fanghsien in the north-western section of Hupeh, while the other column has captured Tanghsien and Chenping in Honan, according to the reports received at Hankow.
ref: 1932 November 5, “China's Outstanding Probelm- The Suppression of the "Reds"”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 62, number 10, →OCLC, page 62-450, columns 1, 2:
text: About in the center of this mountainous country lie the city and district of Paokang. The district or county is large, but it is not so thickly populated as the plains in China.
ref: 1934, White Unto Harvest in China: A Survey of the Lutheran United Mission, the China Mission of the N.L.C.A., 1890-1934, →OCLC, page 91:
text: While Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh were organizing their soviet at Kiangsi in the 1929-30 period, Ho Lung had set up a base on the borders of Hunan and western Hupeh. His Second Army had merged with Tuan Teh-chang's Sixth Army to form the II Army Corps, under Ho's command, to defend the new soviet. But in January 1931 his men had been defeated by the Kuomintang and withdrew—with only 5,000 survivors, according to one account⁷— to Paokang in north-west Hupeh.
ref: 1971, Dick Wilson, The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 238:
glosses: Alternative form of Baokang.
Pao-chi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 寶雞 /宝鸡 (Bǎojī), Wade–Giles romanization: Pao³-chi¹.
Senses: examples: text: According to the hair-dress it is probably that of a woman. There are some 102 slight traces of polychromy on the white slip. Other heads possessing similar qualities were dug up from early Han tombs in Pao-chi district, Shensi Province.
ref: 1950, Lubor Hájek, Chinese Art, Czechoslovakia: Spring Books, →OCLC, page 41:
text: As has been established by recent excavations, the Pan-p’o tradition extended at least as far west as Pao-chi on the Wei River in Shensi.”)
Among the Pan-p’o material excavated at Pao-chi was found a small squat water jar with a baluster-like head; painted on the surface of this vessel is the outline of a dragon-like creature (Figure 143).
ref: 1981, Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, “The Ma-chia-yao Tradition”, in The traditions of Chinese neolithic pottery, number 53, Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44:
text: Sometime during the ninth century B.C., in a small Chinese state called San—situated near modern-day Pao-chi in western Shensi Province—an earl commissioned a set of ritual vessels.
ref: 1982, Robert L. Thorp, “A Primer on the Bronze Caster's Art”, in Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 11:
glosses: Alternative form of Baoji.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
a fair bit
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: a little bit, somewhat, kind of; a good amount
Bamfurlong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Staverton parish, Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8921).
glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD5901).
Walley's Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Minshull Vernon parish, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6861).
Wimboldsley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Stanthorne and Wimboldsley parish, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6863).
buttied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of butty
buttying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of butty
inflationproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inflationproof
form: most inflationproof
Etymology: From inflation + -proof.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Resistant to the effects of inflation.
Stanthorne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Stanthorne and Wimboldsley parish, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6866).
Milhaudian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Milhaudian
form: most Milhaudian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), French composer, conductor, and teacher.
Pickmere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pick Mere, a small lake.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6877).
aliasable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alias + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be aliased.
macaasim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macaasims
Senses: glosses: Any of various hardwood trees of the Philippines.
glosses: The timber of these trees.
macaasims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macaasim
Macartney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Macartneys
Etymology: Variant of McCartney.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
machairodontid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machairodontids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae of carnivoran felids.
machairodontids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machairodontid
machila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machilas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of macheer (“type of saddle”).
synonyms: word: macheer
extra: type of saddle
cockstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockstands
Senses: examples: text: "Now, my pretty boy, I have got you nicely, and will whip another cockstand out of you as soon as I have sponged off all the effects of our late enculade," he said, bringing some cold water and a sponge in a basin; he laved and cooled my heated parts, till I began to feel quite grateful to him.
ref: 2012, The Pearl: A Monthly Journal of Facetiæ and Voluptuous Reading:
text: His aching cockstand would plague him until the punishment fit the crime.
ref: 2016, Jennifer Taylor, Heartbeat of the Moon:
text: A wee cockstand, eh? Is that what ye think I've got swinging low?
ref: 2017, Dorothy Callahan, Ever Since, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of cock-stand.
machilas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machila
cockstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockstand
machineful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machinefuls
Etymology: From machine + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Enough laundry to fill a washing machine.
machinefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machineful
mackereling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mackerelling.
mackerelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mackereling
Senses: glosses: fishing for mackerel
macroanalyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroanalysts
Senses: glosses: One who carries out macroanalysis.
macroanalysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroanalyst
macrodontism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macrodont + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of having large teeth.
Maecenasship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maecenasships
Etymology: From Maecenas + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a Maecenas, or generous benefactor.
Maecenasships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maecenasship
maechis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maechi
magazinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magazinable
form: most magazinable
Etymology: From magazine + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for publication in a magazine.
magazinish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magazinish
form: most magazinish
Etymology: From magazine + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: magaziny
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a magazine or its typical contents.
magaziney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magaziney
form: most magaziney
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of magaziny.
magaziny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magaziny
form: most magaziny
form: magaziney
Etymology: From magazine + -y.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of magazinish.
synonyms: word: magazinish
magicianship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magician + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a magician.
Maglemosean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maglemoseans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maglemosian.
Maglemosean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maglemosean
form: most Maglemosean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maglemosian.
Maglemoseans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maglemosean
magpieish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magpieish
form: most magpieish
Etymology: From magpie + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a magpie, especially in having the desire to take and conceal attractive objects.
maidling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maidlings
Etymology: From maid + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A little maiden; a young girl.
maidlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maidling
Maipure
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maypure
form: Mejepure
Senses: glosses: A language once spoken along the Ventuari, Sipapo, and Autana rivers of Amazonas and, as a lingua franca, in the Upper Orinoco region. It became extinct around the end of the 18th century.
makeshifty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more makeshifty
form: most makeshifty
Etymology: From makeshift + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Acteon had first met him at the man's makeshifty trial where he'd been reclassified mind-redundant. The bullion had never been recovered.
ref: 1981, John Domatilla, The Last Crime, page 11:
text: Still, however makeshifty the idea of language was, he could see no choice.
ref: 2018, T. Price Caldwell, Oliver Cresswell, Robert J. Stainton, Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice, page 65:
glosses: Somewhat makeshift.
Derived terms: makeshiftiness
pluries summonses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluries summons
malandered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a malandered horse
glosses: Having malanders.
malebots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malebot
manbots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manbot
Malebolgian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmalɪˈbɒldʒən/
ipa: /ˌmæləˈbɑldʒən/
enpr: măl'ĭ-bŏl􂀽'jən
Etymology: From Malebolge + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Malebolgic
glosses: Of or relating to Malebolge.
Malebolgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmalɪˈbɒldʒɪk/
ipa: /ˌmæləˈbɑldʒɪk/
enpr: măl'ĭ-bŏl􂀽'jĭk
Etymology: From Malebolge + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: Malebolgian
glosses: Of or relating to Malebolge.
malefical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malefical
form: most malefical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of malefic.
sarbarakar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarbarakars
Senses: glosses: An aristocrat or landlord of the Indian subcontinent, having the right to collect taxes from the peasantry on behalf of imperial courts for military and social infrastructure.
sarbarakars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarbarakar
malojilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The grass Brachiaria mutica.
California grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The grass Brachiaria mutica.
mallangong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mallangongs
Etymology: From an Aboriginal language.
Senses: glosses: The platypus.
mallangongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mallangong
Malling series
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Malling series
Etymology: Developed at the East Malling Research Station of the South-Eastern Agricultural College at Wye in Kent, England.
Senses: glosses: A group of rootstocks for grafting apple trees.
manifestatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From manifestative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manifestative manner.
manglingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more manglingly
form: most manglingly
Etymology: From mangling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to mangle something.
manumissive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manumissive
form: most manumissive
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to manumission.
manuscriptural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From manuscript, after scriptural.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a manuscript.
Synonyms: manuscriptal
marbleizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marbleizers
Etymology: From marbleize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who marbleizes.
marbleizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marbleizer
marblish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marblish
form: most marblish
Etymology: From marble + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of marble.
Marfik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Lambda Ophiuchi, a triple star system in the equatorial constellation of Ophiuchus.
Marheshvan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Marcheshvan.
Mariposan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mariposan
form: most Mariposan
Etymology: From Mariposa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Mariposa.
Mariposan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mariposans
Etymology: From Mariposa + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Mariposa.
Mariposans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mariposan
marksmanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marksmanly
form: most marksmanly
Etymology: From marksman + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a marksman.
usteq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Yup'ik uste- (“erode, cave in”). First attested in 2018.
Senses: examples: text: When the threat of permafrost thaw is high in a location also subject to erosion and flooding, the occurrence of usteq may be high.
ref: 2019 November, University of Alaska Fairbanks & U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Statewide Threat Assessment, Denali Commission, →OCLC, page 3-1:
text: Newtok was able to win roughly $1.7 million in 2018 to buy out seven of the most usteq-threatened homes in Newtok.
ref: 2021, Elizaveta Barrett Ristroph, “Navigating climate change adaptation assistance for communities”, in Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, volume 11, number 3, Springer, →ISSN, page 333, column 2:
text: The land upon which many Alaska Native communities are located is destabilizing in the face of usteq—a Yupik word for the catastrophic ground collapse that occurs when thawing permafrost, erosion, and flooding combine to pull the ground out from under them.
ref: 2022 April, Sarah Ruiz, “Woodwell launches new project monitoring, combatting the effects of permafrost thaw”, in Notes from the Field, Woodwell Climate Research Center, page 3:
qualifier: Alaska
glosses: Catastrophic land collapse caused by the melting of permafrost, coastal flooding and erosion.
Agden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7186).
glosses: A civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ5044).
Hulseheath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality in Mere parish, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7283).
municipal president
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: municipal presidents
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The head of government of a municipality, often referred to as "mayor".
Viñales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vɪnˈjælɛs/
Etymology: From Spanish Viñales.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
piriform sinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piriform sinuses
form: pyriform sinus
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: piriform fossa
piriform recess
glosses: A small cavity or pocket between the lateral walls of the pharynx on each side and the upper part of the larynx.
pyriform sinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyriform sinuses
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of piriform sinus.
Bayamo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Granma, Cuba.
western taipan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western taipans
Senses: glosses: Synonym of inland taipan.
synonyms: word: inland taipan
small-scaled snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small-scaled snakes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of inland taipan.
synonyms: word: inland taipan
fefnicute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fefnicutes
form: faffnecute
form: feffnecute
Senses: examples: text: Aw’v no payshuns we um un ther kaps o liberte; ther naut but o parsel o feffnecutes, powsedurts us they r.
ref: 1856 [1851], anonymous ["a fellow from Rochdale"], O Ful, Tru, un Pertikler Okeawnt o Bwoth Wat Aw Seed un Wat Aw Yerd We Gooin To Th' Greyt Eggshibishun e Lundun, 3rd edition, Wrigley and Son, page 46:
text: "What mak o' lennock faffnecutes an' ricklin bandyhewits are they? Tell me some sthrong words, Weighver; aw've noane 'at con do justice to sich heighvy-keighvy pickhawms!"
ref: 1895, John Trafford Clegg, “Calder Valley”, in The Works of John Trafford Clegg, "Th' Owd Weighver.": Stories, Sketches, and Rhymes in the Rochdale Dialect, Clegg, page 397:
text: Just prior to V-J (Victory over Japan) Day, this fefnicute Lin Piao visited Chungking to pay respects to his Commandant and preceptor.
ref: 1964–1965 (published 1968), Soong May-ling, Selected Speeches, 1965-1966, page 195:
text: Later that evening she rang me, calling the locum some choice names, including fefnicute. The fefnicute had refused to put a filling in her painful tooth, because, he said, she was under the weather.
She said that the word meant a miserable git, a mean, sneaking fellow. It was a Lancashire word she remembered from childhood.
ref: 2011 September 9, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, Words We Don't Use (Much Anymore): The Meaning of Words And Where They Come From, Gill & Macmillan Ltd, →ISBN:
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: A two-faced, sneaky person.
western taipans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of western taipan
small-scaled snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small-scaled snake
Khao Plort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Khao Plorts
Etymology: From Thai ขาว (kǎao) + ปลอด (bplɔ̀ɔt), literally “completely white”.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Khao Manee.
synonyms: word: Khao Manee
Khao Plorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Khao Plort
Khao Manees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Khao Manee
crooked as a barrel of snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very untrustworthy.
Related terms: crooked as a barrel of fish hooks
Kaplan turbines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaplan turbine
Darwin's tubercles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Darwin's tubercle
Așchileu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Așchileu.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Cluj County, Romania.
Cherechiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cherechiu.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Bihor County, Romania.
Chișlaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Romanian Chișlaz
Senses: glosses: A commune of Bihor County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Chișlaz, Bihor County, Romania.
Gepiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Gepiu.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Bihor County, Romania.
Tăuteu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Tăuteu.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Bihor County, Romania.
full colonel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full colonels
Senses: glosses: A colonel, as opposed to the lower rank lieutenant colonel (which is also addressed as colonel).
Pan-ch'iao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 板橋 (Bǎnqiáo) Wade-Giles romanization: Pan³-chʻiao².
Senses: examples: text: Situated in the centre of the largest agricultural basin in northern Formosa, T’ai-pei (population in 1964 was estimated to be 1,117,000) forms the nucleus of a major industrial area. The T’ai-pei industrial complex includes light and heavy industies within the urbanized area and also in several industrial suburbs, including Pan-ch’iao and Nan-chiang.
ref: 1968, Norton S. Ginsburg, “T’AI-PEI”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 627, column 2:
text: It is worth noting that in some of these highly productive rice villages the two major landlord families of North Taiwan, the Lin of Pan-ch’iao and the Cheng of Hsin-chu, were among the largest holders.
ref: 1970, Leonard H. D. Gordon, editor, Taiwan : Studies in Chinese Local History, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 83:
text: In Pan-ch’iao of Taiwan county, people gathered at the railway station on the morning of February 28 and began beating Mainlanders or rounding them up and assembling them in one place.
ref: 1991, Tse-han Lai, Ramon H. Myers, Wei Wou, “The Uprising”, in A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 122:
text: The largest owner of tea lands on the island in the late 1800s (and Taiwan’s single wealthiest family) were the Lins of Pan-ch’iao. Along with other great familial and corporate landowners, the Pan-ch’iao Lins drew income from renting their properties under a flexible, sophisticated contractual system of land tenure.
ref: 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175:
glosses: Alternative form of Banqiao.
piriform fossa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piriform fossae
form: pyriform fossa
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of piriform sinus.
synonyms: word: piriform sinus
piriform fossae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piriform fossa
pyriform fossa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyriform fossae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of piriform fossa.
pyriform fossae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyriform fossa
piriform recess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piriform recesses
form: pyriform recess
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of piriform sinus.
synonyms: word: piriform sinus