cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bottomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bottom + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: It was furnished with long, cane-bottomed chairs made in the jail […]
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Burmese Days:
glosses: Having some specified type of bottom.
Derived terms: bare-bottomed
bell-bottomed
bottomedness
copper-bottomed
flat-bottomed
round-bottomed
straw-bottomed
bottomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bottom + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bottom
bottoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bottom
bottoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottomings
Senses: examples: text: In the course of this investigation, it was learned that the mean number of bottomings per second could be calculated theoretically […]
ref: 1961, The Shock and Vibration Bulletin (issue 29, part 4, page 159)
glosses: The act of something that bottoms (in various senses).
examples: text: […] and like that of Birrens, rest upon stone bottomings. The Antonine Wall is of the same construction, only on a larger scale.
ref: 1911, John Ward, The Roman Era in Britain, page 48:
glosses: A foundation.
tushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She recalled that mcclintock enjoyed the aesthetics of tushes. ... "It wasn't just guys' tushes and it wasn't just girls' tushes, it was just tushes."
ref: 2003, Nathaniel C. Comfort, The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control, page 29:
text: A boar carries two pairs of tushes, one pair sharp-pointed and sharp-edged and ... When he has his mouth closed the sharp lower tushes are in a way sheathed against the blunt upper tushes...
ref: 1980, Blackwood's Magazine, page 769:
glosses: plural of tush
merodiploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mero- + diploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Partially diploid (having a second copy of only part of its genome)
merodiploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merodiploids
Etymology: From mero- + diploid.
Senses: glosses: Such an organism
bed-wetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed-wetters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bedwetter.
bed-wetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bed-wetter
digne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: more digne
form: most digne
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English digne, from Old French digne, from Latin dignus.
Senses: examples: text: Deeds they shall do so digne memorious glory, / song shall not suit nor Hist'ory hold the story.
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 387:
glosses: worthy; honourable; deserving; suitable.
bureaucratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bureaucratically
form: most bureaucratically
Etymology: From bureaucratic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a bureaucratic manner.
Related terms: bureaucracy
bureaucrat
bureaucratese
buoyantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more buoyantly
form: most buoyantly
Etymology: From buoyant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He's the FBI agent antagonist in Catch Me if You Can (2002) opposite a buoyantly charming young Leonardo DiCaprio as con artist Frank Abagnale, but his character is more of a determined cat to Leo's mouse than a real foil; he's simply a prim Eisenhower-era man with a job to do.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
glosses: In a buoyant manner.
bucolically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bucolically
form: most bucolically
Etymology: From bucolic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a bucolic manner.
blandly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblændli/
Forms: form: more blandly
form: most blandly
Etymology: From bland + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bland manner.
brutishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more brutishly
form: most brutishly
Etymology: From brutish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a brutish manner.
brusquely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹʌskli/
Forms: form: more brusquely
form: most brusquely
Etymology: From brusque + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Hanks shepherds the young girl to safety – first brusquely, and then with a sudden outburst of affection made all the more poignant for the way it is reserved previously. He once again reminds us, quite literally, that he is in many ways the ultimate dad.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
glosses: In a brusque manner; abruptly; rudely.
brokenheartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more brokenheartedly
form: most brokenheartedly
Etymology: From brokenhearted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a brokenhearted manner.
brokenhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brokenhearted
form: most brokenhearted
form: broken-hearted
Etymology: From broken + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: Although it's always crowded
You still can find some room
For broken-hearted lovers
To cry there in their gloom.
ref: 1956, “Heartbreak Hotel”, Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley (lyrics), performed by Elvis Presley:
glosses: Grieved and disappointed, especially by the loss of a beloved person or thing, such as the end of a romantic relationship.
Derived terms: brokenheartedly
brokenheartedness
Related terms: heartbroken
heartbreak
heartbreaker
break someone's heart
grief-stricken
broad-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more broad-mindedly
form: most broad-mindedly
Etymology: From broad-minded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a broad-minded manner.
breathtakingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛθˌteɪ.kɪŋ.li/
Forms: form: more breathtakingly
form: most breathtakingly
Etymology: From breathtaking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The view was breathtakingly beautiful.
text: The ensuing two hours features an energetic, unpredictable, and breathtakingly hilarious confrontation that will have you giggling for hours and perhaps days.
ref: 1976 February 14, Don Shewey, “Haunted Host (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 14:
glosses: In a breathtaking manner.
examples: text: It was a breathtakingly foolish thing to say in public.
glosses: To a degree that causes shock or awe; shockingly.
brazenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪ.zən.li/
Forms: form: more brazenly
form: brazenlier
form: most brazenly
form: brazenliest
Etymology: From brazen + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a brazen (shamelessly shocking and offensive) manner.
Synonyms: audaciously
intrepidly
brassily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more brassily
form: most brassily
Etymology: From brassy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a brassy manner.
brashly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more brashly
form: most brashly
Etymology: From brash + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a brash manner.
boyishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more boyishly
form: most boyishly
Etymology: From boyish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A shock of white hair fell boyishly across the side of his face, a face as wrinkled as an elephant hide.
ref: 1981 April 15, Ira Berkow, “DRAMA IN 'STENGELESE: YOU CAN LOOK IT UP”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a boyish manner.
bountifully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bountifully
form: most bountifully
Etymology: From bountiful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 5:
glosses: In a bountiful manner.
bounteously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bounteously
form: most bounteously
Etymology: From Middle English bounteously, equivalent to bounteous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is all a question of mode. Most of us are so bounteously endowed with intellect as to require also a spice of genius to choose the right form of behaviour.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter V, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/V):
glosses: In a bounteous manner.
boundlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more boundlessly
form: most boundlessly
Etymology: From boundless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a boundless manner.
bouncily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bouncily
form: most bouncily
Etymology: From bouncy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bouncy manner.
bossily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bossily
form: most bossily
Etymology: From bossy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]
ref: 1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 26:
glosses: In a bossy manner.
bombastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bombastically
form: most bombastically
Etymology: From bombastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a bombastic manner.
boisterously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more boisterously
form: most boisterously
Etymology: From boisterous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a boisterous manner.
bloodlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bloodlessly
form: most bloodlessly
Etymology: From bloodless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bloodless manner.
emotionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emotionless
form: most emotionless
Etymology: From emotion + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper punctured by two emotionless eyes.
ref: 2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point, →ISBN, page 72:
text: “I'd admit the past & monsterize myself in the eyes of the jury,” he wrote. “I would try to be emotionless, to add credibility to that monsterization.
ref: 2006, Michael Finkel, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa:
glosses: Lacking emotion.
Synonyms: alexithymic
Derived terms: emotionlessly
emotionlessness
blisteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blisteringly
form: most blisteringly
Etymology: From blistering + -ly.
Senses: examples: blisteringly hot weather
a blisteringly fast pace
glosses: In a blistering manner.
blindingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈblaɪndɪŋli/
Forms: form: more blindingly
form: most blindingly
Etymology: From blinding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a blinding manner.
examples: text: It is blindingly obvious that we need more money.
text: And finally, Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies – or Gypsy Sun and Rainbows – play their first-ever show, for two hours, and it is blindingly great.
ref: 2019 August 5, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Extremely.
blearily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blearily
form: most blearily
Etymology: From bleary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Crabbe looked up blearily. On the bedside table were a bottle of gin, a jug of water, and a glass.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 381:
text: "He looked at me a little blearily, as though he could not believe his eyes."
ref: 1964, James Holledge, Sex and the Australian Teenager, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 29:
glosses: In a bleary manner.
bricklaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bricklayings
Etymology: From brick + laying.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Popham never worked at his bricklayings or carpentering or cabinet making or papering by the hour, but “by the job”; and a kind Providence, intent on the welfare of the community, must have guided him in this choice of business methods, […]
ref: 1912, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Mother Carey, page 127:
glosses: The act of building a wall by laying bricks, usually with cement between the surfaces of the bricks.
Related terms: bricklayer
bricklayings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bricklaying
porn stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porn star
FSB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FSBs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of front-side bus.
FSB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Federation of Small Businesses.
FSB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian ФСБ (FSB), initialism of Федеральная Служба Безопасности (Federalʹnaja Služba Bezopasnosti, “Federal Security Service”).
Senses: examples: text: Possible victims included Roman Tsepov, Putin’s bodyguard in 1990s St Petersburg, who died after drinking tea in 2004 at a local FSB office.
ref: 2020 August 20, Luke Harding, “Alexei Navalny and the long history of poisoned Kremlin critics”, in The Guardian:
text: Krasikov, a former high-ranking FSB colonel serving a life sentence in a German prison, was on the top of Moscow’s list of Russian prisoners it wanted to exchange.
ref: 2024 August 1, Ivana Kottasová and Anna Chernova, “Who was freed in major prisoner swap between Russia and the West?”, in CNN:
topics: espionage
government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: SVR
GRU
KGB
NKVD
glosses: The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
ballot boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballot box
have a pair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a pair
form: having a pair
form: had a pair
form: had a pair
Etymology: Abbreviation of "have a pair of testicles," the masculine glands supporting generation and sexual potency.
Senses: examples: Sound off like you got a pair! (drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket)
glosses: To be manly, brave.
Related terms: grow a pair
strap on a pair
artesian water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artesian waters
Senses: glosses: Water from an artesian well.
artesian well
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artesian wells
Senses: examples: text: “When I say mind,” said the blood relation, “I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
synonyms: artesian spring
glosses: An aquifer in which water rises to the surface under its own hydrostatic pressure.
glosses: A bore-hole in an artesian basin.
fussiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fussinesses
Etymology: From fussy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being fussy.
unhurt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Etymology: From Middle English unhert, un-hurt, unhurt, unhurte, equivalent to un- + hurt.
Senses: examples: text: The 0812 Huddersfield-Sheffield service struck the stabiliser leg of a lorry being used to take away portable toilets after local repair work. [...] The train crew and 25 passengers were unhurt.
ref: 2021 December 29, “Network News: RAIB: tighten up supervision after 27mph train sideswipe incident”, in RAIL, number 947, page 8:
synonyms: unhurted
glosses: Not hurt; unharmed or unscathed
bicyclist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicyclists
Etymology: From bicycle + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: “Yes, that is true, professor. I believe I’ve been guilty of doing so myself; but look here, Miss Eunice,” and he turned suddenly to the professor’s daughter, “they tell me that you are an enthusiastic bicyclist.”
ref: 1899, Hal Standish (pseudonym; H. K. Shackleford), “Fred Fearnot's Flyers, or, The bicycle league of Avon”, in Work and Win Weekly for Young America, number 37, New York, page 3:
text: Our policemen, of course, will be fitted out with large, twirlable moustaches and small, twirlable rolling-pins, and will be taught to turn their backs on traffic jams, but to blow whistles violently at solitary bicyclists.
ref: 1945, The Motor, volume 86, page 275:
synonyms: biker
glosses: Rare form of cyclist.
bicyclists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicyclist
tastiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tastinesses
Etymology: From tasty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being tasty.
court of cassation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courts of cassation
Etymology: Calque of French cour de cassation, from cour (“court”) + de (“of”) + cassation, from the verb casser (“to break”), indicating the power of such a court to quash the ruling of the court below.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In several legal systems, the highest-level court of appeal in procedural matters, which is empowered to quash a verdict but then refers the case back for a new trial at the previous level.
Synonyms: court of last resort
daintiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪntɪnəs/
Forms: form: daintinesses
Etymology: From dainty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being dainty.
glosses: A dainty behaviour or gesture.
quashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quash
quashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quashings
Senses: examples: text: the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there
ref: 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The action of quashing something.
dishpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishpans
Etymology: From dish + pan.
Senses: glosses: A large basin or pan with a flat bottom in which dishes are washed.
Derived terms: dishpanful
dishpan hands
Related terms: dishrag
dishpans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishpan
dishrag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishrags
Etymology: From dish + rag.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dishcloth (but now widely held to connote a threadbare and unclean nature versus that synonym).
synonyms: word: dishcloth
extra: but now widely held to connote a threadbare and unclean nature versus that synonym
examples: text: You're not going out like that! You look like a dishrag!
glosses: An unclean person; used in similes.
Derived terms: limber as a dishrag
Related terms: dishpan
dishrags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishrag
green collar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more green collar
form: most green collar
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of green-collar.
something or other
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: something or another
form: something or the other
Senses: examples: text: The advert was on about something or other having to do with skin care, and looking your best, and emptying your wallet into their company's coffers, and so on.
text: Many a voter, thinking he will have another chance to vote in a runoff, will use his general election vote to protest something or other — to send a message
ref: 2000, Charles T. Canady, Proposals for Electoral College Reform:
text: Elizabeth said his name was Perry something or other, and he sang about temptation.
ref: 2005, Bill Hunt, The Last Witness from a Dirt Road:
glosses: Something unspecified or indeterminate, or whose name is forgotten or immaterial.
Related terms: so-and-so
some something or other
such-and-such
cockhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockheads
Etymology: From cock + head. See cock (“penis”), and compare dickhead, knobhead.
Senses: examples: text: He says oh that feels great, could you squeeze a bit harder on my cockhead?
ref: 2003, Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Pulling Taffy, page 64:
glosses: The glans penis.
examples: text: I'm star material, you cockhead. Just look at me!
ref: 2003, Jerzy N. Kosinski, The Devil Tree: A Novel, page 89:
glosses: Dickhead.
cockhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockheads
Etymology: From cock + head. See cock (“turn upward”).
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.
Related terms: cockeye
internegative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internegatives
form: I.N.
Etymology: From inter- + negative.
Senses: glosses: A specialized type of negative film stock that is part of the intermediate process that goes from an original negative to a release element (most common in the motion picture film post-production process). The material used is itself the same as in an interpositive. The differences is that an IN has a negative image on it, while an IP has a positive image.
weirdos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weirdo
wheat bisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheat bisks
Etymology: Introduced by other manufacturers as a generic term for Weetabix-style products.
Senses: examples: text: Asda used the fact that their Wheat Bisks product bore a striking resemblance to the Weetabix brand to defend their position in the claimed confusion between their Puffin brand and the McVitie's Penguin brand.
ref: 2006, Tony Yeshin, Advertising, page 131:
text: There would be no more money until every last thing on the shelves was eaten. Now they were down to Sun Maid raisins and Sainsbury's Wheat Bisks. For three days the children had eaten only Wheat Bisks in water and handfuls of raisins.
ref: 2008, Monica Ali, Brick Lane, page 97:
text: The best ones are either wheat that is shredded and has nothing but wheat in it or wheat bisks. Ironically, the cheaper brands of wheat bisks have less processing and less salt added.
ref: 2013, Graeme Obree, The Obree Way, page 116:
glosses: A conglomeration of cereal fibres in lozenge form, used as a breakfast food.
wikipedia: Weetabix
neckbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neckbeards
Etymology: From neck + beard.
Senses: glosses: A style of facial hair wherein the beard is allowed to grow down the chin and is trimmed to an even length over the entirety of the face.
examples: text: Many front-end web developers may not have implemented a web service before, leaving that boring stuff to the neckbeards and the sysadmins.
ref: 2011, Andrew Lunny, PhoneGap Beginner's Guide:
glosses: A socially-inept, male nerd, typically characterized as unkempt and misogynistic.
Derived terms: legbeard
neckbearded
neckbeardy
Related terms: fatbeard
Akawaio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of South America.
Akawaio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A northern Carib language spoken in Guyana.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Akawaio terms
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noctivagant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒkˈtɪvəɡənt/
ipa: /nɑkˈtɪvəɡənt/
Forms: form: more noctivagant
form: most noctivagant
Etymology: From Late Latin noctivagans, from noctivagare, from Latin nocti- (“night”) + participle form of vagari (“to wander”).
Senses: examples: text: […] I therefore think, Sarah, that the incommensurability of the crime with the effect, completely warrants the supersaliency of this noctivagant delinquent.
ref: 1823, James Hogg, “Peril Second. Leasing. Circle II.”, in The Three Perils of Woman; or, Love, Leasing, and Jealousy. […], volume III, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 91:
text: "Over the city, the suburb, the slum / He rambled from pillar to post, / And backward and forward, observant, though dumb, / As a fleetly noctivagant ghost."
ref: 1967, Walter Hamilton, Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors, Johnson Reprint Corporation, published 1967, page 195:
text: Unhappily, we lost the big fellow, Smirke, to noctivagant predators some days back […]
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 363:
text: "Not merely nocturnal but noctivagant, a nightwalker, a prowler, a nomad of the midnight streets, attempting to abolish the distinction between the light that comes from outside and the sort that shines within."
ref: 2003, Alan Wall, The School of Night, St. Martin's Press, published 2003, pages 223–224:
glosses: Walking or wandering in the nighttime, nightwandering.
noctivagant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒkˈtɪvəɡənt/
ipa: /nɑkˈtɪvəɡənt/
Forms: form: noctivagants
Etymology: From Late Latin noctivagans, from noctivagare, from Latin nocti- (“night”) + participle form of vagari (“to wander”).
Senses: glosses: One who goes walking by night.
Related terms: mundivagant
solivagant
acmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acmatic
form: most acmatic
Etymology: From acme + -atic.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Great Council […] required the construction of the vast Sala in the Doge's Palace decorated with the largest oil painting in the world – Tintoretto's version of paradise – and a host of lesser works depicting the acmatic moments of Venetian glory.
ref: 2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 101:
glosses: Relating to the acme of something; highest.
quene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quenes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of queen.
geometrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geometrids
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Geometridae.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the family Geometridae of moths
glosses: A larva of such moth, which when walking alternate legs and prolegs, giving the appearance of measuring
Synonyms: sense: moth
word: geometer moth
sense: moth
word: geometrid moth
sense: larva
word: inchworm
sense: larva
word: looper
sense: larva
word: measuring worm
sense: larva
word: spanworm
geometrid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Geometridae.
Senses: glosses: Relating to such moths
proleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolegs
Etymology: From pro- + leg.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An appendage of the abdomen of some insect larvae, such as caterpillars, which is used like a leg.
Awabakal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈwʌbəkʌl/
Forms: form: Awaba
form: Awabagal
Senses: glosses: A people indigenous to New South Wales, Australia.
Awabakal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈwʌbəkʌl/
Forms: form: Awaba
form: Awabagal
Senses: glosses: The extinct Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language, within the Yuin-Kuric group, formerly spoken by these people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Awabakal terms
tickler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪkələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɪklə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: ticklers
Etymology: From tickle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who tickles.
glosses: A person who or thing which amuses or excites.
examples: text: Put it in the tickler file for next week.
glosses: A reminder.
glosses: A latex condom that has additional protrusions, for enhancing the sexual pleasure of the user.
glosses: Something puzzling or difficult; a conundrum.
examples: text: The moment she bought any item of stocks, any commercial paper or other securities in the course of her Wall-street operations, she at once wrote it down in the tickler.
ref: 1862, The Parish Will Case, in the Court of Appeals:
topics: business
glosses: A tickler file, file cabinet, or similar containing memoranda of deadlines arranged in date order.
glosses: A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
glosses: A dram of spirits.
glosses: Something puzzling; a poser.
glosses: A small notebook that fits the pocket or pocket notebook.
Synonyms: sense: condom
word: French tickler
Derived terms: brain-tickler
freedom tickler
French tickler
gum-tickler
ivory tickler
knee tickler
pussy tickler
rib-tickler
tickler coil
tickler file
ticklers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tickler
Adnyamathanha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adnyamathanhas
form: Adnyamathanha
Senses: examples: text: page 130: All children born of an Adnyamathanha mother are Adnyamathanha irrespective of their father's affiliations. The children (as in many Aboriginal communities) were raised by their mother's Adnyamathanha husband and were considered his ...
page 161: If the missionaries had done nothing but negotiate the Nepabunna land and provide rations during the depression, they would have succeeded in fulfilling the Adnyamathanhas' most pressing requirements.
ref: 1993, Peggy Brock, Outback Ghettos: Aborigines, Institutionalisation and Survival, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A people indigenous to South Australia.
Adnyamathanha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language spoken by these people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Adnyamathanha terms
adt ⁠
Amaimon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A people of Papua New Guinea.
Amaimon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Papuan language spoken by these people.
examples: text: Amaimon sounds well; Lucifer well; Barbason well; yet they are devils' additions, the names of fiends.
ref: 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, II, ii:
glosses: A devil, king of the eastern portion of Hell in medieval demonology.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Amaimon terms
ali ⁠
subfusk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subfusk
form: most subfusk
Senses: examples: 1709-1711, The Tatler
There was however one misfortune this experiment : the Portuguese's complexion was a little upon the subfusk, with very black eyes and eyebrows
glosses: Obsolete form of subfusc.
stitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stitch
usufructuaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of usufructuary
undefended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undefended
form: most undefended
Etymology: From un- + defended.
Senses: examples: text: “You needn’t worry about bombs, by the way. Dresden is an open city. It is undefended, and contains no war industries or troop concentrations of any importance.”
ref: 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 127:
glosses: Not defended.
differentiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of differentiate
differentiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more differentiated
form: most differentiated
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That has taken on a specialized form and function.
raw_tags: of a cell or tissue
examples: text: “I am aware that this type of comparison, especially in Germany, is quickly seen as relativising the Holocaust. That’s why it’s so important to me that such a differentiated and intelligent thinker like Arendt didn’t shy away from this comparison,” Gessen told the newspaper.
ref: 2023 December 14, Kate Connolly, quoting Masha Gessen, “Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Making fine distinctions.
Derived terms: cytodifferentiated
differentiatedly
differentiatedness
enantiodifferentiated
hyperdifferentiated
misdifferentiated
nondifferentiated
osteodifferentiated
predifferentiated
divine proportion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the divine proportion
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The golden section.
beautifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beautifiers
Etymology: From beautify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Anthonie Becke […] was (by the report of Iohn Leland) either the very Author, or the first beautifier, of this the Princes house here at Eltham, also.
ref: 1576, William Lambarde, “Eltham”, in A Perambulation of Kent, London: Ralphe Newberie, page 384:
text: 1753, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal, No. 24, 31 March, 1753, in Volume 1, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 160,
To cultivate, therefore, and cherish the natural Affections, to direct them to worthy Objects, to keep them all in Harmony, so that not one of them shall grow out of due Proportion, or contract any whimsical Habit, is the best Preserver and Beautifier of the female Form, it gives that pleasing Turn of Mind which we call Sweetness of Temper, prevents Wrinkles, Distortion of the Features, and gives an agreeable Air to the whole Person […]
text: The sea is no beautifier, certainly; sailors do grow old betimes; I have often observed it; they soon lose the look of youth.
ref: 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter III:
text: Meg had spent the time in working as well as waiting, growing womanly in character, wise in housewifery arts, and prettier than ever; for love is a great beautifier.
ref: 1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 1, in Little Women, volume 2, Boston: Roberts Brothers, published 1869, page 7:
glosses: A person who or a thing which beautifies or makes beautiful.
Related terms: beautification
beautify
beauty
bedroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedrolls
Etymology: From bed + roll.
Senses: glosses: A roll of bedding that can be carried when hiking or camping etc.
divine polity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divine polities
Senses: examples: text: But it cannot be expected that the Clergy […] should upon this Revolution by contented to cry peccavi [I have sinned], and openly recant all their former Doctrines of Divine Polity by a hearty active Conformity to your Majesty’s rightful Title and Government.
ref: 1698, William Stephens, “A Letter to his most excellent Majesty King William III. […]”, in A Collection of State Tracts, Published During the Reign of King William III, volume 2, published 1706, page 634:
text: The Divine polity, under which they had hitherto lived, was distasteful to the carnal affections of man: they reject the Lord God of Israel, and exclaim, “Nay, but set a king over us.”
ref: 1849, Alfred J. Carver, The Divine Attribute of Mercy as Deduced from the Old Testament, published 1851, page 49:
text: Let them affirm their unyielding determination to stand, firmly and unreservedly, for the way of Bahá’u’lláh, to avoid the entanglements and bickerings inseparable from the pursuits of the politician, and to become worthy agencies of the Divine Polity which incarnates God’s immutable Purpose for all men.
ref: 1936 March 11, Shoghi Effendi, “The Divine Polity”, in The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh: Selected Letters, published 1991, →ISBN, page 65:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A government or system of governance (especially of a church) said to be instituted by God.
Derived terms: divino-political
bed-wetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed-wettings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bedwetting.
Divine Providence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
synonyms: Providence
glosses: The sovereignty, superintendence, or agency of God over events in people's lives and throughout history.
Derived terms: Sons of Divine Providence
Related terms: english: placename of various places
translation: placename of various places
word: Providence
word: Providence Plantations
word: Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
word: God's gift
beebread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bēʹbrĕd'
ipa: /ˈbiːˌbɹɛd/
Forms: form: bee bread
form: bee-bread
Etymology: Probably an Early Modern English combination of bee + bread, but compare the Old English bēobrēad (“honeycomb full of honey”), and Middle English beoblæd (for beobræd?). Cognate with Old Saxon bībrōd (“honeycomb”, “gingerbread”, literally “bee-bread”).
Senses: glosses: Bee pollen with added honey and bee secretions, made and stored in brood cells by forager bees, and used as food for worker bees and larvae.
wikipedia: Early Modern English
Related terms: ambrosia
undivine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: more undivine
form: most undivine
Etymology: From un- + divine.
Senses: glosses: Not divine; not holy.
Derived terms: undivinely
divinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more divinable
form: most divinable
Etymology: From divine + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be guessed.
Synonyms: sense: that can be guessed
word: conjecturable
sense: that can be guessed
word: guessable
divinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: divinizes
form: divinizing
form: divinized
form: divinized
form: divinise
Etymology: From divine + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: As to the tendency to divinise these totems, this arises no doubt partly out of question (2).
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 57:
glosses: To make divine; to make godlike.
Synonyms: deify
Derived terms: divinisation
divinization
divinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: divinises
form: divinising
form: divinised
form: divinised
Etymology: From divine + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of divinize.
divinyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [daɪˈvaɪnɪɫ]
Etymology: From di- + vinyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two vinyl functional groups in a molecule
Derived terms: divinylbenzene
divinyl ether
divinyl ether synthase
supertechnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supertechnological
form: most supertechnological
form: super-technological
Etymology: From super- + technological.
Senses: examples: text: Are we then to resume the next round of supertechnological missiles?
ref: 1984, Joel Kovel, Against the State of Nuclear Terror:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or using highly advanced technology
glosses: Beyond or superseding the technological.
overintellectualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: It is not unreasonable to argue that the field has been overintellectualized in that many of the representations are based on matrix algebra, latent trait theory, and . . .
ref: 2002, Norman Cliff, John Augustus Keats, Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences:
glosses: simple past and past participle of overintellectualize
overintellectualized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overintellectualized
form: most overintellectualized
Senses: examples: text: The Kingdom of Triparia (www.triparia.cx), founded in 1998, is a classic of the genre: 17 citizens, with fancy titles and a penchant for posting overintellectualized bulletin-board messages, united in an act of collective imagination.
ref: 2000 March 24, Alex Blumberg, “It's Good to Be King”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2005:
glosses: Treated in an excessively intellectual manner.
overintellectualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overintellectualizes
form: overintellectualizing
form: overintellectualized
form: overintellectualized
Etymology: From over- + intellectualize.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone always asks what my advice is, and my advice is don’t overintellectualize your art.
ref: 2022 October 14, Justin Curto, “The 1975’s Matty Healy Prefers Writing Lyrics He’s Afraid Of”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2022:
glosses: To treat something in an excessively intellectual manner.
Related terms: intellectualize
overintellectualization
epiphyllospermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɛpɪˌfɪləˈspɜː(ɹ)məs/
Senses: examples: text: EPIPHYLLOSPERMOUS PLANTS, so called by the old botanists, because they bore their seed upon the back of their leaves. They are what have more recently been called dorsiferous ferns.
ref: 1843, Charles Knight, George Long, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 9, page 477:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That bears seeds on the backs of the leaves
heterochlamydeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterochlamydeous
form: most heterochlamydeous
Etymology: From hetero- + Ancient Greek χλαμύδος (khlamúdos, “mantle, cloak”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Flowers single or in cymes, regular, usually unisexual, enclosed in a spathe, mostly with petals and sepals clearly differentiated (heterochlamydeous) […]
ref: 1927, China Ling, Lingnan Science Journal:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a perianth in which the calyx and corolla are differentiated, usually by colour or texture.
cedarn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cedar + -en.
Senses: examples: text: 1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 34,
And west winds, with muskie wing
About the cedar’n alleys fling
Nard, and Cassia’s balmie smells.
text: But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
ref: 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan,:
text: Between a chasm of cedarn mountains riven,
ref: 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, London: C. and J. Ollier, published 1818, Canto 12, stanza 33, p. 266:
text: Time is lame, and we grow weary
In this slumbrous cedarn shade.
ref: 1849, Matthew Arnold, “The New Sirens”, in The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, page 72:
text: Far overhead the echoes of his voice hummed on awhile among the cedarn rafters.
ref: 1910, Lord Dunsany, “In Zaccarath”, in A Dreamer’s Tales,, London: George Allen, page 221:
text: 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Hill o’ the Winds” in Love Story Magazine Volume 10, No. 2, 17 March, 1923, Chapter 2,
“Do you,” said Romney shamelessly, “happen to know who the enchanted princess is who walks occasionally in yonder fair pleasance beyond the cedarn hedge?”
glosses: Constituted of or covered with cedar trees; made of cedar wood.
socio-demographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sociodemographic
Etymology: From socio- + demographic.
Senses: examples: text: Respondents to the Violence Against Women survey were asked about the socio-demographic characteristics of current partners only . . .
ref: 1995, Carolyn Block, Trends, Risk, & Interventions in Lethal Violence:
text: During the past 25 years, the prevalence of cigarette smoking has declined in virtually every major sociodemographic group, including men and women, adults and adolescents, . . .
ref: 1995, C. Everett Koop, Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking:
glosses: Of, pertaining to or characterized by a combination of sociological and demographic characteristics
zitherist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zitherists
Etymology: From zither + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays the zither
Britney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪtni/
rhymes: -ɪtni
Forms: form: Britneys
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the place name, variant of Brittany.
Britney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪtni/
rhymes: -ɪtni
Forms: form: Britneys
Etymology: Rhyming slang for beers, from Britney Spears.
Senses: examples: text: I'm like, 'Oops, sorry,' and then I nod at the door of the jacks and go, 'Beer in, beer out!'
Like I said, I've been fairly hounding the Britneys tonight.
ref: 2013, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Downturn Abbey:
glosses: A beer.
performative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more performative
form: most performative
Etymology: From perform + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: Saying "I do" as part of a wedding ceremony is performative, enacting a marriage.
text: Thus in the example: 'By saying “I do” I was marrying her', the performative 'I do' is a means to the end of marriage. Here 'saying' is used in the sense in which it takes inverted commas and is using words or language, a phatic and not[…]
ref: 1975 April 15, J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words: Second Edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Being enacted as it is said.
examples: text: We were beginning to suspect that her ethical qualms were sometimes performative, as the urgent need for fairness and justice seemed to apply to some people but not to others.
text: Although the seeming copycat nature of the plots in Port Huran and Conyers was terrifying because of their repetitive, performative, even texted nature—their seeming theatricality—more harrowing was the threat that, like theater, the performance would settle quickly into repetition compulsions in schools across the nation.
ref: 2002, Anthony Kubiak, Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty, →ISBN, page 4:
text: With the danger of science becoming purely “performative” (Lyotard 1984), not seeking any pretense of “truth” but simply performing a service for those in charge while still occupying its decision-making role in a technocratically dominated political sphere […]
ref: 2013, Martha McCaughey, Michael D. Ayers, Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice, page 200:
text: The Harambe meme soon became the perfect parody of the sentimentality and absurd priorities of Western liberal performative politics and the online mass hysteria that often characterized it.
ref: 2017, Angela Nagle, Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN, Introduction:
text: The reality of remote working has turned out to be different. Days have become longer and employees are demonstratively visible. Work has become more performative.
ref: 2022 January 8, “The rise of performative work”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
text: After the photos of Jenner and Elordi were published there was a stream of online discourse stating we had entered an era of performative reading.
ref: 2024 February 9, Chloe Mac Donnell, “‘Reading is so sexy’: gen Z turns to physical books and libraries”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Being done as a performance in order to create an impression.
Synonyms: performatory
workly
Derived terms: nonperformative
performative authoritarianism
performatively
performativeness
performative utterance
performativism
performativity
Related terms: word: preformative
raw_tags: of performative
word: preformance
raw_tags: of performance
word: preform
raw_tags: of perform
performative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: performatives
Etymology: From perform + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: The distinction between constatives and performatives is one of the distinctions that he starts questioning.
ref: 2011, Phyllis Kaburise, Speech Act Theory and Communication: A Univen Study, page 77:
glosses: A performative utterance.
protolanguage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protolanguages
Senses: examples: text: Bickerton suggests that Homo erectus spoke in protolanguage.
ref: 1994, Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, →ISBN, page 366:
glosses: Alternative form of proto-language.
queans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quean