cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unaffected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnəˈfɛktɪd/
Forms: form: more unaffected
form: most unaffected
Etymology: From un- + affected.
Senses: examples: text: Since I work from home, I was unaffected by the office move.
text: I've lost my mind, I've spent the night / Crying on the floor of my bathroom / But you're so unaffected, I really don't get it / But I guess good for you
ref: 2021, Olivia Rodrigo, Dan Nigro, “Good 4 U”, in Sour, performed by Olivia Rodrigo:
glosses: Not affected or changed.
examples: text: Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.
ref: 1812, Jane Austen, chapter 3, in Pride and Prejudice:
glosses: Lacking pretense or affectation; natural.
Derived terms: unaffectedly
unaffectedness
unaffected
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnəˈfɛktɪd/
Forms: form: unaffecteds
Etymology: From un- + affected.
Senses: glosses: Someone not affected, as by a disease.
Synonyms: word: nonaffected
unaffected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnəˈfɛktɪd/
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unaffect
rotavator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotavators
form: rotovator
Etymology: Proprietary name clearly influenced by rotary tiller and cultivator.
Senses: glosses: A machine with rotating blades designed to break up or till soil.
wikipedia: rotary tiller
catty-corner
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈka.tiˌkɔː.nə/
ipa: /ˈkæ.tiˌkɔɹ.nɚ/
Forms: form: cattycorner
form: catty-cornered
form: cattycornered
form: kitty-corner
Etymology: Corruption of cater-corner under influence from catty.
Senses: examples: text: He takes the Brewer turnoff off the Pike and the road takes him through the town where he first bought gas. As he takes the road marked BREWER 16 he can see cattycornered across the main street the dirtdigger's pumps and his dark window full of glinting shovels and fishing rods.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 35:
glosses: Synonym of cater-corner: diagonally across from.
synonyms: word: cater-corner
extra: diagonally across from
catty-corner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈka.tiˌkɔː.nə/
ipa: /ˈkæ.tiˌkɔɹ.nɚ/
Forms: form: cattycorner
form: catty-cornered
form: cattycornered
form: kitty-corner
Etymology: Corruption of cater-corner under influence from catty.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cater-corner: diagonally across from one another.
synonyms: word: cater-corner
extra: diagonally across from one another
cattycorner
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catty-corner.
cattycorner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catty-corner.
kittycorner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kitty-corner.
kittycorner
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kitty-corner.
denned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of den
assignation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æsɪɡˈneɪʃən/
Forms: form: assignations
Etymology: From Middle English assignacioun, from Old French assignacion, from Latin assīgnātiō.
Senses: examples: text: While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.
ref: 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto III:
text: As soon as Mr. Barville saw me, he got up, with a visible air of pleasure and surprize, and saluting me, asked Mrs. Cole if it was possible that so fine and delicate a creature would voluntarily submit to such sufferings and rigours as were the subject of his assignation.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: These perfumeries were also used as places of assignation and sexual rendezvous.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 162:
text: What assignations followed we can never know, except that, according to Morrie, Rick did once boast that there was more than cake and lemon barley waiting for him up at The Glades when he delivered the church magazine.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
text: ‘That you could dare to imagine we’d fail conversationally to countenance certain weekly shall we say maternal … assignations with a certain unnamed bisexual bassoonist in the Albertan Secret Guard’s tactical-bands unit?’
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 30:
synonyms: tryst
glosses: An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
examples: text: This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.
ref: 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
glosses: A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
Derived terms: house of assignation
dewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dewed
form: most dewed
Senses: glosses: Full of, or covered in, dew
Derived terms: undewed
dewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dew
compleat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: compleats
form: compleating
form: compleated
form: compleated
Senses: examples: text: This I was forc'd to before I had executed half my Deſign, for the Machinery was entirely wanting to compleat it.
ref: 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto:
text: He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation...
ref: 1776, the Declaration of Independence, written largely by Thomas Jefferson
glosses: Archaic spelling of complete.
compleat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compleat
form: most compleat
Senses: examples: text: in that Family he might have compleat Oeconomical Power
ref: 1680, Robert Filmer, Patriarcha:
text: Mr Salteena had put on a compleat evening suit as he thought it was the correct idea
ref: 1919, Daisy Ashford, “Chapter 3”, in The Young Visiters:
glosses: Archaic spelling of complete.
Derived terms: compleatly
compleatness
reviver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revivers
Etymology: From revive + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who revives.
glosses: A chemical compound for making something (such as clothes or a varnished surface) look new again.
Derived terms: corpse reviver
driver reviver
munition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmjuˈnɪʃən/
Forms: form: munitions
Etymology: From Latin mūnitiō (“a defence, fortification”) via French munition, from mūnīre (“fortify, defend (with a wall)”) + -tiō, from moenia (“city walls, defensive walls, or walls in general”). Equivalent to munite + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after.
ref: 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] :
glosses: Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: NATO
glosses: Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns).
examples: text: I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition: and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.
ref: 1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Habacvc 2:1:
glosses: A tower or fortification.
Derived terms: cluster munition
loitering munition
loiter munition
munitionment
submunition
munition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmjuˈnɪʃən/
Forms: form: munitions
form: munitioning
form: munitioned
form: munitioned
Etymology: From Latin mūnitiō (“a defence, fortification”) via French munition, from mūnīre (“fortify, defend (with a wall)”) + -tiō, from moenia (“city walls, defensive walls, or walls in general”). Equivalent to munite + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Why was I there, munitioning, blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it?
ref: 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 154:
glosses: To supply with munitions.
Derived terms: remunition
munitionette
munitioner
munitioneer
rotator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rotators
Etymology: From rotate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which rotates.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle by which a joint can be rotated.
glosses: A revolving reverberatory furnace.
glosses: A banner ad that cycles through multiple advertisements.
Hyponyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: super rotator
Derived terms: Faraday rotator
rotator cuff
rotor
shape rotator
shahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shah
devived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devive
devive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: devives
form: deviving
form: devived
form: devived
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: kill, deanimate, devitalize, unalive
antonyms: vivify#Verb
;
revivify#Verb
revive#Verb
glosses: To render lifeless.
streetcar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹitˌkɑɹ/
Forms: form: streetcars
Etymology: From street + car. Coined before the era of motorcars, the term emphasized a type of car on rails that were in the street (along with foot traffic, wagons, and carriages) rather than on a separate, dedicated railroad, as a railcar is.
Senses: examples: text: Here, outside, in the light and the shade and the heat, there was a great tinkling of the bells of innumerable streetcars, and a constant strolling and shuffling and rustling of many pedestrians, a large proportion of whom were young women in Pompadour-looking dresses.
ref: 1878, Henry James, An International Episode:
text: Tired as he felt at night, and dark and bitter cold as it was in the morning, Jurgis generally chose to walk; at the hours other workmen were traveling, the streetcar monopoly saw fit to put on so few cars that there would be men hanging to every foot of the backs of them and often crouching upon the snow-covered roof.
ref: 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XX, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
text: […]but after all there's nothing less displeasing to me than a beefsteak smothered in mushrooms on a balcony in sound of the Broadway streetcars, with a hand-organ playing down below, and the boys hollering extras about the latest suicide.
ref: 1908, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hostages to Momus”, in The Gentle Grafter, New York, N.Y.: The McClure Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: tram
glosses: A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached together, operating on city streets; a trolley car.
frilled lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frilled lizards
Senses: glosses: A lizard of species Chlamydosaurus kingii, native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea, which has a large contractile membranous frill around its neck that usually stays folded against its body but is extended in territorial and courtship display.
Synonyms: sense: Chlamydosaurus kingii
word: frilled agama
sense: Chlamydosaurus kingii
word: frilled dragon
sense: Chlamydosaurus kingii
word: frilled-neck lizard
sense: Chlamydosaurus kingii
word: frill-necked lizard
sense: Chlamydosaurus kingii
word: frilly lizard
retter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛtə/
ipa: /ˈɹɛtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /-ɾə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛtə
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: retters
Etymology: From ret + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rets.
rover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊvə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊvɚ/
rhymes: -əʊvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rovers
Etymology: From Middle Dutch roven (“to rob”). Cognate with Danish and Norwegian røver (“robber, thief, highwayman, brigand”), Swedish rövare, German Räuber. Compare the native English word reaver, which is ultimately the same composition.
Senses: examples: text: Diogenes will deſpiſe thee for all that, who being expoſed and offered to ſale by the rovers and theeves that tooke him, cried and proclaimed himſelfe aloud: Who will buy a maſter who?
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “That Vice Alone is Sufficient to Make a Man Wretched”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 299:
glosses: A pirate.
examples: text: The first was this: our ship making her course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those islands and the African shore, was surprised in the grey of the morning by a Turkish rover of Sallee, who gave chase to us with all the sail she could make.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
glosses: A pirate ship.
harshness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harshnesses
Etymology: From Middle English harsknes; equivalent to harsh + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, part 6:
text: She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
glosses: The quality of being harsh.
virginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒɪnəl/
Forms: form: more virginal
form: most virginal
Etymology: From Middle English virginal, from Middle French virginal, from Latin virginālis. The musical instrument is probably so called from being played by young girls.
Senses: glosses: Being or resembling a virgin.
glosses: Uncontaminated or pure.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Parthenogenic.
Synonyms: word: chaste
word: cherry
word: undeflowered
word: unfucked
word: unsullied
word: vestal
word: virgin
word: virginal
Hypernyms: word: temperate
Derived terms: virginal membrane
Related terms: word: callow
word: innocent
word: pristine
word: pure
word: untouched
word: pubescent
virginal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒɪnəl/
Forms: form: virginal
form: virginals
Etymology: From Middle English virginal, from Middle French virginal, from Latin virginālis. The musical instrument is probably so called from being played by young girls.
Senses: examples: text: His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal, to unlock the secrets of the heart, and to cleanse his bosom of the perilous stuff, and cure him by the spell of his music.
ref: 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 16, in Friday's Business:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument in the harpsichord family.
Synonyms: pair of virginals
curare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjʊˈɹɑː.ɹi/
ipa: /kjʊˈɹɑ.ɹi/
Forms: form: curares
form: curari
form: urare
form: urari
form: woorari
form: wurali
Etymology: From a Cariban language; compare Kari'na urari, Trió urari, wïrari, Akawaio urari, Pemon urari, Macushi urari, referring to various vines of genus Strychnos.
Senses: glosses: A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content.
glosses: Other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae.
glosses: A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery.
Derived terms: anticurare
curarine
curarise
-curium
-curonium
leptocurare
pachycurare
tubocurarine
Related terms: curariform
curarisation
curarization
curarize
doper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dopers
Etymology: From dope (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 2003: Sam "I can't even explain what I'm feeling right now," says CLark in rec.skiing.snowboard
Would you care to point to some proof other than the Canuck's positive back in Nagano? If you are using that as a basis then all sports would be riddled with "dopers" especially XC skiing.
text: ...the testers are always in a race with the dopers and usually playing catch-up.
ref: 2006, Matt Seaton, Tour de farce, Guardian Unlimited:
glosses: One who uses performance enhancing substances for competitive gain, especially illegally.
examples: text: 2003: Lt. John Hadily, ICE DESTROYS LIVES-TPD DOPERS IN DENIAL in talk.politics.drugs
I will keep posting the fact that if you possess drugs where I am employed and you are caught I'll throw your sorry ass in a cage where the dopers belong.
text: With the Kwik-Mart leveled by fire, Dante and Randal's professional aspirations take a southerly route to a Mooby's fast-food restaurant where dopey dopers Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) have followed with their boombox and illicit activities.
ref: 2006, Gene Seymour, “Clerks II”, in Newsday:
text: 2006:, Anthony Cormier, Father: 'We're here to find her body', HeradTribune.com
Tamara Toy was a blue-eyed daughter of a preacher, growing up good and God-fearing but eventually getting lost along the way, falling in with dopers and felons and a petty crook who stole her heart.
glosses: One who frequently uses recreational drugs; a druggie; a stoner.
glosses: A person employed to apply dope solution during aircraft manufacture.
Derived terms: doper time
doper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dope (adjective) + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dope: more dope
quadrille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒdˈɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: quadrilles
Etymology: French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.
Senses: examples: text: The movements of the other women were more or less similar to Tess's, the whole bevy of them drawing together like dancers in a quadrille at the completion of a sheaf by each, every one placing her sheaf on end against those of the rest, till a shock, or 'stitch' as it was here called, of ten or a dozen was formed.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume II, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
examples: text: There was ol' Mickey Coote
 Who played hard on his flute
 When the ladies lined up for a set
 He was tootin' with skill
 For each sparkling quadrille
 Though the dancers were fluther'd and bet
ref: c. 19th century, J. M. Crofts, “The Irish Rover”:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The music for this dance.
examples: text: It now first struck her that she was selected from among her sisters as worthy of being the mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a quadrille table at Rosings, in the absence of more eligible visitors.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 17, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
glosses: A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.
quadrille
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒdˈɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: quadrilles
form: quadrilling
form: quadrilled
form: quadrilled
Etymology: French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.
Senses: examples: text: We quadrilled, waltzed, and conversed, in all of which my clever partner excelled; and her charms, combined with the excellent champagne I imbibed, fairly dazzled my imagination.
ref: 1834, Arthur Courtenay, Autobiography and Letters of Arthur Courtenay, page 36:
glosses: To dance the quadrille.
quadrille
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒdˈɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Etymology: From French quadrillé (“crosshatched”, adjective).
Senses: examples: text: Penknife, hand-lens, padlock key, marching compass and small cash went in his trouser pockets, leaving the tunic pockets for the little black quadrille notebook, pencil and pen, and the breast pockets for his breviary on one side and cigarettes and matches on the other.
ref: 1961, Robert Francouer, The World of Teilhard, pages 28-29:
text: He would write “one paragraph at time”, always beginning each novel in longhand – he favoured notebooks with quadrille lines (those little squares).
ref: 2024 May 1, Lisa Allardice, “Brooklyn’s bard: Paul Auster’s tricksy fiction captivated a generation”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Marked with squares.
raw_tags: of paper
Derived terms: quadrille paper
quadrille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒdˈɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: quadrilles
Etymology: From French quadrillé (“crosshatched”, adjective).
Senses: glosses: Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
quadrille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒdˈɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: quadrilles
Etymology: Term used by John Horton Conway.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A square tiling of the plane.
Related terms: quad
quadrella
nargery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈnɑɹɡəɹi/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈnɑɹdʒəɹi/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /nɑːɡəɹi/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈnɑːdʒəɹi/
Etymology: From the uncommon slang word narg (“nerd”), from NARG (“not a real gentleman”), said to have originated at Cambridge.
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, most email I send, and I suspect most email most people send, is not particularly interesting, consisting mostly of unix nargery, photocopier humour and the occasional attempt to organise social events.
ref: 1997 June 13, Mark Baker, “POLICE AND EMAIL SECURITY”, in demon.service (Usenet):
text: It has become TGGD[i] with a side order of nargery about cyperpunk books and virtual reality (occasioned by the comment that "Paradigm Shift" sounds vaguely Gibson-esque or something).
ref: 1998 January 21, Paul Wright, “Christ Returning”, in uk.religion.christian (Usenet):
text: By the point I got involved there, it had become an issue of technical nargery rather than attack, and do you really expect an obsessive htmlgeek to pass that up? :)
ref: 1999 October 28, "Rant on Hardcore fandom" / "Now Sailor Moon, was Hardcore fandom/", in uk.media.animation.anime, Usenet, "Wednesday" (username)
ref: 2000 January 24, Peter Maydell, “HTML nargery (was: Re: NTL cable modem roll out)”, in cam.misc (Usenet):
text: It would make some of the current p6i nargery a bit simpler, too.
ref: 2004 April 23, Simon Cozens, “A12: Typed undef”, in perl.perl6.language (Usenet):
glosses: Technical discussion, shop talk.
worsted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͝osʹtĭd
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɪd/
enpr: wo͝osʹtĭd
enpr: wûrstʹĭd
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈwɝ.stɪd/
enpr: wûstʹĭd
ipa: /ˈwəː.stɪd/
enpr: wo͝osʹtĭd
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɪd/
enpr: wo͝osʹtĭd
enpr: wûrstʹĭd
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈwɝ.stɪd/
Etymology: Participle adjective of the verb worst.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of worst
worsted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͝osʹtĭd
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɪd/
enpr: wo͝osʹtĭd
enpr: wûrstʹĭd
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈwɝ.stɪd/
enpr: wûstʹĭd
ipa: /ˈwəː.stɪd/
enpr: wo͝osʹtĭd
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɪd/
enpr: wo͝osʹtĭd
enpr: wûrstʹĭd
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈwɝ.stɪd/
Forms: form: more worsted
form: most worsted
Etymology: Participle adjective of the verb worst.
Senses: examples: text: The army was worsted in battle.
glosses: Defeated, overcome.
archdeacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archdeacons
Etymology: From Middle English arcedekne, archdecon, archdekne, archdekyn, archedeken, archedekyn, archedyacun, archideken, archidiacon, ardekne, ercedekene, ercedekne, erchdekene, erchedekene, erchedekne, erresdeken, ersedekne, ersedekyn, from Old English ærcedæcne, ærcediæcne, earcedæcne (from Late Latin archidiāconus) and Old French arc(h)ediacne.
Senses: qualifier: Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy; Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A senior administrative official in a diocese, just under the bishop, often in charge of an archdeaconry. As a title, it can be filled by either a deacon or priest.
Derived terms: archdeaconess
archdeaconry
archdeaconship
Related terms: archidiaconal
censer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.sə/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.sɚ/
rhymes: -ɛnsə(ɹ)
homophone: censor
homophone: sensor
Forms: form: censers
Etymology: From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman censier, from Old French encensier, from encens (“incense”).
Senses: examples: text: A thousand wax tapers burned in honour of the Madonna. Four beautiful children swung the silver censers before her picture, till a cloud of incense arose and floated in broken masses to the fretted roof, and the whole air was heavy with perfume.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 215:
text: Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
ref: 1859 [1845], Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, volumes II: Poems and Tales:
glosses: An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
glosses: A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense.
Synonyms: sense: container
word: thurible
sense: container
word: incense burner
Derived terms: hill censer
Related terms: incense boat
rewards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reward
rewards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reward
reputed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpju.tɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repute
reputed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpju.tɪd/
Forms: form: more reputed
form: most reputed
Senses: examples: text: He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree. Moreover, he was of gentle kin, and she was a poor lass biding in a cot house with an ill-reputed mother.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: The other young ladies of Sulaco stood in awe of her character and accomplishments. She was reputed to be terribly learned and serious.
ref: 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014, Part 2, Chapter 1.:
glosses: Accorded a reputation.
glosses: Supposed or assumed to be true.
Derived terms: reputed quart
nex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of next.
contemplative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɛmplətɪv/
ipa: /ˈkɒntəmˌpleɪtɪv/
ipa: /ˈkɒntəmplətɪv/
ipa: /kənˈtɛmplətɪv/
ipa: /ˈkɑntəmˌpleɪtɪv/
Forms: form: more contemplative
form: most contemplative
Etymology: From Middle English contemplatyve, contemplatyf, from Old French contemplatif, from Latin contemplātīvus.
Senses: examples: text: Compared with the greatest poets, he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures, possessed of quiet and contemplative tastes. But unpoetical natures are precisely those which require poetic cultivation. This cultivation Wordsworth is much more fitted to give, than poets who are intrinsically far more poets than he.
ref: 1873, John Stuart Mill, chapter 5, in Autobiography:
glosses: Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
examples: text: Whether the nuns of yore, being of a submissive rather than a stiff-necked generation, habitually bent their contemplative heads to avoid collision with the beams in the low ceilings of the many chambers of their House [...] may be matters of interest to its haunting ghosts (if any), but constitute no item in Miss Twinkleton's half-yearly accounts.
ref: 1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, “'”, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to a religious contemplative, or a contemplative religious orders, especially the Roman Catholic varieties.
examples: text: contemplative faculties
glosses: Relating to, or having the power of, contemplation.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
coordinate_terms: precontemplative
glosses: In a phase of mental activity in which one begins to recognize and acknowledge the maladaptiveness of someone's behavior (such as one's own, or that of a family member or friend); usually with reference to substance use.
Synonyms: word: attentive
word: calculant
word: cogitabund
word: contemplative
word: deliberative
word: intelligent
word: introspective
word: meditative
word: museful
word: musing
word: pensive
word: reflective
word: speculative
word: studious
word: thinkful
word: thinking
word: thoughty
word: thoughtful
word: wistful
Hypernyms: word: behavioral
Derived terms: contemplatively
contemplativeness
noncontemplative
uncontemplative
Related terms: word: contemplate
word: temperate
contemplative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɛmplətɪv/
ipa: /ˈkɒntəmˌpleɪtɪv/
ipa: /ˈkɒntəmplətɪv/
ipa: /kənˈtɛmplətɪv/
ipa: /ˈkɑntəmˌpleɪtɪv/
Forms: form: contemplatives
Etymology: From Middle English contemplatyve, contemplatyf, from Old French contemplatif, from Latin contemplātīvus.
Senses: examples: text: Like the white page that surrounds the darkness of each letter you are reading here, eternity surrounds each heartbeat, and as the contemplative watches his breath, he can move out of time through the doorway which opens in the interval between each heartbeat.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 10:
text: The contemplative must not expect exotic feelings, visions or heavenly voices; these did not come from God but from his own fevered imagination and would merely distract him from his true objective [...].
ref: 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 112:
glosses: Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious or philosophical contemplation.
octadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From octad + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to an octad; eightfold
octad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒktæd/
ipa: /ˈɑkˌtæd/
Forms: form: octads
Etymology: From oct- + -ad.
Senses: synonyms: octonary
glosses: A group of eight things.
glosses: hundred million = myriad myriad; 100,000,000 = 10⁸
Derived terms: octadic
octad of octads
Related terms: octaeteris
octennium
eightfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old English eahtafeald. Equivalent to eight + -fold.
Senses: glosses: Eight times as much; multiplied by eight.
examples: 2003, Richard Morris, The Last Sorcerers, page 213,
The scheme, which Gell-Mann called the eightfold way, grouped mesons and baryons into families.
glosses: Containing eight parts.
Derived terms: eightfold path
noble eightfold path
eightfoldness
eightfold way
eightfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old English eahtafeald. Equivalent to eight + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of eight.
eightfold way
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the eightfold way
Etymology: Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1961, as an allusion to the noble eightfold path in Buddhism.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a theory that organizes subatomic particles into octets
nonadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nonad + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The five fingers on each hand are punctuated continua like the nonadic nine planets.
ref: 2020, John Krey, The Structure of Knowledge Using Natural Patterns, page 11:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a nonad; ninefold.
barnstorming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barnstorm
barnstorming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The packed opening night of Twain’s first UK tour since 2004 is an impressively barnstorming, thigh-slapping, eye-searing revue that marries her bulletproof back catalogue with a cautious sprinkle of new material.
ref: 2018 September 20, Graeme Virtue, “Shania Twain review – barnstorming, thigh-slapping spectacular”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Highly theatrical.
raw_tags: of a performance
Derived terms: barnstormingly
barnstorming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barnstormings
Senses: examples: text: He'd been to plenty of barnstormings, but he had been one of those who watched, mainly because he could ill afford to spend the dollar or two the pilot charged for the ride.
ref: 2002, William V. Reynolds, Call of the Pines, page 122:
text: Testy voters have peppered GOP lawmakers at town halls, and tens of thousands continue to turn out for a barnstorming tour by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
ref: 2025 April 7, Simon Montlake, Caitlin Babcock, Ali Martin, Cameron Pugh, Jingnan Peng, “Is the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ starting to find its voice again?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: The act of one who barnstorms, or travels making political speeches.
glosses: Aviation stunts performed for a public audience.
petrescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of changing into stone; petrification.
refurbish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈfɜːbɪʃ/
ipa: /ɹiˈfɝbɪʃ/
Forms: form: refurbishes
form: refurbishing
form: refurbished
form: refurbished
Etymology: 1605, from re- + furbish, from Middle English furbishen, from Middle French forbir (stem furbiss-, “to clean, polish”), from Frankish *furbēn (“to clean, polish”).
Senses: examples: text: We're having the sitting room refurbished, after a leak damaged a large part of the room.
text: He also makes the point that in France, SNCF is currently refurbishing some TGVs built in 1988.
ref: 2024 May 29, Peter Plisner, “Network News: Gibb plans HS2 alternative with 155mph Pendolinos”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 6:
glosses: To rebuild or replenish with all new material; to restore to original (or better) working order and appearance.
Synonyms: word: mangonize
Related terms: refurbishment
refurbish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈfɜːbɪʃ/
ipa: /ɹiˈfɝbɪʃ/
Forms: form: refurbishes
Etymology: 1605, from re- + furbish, from Middle English furbishen, from Middle French forbir (stem furbiss-, “to clean, polish”), from Frankish *furbēn (“to clean, polish”).
Senses: examples: text: My bedroom needs a refurbish.
glosses: A refurbishment.
nonad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊnæd/
ipa: /ˈnɒ-/
ipa: /ˈnoʊnæd/
ipa: /ˈnɑ-/
rhymes: -əʊnæd
rhymes: -oʊnæd
Forms: form: nonads
Etymology: From nona- + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: By Trisection of the three sections of a Tripartite circle. Symbolical of a nonad or nine fold nature of the Deity.
ref: 1891, The Yoga-vásishtha-mahárámáyana of Válmiki:
text: The nonuply perspective nonads of Milne are distinct from all cases of cyclic nonads given by the theory of section I. of this paper […]
ref: 1921, Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, page 6:
text: The beginning, middle and end of the nonad forms a triad, […]
ref: 2020, John Krey, The Structure of Knowledge Using Natural Patterns, page 3:
glosses: Synonym of ennead (“collection or series of nine things”).
synonyms: word: ennead
extra: collection or series of nine things
Derived terms: nonadic
stiff-necked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stiff-necked
form: most stiff-necked
Etymology: From stiff + neck + -ed.
(figurative): Calque of Hebrew קשה ערף (Exodus 33). A biblical term similar to Swedish styvnackad, Ancient Greek σκληροτράχηλος (sklērotrákhēlos), Russian жестоковыйный (žestokovyjnyj), German halsstarrig etc.
Senses: glosses: Having a stiff neck; suffering from torticollis
examples: text: For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 33:5:
glosses: Stubborn and arrogant.
Derived terms: stiff-neckedly
stiff-neckedness
ethanoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The systematic alternative name for acetic acid.
untrammelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untrammelled
form: most untrammelled
Etymology: From un- + trammelled.
Senses: examples: text: Doctrinal prejudices shut you off from the joy of untrammelled thinking, moral prejudices from the joy of untrammelled living.
ref: 1894, G. S. Street, The Autobiography of a Boy, 2nd edition, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., page 15:
text: If building a baby is such an intricate cooperative venture, and if every gene needs several thousands of fellow genes to complete its task, how can we reconcile this with my picture of indivisible genes, springing like immortal chamois from body to body down the ages: the free, untrammelled, and self-seeking agents of life?
ref: 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 48:
text: [T]he laugh ... that enormous, untrammelled, belly-deep sound ...
ref: 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
text: If we picture ourselves among the huge trunks, the gloom lit with luminescent insects and fungi, and a pervasive stillness and silence broken only by the odd, scurrying creature, we gain some idea of what the untrammelled forests of Europe were like.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 56:
glosses: Alternative form of untrammeled.
ethanoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethane + -oic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having the group CH₃COO-.
Synonyms: acetic
Derived terms: ethanoate
ethanoic acid
ethanoic anhydride
paralytics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paralytic
paralyzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralyses
Senses: glosses: plural of paralyzis
paralyzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paralyses
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paralyze
snotty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: snottier
form: snottiest
form: snottie
Etymology: From snot + -y.
Senses: glosses: Running or dirtied with mucus.
examples: text: Greasy hamburgers or snotty eggs? How about some of those fine pancakes that needed a steak knife to hack through?
ref: 2007, Tom Carroll, The Confession of Mason Young, page 69:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of mucus, especially in texture.
examples: text: "None of your business," she said. She can be very snotty sometimes. She can be quite snotty. "I suppose you failed in every single subject again," she said—very snotty. It was sort of funny, too, in a way. She sounds like a goddam schoolteacher sometimes, and she's only a little child.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 22, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:
text: The people there where mostly white, and mostly poor. There wasn't much of a middle class, except for a few well-educated folk trying hard not to be snotty so their kids wouldn't get beat up at school.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page ix:
text: Becky had been trying to move out of the society pages and into stories of more substance in recent months, a major shift for her. When I worked for the Herald, she was kind of a mincy, snotty little thing who dressed in heels and blouses […]
ref: 2016, Meg O'Brien, A Bright Flamingo Shroud:
glosses: Ill-tempered or impertinent in an arrogant, conceited manner.
Derived terms: snottily
snottiness
snotty-nosed
snotty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snotties
Etymology: From snot + -y.
Senses: glosses: The lion's mane jellyfish, which secretes a mucus that can foul fishing nets.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A midshipman.
Derived terms: snotty's nurse
ill-tempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-tempered
form: most ill-tempered
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Evil: You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that can’t be done. Can you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have?
Number Two: Sea Bass.
Dr. Evil: Riiiight.
Number Two: They are mutated sea bass.
Dr. Evil: Really? Are they ill-tempered?
ref: 1997, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (film)
text: Spain’s acting prime minister, the socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, has a fresh, if fraught, shot at returning to power after his conservative rival Alberto Núñez Feijóo failed in his attempt to take office in an ill-tempered investiture debate that followed July’s inconclusive general election.
ref: 2023 September 29, Sam Jones, “Alberto Núñez Feijóo fails to win Spanish MPs’ backing to become PM”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of bad-tempered.
synonyms: word: bad-tempered
epiphonema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛpɪfəˈniːmə/
Forms: form: epiphonemas
form: epiphonemata
form: epiphoneme
Etymology: From Latin epiphonema, from Ancient Greek ἐπιφώνημα (epiphṓnēma), from ἐπιφωνείν (epiphōneín, “call to”).
Senses: examples: text: he would ſometimes break off in a ſudden and ſpirited Epiphonema, or rather Erotesis, raiſed a third, and ſometimes a full fifth, above the key of the diſcourſe, […]
ref: 1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 126:
text: Epiphonema, for a final clause,
An inference strong by sudden impulse draws.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Epiphonema.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 69:
glosses: An exclamation or reflection used to summarise or round off an argument or discourse.
cattish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkætɪʃ/
Forms: form: more cattish
form: most cattish
Etymology: From cat + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: catty
glosses: catlike; in the manner of a cat
glosses: stealthy
synonyms: catty
glosses: sly and spiteful; marked by malice
Derived terms: cattishly
cattishness
erotesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛɹəˈtiːsɪs/
Forms: form: eroteses
Etymology: From Late Latin erotesis, from Ancient Greek ἐρώτησις (erṓtēsis), from ἐρωτάω (erōtáō, “I question”).
Senses: examples: text: he would ſometimes break off in a ſudden and ſpirited Epiphonema, or rather Erotesis […] and demand it categorically of his antagoniſt, Whether he would take upon him to ſay, he had ever remember'd,—whether he had ever read,–or even whether he had ever heard tell of a man, call'd Tristram, performing any thing great or worth recording?–No–, he would ſay,–Tristram!–The thing is impoſſible.
ref: 1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 126:
text: By Erotesis, what we know we ask,
Prescribing, for effect, a needless task.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Erotesis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 31:
glosses: A figure of speech whereby a question is asked in confident expectation of a negative answer.
wikipedia: Alan Moore
V for Vendetta
Derived terms: erotetic
viperish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more viperish
form: most viperish
Etymology: From viper + -ish.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a viper.
examples: text: Allwhite is dominated, of course, by its white characters: the high-school mean girls Meagan, Maegan and Megan (abused, bulimic, druggy), their mothers (smothering, manipulative, viperish) and their boyfriends (psychotic, supportive, dissolute).
ref: 2023 October 4, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘White Girl in Danger’ Flips the Script on Soap Operas”, in The New York Times:
glosses: spiteful; treacherous
Derived terms: viperishly
viperishness