cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wanderu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The natives, who designate the latter as the Maha, or Great Wanderu, to distinguish it from the Kala, or Black one […]
ref: 1896, Richard Lydekker, A Geographical History of Mammals:
glosses: Archaic form of wanderoo.
counterphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterphobias
Etymology: From counter- + phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Obviously it was related to the entire gestalt of Simon's polyphobia and compensatory counterphobia. The boys used to watch horror movies on late-night television […]
ref: 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A compulsion to seek out the causes of fear or anxiety instead of avoiding them.
Related terms: counterphobic
counterphobias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterphobia
Amcit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amcits
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: In the last seven weeks, seven Amcits were arrested for national security concerns and violations of immigration laws (Ref A-E), compared to only six in the entire four months prior.
ref: 2011, Alexander Star, Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: American citizen
Amcits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amcit
e-textile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-textiles
Etymology: From e- + textile.
Senses: glosses: A fabric with embedded digital components, such as electronics.
e-textiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-textile
counterphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterphobes
Etymology: From counter- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: A counterphobic person.
counterphobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterphobe
megaregion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaregions
Etymology: From mega- + region.
Senses: glosses: A megalopolis.
Related terms: megaregional
megaregions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaregion
fire philosopher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire philosophers
Etymology: A calque of Latin philosophus per ignem (“philosopher by fire”).
Senses: examples: text: Most of such experiments were made by means of fire, and hence, […] the experimenters were termed Alchemists, meaning “The Firists,” or “The Fire Philosophers;” […]
ref: 1834, James Rennie, Alphabet of scientific chemistry, for the use of beginners, New edition, London: Orr and Smith, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Synonym of alchemist.
synonyms: word: alchemist
fire philosophers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fire-Philosophers, or Philosophi per ignem, […] The distinguishing tenet from which they derived this appellation was, that the intimate essences of natural things were only to be known by the trying efforts of fire, directed in a chemical process. They were also called Theosophists, from their declaring against human reason as a dangerous and deceitful guide, and representing a divine and supernatural illumination as the only means of arriving at truth.
ref: 1797, “Fire-Philosophers”, in Colin Macfarquhar, editor, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 3rd edition, volume 7, Edinburgh: A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, →OCLC, page 253:
glosses: plural of fire philosopher
Proulx
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹu/
Forms: form: Proulxs
form: Proulxes
Etymology: From French Proulx.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
political economist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: political economists
Etymology: From political economy + -ist.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:political economist.
glosses: One who studies political economy.
Carolus dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carolus dollars
Etymology: Latin Carolus (“Charles”) + English dollar
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Carolus dollar.
glosses: A Spanish-American peso or piece of eight issued by Charles III (1759–88) and Charles IV (1788–1808) of Spain.
hystericky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hystericky
form: most hystericky
Etymology: From hysteric + -y.
Senses: examples: text: During the present gayety of the house, however, the poor girl has worn a face full of trouble; and, to use the housekeeper's words, "has fallen into a sad hystericky way lately."
ref: 1849, Washington Irving, Mahomet and his successors:
glosses: Hysterical; inclined to hysterics.
wickyup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wickyups
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wickiup.
wickyups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wickyup
grape sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Coniferin is converted into grape-sugar and coniferyl alcohol under the influence of emulsine.
ref: 1875 December 24, The American Chemist, page 232:
glosses: Glucose.
bisexualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bisexual + -ness.
Senses: glosses: bisexuality
nativelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nativelike
form: most nativelike
form: native-like
Etymology: From native + -like.
Senses: examples: text: nativelike proficiency
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Characteristic of a native speaker.
Derived terms: nativelikeness
yowleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yowley
case grammar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: case grammars
Senses: examples: text: Other theoretical approaches that stress the primacy of space or spatial meaning in language with respect to other domains or meanings are localism and case grammar.
ref: 2006, Eva-Maria Graf, The Ontogenetic Development of Literal and Metaphorical Space in Language, page 6:
glosses: Any of a class of grammars that focus on the link between the valence of a verb and the grammatical context it requires.
case grammars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of case grammar
witney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witneys
Etymology: After Witney in Oxfordshire, where it was made.
Senses: glosses: A kind of woollen cloth.
witneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witney
wurlie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wurlier
form: more wurlie
form: wurliest
form: most wurlie
Senses: examples: text: Wurlie, 1. Contemptibly puny, or small in size; as "a wurlie bodie," an ill-grown person, Fife, Loth.
ref: [1825, John Jamieson, “Wurlie”, in Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: […], volume II (K–Z) (in Scots), Edinburgh: […] University Press; for W[illiam] & C[harles] Tait, […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 700, column 2:
text: WIRL, sb. Sc. Yks. […] A small and harsh-featured person; an ill-grown child; a stunted animal. […] Hence (1) Wirly, adj. puny, small; (2) Wirly-bit, sb. a short time; a little way; a small portion. (1) Sc. There's nae a pilchard in my creel, Nor wurlie sprat … They're firm and fat (Jam.).
ref: [1905, “WIRL, sb.”, in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume VI (T–Z, Supplement, Bibliography and Grammar), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 515, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wurly (“derisorily small”).
examples: text: Wurlie, […] 2. Rough, knotted; as, "a wurlie rung," a knotted stick, S. It is applied to a stick that is distorted, Lanarks. As this sense, however, is considerably remote from the other, the term may have had a different origin. 3. Wrinkled, applied to a person; as, a wurly body, Lanarks.
ref: [1825, John Jamieson, “Wurlie”, in Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: […], volume II (K–Z) (in Scots), Edinburgh: […] University Press; for W[illiam] & C[harles] Tait, […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 700, column 2:
glosses: gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled.
Synonyms: sense: derisorily small
word: dinky
word: petty
word: puny
word: small
word: tiny
sense: gnarled, knotted
word: gnarly
sense: gnarled, knotted
word: knobbly
sense: gnarled, knotted
word: knobby
sense: gnarled, knotted
word: knotty
sense: wizened, wrinkled
word: bewrinkled
word: rugose
word: wrinkly
word: wrinkled
wurlie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wurlies
Senses: examples: text: But latterly they came in good numbers, and commenced a nightly system of annoyance by dancing their corroberies:[…]. Finding remonstrance of no avail, one evening, when they were all seated quietly at the wurlie [footnote: Encampment.], I fired a charge of small shot into the midst of them, and retired to the hut: in the morning they had all disappeared.
ref: 1846, E. Lloyd, “Biographical Sketch”, in A Visit to the Antipodes: With Some Reminiscences of a Sojourn in Australia, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill, →OCLC, page 165:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wurley.
wurleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wurley
parabolanus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parabolani
Etymology: From Latin parabolanus.
Senses: examples: text: In the quarrel between Cyril and Orestes, A.D. 416, the parabolani, zealously espousing the cause of their bishop, threw the city of Alexandria into such confusion that the inhabitants despatched an envoy to Theodosius II., begging him to issue a prohibition for the bishop to leave Alexandria, as his was the only authority by which their violence could be checked.
ref: 1880, Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, volume 3, page 1551:
topics: Christianity
glosses: In the early Eastern Church, a lay assistant to the clergy for tending the sick.
philosophers of fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:philosopher of fire.
glosses: plural of philosopher of fire
philosophers by fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:philosopher by fire.
glosses: plural of philosopher by fire
pilferages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilferage
western fence lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western fence lizards
Senses: glosses: Sceloporus occidentalis, a North American lizard.
Synonyms: bluebelly
western fence lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of western fence lizard
dial-a-ride problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dial-a-ride problems
Senses: glosses: A mathematical problem in which a set of deliveries must be made along a set of available routes between fixed sources and destinations, within limited time periods, and with the possibility of changing vehicles during a trip.
dial-a-ride problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dial-a-ride problem
philosopher by fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philosophers by fire
Etymology: A calque of Latin philosophus per ignem (“philosopher by fire”).
Senses: examples: text: […] alchemists, styled also philosophers by fire, […]
ref: 1824, “Barometer”, in Supplement to the fourth, fifth, and sixth editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 2, Edinburgh: Printed for A. Constable, →OCLC, page 117:
glosses: Synonym of alchemist.
synonyms: word: alchemist
philosopher of fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philosophers of fire
Etymology: A calque of Latin philosophus per ignem (“philosopher by fire”). Doublet of fire philosopher and philosopher by fire.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of alchemist.
synonyms: word: alchemist
bah humbug
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑː ˈhʌmbʌɡ/
ipa: /ˌbɑ ˈhʌmˌbʌɡ/
Etymology: From bah (interjection expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper) + humbug (“balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!”). The words were originally spoken by the miser Ebenezer Scrooge in the novella A Christmas Carol (1843) by English author Charles Dickens (1812–1870).
Senses: examples: text: Honor!—bah! humbug! Patriotism!—pshaw! / Are we to be bamboozled by such guys?
ref: 1848 January 22, “Important Official Documents”, in The John-Donkey, volume I, number IV, New York, N.Y.: Published and supplied by George Dexter, Burgess, Stringer & Co., W. H. Graham, R. G. Berford & Co. [et al.], →OCLC, page 126, column 2:
text: Only a modern Scrooge could say, "Bah, Humbug," where helping people to get enough to eat is concerned. Well, we are not going to argue that food aid has never filled an empty stomach or saved a dying child—but we will contend, in the case of the United States at least, that it has done so only inadvertently.
ref: 1976, Susan George, “Food Aid? … Or Weapon?”, in How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger, Harmondsworth, London; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books; reprinted Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1989, page 164
text: [O]nce you understand why Bah Humbug is a good term, you will see that it is going to become packed with a biblical position that could warrant every Christian to mindfully say "Bah Humbug" about the Christmas Holiday, and know what it is they are meaning. Bah Humbug is going to work succinctly.
ref: 2012, C. Matthew McMahon, Therese B. McMahon, “Scrooge Had It Right, but for the Wrong Reasons”, in Bah Humbug: How Christians Should Think about the Christmas Holiday, Coconut Creek, Fla.: Puritan Publications, →ISBN, pages 5–6:
glosses: Expressing cynicism, disillusionment or distrustfulness; and specifically a dislike of Christmas and its celebrations and festivities.
bah humbug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑː ˈhʌmbʌɡ/
ipa: /ˌbɑ ˈhʌmˌbʌɡ/
Forms: form: bah humbugs
form: bah humbugging
form: bah humbugged
form: bah humbugged
Etymology: From bah (interjection expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper) + humbug (“balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!”). The words were originally spoken by the miser Ebenezer Scrooge in the novella A Christmas Carol (1843) by English author Charles Dickens (1812–1870).
Senses: examples: text: This can be bah-humbugged or it can be accepted with a child’s quick joy. Who has the right to celebrate, to adore God for his sake, to muse around a manger, to light the candles and give the gifts and sing the songs?
ref: 1961 December 20, The Christian Century, Chicago, page 1515, column 2:
text: Once my gear was packed I was eager to go, and get away from Sydney before Christmas found me bah-humbugging my way through a bottle of scotch.
ref: 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 127:
glosses: To utter the words "bah humbug"; to dismiss with the words, or sentiment, of the interjection.
expressio unius est exclusio alterius
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A canon of construction holding that, when a legal document includes a list, anything not in that list is assumed to be purposely excluded.
blood cockles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood cockle
supermodernism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + modernism.
Senses: examples: text: Ibelings has termed the formal vocabulary of these architecturally interesting airports and of other similar large-scale works "supermodernism." Instead of taking an interest in the contextual and historical factors of architecture (as in the 70s and 80s), supermodernism is characterized by a susceptibility to categories like the neutral, the indistinct, or the implicit.
ref: 1999, The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis:
text: As Hans lbelings describes in his provocatively titled study Supermodernism, among a small but influential group of contemporary architects what almost amounts to a new form of 'international style' has found renewed validation in the commercial nation of the global brand.
ref: 2004, Kevin Nute, Place, Time, and Being in Japanese Architecture, page 4:
text: Marc Augé and Hans Ibelings are the influential emergent critics of what has come to be called "supermodernism"; see, respectively, Augé, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (Verso, 1995), and Ibelings, Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization (NAI, 1998).
ref: 2008, Mark Kingwell, Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City:
topics: architecture
glosses: An architectural style following modernism and postmodernism, promoted by Hans Ibelings.
examples: text: Existing modernism appeared to erode, then, in the face of this supermodernism, and at precisely the moment when art was taken most seriously―or at least, deemed too important to be left to the artist.
ref: 2000, J. Hoberman, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism:
text: Characterized by an excess of time, space and ego, all of which supervene on the present study in ways that distinguish its utilization of philosophy of religion from postmodern obsessions with social and literary philosophy, supermodernism can be introduced in the following manner […]
ref: 2012, Jaco Gericke, The Hebrew Bible and Philosophy of Religion, page 13:
text: Articulating this insight in every way possible seemed to define fin-de-millennium social theory in relation to the network society, the global city, the information bomb, sociology against society, supermodernism, and so on.
ref: 2016, Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, page 423:
glosses: Extreme modernism.
Perraultian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Perraultian
form: most Perraultian
Etymology: From Perrault + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Charles Perrault (1628–1703), French author who laid the foundations for the fairy tale genre with his works derived from folktales.
crablets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crablet
goozle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goozles
Etymology: Perhaps from guzzle.
Senses: glosses: Adam's apple
goozles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goozle
chondrolaryngoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chondro- + laryngoplasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A surgical procedure in which the thyroid cartilage is reduced in size by shaving down the cartilage through an incision in the throat.
panromantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panromantic
PVS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Polynesian Voyaging Society.
PVS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of persistent vegetative state.
glosses: Abbreviation of prisoner visitation and support: a prison visitation program in US federal and military prisons.
PVS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Plummer-Vinson syndrome.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of polyvinylsiloxane.
PVS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PVSes
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of potentially visible set.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of personal viewing sight: a night-vision device.
PVS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PVSs
form: PVSes
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: post-viral fatigue syndrome
alt: PVFS
word: post-viral fatigue
alt: PVF
glosses: Abbreviation of post-viral syndrome.
polyvinylsiloxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyvinylsiloxanes
Etymology: From polyvinyl + siloxane.
Senses: glosses: An addition-reaction silicone elastomer, widely used for taking impressions, as in dentistry or for inspecting the interior features of machine parts.
Synonyms: PVS
vinylpolysiloxane
polyvinylsiloxanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyvinylsiloxane
vinylpolysiloxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinylpolysiloxanes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polyvinylsiloxane.
synonyms: word: polyvinylsiloxane
vinylpolysiloxanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vinylpolysiloxane
Ore's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proved in 1960 by Norwegian mathematician Øystein Ore.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem that considers the sum of the degrees of pairs of non-adjacent vertices: if every such pair has a sum that at least equals the total number of vertices in the graph, then the graph is Hamiltonian.
Related terms: Ore condition
Veblen's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Introduced by Oswald Veblen in 1912.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem stating that the set of edges of a finite graph can be written as a union of disjoint simple cycles if and only if every vertex has even degree.
combinatorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From combinatoric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, combinatorics.
Faraday bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Faraday bags
Etymology: Named after Michael Faraday.
Senses: examples: text: For instance. when a cell phone is found. proper forensic protocol may call for it to be placed in a Faraday bag, which prevents stray signals from going in or out.
ref: 2006, Scott Christianson, Bodies of Evidence: Forensic Science and Crime, page 171:
glosses: A bag made of a material that blocks electromagnetic signals, and employing special sewing techniques such as dual paired seam construction, used to hold devices such as cell phones in order to prevent outside signals from interfering with the contents of the device.
wikipedia: Michael Faraday
Related terms: Faraday cage
Faraday bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Faraday bag
Faraday cages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Faraday cage
dessert bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dessert bars
Senses: hypernyms: dessert#Noun
<
food#Noun
treat#Noun
coordinate_terms: ice cream bar
glosses: A kind of soft baked cookie that is square or rectangular.
glosses: A restaurant counter where customers can select and/or customize their dessert.
dessert bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dessert bar
Mirpuri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mirpuris
Senses: glosses: A person from Mirpur, Azad Kashmir in Pakistan.
Mirpuris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mirpuri
decollate snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decollate snails
Senses: glosses: A European predatory snail of species Rumina decollata, used for biological control of other snails and slugs
decollate snails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decollate snail
prefix tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefix trees
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of trie (“data structure”).
synonyms: word: trie
extra: data structure
prefix trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prefix tree
dipath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipaths
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: directed path
dipaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipath
directed paths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of directed path
dicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicycles
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: directed cycle
dicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicycles
Etymology: From di- + cycle.
Senses: glosses: A vehicle with two wheels side by side.
dicycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dicycle
unwatery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwatery
form: most unwatery
Etymology: From Middle English unwatri, unwattri, from Old English unwæteriġ (“unwatery”), equivalent to un- + watery.
Senses: glosses: Not watery.
cinqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinq
hadeeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hadeeths
form: hadeeth
form: ahadeeth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hadith.
hadeeths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hadeeth
workhours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workhour
mormaerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mormaerdoms
Etymology: From mormaer + -dom.
Senses: glosses: A region ruled by a mormaer.
mormaerdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mormaerdom
banana birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana bird
panromanticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From panromantic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of being panromantic, i.e. romantically attracted to people regardless of genders.
examples: text: In anthropology and psychology, certain scientists, such as Alsberg and Ludwig Klages, are spreading vitalistic panromanticism. They pay unbounded homage to man's depraved impulses, and hold up the Dionysian man as the ideal […]
ref: 1944, Andrew J. Krzesinski, Is Modern Culture Doomed?, page 60:
text: Though the magazine is dead, as are some of the movements with which it was associated, its attitude, the protest of panromanticism to which it gave voice, is not.
ref: 1948, Renascence, page 173:
glosses: An attitude that romanticizes indiscriminately.
Related terms: pansexuality
asexuality
desilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desilts
form: desilting
form: desilted
form: desilted
Etymology: From de- + silt.
Senses: glosses: to remove suspended silt from the water.
Derived terms: desilter
desilting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: desilting a dam or a lake
glosses: present participle and gerund of desilt
desilting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desiltings
Senses: glosses: The action of removing silt
lion tamarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lion tamarins
Etymology: Named so because of the mane surrounding their face.
Senses: glosses: Any of four species of small New World monkeys that constitute the genus Leontopithecus.
Derived terms: golden-headed lion tamarin
golden lion tamarin
black lion tamarin
black-faced lion tamarin
Buddhization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buddhisation
Senses: examples: text: The Buddhization of psychology can be followed up in the way that many psychologists and therapists have also become Buddhists. Emphasis is placed on the fact that both psychology and Buddhism attain to the mind […]
ref: 2013, Damien Keown, Charles S. Prebish, Encyclopedia of Buddhism, page 167:
glosses: The act or process of Buddhizing.
arrividerci
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arrivederci.
parabolani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parabolanus
alfonsino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alfonsinos
Senses: glosses: Any of several deep-sea food fishes of the genus Beryx.
Beryx decadactylus
synonyms: alfonsin
longfinned beryx
red bream
imperador
glosses: Any of several deep-sea food fishes of the genus Beryx.
splendid alfonsino (Beryx splendens)
alfonsinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alfonsino
maftir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːfˌtiːɹ/
/məfˈtiːɹ/
Forms: form: maftirim
form: maftirs
Etymology: From Hebrew מַפְטִיר (maftír), also through Yiddish מפֿטיר (mafter).
Senses: glosses: The person who reads the Haftarah.
glosses: The Torah portion read for or by the person who will read the Haftarah, most often the last few lines of the weekly parashah.
Lepel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Lepel.
glosses: A male given name.
Malabari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Malabari.
glosses: A surname.
Arjun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːɹ.d͡ʒʊn/
ipa: /ˈəɾ.d͡ʒʊn/
Etymology: From Hindi अर्जुन (arjun).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Arjun.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Related terms: Arjuna
Arjun wax
Arun
Sing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋ/
Forms: form: Sings
Senses: glosses: A surname from English [in turn originating as an occupation].
glosses: A surname from Chinese.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Sing.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Singh A South Asian surname.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Singh A South Asian surname.
a Sikh surname
Related terms: sing
Singer
Singh
race-fellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: race-fellows
Etymology: From race + fellow.
Senses: glosses: A person who is a member of the same race or ethnic group as a given other person.
graylag goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graylag geese
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of greylag goose.
graylag geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graylag goose
greylag geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greylag goose
re-Polonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + Polonizing.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:re-Polonizing.
glosses: That restore or restores to a Polish or more Polish character (however conceived); that Polonize or Polonizes; Polonizing again.
pan-Polish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + Polish.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:pan-Polish.
glosses: Encompassing, involving, or participated in by the entire Polish nation.
Delbrück
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛlbɹʊk/
Etymology: From the German Delbrück.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Delbrück.
glosses: A surname from German.
daresome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dare + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Pa was coming along with that kind of daresome and hangdog look all at once like when he has been up to something he knows ma aint ^([sic]) going to like...
ref: 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 177:
text: Lila's uncle found out he was hanging around and tried to scare him away, but Spence was daresome and he flirted openly with her, slowing down her work.
ref: 2007, Bobbie Ann Mason, Nancy Culpepper: Stories:
text: “It was daresome for a strange woman to come into that place,” he said. “Somebody tried to get under that dress tail before she got out the door.”
ref: 2014, Marvin Schwartz, We Wanna Boogie:
glosses: Characterised or marked by daring
occipital bun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occipital buns
Senses: glosses: A prominent bulge or projection of the occipital bone at the back of the skull, common in many of humankind's ancestors but relatively rare in modern Homo sapiens.
regressands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regressand
known unknown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: known unknowns
Etymology: Popularized by Donald Rumsfeld in 2002, though used much earlier.
Senses: glosses: An uncertainty of known magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics; something that we know that we don't know.
wikipedia: Donald Rumsfeld
Related terms: known known
unknown unknown
unknown known
known unknowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of known unknown
known known
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: known knowns
Etymology: Popularized by Donald Rumsfeld in 2002, though used much earlier.
Senses: glosses: Certainties of known magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics; something that we know that we know.
wikipedia: Donald Rumsfeld
Related terms: known unknown
unknown unknown
unknown known
known knowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of known known
unknown known
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unknown knowns
Senses: glosses: A certainty of unknown magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics; something that we don't know that we know.
Related terms: known unknown
unknown unknown
known known
unknown knowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unknown known
crowed over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crew over
form: crown over
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:crowed over.
glosses: simple past and past participle of crow over
Democratic Republic of Georgia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The first republic on the territory of Georgia, which existed from May 1918 to February 1921.
crew over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crowed over
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:crew over.
glosses: simple past of crow over
vidlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vidlets
Etymology: From vid + -let.
Senses: glosses: A short video.
REB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian РЭБ (REB), abbreviation of радиоэлектронная борьба (radioelektronnaja borʹba, “radio-electronic combat”).
Senses: examples: text: Even though the relationship between the Information Troops and the existing REB Troops is not completely clear, REB Troops were one of the few elements of the Russian forces whose performance did not suffer intense cricisism
[note] REB Troops are the Voyska radioelektronnoy bor’by, or Voyska REB — the Russian military’s electronic warfare branch.
ref: 2012, “A Slovenian Perspective on Cyber Warfare”, in Daniel Ventre, editor, Cyber Conflict: Competing National Perspectives, London: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: The Russian command created groupings of radio-electronic combat (REB) forces designed to work at the tactical control level. During the First Chechen War, REB forces experienced a narrow frequency range for their equipment and an insufficient level of automation.
ref: 2003, Anne C. Aldis, Roger N. McDermott eds., Russian Military Reform 1992–2002, London: Frank Cass Publishers, →ISBN:
text: The development of a nuclear-powered ship with a standard-displacement of a 75,000–80,000 tons with an aircraft fleet of “No less than 7 LAk [carrier-based aircraft],” which included fighter aircraft, ground attack aircraft, and ASW, RTR [radio-relay support], REB [electronic warfare], and RLD [radar picket] aircraft and various types of helicopters.
ref: 1992, Warship International, volume 29, Rutland, Mass.: International Naval Research Organization, page 210:
glosses: electronic warfare and related techniques, equipment, or troops.
raw_tags: in a Russian context
nonchronometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + chronometric.
Senses: glosses: Not chronometric.
unennobling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unennobling
form: most unennobling
Etymology: From un- + ennobling.
Senses: glosses: That does not ennoble.
Cayley-Dickson construction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Arthur Cayley and Leonard Eugene Dickson.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A construction that produces a sequence of Cayley-Dickson algebras: algebras over the field of real numbers, each with twice the dimension of the previous one.
shitball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitballs
Etymology: From shit + ball.
Senses: glosses: Term of abuse.
shitballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitball
shitballs
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Exclamation of anger or dismay.
soccerist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soccerists
Etymology: From soccer + -ist.
Senses: glosses: soccer player
Synonyms: footballer
soccerists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soccerist
sporogonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the sporogonium.
saranwrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Every morning the soft crinkly sound of saranwrap that she had molded to her body every night, a cure for eczema.
ref: 1991, Lou Robinson, Napoleon's Mare, page 52:
text: Use something flat, a rolling pin or the flat side of a meat mallet and place the chicken between sheets of saranwrap or parchment.
ref: 1999 April 30, Nexis Robinson, “Re: What is the best way to pound chicken?”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), message-ID <7gd2as$h0u$1@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>:
text: I'm about a foot taller than Doris, so I look down on her tiny curls, each one a perfect rosette of blue icing under a saranwrap tent.
ref: 2006, Adriana Trigiani, Rococo, page 292:
text: Under ultraviolet light, the positions of the YAC and the endogenous yeast chromosomes below and above the YAC are marked (black dots) and the gel slices are wrapped in clingfilm/saranwrap.
ref: 2006, Alasdair MacKenzie, YAC Protocols, page 144:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Saran Wrap.
scripturient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪpˈtjʊəɹiənt/
ipa: /skɹɪpˈt(j)ʊɹiənt/
Forms: form: more scripturient
form: most scripturient
Senses: examples: text: There is a remarkable scripturient person, who keeps correspondence with your adversaries here, as appears by what is published, who to gratify his paymasters, might easily do you the unkindnesse, but this is onely my conjecture at a distance.
ref: 1706 [1890], Edward Hayes Plumptre, “Letter LXXI To Dr. Smith”, in The Life of Thomas Ken: Bishop of Bath and Wells:
glosses: Inclined to write a great deal.
pellet stove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pellet stoves
Senses: glosses: A stove that burns compressed wood or biomass pellets.
pellet stoves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pellet stove
military medium
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When TV cricket is dull—and even on the Saturday of the Lord's Test most of the bowling was "military medium" and most of the batting was of the prod and push variety—I take refuge in the verbal gymnastics of the commentators.
ref: 1969, Punch, volume 257:
text: A total of 109 was never going to be enough for Cuba, let down by their baseball-style batting again, and they couldn't cope with the military medium bowling of our imbedded Telegraph journalist Tony Francis, another son of Leicester, who made a remarkable five for nineteen, which made his day too.
ref: 2012, Tom Rodwell, Third Man in Havana:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Straight, medium pace (bowling).
peshmergas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peshmerga
saran wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Saran Wrap.
aunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aunt + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The aunting behavior in a captive group of 22 squirrel monkeys containing three infants was done in terms of the age/sex classification of those animals involved. The time course of the aunting phenomena and the type and intensity of the interactions between the mothers and the aunts were recorded.
ref: 1978, Susan M. Hunt, Katy M. Gamache, Joan S. Lockard, “Babysitting behavior by age/sex classification in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus)”, in Primates, volume 19, page 162:
text: Such kidnapping rarely results in serious injury or death (i.e. 'aunting-to-death') with infant patas monkeys.
ref: 1995, Nakagawa N., “A case of infant kidnapping and allomothering by members of a neighbouring group in patas monkeys”, in Folia Primatol:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The provision of maternal care by another, allomothering.
examples: text: I found that aunting, or the care and nurture of children by aunts and great-aunts, is gendered and invisible work that, at the most basic level, salvages children’s lives.
ref: 2006, Regina Louise Davis-Sowers, “Salvaging Children's Lives: Understanding the Experiences of Black Aunts Who Serve as Kinship Care Providers within Black Families.”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 18 Sep 2015:
text: Many of the strong connections with aunts exist because this role is more negotiable, flexible, and adaptable than parenting, Sotirin says. And aunts don’t necessarily have to be related, either, hence the new verb, aunting, a set of practices that supports personal, familial and community bonds through material, emotional, and symbolic means.
ref: 2010, Laura Ellingson, Patty Sotirin, Aunting: Cultural Practices that Sustain Family and Community Life:
text: Aunting speaks to the ways in which women can influence the children in their lives – and I don’t believe it is limited to biological aunties.
ref: 2015, Lavonne Kroeker, “The Importance of Aunts”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The interactions arising from an aunt or aunt-like relationship
West Jerusalemite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: West Jerusalemites
Etymology: From West Jerusalem + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes Israelis were attacked by Arab infiltrators, and hardly a month went by without a West Jerusalemite either being killed or wounded.
ref: 1981, Terrence Prittie, Whose Jerusalem?, page 72:
glosses: A native or resident of West Jerusalem.
West Jerusalemite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From West Jerusalem + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to West Jerusalem.
West Jerusalemites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of West Jerusalemite
Mesogoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mesogoths
Etymology: See Mesogothic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Moesogoth.
Mesogoths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mesogoth
Moesogoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moesogoths
Etymology: See Moesogothic.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Gothic people who settled in Moesia.
Moesogoths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moesogoth
lollipop ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lollipop lady
school crossing attendants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school crossing attendant
Hoss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: How's it going, Hoss?
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of hoss (Southern US term of address for a man).
water moccasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water moccasins
Senses: glosses: A semiaquatic venomous snake native to the southeastern United States, Agkistrodon piscivorus.
Synonyms: copperhead
water moccasins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water moccasin
diamondback rattlesnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diamondback rattlesnake
brawtus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Alternative form of brotus.
chebangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chebang
Jersian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jersians
Etymology: Blend of Jersey + Friesian
Senses: glosses: The cross of a Jersey bull with a Friesian cow.
Jersians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jersian
protectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protective
logogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more logogenic
form: most logogenic
Etymology: From logo- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: In the earliest biblical and historical contexts prior to the diaspora, cantillation and music were fundamentally logogenic, with distinctions between song and instrumental practices being critical to the origins of musical sound in worship.
ref: 2012, Philip Bohlman, Jewish Music and Modernity:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In which the words dominate any melody
Related terms: logogen
pathogenic
melogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more melogenic
form: most melogenic
Etymology: From melo- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: In this connection, I take note of the earlier theories of Curt Sachs, postulating three kinds of origins for melodic traditions: "logogenic," from language; "pathogenic," from motion; and "melogenic," from music (Sachs 1937, pp. 181-203; 1943, pp. 30-43).
ref: 1991, Joseph Harris, The Ballad and Oral Literature, page 226:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In which the melody dominates any words.
Coordinate terms: pathogenic
xenoanthropology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xeno- + anthropology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of xenology dealing with extraterrestrial cultures.
Synonyms: astroanthropology
exoanthropology
xenozoology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xeno- + zoology.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The branch of xenology dealing with extraterrestrial animals.
Synonyms: astrozoology
exozoology
Anthropozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊɪk
Etymology: From anthropo- + -zoic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The geological era dominated by the presence of man.
xenopaleontology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xeno- + paleontology.
Senses: examples: text: Text excerpts from: An Introduction to Xenopaleontology: The Study of Ancient Extraterrestrial Life. Interplanetary Council Public Document #3664. 18, Mulburn, Peters, et. al., 2 May 2389.
ref: 1981 June, Joel Hagen, “Xenopaleontology”, in Heavy Metal, volume 5, number 3, page 42:
text: J. Q. R. Forster, professor of xenopaleontology and xenoarchaeology at King's College, London, was engrossed in a leather-bound volume from a shelf of 19th-century classics when Blake and the commander entered the library.
ref: 1990, Paul Preuss, The Medusa Encounter, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 122:
text: I would vehemently hope that in some far-future day a real, honest-to-goodness human geology/xenopaleontology crew is sent to Mars and that it sets down in that same area and seriously examines some of these things up close and^([sic]) great detail.
ref: 2004 March 9, Herb Schaltegger, “Re: "Avoiding the 'F word' on Mars -- F*SSIL" -- Oberg”, in alt.alien.visitors (Usenet):
text: When it had left the system, the tool-users were in the middle of a spirited attempt to wipe themselves out, which led the frigate to one hypothesis that the biological material the freighter was carrying had been some sort of xenopalaeontology expedition to preserve the species; […]
ref: 2014, Gavin Deas, Empires: Extraction, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 26:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The study of past extraterrestrial life forms.
troshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trosh
troshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trosh
Afrasians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afrasian