cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mycoremediator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycoremediators
Etymology: From myco- + remediate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Q: What tips would you have for the grassroots mycoremediator?
ref: 2013, Leila Darwish, Earth Repair, page 176:
text: The challenges faced by mycoremediators' are analogous to thse faced by brewers— without suitable conditions, yeast will struggle to remediate the sugar in a barrel of grape juics into alcohol— except that the wine barrel is a contaminated ecosystem and we're inside it.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 206:
glosses: One who is engaged in mycoremediation.
examples: text: Till date fungi belonging to some major genera viz., Acremonium, Agrocybe, Alternaria, Aspergillus, Bjerkandera, Boletus, Candida, Cephalosporium, Cladosporium, Cordyceps, Doratomyces, Fusarium, Ganodrma, Geotrichum, Gliocladium, Hypholoma, Lecanicillium, Lentinus, Morierella, Mucor, Paecilomyces, Penicillium, Phanerochaete, Phlebia, Phoma, Pleurotus, Polyporus, Rhizopus, Thodotolura, Saccharomyces, Streptomyces, Talaromyces, Torulopsis, Trametes, and Trichoderma have been tested and employed for mycoremediation and Phanerochaete chrysosporium has been reported as the most capable model mycoremediator. '
ref: 2021, Gowhar Hamid Dar, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Mohammad Aneesul Mehmood, Freshwater Pollution and Aquatic Ecosystems, page 245:
text: You have to think a little differently to grow mycoremediators compared to raising edible mushrooms for the dinner plate.
ref: 2022, Anna Hess, Weekend Homesteader: Spring:
text: Its main current economic interest is based on its use as a biocontrol agent in agriculture and as a producer of enzymes in different industries (Jangir et al. 2017), although in recent years its relevance in other sectors has been increasing, as a promoter of plant growth and tolerance to abioltic stresses (Poveda et al. 2019a; Poveda 2020), source of genes for use in biotechnology (Poveda et al. 2019b), or mycoremediator.
ref: 2022, N. Amaresan, A. Sankaranarayanan, Mitesh Kumar Dwivedi, Advances in Trichoderma Biology for Agricultural Applications, page 472:
text: Extensive studies desired for exploration of fungi as a potential mycoremediator in order to attain agricultural sustainability are discussed by Purohit et al. in Chap. 4.
ref: 2018, Ram Prasad, Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability: Volume 2, page vi:
glosses: A fungus used for mycoremediation.
mycoremediators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycoremediator
mycoremediate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mycoremediates
form: mycoremediating
form: mycoremediated
form: mycoremediated
Etymology: From myco- + remediate.
Senses: examples: text: When choosing mushroom species to mycoremediate a toxic site, select species that naturally grow in that landscape.
ref: 2011, Paul Stamets, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, page 112:
text: The findings of that work could help mycoremediate the oil sands tailings in the Fort McMurray area of northern Alberta.
ref: 2012, Robert Rogers, The Fungal Pharmacy, page 6:
text: Due to the fungi's ability to deactivate and mycoremediate toxins, the environment is not affected negatively.
ref: 2020, Judith Karen Fenley, Oberon Zell, Death Rights and Rites: A Practical Guide to a Meaningful Death:
glosses: To use fungi to degrade or sequester environmental contaminants.
mycoremediates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mycoremediate
mycoremediating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mycoremediate
mycoremediated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mycoremediate
liberosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪbəɹˈəʊsɪs/
ipa: /ˌlɪbəɹˈoʊsɪs/
Etymology: Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Italian libero (“free”) and the modern English suffix -osis, referencing the libero position in volleyball and its ability to "move at greater liberty than other players."
Senses: examples: text: I was cursed with liberosis, the desire to care less about everything. I am a skid mark on the lingerie of life; the only concern for its presence is to vanish.
ref: 2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 163:
text: “Any excuse to have a libation in this heat and indulge in the liberosis,” Francesca said joyfully.
ref: 2015, Gustaf Vonsheilds, Palm Springs Whispers, page 56:
text: Adults experience liberosis when life's worries make them miss the carefree days of their childhood.
ref: 2023, Jana Louise Smit, How to Kill an Earworm: And 500+ Other Psychology Facts You Need to Know, page 146:
glosses: The longing to feel a blissful childlike state of indifference and to experience life's joys without being burdened by its cares.
wikipedia: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Volleyball#Libero
brideangroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bride + an' + groom.
Senses: glosses: Bride and groom.
fungus comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fungus combs
Etymology: Blend of fungus + honeycomb
Senses: examples: text: This enzyme might be responsible for the degradation of phenolics in the fungus comb.
ref: 2006, Helmut König, Ajit Varma, Intestinal Microorganisms of Termites and Other Invertebrates, page 346:
text: The sexual stage of the fungus, the basidiocarp, arises as a pseudorhiza from a fungus comb and continues as a stipe, terminating in a cap with a prominent umbo or perforatorium.
ref: 2012, Bozzano G Luisa, Insect-Fungus Interactions, page 74:
text: Fungus comb also serves as food source, especially in adverse climatic conditions or when food is scarce.
ref: 2018, Omkar, Pests and Their Management, page 928:
text: The termites chew wood into a slurry which they regugitate in fungal gardens, known as the 'fungus comb', by contrast with bees' honeycomb.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 211:
glosses: A slurry of masticated or partially digested wood that termites create which is subsequently digested by white rot fungus to produce a byproduct that the termites can eat.
fungus combs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fungus comb
beard net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beard nets
Etymology: By analogy with hairnet.
Senses: examples: text: He wears a beard net, which I always have problem with.
ref: 2011, Ellah Etemadi, The Linguist, page The Linguist:
text: Got to put a hair net and a beard net on before you set foot in the clean zone, bro.
ref: 2015, Casey Gray, Discount: A Novel:
text: There was a strict dress code: no shoes, a lab coat and a hairnet—beard nets were also provided.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 223:
glosses: A net designed to keep beard hair out of the way.
beard nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beard net
kenopsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɒp.si.ə/
ipa: /kɪ-/
ipa: /kəˈnɑp.si.ə/
ipa: /kɪ-/
rhymes: -ɒpsiə
Etymology: Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Ancient Greek κενός (kenós, “empty”) and the modern English suffix -opsia, itself from the Ancient Greek -οψία (-opsía, “sight”).
Senses: examples: text: Many of the places we visited have the distinct feel of kenopsia, which is that eeriness of places left behind or once teeming with people but now quiet, save for the wind blowing through open windows.
ref: 2019, Ellen Klinkel, Nick Gerlich, A Matter of Time: Route 66 through the Lens of Change, page 5:
text: WHO calls it a global pandemic,
Earth's population lost in kenopsia.
ref: 2022, Uboho Bassey, “Coronavirus”, in Times and Seasons: A Collection of Poems, unnumbered page:
text: The other difference I noticed from '42 was the sharp drop in oyster farmhands, from hundreds to only three today. Looking around, I felt a touch of kenopsia; the canal seemed much emptier.
ref: 2022, David Moscow, John Moscow, From Scratch: Adventures in Harvesting, Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging on a Fragile Planet, unnumbered page:
glosses: The haunting quality of seeing a location typically full of people in a state of emptiness or abandonment.
wikipedia: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Related terms: liminal space
mycomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mycomorphic
form: most mycomorphic
Etymology: From myco- + -morphic.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: fungiform, mushroom-shaped
text: Why is Orchidaceae so large, its seeds so small , and its seedlings mycomorphic?
ref: 2007, Lankesteriana, page 356:
text: One cable railway station at Innsbruck is sleek and reptilean; a second is mycomorphic;
ref: 2012, Jonathan Meades, Museum Without Walls:
text: Or is it mycomorphic to describe human male sexual arousal in the same language used to describe a mushroom's growth?
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 237:
hypernyms: fungoid#Adjective
mushroomoid#Adjective
mushroomlike#Adjective
coordinate_terms: fungal#Adjective
fungous#Adjective
mycotic#Adjective
fungous#Adjective
fungusy#Adjective
mushroomy#Adjective
;
nonfungal#Adjective
nonmycotic#Adjective
glosses: Having the form or perspective of a mushroom or fungus.
vegetalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vegetalises
form: vegetalising
form: vegetalised
form: vegetalised
Senses: examples: text: Wireless imagination and the use of free words will lead us to the essence of Matter ... we may animalise, vegetalise, mineralise, electrify, and liquefy style, making it, to a certain extent, live the same life as that of matter.
ref: 1917, Sir Henry John Newbolt, A New Study of English Poetry, page 249:
text: Picking up on a range of associated work, such as Anna Tsing's ideas of 'collaborative survival' (2015), Marisol de la Cadena's view of cultivating relations with the 'antrhopos-not-seen' (2015), and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa's speculative ethics of care (2017), she argues that we need to learn from and listen to nonhuman modes of living, 'find ways to vegetalise our all-too-human sensorium, and learn how to involve ourselves with plants' (Myers, 2017a: 300, italics in original).
ref: 2019, David Chandler, Julian Reid, Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene, page 69:
text: If you say that a plant 'learns' 'decides', 'communicates' or 'remembers', are you humanising the plant, or vegetalising a set of human concepts?
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 238:
text: Vialles observes the apparent euphemistic intent behind the appropriateion of the term from the industries of forestry, mining, and veterinary medicine, pointing out that this appropriation served to "vegetalise" a carnivorously motivated act.
ref: 2023, Sarah O'Brien, Bits and Pieces: Screening Animal Life and Death, page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of vegetalize.
monachopsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒnəˈkɒpsɪs/
ipa: /ˌmɑnəˈkɑpsɪs/
rhymes: -ɒpsɪs
Etymology: Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view, sight”).
Senses: examples: text: My cliche teenage romance that every girl secretly craves deep down. […] He resolved my monachopsis with a warm vibe that I craved to be near.
ref: 2019, Jonna Wahl, Bloody Bloom, unnumbered page:
text: Not being able to settle down and living on the edge send these women into monachopsis where the persistent feeling of being unbelonged and out-of-place looms over them constantly.
ref: 2020, Sharon Ee Ling Quah, Transnational Divorce: Understanding Intimacies and Inequalities from Singapore, unnumbered page
text: This frightful and empty sensation of feeling maladapted to your surroundings is known as monachopsis. For most people, including me on day one at my new schools, monachopsis is temporary and diminishes when the unfamiliar becomes familiar and new routines and unknown faces become norms.
ref: 2022, William Nippard, I Hate My Job: The Cure For The 9- 5 Syndrome, page 283:
glosses: The persistent sense that one is out of place or otherwise does not belong.
wikipedia: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
vegetalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vegetalise
vegetalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vegetalise
vegetalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vegetalise
oojah capivvy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌuːdʒɑː kəˈpɪvi/
ipa: /ˌudʒə kəˈpɪvi/
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from Urdu ḥujjat kāfī fīhi (“argument is sufficient”); compare oojah. Sornig (see quotations below) suggests derivation from Neapolitan agio capit (“I've understood”), but seems to be alone in this suggestion. Attested from the 1910s, often described as soldiers’ or sailors’ slang.
Senses: examples: text: Birkinshaw: I suppose you ’aven’t time to help me with the post, have you? I’d like to get off to time to-night.
Pat: All right.
Birkinshaw: There’s a whole lot in the Oojah Capivvy now. If you’d just take ’em and fold ’em and stick ’em in the envelopes, and bung ’em across to me, I’ll enter ’em up.
ref: 1931, John Van Druten, London Wall, a Comedy in Three Acts:
text: If that’s what you want to work for, right, let’s start, get the bibles out.
―Ooja ka pivi! commented Barnes, and added as an afterthought: Spas!
ref: 1975, Zulfikar Ghose, Crump’s Terms: A Novel, page 31:
text: One might observe what usually happens to people who by chance listen to radio news in a foreign language: folk-etymological re-interpretation sets in immediately after apperception of the unfamiliar sound chain. The Sunday Times (11.2.62) had the example UJAHKAPIV (from Napolitanian AGIO CAPIT = HO CAPITO ="I've understood" which with British soldiers came to denote "anything of which the name was unknown").
ref: [1981, Karl Sornig, Lexical Innovation: A Study of Slang, Colloquialisms, and Casual Speech, page 89:
text: It's a bit like a ujakapivi, only they copy that idea from the wigwam for a goose's bridle.lol
ref: 2011 August 26, THE FERRET, “Another death by towball”, in Patrol 4x4:
synonyms: oojah
glosses: Something that one cannot name or does not know the name of; a whatsit.
Related terms: oojah-cum-spiff
wigwam for a goose's bridle
vegetalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vegetalizes
form: vegetalizing
form: vegetalized
form: vegetalized
form: vegetalise
Etymology: From vegetal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: This ancient method, which uses natural fermentation to increase bonito's nutritional values and “vegetalize" its composition, is still used today.
ref: 1993, John Belleme, Jan Belleme, Cooking with Japanese Foods, page 54:
text: Assuming that RNP is present in the mesoderm of the early dorsal lip, it is suggested that this tends to vegetalize the more animal cells that lack RNP, and is itself animalized by these cells, i.e., RNPs will be passed to the cells above, and RNP breakage for translation will be increased in the invaginated cells.
ref: 2013, M. Abercrombie, Jean Brachet, Thomas J. King, Advances in Morphogenesis: Volume 10, page 60:
text: Rather, it is an opportunity to vegetalize your already more than human body.
ref: 2019, Natania Meeker, Antónia Szabari, Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction, page 178:
glosses: To make more vegetal; to make or treat as more like a plant.
vegetalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vegetalize
vegetalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vegetalize
vegetalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vegetalize
phytomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + -morphism.
Senses: examples: text: As for more properly linear components of the composition, we can speak of phytomorphism (or floralism).
ref: 2012, Renato Barilli, The Science of Culture and the Phenomenology of Styles, page 121:
text: Among the notable features of this decoration is the treatment of surfaces in flat relief, close to the sculptural form that Gauguin particularly favoured (illus. 33, 96), and 'phytomorphism', meaning the representation of figures and graphic signs in plant form, one aspect of a tendency towards metamorphosis and the permeability of the biological realms.
ref: 2014, Dario Gamboni, Paul Gauguin: The Mysterious Centre of Thought, page 23:
text: Natasha Myers, the anthropologist who introduced the word 'involution' to describe the tendency for organisms to associate with one another, points out that Charles Darwin seemed quite ready to vegetalise himself, to practice 'phytomorphism.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 238:
glosses: To use a plant-centric perspective.
checkbook diplomacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checkbook diplomacies
form: chequebook diplomacy
Senses: examples: text: Japan's initial contribution to Kabul resembled “checkbook diplomacy plus” with a pledge of ODA plus the dispatch of the Maritime SDF to the Indian Ocean. These steps appeared sufficient.
ref: 2014, Dennis T. Yasutomo, Japan's Civil-Military Diplomacy: The Banks of the Rubicon, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A foreign policy which openly uses foreign aid and investment between countries to curry diplomatic favor.
chequebook diplomacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chequebook diplomacies
Senses: examples: text: For decades, German governments pursued what came to be known as “chequebook diplomacy” – the belief that our cash rather than our soldiers should help resolve conflicts.
ref: [2023 July 6, Annalena Baerbock, “Russia’s war on Ukraine has forced us in Germany to think differently about our role in the world”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of checkbook diplomacy.
limme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limmes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of limb.
limmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limme
chequebook diplomacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chequebook diplomacy
old man yells at cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: old men yell at cloud
form: old man yelling at a cloud
form: old man yelling at cloud
form: old man yelling at clouds
form: old man yelling at the clouds
form: old-man-yells-at-cloud
form: old man yells at clouds
form: yell at cloud
Etymology: From a scene in the 2002 episode "The Old Man and the Key" of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, in which Grampa Simpson, applying for a driver's license, produces a newspaper clipping with this headline for identification.
Senses: examples: text: I'm incessantly railing, in the old-man-yells-at-cloud tradition, against Big Beautiful Burgers stuffed into wispy buns that leave nothing to the imagination.
ref: 2018 February, Liz Cook, “Check-in Time”, in The Pitch, page 26:
text: If you will allow me an “old man yells at cloud” moment...back in my day, the only tools we had to make documentation were plain ol' spreadsheets, slides, and Word documents.
ref: 2020, Matt LeMay, Product Management in Practice, page 148:
text: Everyone has their own Old-Man-Yells-at-Cloud gripe that they just can't let go. Some people can't get over the fact that some people do (or do not) keep their ketchup in the fridge; other people can't stop themselves ragging on pineapple-topped pizza.
ref: 2022, Ruby Tandoh, Cook As You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks, and Messy Kitchens: A Cookbook, page 131:
glosses: Refers to a person who expresses a trivial, out-of-touch, or idiosyncratic grievance; especially, with an implication of aged crotchetiness.
wikipedia: Grampa Simpson
The Old Man and the Key
The Simpsons
politike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more politike
form: most politike
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of politic.
shitholer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitholers
Senses: glosses: someone from a shithole country
ammuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ammuses
form: ammusing
form: ammused
form: ammused
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of amuse.
holy Hannah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: expression of surprise
fondnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fondneses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fondness.
Avranches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Manche department, Normandy, France.
Christ on a bicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Christ on a bike.
Gysin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Saint-Valery-en-Caux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
usuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more usuall
form: most usuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of usual.
wailefull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wailefull
form: most wailefull
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of wailful.
Trakhtenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trakhtenbergs
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Трахтенберг (Traxtenberg), ultimately from German Trachtenberg. A variant of Trachtenberg.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
couragious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more couragious
form: most couragious
Senses: examples: text: They haue many wiues, thoſe wittie, warie in trading, bold and couragious: one of them rudelier handled by a Hollander, with a Iauelin had diſpatched him, if her force had not beene intercepted.
ref: 1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “The Voyage of Oliver Noort round about the Globe, beeing the fourth Circum-Nauigation of the same, extracted out of the Latine Diarie”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 1st part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 77, lines 33–35:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of courageous.
cheerefull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheerefull
form: most cheerefull
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cheerful.
self-righter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-righters
Etymology: From self-right + -er.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel that can self-right.
Gasa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Bhutan.
self-righters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-righter
clanns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clann
fondneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fondnes
shitholers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitholer
babracot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babracots
Senses: examples: text: Before they leave a temporary camp in the forest, where they have killed a tapir and dried the meat on a babracot, the Indians of Guiana invariably destroy this babracot.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 236:
glosses: A grate used by some native South Americans to roast meat.
babracot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: babracots
form: babracoting
form: babracoted
form: babracoted
Senses: examples: text: Should a tapir passing that way find traces of the slaughter of one of his kind, he would come by night on the next occasion when Indians slept at that place, and, taking a man, would babracot him in revenge.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 236:
glosses: To roast on the babracot.
scare chord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scare chords
Senses: qualifier: musical scoring
glosses: A strong dissonant chord, usually on a string instrument, intended to emphasize a startling moment.
oares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oare
babracots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babracot
babracots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of babracot
babracoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of babracot
babracoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of babracot
scare chords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scare chord
jūdōgi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jūdōgi
Senses: examples: text: (b) Dōjō syllabus (important technical terms in italics) 1. dōjō etiquette; jūdōgi and how to wear it; ukemi (rear and side); ippon-seoinage; kesagatame
ref: 2002, David Waterhouse, “Buddhism and the Teaching of Jūdō”, in Victor Sōgen Hori, Richard P. Hayes, James Mark Shields, editors, Teaching Buddhism in the West: From the Wheel to the Web (Curzon Critical Studies in Buddhism), London; New York, N.Y.: RoutledgeCurzon, →ISBN, “Buddha Body, Buddha Mind” section, page 134:
text: These first white karategi were based on the Japanese jūdōgi（柔道着).
ref: 2009, Filip Swennen, “Karategi: from casual wear to a uniform”, in The Evolution of Karate: From Secret Martial Art to Worldwide Cultural Sport (thesis), Katsuura, Chiba: International Budo University, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2017, chapter 6 (Clothing, belts and ranks), section 1 (Karate uniform, black and colored belts), page 58:
text: As mentioned above, Basile was the one with the greatest difference between people recognising him by the image and the ones who did once the name was revealed. Investigating the reasons we found that many respondents actually knew him by the TV shows in which he participated (most of the respondents could quote VIP Big Brother) and rarely saw him wearing a jūdōgi.
ref: 2019, Gianluca Antonucci, Armando Della Porta, Michelina Venditti, “The Value of the Elite Athlete as Influencer in the Era of Social Media”, in Massimo Sargiacomo, editor, Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Intangibles and Intellectual Capital, […], Reading, Berkshire: Academic Conferences and Publishing International, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of judogi.
trip over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trips over
form: tripping over
form: tripped over
form: tripped over
Senses: glosses: To trip or stumble and almost fall, as a result of bumping into someone or something with one's feet.
dunderwhelp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunderwhelps
Etymology: From dunder + whelp.
Senses: glosses: A fool.
dunderwhelps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunderwhelp
RET
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RETs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of road equivalent tariff.
glosses: Initialism of rational emotive therapy.
RETs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RET
Pyrenean desman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pyrenean desmans
Senses: synonyms: Iberian desman
glosses: Galemys pyrenaicus, a small semiaquatic mammal related to moles and shrews.
Iberian desman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iberian desmans
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Pyrenean desman.
synonyms: word: Pyrenean desman
Pyrenean desmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pyrenean desman
Iberian desmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Iberian desman
battle of the bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battles of the bands
form: battles of bands
Senses: glosses: A competition between a number of bands playing live music.
battles of bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battle of the bands
battles of the bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battle of the bands
badditude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baditude.
bad trot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Bad luck.
bitumen of Judea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Syrian asphalt
glosses: A naturally occurring asphalt used since ancient times as a wood colorant, and in early photography.
Syrian asphalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bitumen of Judea.
synonyms: word: bitumen of Judea
razzle-dazzler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: razzle-dazzlers
Etymology: From razzle-dazzle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something glitzy or showy.
razzle-dazzlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of razzle-dazzler
northern slimy salamander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern slimy salamanders
Senses: glosses: Plethodon glutinosus, a terrestrial salamander of the eastern United States.
northern slimy salamanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northern slimy salamander
slug caterpillar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slug caterpillars
Senses: glosses: The caterpillar of the slug moth.
slug caterpillars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slug caterpillar
boreal bluet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boreal bluets
Senses: glosses: The damselfly Enallagma boreale.
boreal bluets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boreal bluet
smaller European elm bark beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smaller European elm bark beetles
Senses: glosses: The beetle Scolytus multistriatus.
smaller European elm bark beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smaller European elm bark beetle
small goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smallgoods.
snareless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From snare + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a snare.
snipe eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snipe eels
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Nemichthyidae of eels.
snipe eels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snipe eel
sno-cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sno-cones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snow cone.
sno-cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sno-cone
snotziekte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Afrikaans snotziekte (literally “snot sickness”).
Senses: glosses: A disease of cattle causing significant mucous discharge from the nostrils.
snout butterfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snout butterflies
Senses: glosses: Any butterfly of the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae.
snout butterflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snout butterfly
snowball cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowball cactuses
form: snowball cacti
Senses: glosses: Any of species Mammilloydia candida of cactuses.
snowball cacti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowball cactus
snow-in-summer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of very many unrelated plants having showy clusters of white flowers that bloom around summertime.
slave boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slave boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slaveboy.
slave boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slave boy
igluit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iglu
snow saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow saws
Senses: glosses: Synonym of snow knife.
synonyms: word: snow knife
snow saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow saw
snow knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow knives
Senses: synonyms: snow saw
glosses: A knife-like tool used by the Inuit for constructing igloos, or as a weapon.
snow knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow knife
soapstoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soapstoners
Etymology: From soapstone + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who scrubs with soapstone.
soapstoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soapstoner
sociable weaverbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sociable weaverbirds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sociable weaver.
synonyms: word: sociable weaver
sociable weaverbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sociable weaverbird
cuckoo bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckoo bees
Senses: glosses: Any bee having the kleptoparasitic behaviour of laying eggs in the nests of other bees.
cuckoo bees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuckoo bee
social weaverbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social weaverbirds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sociable weaver.
synonyms: word: sociable weaver
social weaverbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social weaverbird
sociocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sociocrats
Senses: glosses: A supporter of sociocracy.
sociocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sociocratic
form: most sociocratic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to sociocracy.
sociocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sociocrat
wheaten terrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheaten terriers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier.
synonyms: word: Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier
wheaten terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheaten terrier
Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Soft-coated Wheaten Terriers
Senses: synonyms: wheaten
wheaten terrier
glosses: A kind of pure-breed terrier originating from Ireland.
Soft-coated Wheaten Terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier
no, yeah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: no yeah
Senses: glosses: Used sarcastically to answer "yes" to a question where the positive answer should have been obvious.
soft goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of softgoods.
hard goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hardgoods.
soldierize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soldierizes
form: soldierizing
form: soldierized
form: soldierized
Etymology: From soldier + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Plebes spend their first summer at Cadet Basic Training — Beast Barracks — where they get soldierized.
ref: 2014, David Lipsky, Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, page 8:
glosses: To make into a soldier.
soldierized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soldierize
soldierizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soldierize
soldierizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soldierize
kippered beef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cured dried beef product resembling jerky.
malt house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malt houses
Senses: examples: text: Population 5,430 (more like 40,000 today), Andover is "a bustling agricultural town" with "many malt houses, and a factory for silk shag".
ref: 2023 June 28, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Alton to Exeter”, in RAIL, number 986, page 59:
glosses: Alternative form of malthouse.
malt houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malt house.
solemnitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: solemnity
solemn vow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solemn vows
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A deliberate and free promise made to God about a possible and better good, taken by an individual during or after novitiate in a Catholic religious institute.
solemn vows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solemn vow
soliciter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɪsɪtɚ/
ipa: /səˈlɪsɪtə/
Forms: form: soliciters
Etymology: From solicit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But you have had the honour of an Archbishop that has been rather courted by Preferments than a Soliciter of them, which ought therefore to give a due Value and Esteem to his Memory and Reputation.
ref: 1694, Anthony Dopping, A Sermon, page 17:
glosses: One who solicits something.
Related terms: solicitor
soliciters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soliciter
solicitudinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solicitudinous
form: most solicitudinous
Etymology: From solicitude + -in- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Expressing solicitude.
somehow or other
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: somehow or another
form: somehow or the other
Senses: examples: text: Somehow or other they managed to get that grand piano upstairs.
glosses: One way or another; by some (mysterious) means.
GABA-ergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of GABAergic.
sub-groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub-group
sow bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sow bugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sowbug.
sow bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sow bug
spear-thrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spear-throwers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spearthrower.
speckledy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: speckeldy
Senses: examples: text: a speckledy hen
glosses: Having speckles.
speckeldy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of speckledy.
speclst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speclsts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of specialist.
speclsts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speclst
Space Ages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Space Age
spear-throwers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spear-thrower
spectatoritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spectator + -itis.
Senses: glosses: A preference to observe an activity as a spectator rather than to take part oneself.
spectral owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectral owls
Senses: glosses: Synonym of great grey owl.
synonyms: word: great grey owl
spectral owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectral owl
ice wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice wagons
Senses: examples: text: A proposed $14 million redesign of the city's main artery will bring new traffic lights, crossing signals, and bike lanes to a thoroughfare that can still seem frozen in the days of ice wagons and daily milk deliveries.
ref: 2015 March 7, James Sullivan, “Traces of Sinatra fade in Hoboken”, in The Boston Globe, Boston, M.A.: Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2022:
glosses: A wagon used for carrying ice.
examples: text: He can't hit a thing or he can't get it over the base, or he's an ice wagon on the bases, they say.
ref: 1914, William T. Ellis, "Billy" Sunday: The Man and His Message, Philadelphia, P.A.: Universal Book and Bible House, page 274:
text: A veteran first-baseman-catcher, Duke Jantzen, who had played briefly with the Texas Midland in 1896, was engaged as player-manager. Tall and ungainly, Jantzen could wallop a baseball over the outfielders, but he was an "ice wagon"—too slow to get past third.
ref: 1987, Bill O'Neal, The Texas League, 1888–1987: A Century of Baseball, Austin, T.X.: Eakin Press, →ISBN, page 290:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A very slow player.
ice wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice wagon
spermatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spermatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a spermatic manner.
spheriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spheriform
form: most spheriform
Senses: glosses: spherical in shape
spin a tale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spins a tale
form: spinning a tale
form: spun a tale
form: spun a tale
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spin a yarn.
synonyms: word: spin a yarn
spinily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spinily
form: most spinily
Etymology: From spiny + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a spiny manner.
aphelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the aphelion.
spins a tale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spin a tale
spinning a tale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spin a tale
spun a tale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spin a tale
stallproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stallproof
form: most stallproof
Etymology: From stall + -proof.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Resistant to going into a stall.
spinproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinproof
form: most spinproof
Etymology: From spin + -proof.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Resistant to going into a spin.
spirantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a spirant or fricative.
spirantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a spirant or fricative.
spirit off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spirits off
form: spiriting off
form: spirited off
form: spirited off
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spirit away.
synonyms: word: spirit away
spite fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spite fences
Senses: glosses: A fence constructed or substantially modified to irritate neighbors or any other party with a stake in the surrounding land.
Related terms: spite house
spite wall
spite wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spite walls
Senses: glosses: A wall constructed or substantially modified to irritate neighbors or any other party with a stake in the surrounding land.
Related terms: spite fence
spite house
spite fences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spite fence
spite walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spite wall
spit and vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of piss and vinegar.
synonyms: word: piss and vinegar
spirits off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spirit off
spiriting off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spirit off
spirited off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spirit off
splachnoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A remarkable genus of splachnoid mosses, with acute leaves, a mitriform veil, a capsule with a long neck, and sixteen or thirty-two entire or bifid teeth, disposed in pairs […]
ref: 1874, John Lindley, Thomas Moore, The Treasury of Botany: L-Z, with supplement, page 1127:
glosses: Of or relating to the moss genus Splachnum.
splash party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splash parties
Senses: glosses: A recreational social event involving swimming or other watersport.
splash parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splash party
van Eyckian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more van Eyckian
form: most van Eyckian
Etymology: From van Eyck + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Potrony has installed several large, Van Eyckian elements in Baltic's main gallery: a long, rectangular bench-like form, low semicircular forms creating an enclosure, as well as stepping stones and climbing bars.
ref: 2021 September 27, Steve Rose, “'They wanted to end masculinity': the artist inspired by anti-sexist men's groups”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2023:
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of Dutch painter Jan van Eyck (c. 1390–1441).
vanishing grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanishing grades
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of zero-grade.
synonyms: word: zero-grade
vanishing grades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanishing grade
splinterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splinterizes
form: splinterizing
form: splinterized
form: splinterized
Etymology: From splinter + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To splinter; to break into smaller fragments or subgroups.
splinterizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of splinterize
splinterizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of splinterize
splinterized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of splinterize
splinterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splinterizations
Senses: glosses: The process or result of splinterizing.
splinterizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splinterization
spoilt someone rotten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spoil someone rotten
spoils someone rotten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spoil someone rotten
spoiling someone rotten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spoil someone rotten
spoiled someone rotten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spoil someone rotten
spondylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a spondyle or vertebra.
spongy moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongy moths
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar)
synonyms: word: gypsy moth
extra: Lymantria dispar
spongy moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spongy moth
sports coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sports coats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sportscoat.
sports coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sports coat
sportsdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sports + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: To that end, the year 1955 promises to be a crucial one for this nation's sportsdom.
ref: 1955, New Japan, volumes 8-9, page 265:
glosses: The world or sphere of sport.
Jamesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jamesian
Jamesean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jamesean
form: most Jamesean
Etymology: From James + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jamesian.
Jamesean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jameseans
Etymology: From James + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jamesian.
Jameseans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jamesean
spotfin croaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotfin croakers
Senses: glosses: A marine ray-finned fish of species Roncador stearnsii (family Sciaenidae).
spotfin croakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotfin croaker
winterbloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From winter + bloom.
Senses: glosses: Witch hazel.