cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mylodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mylodons
Etymology: From the genus name, from Ancient Greek μύλη (múlē, “mill”) + translingual -odon.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the extinct genus †Mylodon of giant ground sloths of Patagonia.
mylodons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mylodon
cormi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cormus
cormus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː(ɹ)məs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)məs
Forms: form: cormi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk of a tree with the boughs cut off”), from κείρω (keírō, “shear”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A corm.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk where the buds remain attached.
gillian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪ.li.ən/
Forms: form: gillians
Etymology: From the female name.
Senses: examples: text: Do you snarl, you black Gill?
ref: c. 1616–1619, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, The Knight of Malta, act 5, scene 2:
glosses: A girl, especially a wanton.
glosses: A prostitute.
Synonyms: sense: girl
word: girl
sense: wanton
word: promiscuous woman
sense: prostitute
word: prostitute
Derived terms: flirt-gill
flurt-gillian
gill
gill-flirt
gillian-flurte
gillot
jill
jillot
gillians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gillian
molar volume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molar volumes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The volume occupied by one mole of a substance (especially of a gas)
edental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1840, as both an adjective and noun.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Synonym of edentate.
synonyms: word: edentate
edental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: edentals
Etymology: Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1840, as both an adjective and noun.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Synonym of edentate.
synonyms: word: edentate
edentals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edental
dorture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dortures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dortour.
dortures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorture
Aleutian disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A highly contagious parvoviral disease of mustelids, causing spontaneous abortion and death in minks and ferrets.
engine block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engine blocks
Senses: glosses: The metal casting that contains the piston cylinders of an engine.
Synonyms: cylinder block
Mount Fuji sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: X-ray presentation of air compressing the frontal lobes of the brain, resulting in a tented appearance, indicative of pneumocephalus.
dagges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See dag (“a loose end”).
Senses: examples: text: On his shoulders is seen the hood, the bottom edge being ornamented with dagges of the engrailed pattern
ref: 1999, Herbert Norris, Medieval Costume and Fashion:
glosses: An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments.
piend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piends
Etymology: Compare Danish pind (“a peg”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peen (“end of a hammer”).
examples: text: …the hip-rafters being termed piend rafters.
ref: 1868, Villa and Cottage Architecture: Select Examples of Country and Suburban Residence Recently Erected. With a Full Descriptive Notice of Each Bulding …, Blackie & Son, page xii:
text: Figs. 119 to 135 illustrate various types of couples, ordinary, end, hip, and piend, used in the roof…
ref: 1900 February 23, “The Waverly Station at Edinburgh of the North British Railway.”, in Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal, volumes LXIX — FROM JANUARY TO JUNE 1900, page 248:
text: Small but smart two-storey piend-roofed mansion-house built for the Robertsons of Auchleeks c. 1820.
ref: 2007, John Gifford, Perth and Kinross (The Buildings of Scotland; 10), Yale University Press, page 164:
topics: architecture
glosses: The angle or edge formed where two surfaces meet. More specifically, the sloped edges of a pavilion or hip roof.
Derived terms: piended
piends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piend
fishkill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishkills
Etymology: From fish + kill.
Senses: examples: text: Fishkills, with some exceptions, result from low dissolved oxygen conditions accompanying the decomposition of organic materials[…]
ref: 1978, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 650/3, volume 3, page 11:
glosses: An environmental event in which fish are killed.
fishkills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishkill
apodeictical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apodeictical
form: most apodeictical
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: apodeictic
JTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Java Transaction API.
examples: text: The editors overwhelmingly support that label but continue to debate the decision, which could ultimately deal a blow to the credibility of the leading source of research and information on antisemitism. JTA was first to report the vote.
ref: 2024 June 19, David Goldman, “Wikipedia now labels the top Jewish civil rights group as an unreliable source”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
saurel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saurels
Etymology: From French French saurel (“jack mackerel”), from Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “horse mackerel”). Compare Spanish jurel.
Senses: examples: text: In general, while the consumption of fresh fish is tending to increase, 60 per cent of consumption consists of sardines, saurel, anchovy and mackerel, that is, very inexpensive fish.
ref: 1985, Barbara C. Cleveland, Adjustments to Changes in Fisheries Law and Economics, number 269, page 76:
glosses: Any carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially Trachurus trachurus, of Europe and America, and Trachurus picturatus of California; the skipjack, scad or horse mackerel.
wikipedia: Dictionary.com
saurels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saurel
larums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larum
lamproom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamprooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lamp room.
lamprooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamproom
apocrisiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apocrisiaries
Senses: glosses: An apocrisiarius.
apocrisiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apocrisiary
quoiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quoiters
Etymology: From quoit + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who plays the game of quoits.
quoiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quoit
quoited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quoit
quoiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quoiter
jenny wrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jenny wren
hypercritics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypercritic
hypercriticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypercritick
carpentries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpentry
seepy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːpi
Forms: form: seepier
form: seepiest
Etymology: From seep + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In a way this reminds me a bit of the exactness of Bishop's watercolors—using the seepiest of mediums to make a kind of preternatural accuracy.
ref: 2020, Bethany Hicok, Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive, page 121:
glosses: That seeps.
glosses: boggy; marshy; with poor drainage.
raw_tags: of land
puniceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puniceous
form: most puniceous
Etymology: From Latin pūniceus, from pūnicus (“Punic”).
Senses: glosses: Bright red or purple in colour.
bobsleighing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bobsleigh
bobsleighed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bobsleigh
corosso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corossos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of corozo.
corossos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corosso
saftie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safties
Senses: examples: text: It was not likely, thought Graham, that the poor wee crooked saftie would be able to take advantage of those circumstances.
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 82:
glosses: Alternative form of softy.
safties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saftie
Scottian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Scottian
form: most Scottian
Etymology: From Scott + -ian.
Senses: examples: a Scottian tale of chivalry
glosses: Of or relating to Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet.
gallousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gallous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Then she sang, with an exaggeration of her native gallousness, several sentimental ballads of the day.
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 83:
glosses: Impishness; mischief.
flyted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flyte
dracunculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dracunculus
smugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smug
smudgings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smudging
serpula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serpulas
form: serpulae
Etymology: From Latin serpula. See serpent.
Senses: synonyms: calcareous tubeworm
serpulid tubeworm
fanworm
plume worm
glosses: Any of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae that secrete a calcareous tube, usually irregularly contorted, but sometimes spirally coiled, with a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.
Derived terms: serpulite
serpulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serpula
serpulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serpula
congree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kɒŋˈɡɹiː/
/kəŋˈɡɹiː/
Forms: form: congrees
form: congreeing
form: congreed
form: congreed
Etymology: From con- + Latin gratus (“pleasing”). Compare agree.
Senses: examples: text: For government though high and low and lower,
Put into parts, doth keep in one consent,
Congreeing in a full and natural close,
Like music.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: To agree.
oboe d'amore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊbəʊ daˈmɔːɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˌoʊboʊ dɑˈmɔɹeɪ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹeɪ
Forms: form: oboe d'amores
form: oboes d'amore
form: oboi d'amore
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian oboe d'amore (literally “oboe of love”).
Senses: synonyms: word: hautbois d'amour
alt: less common, French borrowing
hypernyms: oboe
glosses: An instrument of the oboe family, pitched in A below middle C.
Coordinate terms: viola d'amore
tophin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: toph
bass clarinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bass clarinets
Senses: glosses: A bass instrument in the clarinet family.
pulvillio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulvillios
form: pulvil
form: pulvilio
form: pulville
Etymology: From Spanish polvillo, diminutive of polvo (“dust, powder”). Compare later pulvil.
Senses: examples: text: Smells of incense, ambergris, and pulvillios.
ref: 1711 May 23 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, May 12, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 63; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: [H]is own skull, at the same instant, descended upon the side of his couch with such violence, that his periwig was struck off, and the whole room filled with pulvilio.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A kind of perfumed cosmetic powder, applied to the skin, hair or wig.
pulvillios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulvillio
laskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lasket
preshaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preshave
moldery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moldery
form: most moldery
form: mouldery
Etymology: From molder + -y.
Senses: glosses: Covered or filled with mold.
glosses: Consisting of, or resembling, mold.
plastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plastical
form: most plastical
Senses: glosses: plastic (malleable)
thoughtograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoughtographs
Etymology: Blend of thought + photograph
Senses: glosses: A photograph produced by thoughtography.
thoughtographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoughtograph
drogoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drogomans
form: drogomen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dragoman.
drogman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drogmans
form: drogmen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dragoman.
drogomans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drogoman
drogmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drogman
testern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testerns
Senses: glosses: A sixpence.
glosses: A tester (old French silver coin).
Coordinate terms: testoon
hellier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helliers
form: heler
Etymology: hele (“to conceal, hide”) + -ier
Senses: examples: text: he that covereth the house with tile or slate, is from thence commonly called a hellier
ref: a. 1655, James Ussher, An Answer to a Challenge made by a Jesuit in Ireland:
glosses: One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher.
helliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hellier
cockhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cockhorse
form: most cockhorse
Senses: glosses: Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
examples: text: [Y]et I needs muſt ſee / Our painted fooles and cockehorſe peſſantry, / Still ſtill vſurpe, with long liues, loues and luſt, / The feats of vertue; […]
ref: 1598, George Chapman, “Sixth Sestyad”, in Christopher Marlo[w]e, George Chapman, Hero and Leander: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Richard Hawkins: […], published 1629, →OCLC:
glosses: Lofty in feeling; exultant, proud, upstart.
cockhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockhorses
Senses: examples: text: Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross.
ref: a. 1744, unknown author, Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross (traditional nursery rhymes)
glosses: A child's rocking horse.
glosses: A high or tall horse.
shilfa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shilfas
Etymology: From its call.
Senses: examples: text: And the birds! not the gray sparrows you see here, but shilfas and bullfinches and yellow-yeldrings.
ref: 1866, Alexander Smith, Alfred Hagart's Household, page 20:
glosses: The chaffinch.
shilfas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shilfa
buntine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: bunting (for flags)
setting pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setting poles
form: setting-pole
Senses: synonyms: boat-hook
gaff
setter
pole-hook
hitcher
punting-pole
glosses: A pole, often iron-pointed, used for pushing boats along in shallow water.
setting poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of setting pole
sharny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑːni/
Forms: form: more sharny
form: most sharny
Etymology: From sharn + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Between her and the sharny-toed brier-ragged heather-nibbling boys had been no kinship […].
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 168:
glosses: Covered in dung.
dibromoethanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dibromoethane
water hardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water hardnesses
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The level of dissolved calcium salts in water
unreconstituted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reconstituted.
Senses: glosses: Not reconstituted.
sassabies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sassaby
sassaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sassabies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tsessebe.
sassabye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sassabyes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sassaby (= tsessebe)
sassabyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sassabye
stink up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stinks up
form: stinking up
form: stank up
form: stunk up
Senses: examples: text: The broccoli really stank up the refrigerator.
glosses: To cause to stink.
examples: text: That's what the Bengals did again Sunday, when, in Wilkinson's words, they "stunk up the joint" in a 31-14 loss to the New York Jets at Cinergy Field.
ref: 1997 September 29, “BENGALS `STUNK UP THE JOINT'”, in Dayton Daily News:
glosses: To perform very badly in (a place).
Related terms: stink out
stink out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stinks out
form: stinking out
form: stank out
form: stunk out
Senses: examples: text: The broccoli really stank out the refrigerator.
text: “Dere ya go. Bung it in ’ere, quick. Before it stinks de whole flat out.”
Zoe almost gasped at the unfairness of what the woman had just said. It was her fat stepmother’s prawn-cocktail-crisp breath that stank the place out! Her breath could strip paint. It could shear the feathers off a bird and make it bald.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To cause to stink; to fill with stench.
glosses: To perform very badly in (a place).
examples: text: They could build a fertilizer factory and stink you out.
ref: 1985 January 3, “Zoning Could Protect Pender”, in Star-News, Wilmington, NC:
glosses: To drive away from a place by a stink.
Derived terms: stink the joint out
Related terms: stink up
chabuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑːbʊk/
Forms: form: chabuks
form: chabouk
form: chaubac
form: chaubuck
form: chawbuck
Etymology: From Hindustani چابک / चाबुक (cābuk), from Classical Persian چابک (čābuk, “quick, swift; horsewhip”). Doublet of sjambok.
Senses: examples: text: Shut your mouths and get back to work or I'll whip you with my own chabuk.
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 98:
glosses: A long whip formerly used as an instrument of punishment in India and parts of the Middle East.
chabouks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chabouk
chabuks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chabuk
Celestine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Celestines
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A member of a Roman Catholic monastic order, a branch of the Benedictines, founded in 1244.
Synonyms: Celestinian
Celestine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name.
Celestines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Celestine
Celestinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Celestinians
Senses: glosses: A Celestine.
Celestinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Celestinian
stives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See stew.
Senses: glosses: stews; a brothel
split-tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split-tails
Senses: glosses: A California fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) of the carp family.
glosses: The pintail duck.
examples: text: I have encountered officers who believe a woman got a better assignment or somehow "got over" because of her sex. It's a shock to their egos that some "split-tail"—yes, I've had that original thrown my way—could possibly be more talented.
ref: 1992, United States Naval Institute Proceedings, volume 118, page 23:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A woman.
split-tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of split-tail
sea pye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea pyes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea pie (the bird)
sea pyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea pye
domesticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domesticity
cisgenderism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cisgender + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Confronting cisgenderism means asking our colleagues aloud why intersex babies' genitals are still being surgically altered at birth far below the age of informed consent, while women like Charlotte are routinely denied these surgeries.
ref: 2016, Lyndsey Moon, Counselling Ideologies: Queer Challenges to Heteronormativity:
text: Such assumptions can motivate expressions of cisgenderism such as retroactive misgendering (in which a person's past is described using language that disregards or contrasts with their current designation of their gender) […]
ref: 2016, Abbie E. Goldberg, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, page 232:
text: While cisgenderism may manifest as individual instances of prejudice and discrimination, it is rooted in systemic practices and ideology.
ref: 2021, Abbie E. Goldberg, Genny Beemyn, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, SAGE Publications, Incorporated, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: Attitudes or beliefs that privilege cisgender people or perspectives over transgender ones.
Related terms: cisgenderist
classificationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Etymology: From classificational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of classification.
classificational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From classification + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to classification.
Derived terms: classificationally
genderplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gender + play.
Senses: examples: text: Given the pop star's tendency towards self-aestheticization, I think there is an argument to be made for genderplay and its close interconnection with homosociality as a performative strategy.
ref: 2009, Stan Hawkins, The British Pop Dandy: Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture, page 85:
glosses: Transgression against traditional gender roles.
Related terms: genderfuck
Warholite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Warholites
Etymology: From Warhol + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A person who associated with Andy Warhol (1928–1987), American artist.
Warholites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Warholite
post-obit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-obits
Etymology: From post- + obit.
Senses: examples: text: They were following pretty rapidly, upon the same terms, post obits, payable upon the death of Mrs. Wharton
ref: 1827, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery:
text: […] he had raised money on post-obits, and encumbered the family estate […]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations.
post-obits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-obit
almug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: algum
hazles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hazle
completories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of completory
completory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpliːtəɹi/
Forms: form: completories
Etymology: From Latin complētōrium.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A compline.
completory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpliːtəɹi/
Forms: form: more completory
form: most completory
Etymology: From Latin complētōrium.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
examples: text: completory of ancient presignifications
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Suffered under Pontius Pilate”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: Serving to fulfil.
aestheticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aestheticizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aestheticisation.
aestheticizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aestheticization
aestheticisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aestheticisations
form: aestheticization
form: estheticization
Etymology: From aesthetic + -isation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of aestheticising.
aestheticisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aestheticisation
transmasculinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmasculinities
Etymology: From trans- + masculinity.
Senses: examples: text: […] Transmasculinity is not a special—or single—type of masculinity. It is more aptly described as a context: masculinity as enacted by people with transgender identities.
ref: 2014, Tommaso M. Milani, Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 197:
text: For 70 respondents (40 per cent), transmasculinity is unequivocally and qualitatively different from cismasculinity.
ref: 2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered page
glosses: The quality of being transmasculine.
Coordinate terms: cismasculinity
Derived terms: anti-transmasculinity
transmasculinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transmasculinity
calicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calicular
form: most calicular
form: caliculate
Senses: synonyms: caliculate
glosses: Relating to, or resembling, a cup.
examples: text: calicular budding
text: calicular gemmation
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of calycular.
Derived terms: extracalicular
scutae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scuta
caliculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caliculate
form: most caliculate
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: calicular; resembling a cup.
calyculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calyculate
form: most calyculate
Senses: glosses: calycular
Derived terms: acalyculate
throneship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throneships
Etymology: From throne + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Possession of a throne; rulership; sovereignty.
throneships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throneship
backspike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backspikes
Etymology: From back + spike.
Senses: glosses: A spike protruding from the back of an axe.
backspikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backspike
likerousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English likerous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lickerishness.
peching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pech
alecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alec
alec sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alec sauces
Senses: glosses: A savory sauce made from alecs (typically anchovies), especially in Mediterranean cuisine.
glosses: A similar savory sauce that contains no alecs.
alec sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alec sauce
Dogan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dogans
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of dogan.
right, left and center
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of left and right.
right, left and centre
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of left and right.
Bardolator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bardolators
Senses: examples: text: There would be the dinosaurs still plugging away at scholarship everyone else had abandoned thirty years ago, the hotshot theory heads with their jargon, the Bardolators (often stray actors) and those who treated them as unthinking fans.
ref: 2009, A. J. Hartley, What Time Devours, Berkley, →ISBN, page 45:
text: I keep returning to Shakespeare in the chapters that follow not because I am a Bardolator (I am) but because he is inescapable for all who came after, in all nations of the world except France, where Stendhal and Victor Hugo went against their country's neoclassical rejection of what was regarded as dramatic "barbarism".
ref: 2011, Harold Bloom, The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Although Bardolators may imagine he is an infallible guide to psychology, Shakespeare either did not understand the heritability of personality traits, or chose to ignore it for comedic purposes.
ref: 2013, Robert R. McCrae, James F. Gaines, Marie A. Wellington, “The Five-Factor Model in Fact and Fiction”, in Irving B. Weiner, Howard A. Tennen, Jerry M. Suls, editors, Handbook of Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, volume 5, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bardolator.
Bardolators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bardolator
taxological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From taxology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to taxology; taxonomic.
envelope stuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: envelope stuffers
form: envelope-stuffer
Senses: examples: text: [C]arpel tunnel syndrome […] is seen in many workers who do repetitive tasks by hand, including telephone operators, envelope stuffers, cashiers and meat processors.
ref: 1992 June 8, Dr. Irving Karten, "Computers cited in wrist injuries, The Hour (USA), p. 7 (retrieved 6 Feb 2013)
text: In one survey, dishwashing ranked No. 735 among 740 occupations in terms of status (only envelope stuffer, prostitute, street-corner drug dealer, fortuneteller and panhandler ranked lower).
ref: 2007 June 3, Pamela Paul, “Summer Reading: Travel, New York Times (retrieved 1 Feb 2013)
text: Fante had worked at dozens of crummy jobs, including: door-to-door salesman, taxi driver, window washer, telemarketer, private investigator, hotel night manager, chauffeur, mailroom clerk, deckhand, dishwasher, carnival barker, envelope stuffer, dating service counselor, furniture salesman, and parking attendant.
ref: 2009, Dan Fante, Spitting Off Tall Buildings: A Novel, "About the Author" p. 156 (Google preview)
glosses: One whose job is to manually insert sheets of printed paper into envelopes for mailing, especially as an example of a person whose work is menial and unfulfilling.
examples: text: [I]n processing the payroll, the production capacity, as measured in the maximum number of checks that can be printed and stuffed into envelopes per hour, may be limited by the mechanical sorter and envelope stuffer.
ref: 2002, Bryan Bergeron, Essentials of Shared Services, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: A machine that mechanically inserts sheets of printed paper into envelopes.
examples: text: Such an enclosure is sometimes thoughtlessly called an "envelope stuffer."
ref: 1923 April 3, “Your Bills: Suppose your best salesman presented them in person”, in Pittsburgh Press, retrieved 01 Feb 2013, page 9:
text: Joseph Leonard, Massachusetts First Deputy Banking Commissioner, said that banks must post conspicuous signs to let customers known about the new law, and they must include an envelope stuffer in their next mailing.
ref: 1984 October 16, “Banks Must End Check Fees for Some”, in Harvard Crimson, retrieved 01 Feb 2013:
text: The envelope stuffer in your next statement is for the "Save the Bank" fund.
ref: 2008 July 16, Tim Beyers, Dayana Yochim, “5 Signs Your Bank Is the Next IndyMac”, in The Motley Fool, retrieved 01 Feb 2013:
glosses: An advertisement, flyer, or other unsolicited printed material contained in an envelope received by mail.
envelope-stuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: envelope-stuffers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of envelope stuffer.
Lestrygonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɛstɹɪˈɡəʊni.ən/
ipa: /ˌlɛstɹɪˈɡoʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Lestrygonians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Laestrygonian.
Lestrygonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɛstɹɪˈɡəʊni.ən/
ipa: /ˌlɛstɹɪˈɡoʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Lestrygonian
form: most Lestrygonian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Laestrygonian.
Lestrygonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lestrygonian
persipan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persipans
form: parzipan
Etymology: Borrowed from German Persipan, a blend of Latin persicus (“peach (tree)”) and German Marzipan.
Senses: glosses: A substance similar to marzipan, but produced from peach or apricot pits instead of almonds.
libken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libkens
form: libkin
Senses: examples: text: c. 1607-1610, Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl
No, we scorn to be pure rogues, but if you come to our libken, or our stalling-ken, you shall find neither him nor me a queer cuffin.
text: To their libkins at the Crackmans.
ref: 1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed:
text: These are the fees I always charge a swell that must have his lib-ken to himself.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A house or lodging.
libkens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libken
libkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libkins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of libken.
libkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libkin
interculturality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interculturalities
Etymology: From intercultural + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being intercultural.
interculturalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interculturality
multiculturality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiculturalities
Etymology: From multi- + cultural + -ity or multicultural + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being multicultural.
multiculturalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiculturality
kilocurie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilocuries
Etymology: From kilo- + curie.
Senses: glosses: A unit equal to 1,000 curies.
kilocuries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilocurie
neurotransmit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neurotransmits
form: neurotransmitting
form: neurotransmitted
form: neurotransmitted
Etymology: From neuro- + transmit.
Senses: glosses: To send nerve signals across a synapse between neurons.
neurotransmitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neurotransmit
phylon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fīʹlŏn
ipa: /ˈfaɪlɒn/
Forms: form: phyla
Etymology: From Late Latin phȳlon (a synonym of tribus, whence the English tribe), from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “race, tribe”), whence the English phylum.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:phylon.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: All of the organisms descending from a given common ancestor, regarded as a race, tribe, vel sim.; a clade.
Related terms: phylarch
phyletic
phylogeny
smoochie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoochies
Etymology: From smooch + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A smooch; a kiss.
smoochies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoochie
pop-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop-eyes
Senses: examples: text: The eye projects far forward (pop-eye)
ref: 1892, Ernst Fuchs, Alexander Duane, Text-book of Ophthalmology, page 631:
glosses: Alternative form of popeye.
palestrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the palestra, or to wrestling
palestrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palestrians
Senses: glosses: A wrestler, especially in Ancient Greece or Rome
Mandelbulb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mandelbulbs
Etymology: Blend of Mandelbrot set + bulb.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A three-dimensional analogue of the Mandelbrot set.
theriacas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theriaca
tarras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarrases
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of trass.
puntil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puntils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of punty.
puntel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puntels
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Archaic form of punty (“rod used in glassblowing”).
puntils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puntil
puntels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puntel
gurnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gurnets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gurnard (“fish”).
gurnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gurnet
proostracum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proostraca
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προ- (pro-, “before”) + ὄστρᾰκον (óstrăkon, “shell”).
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous.
proostraca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proostracum
charneco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charnico
Senses: examples: text: And here, neighbour, here's a cup of charneco.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: A sort of sweet wine, apparently from Portugal.
victimizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more victimizable
form: most victimizable
Etymology: From victimize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being victimized.
leucinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of leucic acid.
synonyms: word: leucic acid
leucic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The leucine metabolite 2-hydroxyisocaproic acid
nonvictim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonvictims
Etymology: From non- + victim.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a victim.
nonvictims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonvictim
courbaril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courbarils
Etymology: From French courbaril, from a South American word.
Senses: glosses: Hymenaea courbaril, a South American tree.
glosses: Animé, the resin of the tree, used in varnishes.
prodd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prodds
Senses: glosses: A kind of crossbow used to shoot pebbles or pellets
prodds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prodd
prial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prials
Etymology: Shortening of pair royal.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: Alternative form of pair royal.
prials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prial
ecteronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ecteron + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the ecteron.
ecderonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ecderon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ecteronic.
ectepicondyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectepicondyle
ecderon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ecteron.
Derived terms: ecderonic
squinance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squinances
form: squinacy
form: squinancy
Etymology: From French esquinancie, from Old French squinance, esquinance. See quinsy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The quinsy.
glosses: A European perennial herb (Asperula cynanchica) with narrowly linear whorled leaves, formerly thought to cure the quinsy; quincewort.
squinances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squinance
squinancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squinancies
Senses: examples: text: And it is used for squinancies and inflammations in the throat ; whereby it seemeth to have a mollifying and lenifying virtue
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of squinance.
squinancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squinancy
encenillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encenillos
Etymology: From Spanish encenillo.
Senses: glosses: Weinmannia tormentosa, a tree native to the Andean region of Colombia.
encenillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encenillo
sweeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swinney
Senses: synonyms: Sweeney shoulder
glosses: An atrophy of the muscles, especially of the shoulder, in horses.
tanier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tania (“new cocoyam or taro”).
shovelnose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shovelnoses
Etymology: From shovel + nose.
Senses: glosses: The common sand shark.
glosses: A small California shark (Notorynchus cepedianus).
glosses: A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus griseus).
glosses: A fish of the sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; the white sturgeon.
glosses: A type of Native American canoe.
glosses: A type of streamlined railway locomotive.
Related terms: shovelnose frog
shovelnose guitarfish
shovelnoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shovelnose
unshovelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unshoveled
Etymology: From un- + shovelled.
Senses: glosses: Not having been shovelled.
unshoveled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shoveled.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unshovelled.
lengthenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lengthenable
form: most lengthenable
Etymology: From lengthen + -able.
Senses: examples: text: If we consider the etymological sources of the two sets of vowels, the lengthenable and non-lengthenable[…]
ref: 1974, John Mathieson Anderson, Charles Jones, Historical Linguistics: Theory and description in phonology, page 319:
glosses: That may be lengthened.
I can tell you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: We had trouble getting that grand piano up the stairs, I can tell you!
synonyms: I'll tell you
I tell you
I'm telling you
let me tell you
I'll tell you what
I tell you what
tell you what
believe me
glosses: Emphasises the truth of a statement.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see I, can, tell, you.
chocolate diamond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolate diamonds
Senses: glosses: A brown- or tan-colored diamond.
chocolate diamonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocolate diamond
make a pig out of oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a pig out of oneself
form: making a pig out of oneself
form: made a pig out of oneself
form: made a pig out of oneself
Senses: examples: text: Alicia concentrated on the eggs and caviar, making a pig out of herself, slapping full spoons of caviar on the eggs.
ref: 2005, Alinka Zyrmont, Husband Hunting, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 157:
text: I ate lots of roast beef, mashed potatoes, homemade buttered biscuits, boiled vegetables from the root cellar, drank fresh milk, and generally made a pig out of myself while Mama enjoyed every bit of it.
ref: 2007, Keith A. Youse, Death & Deliverance: A Young Civil War Soldier's Journey, Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC, →ISBN, page 146:
text: Melissa tried but without success not to be annoyed with Dee Dee, who was making a pig out of herself with the doughnuts.
ref: 2011, Guy Reid, Birthright, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: Alternative form of make a pig of oneself.
Petrarchan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈtɹɑːkən/
enpr: pĭ-trärʹkən
ipa: /pɛˈtɹɑɹkən/
ipa: /piˈtɹɑɹkən/
enpr: pĕ-trärʹkən
enpr: pē-trärʹkən
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kən
Forms: form: more Petrarchan
form: most Petrarchan
form: Petrarchian
Etymology: From Petrarch + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Francesco Petrarch, a renowned Renaissance Italian humanist.
Derived terms: Petrarchan sonnet
Petrarchanism