cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
jaffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæfl̩/
rhymes: -æfəl
Forms: form: jaffles
Etymology: From a trademark for a utensil that creates jaffles, presumably from waffle.
Senses: examples: text: For him, the mark of a true jaffle is those gnarly, pressure-sealed edges. “You need those nasty corners – nasty in the best way – when the sauce oozes out the sides and goes super caramelised.”
ref: 2023 June 4, James Shackell, “‘It’s a travesty they’ve disappeared’: what ever happened to jaffle irons?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A type of toasted sandwich that is sealed around the edge (in one piece, and not separated in the centre), it has a filling, for example an egg. A toastie or Breville is separated with a diagonal crease.
Derived terms: jaffle iron
jaffle maker
jaffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæfl̩/
rhymes: -æfəl
Forms: form: jaffles
form: jaffling
form: jaffled
form: jaffled
Senses: examples: text: In Norfolk, "jaffle" is used in the sense of idle discourse, of an indecent or malicious character; and a prating busybody is said to be "always a snaffling and jafflin about what don't concern him."
ref: 1855, Notes and Queries, volume 11, page 391:
text: The goodwife may be 'haffling and jaffling' with a neighbour, and come in and tell you she thinks her very 'dis-improved,' as she is not 'jannock' now, and is tolerably sure to give her children either 'coshies' or 'loggetts' to quiet them if they make too much 'dullor,' […]
ref: 1885, Walter Rye, A History of Norfolk, page 307:
glosses: To talk foolishly.
jaffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaffle
jaffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jaffle
eagreness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eagre + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of eagerness.
praize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praizes
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of praise.
praize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: praizes
form: praizing
form: praized
form: praized
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of praise.
blackbutts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackbutt
flintwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flintwoods
Etymology: From flint + wood.
Senses: glosses: The very hard wood of a blackbutt tree, Eucalyptus spp., especially Eucalyptus pilularis.
glosses: A tree of species Scolopia braunii.
cryptarithmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryptarithm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cryptarithms.
eagless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eaglesses
Etymology: From eagle + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female or hen eagle.
backhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backhouses
form: back-house
form: back house
Etymology: From back + house.
Senses: examples: text: […] to abstene […] fra all melting […] of talloun within thair bak hous […]
ref: 1557, Edinburgh Burgh Records, volume III, page 17:
glosses: An outbuilding behind the main building, or an annex attached to the rear of it; especially, a scullery or washhouse.
examples: text: BACK'HOUSE... a necessary.
ref: 1847, Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language:
text: […] the chlorides Mother was always throwing into the little outdoor backhouse […]
ref: 1939, Christopher Morley, chapter II, in Kitty Foyle, page 23:
glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Synonyms: sense: outhouse
word: backside
word: outhouse
Hypernyms: backside
house
outbuilding
backhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backhouse
manita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈniːtə/
Forms: form: manitas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish manita (“little hand”), feminine-form diminutive of mano (“hand”), because the small red flowers of the tree resemble five-fingered human hands.
Senses: examples: text: […] The manita tree,* so named from the singular formation of its flower, a drawing of which is placed as the frontispiece of this book, is a species of plant almost unknown in the catalogues of botanists.
Manita means a little hand.
ref: 1828, Mark Beaufoy, Mexican illustrations, founded upon facts, page 230:
text: Tradition states, that though the Indians did not actually worship the manita tree, yet they regarded the flower with a sort of religious veneration.
ref: 1829 October 3, in the Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, number 321, page 112
text: The curious manita, or ‘hand tree,’ near the city of Mexico, is another of these curiosities.
ref: 1838, John Murray, The economy of vegetation, or phœnomena of plants, page 159:
text: […] with high walls on every side but open at the top and certainly not exceeding 80 feet square, and this is the botanic garden of the palace of Mexico; a few shrubs and plants and the celebrated manita tree, are all that it contains.
ref: circa 1846, Traveling Sketches, from a work by Waddy Thompson, republished in the Rural Repository (1846 July 18), volume 22, number 23, page 181
text: Close by was a plant of the manita, a flower which the Aztecs used to worship ; it is in the form of a hand, with four fingers and a thumb : this they imagined to be the hand of one of their most powerful deities, and adored it ; its colour is a brilliant scarlet.
ref: 1852, Victoria Alexandrina M.L. Gregory, A young traveller's journal of a tour in North and South America during the year 1850:
text: Here one finds among remedies for every organ and ailment, manita, whose red flower, shaped like thumb and four fingers gives its name “the little hand.”
ref: 1928, Ernest Gruening, Mexico and its heritage, page 74:
text: A sign nailed to a manita tree read “Jardín Botánica.” Edmund surveyed this pathetic place in disbelief. The botanic garden of the Palace of Mexico was cramped, airless, light-starved, and populated with meager, untended specimens — […]
ref: 2000, Stephen Harrigan, The Gates of the Alamo: A Novel:
glosses: The tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces.
Synonyms: Devil's hand tree
devil's hand tree
Mexican hand tree
handflower
handflower tree
macpalxochitl
manitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manita
turnerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Turner + -ite after English chemist and mineralogist C. H. Turner.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of monazite with golden yellow to brownish yellow crystals.
dickjuice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dick juice.
lowd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lowder
form: lowdest
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of loud.
persulphocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persulphocyanates
Etymology: From persulphocyanic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of persulphocyanic acid.
persulphocyanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persulphocyanate
blowbuddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowbuddies
form: blow buddy
form: blow-buddy
Etymology: From blow + buddy.
Senses: examples: text: Jimmy moved away that summer when his father was transferred to Arizona, but Tony had no trouble in developing regular sexual liaisons with a number of new blowbuddies and fuckbuddies in his freshman year at Atlantic High
ref: 2004, John Butler, This Gay Utopia, page 63
text: Cliff wasn't about to go off to Chicago without the best blow-buddy he'd ever had.
ref: 2010, Greg Bowden, The Folks on Taylor Circle, page 97
text: Move it [his redneck blowbuddy laughs]! I said move it else I'll put my foot up yer ass!” “Yes sir. On it right away!” acknowledged Alan humbly, taking the tray from him.
ref: 2011, Lenny Francis, Ptsd of a Lesser Known Kind: An Allegory, page 59
text: But we're not throwing this play just because you and Darby here are blow buddies!" Brandon slammed into Cameron Stern, their helmets cracking together loud enough for Brandon to think he'd gone deaf.
ref: 2011, Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls:
text: Tom, Dick, and Harry have been blowbuddies for years now.
glosses: A male same-sex partner, especially for fellatio and handjobs, or by extension a close friend (humorous, mockingly).
Related terms: buttbuddy
blow buddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blow buddies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blowbuddy.
blow buddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blow buddy
delundung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Native name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An East Indian carnivorous mammal, Prionodon linsang, having spots and resembling the civet, but without scent pouches.
Synonyms: linsang
blowbuddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowbuddy
easefull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more easefull
form: most easefull
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of easeful.
Deweyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Deweyan
form: most Deweyan
Etymology: From Dewey + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Melvil Dewey (1851–1931), American librarian and educator, and inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification.
glosses: Of or pertaining to John Dewey (1859–1952), American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer.
Deweyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Deweyans
Etymology: From Dewey + -an.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of the ideas of John Dewey.
easefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From easeful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: State of being easeful, or a quality of promoting ease and tranquillity.
eazily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eazily
form: most eazily
Etymology: From eazy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of easily.
bewailment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bewailments
Etymology: From bewail + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of bewailing.
bewailments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bewailment
eazy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: eazier
form: eaziest
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of easy.
Derived terms: eazily
angiosporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angio- + -sporous.
Senses: examples: text: Some fungi are angiosporous.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having spores contained in cells or thecae (sporangia).
biternately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biternate + -ly.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In a biternate arrangement.
easeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more easeless
form: most easeless
Etymology: From ease + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking in ease.
Derived terms: easelessness
hemispheroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hemispheroidal
form: most hemispheroidal
Etymology: From hemi- + spheroidal.
Senses: synonyms: hemispheroid
glosses: Approximately hemispheric.
neologization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neologizations
Etymology: From neologize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of neologizing; the creation of new terms.
neologizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neologization
kanchil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kanchils
Etymology: From the Wilkinson spelling of Malay kancil, kanchil.
Senses: glosses: A small, agile chevrotain of the genus Tragulus, especially Tragulus kanchil (lesser mouse-deer).
kanchils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kanchil
Patriarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Patriarchists
Etymology: From patriarch + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who supports the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
perviousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pervious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: some Philosophers suppose in the pores of Glass, as 'tis a transparent body, or rather in their ranks or rows, may facilitate the Perviousness we above observ'd in Glass
ref: 1673, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the title)”, in Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums. […], London: […] W[illiam] G[odbid] for M[oses] Pitt, […], →OCLC:
antonyms: imperviousness
glosses: The quality or state of being pervious.
Patriarchists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Patriarchist
éboulement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: éboulements
form: eboulement
Etymology: Borrowed from French éboulement.
Senses: glosses: A mass of debris or shingle.
glosses: The falling in of the wall of a fortification.
glosses: A landslide or landslip.
blow-buddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blow-buddies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blowbuddy.
blow-buddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blow-buddy
eanling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eanlings
Senses: examples: text: That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire
ref: c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act 1, scene 3:
glosses: Alternative form of yeanling (“newborn goat or sheep”).
eanlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eanling
geophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: Eating earth.
Related terms: geophagia
geophagism
geophagist
geophagy
vitrifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French vitrifiable.
Senses: examples: text: Flint is vitrifiable.
synonyms: vitrescible
glosses: Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion.
insurmountability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + surmount + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: But when we reflect that across the road at the centre of the arc of each curve there was a barricade, and cannon placed to rake the' intervals between the different barricades, the difficulties of the ascent, which is very steep, would be increased even to insurmountability.
ref: 1877, John Joseph Henry, Account of Arnold's Campaign Against Quebec, J. Munsell, page 171:
text: He dried his eyes. His aunt saw the insurmountability of the difficulty, and they drowned feeling in an affectionate glass of green-orangeade.
ref: 1885, George Washington Cable, Richard Hooker WIlmer, Dr. Sevier, J. R. Osgood and Company, page 195:
text: The tragedy of a genius towering above its contemporaries does not end with death. The latter merely helps to accentuate more forcibly the insurmountability of inherent contrasts.
ref: 1910, Emma Goldman, Mother Earth (1906-1917), page 305:
glosses: The state or quality of being insurmountable.
tricksterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trickster + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The use of a trickster character in folk literature.
examples: text: Tricksterism was thus a justifiable response to the dehumanizing experience people encountered as slaves.
ref: 2001, Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction, page xv:
glosses: The philosophical position of being a trickster.
margaritiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more margaritiferous
form: most margaritiferous
Etymology: from Latin margarītifer, from margarīta (“pearl”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French margaritifère.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: pearly
glosses: Producing pearls.
boastive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boastive
form: most boastive
Etymology: From boast + -ive?
Senses: glosses: boastful; presumptuous
nontraversing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + traversing.
Senses: glosses: Not traversing.
annulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annulary
form: most annulary
Etymology: See Latin annularis. See annular.
Senses: examples: text: because continual Respiration is necessary for the Support of our Lives, it is made with annulary Cartilages, to keep it constantly open
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having the shape of a ring; annular.
weyleway
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of wellaway.
jeez Louise
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of geez Louise.
elephant in the corner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephants in the corner
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of elephant in the room.
reverse ferret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse ferrets
Etymology: The term originates from Kelvin MacKenzie's time at the The Sun. His preferred description of the role of journalists when it came to public figures was to "stick a ferret up their trousers". This meant making their lives uncomfortable, and was based on the northern sport of ferret-legging. However, when it became clear that the tide of public opinion had turned against the paper's line, MacKenzie would burst from his office shouting "Reverse Ferret!"
Senses: topics: media
glosses: A sudden volte-face in an organisation's editorial line on a certain issue, especially one without acknowledgment of the previous position.
omitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omitters
Etymology: From omit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: the observers or the omitters thereof should not mutually censure each other
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: Someone who omits.
omitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omitter
overknowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overknowing
form: most overknowing
Etymology: From over- + knowing.
Senses: glosses: Excessively knowing or cunning.
omniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin omniformis, from omnis (“all”) + forma (“form”). Compare French omniforme.
Senses: examples: text: The living fire , the living omniform seminary of the world , and other expressions of the like nature , occurring in the ancient and Platonic philosophy
ref: 1744, George Berkeley, Siris, a chain of philosophical reflections and inquiries, concerning the virtues of tar-water:
glosses: Having every form or shape.
Derived terms: omniformity
monsterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of monstrous.
theaterical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of theatrical.
theaterical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of theatrical.
cockbreath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cock + breath.
Senses: examples: text: "Fuck my ass, cockbreath," he snarled back.
ref: 1997, Greg Rucka, Keeper:
text: And you know what that means, cockbreath?
ref: 1997, Richard Marcinko, Task Force Blue, page 162:
text: I said I didn't want to answer any more questions and he said: "Answer me, cockbreath." Those were his words.
ref: 2006, Peter Temple, Bad Debts, page 103:
text: “Ohayo gozaimasu, and fuck you too, you little monkeybrain cockbreath squirt.”
ref: 2007, Richard Marcinko, James DeFelice, Holy Terror, page 235:
text: Maybe the altitude is messing up his head and he figures I don't remember what a cockbreath he was on the music store.
ref: 2008, Daniel Lyons, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, page 79:
glosses: A contemptible person, usually used as a disparaging term of address
Related terms: dickbreath
simber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: simbers
form: simbering
form: simbered
form: simbered
Senses: examples: text: […] that their vital heat and moisture may not always onely simber in one sluggish tenour, but sometimes boil up higher and seethe over […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 82
glosses: Obsolete form of simmer.
pisshole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissholes
Etymology: From piss + hole.
Senses: examples: text: I pushed my ass back toward the voodoo man's thick, leaking cock, and the jism dripping from his pisshole lubricated my asshole. My anus grew slick and opened of its own accord. The more of his cum that wet my hole, the more my muscles contracted to give him easy entrance.
ref: 2011, David Holly, Delicious Darkness, page 192:
text: As is, he and I know the wetness is natural lubricant oozing from the pisshole of his big dick.
ref: 2009, John Patrick, Naughty by Nature, page 90:
text: "Beautiful meat!" I say, squeezing the huge young fuck-tool, testing its hardness and hotness and silky smoothness with my fingertips. I kiss and nibble it from balls to pisshole.
ref: 2007, John Patrick, Mad About the Boys, page 80:
text: I pulled my mouth away and a long silver string of sticky juice hung between my lips and his pisshole. I smeared it around my face, wondering if this would be my last taste of Bennett Young's love juice.
ref: 2007, James Lear, Hot Valley, page 167:
text: Thick drops of precum seeped from his pisshole.
ref: 2006, Tom Graham, Cowboys: Gay Erotic Tales:
text: He lowered his eyes almost imperceptibly and I resumed the slow suction of his manhood up my chute, his pisshole issuing warm increments of natural lubrication as it slid deep inside me.
ref: 2004, Michael Huxley, Men Amplified, page 44:
glosses: The urethra.
examples: text: High school crowds; doinks with nothing better to do than come down to this pisshole and wave through the glass partition at the biggest jerk in the whole gang.
ref: 1989, Thomas Szollosi, The Proving, page 55:
synonyms: shithole
glosses: An unpleasant place.
Synonyms: urinary meatus
external urethral orifice
dickhole
cockhole
piss slit
pissholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Beau glared at the precum drops oozing from their pissholes, dribbling down the full length of their cocks.
ref: 2006, Tom Graham, Cowboys:Gay Erotic Tales, page 33:
glosses: plural of pisshole
transcursion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcursions
Senses: examples: text: And if Man were out of the world, who were then left to view the face of Heaven, to wonder at the transcursion of Comets […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 84
text: In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.
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: A rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.
repedation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repedations
Senses: examples: text: […] to take notice of the Direction, Stations and Repedations of those Erratick Lights, and from thence most convincingly to inform himself of that pleasant and true Paradox of the Annual Motion of the Earth […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 84
qualifier: literal or figurative
glosses: A stepping or going back.
Related terms: pedestrian
parelius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parelii
Senses: examples: text: […] even then he began, and with that noble personage, to clasp some one gratioso in the embraces of his great love, who was, unto him as a parelius,—that is, when the sun finds a cloud so fit to be illustrated by his beams that it looks almost like another sun.
ref: 1873, John Hill Burton, The history of Scotland, volume 5, page 169:
glosses: A parhelion.
Related terms: parhelion
parelion
longerons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longeron
pudus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pudu
marsh deer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsh deer
Senses: examples: text: Like pampas deer, marsh deer occur only south of Amazonia.
ref: 1998, Valerius Geist, Deer of the World, page 117:
glosses: A large deer of the wetlands of South America, Blastocerus dichotomus.
pampas deer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pampas deer
Etymology: From pampas + deer.
Senses: examples: text: Like many open-country ungulates, the pampas deer tends to explore the unusual
ref: 1998, Valerius Geist, Deer of the World, page 116:
glosses: A small South American deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus).
Synonyms: sense: Ozotoceros bezoarticus
word: Cervus bezoarticus
sense: Ozotoceros bezoarticus
word: Blastocerus campestris
sense: Ozotoceros bezoarticus
word: Cariacus campestris
defringes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defringe
defringe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defringes
form: defringing
form: defringed
form: defringed
Etymology: From de- + fringe.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove unwanted surrounding portions or speckles of colour from (an image).
cockroach taxi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockroach taxis
Senses: glosses: An unroadworthy mini-bus taxi.
articulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From articulate + -ive?
Senses: examples: text: […] speaking a language invented before the human tongue learned the trick of articulative speech […]
ref: 1929, Science News Letter:
text: […] shock techniques used by rappers are both a mode of self-expression and articulative of the actual language and violence of urban ghetto culture.
ref: 2003, Douglas Kellner, Media Culture:
glosses: Serving to articulate or express something.
Derived terms: articulatively
expectingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more expectingly
form: most expectingly
Etymology: From expecting + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: expectantly
glosses: In a state of expectation.
insomnolence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insomnolences
Etymology: From in- + somnolence.
Senses: examples: text: insomnolence is complained of, or if the patient sleeps his rest is disturbed by frightful dreams
ref: 1857, O'Bryen Bellingham, A Treatise on Diseases of the Heart:
text: He […] feels out his body from the inside, rarefied and refined by hunger and insomnolence.
ref: 2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, page 205:
glosses: sleeplessness.
insomnolences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insomnolence
insurrectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French insurrectionnel.
Senses: glosses: Relating to insurrection.
Derived terms: insurrectionalism
insurrectionalist
Insurrectionalist
insurrectionally
leady
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛdi/
rhymes: -ɛdi
Forms: form: more leady
form: most leady
Etymology: From Middle English leddy, ledy, ledi, equivalent to lead + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Leadie colour
ref: 1534, Thomas Elyot, The Castle of Health:
text: The mucous coat presented on a ground more or less of a leady hue , mulberry-coloured or crimson spots
ref: 1863, Epidemiological Society of London, Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London:
glosses: Resembling lead (the metal); leaden.
Derived terms: leadiness
overmeasure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overmeasures
form: overmeasuring
form: overmeasured
form: overmeasured
Etymology: From over- + measure.
Senses: glosses: To measure or estimate with a result that is larger than it should be.
overmeasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overmeasures
Etymology: From over- + measure.
Senses: glosses: Excessive measure; surplus.
overmeasures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overmeasure
overwax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overwaxes
form: overwaxing
form: overwaxed
form: overwaxed
Etymology: From over- + wax.
Senses: examples: text: an overwaxed floor
glosses: To apply too much wax to.
glosses: To wax or grow too rapidly or too much.
overwaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overwax
overwaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overwax
overwaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overwax
Pictish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪk.tɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪktɪʃ
Etymology: From Pict + -ish. Compare Old English Pihtisċ.
Senses: examples: text: The Gothic monarch and the Pictish peer
ref: 1812, Lord Byron, The Curse of Minerva:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Picts.
Derived terms: Pictishness
Pictish tower
Pictish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪk.tɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪktɪʃ
Etymology: From Pict + -ish. Compare Old English Pihtisċ.
Senses: glosses: The extinct, poorly attested language spoken by the Picts.
Coordinate terms: sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Celtiberian
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Cumbric
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Galatian
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Gaulish
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Lepontic
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Noric
redowa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdəvə/
/ˈɹɛdəwə/
Forms: form: redowas
form: redova
Etymology: Via French [Term?] from Czech rejdovák, from rej (“whirl”).
Senses: examples: text: The Redowa or Pas de Basque was originally adapted to Polka-Mazurka music, and, consequently, was danced much slower than it is at present, adapted as it is to waltz and galop music. Hence the name Polka-Redowa: — Polka step, Redowa time.
ref: 1875, William B. DeGarmo, The Dance of Society, page 94:
text: "The Varsouvienne," says one reference, "apparently originated in France about 1853, in imitation of the Polish Mazurka, Polka, and Redowa.
ref: 1962, Sets in Order: The Magazine of Square Dancing, volume 14, page 23:
text: The redowa had some popularity in Paris about the year 1845 but in England it was more talked about than danced.
ref: 1969, Frances Rust, Dance In Society, page 75:
text: Both Martínez and Jiménez recorded prolifically, usually dance music—the ubiquitous polka as well as such universal favorites as redowas and schottisches.
ref: 1981, Manuel H. Peña, “The emergence of Conjunto Music, 1935-1955”, in Richard Bauman, Roger D. Abrahams, editors, And Other Neighborly Names: Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore, page 285:
text: It was imperative also for the social-minded pioneers to learn the styling and to know how to do the different dance steps required during a five- or six-figure cotillion or lancers. The dance steps included the polka, waltz, mazurka, redowa (two-step), and minuet.
ref: 1985, Betty Casey, Dance across Texas, unnumbered page:
glosses: A dance of Czech origin with turning, leaping waltz steps.
glosses: The music for this kind of dance, usually in quick triple time.
redowas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redowa
ungka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ungkas
Etymology: From Malay ungka.
Senses: synonyms: ungka-ape
glosses: A kind of gibbon, the siamang.
Derived terms: ungka-puti
ungkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ungka
methylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From methyl + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: methylic ether
text: methylic hydride
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, derived from, or containing methyl.
Derived terms: alt: methanol
word: methylic alcohol
morinda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morindas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Morinda of rubiaceous trees and shrubs.
Derived terms: morindin
morindas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morinda
protractedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From protracted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being protracted.
Synonyms: enduringness
longsomeness
lastingness
casualist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From casual + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to casualism.
casualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casualists
Etymology: From casual + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who believes in casualism.
casualists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casualist
incorporealism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incorporeal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Atomism and Incorporealism[…]
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
ozonification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ozone + -ification.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ozonization
exceptioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exceptioners
Etymology: From exception + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Thus much (Readers) in favour of the ſofter ſpirited Chriſtian, for other exceptioners there was no thought taken.
ref: 1641, [John Milton], “The Preface”, in Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 4:
text: [This] interpretation will overbeare with me an hundred moderne exceptioners, if they should deny that a man may be said to have a right unless he himselfe be the immediate subject of the right, as if it were a naturall accident inherent in him […]
ref: 1655, John Owen, Vindiciæ Evangelicæ […], Appendix, “On the Death of Christ, and of Justification […]”, page 32:
text: But secondly, I answer, that if our Exceptioners mean only, that those rational Faculties do sometimes furnish Men with a greater natural sagacity; […] it must be allowed as true.
ref: 1688, William Smith, A Future World, in which Mankind Shall Survive their Mortal Durations […], page 138:
glosses: One who takes exception or protests.
exceptioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exceptioner
interdictum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interdicti
Etymology: From Latin interdictum.
Senses: glosses: A prohibition: a legal order issued by a praetor (or, in the provinces, a proconsul) at the request of a claimant and addressed to another person, imposing a requirement either to do something or to abstain from doing something.
prolabor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prolabor
form: most prolabor
Etymology: From pro- + labor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prolabour.
quadriennium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrienniums
form: quadriennia
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quadrennium.
breast bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breast bones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of breastbone.
homish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homish
form: most homish
form: homeish
Etymology: From home + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hose Princely Policies […] cary with them, (Triumphantly) The Deadly Darte, and Hedding Axe, ineuitable to all forreyn Offenders, and Homish Rebells.
ref: 1577, John Dee, Perfect Arte of Navigation:
glosses: Belonging to home; domestic.
examples: text: quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life
ref: 1872, Edward Everett Hale, Stand and Wait:
glosses: Characteristic of a home; cosy.
Derived terms: homishness
unhomish
mollifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mollifiable
form: most mollifiable
Etymology: From mollify + -able.
Senses: examples: text: mollifiable material
glosses: Capable of being mollified.
Derived terms: unmollifiable
intramundane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + mundane.
Senses: synonyms: this-worldly
glosses: Within the material world.
novercal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊˈvɜː(ɹ)kəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kəl
Etymology: From Latin novercalis, from noverca (“a stepmother”).
Senses: examples: text: when almost the whole tribe of birds do thus, by incubation, produce their young , it is a wonderful deviation , that some few families only ſhould do it in a more novercal way
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a stepmother.
Synonyms: stepmotherly
Kimry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The village of Kimry is, as has already been stated, celebrated for its boots; it is also the market for the sale of goods from the extensive region where all kinds of boots and shoes are made.
ref: 1893, John Martin Crawford, The Industries of Russia, page 101:
text: I lived in the town of Kimry in Tver province.
ref: 1998, Alexandra George, Escape from "Ward Six": Russia Facing Past and Present, page 168:
text: Continuing on foot, he reached Kimry, a little city on the Volga a hundred miles north of Moscow, from which convoys of wheat were shipped.
ref: 2022, Christian Salmon, The Blumkin Project: A Biographical Novel, page 132:
text: Thus, where simple labor-intensive procedures are few (as in Kimry and Rostov), the technological chain has a larger share of operations requiring high skills and several areas of expertise.
ref: 2022, Juri Plusnin, Russian Provincial Society: An Empirical Analysis, page 205:
glosses: A town in Russia located at the confluence of the Volga and Kimrka rivers.
Kimry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Kimry pronounced their name Kumry, which strictly accords with Khumry, the name by which the Assyrians designated the country of Samaria. The Welch and ancient Bretons were Kimry.
ref: 1887, S. F. Walker, The Ruins Revisited, and the World-story Retold, page 135:
text: They are the last remnant of the Kimmerioi of Homer, and of the Kimry (Cimbri) of Germany.
ref: 1917, John Harden Allen, Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright, page 291:
glosses: Archaic form of Cymry.
examples: text: The Kimry, from the Palus Moeotis, entered the north-eastern portion of Gaul, and expelled from their territory many of the tribes who werre settled there; these, uniting in large hordes, precipitated themselves upon Italy.
ref: 1844 November 16, “Thierry's History of the Gauls”, in The Anglo American, volume 4, number 4, page 74:
text: The territory situated to the east of that limit belonged to the race of the Kimry: it was in time divided into two portions by the line of the Seine and the Marne, the one northern and the other southern.
ref: 1845, Charles John Abraham, The unity of history; or, Outlines of lectures on ancient and modern history, page 101:
text: By an unfortunate error, the original skulls and both sets of casts have been erroneously labelled "Type Kimry, homme," and "Type Gall, femme;" though the male skull is, in truth, an example of the brachycephalous Type Gall, and the female skull of the ovoid Type Kimri, of W. F. Edwards.
ref: 1865, John Thurnam, “On the two principal forms of Ancient British and Gaulish Skulls”, in Memoirs read before the Anthropological Society of London, page 492:
text: The ancient inhabitants of Belgic Gaul, the Kimry of Thierry, were also a tall, blue-eyed and fair-haired people.
ref: 1866, Samuel Laing, Pre-historic Remains of Caithness, page 118:
glosses: An ancient ethnic group originally from the area around the Sea of Azov, who invaded much of what is now Europe, and intermingled with the ancient Gauls.
ligniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more ligniferous
form: most ligniferous
Etymology: From Latin lignifer, from lignum (“wood”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French lignifère.
Senses: examples: text: ligniferous clay
text: ligniferous marl
glosses: Yielding or producing wood.
amphistomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + stoma + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Some entozoa are amphistomous.
text: They would even strip off the amphistomous worms which literally live in the stomachs of all cattle in this region, and, without more ado, put them raw into their mouths by the handful.
ref: 1875 April, “Miscellany: Food of the Bongos”, in Popular Science, volume 6, number 41, page 766:
text: In many a pylom occurs also at the aboral pole, so that the shell, perforated by a mouth at both poles of the principal axis, acquires an amphistomous character.
ref: 1889, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History - Volume 4, page 302:
text: Some shells of an amphistomous Rhizopod were observed from near Recess, W. Ireland, which probably pertained to this genus. The shells were chitinoid, yellow in colour, and each aperture was situated on a slight protuberance.
ref: 1901, Pamphlets on Protozoology (Kofoid Collection):
text: Arendt and coworkers propose that the blastopore in this species is amphistomous, giving rise to both mouth and anus.
ref: 2009, Daniel H. Shain, Annelids in Modern Biology, page 108:
text: Contrary to the view of Cable (1974), we do not consider larvae of this species as amphistomous.
ref: 2013, K. V. Galaktionov, A. Dobrovolskij, The Biology and Evolution of Trematodes, page 507:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a sucker or opening at each extremity.
examples: text: Adaxial and abaxial surfaces of three taxa of the Acutae group in the Pacific Northwest (C. aquatilis, C. lenticularis, and C. nebrascensis) are not differentiated (the amphistomous condition) .
ref: 1985, Systematic Botany Monographs, page 15:
text: For most amphistomous leaves, the correct value for g_(lw) is between those given by Equations 11.24 and 11.25 (Moreshet et al., 1968).
ref: 2012, Robert W. Pearcy, J.R. Ehleringer, Harold Mooney, Plant Physiological Ecology: Field methods and instrumentation:
text: Parkhurst et al. (1988) showed that gradients of more than 50 μbar CO₂ are common in amphistomous leaves of C₃ plants.
ref: 2012, Scaling Physiological Processes: Leaf to Globe, page 329329:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having stomata on both surfaces of the leaf.
bituminiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more bituminiferous
form: most bituminiferous
Etymology: From Latin bitumen (stem bitumin-) + -iferous.
Senses: examples: text: Bituminiferous and cupriferous {{long sand}}
ref: 1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays:
glosses: Producing bitumen.
infoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: infoliates
form: infoliating
form: infoliated
form: infoliated
Etymology: From in- (“in”) + Latin folium (“leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: Long may his fruitfull Vine infoliate and clasp about him with embracements of Princely love
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cover or spread with, or as if with, leaves.
infoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- (“in”) + Latin folium (“leaf”).
Senses: glosses: infoliated
infoliated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of infoliate
infoliating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of infoliate
ostentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ostentive
form: most ostentive
Senses: glosses: Ostentatious
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used to indicate or draw attention to something specific.
withamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: withamites
Etymology: From Witham + -ite after its discoverer, H. Witham.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reddish variety of epidote, found in Scotland.
withamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of withamite
encindered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encinder
encindered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Burnt to cinders.
brangler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branglers
Etymology: From brangle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A quarrelsome person, or a bickerer.
branglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brangler
appealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appealers
Etymology: From appeal + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes an appeal; an appellant.
examples: text: Complex expletives in turn-final position were also used as a kind of deprecatory appealers, e.g. in God's name, for God's sake and for heaven's sake.
ref: 2014, Karin Aijmer, Bengt Altenberg, English Corpus Linguistics, page 251:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A speech act intended as an appeal.
appealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appealer
univalvular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + valvular.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having only one valve.
Synonyms: univalve
univalved
rivose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin rivus (“a brook, channel”).
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Marked with sinuate and irregular furrows.
fissural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fissure + -al.
Senses: examples: text: the fissural pattern of a brain
text: fissural plane
text: fissural thickening
glosses: Pertaining to a fissure or fissures.
Derived terms: parafissural
asmear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsmɪɹ/
ipa: /əˈsmɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: From a- + smear.
Senses: examples: text: So, I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 6:
text: The young Isaac, my grandchild, played in the center of the floor, his face asmear, clothing torn and foul.
ref: 1980, Al Hine, Brother Owl, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Part 5, pp. 283-284:
text: A woman asmear with blood stood up, fell softly down, stood slowly up again, wavering like a little flag.
ref: 1995, William Gass, The Tunnel, New York: Knopf, page 232:
glosses: Smeared over.
preambulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preambulary
form: most preambulary
Etymology: Compare Old French preambulaire.
Senses: examples: text: preambulary tax
ref: 1774, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons on American taxation:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a preamble; introductory.
Related terms: preambular
unconsiderate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconsiderate
form: most unconsiderate
Etymology: From un- + considerate.
Senses: examples: text: Thus much beguiled haue Poore unconsiderate wights
ref: 1594, Samuel Daniel, The Tragedy of Cleopatra:
glosses: Obsolete form of inconsiderate.
Related terms: unconsiderateness
galvanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galvanists
Senses: glosses: A practitioner or expert in galvanism.
galvanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galvanist
wrathless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrathless
form: most wrathless
Etymology: From wrath + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Before his feet so sheep and lions lay,
Fearless and wrathless while they heard him play
ref: 1645, Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady:
glosses: Free from anger.