cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
eupraxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek εὐπραξία (eupraxía, “living well, acting well”), equivalent to eu- + -praxia.
Senses: examples: text: Both studies show that speech and speech reading skills in deaf preschool children age 3.5 to 6 years depend strongly on fine motor skill of hand and mouth, successive memory and memory for rhythm. These three interdependent skills are taken as three aspects of eupraxia.
ref: 1997, M. L. Broesterhuizen, “Psychological assessment of deaf children”, in Scand Audiol Suppl., pages 43-49:
glosses: Positive skills related to movement.
glosses: Eupraxy.
nilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nillas
Senses: glosses: Clipping of vanilla.
examples: text: Getting with her would be just like fucking a white girl and I don't want no 'nilla
ref: 2003, K. Broussard, What Looks Like Black, page 124:
text: Yeah, Nilla, I like that." Sebastian was humored and enjoyed Jamal's free spirit, but had no intention of endorsing the new name he had been given, beyond the confines of this Buick.
ref: 2003, Patricia Haley, Patricia Haley-Brown, Blind Faith, page 222:
text: Get water for him Nilla so he can wash her cunt, and make her ready to receive me. NOW. Commence.
ref: 2004, Tor Kung, My Mother Taught Me, page 184:
glosses: A white person.
nillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nilla
beanbreath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bean + breath.
Senses: glosses: A Mexican or Hispanic person.
scalation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /skeɪˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: scalations
Etymology: From scale + -ation.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An arrangement of scales.
scalations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /skeɪˈleɪʃəns/
Senses: glosses: plural of scalation
accident blackspots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accident blackspot
caoshu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tsaʊˈʃuː/
Etymology: From Mandarin 草書／草书 (cǎoshū).
Senses: glosses: grass script (a style of cursive script used in Chinese calligraphy).
xingshu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪŋˈʃu/
Etymology: From Mandarin 行書 /行书 (xíngshū) / 行书 (xíngshū).
Senses: glosses: Semicursive or running script used in Chinese calligraphy.
postremogeniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏstrēmōjĕʹnĭtyo͝or
enpr: pŏs'trēmōjĕʹnĭchər
ipa: /ˌpɒstɹiːməʊˈd͡ʒɛnɪtjʊə/
ipa: /ˌpɒstɹiːməʊˈd͡ʒɛnɪtʃə/
enpr: pŏs'trēmōjĕʹnĭchər
ipa: /ˌpɑstɹimoʊˈd͡ʒɛnɪt͡ʃɚ/
Etymology: First attested in 1865; either Latin postrēmōgenitus (“last-born”) + English -ure or the compounding in English of the Latin postrēmus (“[person who is] last”) + genitūra, in both cases after primogeniture; compare postreme.
Senses: examples: text: The general rule of the equal partition of property, without distinction of sex or primogeniture, suffers exception in the law of juveigneurie, or, as it may be called, postremogeniture, which confers, not on the eldest of children, but on the youngest, the paternal mansion.
ref: 1865, “Revue Historique de droit Français et Étranger”, in The Journal of Jurisprudence, volume IX, page 47:
glosses: Inheritance by the last-born child of the entirety of, or of a privileged position in, a parent’s wealth, estate, or office; ultimogeniture.
cellophane noodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellophane noodle
fons honorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fŏnz hŏnôʹrəm
ipa: /ˌfɒnz hɒˈnɔːɹəm/
Forms: form: fontes honorum
Etymology: Latin: fōns (“fount, source”) + honōrum (“of honours”; the genitive plural form of honor (“honour”)) = “source of honours” ≈ “fount of honour”
Senses: examples: text: In 1919 Pʻun-kʻaṅ taiji bKra-śis-rdo-rje was appointed kung, the only attempt by the Dalai-Lama to succede the defunct Chinese Ch’ing dynasty as fons honorum.
ref: 1973, Luciano Petech, Aristocracy and Government in Tibet, 1728–1959, page 27:
text: It doesn’t seem that the smaller or lower-ranking states behaved as fontes honorum before 1806.
ref: 2002 February 11th, Francois R. Velde, alt.talk.royalty, “Re: Fons honorum germanorum”, (see the original message)
glosses: A person who, by virtue of sovereignty, holds the exclusive right to create and confer legitimate titles of nobility and orders of chivalry.
Synonyms: fount of honour
fontes honorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fŏn'tāz hŏnôʹrəm
enpr: fŏn'tēz hŏnôʹrəm
ipa: /ˌfɒnteɪz hɒˈnɔːɹəm/
ipa: /ˌfɒntiːz hɒˈnɔːɹəm/
Etymology: Latin: fontēs (“founts”, “sources”) + honōrum (“of honours”); see fons honorum
Senses: glosses: plural of fons honorum
waterfowl alignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From have one's ducks in a row.
Senses: examples: text: The more people you have trying to apply the guidelines fairly and consistently, the bigger the waterfowl alignment challenge.
text: I have learned far more from them about how to be a scientist than they realize. Above all else, they taught me the virtues of proper waterfowl alignment.
ref: 1988, Mark Andre Peter Loranc, “Acknowledgements”, in A Study of the Ionospheric Signature of Ion Supply from the Ionosphere to the Magnetosphere (PhD dissertation), University of Texas at Dallas, page iv:
glosses: Proper organization.
Greenlandic Eskimo Pidgin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A pidgin spoken in Greenland.
Related terms: The code used on Wiktionary for Greenlandic Eskimo Pidgin is crp-gep
cocker up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cockers up
form: cockering up
form: cockered up
form: cockered up
Senses: examples: text: ‘I think,’ said the irritated Blanford, ‘that we are all behaving like a gaggle of maiden aunts and the result will simply cocker up the girl's ego – already too swollen, in my humble opinion!’
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1115:
glosses: To indulge (someone); to bolster, encourage (a person, feeling etc.).
galbe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡælb/
Forms: form: galbes
Etymology: From French galbe. Doublet of garb.
Senses: examples: text: Her teeth sank into his lips, he felt the sweet galbe of her flanks and arching back.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1123:
text: What was the word to describe the curves of those little valleys? They were as fine as the lines of a human body, they were informed with the subtlety of art. Galbe. That was a good word; but it was French.
ref: 1921, Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow, Penguin Books, published 1955, page 7:
glosses: The contour or outline of something.
galbes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galbe
febrifuges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of febrifuge
Scotch finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scotch fingers
Senses: glosses: An Australian-produced shortbread biscuit, typically in a long trapezium shape.
neuroatypicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + atypical + -ity.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: neurodivergence, neurodivergency; neurodiversity
antonyms: neurotypicality
hypernyms: atypicality
glosses: The quality of being neuroatypical.
Eurocrem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Brand name, registered as a trademark in 1967.
Senses: glosses: A two-colored sweet spread made from hazelnuts, sugar, cocoa and milk.
neuroatypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnjʊə.ɹəʊ.eɪˈtɪ.pɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌnʊ.ɹoʊ.eɪˈtɪ.pɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɪpɪkəl
Forms: form: more neuroatypical
form: most neuroatypical
Etymology: From neuro- + atypical, by analogy with neurotypical.
Senses: synonyms: neurodivergent
aneurotypical
neurodiverse
neurospicy
antonyms: neurotypical
coordinate_terms: allistic
glosses: Having an atypical neurological configuration.
neuroatypical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnjʊə.ɹəʊ.eɪˈtɪ.pɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌnʊ.ɹoʊ.eɪˈtɪ.pɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɪpɪkəl
Forms: form: neuroatypicals
Etymology: From neuro- + atypical, by analogy with neurotypical.
Senses: glosses: One who is neuroatypical.
inpatriate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inpatriates
Etymology: Popularized in the 1990s. From expatriate, replacing ex- by in-. By surface analysis, in- + patriate.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: An employee of a multinational company who is from a foreign country, but is transferred from a foreign subsidiary to the corporation’s headquarters.
inpatriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Popularized in the 1990s. From expatriate, replacing ex- by in-. By surface analysis, in- + patriate.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to people who are inpatriates, or to inpatriation.
orthodeoxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: accentuation of arterial hypoxemia upon standing upright
Menehune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Menehunes
form: Menehune
Etymology: From Hawaiian menehune.
Senses: glosses: A member of a hidden race in Hawaiian mythology, often described as very small and having magical powers.
Menehunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Menehune
tromboney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tromboney
form: most tromboney
Etymology: From trombone + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His big voice, his good humor, were back. Out rolled one of his long deep tromboney laughs.
ref: 2011, Gail Sheehy, Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos Into Confidence, page 59:
glosses: Having a sound like that of a trombone.
chord progression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chord progressions
Senses: examples: text: You don’t have to start with a melody; you can base your tune on a specific chord progression and compose a melody that best fits the chords.
ref: 2005, Michael Miller, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Music Theory, 2nd edition, Alpha, →ISBN, page 142:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pattern of two or more chords, often chords diatonic to a particular key.
Synonyms: chord changes
Derived terms: sensitive female chord progression
Related terms: circle progression
chord progressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chord progression
water caltrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water caltrops
Senses: glosses: An East Asian water plant, of species Trapa bicornis, with a horn-like nut.
glosses: A nut from this plant.
glosses: A plant of species Trapa natans.
glosses: A plant of species Trapa rossica.
Synonyms: paniphal
saligot
singhara
water chestnut
circle progression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circle progressions
Senses: examples: text: The circle progression I–IV–viiᵒ-iii-vi-ii-V-I moves counterclockwise around the circle of fifths:
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topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a chord progression with ascending fourths and/or descending fifths.
circle progressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circle progression
water caltrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water caltrop
Etruscan bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Etruscan bear
patela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patelas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of putelee.
kalamansi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalamansis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calamansi.
balimbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balimbings
Etymology: From Tagalog balimbing.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of belimbing (“star fruit”).
topics: government
politics
glosses: A turncoat; one who defects to the other side in politics; one who switches political parties
wild river
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild rivers
Senses: glosses: A river system protected by government legislation requiring it to be maintained in its natural state.
Synonyms: sense: A river system protected by government legislation requiring it to be maintained in its natural state.
word: heritage river
bignay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bignays
Etymology: From Tagalog.
Senses: glosses: A tree from the Philippines, which bears small, edible fruit in clusters, Antidesma bunius
bignays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bignay
potato chaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato chasers
Etymology: Alluding to the gastronomy centered on potato and starch found in many white cuisines.
Senses: glosses: An Asian person with a strong inclination and attraction toward white people.
rice chaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice chasers
Etymology: Alluding to the rice-based gastronomy of many Asian cuisines.
Senses: glosses: A white person with a strong inclination and attraction toward Asians.
rice chasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice chaser
niggerlover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niggerlovers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nigger lover.
niggerlovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niggerlover
potato chasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potato chaser
catlicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catlickers
form: Catlicker
Etymology: Compound of cat + licker, phonetically similar to Catholic.
Senses: examples: text: Well, I was in that game. And we were playing the game and we'd fall over on their side, and they'd kick us and they'd shout at us that we were Mexicans and catlickers. That was what they called a Catholic.
ref: 2010, José Inez Taylor, James M. Taggart, Alex and the Hobo: A Chicano Life and Story, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 106:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A Catholic person.
Related terms: Prod
prod
Proddy
proddy
Prottie
prottie
Protty
protty
catlickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catlicker
booty scratcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booty scratchers
Senses: examples: text: […] What in the world is an African booty scratcher?” “Something my sister used to call me. I didn’t know what an African booty scratcher was and I still don’t, but I knew it was something negative things around me had taught me that any and everything referencing Africa had dubious admirable qualities. So what I inevitably sculpted one day were these blue-black, big-lipped, wide nosed, monkey-looking African figures with enormous buttocks, swinging naked from a tree, and landing on the jungle floor to scratch theirs or somebody else’s behinds.
ref: 1999, Odessa Rose, Water in a Broken Glass. A novel, La Caille Nous Pub. / Cool Water Publishing House LLC, →ISBN, page 121:
text: At elite universities, Caribbean students have reportedly excluded African Americans from organizations and study groups, claiming, as part of their immigration narratives, that the latter group lacks the appropriate work ethic to participate. Young Caribbean people learn from their parents the stories of exploitation at the hands of African Americans, or other Caribbean people who had been here longer, when they newly arrived in the United States, and those stories become warning narratives. Most black Americans have minimal contact with black immigrants and derive their information about them from imperialistic and Euro-centric media constructions of third-world, black-populated countries. Hence, immigrated blacks are taunted by them with racist terms like “African booty scratcher” or references to AIDS.
ref: 2004, Imani Perry, Prophets of the Hood. Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: An African person.
booty scratchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booty scratcher
guyabano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guyabanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Philippine Spanish guayábano (“soursop”), as in Spanish guanábano (“soursop tree”) with possible influence from Spanish guayaba (“guava”), from Taíno wanaban.
Senses: glosses: The soursop (Annona muricata) (tree and fruit).
niggerbitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niggerbitches
Etymology: From nigger + bitch.
Senses: examples: text: She remembered everything: how she had fought them, how they had tied her into her chair, how they had taunted her, calling her niggerbitch, niggerbitch.
ref: 1987, Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three, page 283:
text: A fat little fucker buying a Ben And Jerry's Ice Cream was talking to a niggerbitch in line as I was buying a coke[…]
ref: 2005, Loyd Skiles, Truck'n:
glosses: A black woman.
farm nigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farm niggers
Senses: glosses: A supposedly inferior black person whose intellect is compared to that of a field hand.
coordinate_terms: house nigger
glosses: A black slave employed in manual labor.
Synonyms: plantation nigger
star apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star apples
Senses: glosses: A tropical tree, Chrysophyllum cainito, of the Sapotaceae.
examples: text: While Giles had money to waste upon gambling marbles, thanks to his three acres of limes, pawpaw, star apples and melon.
ref: 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 302:
glosses: The fruit of C. cainito.
Synonyms: caimito
cainito
tar apple
milk fruit
plantation nigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantation niggers
Senses: glosses: A slave employed in manual labor, as opposed to a house nigger.
glosses: A black person of limited intellect, likened to an uneducated field hand.
Synonyms: farm nigger
field nigger
farm niggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farm nigger
star apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star apple
Norte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nortes
Senses: glosses: A member of the Norteño Mexican gang.
Nortes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Norte
niggerbitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niggerbitch
bb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bbs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of BB.
examples: text: As a reminder, bb Lili was born on Friday, June 4, at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California.
ref: 2021 June 25, Mehera Bonner, “Meghan Markle Used a Different Name on Lili’s Birth Certificate Than She Used on Archie’s”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2021:
text: There are no quick fixes (soz, bbs) and, to continue to be effective, these healthy habits have to be pretty constant.
ref: 2023 March 20, Rebecca Gillam, Bridie Wilkins, “Alexandra Daddario and her PT on how she built her Baywatch bod + her 10 regular workout rules”, in Women's Health:
glosses: Abbreviation of baby.
plantation niggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plantation nigger
field hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field hand
fieldhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fieldhands
Etymology: From field + hand.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of field hand.
fieldhands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fieldhand
bk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bks
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of book.
glosses: Abbreviation of black.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of bad kid, an inexperienced player or noob.
Norteño
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norteños
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish norteño (“northerner”), from the gang's territory in Northern California.
Senses: glosses: A Mexican gang.
glosses: A Mexican gang member.
glosses: A Mexican or Hispanic person.
Related terms: norteño
Sureño
nangka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nangkas
form: nangca
Etymology: Borrowed from Cebuano nangka.
Senses: glosses: jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)
santols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of santol
jocote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jocotes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish jocote, from Classical Nahuatl.
Senses: glosses: mombin
Related terms: jocote de mico
jocotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jocote
lucmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish lúcuma, from Quechua rukma, luqma.
Senses: glosses: A fruit tree, Pouteria lucuma, from the Andean region of Peru, related to, and often confused with, the canistel.
glosses: The fruit of this tree.
Synonyms: lúcuma
eggfruit
lúcumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lúcuma
tsampoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsampoy
form: champoy
Etymology: From Tagalog tsampoy, from Cantonese 陳皮梅 /陈皮梅 (can⁴ pei⁴ mui⁴⁻²), introduced as a genericized trademark romanized as "CHAN PUI MUI" as printed on preserved prune packaging.
Senses: glosses: yangmei
reef point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reef points
form: reef-point
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A short line, stitched through a sail, for tying a reef
kemiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian kemiri, from Malay kemiri.
Senses: glosses: candlenut, Aleurites moluccanus or Aleurites moluccana
chayotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chayote
inoculative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inoculate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to inoculation.
gets a wriggle on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get a wriggle on
getting a wriggle on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get a wriggle on
got a wriggle on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get a wriggle on
anthropophuism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποφυής (anthrōpophuḗs, “of human nature”) (from ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human”) and φύω (phúō, “become”)) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, then, while we see the spirit of anthropophuism breaking down the principle of the Unity of God, from its being too feeble and too blind to maintain the pure traditions in which it was conveyed, it is still curious to the last degree to observe the order and symmetry of the Greek mind, even in its destructive processes.
ref: 1858, W[illiam] E[wart] Gladstone, “Sect. V. The Olympian Community and Its Members, Considered in Themselves.”, in Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. […], volume II (Olympus: Or, The Religion of the Homeric Age), Oxford, Oxfordshire: University Press, →OCLC, part, page 332:
glosses: Human nature.
glosses: The ascription of human nature to the gods.
deniance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deny + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: the affirmaunce or deniance of the same
ref: a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC:
glosses: denial
insulite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originally a trademark, probably from insulate + -ite.
Senses: glosses: An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc.
impeccancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Either all ſtories mocke vs, or elſe this paraſiticall dreame of impeccancie in judgement, is a mere ſtranger: […]
ref: 1628, Jos[eph] Hall, “The Newnesse of the Uniuersall Head-ship of the Bishop of Rome”, in The Olde Religion: A Treatise, wherin is Laid Downe the True State of the Difference betwixt the Reformed, and Romane Church; […], London: […] W[illiam] S[tansby] for Nathaniell Butter and Richard Hawkings, →OCLC, section II (The Newnesse of Challenged Infallibilitie), page 179:
synonyms: sinlessness
glosses: The quality of being sinless.
Related terms: impeccant
flabel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪbəl/
Forms: form: flabels
Etymology: From Latin flabellum (“a fan”), diminutive of flabrum (“a breeze”), from flare (“to blow”).
Senses: examples: text: Moreouer, the lungs which are the flabell of the heart […] are by the immoderate heate and sircitie [fiercity?] of this fume, quickely dried and coarctated, and consequently become vnapt for motion, to the great offence of the heart, and ruine at length of the whole body.
ref: 1621, Tobias Venner, A Briefe and Accurate Treatise, Concerning, the Taking of the Fume of Tobacco […], page [6]:
text: And so this flabel of Schism in the Church, shall also be the bellows of Sedition in the Common-wealth.
ref: 1662, John Ellis, S. Austin Imitated: or Retractions and Repentings […], page 118:
text: The Bramins also distribute Flabels to the most considerable of the Company, the handles whereof being eight foot long, are plated with Gold and Silver. […] There are six of these Flabels usually employ’d to keep off the Flies from their God; the better sort taking it by turns, that the honour of waiting upon their God may be more equally shar’d.
ref: 1677 [1675], Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, anonymous translator, The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier […], page 179:
glosses: A fan or flabellum.
Related terms: flabellate
flabelliform
flabels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flabel
romancy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more romancy
form: most romancy
Etymology: From romance + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of romancey.
stirks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stirk
postscenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin postscaenium.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: The part of a theater behind the stage; the backstage area.
theomachist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thē-ŏm'ă-kĭst
ipa: /θiˈɑm.æ.kɪst/
Forms: form: theomachists
Etymology: From theomachy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who fights against God, gods or divinity.
theomachists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theomachist
caromel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caromels
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of caramel.
caromels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caromel
rundel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rundels
Etymology: Compare rundle, roundel.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rundle
rundel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rundels
Etymology: Compare rindle.
Senses: glosses: A moat with water in it.
examples: text: An infinit sort of small streames, brookes, beckes, waters, and rundels.
ref: 1587, William Harrison, Description Of Elizabethan England:
glosses: A small stream; a runlet.
rundels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rundel
pulverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And an inquisitive traveller assured me, that whilst he was in fome parts of the Indies, having furnish'd himself with some liquid substances from wounded plants; as soon as he came near Europe they turned into consistent and pulverable
ref: 1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles:
synonyms: pulverisable
glosses: Capable of being reduced to fine powder.
Related terms: pulverise
overthwartness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English overþwartnes, overthwartnes; equivalent to overthwart + -ness.
Senses: examples: c. 1624-1648 (written) 1764 (first published), Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury
my younger sister , indeed , might have been married to a far greater fortune , had not the overthwartness of some neighbours interrupted it
glosses: The state of being overthwart; perverseness.
septisyllable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septisyllables
Etymology: From septi- + syllable.
Senses: glosses: A word of seven syllables.
Related terms: septisyllabic
septisyllables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septisyllable
heteroclitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteroclitous
form: most heteroclitous
Senses: glosses: heteroclitic
sovereignize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sovereignizes
form: sovereignizing
form: sovereignized
form: sovereignized
Etymology: From sovereign + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make into a sovereign; to promote to ruler.
examples: text: The firſt that ſovereignized over them that we read of was Cingis-chawn;
ref: 1677, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. […], 4th edition, London: […] R. Everingham, for R. Scot, T. Basset, J[ohn] Wright, and R. Chiswell, →OCLC, page 193:
glosses: To exercise supreme authority.
sovereignized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sovereignize
sovereignizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sovereignize
sovereignizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sovereignize
marlstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marlstones
Etymology: From marl + stone.
Senses: examples: text: The steady climb eastwards has lifted us from the Soar Valley at Leicester into the marlstone (or ironstone) country of the Middle Lias which, at this point, forms a ridge of high ground over 700ft above sea level, […]
ref: 1961 July, C. P. Walker, P. H. V. Banyard, “Leicester's Belgrave Road branch lives another year”, in Trains Illustrated, page 414:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Marl when hardened into stone.
marlstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marlstone
metagnathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈtæɡnəθəs/
Etymology: From meta- + -gnathous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: having the mandibles crossing at the tip of the bill, as in the crossbill
Related terms: metagnathism
coactively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more coactively
form: most coactively
Etymology: From coactive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: coactively
text: coactively dependent
text: explore objects coactively
glosses: In a coactive manner.
micheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of michery
michery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micheries
Senses: glosses: Theft; cheating.
bombilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombilations
Senses: examples: text: Yet it was possible in still weather to hear the muted bombilation of the sleepless city and when the wind was in the north to count the hammer-strokes of the great bell of St. Paul's.
ref: 1920, Sax Rohmer, “Chapter 1”, in The Green Eyes of Bast:
glosses: A humming or booming sound.
bombilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombilation
scammoniate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Made from scammony.
tapayaxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapayaxins
Etymology: From Classical Nahuatl tapayaxin ("chameleon, salamander").
Senses: glosses: The horned lizard.
tapayaxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tapayaxin
estrangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: estrangles
form: estrangling
form: estrangled
form: estrangled
Etymology: From Middle English estranglen, rare and late variant of stranglen, from Old French estrangler.
Senses: glosses: To strangle.
estrangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of estrangle
estrangles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of estrangle
estrangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of estrangle
insociably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insociably
form: most insociably
Etymology: From insociable + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: unsociably
glosses: In an insociable manner.
theatral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more theatral
form: most theatral
Etymology: From Latin theātrālis.
Senses: examples: text: theatral area of Knossos
topics: architecture
glosses: theatrical
acrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin acritas, from ācer (“sharp, pungent”) + -itās.
Senses: examples: text: that is by the acrity of Prudence and severity of judgement, by whose vigor and efficacy, they see into the falsity & vanity of these errours. And by this their hatred of pravity, and good zeal to Religion, they purchase to themselves great[…]
ref: 1669, Francis Bacon, The Wisdome of the Ancients, page 66:
text: The molasses of beet-roots take with them all the acrity of the root, and moreover […]
ref: 1830, Augustin Pierre DUBRUNFAUT, A complete treatise on the art of Distillation ... from the French of Dubrunfaut, by J. Sheridan. To which is prefixed, the Distillers' Practical Guide, by P. Jonas. ... Fourth edition, page 308:
text: [page 31:] […] the discharge is serous, although, indeed, it acquires sometimes an acrity which attacks the nostrils and lips. […]
[page 49:] […] on account of the acrity of the intestinal matters.
ref: 1884, Adolphe Burggraeve, The New handbook of dosimetric therapeutics, pages 31, 49:
glosses: Sharpness, keenness or acridity.
frequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frequences
Etymology: See frequency.
Senses: examples: text: I, as I undertook, and with the vote / Conſenting in full frequence was impower'd, […]
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 35:
text: Half the marvels of my morning, triumphs over time and space, / Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest commonplace!
ref: 1886, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Locksley Hall Sixty Years After”, in Locksley Hall Sixty Years After etc., London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 12:
glosses: A crowd or throng of people.
examples: text: Raritie and difficultie are wont to cauſe wonder; There are many things which haue wonder in their worth, and leeſe it in their frequence; there are ſome which haue it in their ſtrangeneſſe, and leeſe it in their facilitie; Both meet in this.
ref: 1622, Ios. Hall [i.e., Joseph Hall], “[Contemplations vpon the Principall Histories of the Nevv Testament. The Third Booke.] The Dumbe Deuill Eiected.”, in Contemplations [vpon the Principal Passages of the Holy Story], […], volume VI, London: […] I[ohn] H[aviland] for Nathaniel Butter, →OCLC, pages 338–339:
text: The storm-center gathered slowly around the peaks; low rumble and bowl of thunder increased in frequence; slowly the light shaded as smoky clouds rolled up; the air grew sultrier, and the exasperating breeze puffed a few times and then failed.
ref: 1914 January, Zane Grey, “The Mountain Trail”, in The Light of Western Stars: A Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 225:
glosses: Frequency; abundance.
Derived terms: infrequence
frequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frequence
proceleusmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proceleusmatics
Etymology: From Latin proceleusmaticus, from Ancient Greek προκελευσματικός (prokeleusmatikós), to rouse to action beforehand, to incite.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A metrical foot consisting of four short syllables.
proceleusmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proceleusmatic
form: most proceleusmatic
Etymology: From Latin proceleusmaticus, from Ancient Greek προκελευσματικός (prokeleusmatikós), to rouse to action beforehand, to incite.
Senses: examples: text: The ancient proceleusmatic song , by which the rowers of gallies were animated , may be supposed to have been of this kind
ref: 1775, Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland:
glosses: Inciting; animating; encouraging.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Consisting of four short syllables; composed of metrical feet of four short syllables each.
proceleusmatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proceleusmatic
wainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wainable
form: most wainable
Etymology: From wain + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being ploughed or cultivated; arable; tillable.
inamovable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + amovable.
Senses: examples: text: Had he been inamovable from his position , he could , no doubt , have inspired them with sufficient respect to preserve their integrity
ref: 1893, Charles Marcotte, Governments and Politicians, Ancient and Modern:
glosses: Not amovable.
amourists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amourist
apprizal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apprizals
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of appraisal.
apprizals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apprizal
perturbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perturbable
form: most perturbable
Etymology: From perturb + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be perturbed
Derived terms: unperturbable
tubulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See tubule.
Senses: examples: text: A tubulated bottle has a stoppered opening for the introduction or removal of materials.
glosses: Having the form of a small tube, or composed of a tube, or elongated opening.
Related terms: tubular
tubulate
woolding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of woold
woolding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wooldings
Senses: examples: 1774 August, James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South pole and Around the World
They[the people of Erromango] separate it [their hair] into small locks, which they woold or cue round with the rind of a slender plant, down to about an inch of the ends; and, as the hair grows, the woolding is continued.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, or rope-like material.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rope used for binding masts and spars.
wooldings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolding
Hobbism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hobbes + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Hobbesianism; the philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes, support for this system
Related terms: Hobbish
Hobbist
carpologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpologists
Etymology: From carpology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who studies carpology.
Derived terms: sirdarship
carpologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpologist
sinecurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinecurisms
Etymology: From sinecure + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of having a sinecure.
sinecurisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinecurism
prebendship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prebendships
Etymology: From prebend + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: every one of them should confer one prebendship on the same foundation
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A prebendaryship.
prebendships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prebendship
discumber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discumbers
form: discumbering
form: discumbered
form: discumbered
Etymology: From dis- + cumber: compare Old French descombrer.
Senses: examples: text: a single beam the chief bestrides / There, pois'd awhile, above the bounding tides / His limbs discumbers of the clinging vest
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 5”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: To disencumber.
discumbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discumber
discumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discumber
discumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discumber
craniologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craniologists
Etymology: From craniology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Every scheme of the craniologist for systematising ethnical variations of cranial configuration, and every process of induction pursued by the ethnologist from such data, proceed on the assumption that such varieties in the form of cranium are constant within certain determinate limits, and originate in like natural causes with the features by which we distinguish one nation from another.
ref: 1863, The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, volume 63, page 73:
glosses: Someone proficient in craniology; a phrenologist.
craniologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craniologist
docity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Origin doubtful; supposed to be an alteration of docility. Possibly from doc-, the stem of Latin doceō (“I teach”) + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Very well Sirrah, they dy’d in an honourable Calling—but hark’y’ Rag———I have Buſineſs———very earneſt Buſineſs abroad this Evening, now were you a Raſcal of Docity, you wou’d invent a way———to get home my laſt Suit that was laid in Lavender———with the Appurtenances thereunto belonging, as Perriwig, Cravat———and———ſo forth———
ref: 1686 (first performance), A[phra] Behn, The Luckey Chance, or An Alderman’s Bargain. A Comedy. […], London: […] R. H[olt], for W. Canning, […], published 1687, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 16:
text: Docity. Docility, quick comprehenſion. Glouc[estershire].
ref: [1787, Francis Grose, “Docity”, in A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions, London: S[amuel] Hooper, […], →OCLC, signature D4, recto:
glosses: Docility; quickness of comprehension.
Related terms: docious
unbear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbears
form: unbearing
form: unbore
form: unborne
Etymology: From un- + bear.
Senses: examples: text: […] he dashes to his destination at such a speed that when he stops the horse half smothers him in a cloud of steam.
"Unbear him half a moment to freshen him up, and I'll be back."
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: To remove or loose the bearing rein of (a horse).
unbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English unbering, unberinde, from Old English unberende, from Proto-Germanic *unberandz, equivalent to un- + bearing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbear
unbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unbering, unberinde, from Old English unberende, from Proto-Germanic *unberandz, equivalent to un- + bearing.
Senses: examples: an unbearing tree
glosses: Bearing no fruit.
unbears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbear
unborne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of unbear
spiritally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Latin spiritalis (“belonging to breathing”) + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Vocal ſpeech, to be pronounced ſpiritally, as are P. T. F. S. &c.
ref: 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: By means of the breath.
Related terms: aspirate
inspire
spirit
unbored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: unboard
Etymology: From un- + bored.
Senses: examples: text: an unbored disc
glosses: Not having been bored or drilled through.
examples: text: […] each of us, her lovers, must have known that it was not in our power to make her unbored. We felt that somebody some day might, and that we should be left behind on that day. In spite of her seeming languor Betula had a great addiction to tennis.
ref: 1961, Eric Bligh, Faintly Smiling Mouth, London: Secker & Warburg, page 63:
text: Mrs. Ewing has a way of scaring a lot of people. I think it’s because she’s so rich and knits and, too, she sort of goes around looking bored all the time and you feel as if you’ve got to make her unbored.
ref: 1986, Elise Sanguinetti, The Last of the Whitfields, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 37:
text: Kathy pouts a lot and feels a sense of boredom and restlessness. In many ways she expects Don to make her "unbored," initiate new directions in their marriage, make her decisions for her, and make her feel important and special.
ref: 1986, Gerald Corey, Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy, Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 92:
text: ‘Your friendship’, he told him, ‘which grew steadily upon me, is one of the best things I take a way from the Office…certainly you made a great peace always around me, and kept me unbored and amused’.
ref: 2008, Sean Greenwood, Titan at the Foreign Office: Gladwyn Jebb and the Shaping of the Modern World, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 14:
text: She looked bored. I felt mildly sorry for her, so I decided to make her unbored.
ref: 2013, Melodie Campbell, The Goddaughter’s Revenge, Raven Books, →ISBN, page 99:
text: The pen is mightier than the sword only with readers being unbored.
ref: 2014, Wayne Myers, Ascension Climber In a Metaphysical Primer: Mental-Physical Ways for Spirited Days, Lulu, →ISBN:
text: She was a bright kid, and she couldn't be fooled by her parents trying their best to keep her unbored.
ref: 2021, Yugel Losorata, “Liberating Ursula”, in Rhythm & Bruise, Ukiyoto Publishing, →ISBN, page 17:
text: “You wish I would stay for a while…until you got bored. You can’t fool me.” / “But mayhap you would be the one to get bored,” he pointed out, although he did not really believe that. Leastways, it had never happened to him with other women. / “Well then, I would just have to make sure you worked extra hard to keep me unbored.” She grinned at him to demonstrate her meaning, as if he hadn’t understood that she meant sexplay.
ref: 2022, Sandra Hill, The Caged Viking, →ISBN:
glosses: Not or no longer bored (suffering from boredom).
unbored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: unboard
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbore
borderlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From borderless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: From its inception “movement” or more precisely “borderlessness” has been central to various utopian traditions.
ref: 2018 November 11, Achille Mbembe, “The idea of a borderless world”, in Africa Is a Country:
glosses: Absence of borders.
treckschuyt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treckschuyts
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch trekschuit, from an obsolete spelling.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trekschuit.
treckschuyts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treckschuyt
enterparlance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterparlances
Senses: examples: text: The next day about 2000 of them affronted the Kings forces at the entrance of a high way, whom when they found both ready and resolute to fight, they desired enterparlance
ref: a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
glosses: Mutual talk or conversation; conference.