cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sulimov dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sulimov dogs
Etymology: Named after its original breeder, Russian scientist Klim Sulimov.
Senses: glosses: A hybrid canid, the offspring of Lapponian Herders and golden jackals.
Sulimov dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sulimov dog
Lapponian Herder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: Lapponian Herders
Senses: glosses: A breed of dog from Finland, used by the Sami to herd reindeer.
Lapponian Herders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lapponian Herder
Lapponians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lapponian
Savannah cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Savannah cats
Senses: synonyms: Savannah
glosses: A hybrid between a serval and a domestic cat.
Hypernyms: cat
Savannah cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Savannah cat
Savannahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Savannah
Canada lynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canada lynxes
form: Canadian lynx
Senses: glosses: A species of lynx, Lynx canadensis.
Canada lynxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Canada lynx
Canadian lynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canadian lynxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Canada lynx.
Canadian lynxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Canadian lynx
caraval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caravals
Senses: examples: text: [T]he governor of Hiſpaniola was afraid that if the admiral returned to Spain, Their Catholic Majeſties would reſtore him to his government, and ſo he ſhould be forced to quit it; for which reaſon he would not provide, as he might have done, for the admiral's voyage to Hiſpaniola; and therefore had ſent that little caraval to ſpy and obſerve the condition the admiral was in, and to know whether he could contrive with ſafety to have him deſtroyed, […]
ref: 1812, John Pinkerton, “Of Another Mutiny among Those that Remained with the Admiral, which was Quelled by the Coming of a Vessel from Hispaniola”, in A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World; […], volume XII, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Cadell and Davies, […], →OCLC, page 150:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of caravel.
caravals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caraval
onotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄνος (ónos, “ass, donkey”) + therapy.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, besides their dairy aptitude, donkeys could also play an important social role as companion animals and could also be used in an emerging form of pet therapy known as onotherapy.
ref: 2011, Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences:
text: In recent years, there has been a renewed interest towards the products (milk and meat) and social practices (rural tourism, onotherapy, etc.) that this species can offer, although donkey's breeding is still poorly widespread.
ref: 2015, Antonella Vastola, The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Donkey riding as physical therapy.
moilees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moilee
cerge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerges
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cierge.
cerges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerge
Icarus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪkəɹəs/
Etymology: From Latin Īcarus, from Ancient Greek Ἴκαρος (Íkaros).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Greek mythological figure, son of Daedalus, who escaped from the Cretan labyrinth of Knossos by flying with wings made from feathers and wax, but flew too near to the sun, which melted the wax in the wings, so he fell down and drowned in the Aegean Sea.
Related terms: Icaria
Icarian
push up daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushes up daisies
form: pushing up daisies
form: pushed up daisies
form: pushed up daisies
form: push daisies
form: push up the daisies
Etymology: In allusion to the daisy flowers growing over a dead person's grave. Originated in World War I.
Senses: glosses: To be dead.
Derived terms: word: pushing up daisies
Related terms: turn up one's toes to the daisies
Fernandes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rodrigues
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese Rodrigues (“son of Rodrigo”). Also from Spanish Rodrigues, variant spelling of Rodríguez. The island is named after Portuguese explorer Diogo Rodrigues (c. 1490–1577).
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic
glosses: An outer island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean.
Derived terms: Rodrigues solitaire
Related terms: Rodriguez
Icarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈkɛəɹiən/
Forms: form: more Icarian
form: most Icarian
Senses: examples: text: an Icarian fall
glosses: Of or relating to the mythological Icarus.
glosses: Relating to Icarianism.
glosses: Coming from the island of Icaria.
Icarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈkɛəɹiən/
Forms: form: Icarians
Senses: glosses: A follower of Icarianism.
glosses: A person from the island of Icaria.
push factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of push factor
push-pull amplifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push–pull amplifiers
Senses: glosses: plural of push-pull amplifier
numb-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more numb-handed
form: most numb-handed
Etymology: From numb + handed.
Senses: examples: text: The wine-dark seas pass under, and the heavy boats swing round, and the men roll their nets and go, numb-handed, backs bent, harbor bound, gift-laden, home: where light, fast fading, locks land in gold, and gulls cross, crying, the scene, and cross again, crying.
ref: 2014, Risa Bear, Collected Poems, →ISBN:
text: I was in the delivery room as she was born into this world, nauseated by the excitement and numb-handed from Izzy squeezing the life from my digits.
ref: 2010, Joe Boxer, Memoirs of a Serial Bachelor, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Soaked to the skin and numb-handed, we secured the boat between two grounded bergs and camped in a long-deserted Inuit hut.
ref: 2009, Ranulph Fiennes, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, →ISBN:
glosses: Having hands that are numb.
examples: text: 'Oh, you scandalous, hypocritical, rusty-booted, numb-handed son of a puffing corn-cutter, why don't you turn your attention to feeding hens, cultivating cabbages, or making pantaloons for small folk, instead of killing hounds in this wholesale way'! roared Jack; an enquiry that set him foaming again.
ref: 2014, Robert Smith Surtees, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour:
text: Most folks associate London with White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and struggling numb-handed to start a fire in the snow. (You know how that one ends.)
ref: 2014, Leath Tonino, Masters of Dig: A tour of authorial abodes:
text: Bette Mandl, who had the original idea for this very special issue on O'Neill and Gender, contacted a particularly fine array of experts in that burgeoning field of study, and pretty much created the entire issue with her usual diligence and grace, leaving numb-handed but happy-hearted me with little to do but sit back and marvel at the splendor of the whole package.
ref: 1995, The Eugene O'Neill Review - Volume 19, page 3:
text: He signs the painting in a vigorous but numb-handed red - always he finds the signature the most uncomfortable strokes in the canvas - and steps back to observe...
ref: 1978, Sam Borenstein, Texts by William Kuhns and Léo Rosshandler, page 14:
glosses: Inept or clumsy.
stit
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Initialism of sees to it that.
misweening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misween
misweened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misween
misweens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misween
mixier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of mixy: more mixy
mixiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mixy: most mixy
monosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monosome
moonsails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonsail
moonrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonrocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moon rock.
moonrocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonrock
motorboaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motorboater
mudpacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudpack
needlefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needleful
neologised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of neologise
neologises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of neologise
neologising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neologise
jugulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin iugulum (“neck”) + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Prevention of a disease from progressing.
glosses: Slitting of the throat as a way to kill something or someone.
microlambert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microlamberts
Etymology: From micro- + lambert.
Senses: glosses: A unit of measure, one millionth of a lambert.
microlamberts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microlambert
microgranite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microgranites
Etymology: From micro- + granite.
Senses: glosses: A type of microcrystalline plutonic rock with the same composition as granite.
microgranites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microgranite
adamellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adamellites
Etymology: From Mount Adamello, location of rocks described by the previous meaning of "adamellite", "orthoclase-bearing tonalite in the Adamello Massif," + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: monzonite
adamellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adamellite
monzonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monzonite
cat liver fluke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat liver flukes
Senses: examples: text: A related human fish-borne liverfluke disease is opisthorchiasis, caused by Opisthorchis viverrini and O. felineus (the cat liver fluke).
ref: 2002, H. Allan Bremner, Safety and Quality Issues in Fish Processing, page 125:
glosses: A trematode parasite of species Opisthorchis felineus, that infects the liver in mammals
granophyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granophyres
Etymology: From grano- + -phyre.
Senses: glosses: A subvolcanic rock with angular intergrowths of quartz and alkali feldspar.
Derived terms: granophyric
granophyres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granophyre
subvolcanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + volcanic.
Senses: glosses: Beneath a volcano.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: Intrusive, but having grain size and texture intermediate between volcanic and plutonic rocks.
raw_tags: of a rock
Synonyms: topics: petrology
geology
geography
natural-sciences
word: hypabyssal
granophyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From granophyre + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: Having a texture resembling that of classic granophyre.
delusion of adequacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delusions of adequacy
Etymology: Coined by American writer and Broadway theater critic Walter Kerr in 1951 in a review in New York Herald Tribune review of a Broadway play called Buy Me Blue Ribbons (in reference to star Jay Robinson). An ironic variation of delusion of grandeur.
Senses: examples: text: But compared to the jagged, snow-covered peaks in the distance, the mountains back east were mud hills with delusions of adequacy.
ref: 2005, Paul Lucas, Linda A. Lavid, Creatura, page 146:
text: Whatever delusion of adequacy my admission to my father's alma mater had encouraged evaporated like morning dew, and I was left to panic before the stark, unblinking truth: I was an interloper.
ref: 2015, Ginny Gilder, chapter 1, in Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX:
text: Mr. Robinson is not up to the course he has set for himself. In the play, the character concludes by giving up his dreams of overnight stardom and deciding to learn his trade from the bottom up. All Mr. Robinson can honestly do now is to take his own advice. At the moment, he is suffering from delusions of adequacy.
ref: 1951 October 18, Walter Kerr, New York Herald Tribune:
glosses: The false belief that one is adequate; the belief that one is doing a competent job when one is actually incompetent.
wikipedia: Jay Robinson
Walter Kerr
oceanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oceanites
Etymology: From ocean + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A variety of picrite that is chiefly composed of olivine phenocrysts.
oceanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oceanite
delusions of adequacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delusion of adequacy
idiotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪdɪəʊˈtɹɒpɪk/
ipa: /ˌɪdɪəˈtɹəʊpɪk/
ipa: /ˌɪdioʊˈtɹɒpɪk/
ipa: /ˌɪdi.əˈtɹoʊpɪk/
Etymology: From idio- (“personal”, “peculiar”, “one’s own”) + -tropic (“bending or turning [in a given direction]”).
Senses: glosses: Finding satisfaction in being detached and isolated, introspective
glosses: Aligned with one’s own physical orientation.
leucogabbro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucogabbros
Etymology: From leuco- + gabbro.
Senses: glosses: A gabbro that is light in colour due to a high concentration of plagioclase feldspar.
leucogabbros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucogabbro
bojite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bojites
Etymology: From Latin Boiī + -ite, coined in 1898 by E. Weinschenk.
Senses: glosses: A type of hornblendic gabbro.
bojites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bojite
snowflake obsidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowflake obsidians
Senses: glosses: Obsidian which has radial crystal clusters composed of cristobalite on its surface.
snowflake obsidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowflake obsidian
obsidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obsidian
ultrapotassic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + potassic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: Having a very high potassium content.
raw_tags: of mafic or ultramafic rock
metaquartzite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaquartzites
Etymology: From meta- + quartzite.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quartzite.
synonyms: word: quartzite
Gigli saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɪɡ.ə.liˌsɔ/
Forms: form: Gigli saws
Etymology: After Leonardo Gigli, the inventor of the saw.
Senses: glosses: a manual flexible wiresaw used for surgical sawing of bones
wikipedia: Leonardo Gigli
Gigli saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gigli saw
oophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /oʊˈɒfəɹəs/
Etymology: By surface analysis, oophor- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Containing eggs or ova.
Related terms: oophoric
oophoron
VLAD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Acronym of Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment, a series of anti-bikie laws.
opalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opalizations
Etymology: From opalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of making something opalescent, or of converting wood etc into opal.
Vlad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vlæd/
Etymology: Common Romanian male given name, sometimes used as a short form of Vladimir, but more commonly a hypocorism of Vladislav. It is also found as Czech and Slovak surname.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: An abbreviation of Vladimir (in English, not in Russian; see usage notes).
glosses: An abbreviation of Vladislav.
Derived terms: Vlad the Impaler
MAVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MAV
MDVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MDV
MRAPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MRAP
HMMWVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HMMWV
Diet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of diet (“formal deliberative assembly”).
Nitro Express
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the cordite propellant used, which is composed of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine, and express, due to the higher velocities available with cordite compared to black powder.
Senses: glosses: A large-calibre cartridge with adequate ballistics to kill big game.
Related terms: elephant gun
feed-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A system whereby users with small-scale, renewable generators may supply electricity to the grid and get paid for it.
Derived terms: feed-in tariff
FIT
Horwitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, an alternative form of Horowitz.
operationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operationisms
Etymology: From operation + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that the meaning of a term consists of the operation(s) performed in defining it
opisthographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From opisthography + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: There is one opisthographic stele for each phyle and the demoi appear as headings under which are listed the names and patronymics of the citizens belonging to that demos.
ref: 2006, Mogens Herman Hansen, Studies in the Population of Aigina, Athens and Eretria, page 62:
glosses: Written on both sides.
glosses: Relating to an opisthograph.
Derived terms: anopisthographic
opisthographically
Related terms: opisthography
beaux arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beaux-arts.
beaux-arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /boʊˈzɑɹ/
ipa: /bəʊˈzɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: beaux arts
Etymology: Borrowed from French beaux-arts.
Senses: glosses: The fine arts, especially in reference to the widely imitated conventional type of art and architecture advocated at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
wild buckwheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild buckwheats
Senses: glosses: Any plant in the genus Eriogonum, related to true buckwheat
glosses: Other plants related to or resembling buckwheat.
wild buckwheats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild buckwheat
going home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go home
went home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go home
goes home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go home
Guarulhos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Guarulhos.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil.
crunchy roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crunchy rolls
Senses: glosses: A sushi roll coated in panko
Antarctic hair grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Deschampsia antarctica, a flowering plant native to Antarctica.
crunchy rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crunchy roll
oppignorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oppignorates
form: oppignorating
form: oppignorated
form: oppignorated
form: oppignerate
Senses: examples: text: Besides that, Ferdinando had but newly taken breath from the war with the Moors; and merchanded at this time with France for the restoring of the counties of Russignon and Perpignian, oppignorated to the French.
ref: 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 91:
glosses: To pawn; to lay in pledge.
Related terms: oppignoration
nidiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪdɪfɔːm/
ipa: /ˈnʌɪdɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more nidiform
form: most nidiform
Etymology: From the New Latin nīdifōrmis (1828).
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a nest.
dyewater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyewaters
Etymology: From dye + water.
Senses: glosses: Water contaminated with dyestuffs.
dyewaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyewater
optacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optacons
Etymology: From optical-to-tactile converter.
Senses: glosses: An electromechanical device that selectively raises small rods over the darker parts of a document, and thus enables blind people to read printed material that has not been transcribed into Braille.
optimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optimeters
Senses: glosses: A form of interferometer used in the measurement of gauge blocks.
glosses: Alternative form of optometer (“eye-measuring instrument”).
footballese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From football + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The jargon associated with the sport of football.
baseballese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baseball + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: After 7 years of being in a rot league, I have learned that "day to day" in baseballese means "at least a week, maybe more, and maybe after the week, then we may DL him."
ref: 1996 June 3, Joe in MA [username], “Re: Jim Edmonds' return date?”, in rec.sport.baseball.fantasy (Usenet):
text: Back-back-back-back went Cardinals shortstop Pete Kozma. Twenty feet back of the infield dirt. Thirty feet. Forty feet. Fifty feet. Sixty feet. Finally, he raised his arms in the air -- which, in baseball-ese, is the international symbol for "I've got it."
ref: 2012 October 6, Jayson Stark, “The pop-up heard ‘round the world”, in (Usenet):
glosses: The jargon associated with the sport of baseball.
AVMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AVM
mathematese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of mathematics + -ese
Senses: glosses: The jargon associated with mathematics.
Cascadia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kæsˈkeɪ.di.ə/
Etymology: From cascade + -ia, in reference to the Cascade Range.
Senses: glosses: The Pacific Northwest region of North America, politically divided between the northwestern United States and western Canada.
Derived terms: Cascadian
otiatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to otiatrics.
otiatrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oto- + -iatrics.
Senses: glosses: The study of diseases of the ear and their treatment.
otorrhagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oto- + -rrhagia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: bleeding from the ear
Frogspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: frog speak
form: Frog speak
form: frog-speak
form: Frog-speak
form: frogspeak
Etymology: From Frog + -speak.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of French.
synonyms: word: French
spicspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: spic-speak
Etymology: From spic + -speak.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Spanish.
synonyms: word: Spanish
frog cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This intoxicating fume is caused by introducing into the fumigating lamp a piece of ignited vegetable substance, called puck, puckball, or frog-cheese, or, most commonly, fuzzball.
ref: 1835, Thomas Nutt, Humanity to honey-bees: or, practical directions for the management of honey bees upon an improved and humane plan, by which the lives of bees may be preserved, and abundance of honey of a superior quality may be obtained, 3rd edition, London: Longman, →OCLC, page 126:
glosses: A large puffball.
Herzeg-Bosnia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
glosses: A short-lived, unrecognized political entity that existed during the Bosnian war, consisting of the Croat communities of Bosnia.
Synonyms: sense: short-lived political entity
word: Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia
sense: short-lived political entity
word: Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia
sense: short-lived political entity
word: Croat Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia
sense: short-lived political entity
word: Croat Community of Herzeg-Bosnia
holy damn
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Exclamation of shock or surprise.
hydriodates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydriodate
lemmatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lemmatic + -al.
Senses: synonyms: lemmatic
glosses: Relating to a lemma.
Derived terms: lemmatically
wopspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wop + -speak.
Senses: glosses: The Italian language.
dreamlife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreamlives
Etymology: From dream + life.
Senses: examples: text: Jane's compulsively active dreamlife is further characterized by recurrent, anxiety-ridden, and regressive nightmares, with images of barriers, closed doors and phantom-children.
ref: 1988, Maurianne Adams, “Jane Eyre: Woman's Estate”, Arlyn Diamond, Lee R. Edwards (ed.), The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism, University of Massachusetts Press, 150
text: We cannot quite count as “abnormal” what meets us, or beats against us, in the rising and falling waves of dreamlife. This dreamworld has already become the object of natural scientific and philosophical investigations.
ref: 2003, Rudolf Steiner, chapter 5, in Sleep and Dreams: A Bridge to the Spirit, SteinerBooks, →ISBN, page 77:
text: It is an altogether chancy, combative, and transgressive story worthy of the risky city-in-spite-of-itself—a city built on constant invention and reinvention, one that has woven its way into the dreamlife of the rest of America and beyond: a city that boasts of Mardi Gras and the cultural interactions and conflicts that traverse almost three centuries.
ref: 2006, Roger D. Abrahams, Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: The total experience of dreams and fantasies.
hyalinoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyalinosis
herniorrhaphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herniorrhaphy
dreamlives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dreamlife
singsongingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more singsongingly
form: most singsongingly
Etymology: From singsonging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh," Paul said singsongingly, to the point of satire, "is that the guy who has heard of evolution and remains unimpressed?"
ref: 1960, Peter Martin, The Building, Little, Brown, published 1960, page 76:
text: "A phil-o-soph-er!" cried the Morgana, singsongingly.
ref: 1998, Lawrence Schimel, Martin H. Greenberg, Camelot Fantastic, Daw books, →ISBN, page 230:
text: “I’m so glad”, she replies. Then she pauses, allowing me a few precious seconds with the item before singsongingly adding, “OK, darlin’: Now wrap it up and hand it back.”
ref: 2011, Jane Borden, I Totally Meant to Do That, Broadway Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 133:
glosses: In a singsonging manner.
hypoderms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypoderm
gag a maggot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gags a maggot
form: gagging a maggot
form: gagged a maggot
form: gagged a maggot
Senses: glosses: To cause great disgust or nausea.
Related terms: face only a mother could love
semitechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + technical.
Senses: glosses: Partially or somewhat technical.
underpuppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpuppies
Etymology: From under + puppy, by analogy with underdog.
Senses: glosses: An underdog who is small, insignificant or both.
underpuppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpuppy
beer and pretzels game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer and pretzels games
Senses: topics: games
glosses: Any simple, humorous game with few rules and little strategy.
Related terms: beer and skittles
beer and pretzels games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beer and pretzels game
therapeutic boarding school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: therapeutic boarding schools
Senses: glosses: A residential school which provides therapy and education.
refusants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refusant
acetamids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetamid
acetamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetamide
acetanilids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetanilid
Eastern Euros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eastern Euro
prestigiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prestigiously
form: most prestigiously
Etymology: From prestigious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a prestigious manner.
hevenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hevenly
form: most hevenly
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of heavenly.
prevues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prevue
prevues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prevue
sweet butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet butters
Senses: glosses: Unsalted butter.
enrichener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enricheners
Etymology: From enrichen + -er.
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The choke of a motor vehicle.
Synonyms: enricher
punchballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punchball
playball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪˌbɔːl/
ipa: /ˈpleɪˌbɔl/
ipa: /ˈpleɪˌbɑl/
Forms: form: playballs
Etymology: From play + ball.
Senses: examples: text: What a play-ball has this planet of ours become!
ref: 1909, Jack London, The Shrinkage of the Planet:
text: A playball comprising a blend of rubber and a thermoplastic homopolymer of a styrene or substituted styrene […]
ref: 1971, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office: Patents:
glosses: A ball for use in games.
playballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playball
pining stool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pining stools
Senses: examples: text: To punyschen on pillories · and pynynge stoles / Brewesteres and bakesteres · bocheres and cokes.
ref: c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:
text: The cucking stool or pining stool (known from the eighteenth century as the ducking stool) was used to duck scolds and disorderly women into ponds and rivers […].
ref: 2004, Gordon Campbell, Renaissance Art and Architecture, page 55:
glosses: A cucking stool.
pyengadu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pyinkado.
quackles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quackle
quaaludes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaalude
rambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ɹæmbəʊ]
rhymes: -æmbəʊ
Forms: form: rambos
form: ramzy
form: rammy
form: ramz
form: ram
form: rambizzy
Etymology: Presumably from Rambo (“John Rambo”).
Senses: examples: text: Man still money dance in the bando
L1 in the cut two rambos
I love skengs and peds, violence no meds
They say one-fifty but it's one-four-six, true there friend dem dead
ref: 2016 June 28, “Hazards”, Loski (lyrics), performed by Loski:
text: Have to switch it up and bring it back
Got a rambo in my back
I’m on licence, I give a dumb
When there’s ops about, I let it bang
ref: 2017 June 9, “My Kingdom”, performed by Tel Money:
text: Grab him, don't panic, rambo under my jacket
Nap him, splash him, then I'm petrol bath my jacket
ref: 2017 October 18, “Panic”, Knockoutned (lyrics), performed by #Moscow17 Ruth x Knockoutned:
synonyms: nank
shank
bassy
glosses: A knife.
wikipedia: en:John Rambo
ash-bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ash-bins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ashbin.
lock-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from lock up
Senses: examples: text: At the top of George Street the Bear Inn, once the court house, has detached 17th-century columns supporting the upper floor. Close by is the old lock-up, dated 1824.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 68:
glosses: Alternative form of lockup.
Related terms: lock up
ash-tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ash-trays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ashtray.
ashbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashbins
Etymology: From ash + bin.
Senses: glosses: ashcan
ashbins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ashbin
fig tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪɡ tɹiː/
Forms: form: fig trees
form: figtree
Etymology: From Middle English figge tre, a partial calque of fike tre, fictre, fic-treow, from Old English fīctrēow (“fig tree”), equivalent to fig + tree.
Senses: glosses: Any tree that bears figs (Ficus spp.).
Derived terms: Fig Tree Formation
re-establish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-establishes
form: re-establishing
form: re-established
form: re-established
Etymology: From re- + establish.
Senses: examples: text: He ſent a phyſician to viſit him, who having given it as his opinion, that the young Engliſhman required nothing but reſt and proper diet to re-eſtablish his health, Mr. Steele then ſent for the landlord of the houſe where Carr and he were quartered, deſiring that he would immediately give them a more convenient apartment, and let the young man have that particular diet which the doctor recommended; […]
ref: 1789 May 27, [John Moore], “A Letter from the Baronet to the Honourable Mr. N⁠⸺”, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, pages 254–255:
text: He is now perhaps sorry for what he has done, and anxious to re-establish a character.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 206:
text: For several months after the repair of the track the lines were steam-operated, but the premium put on steam rolling stock in Germany made it desirable to re-establish electric operation as far as possible with existing stock; [...].
ref: 1941 June, “Notes and News: Warsaw Electric Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 277:
text: The previous station at the Cambridgeshire town closed in September 1965, and NR Anglia Route Director Ellie Burrows said: "Providing a new station will re-establish that relationship with the Soham community that was lost in the 1960s, [...]."
ref: 2020 May 20, “Plan submitted for £18.6 million station at Soham”, in Rail, page 21:
glosses: Alternative form of reestablish.
Related terms: re-establishment
self-centred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-centred
form: most self-centred
Etymology: From self- + centred.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of self-centered.
self-discovery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + discovery.
Senses: examples: text: The X-Men films have made an explicit connection between the mutants’ powers and pubescent self-discovery, but perhaps it’s necessary to address the last few movies’ psychosexual subtext.
ref: 2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: The action or process of achieving self-knowledge.
self-catering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + catering.
Senses: examples: text: Located on the northbound platform, the detached, timber-clad waiting room (a period Furness Railway structure) has been adapted into a pet-friendly, self-catering, two-bedroom holiday home complete with sun lounge and garden for those sunny Cumbrian days.
ref: 2025 October 15, Stephen Roberts, “Top 10: Railway retreats: St Bees, Cumbria”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 57:
glosses: Of holiday accommodation: in which the holidaymaker cooks for him/herself.
self-governing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + governing.
Senses: examples: text: Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.
ref: 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019:
glosses: autonomous
reconditely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reconditely
form: most reconditely
Etymology: From recondite + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a recondite manner.
reconvicts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconvict
reconvicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconvict
manshake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manshakes
form: man-shake
Etymology: Blend of man + handshake
Senses: glosses: An aggressively strong handshake.
manshake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-shake
Etymology: Blend of man + milkshake
Senses: glosses: Semen.
reedmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reedman
reestimated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reestimate
reestimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reestimate
reestimating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reestimate
reexposures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reexposure
refects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refect
refecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refect
reobserving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reobserve
reobserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reobserve
reorchestrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reorchestrate
reoperated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reoperate
reoperates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reoperate
reoperating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reoperate
reorchestrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reorchestrate
repetends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repetend
replunges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of replunge
replunging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of replunge
replunged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of replunge
dreamish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dreamish
form: most dreamish
Etymology: From dream + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes a faintish, dizzy feeling flits through my brain, the ground and the mountains begin to quiver. The shout of a Bedouin rouses me from a dreamish stupor, to a keener desire for water. O for a cup of the cold water at my father's door!
ref: 1861, Benjamin Bausman, Sinai and Zion; Or, A Pilgrimage through the Wilderness to the Land of Promise, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, chapter 6, 119:
text: Instead of getting drowsier she was getting more awake—with an odd night-time, dreamish kind of wakefulness.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 9, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
text: The dreamish, arational quality of Baraka's poems is of a piece with his contempt for the confusion of rationality with rationalization (“Bankrupt utopia sez tell me / no utopias”).
ref: 1993, Nathaniel Mackey, chapter 2, in Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41:
text: It was fatigued thinking, dreamish thinking. She didn't even believe in spirits. But she recalled him standing firm in the waterfall current; she saw him pop up, desert dry, onto the top of Vance's trailer while it bobbed in the river; she saw her bookcase standing upright to cover the hole in her bedroom wall.
ref: 2013, Erin Healy, chapter 20, in Afloat, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: Resembling a dream or the state of dreaming.
Synonyms: dreamlike
dreamy
oneiric
repoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repour
repowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repower
repours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repour
repouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repour
repowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repower
repowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repower
halleflinta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Swedish hälleflinta.
Senses: glosses: A type of metamorphic rock, formed from volcanic tuff and rich in quartz and feldspars.
repumpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repumping
metasandstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metasandstones
Etymology: From meta- + sandstone.
Senses: glosses: A sandstone that has undergone metamorphism to some degree.
metasiltstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metasiltstones
Etymology: From meta- + siltstone.
Senses: glosses: A siltstone that has undergone metamorphism to some degree.
metasiltstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metasiltstone
metagreywacke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metagreywackes
form: metagraywacke
Etymology: From meta- + greywacke.
Senses: glosses: A greywacke that has undergone metamorphism to some degree.
metagreywackes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metagreywacke
metagraywacke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metagraywackes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of metagreywacke.
metagraywackes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metagraywacke
metamudstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metamudstones
Etymology: From meta- + mudstone.
Senses: glosses: A mudstone that has undergone metamorphism to some degree.
metamudstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metamudstone
Voldemortian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Voldemortian
form: most Voldemortian
Etymology: From Voldemort + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: A twenty-seven year-old screenwriter stepped up to the table. Josh reached into the carry on and pulled out a bottle containing an anti-psychotic medication.
"Sorry, I have to confiscate this." He tossed it into the trash bin.
Seven hours later, over the Pacific Ocean, the screenwriter would notice that his fellow passengers had begun to morph in a strangely Voldemortian way.
"Snakes on the plane!" he would scream, "Snakes on the plane!"
ref: 2007, Steven F. Lott, “Blunt Weapon”, in It Came from Airport Security, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 40:
text: There is one man whose reputation – amazingly – has been burnished by the disaster of the past few weeks; one man who is still sought after by society hostesses; one man whose every silken Voldemortian utterance is still taken down, with reverence, by the political journalists.
ref: 2010 May 3, Boris Johnson, “General Election 2010: Gordon Brown is a goner - bring on Peter Mandelson”, in The Telegraph:
text: As a vegetable product, it was favored as a healthier option than animal fats (a view that went downhill when transfats became viewed with Voldemortian horror, then flipped again when Crisco got a nearly transfat-free new formula.)
ref: 2011 April 2, Rebekah Denn, “Crisco is still a good thing, sometimes”, in The Seattle Times:
glosses: Having similar traits to the fictional evil wizard Voldemort from the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.
Synonyms: Voldemortesque
Voldemortish
Related terms: Dumbledorian
calcarenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcarenite
biocalcarenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biocalcarenite
Voldemortish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Voldemortish
form: most Voldemortish
Etymology: From Voldemort + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The last reel is buoyed by the deliciously hammy tones of David Bowie, who voices the Voldemortish villain.
ref: 2007 January 18, Al Hoff, “Arthur and the Invisibles”, in Pittsburgh City Paper:
text: The villain, Red Skull, is a scary character, not to mention seriously ugly in a noseless, Voldemortish way.
ref: 2011 July 31, Jane Horwitz, “Family Filmgoer”, in The Boston Globe:
text: There was little that could be done to make Diablo appear less frightening. He had a haircut, and now wore Justin Bieber-like bangs covering his horns. He wore a button-down shirt and dark slacks. But no amount of concealer was going to hide the tattoos covering his entire face, or reconstruct the Voldemortish nostrils.
ref: 2013, Allison Leotta, chapter 49, in Speak of the Devil, New York: Pocket Books, published 2015, →ISBN, page 351:
glosses: Having similar traits to the fictional evil wizard Voldemort from the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.
Synonyms: Voldemortesque
Voldemortian
Related terms: Dumbledorian