cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shit-brindle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shit-brindle
form: most shit-brindle
Senses: examples: text: Eliza and Charles had to show him how the perfected blue-dyed yarn could be colored green by scalding in yellow dye made out of rabbit-brush blossoms or wild greasewood; black dye could be made from logwood and copperas vitriol; dark brown from the walnuts Brother Hamblin was raising in Santa Clara; olive green from the creosote leaves, and 'shit-brindle' from wild sage.
ref: 1942, Maurine Whipple, The Giant Joshua:
text: 1995, "One-Eyed Jack" as found in Resurrection and Reclamation: The Collected Works of S. Darnbrook Colson compiled and edited by Elrod Stanton
The walls of the "game room," as we called it, were shit-brindle yellow. We could never get Bennuci to repaint the damned thing. Said he liked the color. Said it reminded him of his bedroom when he was a boy. We always made joked about what the rest of his house must've looked like: Baby puke green, Menstruation red, and so on.
text: Ain't nothing bright about it but its namesake, even the birds are a shit-brindle-brown streaked with a dusty-ochre.
ref: 2005, Don Smith, Ricochet Blues:
text: But the best part was that he'd nailed it: the color Sonja chose for that psycho-chromatic study was a most disturbing combination of brown, rust, and mustard--it was a slightly metallic dark-gold puke color, basically. No, it was shit brindle to a T. Genius […]
ref: 2009, Courtney Eldridge, The Generosity of Women:
glosses: having a light, unglamorous shade of brown color
kindies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kindy
all that and a bag of chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She's all that and a bag of chips!
glosses: Something very special.
Synonyms: great
awesome
wonderful
rhinitis sicca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhinitis + Latin siccus (“dry”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: otolaryngology
glosses: A type of chronic nasal inflammation where there is little to no nasal secretion, causing discomfort in breathing.
fucksore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucksores
form: fuck sore
Etymology: Compound of fuck + sore.
Senses: examples: text: Venereal diseases — presumably varieties of syphilis and gonorrhea — were mostly called fucksores or foreigners' misery — the latter being fair enough, since none was endemic in the Valley.
ref: 2001, Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Barton, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, Always Coming Home, page 476:
text: A seminaked schoolgirl with a biscuit-sized fucksore on the base of her spine, that turns out, wonderfully, to be a tattoo of a ribbon or a bow—'Gift wrapped,' yells Bunny. 'Can you believe it?
ref: 2010, Nick Cave, Death of Bunny Munro, link:
glosses: A genital abrasion as a result of a sexually transmitted disease, typically from a herpes virus.
fucksores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fucksore
f word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: f words
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of f-word.
fuck sore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck sores
Senses: examples: text: It's a fuck sore.' And it may well be a fuck sore, what with all the traffic. But it's more likely to be a herpes sore. and that guy shouldn't be working.
ref: 2004, Martin Amis, Vintage Amis, page 180:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fucksore.
fuck sores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuck sore
shoelace tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoelace ties
Senses: glosses: A bolo tie.
shoelace ties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoelace tie
saturnally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more saturnally
form: most saturnally
Etymology: From saturnal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: according as they have more or lesse removed themselves from their spirituality, so are they more or lesse merily and Giovially, or rudely and Saturnally incorporated: Whence proceedeth the infinite variety of so much matter created.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: But if it be requisite to narrate what follows from the conception of Porphyry, it must be said, that the soul lives indeed intellectually and Saturnally on high, but descends first to the conception of a political life, which is Jovian.
ref: 1820, Proclus, translated by Thomas Taylor, Commentaries on the Timæus of Plato, section I:
glosses: Under the influence of Saturn; gloomily.
marrish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of marish.
commish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪʃ/
Forms: form: commishes
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Library commish Mary Dempsey presides over the talk, and there's an accompanying video, Staking Our Claim in Cyberspace.
ref: 1994 March 11, Bill Wyman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:
text: From now on it's horsebuyin' on commish, an' you an' me on the road till we find that valley of the moon."
ref: 1913, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon:
glosses: A commissioner.
examples: text: Plus, I receive a little commish, so thank you.
glosses: A commission.
commish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪʃ/
Forms: form: commishes
form: commishing
form: commished
form: commished
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: To commission (an artist or an artwork).
companionability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: companionabilities
Senses: examples: text: The whole effort was greater than the sum of the individual parts, and there was a nice fellow feeling between these people, an unforced companionability.
ref: 1988 April 15, Laura Molzahn, “Labor Movement”, in Chicago Reader:
text: With strong unconventionality and a somewhat abrupt manner, he was genial and kindly in his feelings, with warm affections and great companionability.
ref: 1921, Charles A. Murdock, A Backward Glance at Eighty:
text: He will find that her frank and charming companionability is as far removed from masculinity as from coarseness; that the points in which she differs from the European lady do not bring her nearer either to a man on the one hand, or to a common woman on the other.
ref: 1898, James Fullarton Muirhead, The Land of Contrasts:
glosses: The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
Related terms: compatibility
friendly
kindly
polite
sociable
compassionating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compassionate
compassionated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compassionate
compassionates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compassionate
condicion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condicions
Senses: examples: text: And forto knowe how it so is, A tale lich to this matiere I thenke telle, if thou wolt hiere, To schewe proprely the vice Of this Envie and the malice. 290 Of Jupiter this finde I write, How whilom that he wolde wite Upon the pleigntes whiche he herde, Among the men how that it ferde, As of here wrong condicion To do justificacion: And for that cause doun he sente An Angel, which about wente, That he the sothe knowe mai.
ref: 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis:
text: For soche truly is the nature and condicion, bothe of peace and warre, that where in governemente, there is not had equalle consideration of them bothe, the one in fine, doeth woorke and induce, the others oblivion and utter abholicion.
ref: 1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of condition.
contrarying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contrary
contraried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contrary
cood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Dere Miss vilder and sermanthy. i herd you say i cood not stay here enny longer and other peeple sed nobuddy wood have me and what you sed about the home but as i do not like homes i am going to run away if its all the same to you.
ref: 1894, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Timothy's Quest:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of could.
coost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I had but little butter, an' that I coost on the coals.
ref: 1868, Alexander Hislop, The Proverbs of Scotland:
text: 1783 Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, The Author's Only Pet Yowe., An Unco Mournfu' Tale As Mailie, an' her lambs thegither, Was ae day nibbling on the tether, Upon her cloot she coost a hitch, An' owre she warsl'd in the ditch: There, groaning, dying, she did lie, When Hughoc he cam doytin by.
ref: 1780, Robert Burns, Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns:
glosses: simple past and past participle of cast
cordelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cordelles
Etymology: From French, diminutive of corde (“cord”).
Senses: examples: text: Big men, bearded and powerful, pushing up stream with the cordelle on their shoulders!
ref: 1927, John G. Neihardt, The River and I:
text: Because this old town of St. Louis was then only a village, and we just had bought our unknown country of France, and this town was on the eastern edge of it, the gate of it--the gate to the West, it used to be, before steam came, while everything went by keel boat; oar or paddle and pole and sail and cordelle.
ref: 1922, Emerson Hough, The Young Alaskans on the Missouri:
text: With only now and then the cordelle, and still more rarely the oars, they moved all day across the lands and waters that were once the fastnesses of the Baratarian pirates.
ref: 1901, George Washington Cable, Bonaventure:
text: The former is much in the shape of a canal boat, long, slim-built, sharp at each end, and propelled by setting poles and the cordelle or long rope.
ref: 1836, J. M. Peck, A New Guide for Emigrants to the West:
glosses: A twisted cord; a tassel.
cordoba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cordobas
Senses: examples: text: Anastasio Somoza says, 'I think I will throw a one-thousand cordoba bill overboard and make one Nicaraguan citizen very happy.'
ref: 1990 June 29, Michael Ervin, “Sandinista!”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative form of córdoba (“currency of Nicaragua”).
cordobas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cordoba
cornucopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cornucopian
form: most cornucopian
Etymology: From cornucopia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: On Chicago Trio, New York Tenor, released this month on the Italian label Soul Note, his trio features two fellow fellow Chicagoans--Larry Kohut on bass, a steadying influence even during his sudden shifts to double time, and cornucopian pianist Jim Trompeter--and collectively it has the flexibility and tensile strength of metal mesh.
ref: 2001 May 18, Neil Tesser, “Jerry Steinhilber Trio With George Garzone”, in Chicago Reader:
text: In response, many researchers at the cutting edge of dealing with matter on the near-atomic scale have become aggressively matter- of-fact, squirming at the suggestion of cornucopian nanofactories or even humbler mass-produced nanodevices.
ref: 2000 November 24, Robert F. Service, “Atom-Scale Research Gets Real”, in Science, volume 290, number 5496, →DOI, pages 1524–1531:
text: The full mystic vision of Kali includes birth as well as death, the cornucopian vagina as well as the hungry mouth.
ref: 1990 October 26, Anthony Adler, “Dangerous Women”, in Chicago Reader:
text: With cornucopian Fire thou giv'st me strength, Caresses and golden hours and grace of sleep.
ref: 1912, Herman Scheffauer, The Masque of the Elements:
glosses: in great abundance, very abundant
Derived terms: cornucopianism
corpes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corpeses
Senses: examples: text: Rome is no more: but if the shade of Rome May of the bodie yeeld a seeming sight, It's like a corse drawne forth out of the tombe By magicke skill out of eternall night: The corpes of Rome in ashes is entombed, And her great spirite, reioyned to the spirite Of this great masse, is in the same enwombed; But her brave writings, which, her famous merite In spight of Time out of the dust doth reare, Doo make her idole* through the world appeare.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
text: And he spake unto her and said, Behold here is one that will enterprise to watch the corpes of your husband this night.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of corpse.
cosmeticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cosmeticizes
form: cosmeticizing
form: cosmeticized
form: cosmeticized
form: cosmeticise
form: cosmetize
Etymology: From cosmetic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: But to ignore or attempt to cosmeticize Kelly's history of political and institutional racism is a disgrace.
ref: 2000 January 7, Don Rose, “What a Whitewash”, in Chicago Reader:
text: In our work, we don't try to cosmeticize anything.
ref: 1990 May 18, Albert Williams, “On Stage: LAPD's theater of the homeless”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To make attractive, to superficially improve the appearance of
cotch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cotches
form: cotching
form: caught
form: caught
form: cotched
form: cotched
form: cotch
form: cotch
Senses: examples: text: Blast his sowl--that hunter I mane, an' if iver I cotch him, may I be used for a flail if I don't settle his accounts."
ref: 1911, Edward S. Ellis, The Lost Trail:
text: "Dey come here for to cotch young massa George Le Dell, 'cause dey knowed he would be shore for to come here."
ref: 1892, Harry Castlemon, Frank on a Gun-Boat:
text: Youse bettah look out, honey, or dey'll cotch youalls, shuah!"
ref: 1914, Various, Dew Drops Vol. 37. No. 17, April 26, 1914:
text: Mas'r Sumner an' a'heap mo' on 'em would jes' like fur to kill dat Mas'r Dayton ef dey could cotch him.
ref: 1880, Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell, The Harvest of Years:
text: But one ting ish goot; dey cotch de murterer."
ref: 1901, John Hay, The Bread-winners:
text: Ye mought hev cotch the smallpox.
ref: 1911, Charles Egbert Craddock (aka Mary Noailles Murfree), The Raid Of The Guerilla^([sic]):
text: "Well, we've cotch them any how," said the urchin, as he disengaged himself from his wet saddle, and stood upon the ground; "and it is not my fault that the coach is not before us."
ref: 1839, Charles James Lever, The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of catch.
cotch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cotches
form: cotching
form: cotched
form: cotched
form: kotch
Senses: examples: text: I’m sitting here cotching by the side of the road / Watching the world go by through the eyes of a rogue
ref: 2003 September 15, “Gimme Dat” (track 8), in Asylum Speakers, performed by Foreign Beggars, Dented Records:
text: And we don't really need Netflix, I'mma give you something to watch / After we done, bill a spliff and cotch / Pour me a glass of the Henny on the rocks
ref: 2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega, “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know:
glosses: To hang out or chill out; to relax.
examples: text: She gestures toward the crème with her chin, an action that she has seen the women in the shop do when they place their orders, their confidence evident in the way they stand, leaning with all their weight on the counter, one leg cotched on the back of the other.
ref: 2016, Nicole Dennis-Benn, chapter 1, in Here Comes the Sun:
glosses: To prop, lean, rest.
cowardise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The word, Tu mihi criminis author (alluding to his Princes commaund) thou art the occasion of my imputed cowardise.
ref: 1594, Thomas Nash, The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton:
text: The next day how my master the Gardener sped, I knew not, but the gentle souldier, who was well beaten for his cowardise, lead me to his lodging without the contradiction of any man: Where hee laded me well, and garnished my body (as seemed to me) like an Asse of armes.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
coyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coyns
Senses: examples: text: Well sung brother, you have paid your debt in good coyn, we Anglers are all beholding to the good man that made this Song.
ref: 1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of coin.
creaturehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From creature + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Her will to sacrifice had the same limitless quality as her love; and because of the limitless quality of her self-giving her growth in the life of union was unlimited, or limited only by the limitations of creaturehood.
ref: 1922, J. G. H. Barry, Our Lady Saint Mary:
text: They thought that before them rose an eminence which the foot of creaturehood had never trodden; that from its height the adventurous climber would rival Deity in the sweep of his knowledge and the depth of his joy.
ref: 1908, Grenville Kleiser, The world's great sermons, Volume 8:
glosses: The condition of being a creature; the realm of creatures.
crimple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪmpəl/
rhymes: -ɪmpəl
Forms: form: crimples
form: crimpling
form: crimpled
form: crimpled
Etymology: From Middle English crymplen, equivalent to crimp + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Esme assented with a graceful bend of his crimpled head, and in a clear and deliberate voice began to speak.
ref: 1894, Robert Smythe Hichens, The Green Carnation:
text: The boy had dwindled to a skeleton, and the skin lay on his face in crimpled folds, like a mask of black crape.
ref: 1862, James R. Gilmore, Among the Pines:
glosses: to crumple, crimp
crimpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crimple
crimsoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Gray Wolf came to his side and licked his neck, where fresh blood was crimsoning his tawny hide.
ref: 1914, James Oliver Curwood, Kazan:
text: Her breaths were coming in a happy storm, her face crimsoning, her nostrils playing in trembling dilation.
ref: 1912, Frederick Palmer, Over the Pass:
glosses: present participle and gerund of crimson
cruellie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cruellie
form: most cruellie
Senses: examples: text: For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speake, kepe silence, sit, stand, or go, eate, drinke, be merie, or sad, be sowyng, plaiyng, dauncing, or doing anie thing els, I must do it, as it were, in soch weight, mesure, and number, euen so perfitelie, as God made the world, or else I am so sharplie taunted, so cruellie threatened, yea presentlie some tymes, with pinches, nippes, and bobbes, and other waies, which 202 The first booke teachyng I will not name, for the honor I beare them, so without measure misordered, that I thinke my selfe in hell, till tyme cum, that I must go to M. Elmer, who teacheth me so ientlie, so pleasantlie, with soch faire allurementes to learning, that I thinke all the tyme nothing, whiles I am with him.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster:
text: For on a time the Sheepe, to whom of yore 1205 The Foxe had promised of friendship store, What time the Ape the kingdome first did gaine, Came to the court, her case there to complaine; How that the Wolfe, her mortall enemie, Had sithence slaine her lambe most cruellie; 1210 [Sithence, since.]
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cruelly.
cubbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cubbish
form: most cubbish
Etymology: From cub + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: At last he opened and read the note, a clumsy, cubbish attempt to explain his language in Sanders's room, and to say the package was absolutely nothing but some violets, to apologize for any and every annoyance he might have caused Mr. and Mrs. Davies, for whom he entertained nothing but sentiments of the most profound respect and esteem, and begging if ever they met again to be regarded as most sincerely their friend, etc.
ref: 1895, Charles King, Under Fire:
text: It is odd how much less cubbish the English boys are than the Scotch.
ref: 1890, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott:
glosses: Reminiscent of a cub, i.e. shy and naive.
Derived terms: cubbishly
cubbishness
curseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more curseful
form: most curseful
Etymology: From Middle English cursful, equivalent to curse + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: They accuse themselves of ingratitude and malignity when anyone denies a lawful satisfaction to another of indolence, of sadness, of anger, of scurrility, of slander, and of lying, which curseful thing they thoroughly hate.
ref: 1885, Tommaso Campanella, “City of the Sun”, in R. W. Halliday, transl., Ideal Commonwealths, London: George Routledge and Sons:
text: Don't name the curseful place.
ref: 1910, Josephine Preston Peabody, The Piper:
glosses: horrendous, horrific
Derived terms: cursefully
cuspate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cuspate
form: most cuspate
Etymology: From cusp + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Shorelines are molded into smooth arcuate bays interrupted by cuspate horns.
ref: 1999 April 2, B. T. Werner, “Complexity in Natural Landform Patterns”, in Science, volume 284, number 5411, →DOI, pages 102–104:
glosses: having cusps
cypres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cypress (“tree”).
cypres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Philemon Holland's Plinie, Bk. XI, ch. xxii: 'The invention of that fine silke, tiffanie, sarcenet, and cypres, which instead of apparell to cover and hide, shew women naked through them.'
ref: 1915, Aphra Behn, The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cypress (“fabric”).
cytisus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytisuses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κύτισος (kútisos), of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: The goats eat cytisus and myrtle on the shore; a whole flock gathered round me as I sat beneath a tuft of golden green euphorbia the other day, and nibbled bread from my hands.
ref: 1914, John Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete:
text: His head leaning back on the cushions, his arms folded across his breast, Lavretsky gazed at the furrowed plains which opened fanwise before him, at the cytisus shrubs, at the crows and rooks which looked sideways at the passing carriage with dull suspicion, at the long ridges planted with mugwort, wormwood, and mountain ash.
ref: 1873, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Liza:
text: The humming birds, which swarmed round the flowering cytisus and the beautiful water-fall, once more delighted the eye and the ear.
ref: 1827, George Tucker, A Voyage to the Moon:
glosses: Any flowering plant in the genus Cytisus.
daddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daddies
Etymology: From dad + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: "No," said Pauline sadly, "they've gone to New Zealand,--mamma got quite ill with nursing us, and daddie got it too, and he wouldn't come up here."
ref: 1908, Ethel Turner, In the Mist of the Mountains:
text: "Come to your ould daddie, you lil sandpiper.
ref: 1894, Hall Caine, The Manxman:
text: Says--"Carterhaugh it is mine ain; "My daddie gave it me; "I'll come and gang to Carterhaugh, "And ask nae leave o' thee."
ref: 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3):
glosses: Alternative spelling of daddy.
dauphinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dauphiness
statement of intent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statements of intent
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A formal statement that the author has a serious intention of doing something under specified conditions, and at a specified time
examples: text: The top six are assured of continental competition and after making a statement of intent against Stoke, it would take a dramatic collapse for Newcastle to surrender their place.
ref: 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
text: England delivered an impressive statement of intent in the Rugby World Cup opener by scorching to a 69-7 victory against the United States in front of a record crowd of 42,723 in Sunderland.
ref: 2025 August 22, Mike Henson, “England open World Cup with 11-try win over USA”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: An indication of what a person or persons is likely to do in the near future
Synonyms: topics: legal
law
word: letter of intent
fadaise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fadaises
Etymology: From French fadaise.
Senses: glosses: A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.
clean sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clean sheet
statements of intent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statement of intent
coines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coine
fadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɑːdəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of fada
fagoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fagoters
form: faggoter
Etymology: From fagot + -er.
Senses: glosses: A worker who gathers fuelwood.
interdevour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interdevours
form: interdevouring
form: interdevoured
form: interdevoured
Etymology: From inter- + devour.
Senses: examples: text: Epicurus said of the lawes that the worst were so necessary unto us, that without them men would enterdevour one another.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: His prime suspect for cannibalism was a nightmarish object — a pack of nine galaxies in a feeding frenzy, interdevouring one another.
ref: 1987, Richard Preston, First Light:
glosses: Of many people, creatures etc.: to devour each other.
domification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domifications
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French domification; equivalent to domify + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Physike is received as Geometry: and jugling tricks, enchantments, bonds, the commerce of deceased spirits, prognostications, domifications, yea even this ridiculous wit and wealth-consuming pursuite of the Philosophers stone, all is emploied and uttered without contradiction.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: The introduction of alternative methods of domification was already exploited in Pico's Disputationes, which questioned both the natural philosophical basis of astrological houses and the contradictions on this matter in the astrological canon.
ref: 2003, Steven Vanden Broecke, The Limits of Influence, page 238:
text: The argument put forth by Copernicus that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the heavens renewed concerns about domification.
ref: 2010, Katherine Crawford, The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance, Cambridge, page 99:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The division of the heavens into twelve astrological houses; or a particular system for such division.
domifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domification
domify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: domifies
form: domifying
form: domified
form: domified
Etymology: From Middle French domifier.
Senses: examples: text: There are various ways of domifying. That of Regiomontanus, which is the most common, makes the circles of position pass through the intersections of the meridian and the horizon; but others make them pass through the poles of the zodiac.
ref: 1842, Encyclopædia Britannica, volume VIII, page 101:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To divide (the heavens) into different astrological houses.
examples: text: Its vagrant habit was changed; and it became entirely stationary, and domified
ref: February 18 1814, letter to Richard Peters:
glosses: To tame; to domesticate.
Derived terms: domification
king hits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of king hit
king hits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of king hit
king hitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of king hit
healthfullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of healthful: most healthful
miscost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscosts
form: miscosting
form: miscosted
form: miscosted
Etymology: From mis- + cost.
Senses: glosses: To cost incorrectly.
miscosting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscost
miscosted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscost
reenverse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reenverses
form: reenversing
form: reenversed
form: reenversed
Etymology: Alteration of renverse (after re-).
Senses: examples: text: Plato saith that it often changeth his countenance, that the heaven, the starres, and the sunne do sometimes re-enverse the motion we perceive in them, changing the east into the west.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To reverse.
timber hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timber hitches
Senses: glosses: A multiple turn hitch knot used to attach a line or rope to a spar where diagonal strain, or towing, is required. More commonly used with a half hitch added for security.
timber hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timber hitch
sailor's hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sailor's hitches
Senses: glosses: A secure hitch knot used to attach a line or rope to a spar or cable.
sailor's hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sailor's hitch
Feuerbachian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Feuerbachian
form: most Feuerbachian
Etymology: From Feuerbach + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ludwig von Feuerbach (1804–1872), German philosopher and anthropologist.
bewound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈwuːnd/
Forms: form: bewounds
form: bewounding
form: bewounded
form: bewounded
Etymology: From be- + wound.
Senses: synonyms: word: harm
word: injure
word: abuse
word: annoy
word: bewound
word: damage
word: damnify
word: dere
word: do damage to
word: do for
word: do ill
word: do violence to
word: forwork
word: grieve
word: harm
word: harrow
word: hurt
word: injure
word: maul
word: misdo
word: put someone in hospital
word: scaith
word: scathe
word: vulnerate
word: wet
word: wound
glosses: To wound all over; cover or afflict with wounds.
Derived terms: bewounding
bewound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈwuːnd/
ipa: /bɪˈwaʊnd/
ipa: /bɪˈwuːnd/
Etymology: From bewind.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bewind
beword
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈwɜː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: bewords
form: bewording
form: beworded
form: beworded
Etymology: Alteration of beworth, equivalent to be- + worth (“to become, happen”). Compare German bewerden.
Senses: glosses: To happen; come to pass.
falbalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falbala
revel-rout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revel-routs
Senses: examples: text: My Brother, Reſt and Pardon to his Soul.
Is gone to his Account for this his Minion,
The Revel-rout is done
ref: 1714, Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore:
glosses: boisterous partying; revelry.
glosses: A rabble; a riotous group; a mob.
revel-routs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revel-rout
elixate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: elixates
form: elixating
form: elixated
form: elixated
Etymology: From Latin ēlixātus, past participle of ēlixāre (“to seethe”), from ēlixus (“thoroughly boiled”), from ex + *lixus (“fluid, flowing”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“moist, to wet”) and thus cognate with Latin lixa (“water; lye”) and liqueō (“to be liquid, fluid”).
Senses: glosses: To boil; to seethe.
examples: text: Polypody must be contunded and elixated; whereunto , when moderately cocted , Prunes , Raisins , Wormwood , Epithymum , Binde - weed , Roses , and Liquorice must be added
ref: 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory:
glosses: To extract by boiling or seething.
elixated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of elixate
elixates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of elixate
elixating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of elixate
petroline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Independent of the petroline, there exists in the bitument a black solid substance, which is absolutely insoluble in alcohol, and soluble in ether.
ref: 1837, Arcana of Science and Art, page 113:
text: To isolate the petroline the condensed oil is distilled again until fifty per cent. of oil has been obtained, and what is left in the still is petroline.
ref: 1871, English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1871, 901 - 946, page 6:
text: This motor is built up to 50 horsepower and is driven by petroline and similar gases.
ref: 1901, Gas Engine - Volume 3, page 184:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A paraffin obtained from petroleum that is lighter and less expensive than kerosene.
fanfaronnade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanfaronnades
Senses: examples: text: Pen hoped Pynsent might have forgotten his little fanfaronnade, and any other braggadocio speeches or actions which he might have made.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 26, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of fanfaronade.
fanfaronnade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fanfaronnades
form: fanfaronnading
form: fanfaronnaded
form: fanfaronnaded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fanfaronade.
trichobranchia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichobranchiae
Etymology: From tricho- + branchia.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfishes.
Related terms: trichobranchiate
trichobranchiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichobranchia
dearticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːɑːˈtɪkjəleɪt/
Forms: form: dearticulates
form: dearticulating
form: dearticulated
form: dearticulated
Etymology: From de- + articulate.
Senses: glosses: To disarticulate; to disjoint.
dearticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dearticulate
dearticulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dearticulate
dearticulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dearticulate
squalidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squalidity
squalidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squalidities
Etymology: From squalid + -ity, from Latin squaliditas.
Senses: synonyms: squalidness
glosses: The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.
creekfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creekfish
Etymology: From creek + fish.
Senses: glosses: Erimyzon oblongus, the chubsucker.
enaliosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enaliosaurian
form: most enaliosaurian
Etymology: Enaliosauria + -ian
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the Enaliosauria.
enaliosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enaliosaurians
Etymology: Enaliosauria + -ian
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: enaliosaur (any reptile of the Enaliosauria)
enaliosaurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enaliosaurian
bodock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodocks
Etymology: Corruption of bois d'arc.
Senses: synonyms: bodark
glosses: The Osage orange (tree or fruit)
bodocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodock
trucker's hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trucker's hitches
Senses: glosses: a hitch knot used to tension ropes, often for the purpose of securing loads for transport.
Synonyms: word: dolly knot
trucker's hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trucker's hitch
dolly knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolly knots
Senses: glosses: a hitch knot used to tension ropes, often for the purpose of securing loads for transport.
Synonyms: trucker's hitch
dolly knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dolly knot
contemplatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contemplatists
Etymology: From contemplate + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: And an easy transition leads the contemplatist from the brightness and extent of the visible heavens , to the magnificence and stately array of the invisible world
ref: 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who contemplates.
Synonyms: contemplator
contemplatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contemplatist
horsefeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsefoot
horsefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsefoots
form: horsefeet
Etymology: From horse + foot.
Senses: glosses: Coltsfoot, a plant of species (Tussilago farfara)
glosses: A horseshoe crab (Limulidae spp.).
exacervation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exacervations
Etymology: From Latin exacervō (“to heap up exceedingly”), from acervus. See ex-, and acervate.
Senses: examples: text: You might as well try to persuade me that any other but Satan dictated the Black List; the very style and manner of the thing, the grandeur of the conception, the multiplication, the conglomeration, the exacervation, (as a body might say to speak plainly) the cumulative exacervation of lies, the heaping likes upon lies as the Titan's heaped Pelion upon Ossa, when they wanted to scale and insult the heavens; I say, all this condensation of falsehood, all this accumulation of falsehood, all this sublimity of falsehood, could only be attained by one pen in the universe, and proclaims the author Satan!
ref: 1832 February 2, “The Black List”, in The Bristol Job Nott, Or, Labouring Man's Friend, volume 8, page 29:
text: Not that I would not plunge with avidity into the exacervation of botanical knowledge if I had the opportunity; but, if this chance be not marked out for me on 'the golden scroll of Fate, whereon are writ, in God's own hand allthings which happen', I am not debarrred the pleasure of enjoying their bright hues and delicious aromas, which is a greater privilege than many others have.
ref: 1875, Godey's Magazine - Volume 91, page 434:
glosses: The act of heaping up.
examples: text: Recovery now progressively succeeded, as after the former eruptions of matter, for several days, during which his appetite improved, and his strength increased, so that he sat up by day, and rested pretty well at night, still slight evening exacervation continued, followed by night sweats; bowels costive requiring the daily administration of laxitives.
ref: 1817, William Stoker, “Cases of Tumours within the Abdomen”, in Transactions of the Royal college of physicians of Ireland, volume 1, page 21:
text: The typical immuno-pathologic appreciation of this reaction could be presented in a few cases of acute exacervations. In these cases the titers in the reaction ran down with the onset of exacervation and rose in higher titer than before exacervation after the period of about two weeks.
ref: 1953, The Japanese Journal of Tuberculosis, volume 2, page 368:
text: Reproductive outflow tract obstruction can predispose to development of endometriosis, through exacervation of retrograde menstruation.
ref: 2012, Sisir K. Chattopadhyay, Gynaecology for Undergraduates, page 122:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A recurrence of a symptom; paroxysm.
Related terms: exacerbation
nidering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niderings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of niddering (synonym of nithing).
nidering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nidering
form: most nidering
Senses: examples: text: I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering [footnote: Infamous], to forgive and to receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfrid of Ivanhoe.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 302:
glosses: Alternative form of niddering (synonym of nithing).
megasthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a typically large size; belonging to the Megasthenes, in former taxonomic classifications.
decury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkjəɹi/
Forms: form: decuries
Etymology: From Latin decuria, from decem (“ten”).
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, the hundred senators divided the government among themselves, ten decuries being formed, and the individual members who were to have the chief direction of affairs being chosen into each decury.
ref: 1904, John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb, Roman History, Books I-III:
text: If one, two, or more of a decury proceed bravely to battle, and the rest do not follow, the cowards are slain.
ref: 1760, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1:
glosses: A group of ten men under the command of a decurion.
deep rhetoric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Deep rhetoric” — the normally tacit presuppositions of discourse — functions in the Weaverian view as “practical wisdom” does in Aristotelean ethics. Thus, Weaver is seen to advance an essentially eudaemonist account of rhetoric […]
ref: 1981, Dissertation Abstracts International: The Humanities and Social Sciences, University Microfilms International, page 2363:
glosses: The assumptions implied by analysis of a discourse.
eudaemonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eudaemonists
form: eudemonist
Senses: examples: text: I confess it, as a besetting infirmity of mine, that I am too much of an Eudæmonist: I hanker too much after a state of happiness, both for myself and others[…]
ref: 1821 September–October, [Thomas De Quincey], “[Part II.] Introduction to the Pains of Opium.”, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 2nd edition, London: […] [J. Moyes] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1823, →OCLC, page 124:
glosses: A supporter of eudaemonism.
phronetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to phronesis.
eudaemonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eudaemonist
beyelp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈjɛlp/
Forms: form: beyelps
form: beyelping
form: beyelped
form: beyelped
Etymology: From Middle English beyelpen, from Old English beġielpan (“to boast, exult”), equivalent to be- + yelp.
Senses: examples: text: Aye, e'en the curs and mastiffs of the flock Grin and beyelp the stinting combatant.
ref: 1829, John Dunlop (of Greenock.), Oliver Cromwell:
text: My sage, who knew why thus he did beyelp me, did comfort me: “Keep now thy courage plucking: what power he has with emptiness is sated, and soon our course shall down this rock be ducking.”
ref: 1948, Dante Alighieri, Dante, Theologian: The Divine Comedy, page 36:
glosses: To boast about or glory in, especially in a loud manner.
suppressio veri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suppressiones veri
Etymology: Latin: suppressiō (“a pressing down”, “suppression”) + vērī (“of reality”, genitive singular form of vērum, “reality”, “fact”) = “a pressing down of reality” ≈ “suppression of the truth”
Senses: glosses: A misrepresentation of the truth by the omission or suppression of certain key facts; a lie of omission. Compare suggestio falsi.
Related terms: economical with the truth
pacu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pacus
Etymology: From Portuguese pacu, from Old Tupi paku.
Senses: glosses: Any of certain freshwater fish of the family Serrasalmidae, endemic to South America; they are characterised by squarish, human-like teeth and a mainly herbivorous diet.
Derived terms: english: or Piaractus brachypomus
translation: or Piaractus brachypomus
taxonomic: Myleus schomburgkii
word: black pacu
alt: Piaractus brachypomus or Colossoma macropomum
word: red-bellied pacu
pacus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pacu
angienchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From angi- + -enchyma.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels
rhematic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈmatɪk/
ipa: /ɹɪ-/
ipa: /ɹəˈmætɪk/
ipa: /ɹi-/
ipa: /-ˈmæɾɪk/
Forms: form: rhematics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥηματικός (rhēmatikós, “verbal, pertaining to verbs”), from Ancient Greek ῥηματ- (rhēmat-), ῥῆμα (rhêma, “verb (grammar), word”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic; suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to, in the manner of’”).
Senses: examples: text: Within a non-theme, transitionals cede to rhematics, the transition itself being lowest on the CD scale.
ref: 1995, Francis P. Dinneen, “Different Constants”, in General Linguistics, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 565:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The provision of new information regarding the current theme.
examples: text: The object of rhetoric is persuasion,—of logic, conviction,—of grammar, significancy. A fourth term is wanting, the rhematic, or logic of sentences.
ref: 1830 September 23, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Logic”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 207:
text: He [Coleridge] establishes an opposition between Σύνταξις ῥημάτων or ῥηματική ("rhematic"), the art of joining words into sentences, and γραμματική ("grammar"), which in its derivation from γράμμα (a letter, written character) is the art of joining letters together, spelling. Or, cf CN IV 4771: "Grammar [is] the scheme & instrument of connecting words significantly, the Meta-grammatic <rhematic>, the Doctrine of arranging words perspicuously" […]
ref: 1984, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by George Whalley, Marginalia II: Camden to Hutton (The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 12, part 2; Bollingen Series; 75), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 881:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834): the doctrine or study of arranging words into sentences clearly.