cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
repush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repushes
form: repushing
form: repushed
form: repushed
Etymology: re- + push
Senses: examples: text: If the instrument was accidentally activated, the careless user had those five seconds to repush the button to put things right.
ref: 2000, Garnett, Cliff, Sky Fire, Signet, page 53
text: It is not necessary to repush the start button, because the snap-action switch remains in the start position after pushing.
ref: 1969, Charles I. Hubert, Preventive Maintenance of Electrical Equipment, McGraw-Hill Book Company, page 319
glosses: To push again.
trifidate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin trifidus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, trifid + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: It is well-known among philologists that trifidate stemmata are generally rarer than bifidate ones.
ref: 2024, Claudio De Stefani, “Stemmi trifidi e traduzioni orientali”, in Wiener Studien:
glosses: Bifid, divided into two main parts.
vanlords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanlord
sousa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sousas
Senses: glosses: Clipping of sousaphone.
sousas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sousa
thorn clusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thorn cluster
beeking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of beek
beeked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beek
glvalue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glvalues
Etymology: Short for generalized lvalue. According to Bjarne Stroustrup, coined by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 in 2010.
Senses: examples: text: Together, xvalues and lvalues are called “glvalues” (“generalized” lvalues). […] If the second and third operands are glvalues of the same value category and have the same type, the result is of that type and value category and it is a bit-field if the second or the third operand is a bit-field, or if both are bit-fields.
ref: 2010 March 12, William M. Miller, “A Taxonomy of Expression Value Categories”, in C++ Standards Committee Papers, pages 3, 16:
text: So, the left leg of the W is “lvalue” and “glvalue” and the right leg is “prvalue” and “rvalue.” Incidentally, every value is either a glvalue or a prvalue, but not both.
ref: 2010 April 24, Bjarne Stroustrup, “"New" Value Terminology”, in stroustrup.com, page 4:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A value that is either an xvalue or an lvalue.
wikipedia: Bjarne Stroustrup
glvalues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glvalue
cleam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːm/
ipa: /klim/
Forms: form: cleams
form: cleaming
form: cleamed
form: cleamed
form: clame
form: claim
Etymology: From Middle English clemen, from Old English clǣman (“to smear, anoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaimijan, from Proto-Germanic *klaimijaną (“to smear with clay, mortar”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick, glue”).
Senses: glosses: To smear, rub on, or anoint; to bedaub with an oily or sticky substance.
glosses: To cause to stick; to glue on.
glosses: To stick, cling to, or adhere.
Related terms: clam
clammy
clay
cloam
cleams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cleam
cleaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of cleam
cleamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cleam
Maori hens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maori hen
black screen of death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black screens of death
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A critical system error encountered by computer operating systems, characterized by the display of a completely black screen and the cessation of device functionality.
Related terms: blue screen of death
fail whale
fatal system error
kernel panic
red ring of death
yellow light of death
black screens of death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black screen of death
corn-miller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn-millers
Senses: glosses: A miller.
corn-millers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corn-miller
electronic fog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electronic fogs
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A phenomenon that is theorized to be produced when electromagnetic fields overlap, resulting in the appearance of an unexplained grayish mist, which clings to and travels alongside a plane or vessel, and causes all electronic instruments to fail.
electronic fogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electronic fog
Silken Windhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Silken Windhounds
Etymology: "Silken" refers to the quality of the dog's fur, and "windhound" represents its speed and agility.
Senses: glosses: A sighthound bred in the United States.
Ojha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ojhas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi ओझा (ojhā), from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya). Doublet of Upadhyaya, Khoja, Khwaja, hodja, Hoxha, howadji, and Osho.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
Ojhas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ojha
muscle worship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sthenolagnia
Mini Magellanic Cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: mini- + Magellanic Clouds. From being a Magellanic Cloud that is smaller than the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Senses: glosses: A galaxy, a dwarf galaxy that is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy, and a member of the Magellanic Clouds, in the Mily Way Subgroup of the Local Group of Galaxies; lying directly behind the Small Magellanic Cloud, as seen from Earth.
Synonyms: MMC
Hypernyms: dwarf galaxy
dwarf irregular galaxy
galaxy
irregular galaxy
satellite galaxy
Derived terms: MMC
Related terms: celestial cloud
Large Magellanic Cloud
Magellan
Magellanic Bridge
Magellanic Cloud
Magellanic Clouds
Small Magellanic Cloud
starcloud
star cloud
European grapevine moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of European grapevine moth
Magellanic spiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magellanic spirals
Etymology: From the pattern found in the prototype of the class, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a type-1 irregular galaxy with a spiral structure having one arm. Named after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of galaxy, a spiral galaxy with one arm. Also consider a type of irregular galaxy. Usually, such spirals are a dwarf galaxy.
Synonyms: Magellanic spiral galaxy
Sm
Hypernyms: galaxy
irregular galaxy
Irr-I
spiral galaxy
Bearies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beary
Byari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Beary
Byari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Byaris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Beary
Byaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Byari
untaken-advantage-of
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untaken-advantage-of
form: most untaken-advantage-of
Senses: examples: text: Thus cometh it that You Charley and I are fast friends, and I am under his immediate and powerful protection. To wit, my fowls go unstoned by the Little Willies of the neighborhood (there are two or three); my deafness goeth untaken-advantage-of; and my door un-runaway-knocked at.
ref: 1913 June 19, Henry Lawson, “Elder Man’s Lane. V.—The Kids.”, in The Bulletin, volume 34, number 1740, Sydney, N.S.W.: […] William Macleod, […] for The Bulletin Newspaper Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48, column 1:
text: “[…] That boy Sparks is always hanging about. I think he wants to marry her [Daffy] or something.” / “Probably something,” put in Venus, “if he’s like the boys I used to know.” / “You’re wrong,” declared Daffy. “I’ve already suggested something, but he insists on leaving me untaken-advantage-of.”
ref: 1931, Thorne Smith, “The Gods Leave Town”, in The Night Life of the Gods, New York, N.Y.: The Sun Dial Press, Inc., published 1939, →OCLC, page 261:
text: Co-eds in a recently formed organization at New York University are pledged not to marry men who wish to avoid service under the draft law. All we can say is that this is a fitting climax to the most untaken-advantage-of Leap Year in our experience.
ref: 1940 November 23, D. N. T., “On the Firing Line”, in The Springfield Union, volume LXXVII, number 325, Springfield, Mass., →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
text: Thus, in comparing a four-pigment system to a three-pigment one--in a common color-area of interest, as defined by pigment-distance vectors in either system's color space--you might find the the^([sic]) four-pigment system much superior at discriminating color differences in that particular area. But if the two different systems occur in the same species, without evolution of highly different behavior patterns with respect to the given color area, you'd figure that the excess-pigment variant was merely a fluke (an untaken-advantage-of consequence of an unrelated genetic happenstance), without any neural wiring to make it useful.
ref: 1996 October 17, Raymond A. Chamberlin, “Color Blindness Test”, in sci.med.vision (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Oct 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of untaken advantage of.
elfwife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elfwives
Etymology: From elf + wife.
Senses: examples: text: The Spanish Hidalgo loses his Elf-wife by pronouncing a sacred name, and the Metal Boat of the Prince Amrad sinks under the same bann.
ref: 1824, John Macculloch, The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, volume IV, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, page 326:
text: Elidyr, the elf-wife,
Keeps a small tavern
In a moss-carpeted,
Fern-curtained cavern.
ref: 1924 June 7, Illustrated News Budget, Brisbane, page 25, column 4:
text: An elf wife hung her washing out
Upon a cobweb line
(Including socks and handkerchiefs),
The articles were nine.
ref: 1931 November 11, The Northern Star, Lismore, page 12, column 3:
glosses: A married female elf.
examples: text: Here the woman learned that the Elf-wife could not be delivered without the aid of a Christian woman, she being herself a Christian, but had been carried off by the Elf-man.
ref: 1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume II, London: Edward Lumley, page 128:
text: During his absence the elfwife took the opportunity of instructing her helper as to her conduct when he returned; and the first and chief point of her advice was to eat nothing that was offered her.
ref: 1891, Edwin Sidney Hartland, The Science of Fairy Tales, London: Walter SCott, page 40:
glosses: The human wife of a male elf.
elfwives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elfwife
elf-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elf-men
Senses: examples: text: The wick and elf-men were, from the very character of their country, Wikingers, a hardy and stubborn race, who lived by the sea, and bore no good reputation.
ref: 1845, Eric Gustave Geijer, The History of the Swedes, London: Whittaker and Co., page 17, column 2:
text: Here the woman learned that the Elf-wife could not be delivered without the aid of a Christian woman, she being herself a Christian, but had been carried off by the Elf-man.
ref: 1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume II, London: Edward Lumley, page 128:
text: In the midst of the way that old elf-man stood again in his sight, and said, “Salaam aleyk! - Sawest thou my son, and hast thou brought me aught from him?”
ref: 1888, Charles M. Doughty, Travel in Arabia Deserta, volume II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 192:
glosses: An adult male elf.
elf-men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elf-man
sea-elf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-elves
Etymology: From sea + elf.
Senses: examples: text: You may dare to face a howitzer's mouth,
You may brave a wild beast's rage,
And you'll know less dread with the first or last
Than this old sea-elf - I'll wage;
Yet he seem'd such a downright sociable ghost
That I flinched not from his gage.
ref: 1833, The Olio: Collected by a Literary Traveller, Boston, page 184:
text: TRITON. n seaelf, half man and half fish.
ref: 1859, Hyde Clarke, New and Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Languge, London: John Weale, page 413, column 2:
text: When the moon is afloat,
And the ocean at rest,
The sea-elf goes forth
To the town he loves best:
Up from his cave, over the wave,
With joy in his breast.
ref: 1896, Vincent O'Sullivan, Poems, London: Elkin Mathews, page 4:
glosses: A merman or mermaid.
sea-elves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-elf
knife arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knife arches
Senses: glosses: An archway with a metal detector to detect weapons such as knives carried by a person entering a building.
goes Hollywood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go Hollywood
going Hollywood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go Hollywood
went Hollywood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go Hollywood
gone Hollywood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go Hollywood
non-expository
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonexpository
duotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duotages
Etymology: Etymology tree
English duo-
English montage
blend
English duotage
Blend of duo- + montage.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A montage featuring video game clips from two people as opposed to one person.
duotages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duotage
Sand Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Huron County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: Alternative form of Sandbeach, Pennsylvania.
wanky dots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Small decorative dots or drizzles of sauce placed on a plate to make a dish look “fine dining” or pretentiously artistic.
Synonyms: cheffy dots
Pushpanjali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit पुष्पांजलि (puṣpāṃjali).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Akriti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit आकृति (ākṛti).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Sandbeach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sand Beach
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in South Hanover Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
South Hanover
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Related terms: sense: (all are townships in Pennsylvania)
word: East Hanover
sense: (all are townships in Pennsylvania)
word: New Hanover
sense: (all are townships in Pennsylvania)
word: Upper Hanover
sense: (all are townships in Pennsylvania)
word: West Hanover
KʌThemnɛ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kȧthemnɛ
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Temne KʌThemnɛ.
Senses: examples: text: KʌThemnɛ is the major language spoken in Northern Sierra Leone, by well over a million first language speakers.
ref: 2007, Sheikh Umarr Kamarah, A Descriptive Grammar of KʌThemnɛ (Temne), LINCOM, page 1:
text: But Kʌ-Themnɛ uses the sentence, i yi rǝ kǝ der “I am in the process of/on my way, coming’ to talk about the event as it happens at the same time the speaker is uttering the sentence. Because KʌThemnɛ employs two different expressions to talk about these two different events in time, native speakers of KʌThemnɛ find the Krio sentence, a de kam inadequate to serve the purpose of i yi rǝ kǝ der.
ref: 2011 November 26, Sheik Umarr Kamarah, ““A de pan kam”: Language “corruption” or “enrichment”?”, in The Patriotic Vanguard:
glosses: Synonym of Temne, Mel language spoken by the Temne.
synonyms: word: Temne
word: Mel language spoken by the Temne
excourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excourses
Etymology: Remodelled after course.
Senses: examples: text: [M]any other places he aſſayled and inuaded moꝛe ĩwardly in yͤ contrey by excourſes of his hoꝛſmen.
ref: [1520?], Salust, translated by Alexander Barclay, “How Iugurth Inuaded the Kyngdome of Adherball Yet Ones Agayne: […]”, in […] [T]he Famous Cronycle of the Warre / Which the Romayns Had agaynst Iugurth […], London: […] Rycharde Pynson […], →OCLC, folios xix, verso – xx, recto:
text: Then ensewed Duncanus and Maccabœus, a manne notorius for his wiccadnes and bowldnes, who bie plaine force entred on the kingdom; but, after this littel excourse, I will agayne drawe backe to mie purpose.
ref: [c. 1550?], Polydore Vergil, anonymous translator, “The Sixth Booke […]”, in Henry Ellis, editor, Polydore Vergil’s English History, […] (Works of the Camden Society; 36), volume I (Containing the First Eight Books, […]), London: […] [F]or the Camden Society, by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, […], published 1846, →OCLC, pages 235–236:
text: Egreſſus eius a patre, regreſſus eius ad patrem, excurſus uſq; ad inferos, recurſus ad ſedem Dei.
ref: [1555], Edmonde [Bonner], “The Position or Declaration Concernyng the Sixte Article of the Crede, […]”, in A Profitable and Necessarye Doctryne, […], London: […] Ihon Cawodde, […], →OCLC, signature G, recto:
glosses: Obsolete form of excurse.
excourses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excourse
Cornwall Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Canadian island in the Saint Lawrence River, near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, crossed by a bridge to the USA.
glosses: An island in Nunavut, Canada, named after the Duke of Cornwall.
glosses: A small island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
forsomuch as
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: But foꝛſomuch as now not caring foꝛ thy oth, noꝛ regarding the ſafetie of thy hoſtages, thou haſt ſo fondlie ⁊ lewdlie paſſed thy bounds: I am to require thée, that thou doo retire and withdꝛaw theſe excurſes of ſtrangers; […]
ref: 1587 January, Giraldus Cambrensis [i.e., Gerald of Wales], translated by Iohn Hooker, “[The Irish Historie […]] The Besieging and Taking of the Citie of Dublin”, in Raphael Holinshed, The Second Volume of Chronicles: Conteining the Description, Conquest, Inhabitation, and Troublesome Estate of Ireland; […], 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] [Henry Denham] […] at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, →OCLC, page 15, column 1, lines 35–39:
text: The curious and exact care he had of his body, is an authenticall witneſſe of it, forſomuch as hee vſed the moſt laſcivious meanes that then were in vſe, […]
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “The History of Spurina”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 418:
text: This day is ſaluation come to this houſe, foꝛſomuch as he alſo is the ſonne of Abꝛaham.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 19:9, signature [H4], recto, column 2:
glosses: Synonym of forasmuch as.
synonyms: word: forasmuch as
usedst to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But how I excurſe!—Yet thou uſedſt to ſay, thou likedſt my excurſions. If thou doſt, thou’lt have enow of them: For I never had a ſubject I ſo much adored; […]
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XIII. From Mr. Lovelace; In Continuation.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 91:
text: “[…] Shall I go and call Mr. Ebenezer, the Methodist preacher?” “No, no, Mary, by no means. I have often heard him preach, but I never found peace to my soul, I always came away with a heart as heavy and as cold as a stone.” “How so? Thou usedst to call him a wonderful man.”
ref: 1917 December 1, “Father Oswald: A Genuine Catholig^([sic]) Story”, in The Catholic Advance, volume XXVIII, number 9, Wichita, Kan.: The Advance Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, chapter II, page 6, column 4:
text: Well, Liberty, if that’s your theme, you will not blame me when I dream of days to come when you’ll regain your old, long-lost, but loved refrain. At any rate, the song I raise is mindful of those sterner lays when a stanch bard could gladly come to you nor snivel like a bum. Not as thou art I sing to thee, but as the gal thou usedst to be!
ref: 1936 February 17, “This Won’t Get the Prize”, in The Bangor Daily News, volume XLVII, Bangor, Me.: Bangor Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of use to
Prakriti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prakrati
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्रकृति (prakṛti).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Prakrati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prakriti
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्रकृति (prakṛti).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Akshat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अक्षत (akṣata).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Nayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit नयन (nayana).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Gunjan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit गुंजन (guṃjana).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Staro-Saltove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Старо-Салтове (Staro-Saltove).
Senses: glosses: Former name of Staryi Saltiv: a rural settlement, the administrative centre of Staryi Saltiv settlement hromada, Chuhuiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: Former name of Staryi Saltiv: a rural settlement, the administrative centre of Staryi Saltiv settlement hromada, Chuhuiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.
A former volost of Vovchansk povit, Kharkiv governorate, the Russian Empire, established no later than 1869, disestablished no earlier than 1914.
Gungun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit गुनगुन (gunaguna).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
want to
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see want, to.
want to
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌn tu/
ipa: [ˈwän˦ tu˨]
Etymology: Semantic loan from Hokkien 欲 (beh) or 愛 /爱 (ài) and later Mandarin 要 (yào).
Senses: examples: text: Want to rain already.
translation: It’s about to rain.
english: It’s about to rain.
bold_translation_offsets: 5
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text: This poster like want to fall off already.
translation: This poster’s about to fall off.
english: This poster’s about to fall off.
bold_translation_offsets: 14
22
glosses: About to; indicates imminent action.
raw_tags: with a third person subject
Aradhna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aradhana
Etymology: From Sanskrit आराधना (ārādhanā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Aradhana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aradhna
Etymology: From Sanskrit आराधना (ārādhanā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Bhakti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit भक्ति (bhakti).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
accuratize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accuratizes
form: accuratizing
form: accuratized
form: accuratized
Senses: glosses: To make (a device) more accurate.
senegalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕ′-nə-gä′-lē-ə
ipa: /ˌsɛ.nəˈɡɑ.li.ə/
enpr: sĕ′-nə-gā′-lē-ə
ipa: /ˌsɛ.nəˈɡeɪ.li.ə/
Forms: form: senegalias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Senegalia, from Latin Senegalia (“Senegal”), equivalent to Senegal + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: As we should know by now, these ridges are likely to have very poor nutrient loads in their soils - the ridges are often of very old rocks, 550 Million years old or more and have been well and truly washed by rain for much of that time, with the nutrients that were once present now washed down hills to the lower areas where they get used by Vachellia/Senegalias and grasses.
ref: 2012 January 5, Colin Beale, “Ecology of broad-leaved woodlands in the savannah”, in Safari Ecology, Blospot.com:
text: As you move through the reserve, the broad-leaved species give way to sharp-toothed Vachelias and Senegalias in the family formerly known as Acacia.
ref: 2022 February 16, Mike Meidlinger, “Marataba – A Land of Magic, Memories and Nature at Its Best”, in www.morefieldguidecollege.co.za, MORE Field Guide College:
text: For instance, Senegalias are wild and perennial legume plants (subfamily Caesalpinioideae) and the second largest segregate genus of the 7 segregate genera of Acacia sensu lato (i.e., Acacia sensu stricto (1082 species), Senegalia (221 species), Vachellia (164 species), Acaciella (15 species), Mariosousa (14 species), Parasenegalia (11), and Pseudosenegalia (2 species)) (Maslin et al., 2019, Terra et al., 2022).
ref: 2024 January 24, Moustapha Soungalo Drabo, Els J.M. Van Damme, Tibo De Coninck, Isabel Verbeke, Bruno De Meulenaer, Aly Savadogo, Katleen Raes, “Nutritional, phytochemical, and safety profiling of Senegalia seeds, promising wild legumes in the arid and semi-arid tropics”, in Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, volume 125, ScienceDirect, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any leguminous plant of the genus Senegalia, closely related to acacias, found across the Southern Hemisphere.
Related terms: Senegalia
university belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: university belts
Senses: examples: text: A college student was peppered with bullets in a shootout with policemen Thursday night along the University belt here.
ref: 2002 September 1, Artemio Dumlao, “Baguio cops pepper stude with bullets”, in Philstar.com:
text: With this, the researcher wants to probe how feasible it is to put up a food kiosk business along the university belt, specifically Iloilo Science and Technology University, what are the consumers’ reactions in having a product in the food kiosk which is two-in- one (beverage at the bottom and chips on top) cup and whether this business in the aforementioned location will be a captured target market for consumers.
ref: 2018, Kheena Manresa Guirgen, Jessica Aliana Habunal, “Feasibility study of a food kiosk at university belt of Iloilo Science and Technology University”, in Master in Business Administration special paper, Central Philippine University:
text: Because population is one of the basis for computing tax allocations, two barangays in the city’s university belt found their National Tax Allotment (NTA) cut substantially this year and will likely suffer diminished tax shares until either a middecade 2025 census is done or the next mandatory census of population and housing is completed in 2030.
ref: 2022 April 6, Vincent Cabreza, “Population drop cuts tax share of Baguio villages”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:
text: We’re building a space designed for focus, comfort, and connection — right in the heart of Cebu’s University Belt!
ref: 2025 May 6, Meet & Grit, Facebook:
topics: education
glosses: A loose area wherein multiple educational institutions are located in close proximity with each other.
University Belt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: UBelt
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A university belt in Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines.
senegalias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of senegalia
sac spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sac spiders
Senses: synonyms: clubionid
glosses: Any dionychan spider of the family Clubionidae.
Related terms: Clubionidae
usitatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of usitative
overloquacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overloquacious
form: most overloquacious
Etymology: From over- + loquacious.
Senses: examples: text: A salesman should be straightforward and not overloquacious, remembering that it is not the quantity but the quality of talk which counts.
ref: 1911, “Business and Commerce”, in Henry W[oldmar] Ruoff, editor, The Volume Library: A Concise, Graded Repository of Practical and Cultural Knowledge Designed for Both Instruction and Reference, Chicago, Ill.: The W. E. Richardson Company, →OCLC, page 428, column 1:
text: He said it with such conviction that I suddenly felt very friendly toward him. Overloquacious—but a heart of pure gold!
ref: 1913 September 27, Edwin Lefèvre, “Without End”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 186, number 13, Philadelphia, Pa.: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 3:
text: To maintain credibility, I simply eliminated four or five overloquacious witnesses I knew or believed to be lying, or “spinning,” as they say in German.
ref: 1978, James P[reston] O’Donnell, “Prologue”, in The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Group, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 19:
synonyms: overchatty
overtalkative
glosses: Excessively loquacious.
Derived terms: overloquaciousness
Related terms: overloquacity
outlawdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From outlaw + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: The suddenness of the whole proceeding, the change from the monotonous regularity of ship life to that of wild outlawdom, had taken him so much by surprise that it deprived him of speech.
ref: 1899, Guy Boothby, A Sailor's Bride, page 165:
text: True History grants the readers glimpses into the psyche of a nineteenth-century Irishman, whose “brave parents was ripped from Ireland like teeth from the mouth of their own history," and who himself was driven to outlawdom by the injustices of the British colonial administration.
ref: 2005, Andreas Gaile, Fabulating Beauty:
glosses: The state, condition, or jurisdiction of outlaws; lawlessness; outlaws collectively.
Phander
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Their agent, Nancy Phander, sent along a virutal^([sic]) 3D tour and a video tour and they put in an offer based on what they saw.
ref: 2020 June 26, Anna Bahney, “These people bought homes without ever stepping inside”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A surname.
overloquaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overloquacious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Massachusetts Woman Found Guilty of Overloquaciousness in an Argument with a Neighbor.
ref: 1901 May 12, “Convicted as Common Scold”, in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume LX, number 132, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 3:
text: Overloquaciousness can reap one of two possible results for this committee member. Either his arguments are persuasive and he draws support, or his much talking builds enmity among the other committee members.
ref: 1970, Kenneth O. Gangel, “The Leader as Board or Committee Chairman”, in Leadership for Church Education, Chicago, Ill.: Moody Press, published 1974 (5th printing), →ISBN, part IV (Roles and Responsibilities of Church Leaders), page 247:
text: In the psychoneurotic patient, direct treatment of these conditions—silence or overloquaciousness—is also not possible. Treatment has to be directed toward uncovering the underlying memories and feelings of which the traits are a result; that is, the therapist must wait until the nuclear problems from which they stem are resolved and the anxieties that generate the silences are reduced or eliminated and the behavior pattern is automatically sloughed off.
ref: 1979, S[amuel] R[ichard] Slavson, “The Phenomenology and Dynamics of Silence”, in Mortimer Schiffer, editor, Dynamics of Group Psychotherapy, New York, N.Y.; London: Jason Aronson, →ISBN, part 1 (Group Psychotherapy: Adults), page 334:
synonyms: overloquacity
overtalkativeness
glosses: The quality of being overloquacious.
have the hang of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the hang of
form: having the hang of
form: had the hang of
form: had the hang of
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of get the hang of
gets the hang of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get the hang of
getting the hang of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get the hang of
got the hang of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get the hang of
glosses: past participle of get the hang of
gotten the hang of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get the hang of
updooterino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: updooterinos
Etymology: From updoot + -er + -ino.
Senses: examples: text: but i need my hecking reddit updooterinos
ref: 2024 February 24, Skoomaseller, Warframe Forums:
text: updooterinos for this user! you have won the internet for today
ref: 2024 November 2, @perversehomage, Twitter:
text: Manhunt is cool edgy unlike Postal which is cringe edgy. This post gets an updooterino from me.
ref: 2025 March 26, Dawood, chuds.life:
text: Binge-watched Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai today, including the first movie. I like it. Big updooterino from me. 👍
ref: 2025 June 8, @realKalos, Twitter:
qualifier: Reddit slang
glosses: An upvote.
updooterinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of updooterino
Lake Saint Francis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lake St. Francis
Senses: glosses: A long lake on the St. Lawrence River between Lake Ontario and Montreal, bordering Ontario and New York, and in Quebec.
substantive noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substantive nouns
Senses: glosses: Synonym of noun
synonyms: word: noun
substantive nouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substantive noun
naming word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naming words
Senses: glosses: Synonym of noun
synonyms: word: noun
naming words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naming word
Lake St. Francis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lake Saint Francis.
noun adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noun adjectives
Senses: glosses: Synonym of adjectival noun
synonyms: word: adjectival noun
noun adjectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noun adjective
adjective law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjective laws
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The portion of a law that explains rules of procedure governing evidence and practice.
adjective laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjective law
call the fire brigade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: call the fire department
glosses: Call the emergency service to extinguish a fire.
rescue service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rescue services
Senses: glosses: Synonym of emergency service
synonyms: word: emergency service
rescue services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescue service
stupidstition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stupidstitions
Etymology: Blend of stupid + superstition. First use appears c. 1919. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: I don't believe in that, or any other unpleasant 'stupidstition' as my reverend used to call them , " Rose retorted, as she hastily began to dress, for the last time, in the blue striped costume which had been hers for nearly three years, but was, in a few hours, to change to one pure white, like a sombre chrysalis to a radiant butterfly.
ref: 1919, Eliot Harlow Robinson, "Smiles," a Rose of the Cumberlands, page 295:
text: Do you really believe in religious "Bunk"? If so, please read enclosures - and "Wise Up"; it is a shame for an editor to be a Victim of Superstition. Yours for truth, yours against Christian "Stupidstition".
ref: 1957, Truth Seeker, volumes 84-85, page 51:
text: I bet the next person that has to hit out of that bunker really appreciates your stupidstition. Why not put them in your bag so they don't hinder other people? That would be some of my luck. Plug a ball in the bunker with one of your damn pennies setting in the way. What about it guys should we get the USGA to adopt a new rule saying you can remove one of Jeff's pennies or just mug him in the parking and make sure he doesn't make it to the first tee with pennies in his pocket.
ref: 1995 July 17, larry_watson, “More Superstitions”, in rec.sport.golf (Usenet):
text: Yes, that's a platitude: Superstitions by definition are unfounded and are, therefore, all nonsense. They are stupid, too. Because they are stupid, we have a right to call them stupidstitions.
ref: 2004, Bernard M. Patten, Truth, Knowledge, Or Just Plain Bull, How To Tell The Difference : A Handbook of Practical Logic and Clear Thinking, page 137:
glosses: A belief or superstition that is especially foolish or senseless, or lacking any rational basis.
Related terms: stupidstitious
stupidstitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stupidstition
stupid-stitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stupidstitious
t'refah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of treyf.
ba-duh ch
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ba-dum ching.
off-pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of out of tune
synonyms: word: out of tune
Babinski's reflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Babinski's reflexes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Babinski reflex
synonyms: word: Babinski reflex
Babinski's response
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Babinski's responses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Babinski reflex
synonyms: word: Babinski reflex
Babinski's sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Babinski's signs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Babinski reflex
synonyms: word: Babinski reflex
Koch's sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koch's signs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Babinski reflex
synonyms: word: Babinski reflex
plantar reflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantar reflexes
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A reflex elicited when the sole of the foot is stimulated with a blunt instrument.
a drowning man will grab at a straw
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a drowning man will clutch at a straw
a drowning man will grasp at a straw
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a drowning man will clutch at a straw
a drowning man will grab at straws
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a drowning man will clutch at a straw
a drowning man will grasp at straws
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a drowning man will clutch at a straw
nose butters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nose butter
nine-nine-six
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The new desirable employee archetype is a “cracked twenty-two-year-old,” Sun said, using the slang for a hyperproductive, extremely online programmer who might work “nine-nine-six,” a term adopted from workers in China that refers to a schedule of 9 A.M. to 9 P.M., six days a week.
ref: 2025 October 8, Kyle Chayka, “Will A.I. Trap You in the 'Permanent Underclass'?”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of 9-9-6 (“9am-to-9pm workday and six-day workweek”).
nose buttering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nose butter
nose buttered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nose butter
Achilles reflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Achilles reflexes
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: Achilles jerk
glosses: A reflex response elicited by tapping the Achilles tendon with a reflex hammer.
Achilles jerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Achilles jerks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Achilles reflex
synonyms: word: Achilles reflex
Kaneka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kanéka
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical genre from New Caledonia that emerged in the 1980s, blending ancient Kanak rhythms and vocal harmonies with modern electric reggae and rock instrumentation.
Kanéka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kaneka
gory details
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the gory details
Senses: glosses: All of the small facts or pieces of information about something, especially those that are unpleasant, shocking, or sensational in nature.
Related terms: bare all
bare one's soul
leave nothing to the imagination
tell-all
warts and all
naphthoresorcinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From naphtho- + resorcinol.
Senses: glosses: A white crystalline chemical compound, 1,3-dihydroxynaphthalene, used as a reagent, especially for the detection of glucuronic acid and its derivatives.
glosses: Resorcinol derivative of naphthalene.
straw-clutching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Every bit of straw-clutching, every bit of hope that Hugh might be alive was followed instantly by a reaction of dismay, of reluctance to pursue it.
ref: 1962, Lionel Davidson, The Rose of Tibet, page 65:
text: After "little green men" and other straw-clutching explanations had been eliminated, it was realized that the source must be a rotating neutron star.
ref: 1984, Jon Darius, Beyond Vision, page 128:
text: Both acts of straw-clutching would come to nothing.
ref: 2006, Gavin Newsham, Once in a Lifetime, The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos, page 235:
glosses: Of an incident or situation, desperately attempting to find a solution.
Derived terms: straw-clutchingly
braap
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: The sound of a fart.
glosses: The sound of a low-pitched buzzer.
prrt
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: The sound of a fart.
frrt
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: The sound of a fart.
phrrt
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: The sound of a fart.
phrrp
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: The sound of a fart.
splorp
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: The sound of a fart.
glosses: The sound of a splash.
fog drip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fog drips
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process where tiny fog droplets adhere to the surfaces of trees and other objects, coalesce into larger drops, and then fall to the ground, providing a crucial water source in areas with low rainfall or in areas that are seasonally dry.
fog drips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fog drip
water souchet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water souchy
in a fog
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: In a state of mental confusion, disorientation, or a lack of clarity.
bryoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaɪˈoɹ.i.ə/
Forms: form: bryorias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Bryoria.
Senses: examples: text: In testing for color reaction on dark lichens (e.g. Bryorias) one lays the lichen tested upon a piece of white filterpaper on a slide.
ref: 1995, Volkmar Wirth, translated by Doyle Anderegg, The Lichens, volume 1, Baden-Württemberg, 3.2.5 The Chemistry of Lichens: Determination with the Aid of Color Reactions, page 13:
text: Notes: Bryoria capillaris is readily distinguished from other sorediate Bryorias by its palegrey thallus, inconspicuous pseudocyphellae and presence of barbatolic acid.
ref: 2014 September 22, Saara Velmala, Leena Myllys, Trevor Goward, Håkon Holien, Pekka Halonen, “Taxonomy of Bryoria section Implexae (Parmeliaceae, Lecanoromycetes) in North America and Europe, based on chemical, morphological and molecular data”, in Annales Botanici Fennici, Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board, page 363:
text: ID tips: Bryorias are brown.
ref: 2022 September 24, Diane L. Haughland, Common Lichens of Edmonton Alberta, Fruticose Lichens, page 5:
glosses: Any stringy, hairlike lichenized fungus of the genus Bryoria.
Related terms: Bryoria
fog layer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fog layers
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A low-lying stratus cloud or a layer of air near the ground that is saturated with tiny water droplets or ice crystals, resulting in limited visibility.
fog layers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fog layer
D'Urville Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Both islands are named after Jules Dumont d'Urville.
Senses: glosses: An island on the outer edge of the Marlborough Sounds, Marlborough, New Zealand.
glosses: The northernmost island of the Joinville Island group in Antarctica.
fogbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fogbells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fog bell
fogbells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fogbell
Babinski's responses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Babinski's response
Babinski's reflexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Babinski reflex
Babinski's signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Babinski's sign
Koch's signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koch's sign
naphthamein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French naphtaméine. By surface analysis, naphth(a) + -am + -ein.
Senses: examples: text: Piria* observed that naphthalamine and its salts produce blue precipitates, afterwards becoming purple, when brought in contact with perchloride of iron, terchloridc of gold, nitrate of silver, and other oxidizing agents. This product of oxidation he terms naphthamein.
ref: 1862, W. H. Perkin, Esq., “On colouring matters derived from coal tar”, in Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London, page 248:
glosses: A product formed by the oxidation of naphthalamine (also called naphthylamine), which was observed to produce blue precipitates that later became purple but that was considered useless as a commercial dyeing agent due to its poor color quality.
border patrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of border guard
synonyms: word: border guard
Paradys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹədiz/
rhymes: -iz
Forms: form: Paradyses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Paradys.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The star α Apodis in the constellation Apus.
Synonyms: α Apodis
Alpha Apodis
α Aps
Alpha Aps
anilinophil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anilinophils
Etymology: From anilino- + phil(e)
Senses: glosses: Cell having a strong affinity for or readily soluble in aniline.
anilinophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anilinophil + -ous
Senses: glosses: Having a strong affinity for or readily soluble in aniline.