cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
typefounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From type + founding.
Senses: examples: text: Type instruction should include a range of endeavors from metal typefounding to digital fontography.
ref: 2010, Steven Heller, Teresa Fernandes, Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design:
glosses: traditional printing with physical type
pole lathe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pole lathes
Senses: glosses: A simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord passing around it, one end being fastened to the treadle, and the other to an elastic pole above.
flint mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flint mills
Senses: qualifier: pottery
glosses: A mill in which flints are ground.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An obsolete appliance for lighting a miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light without igniting the firedamp.
houseraising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houseraisings
Etymology: From house + raising.
Senses: glosses: The setting up of the frame of a house.
houseraisings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houseraising
wood opal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood opals
Senses: glosses: A striped variety of coarse opal, having some resemblance to wood.
dyer's broom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyer's brooms
Senses: glosses: A species of broom, Genista tinctoria, used for dyeing yellow.
Synonyms: dyeweed
woad-waxen
dyer's greenweed
salve bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salve bugs
Senses: glosses: A parasitic isopod crustacean (Aega psora). In the 19th century it was used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve, although its medicinal effects are dubious.
bid hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bid hooks
Senses: glosses: A small boathook.
mole shrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mole shrews
Senses: glosses: Any of various shrews that resemble moles, of the genera Surdisorex and Anourosorex.
glosses: Synonym of short-tailed shrew, any of the genus Blarina of relatively large shrews with relatively short tails, found in North America.
synonyms: word: short-tailed shrew
word: any of the genus Blarina of relatively large shrews with relatively short tails
word: found in North America
glosses: A shrew mole.
Synonyms: sense: Surdisorex
word: African mole shrew
tooth powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tooth powders
Senses: examples: 1918, Hannah Teresa Rowley, Mrs. Helen Louise (Wales) Farrell, Principles of Chemistry Applied to the Household
Precipitated calcium carbonate, a very fine powdery form, is used as a basis for many tooth powders and pastes. As whiting it finds a wide use in cleaning metals of their tarnishes.
glosses: A powder for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice.
pothanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pothangers
Etymology: From pot + hanger.
Senses: glosses: pothook (hook used to suspend a cooking-pot)
pothangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pothanger
butter flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter flowers
form: butter-flower
Senses: glosses: buttercup
bone black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bone blacks
form: boneblack
Senses: synonyms: animal charcoal
bone char
bone charcoal
glosses: A preparation containing carbonized bone, used as a pigment and a filtering medium.
Related terms: carbon black
American tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American tigers
Senses: glosses: puma
glosses: jaguar
slutwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slutwads
Etymology: From slut + -wad.
Senses: examples: text: (Now, at this point I should mention that my slutwad neighbor has been throwing a party since about 7:00. It's not one you can miss either; the floors in my house are vibrating from the music.)
ref: 1999 October 31, Reverend Sean O'Hara, “Re: Experiments in TIME”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):
text: I am right and that's that, ya senile slutwad.
ref: 2000 June 12, Rhyanon, “Re: Wikkacrite [was:Re: Nancy…(Boring……..]”, in alt.religion.wicca (Usenet):
text: We already know you're sleazy & easy, slutwad!
ref: 2004 January 14, BrutalNoodle [username], “Re: Top Ten Albums Of 2003”, in alt.music.slayer (Usenet):
glosses: A promiscuous person.
polyhydroxyphenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyhydroxyphenol
polyflavonoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyflavonoid
mutilative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mutilate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The patient engaged in self-mutilative behaviours.
glosses: Causing or relating to mutilation.
concession road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concession roads
Etymology: So called because the land that comprised a row of lots that spanned the entire length of a new township was conceded by the Crown for this purpose.
Senses: glosses: A road laid out by the colonial government through undeveloped Crown land to provide access to rows of newly surveyed lots intended for farming by new settlers.
concession roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concession road
core lanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of core lane
extramoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + moral.
Senses: glosses: Outside of morality.
dark rides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark ride
tunnel of love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunnels of love
Senses: glosses: A carnival dark ride for couples in boats, either relaxing and romantic, or spooky (encouraging the couple to cling to one another).
glosses: The vagina.
Hypernyms: sense: fairground attraction
word: dark ride
station pointer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: station pointers
Senses: glosses: A surveyor's instrument for locating on a chart the position of a place from which the angles subtended by three distant objects, whose positions are known, have been observed.
station staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: station staffs
form: station staves
Senses: examples: text: Write down in the first column, the first limit A; in the second, the number of feet, inches, and tenths, the points of sight, indicated on the station staff at A
ref: 1803, George Adams, Geometrical and Graphical Essays:
glosses: An instrument for taking angles in surveying.
converting furnace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: converting furnaces
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: converter
glosses: A furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.
gold amalgam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Refined gold, when finely ground and brought into contact with mercury where the surfaces of both metals are clean, amalgamates readily and quickly to form alloys ranging from AuHg2 to Au8Hg.
pepito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepitos
Senses: glosses: A sandwich of Spanish origin and popular in Latin America, made with beef, pork, or chicken.
glosses: A gold nugget.
pepitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepito
oil pulling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional Ayurvedic folk remedy where vegetable oil is swished or held in the mouth, thereby supposedly "pulling out" toxins.
Synonyms: oil swishing
oil pulling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oil pull
gold solder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold solders
Senses: glosses: A kind of solder, often containing twelve parts of gold, two of silver, and four of copper.
panel thief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panel thieves
Senses: glosses: A thief who operates in a panel house.
bargain and sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A thirteenth species of conveyance , introduced by this statute , is that of a bargain and sale of lands ; which is a kind of real contract , whereby the bargainor , for some pecuniary consideration , bargains and sells
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A form of conveyance by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase, i.e. the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession.
telegraph plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telegraph plants
head_nr: 1
Etymology: So called because the jerking motions of the leaves are thought to resemble signalling.
Senses: head_nr: 1
synonyms: semaphore plant
glosses: Codariocalyx motorius, a tropical Asian shrub, one of the few plants capable of rapid movement.
semaphore plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semaphore plants
Senses: glosses: Synonym of telegraph plant.
synonyms: word: telegraph plant
telegraph plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telegraph plant
semaphore plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semaphore plant
hairpuller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairpullers
Etymology: From hair + puller.
Senses: examples: text: Compulsive hairpullers frequently have comorbid mood and anxiety disorders […]
ref: 2011, Donald W. Black, Nancy C. Andreasen, Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry, page 375:
glosses: One who pulls the hair.
hairpullers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairpuller
peg ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peg ladders
Senses: glosses: A ladder with only one standard, into which cross-pieces are inserted.
wandering Jew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wandering Jews
Etymology: The plant's name is derived from the figure of the Wandering Jew, presumably at least partly from the tendency of those plants to spread through a garden (i.e. wander).
Senses: examples: text: GCN needs donations of plants to hang in its windows...Should be plants that like a bright but sunless northern exposure...plants that are happy hanging too; like ivies, wandering jews, spider plants, philodendrons, mother-of-thousands, what have you?? Cuttings O.K., need pots and a sprayer also.
ref: 1974 April 13, “Untitled”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: Any plant of three species of spiderworts, Tradescantia pallida, Tradescantia fluminensis, and Tradescantia zebrina.
glosses: The plant Saxifraga stolonifera.
none-so-pretty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: none-so-pretties
Senses: glosses: The plant Saxifraga umbrosa.
Synonyms: London pride
none-so-pretties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of none-so-pretty
bonnet piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonnet pieces
Senses: glosses: A gold coin of the time of James V of Scotland, bearing an image of the king's head wearing a bonnet.
elm beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elm beetles
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of beetles (especially Xanthogaleruca luteola) which feed on the leaves of the elm.
Synonyms: sense: Xanthogaleruca luteola
word: elm-leaf beetle
needle telegraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needle telegraphs
Senses: glosses: A telegraph in which the signals are given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right or to the left of a certain position.
mountain antelope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain antelopes
Senses: glosses: goral
haul around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hauls around
form: hauling around
form: hauled around
form: hauled around
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To shift to any point of the compass.
raw_tags: of the wind
lace paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lace papers
Senses: glosses: paper with an openwork design in imitation of lace
club rush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: club rushes
Senses: synonyms: bulrush
tule
glosses: Any rush of the genus Scirpus or related genera.
Derived terms: grey club-rush
vicarious punishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicarious punishments
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A type of social learning in which a person is dissuaded from committing a certain act, as a result of seeing others punished for the same action.
cactus wren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cactus wrens
Senses: glosses: a wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus), native to the southwestern United States southwards to central Mexico.
horsily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more horsily
form: most horsily
Etymology: From horsy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a horsy manner.
groupiedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From groupie + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The world or sphere of groupies.
glosses: The state or period of being a groupie.
chalkpits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalkpit
milk knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk knots
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands.
Raincouver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of rain + Vancouver, referring to its rainy climate.
Senses: examples: text: What would Raincouver (Vancouver) be without 400cm of rain and a flash flood on a summer day?
ref: 2008, Arlena De Bruin, On The Bright Side…and Other Rose-Coloured Catastrophes, Red Wagon Writing and Publishing Services, →ISBN, page 158:
text: News reporters giving out the weather should have a smile in their voice, they should be making Metro Vancouver inhabitants feel good about living in "Raincouver."
ref: 2011 February 4, Harvinder Sandhu, “Put grey in perspective and embrace wet coast”, in Surrey Now, page A13:
text: In winter, water is often foremost on our minds for all the wrong reasons, but one of the most amazing things about living in Raincouver is our ability to turn on the tap and drink deeply.
ref: 2013, Kelsey Klassen, "Local company marries nature lovers and developing nations", WE, 3 January 2013 - 9 January 2013, page 9
glosses: Vancouver (a city in British Columbia, Canada).
planetaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetary
water on the chest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The medical condition of hydrothorax.
chimney hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimney hooks
Senses: glosses: A hook for suspending pots and kettles over a fire.
in ordinary
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: An ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court.
text: The king experienced his first attack in autumn 1788, and as his condition worsened and the physicians-in-ordinary proved unable to cope or cure, the Reverend Dr Francis Willis (1717–1807), a clergyman doctor who ran a madhouse in Lincolnshire, was called in.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 263:
glosses: In an official capacity (chiefly as a post-modifier in official titles).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Out of commission and laid up; said of a naval vessel.
umbrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more umbrally
form: most umbrally
Etymology: From umbral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an umbral or shadowy manner.
circuminsession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of circumincession.
hubrid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhjuːbɹɪd/
Forms: form: more hubrid
form: most hubrid
Etymology: From hubris, from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris, “insolence, sexual outrage”).
Senses: examples: text: Showing off for him, for all of them, not out of hubris — hubris? him? what did he have to be hubrid about?
ref: 1991, Stanley Enlkin, The MacGuffin, Linden Press, page 173
text: And if it's true, maybe it doesn't only concern NLP trainers.. have you met novices in any other fields, some seem to adopt a hubrid belief of their own skills.. just a thought.
ref: 28 February 2002, Daniel Busk, “dear Pat, read this..”, in alt.psychology.nlp (Usenet):
text: Of calculatingly unprincipled / Surrender to hubrid incompetence
ref: 2011, Constancio Sulapas Asumen, Flirting with Misadventures: Escapades of an Exotic Life, Friesen Press, page 143
glosses: Exhibiting excessive pride, presumption or arrogance; hubristic.
Synonyms: hubristic
Kostiantynivka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Konstantinovka
Etymology: From Ukrainian Костянтинівка (Kostjantynivka).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Kostiantynivka.
glosses: A city in Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine.
Konstantinovka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kostiantynivka.
televoting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + voting.
Senses: glosses: A process that allows viewers to participate in a telecast through phone calls or SMS, to choose between candidates or performers to qualify or be eliminated.
apicoalveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːələ(ɹ)
-əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From apico- + alveolar.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Articulated with the tip of the tongue against the alveolar ridge.
raw_tags: of a sound
corregimiento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corregimientos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish corregimiento.
Senses: glosses: A historical administrative subdivision of a country in certain parts of Spain and Latin America
tailnumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailnumbers
form: tail-number
form: tail number
Etymology: From tail + number.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The registration number that appears on the rear sections of aircraft.
Related terms: nose art
livery
tailnumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailnumber
nose art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noseart
Senses: glosses: artwork found on the forward sections of aircraft (though usually not on the nose itself)
Related terms: tailnumber
livery
tail number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail numbers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tailnumber.
opinionizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opinionizers
Etymology: From opinionize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who opinionizes.
opinionizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opinionizer
pre-pone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-pones
form: pre-poning
form: pre-poned
form: pre-poned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prepone.
body art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The application of tattoos, piercings or jewellery to the body.
glosses: A type of performance art in which artists use or abuse their own body to make particular statements.
shitheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shitheaded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being shitheaded; foolishness; incompetence.
Graysonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɡɹeɪˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Graysonian
form: most Graysonian
Etymology: From Grayson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ray Stannard Baker (1870–1946), also known by his pen name David Grayson, an American journalist and author.
bourette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French bourrette.
Senses: glosses: A slubby yarn or fabric made of silk waste.
twinkle in one's father's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twinkles in their fathers' eyes
Senses: examples: text: Kimberly handed him a whisky and said: "So's that, my boy. Forty-eight-year-old Glenlivet. This was a connoisseur's drop before you were a twinkle in your father's eye."
ref: 1975, Terry Blake, The Fig Tree, Aim Publishing (1975), page 26
text: 'Don't you take the piss out of me, sonny. I was doing this job when you were just a drunken twinkle in your father's eye!'
ref: 1992, Martina Cole, Dangerous Lady, Headline Publishing, published 2008, →ISBN:
text: “Thirty years ago you would not even have been a twinkle in your father's eye.”
ref: 2010, Max Overton, Jim Darley, Sequestered, Sequestered Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A notional look of anticipation or hope (either for sex or a child) in one's father's eyes at or around the time of one's conception.
Synonyms: glint in the milkman's eye
twinkle in one's daddy's eye
antisweatshop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisweatshop
form: most antisweatshop
Etymology: From anti- + sweatshop.
Senses: glosses: Opposing sweatshops.
baby brain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Shortly after the birth, you may have “baby brain” and be unable to concentrate, focus, or develop a plan of action because you are so sleep-deprived.
ref: 2005, Marc Weissbluth, Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page xiii:
text: “I do that sometimes too,” Amber says. “Forget stuff. I think it's because I have baby brain right now.”
ref: 2013, Lauren Blakely, Trophy Husband, unnumbered page:
text: She might have baby brain and crazy hormones at the moment, but she'd better not forget that fact—not for a single, solitary moment.
ref: 2013, Michelle Douglas, First Comes Baby, in First Comes Baby/The Loner's Guarded Heart omnibus, Harlequin (2013), page 180
glosses: A state in which a new mother is forgetful, absentminded, or easily distracted.
Synonyms: mommy brain
momnesia
Hypernyms: brain fog
yatzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dice game.
linerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From liner + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a liner.
R'lyehian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From writings of the horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft, named for the fictional city of R'lyeh, + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An artificial language created by H.P. Lovecraft.
Related terms: Cthuvian
merteen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merteens
Etymology: From mer- + teen.
Senses: examples: text: In the “how to make a porn video” within the video, Sprinkle plays an older mermaid who sexually initiates a “merteen” played by Sirena.
ref: 2000 February 8, Virginia Vitzthum, “Annie Sprinkle swims forward”, in Salon:
text: Realization filled the merteen's eyes with sadness.
ref: 2005, Rachel Roberts, The Heart of Avalon, CDS Books, →ISBN, page 120:
text: I paddle board, boogie board, and I use a monofin when I swim. You put your two feet in a fin and workout in the water. It’s a great way for merfolk—mermen, merteens, whoever—to connect with the water.
ref: 2012 July 27, Maria Denardo, “Rockefeller's Center”, in The Daily Dan:
glosses: A teenage merperson.
Hypernyms: merchild
merkid
merlad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merlads
Etymology: From mer- + lad.
Senses: examples: text: The merlad and merlass watched the sphere for a moment and with a flick of their shiny tails, vanished again.
ref: 2003, Susan K. Hamilton, Darkstar Rising, Xlibris, published 2003, →ISBN, page 433:
text: I have to admit, he's a handsome merlad with his beautiful brown eyes, shiny black hair, and dark brown skin, but I can't have a boyfriend.
ref: 2006, S. L. Bynum, Kalena, the Sea Princess, Lulu, published 2006, →ISBN, page 10:
text: “At first everyone was standoffish and now they're too friendly,” Thorgil complained, swiping at a merlad who was attempting to grab her hair.
ref: 2009, Nancy Farmer, The Islands of the Blessed, Simon & Schuster, published 2009, →ISBN:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A young male merperson, male equivalent of mermaid
Synonyms: merboy
merguy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merguys
Etymology: From mer- + guy.
Senses: examples: text: "I don't know. But he's still breathing, or whatever it is merguys do. We've got to try and revive him somehow," said Sabrina thoughtfully.
ref: 1999, Ellen Titlebaum, Sabrina Down Under, Archway, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Step right up and see the merboy, merguy, merman. Where does his ding-dong go?
ref: 2012, Zoraida Cordova, The Vicious Deep, Sourcebooks Fire, →ISBN:
text: “Here, entertain yourself. I'm only expecting merguys to be at the meeting today, and there are no pictures of them.” Either the male mers didn't get out much or, more likely, men had written all the history books.
ref: 2012, Suzanne Johnson, River Road, Tor, →ISBN:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A male merperson.
Synonyms: merman
merprincess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merprincesses
Etymology: From mer- + princess.
Senses: examples: text: Ariel is a merprincess who finds life in the sea under the protective eye of her father to be a type of imprisonment.
ref: 1997, Carleton Papers in Applied Language Studies, volumes 14-19, page 109:
text: We have the merprince and merprincess and tonight we will finish defeating the soldiers at the mercastle.
ref: 2003, Gretel Killeen, My Sister's a Sea Slug, Random House Children's Publishing UK, published 2012, →ISBN:
text: “As long as that merprincess is out there, the more that city will crumble and die. […]
ref: 2013, Cheri Jones, The Adventures of a Mermaid Princess, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A mermaid who is a princess.
merprince
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merprinces
Etymology: From mer- + prince.
Senses: examples: text: We have the merprince and merprincess and tonight we will finish defeating the soldiers at the mercastle.
ref: 2003, Gretel Killeen, My Sister's a Sea Slug, Random House Children's Publishing UK, published 2012, →ISBN:
text: She sighed audibly when the merprince rescued the young mermaid and whisked her away to his kingdom as his bride, thus ending the story.
ref: 2005, Tracey V. Bateman, Kansas Home: Hearts Adrift Find a Place to Dwell in Four Romantic Stories, Barbour Publishing Incorporated, →ISBN, page 49:
text: Down the beach, a group of mergirls and boys were facing off with the same merprince who'd spoken through the mirror.
ref: 2005, Rachel Roberts, The Heart of Avalon, CDS Books, →ISBN, page 18:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A merman who is a prince.
merdaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merdaughters
Etymology: From mer- + daughter.
Senses: examples: text: The Sea King's merdaughters have only one tail.
ref: 1993, Todd Strasser, Mark Rifkin, & Gil DiCicco, Disney's the Villian's Collection: Stories from the Films, Disney Press, →ISBN, page 61:
text: He does this again in Action Comics #224 (Sep. 1958) in which he meets a merman, Vul-Kor and his merdaughter, Lya-La, […]
ref: 2012, Lori Maguire, “Supervillains and Cold War Tensions in the 1950s”, in Joseph J. Darowski, editor, The Ages of Superman: Essays on the Man of Steel in Changing Times, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Below, a concert is underway by Triton (Martin Lopez), the sea king’s Merdaughters (Dakota Booher, Lexi Jusino, Ashley Moller, Lara Monti, Clare Pepe, Sarah Vidal), written by court composer, Sebastian (Kenny Copeland).
ref: 2013 April 23, Nancy Horak, “The Little Mermaid Broadway-Style”, in The Magazine of Santa Clarita:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A mermaid daughter.
shamos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shamash (“sexton in a synagogue”).
glosses: Alternative form of shamash (“candle used to light other candles of a Hanukkah menorah”).
neurotologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to neurotology.
Harappa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ہَڑَپَّہ (haṛappah) / ਹੜਪ੍ਪਾ (haṛppā).
Senses: glosses: A village in Punjab, in eastern Pakistan.
examples: text: The site, known as Harappa, contained evidence of a culture over 1,000 years older than any other yet discovered in South Asia and one which dated back to c. 2350 BCE, making it one of the four oldest centers of civilization in the world.
ref: 1995, Karl J. Schmidt, An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History, page 12:
text: 1996, Elizabeth E. Broadrup, "Kot Diji (Sind, Pakistan)," article in Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda (editors), International Dictionary of Historic Places, Volume 5: Asia and Oceania, page 489,
Now considered the first urban culture of the Indian subcontinent, the Harappan civilization was unknown to scholars until the twentieth century. Intrigued by large, earth-covered mounds at Harappa, on the Ravi River in the Punjab province of present-day Pakistan, archaeologists began excavating the site in 1921.
text: Renewed excavations at Harappa from 1986 onwards and at several other sites have produced a series of radiocarbon dates.
ref: 2003, Himanshu Prabha Ray, The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia, page 91:
text: Within the confines of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, two of the more famous of the many ancient archaeological sites from the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), we find evidence of the oldest forms of Goddess worship.
ref: 2006, Karen Tate, Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations, page 207:
text: The early picture of the Indus civilization was largely based on what was revealed by excavations in the two great cities of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa.
ref: 2008, Jane McIntosh, The Ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives, page 385:
glosses: An archaeological site near the village; the ancient city excavated at the site.
examples: 1989, Amalananda Ghosh (editor), "Rangpur," entry in An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology, page 370,
He declared that it was a site of the late period of Harappa culture [4.9] on the basis of certain pottery types and painted designs thereon and that 'the mere fact that the Indus culture is by this discovery pushed so far s.-e. as Kathiawar is a matter of great importance'.
glosses: The Harappan Civilization, or Indus Valley Civilization, a Bronze Age civilization that flourished in a large region encompassing the site.
Related terms: Harappan
Mongolian spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mongolian spot
Indus script
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Indus + script.
Senses: examples: text: Although scholars have had these seals, the so-called Indus script, since the early twentieth century, little progress has been made in decoding their meaning, largely because of the nature of the seals themselves and the problem of language.
ref: 2004, Shane Mountjoy, The Indus River, page 22:
text: It has been suggested, based solely on the number of signs, that the Indus script is logo-syllabic.
ref: 2007, Michael Korvink, The Indus Script: A Positional-Statistical Approach, page 10:
text: While most of the marks are simple and of a universal nature, a few were later used as signs in the Indus script.
ref: 2008, Jane McIntosh, The Ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives, page 72:
glosses: An as yet undeciphered corpus of symbols found on some artefacts from the Indus Valley Civilization, possibly representing a script of a language.
Synonyms: sense: corpus of symbols from the Indus Valley Civilization
word: Harappan script
band rotunda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: band rotundas
Etymology: From band (etymology 2) + rotunda.
Senses: glosses: A small round building, completely open at the sides and without walls, where a band of musicians can play to an audience. Usually situated in a public park.
Related terms: bandstand
Yuroks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yurok
pentuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- (“five”) + -ple, from Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”) and Latin plus (“in sum”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quintuple in its various senses.
synonyms: word: quintuple
extra: in its various senses
pentuple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pentuples
form: pentupling
form: pentupled
form: pentupled
Etymology: From penta- (“five”) + -ple, from Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”) and Latin plus (“in sum”).
Senses: examples: text: He gives the agents 50 gp and promises to pentuple it if they discover who's harassing his business.
ref: 2020, Michael Sayre, Sixty Feet Under, Paizo Publishing,, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Synonym of quintuple: To multiply or be multiplied by five.
synonyms: word: quintuple
extra: To multiply or be multiplied by five
Derived terms: pentuplet
hextuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: sextuple
Derived terms: hextuplet
gross register ton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gross register tons
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A measure of the total enclosed volume of a ship, equal to 100 cubic feet or 2.83 m³.
Related terms: net register ton
net register ton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net register tons
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A measure of the cargo capacity of a ship, equal to 100 cubic feet or 2.83 m³.
Related terms: gross register ton
St Kilda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Apparently from Old Norse skildir (“shields”).
Senses: glosses: An archipelago in the westernmost part of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
glosses: Any of various localities in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, named for the archipelago.
A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: Any of various localities in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, named for the archipelago.
A seaside suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
unnarratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnarratable
form: most unnarratable
Etymology: From un- + narratable.
Senses: glosses: Not narratable.
trialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌɪəlɪzm̩/
Etymology: From trial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The consequence of an unsuccessful war might be concession to the Slavs, perhaps the ‘trialism’ which would undo Austro-Hungarian ‘dualism’.
ref: 1998, John Keegan, The First World War, Vintage, published 2000, page 53:
glosses: A union of three states or political entities.
glosses: The doctrine of the existence of body, soul, and spirit in human beings.
Related terms: trialist
errorlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From errorless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without errors.
telecardiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + cardiology.
Senses: glosses: Cardiology carried out remotely using telecommunication technology.
teleinstructor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleinstructors
Etymology: From tele- + instructor.
Senses: glosses: One who gives teleinstruction.
teleinstructors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleinstructor
televoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: televoters
Etymology: From tele- + voter.
Senses: glosses: One who participates in televoting.
televoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of televoter
Lizardbreath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From lizard + breath, as an approximate rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: Fiercely green-eyed Elizabeth […] is a testament to human indecision in the wrong cases and stubborn decisiveness in others. […] If Lizardbreath had ever given Ben her number, he twists his mouth, he'd never have had his current dilemma.
ref: 2007, S. Christopher, Gravitas, page 31:
text: […] "Punkin's real name's Lizardbreath, but ever'body 'cept Teacher calls her Punkin.”
A round-faced girl with wispy hair the color of lemon taffy hair^([sic]) sneered at Tom-Tom, “Listen here, Tom Turkey. My name is Elizabeth McNamara.”
ref: 2014, Debora M. Coty, The Distant Shore, page 76:
glosses: Nickname for Elizabeth.
highballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of highball
highballed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of highball
glacierless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glacier + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without glaciers.
shitbucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitbuckets
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of shit + bucket.
Senses: examples: text: It's not even a real bus stop, just a gas station where the bus drops off whoever's stupid enough to come to this shitbucket town and picks up whoever's smart enough to leave.
ref: 2010, Jeff Garigliano, Dogface, MP Publishing, →ISBN, page 184:
text: He was under the streetlight by then, next to my shitbucket Volkswagen.
ref: 2013, D. Seth Horton, Brett Garcia Myhren, Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest:
glosses: Synonym of shitpot (in all senses).
synonyms: word: shitpot
extra: in all senses
shitbuckets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitbucket
eggie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggies
Etymology: From egg + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of egg.
examples: text: about $5 a month will get ya a shell with 2 eggies
ref: 1998, DRDeaTH, “Re: Help: Starting an IRC Bot?”, in alt.irc.bots (Usenet):
text: I think that Efnet and IRCnet, among others, prove that nick/chanserv is not an indispensible^([sic]) requirement, as long as you have reasonable alternatives (eggdrop bots, etc.) Indeed some folk I know even object to eggies on a channel and will avoid them like the proverbial plague!
ref: 2000, Chika, “Re: ideas?”, in alt.irc (Usenet):
glosses: An Eggdrop bot: a kind of automated IRC user with various functionality.
eggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eggie
mudhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudhouses
Etymology: From mud + house.
Senses: examples: text: The new villages are built of mortar and brick, some of stone, and are a far cry from the villages of mudhouses.
ref: 1963, Allen J. Ellender, “United States Foreign Operations in Africa”, in Reports and Documents, volume 19, United States: Congress, page 168:
text: The settlers' mudhouses were swamped and they could not get out.
ref: 1955, Moses Zebi Frank, Sound the great trumpet, page 37:
glosses: A simple house built primarily of mud.
mudhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudhouse
interverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + verbal.
Senses: glosses: Between words.
intraverbals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intraverbal
manding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mand
manded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mand
tacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tact
tacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tact
typehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typeheads
Etymology: From type + head.
Senses: glosses: The assembly within a typewriter, teleprinter, etc., that physically prints characters onto the page.
typeheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typehead
teletransmission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teletransmissions
Etymology: From tele- + transmission.
Senses: glosses: The transmission of data over a telecommunication system or network.
Related terms: teletransmit
teletransmissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teletransmission
teletransmitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teletransmitters
Etymology: From tele- + transmitter.
Senses: coordinate_terms: telereceiver
glosses: A device that carries out teletransmission.
teletransmit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teletransmits
form: teletransmitting
form: teletransmitted
form: teletransmitted
Etymology: From tele- + transmit.
Senses: glosses: To transmit (data) over a telecommunication system or network.
teletransmits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teletransmit
teletransmitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teletransmit
teletransmitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teletransmit
teletransmitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teletransmitter
ratiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratiometers
Etymology: From ratio + meter.
Senses: glosses: A measurement device used in ohmmeters, having two coils, one connected via a series resistor to the battery supply and the other connected to the same battery supply via a second resistor and the resistor under test. The indication on the meter was proportional to the ratio of the currents through the two coils.
ratiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratiometer
ratiometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ratio + -metry.
Senses: glosses: measurement involving a ratio, as by a ratiometer
rerationalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rerationalizes
form: rerationalizing
form: rerationalized
form: rerationalized
Etymology: From re- + rationalize.
Senses: glosses: To rationalize again or in a different way.
rerationalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rerationalize
rerationalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rerationalize
rerationalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rerationalize
gustofacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From Latin gustus (“a tasting”), and facial.
Senses: examples: text: In the gustofacial reflex, sweet tastes evoke a smile, bitter tastes produce a look of disgust and sticking out of the tongue, while sour tastes make the newborn purse its lips.
ref: 1993, Richard Cytowic, The Man Who Tasted Shapes:
glosses: Of or relating to a basic reflex where different tastes produce different reactions in young children.
blepharonasofacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blepharo- + nasofacial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the eyelids, nose, and face; applied to Pashayan syndrome.
Pashayan syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: It was described by H. M. Pashayan.
Senses: glosses: A rare syndrome characterized by facial abnormalities (including a mask-like appearance and a bulky, flattened nose) and malformation of extremities.
Synonyms: blepharonasofacial syndrome
Pashayan-Prozansky syndrome
cerebrofacioarticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cerebro- + facio- + articular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the cerebrum, face, and joints; applied to a particular form of Pashayan syndrome.
Jenilyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage: alternative form of Jennilyn.
Nerissa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈɹɪsə/
rhymes: -ɪsə
Etymology: Coined by Shakespeare for The Merchant of Venice, apparently from Ancient Greek Νηρηΐς (Nērēḯs, “sea-nymph”).
Senses: examples: text: Well, while I live, I’ll fear no other thing
So sore as keeping safe Nerissa’s ring.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
text: When Nerissa saw the worm her immediate reaction was to kill, for she disliked its sliminess and crawlingness.
ref: 1958, The Literary Review, volume 2, page 188:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: nereid
Nereus
socializable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more socializable
form: most socializable
Etymology: From socialize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being socialized.
punkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punkin
redefeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redefeats
form: redefeating
form: redefeated
form: redefeated
Etymology: From re- + defeat.
Senses: glosses: To defeat again.
redefeated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redefeat
redefeats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redefeat
redefeating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redefeat
Bettie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
e-vite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-vites
Etymology: Blend of e- + invite.
Senses: examples: text: Apparently the e-vite I had sent to fifty classmates last night was forwarded to another two hundred by morning. Since they all received the e-vite, they all assumed they were invited regardless of the fact that it hadn't been sent by me.
ref: 2008, Diana Rodriguez Wallach, Amigas and School Scandals, page 125:
text: The e-vite had a cute picture of Dan carrying Autumn across the threshold of their apartment — taken at their request by the doorman with Autumn's iPhone camera […]
ref: 2010, Michael Connellan, The Fourth Account, page 174:
glosses: An invitation sent by email or computer network.
e-vites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-vite
outmetal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈmɛtəl/
Forms: form: outmetals
form: outmetaling
form: outmetalling
form: outmetaled
form: outmetaled
form: outmetalled
form: outmetalled
Etymology: From out- + metal.
Senses: examples: text: The enemy, outnumbered, outmetalled, outfed, outmanoeuvred, outfought, was being driven backward by foes invisible as well as visible.
ref: 1933, Edward John Thompson, Damascus Lies North, page 272:
text: The French VIII Corps […] was overwhelmed; its artillery was outmetalled by the heavier German guns, under the fire of which the German infantry drove the French from one position after another.
ref: 1998, John Keegan, The First World War, Vintage, published 2000, page 91:
glosses: To surpass (an enemy etc.) in terms of firepower.
outmetalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outmetal
steampunker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steampunkers
Etymology: From steampunk + -er.
Senses: glosses: A fan of the steampunk style or subculture.
Related terms: alt: person cosplay as a steampunk character
word: steampunk
steampunkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steampunker
steampunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of steampunk
steampunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of steampunk
masquers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masquer
slicknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slickness
granary breads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granary bread
granary loaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granary loaves
Senses: glosses: A loaf of granary bread.
Related terms: malt loaf
granary loaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granary loaf