cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
autoinflammations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoinflammation
skitteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more skitteringly
form: most skitteringly
Etymology: From skittering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to skitter; with rapid, twitchy motion.
sgraffitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sgraffitoes
Senses: glosses: plural of sgraffito
sgraffitos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sgraffitoes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sgraffito
antiblooming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + blooming.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Preventing the blooming phenomenon, where excessive light causes large bright patches in a picture.
autoran
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of autorun
autoruns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autorun
autorunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autorun
nonrunnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + runnable.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not runnable.
nonenumerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + enumerable.
Senses: glosses: Not enumerable.
anti-infection
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiinfection.
pantygirdle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantygirdles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panty girdle.
pantygirdles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantygirdle
tripcode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripcodes
Etymology: From trip + code - 'trip' is an abbreviation of '1人用（ひとりよう）キャップ' - hitori-you kyappu - which translates to 'cap for one'.
Senses: glosses: The hash code of a password, used for signing posts anonymously on imageboards.
Related terms: tripfag
tripcodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripcode
Tripehounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tripehound
reflectivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reflective + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Any of various theoretical approaches that oppose rational-choice accounts of social phenomena and, perhaps, positivism more generally.
Related terms: reflectivist
reflectivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflectivists
Etymology: From reflective + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who adheres to reflectivism.
reflectivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflectivist
hash codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hash code
dish towel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dish towels
form: dishtowel
Senses: glosses: A piece of absorbent cloth for drying or wiping dishes, cups or silverware
glosses: A piece of cloth similar in size or texture, but used for other functions
dish towels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dish towel
charge description master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charge description masters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chargemaster.
charge description masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charge description master
ever-loving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ever-loving
form: most ever-loving
Senses: examples: text: When the All-blessed Spirit of the ever living and ever-loving God hath given his teſtimony...
ref: 1652, Ralph Venning, Mysteries and Revelations, →OCLC:
text: I could have kicked the ever-loving hell out'n you, if I'd had my mind on it.
ref: 1933, Rollin Kirby, “The death of a puppet”, in Vanity Fair, volume 41, page 66:
text: Why not call your ever-loving wife?
ref: 1934, Damon Runyon, Blue Plate Special, →OCLC:
text: What in ever-loving hell could you have done?
ref: 1982, Lewis Perdue, Queens Gate Reckoning, →ISBN, page 296:
glosses: Alternative form of everloving.
ever-loving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ever-lovings
Senses: examples: text: That Fairfield, Ala., husband who was called home from work to find his ever-loving and her gentleman "guest" suffering from knife wounds and the bedroom a wreck.
ref: 1959 December 24, “People Are”, in Jet, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of everloving.
kanikanik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinikkinik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinnekinnic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I also asked the great favour of him, as he would sit next to me in the canoe, to smoke as little as possible, as it always made me sick, and gave me a head-ache, to which he replied that he only smoked the kinnekinnic, which is a mild preparation […]
ref: 1847, George William Featherstonhaugh, A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor, page 265:
text: There are also in this packet a part of what is supposed to be a Kinnekinnic pouch, two meshes of a fishing-net, and a piece of what is supposed to be the raw material, […]
ref: 1897, Barnard Shipp, The Indian and Antiquities of America, page 301:
text: It was a vote, Woodfoot thought, tasting the pleasant bitterness of the kinnekinnic, a vote on what happened to the Indian.
ref: 1954, Milton Lott, The Last Hunt, page 108:
glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinnekinnick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinnekinnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinnekinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinnekinick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinnekinik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinnikinneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
living the dream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of live the dream
on the side
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Shish kebab is skewered lamb with rice on the side.
ref: 1945 June 4, Robert De Roos, “San Francisco Chef”, in Life, page 56:
text: Stir sage and the remaining unsalted butter into the sauce and serve it in a bowl on the side.
ref: 2004, Frédéric Couton, The Cannery Seafood House Cookbook, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Separate from the main course of a meal.
examples: text: You don't want to jeopardize your primary source of income or any savings you've socked away in your effort to boost your earnings on the side.
ref: 1979 November 24, “Beef up your job to beat inflation”, in Kipplinger's Personal Finance, page 10:
text: Borg has graying black hair and is trimly built, fit from a lifetime of hard work maintaining gas pipelines while trapping on the side.
ref: December 2020, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic:
glosses: Supplementary or in addition to one's usual job or income.
examples: text: I shouted to make sure she knew that I wasn't just some ho on the side. If anyone was on the side, it was her.
ref: 2009, Carl Weber, Up to No Good, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: Additional, surreptitious; often with a connotation of dishonesty, illegality or adultery.
Derived terms: bit on the side
err on the side of
guide on the side
unassistedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unassisted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without assistance; unaided.
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Senses: glosses: Official name of Luxembourg: a small country in Western Europe.
Secwepemc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Secwepemcs
form: Secwepemc
Senses: glosses: A member of the Shuswap people.
Secwepemcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Secwepemc
Shuswap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃuːʃwɑːp/
Forms: form: Shuswaps
form: Shuswap
Senses: glosses: A member of a First Nations people residing in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Synonyms: Secwepemc
Shuswap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʃuːʃwɑːp/
Forms: form: Shooshap
Senses: glosses: The traditional language of these people.
glosses: The tribe which this people constitutes.
Related terms: Columbia-Shuswap
Shuswaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shuswap
shoreland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shorelands
Etymology: From shore + land.
Senses: glosses: The land at the shore of a lake, sea, etc.
shorelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoreland
fricatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fricatized
form: most fricatized
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Having undergone fricatization.
fricatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fricatize
fricatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fricativization
Etymology: From fricatize + -ation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The process of making or becoming fricative or a fricative.
Münchners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Münchner
unheddled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + heddled.
Senses: examples: text: It may be that pulling on a heddle string has involved an unheddled thread that can be pulled loose.
ref: 1978, Judy Ziek De Rodriguez, Nona Ziek, Weaving on a Backstrap Loom: Pattern Designs from Guatemala, page 172:
text: Make shed 1 again by pushing up on the unheddled yarns under bar F.
ref: 1978, Nina Holland, Weaving Primer: A Complete Guide to Inkle, Backstrap, and Frame Looms, page 24:
text: […]the woman forms the first shed by drawing the heddle lath and the warp threads it controls towards herself with one hand while depressing ihe loose unheddled threads with the other.
ref: 1986, Barbara K. Nordquist, Emma Jean Mettam, Kathy Jansen, Traditional Folk Textiles and Dress: Selected Readings and Bibliography, page 289:
glosses: That has not been heddled.
raw_tags: of a thread of the warp
makes sense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make sense
making sense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make sense
made sense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make sense
subnarrative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subnarratives
Etymology: From sub- + narrative.
Senses: glosses: A narrative making up part of a larger narrative.
substory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substories
Etymology: From sub- + story.
Senses: glosses: A story (narrative) making up part of a larger story.
subnarratives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subnarrative
substories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substory
mixed salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed salts
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An inorganic compound that consists of a fixed proportion of two salts, often sharing either a common cation or common anion
licensed victualler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licensed victuallers
Senses: glosses: A person who has a licence to sell alcoholic liquor either on or off the premises; a publican
licensed victuallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of licensed victualler
neutron cross section
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutron cross sections
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The cross section (probability) of a neutron capture reaction.
underpour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underpours
form: underpouring
form: underpoured
form: underpoured
Etymology: From under- + pour.
Senses: examples: text: The bartender sometimes underpoured for customers who did not tip.
glosses: To pour an inadequate amount.
underpours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underpour
underpouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underpour
underpoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underpour
oxidizing flame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxidizing flames
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The part of a flame that has an excess of oxygen and is capable of oxidizing something that it is in contact with
reducing flame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reducing flames
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The part of a flame that has an excess of fuel and is capable of reducing something that it is in contact with
ungroupable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungroupable
form: most ungroupable
Etymology: From un- + groupable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being grouped together.
groupable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more groupable
form: most groupable
Etymology: From group + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being grouped together.
topics: sciences
glosses: Compatible mathematically or (more generally) scientifically.
raw_tags: from the basic sense
Derived terms: nongroupable
ungroupable
heddle hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heddle hooks
Etymology: From heddle + hook.
Senses: examples: text: Threading can be done either by catching each warp end with a bent or straight heddle hook, or by using the fingers as if repeatedly threading large needles (heddles) with separate threads (warp ends).
ref: 1984, Blair Tate, The Warp: A Weaving Reference, page 96:
text: You had to have a heddle hook and a reed hook, and that's about all you really needed.
ref: 1990, Mary H. Blewett, The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960, page 88:
text: The heddle hook, used to draw in the broken ends of the warp, was carried in the mouth, the small pair of weaver's scissors in the palm of the hand.
ref: 1990, Robert Johnstone, Belfast: Portraits of a City, page 137:
glosses: A hooked implement used to thread a strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.
Synonyms: sense: implement for threading a heddle
word: reed hook
sense: implement for threading a heddle
word: threading hook
sense: implement for threading a heddle
word: warp hook
heddle hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heddle hook
gaolable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gaol + -able.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jailable.
gaolbait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gaol + bait, see jailbait.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jailbait.
gaoldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gaol + -dom.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jaildom.
bigg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: biggs
form: bigging
form: bigged
form: bigged
form: big
Etymology: From Middle English biggen, from Old Norse byggja. See boor and bound.
Senses: examples: text: "Biggin' a dry stane dyke [...]"
ref: 1817, Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf, page 78:
text: And whiles she ran, and whiles she grat,
In the warm sun and the cold,
Till they came to the bonny castle
Was bigged upon with gold.
ref: 1912, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Worm of Spindlestonheugh”, in Posthumous Poems:
glosses: To build.
bigg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big
Etymology: Of Scandinavian origin.
Senses: examples: text: The Bigg Market in Newcastle
glosses: A kind of barley.
bigg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of big
gaolership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaolerships
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jailership.
prozzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prozzies
Etymology: Diminutive + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A prostitute.
Synonyms: prossie
prossie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prossies
Etymology: Diminutive with -ie.
Senses: glosses: A prostitute.
Synonyms: prozzie
prozzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prozzie
glosses: plural of prozzy
prossies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prossie
gaolish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gaolish
form: most gaolish
Etymology: From gaol + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jailish.
gaolless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gaol + -less.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jailless.
gaollike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gaollike
form: most gaollike
Etymology: From gaol + -like.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jaillike.
gaolmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaolmates
Etymology: From gaol + -mate.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jailmate.
gaolor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaolors
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of jailer.
Derived terms: gaoloress
bow compass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow compasses
Senses: glosses: An arcograph.
glosses: A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil or pen for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow-shaped spring rather than a joint.
glosses: A pair of compasses with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs and passing through the other.
Coordinate terms: bow pen
bow pencil
bow compasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow compass
gaoloress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaoloresses
Etymology: From gaolor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: Rare form of gaoleress.
gaolward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gaol + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jailward.
gaolwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gaol + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jailwards.
gaolyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaolyards
Etymology: From gaol + yard.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jailyard.
trochilus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɒkɪləs/
Forms: form: trochiluses
form: trochili
Etymology: From Latin trochilus (“a kind of small bird”), from Ancient Greek τροχίλος (trokhílos), from τρέχω (trékhō, “to run”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the hummingbird genus Trochilus.
topics: architecture
glosses: a scotia.
trochiluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trochilus
teleprogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleprogrammes
Etymology: From tele- + programme.
Senses: glosses: television programme
nousle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nousles
form: nousling
form: nousled
form: nousled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of nuzzle.
nousled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nousle
nousles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nousle
nousling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nousle
teleprogrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleprogramme
bioprogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioprogrammes
Etymology: From bio- + programme.
Senses: glosses: Rare form of bioprogram.
metaprogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaprogrammes
Etymology: From meta- + programme.
Senses: glosses: Rare form of metaprogram.
any road
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anyroad.
Derived terms: anyroad
any road up
Low Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Likely in contrast to the solemnity of the preceding Easter Sunday.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
misprogram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misprograms
form: misprogramming
form: misprograming
form: misprogrammed
form: misprogrammed
form: misprogramed
form: misprogramed
form: misprogramme
Etymology: From mis- + program.
Senses: glosses: To program incorrectly.
misprogramming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misprogram
misprogrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misprogram
misprograms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misprogram
misproduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misproductions
Etymology: From mis- + production.
Senses: examples: misproduction of vowels in speech
glosses: Bad or incorrect production.
misproductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misproduction
White Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin Dominica in Albīs, itself a contraction of Dominica in Albīs dēpōnendīs or dēpositīs, “Sunday for putting away the white things”, i.e. the white robe of baptism traditionally received by those newly baptised at Easter. Doublet of Whitsunday.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
Related terms: alt: doublet
word: Whit Sunday
mispronouncer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispronouncers
Etymology: From mispronounce + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who mispronounces.
mispronouncers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mispronouncer
mispronouncings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mispronouncing
martingal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: martingals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of martingale (piece of harness for a horse)
martingals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martingal
sortying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sortie
chamomille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamomilles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of camomile.
unpressable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpressable
form: most unpressable
Etymology: From un- + pressable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being pressed.
unpresentability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + presentability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unpresentable.
unpresentableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unpresentable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unpresentable.
unpreservable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpreservable
form: most unpreservable
Etymology: From un- + preservable.
Senses: glosses: Not preservable.
unprescribable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprescribable
form: most unprescribable
Etymology: From un- + prescribable.
Senses: glosses: Not prescribable.
prescribable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prescribable
form: most prescribable
Etymology: From prescribe + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Illegal drugs are not prescribable by doctors.
glosses: Capable of being prescribed.
basilical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more basilical
form: most basilical
Senses: glosses: basilic
assessours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assessour
argle-bargle morble whoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Frito smiled diplomatically, but was suddenly stricken by a severe stomachache. His eyes began to roll and he felt very light-headed. Probably a touch of the banshee two-step, he thought as his ears started to ring like a dwarf's cash register. His tongue felt thick and his tail began to vibrate. Turning to Spam, he wished to ask him if he felt it, too. ¶ “Argle-bargle morble whoosh?” said Frito.
ref: 1969, The Harvard Lampoon (Henry N. Beard, Douglas C. Kenney), Bored of the Rings, Signet, page 30:
text: >It is sad to see how permanently rebellion sets in once you let it start.
 >This is what prevents language acquisition.
Argle bargle morble whoosh?
ref: 1998 March 20, Matthew P Wiener, “Re: Go figure (was San Francisco book lists criticized)”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet), message-ID <6eu56o$7b8$1@netnews.upenn.edu>:
text: Well, LSD does play a part in the plot of Skidoo, and rumour has it Otto Pebblejar took some himself to get the feel of it for the film. I'm trying to imagine the camp comander of Stalag 17 on acid...and it's not a pretty picture. ¶ Ve haf vays to make.....argle bargle morble vooosh!
ref: 1999 May 3, Stephen Cooke, “Re: Strangest cast ever?”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Usenet), message-ID <Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.990503094656.11947F-100000@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca>:
text: During games in college, I would occasionally (IC and OOC) express bewilderment by uttering, "Argle bargle morble whoosh?" Finally, another player pinned me to the couch and demanded, "No argling, and no bargling!" He had never read the book.
ref: [1999 July 31, Robert Vincent Walker-Smith, “Re: Harvard Lampoon's "Bored of the Rings"?”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet), message-ID <19990731150648.10180.00004096@ng-ff1.aol.com>:
glosses: Expressing confusion as if under the influence of LSD.
vanadium group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Group 5 of the periodic table, comprising vanadium, niobium, tantalum and dubnium
provings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹuːvɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of proving
sarcodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcode
nosodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosode
terafeature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tera- + feature.
Senses: examples: text: VW is the essence of speed in machine learning, able to learn from terafeature datasets with ease.
glosses: A volume of features on the scale of 10¹².
Medway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛdweɪ/
Etymology: From Old English Medewæġe, from Romano-British Late Latin Madus.
Senses: glosses: A major river which flows through East Sussex and Kent, southern England, and into the Thames Estuary.
glosses: A unitary authority and borough in North Kent, England, which includes the Medway Towns on both sides of the river.
Related terms: Medway Towns
kinnakinnick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
Britains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Britain
kinickinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
k'nick-k'neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
one in the same
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of one and the same.
parcel-poet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parcel-poets
Etymology: See parcel (“part or half; partially”).
Senses: glosses: A bad poet; a poetaster.
parcel-poets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parcel-poet
vanadocene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanadocenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The metallocene containing a vanadium atom
turio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtjʊəɹi.əʊ/
/ˈtʊəɹi.əʊ/
Forms: form: turios
form: turiones
Etymology: From Latin turio.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A shoot or sprout from the ground.
turios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turio
turiones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turio
glosses: plural of turion
canula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canulas
form: canulae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cannula (tube)
canulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canula
canulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canula
untannable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untannable
form: most untannable
Etymology: From un- + tannable.
Senses: examples: text: One day Katy and Prunella went to the beach. This is exceptional because Katy hardly ever went to the beach. She was a little lazy about going anywhere on foot and she was untannable. She would never turn any color but Appalling Lobster.
ref: 2001, Nathalie Ponze, Prunella in the Land of Beavers, page 89:
glosses: Incapable of being tanned.
mucusy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mucusy
form: most mucusy
Etymology: From mucus + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling, or full of, mucus; Synonym of mucousy.
eyelidless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eyelid + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without eyelids.
marroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marroons
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of maroon.
marroon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marroons
form: marrooning
form: marrooned
form: marrooned
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of maroon.
marrooned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marroon
marrooning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of marroon
marroons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marroon
marroons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marroon
writ-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writ-rooms
form: writ room
form: writroom
Etymology: From writ + room.
Senses: examples: text: I have two Assistants in the same Office with myself, and one in the large Writ Room behind. Every Document more than a year old, except Declarations, is kept in the Writ Room.
ref: 1842, House of Commons papers - Volume 23 - Page 35
text: At the same time Vera, Robertson and Quiroz were emptying the writ room of all its contents.
ref: 1997, Ronald Wayne Robinson, Prison Hostage: The Siege of the Walls Prison in Huntsville, Texas - Page vii:
text: I went to the writ-room also called the law library.
ref: 2007, Bobby Delgado, Gangs, Prisons, Parole $ The Politics Behind Them - Page 166:
text: McNeil Island Penitentiary contained a centrally located law library, which inmates referred to as the “writ room.”
ref: 2010, Daniel Burton-Rose, Guerrilla USA:
glosses: A room where writs, writings, or written records are housed or kept; a law library.
double-threaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
examples: text: A multiple-threaded product is one having two or more threads cut beside each other (imagine two or more strings wound side by side around a pencil). Standardized products such as screws, bolts, and nuts all have single threads; a double-threaded screw has a lead equal to twice the pitch, a triple-threaded screw has a lead equal to 3 times the pitch, and so on.
ref: 2021, Richard G. Budynas and J. Keith Nisbett, “Screws, Fasteners, and the Design of Nonpermanent Joints”, in Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design, eleventh edition in SI units, page 423:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two screw threads instead of one; said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.
PLEM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PLEMs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pipeline end manifold.
scray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrays
form: scraye
Etymology: From Welsh ysgraen, ysgraell.
Senses: glosses: A tern; the sea swallow.
scrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of scray
spilliard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spilliards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spillet.
spilliards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spilliard
croisado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croisados
form: croisadoes
Senses: glosses: A crusade; a holy war.
croisados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croisado
croisadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croisado
restitutively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more restitutively
form: most restitutively
Etymology: From restitutive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a restitutive manner.
euripuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euripus
quarter glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter glasses
Senses: topics: transport
vehicles
synonyms: fly window
quarter light
quarter window
valence window
vent window
glosses: The small triangular-shaped side window on some vehicles, originally used as a vent.
Related terms: opera window
poor cod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpʊə(ɹ)ˈkɒd/
Forms: form: poor cods
form: poor cod
form: poor
form: power cod
Senses: glosses: Trisopterus minutus, a temperate marine fish of the cod family (Gadidae).
Prop H8
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Prop 8 + hate.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The Californian proposition which restricted marriage to one woman and one man.
Hitler Channel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hitler Channel
Etymology: From the large number of World War II documentaries aired on the channel before the creation of the sister network Military History.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever Martin was home, he’d flip around and invariably end up on the History Channel, watching some World War II documentary. I called it the Hitler Channel, since it always featured a Nazi rally or tanks moving on Poland.[…]When we got back to our fairy-tale building in Brooklyn, I cooked and worked and made our bed after we made love in it. I didn’t even mind when he played his music too loud. I didn't mind the Hitler Channel, really.
ref: 2004, Helene Stapinski, Baby Plays Around: A Love Affair, with Music, Villard Books, →ISBN, pages 93 and 99:
text: The children were all tucked in, the dog had been taken for his walk, he was just going to settle down and watch the Hitler channel, (his pet name for The History Channel.)
ref: 2009, Hubert L. Bird, chapter 8, in The Temple of Solomon, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:
text: “My grandma had the TV set permanently on the Hitler Channel this summer,” she told me. “I didn’t have a choice.” Erin called the History Channel the Hitler Channel, because every time she switched it on, they were showing a program about World War II.
ref: 2012, Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 50:
text: “And, as we are speaking of weapons, the last operational Spitfires should join them.” “Are you certain?” I asked, thinking of a previous age when we watched the Hitler Channel together in the afternoons.
ref: 2018 November 3, Ian Jack, “British icons to throw off the white cliffs: what’s on your list?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2018:
glosses: The American television channel History.
wikipedia: Military History (TV network)
junkdrawer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junkdrawers
Senses: examples: text: My heart does not have to be a junkdrawer full of worries and doubts.
ref: 2006, Phil Smouse, Jesus Wants All of Me, page 14:
text: In as many drawers in my house as there are demon days in a year, you may find old candles laid away for the weird of a winter storm ripping power lines, or for a record-breaking summer night with the thrum of half a million air conditioners threatening a power blackout like the one that once caught us groping in darkness, with two dead flashlights and a junkdrawer choking with nylon cord, piano wire, screws, Band Aids, AA batteries, sewing machine oil, but no candle.
ref: 1993, Edmund Pennant, Askance and Strangely: New and Selected Poems, page 45:
text: The flags register is a veritable junkdrawer of disjointed bits of information and it's tough (and perhaps misleading) to just sit down and describe all of them in detail at once.
ref: 1990, Jeff Duntemann, Assembly language from square one: for the PC AT and compatibles, page 188:
glosses: Alternative spelling of junk drawer.
junk drawer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junk drawers
form: junkdrawer
Etymology: junk + drawer
Senses: examples: text: With a ⁵/₈-inch sandpaper disk cutter, if you happen to have one in the junk drawer, or with a brass or steel tube of the same size sharpened to an edge at one end, four wheels suitable for the engine mandrel may be cut from each eraser.
ref: 1912, William D. Tracy, “Notes on Practice”, in The Journal of the Allied Societies, volume 7, page 376:
text: We all know that the junk drawer doesn't really contain junk. We know junk when we see it, and that gets tossed pretty fast. It's the odds and ends that had a limited purpose once, are still functional, and one day may come in handy, but for now . . .
ref: 1997, Allegra Bennett, Renovating Woman, page 239:
text: There's nothing wrong with having a junk drawer. Where else can you store those odds and ends you need from time to time. But some of what ends up in the junk drawer really is junk, such as unfixable items, pens that don't work, expired coupons, and a piece to a game you sold at a garage sale five years ago.
ref: 2002, Donna Smallin, Organizing plain & simple, page 54:
text: Crammed with twist ties and stray screws, the standard junk drawer is a sanctuary for items we hoard out of practicality or affection or the nagging fear that "this may come in handy someday".
ref: 2005 Jun, M. Diane McCormick, “A Place for Everything”, in Old-House Journal, volume 33, number 3, page 33:
text: I think of the junk drawer in my kitchen and the collection of artifacts it holds that tell many tales of family, friends, and events that form the “stuff” of my life.
ref: 2013, Margaret Macintyre Latta, Curricular Conversations: Play is the (Missing) Thing, page 24:
glosses: A drawer designated for the storage of various miscellaneous, small, useful items of little value.
Synonyms: sense: drawer with miscellaneous low-value contents
word: kitchen drawer
sense: drawer with miscellaneous low-value contents
word: knick-knack drawer
Related terms: trash drawer
junk drawers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junk drawer
junkdrawers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junkdrawer (alternative spelling of junk drawers).
viruliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more viruliferous
form: most viruliferous
Etymology: From virulence + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: Circumstantial evidence suggests that heavy infestation by viruliferous aphids can overcome the highest degree of host plant resistance.
ref: 1968, M. J. Crampton and L. E. Watts, "Genetic Studies of Pea Leaf-Roll (Top-Yellows) Virus Resistance in Pisum sativum," New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, vol, 11, no. 4, p. 773 (Google preview)
text: Viruliferous curl mites increase during summer on volunteer wheat, and are carried by air currents into the new wheat crop.
ref: 1992 September 3, “Farmers concerned about frost, wheat ready for planting”, in McCook Daily Gazette, retrieved 06 Mar 2013, page 8:
text: Maize streak virus, an endemic pathogen of native African grasses, was then carried to maize plants by viruliferous leafhoppers.
ref: 2007 July 10, “Resistant variety of maize giving some hope”, in The Hindu, retrieved 06 Mar 2013:
topics: agriculture
biology
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: Virus-carrying, especially of insects which infest agricultural crops.
Jass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jasses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Jass, possibly a short form of a Slavic surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
eye-pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye-pits
form: eyepit
form: eye pit
form: eie-pit
Etymology: From Middle English eye-put, heyeput, eȝe-put, equivalent to eye + pit.
Senses: examples: text: His cheeke-bones raw, and eie-pits hollow grew, / And brawney armes had lost their knowen might […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The eye socket; the concave area of the face around each eye.
eye-pits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye-pit
dog whelks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog whelk
mieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mieves
form: mieving
form: mieved
form: mieved
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of move.
loathfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From loathful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Proteus […] reading it with inward loathfulnesse, / Was grieved to restore the pledge he did possesse.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
chatiquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of chat + etiquette
Senses: examples: text: Each chat room functions in accordance with its own rules. They may be written rules in the form of chatiquette. Chatiquette prescribes what behavior is frowned upon and what the sanctions are.
ref: 2006, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media:
text: As long as no one causes any offence to others in the room, and adheres ^([sic]) to the basic rules of 'chatiquette', they can then remain in that room for as long as they wish, or until everyone else has left the room.
ref: 2012, Yvonne Jewkes, Dot.cons, page 175:
text: Chatiquette is similar to netiquette in terms of the words and behavior acceptable while participating in a chat room.
ref: 2013, Irene Joos, Ramona Nelson, Marjorie J. Smith, Introduction to Computers for Healthcare Professionals, page 479:
text: Never forget that a bipolar chat room has also its own rules, chatiquette, and guidelines. It is very important to understand it.
ref: 2013, Samuel Peterson, Bipolar Disease:
glosses: The etiquette dictating how one should behave in chat rooms.
Hypernyms: netiquette
poor things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poor thing
repair heddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repair heddles
Senses: examples: text: A repair heddle allows the weaver to place an empty heddle at any point across the warp and on any shaft.
ref: 1979, Allen Fannin, Handloom Weaving Technology, page 110:
text: Repair heddles can easily be made from the polyester Texsolv heddles by passing a strip of masking tape through the top loop and taping it around[…].
ref: 1979, Complex Weavers Newsletter, numbers 1-32, page 14:
text: In fact, if your flat steel or wire heddles break, this is the only solution unless you have purchased fancy repair heddles.
ref: 1983, Rachel Brown, The Weaving, Spinning, and Dyeing Book, page 127:
glosses: A type of heddle, either premade or makeshift, used when a thread is skipped or breaks, or to replace a broken heddle.
repair heddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repair heddle
Brennen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare Brennan.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
chromatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chromatize
chromatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The treatment of a metal surface with chromate
ties one on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tie one on
tied one on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tie one on
tying one on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tie one on
chromium group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Group 6 of the periodic table, comprising chromium, molybdenum, tungsten and seaborgium
chrome-sulfuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A solution of potassium dichromate in sulfuric acid, used as a source of chromic acid
coefficients of friction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coefficient of friction
chromyl chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound CrO₂Cl₂ that is used as an oxidizing agent
prenotification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prenotifications
Etymology: From pre- + notification.
Senses: glosses: notification in advance
prenotify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prenotifies
form: prenotifying
form: prenotified
form: prenotified
Etymology: From pre- + notify.
Senses: glosses: To notify in advance.
Related terms: prenotification
prenotifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prenotification
prenotifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prenotify
prenotifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prenotify
prenotified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prenotify
anosagnosia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of anosognosia.
ladanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of labdanum.
buckmast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buck-mast
Etymology: From buck + mast. See buck (“beech tree”).
Senses: glosses: The fruit of the beech tree.
Buckie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌki/
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in Moray council area, Scotland, originally in Banffshire (OS grid ref NJ4265).
Buckie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌki/
Forms: form: Bucky
Etymology: Diminutive with -ie.
Senses: glosses: Buckfast Tonic Wine, a brand of fortified wine.
washkit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washkits
Etymology: From wash + kit.
Senses: glosses: A kit of toiletries and personal washing items; a washbag.
washkits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washkit
washlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washline
washlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washland
eudaemonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eudemonics
Etymology: Ancient Greek εὐδαιμονικός (eudaimonikós, “conducive to happiness”).
Senses: examples: text: the unideal form of eudæmonics of which I have spoken is hedonics , or a science of indolentia
ref: 1876, John Grote, Treatise on Moral Ideals:
glosses: That part of ethics that deals with happiness; the science of happiness, contrasted with aretaics.
eudemonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eudaemonics.