cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
charlatanry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charlatanries
Etymology: From French charlatanerie. By surface analysis, charlatan + -ry. Doublet of charlatanerie.
Senses: examples: text: I'd always considered astrology bullshit, right up there with the legal, real estate and banking businesses in terms of thieving ass-sucking charlatanry, but it's clear I've been doing it a misservice.
ref: 2012, Elson Quick, Baddha:
glosses: The state of being a charlatan.
glosses: The act of a charlatan.
Synonyms: charlatanerie
charlatanism
charterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charterers
Etymology: From charter + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When at home, it is usually signed by the owner and the charterer; abroad, by the master and the agent for the charterer.
ref: 1858, Robert White Stevens, On the stowage of ships and their cargoes:
text: FI—"Free In." A pricing term indicating that the charterer of a vessel is responsible for the cost of loading goods onto the vessel.
ref: 1993, Stephen L. McDonald, The Role of Natural Gas in Environmental Policy:
glosses: A person who charters something
chastely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪst.li/
Forms: form: more chastely
form: most chastely
Etymology: From Middle English chasteliche, chastliche, chastely; equivalent to chaste + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Let lasses of a silly mind / Refuse what maist they're wanting / Since we for yielding were designed / We chastely should be granting.
ref: 1808, Allan Ramsay, The gentle shepher:
text: In holy orders no one is better loved than he who lives chastely, because chastity is the first principle for any cleric as well as the foundation of his life.
ref: 2004, Theo Clemens, Wim Janse, The Pastor Bonus:
text: Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).
ref: 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021:
glosses: In a chaste manner. (either specifically virginal, or in a modest, unsexy and unrisqué manner)
Derived terms: unchastely
adjudicatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æ.d͡ʒu.dɪˈkeɪ.tɹɪks/
Forms: form: adjudicatrices
Etymology: By surface analysis, adjudicate + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: She hastened to the Committee of Public Safety, coming out of a notary’s office whither she had gone as adjudicatrix of a dry-goods establishment…
ref: 1920: J.-G. Prod’homme & Theodore Baker, The Musical Quarterly, Volume №6, Issue №3 — The Baron de Trémont: Souvenirs of Beethoven and Other Contemporaries, somewhere between pp366 & 391
text: ♂: Noble Star (GB) b. M, 1927:
♂: Hapsburg (GB) br. M, 1911…
♀: Hesper (GB) gr. F, 1923…
♀: Judica (GB) F, 1937:
♂: Easton (FR) b. M, 1931…
♀: Judith (GB) ch. F, 1929…
ref: 1946: Pedigree Online: Thoroughbred Database, Adjudicatrix Horse Pedigree, two generations Adjudicatrix (GB) b. F, 1946
text: The claimant will answer the Adjudicatrix’s question. Those who do not comply with the commission are subject to standard punishment number one.
ref: 2000, “Procurer”, in LEXX: Tunnels, Episode №31, Season №3:
text: 2002: Anor — The Standing Stones Campaign, Canticus Tredecem Bracchiorum — Hymn of the Thirteen Ringstones, 1ˢᵗ ringstone
Portans ascensus Legis, sunt Tredecem Bracchi Arbitris — Bearing the Ascendence of Law, these are the 13 Arms of the Adjudicatrix
glosses: A woman or girl who adjudicates; a female adjudicator.
matchmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæt͡ʃˌmeɪkɪŋ/
Forms: form: matchmakings
form: match-making
Etymology: From match + making.
Senses: examples: text: The marriage was highly approved of by Mrs. Shelby, who, with a little womanly complacency in match-making, felt pleased to unite her handsome favorite with one of her own class who seemed in every way suited to her;
ref: 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin:
text: Patty, your timing is excellent. There's Claude over there. Want me to do some matchmaking?
ref: 2001: The Gilmore Girls (TV, episode 1.18)
text: I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match-making.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma:
glosses: An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.
examples: text: ... there was evidence that they did provide information for day care matchmaking to the potential users and givers of care.
ref: 1971, Eunice L. Watson, Arthur Cope Emlem, Matchmaking in Neighborhood Day Care: A Descriptive Study of the Day Care Neighbor Service:
topics: business
glosses: A service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners.
examples: text: It turns out, however, that there wasn't actually anything different going on behind the matchmaking scenes, because Bungie forgot to turn skill-based matchmaking on. I believe the kids call this "getting caught in 4K."
ref: 2022 August 25, Alyssa Mercante, “Destiny 2 streamers complain about new PvP matchmaking, but Bungie says it didn't change anything”, in GamesRadar:
topics: video-games
glosses: The act or process of locating suitable players to take part in a multiplayer game session.
glosses: The manufacture of matches for kindling or burning.
Related terms: matchmake
matchmaker
matchmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæt͡ʃˌmeɪkɪŋ/
Forms: form: match-making
Etymology: From match + making.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of matchmake
match-making
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: match-makings
form: matchmaking
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of matchmaking.
adjudicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adjudicate
chasteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chastenesses
Etymology: From Middle English chastnesse; equivalent to chaste + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The chasteness of her dress made her appear the allusive semblance of Purity itself
ref: 1805, Emily Clark, The banks of the Douro:
text: Livia's public image and her statues portrayed her as one imbued with the qualities of moral chasteness and matronly respectability
ref: 2005, Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Ancient West & East:
glosses: The state of being chaste; chastity
adjudicatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æ.d͡ʒu.dɪˈkeɪ.tɹɪ.siːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of adjudicatrix
matchmake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: matchmakes
form: matchmaking
form: matchmade
form: matchmade
form: match-make
Etymology: From match + make, as back-formation from matchmaking.
Senses: examples: text: Why then Foible’s a Bawd, an Errant, Rank, Match-making Bawd.
ref: 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xviii, page 49:
text: And pray remember, I am the last person in the world to match-make.
ref: 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:
text: We are a couple of old fools to be matchmaking so soon ...
ref: 1876, Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom:
text: Not to brag, but I'm kind of responsible for matchmaking you and Irina.
ref: 2002: Alias (TV, episode 2.09)
glosses: To do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage.
Derived terms: matchmakee
match-maker
matchmaker
matchmaking
chastiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chastisers
Etymology: From Middle English chastisoure, chastisere; equivalent to chastise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 1779 Samuel Johnson (ed) - The Works of the English Poets
That kind chastiser of thy soul in joy!
text: Having spoken thus, Arjuna, chastiser of enemies, told Krsna, "Govinda, I shall not fight," and fell silent.
ref: 2000, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhagavadgita As It Is:
glosses: Someone who chastises
booboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booboos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boo-boo.
chatterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatterers
Etymology: From chatter + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, I am a chatterer, indeed, to interrupt you so often, Monsieur.
ref: 1845, Marie Joseph Eugène Sue, The Mysteries of Paris:
text: “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosus,[…]!”
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: Indeed the difficulty was to get him to stop talking, for, like all squirrels, he was a chatterer.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 6, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: A person who chatters; a chatterbox.
examples: text: Why is the variegated chatterer of South America also called the bell-bird?
ref: 1832, John Timbs, Knowledge for the People:
text: The flight of the Chatterer bears much resemblance to that of the starling.
ref: 1846, Henry Leonard Meyer, Coloured illustrations of British birds and their eggs:
glosses: Any of several passerine birds, mostly from South America; especially the cotingas.
Derived terms: english: waxen chatterer
translation: waxen chatterer
word: Bohemian chatterer
chattiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chatty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: talkativeness; see also Thesaurus:talkativeness
text: 1841 Catherine Grace F. Gore - Greville: or, A season in Paris
The sole object of his chattiness at table was to prevent a more intimate conversation between herself and her companion.
text: . . . but I felt good about having left the radio on anyway, even if it was just to satisfy my American chattiness.
ref: 1997, Michael L. Frankel, Cruising the Gulags:
glosses: The state of being chatty.
oblique angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique angles
form: obliquangle
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any angle that is not a right angle or multiple of right angles.
seismic wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismic waves
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of vibrational waves that travel through the Earth as the result of an earthquake or underground explosion.
infirmary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɝməɹi/
Forms: form: infirmaries
Etymology: From Medieval Latin infirmaria, from Latin infirmus.
Senses: examples: text: There shall be provided an infirmary or a place for the treatment of sick detained person in every place of detention.
ref: 2015, Minister for Home Affairs, “Regulation 7”, in Prevention of Terrorism (Detained Persons) Regulations 2015^(https://web.archive.org/web/20230828050603/https://lom.agc.gov.my/ilims/upload/portal/akta/outputp/pua_20150903_P.U.%20(A)%20206%20-%20Peraturan-Peraturan%20Pencegahan%20Keganasan%20(Orang%20Tahanan)%202015.pdf), archived from the original on 28 Aug 2023, page 92:
glosses: A place where sick or injured people are cared for, especially a small hospital; sickhouse.
glosses: A clinic or dispensary within another institution.
Related terms: sick bay
zin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: zins
form: Zin
Etymology: Clipping of zinfandel.
Senses: glosses: Zinfandel wine.
post-haste
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstˈheɪst/
ipa: /ˌpoʊstˈheɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Etymology: From the former instruction on letters "haste, post, haste," later reinterpreted as a compound of post + haste.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of posthaste.
Synonyms: sense: quickly
word: ASAP
sense: quickly
word: quickly
post-haste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstˈheɪst/
ipa: /ˌpoʊstˈheɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Etymology: From the former instruction on letters "haste, post, haste," later reinterpreted as a compound of post + haste.
Senses: examples: text: And this, I take it,
Is the main motive of our preparations
The source of this our watch, and the chief head
Of this post-haste and rummage in the land.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 103-106:
glosses: A great hurry.
climature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climatures
Etymology: Apparently climate + -ure
Senses: examples: text: And even the like precurse of feared events
As harbingers preceding still the fates
And prolongue to the omen coming on
Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
Unto our climatures and countrymen.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 120–124:
glosses: climate.
muste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: muste
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of must.
disembowels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disembowel
disemboweling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disembowel
disemboweling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disembowelings
Senses: examples: text: He recalls that experience in a smooth, speedy story, “The Monster Mash,” but these days he’s not sure he liked it too much — the disembowelings, the coolers of brains, the stench of decomposing corpses (“the smell of job security,” as one pathologist puts it) terrify him.
ref: 2008 June 15, Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Up in Smoke”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act by which somebody is disemboweled.
disembowelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disembowel
disembowelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disembowellings
Senses: glosses: The act by which somebody is disembowelled.
disemboweled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disembowel
disembowelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disembowel
samurais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samurai
cultists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌltɪsts/
Senses: glosses: plural of cultist
ploce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɒsi/
ipa: /ˈpləʊsi/
rhymes: -ɒsi
Etymology: From Latin plŏcē, from Ancient Greek πλοκή (plokḗ, “complication”).
Senses: glosses: A figure of speech in which a word is repeated so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality.
Hyponyms: word: polyptoton
word: antanaclasis
sorriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English sorinesse, from Old English sāriġnes, from Proto-West Germanic *sairaganassī, *sairīganassī; equivalent to sorry + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian searigens (“soreness, tenderness”).
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being sorry; regret.
examples: text: His friend, Mr. Smith, thought that "a sorry farmer on a sorry farm is a sorry sight." Bill hardly attained that level of sorriness.
ref: 1967, Shields McIlwaine, The Southern Poor-white from Lubberland to Tobacco Road:
glosses: Worthlessness; wretchedness.
spaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspeɪ.ʃəs.nəs/
Forms: form: spaciousnesses
form: spatiousness
Etymology: From spacious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being spacious.
Synonyms: spaciosity
screendoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screendoors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of screen door.
sparkler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparklers
Etymology: From sparkle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And yet a married woman, possessing your attractions, shuts her eyes (and sparklers too), and goes and runs her delicate-formed head against a wall.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Anything that sparkles.
examples: text: The Playboy cover was of a girl in grey slacks and sandals, one hand on hip and the other waving a sparkler for Independence Day.
ref: 2006, Marcus Collins, Modern Love, page 258:
glosses: A hand-held firework that emits sparks.
examples: text: When the bill came, I got a side-glance at it, and hoped Rose would have to hock her sparklers to pay it.
ref: 1964, Mexican Life: Mexico's Monthly Review, volume 40, page 65:
glosses: A gem or ornament that sparkles.
examples: text: “As for Marilea, she was a sparkler. She was very effervescent. The family would often come out as a family unit when we were in the barnyard or the horse corral, and Marilea was just fine.”
ref: 2008, Robert Scott, Driven to Murder: The Blood Crimes at the Sam Donaldson Ranch:
glosses: A vivacious and charismatic person.
examples: text: Irvine's white, a grape variety named for Hans Irvine, who developed the vineyards at Great Western (now owned by Seppelt), is frequently used in the Australian sparklers.
ref: 1984, Sheldon Wasserman, Pauline Wasserman, Sparkling Wine, page 238:
glosses: A sparkling wine.
glosses: A tiger beetle.
glosses: One who scatters; especially, one who scatters money; an improvident person.
Derived terms: Sparkler
sparklers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparkler
sparseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparsenesses
Etymology: From sparse + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The sparseness of the hair on his head made him long for his full-haired youth.
glosses: The state or quality of being sparse.
glosses: The result or product of being sparse.
crackheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackhead
spectacularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spectacularly
form: most spectacularly
Etymology: From spectacular + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This argument turns out to be spectacularly mistaken. When fiction works, the individual and the universal are frictionlessly combined.
ref: 1992 August 30, Martin Amis, “What He Learned in Bed”, in The New York Times:
text: Obsessed only with cost, 'Sir Humphrey' saw that Transport for London 'got away' with ticket office closures on the Tube with only minor public pushback and miscalculated that it could do the same on the national network. This assumption backfired spectacularly.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
glosses: In a spectacular manner, extraordinarily, amazingly.
stairlift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stairlifts
Etymology: From stair + lift.
Senses: glosses: A motorized platform installed in a stairway, which traverses the stairs when activated and can be ridden by those for whom the stairs are a barrier.
Synonyms: inclinator
stair glider
speechlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more speechlessly
form: most speechlessly
Etymology: From speechless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He stood there speechlessly. The surprise had rendered him unable to make an intelligible reply.
text: That afternoon they stood at the foot of Mrs. Civil's bed. She was propped up by pillows, and through the little window looking westward the afternoon sun blazed unsparingly on the discoloured face of the sick woman, speechlessly rigid.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 206:
text: His eyes grew round and he pointed speechlessly into space.
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 35:
glosses: In a speechless manner; without speaking.
speciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈspiːʃəsli/
Forms: form: more speciously
form: most speciously
Etymology: From specious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Exasperated, as he might speciously allege, by the injuries of a similar nature, he hastened with a few followers to join the standard, and to betray the confidence, of his too credulous friend.
ref: 1781, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
text: And thus his jealous soul speciously argued to excuse the separation of father and child.
ref: 1886 May, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Once viewed—however speciously—as an escape from the wider world, American sports and politics have been explicitly entwined since athletes began protesting civil rights injustices, prodding their organisations to take a stance amid the polarising rise to power of Donald Trump.
ref: 2023 June 12, Tom Dart, “US culture wars come to baseball as MLB celebrates Pride month”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: In a specious manner; fallaciously and erroneously, but seeming superficially to be correct.
speciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈspiːʃəsli/
Forms: form: more speciously
form: most speciously
Etymology: Alteration of specially, perhaps by association with specious.
Senses: examples: text: I will do what I can for them all three, for so I haue promisd, and Ile bee as good as my word, but speciously for M. Fenton.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 52:
qualifier: malapropism
glosses: Specially.
fallaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fallaciously
form: most fallaciously
Etymology: From fallacious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
ergative verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergative verbs
Senses: examples: text: Break is an ergative verb because when we say "The window broke", the window is the thing getting broken, it is not the vandal.
text: Although it is both transitive and intransitive, paint is not an ergative verb, because when we say "Bob paints", this is very different from when we say "Bob gets painted".
text: Consultation of a corpus of authentic English solved the problem, as clarify was found being used transitively in examples such as She clarified the situation and intransitively in examples such as The situation clarified, and could thus be classified as an ergative verb.
ref: 2000, Susan Hunston, Gill Francis, Pattern Grammar:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An ambitransitive verb where the patient is the object of the transitive, but becomes the experiencer of the intransitive use.
Synonyms: labile verb
podosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podospheres
Etymology: Most likely a blend of podcast + blogosphere, it seems to have been first coined by podcaster Steve Gillmore during the opening session on podcasting of the Bloggercon III conference. By surface analysis, pod(cast) + -o- + -sphere.
Senses: examples: text: Religion is one of the most talked about subjects on earth and, unsurprisingly, one of the most podcasted in the podosphere.
ref: 2005, Steve Shipside, Podcasting: The Ultimate Starter Kit, →ISBN, page 132:
text: John Markoff, senior technology reporter at the New York Times, says more than 11 million Americans are now in the podosphere and that by 2008 there will be nearly 60 million, and double that worldwide.
ref: 2005 April 10, Garry Barker, “Welcome to the wide world of the podosphere”, in The Age:
text: You don't want to spend too much money on your podcast at first because you want to see how you like it and how much of a splash you make on the podosphere, but it's difficult to make that splash when you're making subpar recordings.
ref: 2006, Mur Lafferty, Tricks of the Podcasting Masters, →ISBN, page 178:
synonyms: Podcastistan
glosses: The collective podcasting community.
illogically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more illogically
form: most illogically
Etymology: From illogical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Is the person acting in a strange manner, behaving illogically and seemingly out of touch with reality?
ref: 2012, René F. W. Diekstra, Keith E. Hawton, Suicide in Adolescence, page 178:
glosses: In an illogical manner, without following methods of sane and correct reasoning, in a manner lacking thought or logic.
specked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: spĕkt
ipa: /spɛkt/
homophone: specced
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: more specked
form: most specked
Etymology: From Middle English speckyd; equivalent to speck + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having specks or spots, speckled.
speculatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more speculatively
form: most speculatively
Etymology: From speculative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] he will appear to many of the more speculatively minded intellectuals merely as a timid apologist of things as they are; at the same time he will be dismissed by the men of affairs as an impractical theorist.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 430:
text: The fleet had been ordered speculatively by Beacon Rail, and intended as heavy shunting and trip locomotives, as well as a viable low-emission replacement for the elderly Class 08/09 'BR Standard large shunter' which dates from the 1950s and 1960s.
ref: 2025 October 1, “News: Romic offers all 15 Class 18 hybrid shunters for sale”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 13:
glosses: In a speculative manner.
political opposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: political oppositions
Senses: glosses: A recognized political party or group of parties in multiparty political systems that is present in Parliament or some other legislative body and does not control the floor (usually due to being in the minority).
glosses: An unrecognized political party in a one-party state.
glosses: Actions by one political group against another political group, either by using governmental power or by popular actions such as protests; generally, disagreement in politics.
position argument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: position arguments
Senses: hypernyms: argument
glosses: The claim that a writer or speaker makes about a controversial issue.
ticked off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tick off
letter bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letter bombs
Senses: glosses: An explosive device sent through the post, triggered to explode when the letter or packet is opened.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A virus contained within an email or similar file.
letter bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: letter bombs
form: letter bombing
form: letter bombed
form: letter bombed
Senses: glosses: To send a letter bomb (of either sense).
Synonyms: mail bomb
illocution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪləˈkjuːʃn/
Forms: form: illocutions
Etymology: From il- (“in”) (an assimilated version of in-) + locution (“speech”), from Latin loquor.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The aim of a speaker in making an utterance as opposed to the meaning of the terms used.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A type of speech act being made by a speaker, i.e., the purpose of the statement in terms of how the addressee is to interpret either its truth-value, or its requirements and demands upon the speaker in terms of a physical or psychological response.
Derived terms: illocute
illocutionary
Related terms: allocution
locution
perlocution
Hare Krishna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hare Krishnas
Senses: glosses: A mantra chanted as a form of supplication to the Hindu god Krishna and his divine consort Radha
glosses: A member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
perlocution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜləʊˈkjuʃən/
ipa: /pɜɹləˈkjuʃən/
Forms: form: perlocutions
Etymology: From per- + locution.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The effect the terms used by a speaker can have on another speaker and their emotions and responses.
Derived terms: perlocutionary
perlocute
Related terms: locution
illocution
prebound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + bound.
Senses: glosses: Of a book: rebound with a library quality hardcover binding. In almost all commercial cases, the book in question began as a paperback.
Synonyms: library hardcover paperback
presentity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presentities
Etymology: Blend of presence + entity; first introduced in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETC) RFC 2778.
Senses: examples: text: Users of an instant messaging service are presentities that may show themselves as online, offline, or away.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: An entity (usually a human) which provides information about its presence (whether it is available and willing to communicate through communication services).
press pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From press + pool.
Senses: examples: text: A press pool—a small group of reporters representing the entire press corps—for Air Force One became formalized in the 1960s. These pool reporters were assigned to the small press compartment on Air Force One.
ref: 2005, Von Hardesty, Air Force One: The Aircraft That Shaped the Modern Presidency, Creative Publishing International, →ISBN, page 118:
text: To that end, a press pool travels wherever the president goes in vans that are part of the presidential motorcade. If the president travels to the U.S. Capitol in his motorcade, the press pool will accompany him.
ref: 2025 February 26, Michael D. Shear, “What Is the White House Press Pool, and Why Is Trump Seizing Control of It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Their presence was the fruit of a claim Trump had made earlier in the week, when his White House announced that it would be determining the makeup of the press pool that covers the president.
ref: 2025 March 6, Megan Garber, “Trump Is Breaking the Fourth Wall”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A group of news organizations pooling their resources in the collection of news. A pool report is then distributed to members of the pool, who are free to edit it or use it as they see fit.
Related terms: pool reporter
pool spray
previdential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italian previdenza (“social security”).
Senses: examples: text: As regards this, charitable and social welfare societies that have the task of assisting workers in obtaining previdential services (6), can play an important role.
ref: 1980, Presidency of the Councils of Ministers, Italy: Documents and Notes, page 112:
text: The previdential protection from "noise-induced deafness" is regulated byPresidential Decree of June 9th,75,n.482, […]
ref: 1984, George C. Maling, Inter-noise: proceedings, Noise Control Foundation, page 1407
text: He illustrates now another part of the public expense in previdential field, the one to which the social security institutes — General Direction of the Ministry of Treasure — provide; […]
ref: 1986, Istituto nazionale della previdenza sociale, Previdenza sociale, volume 42, page XVIII:
text: Between the proposals of the branch life we signal: -Euro Strong Pension: one optimal solution to previdential problem.... Moreover, if they had to happen you of the unexpected, you will have the certainty that your previdential plan will be free of charge.
ref: 2007, Ina Assitalia:
glosses: In Italy, of or pertaining to a social security, insurance benefits or a benefit plan.
Prod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɑd/
ipa: /pɹɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: Prods
form: prod
Etymology: Clipping of Protestant, as pronounced in an accent with flapping.
Senses: examples: text: "I don't want my daughter marrying a dirty Prod," he said.
text: 'Could be a lot of things,' McCormack said. 'Still, it narrows things down. Probably a Prod […]'.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 47:
text: It was sound advice for anyone visiting Northern Ireland in 1999 and remains so today: do not refer to Protestants as “Prods”, or to Catholics as “Fenians” or “Taigs”, and whatever you do don’t refer to your visit as “being out here”.
ref: [2023 August 23, Rory Carroll, “Files reveal terms ministers were warned not to use in Northern Ireland”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A Protestant, (as termed by Roman Catholics), that is in the context of their religious beliefs, or those who have been born in the Protestant tradition, or sometimes those implied to be Protestant by their political ideology of Irish unionism or Ulster loyalism.
Synonyms: Orangey
Proddie
proddie
Proddy
proddy
Prottie
prottie
Protty
protty
Coordinate terms: word: Catlicker
word: catlicker
word: taig
english: unionist, Northern Ireland; Irish nationalist or Irish Catholic
translation: unionist, Northern Ireland; Irish nationalist or Irish Catholic
word: Fenian
pronunciamiento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronunciamientos
form: pronunciamientoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pronunciamiento.
Senses: glosses: A military uprising or coup in Spain or the Spanish American republics, particularly in the 19th century, usually accompanied by a statement declaring the existing government null and void.
prophases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prophases
form: prophaseis
Etymology: Ancient Greek πρόφασις (próphasis, “pretense, pretext, excuse”), first popularized by Thucydides, who attempted to discern Athens' alethestate prophasis, or "truest reason" for waging war on Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.
Senses: glosses: The actual reasons for going to war. These may differ from proschemata, the pretexts offered to the public.
prophases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prophase
propheteering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of prophet + profiteering, as a pun.
Senses: glosses: Acting as a prophet in order to obtain money; making profit from prophecy.
Related terms: profiteering
raghorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raghorns
Etymology: From rag + horn, describing the animals as non-prime trophy specimens, i.e. "rags". Another explanation is that it is descriptive of how the new antlers have a velvety covering that sloughs off each year and can hang like rags.
Senses: glosses: Any male elk (bull) with antlers between one and six points, non-inclusive, on either side. Also called an "intermediate bull" (bulls with two, three, four or five points on either side).
behind the counter
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Of drugs, dispensed by a pharmacist without needing a doctor's prescription or other form of compliance.
monotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: General American, Canada, biological sense
ipa: /ˈmɑnoʊˌtaɪp/
Forms: form: monotypes
Etymology: From mono- + type or mono- + -type. The printing technique is so called because it allows only one impression to be taken.
Senses: topics: art
arts
media
printing
publishing
glosses: A print made by creating the design using oil paint or printer's ink on metal or glass, then transferring the image directly to paper.
topics: art
arts
media
printing
publishing
glosses: The technique of making such prints.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A monotypic taxon.
glosses: A keyboard-operated typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets separate characters.
topics: nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: A sailboat designed to be crewed or raced by a single person.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: polytype
glosses: In the Hindley–Milner type system, a single specific data type.
monotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: General American, Canada, biological sense
ipa: /ˈmɑnoʊˌtaɪp/
Forms: form: monotypes
form: monotyping
form: monotyped
form: monotyped
Etymology: From mono- + type or mono- + -type. The printing technique is so called because it allows only one impression to be taken.
Senses: examples: to monotype an engraving
glosses: To produce a monotype of.
rapporteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹæ.pɔːˈtɜː/
ipa: /ˌɹæ.pɔɹˈtɜɹ/
Forms: form: rapporteurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French rapporteur.
Senses: topics: government
law
politics
glosses: A person appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue or a situation, and report back to that body.
Derived terms: judge-rapporteur
special rapporteur
Related terms: rapport
report
reporter
dethaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dethaws
form: dethawing
form: dethawed
form: dethawed
Etymology: From de- + thaw, by confusion with defrost or perhaps with words with null de- like defraud, decomplex.
Senses: examples: text: "That's like your saying dethawed when you mean defrosted."
He made only the slightest little grunt.
ref: 2001, Jane Vandenburgh, Physics of Sunset, page 27:
glosses: To thaw; unthaw; unfreeze.
Related terms: unthaw
thaw
harden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹdn̩/
ipa: /ˈhɑːdn̩/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dən
Forms: form: hardens
form: hardening
form: hardened
form: hardened
Etymology: From Middle English hardenen, equivalent to hard + -en. Cognate with Danish hærdne (“to harden; cure”), Swedish hårdna (“to harden”), Norwegian herdne (“to harden”), Icelandic harðna (“to harden”).
Senses: glosses: To become hard.
glosses: To make something hard or harder.
examples: text: In view of the system's relatively low cost, the preferred alternative could be for the military user to avail himself of multiple base stations rather than seeking to harden the base station hardware for defense applications.
ref: 2002, Jane's International Defense Review, volume 35:
text: Ramos had locked Salah’s right arm and turned him, judo-style, as they lost balance going for the same ball. Television replays hardened the suspicion it was a calculated move on Ramos’s part and, when Salah landed with a hell of a thud, the damage was considerable.
ref: 2018 May 26, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: To strengthen.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
examples: text: When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
ref: KJV, Exodus 4:21
synonyms: inure
glosses: To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
examples: text: He hardened as he imagined himself running his hands over her small breasts
ref: 1999 August 2, Karen Mitchell, “Files from the Feminet BBS NOVAD5.TXT 38.38 KB”, in alt.sex.stories.tg (Usenet):
glosses: To get an erection.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
examples: text: Of course one needs to keep in mind the fact that *tʹ and *dʹ are hardened before *e and *i in Ukrainian and Rusyn[…]
ref: 2007, Stefan Pugh, A New Historical Grammar of the East Slavic Languages:
text: Belarussian preserved soft labials before vowels, hardened rʹ to r, and affricated tʹ and dʹ[…]
ref: 2013 February 1, Philipp Strazny, Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Routledge, →ISBN, page 914:
qualifier: Slavic phonology
glosses: To unpalatalize or velarize.
Synonyms: word: anneal
word: harden
word: indurate
word: obdurate
word: sclerotise
word: solidify
word: steel
word: stiffen
word: temper
Hyponyms: word: freeze
word: ossify
word: petrify
word: vitrify
word: ruggedize
Derived terms: caseharden
case harden
deharden
enharden
forharden
hammer-harden
hardenability
hardenable
hardened
hardener
hardening
hardenite
harden off
harden one's neck
harden someone's heart
harden up
overharden
photoharden
preharden
reharden
superharden
unharden
Related terms: word: hardness
word: hard
word: strengthen
harden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹdn̩/
ipa: /ˈhɑːdn̩/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dən
Forms: form: hardens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hurden (“coarse linen”).
hardens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of harden
reading copy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reading copies
Senses: glosses: A used book, one which may include physical wear, highlighting or marginalia and hence lacks value as a collectible, but which remains in sufficiently good condition to be suitable for someone whose primary interest is in reading the book.
redundant colon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redundant colons
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A large intestine (colon) that is longer than normal and as a result has repetitive, overlapping loops
Rewson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːsən/
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of Reconnaissance, Electronic Warfare, Special Operations, Navy.
rex-pat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rex-pats
form: rex-patriate
Etymology: Blend of repeat + expat. Attributed to Alan Levy, an expatriate who edited The Prague Post from 1990 until his death in 2004.
Senses: examples: text: A rex-pat is a returning expatriate, an ex-pat has been here, goes home to America, takes a job, maybe goes to law school, maybe does well in America but can't get Prague out of his or her blood and returns to Prague to live again.
ref: 2004, Alan Levy, in the film Rex-patriates, and quoted by The Prague Post: What's a Rex-pathttps://web.archive.org/web/20090105165432/http://www.rexpatriateproductions.com/experts.html
glosses: A repeat expatriate; one who becomes expatriated again.
wikipedia: Alan Levy
copyright infringement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copyright infringements
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: The unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it.
rifacimento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rifacimentos
form: rifacimenti
form: refacimento
Etymology: From Italian rifacimento.
Senses: glosses: A literary work or musical composition recast to adapt it to a change in the circumstances of the time.
Related terms: Regietheater
burnt orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnt oranges
Senses: glosses: A dark shade of orange.
burnt orange
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more burnt orange
form: most burnt orange
Senses: examples: text: As for her beauty look, the Jennifer’s Body star had dyed her long tresses a burnt-orange shade, and styled them slightly curled at the ends and down across her shoulders. She also repped a bubblegum-pink manicure with an abstract black design.
ref: 2023 May 19, Chelsey Sanchez, “Megan Fox Makes Her Red-Carpet Comeback in a Body-Sculpting Sheer Gown”, in Harper's Bazaar:
glosses: Of a dark shade of orange.
curial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjʊəɹɪəl/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪəl
Forms: form: more curial
form: most curial
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French curial, from Latin cūriālis.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a court; courtly.
examples: text: In favouring the well-connected, politically and culturally sophisticated Italian merchants and diplomats who regularly arrived in England on curial business Henry killed two birds with one stone, gratifying popes by the attention and respect shown to their intimates, and employing them as his own eyes and ears at Rome […].
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 116:
glosses: Pertaining to the papal curia.
Derived terms: curialism
curialist
extracurial
curial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjʊəɹɪəl/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪəl
Forms: form: curials
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French curial, from Latin cūriālis.
Senses: glosses: A member of a curia, especially of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.
Rockwellesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rockwellesque
form: most Rockwellesque
Etymology: From Rockwell + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: It's an oasis in the midst of a concrete jungle,' said Dowd, a gaunt, ruddy-faced Norman Rockwellesque figure.
ref: 1980. Washington Post, 6 Apr 1980, G1
text: Afterward, there is a Norman Rockwellesque church supper.
ref: 1994. Vanity Fair, July 1994, 113/1
text: I saw a rather disturbing cartoon on the Opinion page today..a Norman Rockwellesque family sitting down to a serving of bin Laden.
ref: 2001. Modesto Bee, 23 Nov 2001, B8
synonyms: Rockwellian
glosses: Characteristic of the artwork of Norman Rockwell, particularly his idealistic, quaint, or sentimental portrayals of American life.
tuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuit
SAFT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Swiss Army Fitness Test.
SAFT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique, a method used in image processing.
glosses: Initialism of Statistical Associating Fluid Theory, an equation of state in thermodynamics, based on statistical mechanics, that takes into account molecular interactions.
deconsecrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɒnsəkɹeɪt/
Forms: form: deconsecrates
form: deconsecrating
form: deconsecrated
form: deconsecrated
Etymology: From de- + consecrate.
Senses: examples: text: The ancient Romans deconsecrated city walls with a plow, undoing the rituals that first established their course.
glosses: To remove the holy or sacred status of a place
Synonyms: disconsecrate
exaugurate
Hypernyms: secularize
profane
sausage factory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sausage factories
Etymology: In the sense of a gathering without women, sausage is a euphemism for penis. In other figurative senses, it is an example of a food that may be made from distasteful ingredients.
Senses: glosses: A facility producing sausage meat products.
glosses: Synonym of sausage party.
synonyms: word: sausage party
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: An unappealing process to generate something familiar.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: The process of creating news, involving the pursuit of stories, sources and research.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Dealings and compromises that take place behind the scenes to enact legislation.