cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cocoplum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocoplums
Senses: glosses: A fruit of the tree Chrysobalanus icaco.
glosses: A tree of the species Chrysobalanus icaco
cocoplums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocoplum
kerlix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: KERLIX was originally (and may still be) a trademark of Covidien. Its use in the general sense is an example of trademark erosion.
Senses: glosses: A white gauze dressing (bandage).
granados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granado
IC lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of "intracloud lightning".
Senses: glosses: Intracloud lightning; lightning which occurs within a cloud, resulting in the discharge of electricity between regions of the cloud. (Often, but not always, this takes the form of sheet lightning.)
Related terms: english: cloud to ground
translation: cloud to ground
word: CG lightning
english: cloud to cloud
translation: cloud to cloud
word: CC lightning
word: lightning
word: sheet lightning
rijstaffel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rijstaffels
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rijsttafel.
Goldberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡoʊldbɚɡ/
Forms: form: Goldbergs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Goldberg, from German Gold (“gold”) and Berg (“mountain”). One of the ornamental names chosen by Jews who were forced to take surnames in 18th and 19th century Germany.
Senses: examples: text: After Rosenberg and Goldberg tweeted about changing their names, dozens of other people on Twitter followed suit.
ref: 2016 June 3, Jason Koebler, “Jews Are Taking Back (((Echoes))) from the Neo-Nazis”, in Motherboard, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2016:
text: According to the Atlantic, national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month convened a text conversation with top US officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to discuss strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen who had been threatening international shipping in the Red Sea. Waltz, apparently accidentally, added Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the chain.
ref: 2025 March 24, Katie Bo Lillis, Kaitlan Collins, Jeff Zeleny, Evan Perez, Oren Liebermann, Jamie Gangel, Kit Maher and Sean Lyngaas, “Trump’s national security adviser added a journalist to text chat on highly sensitive Yemen strike plans”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from German, fairly common in the United States.
glosses: A town in Ludwigslust-Parchim district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Derived terms: Goldberg-Shprintzen syndrome
Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome
apoptosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apoptosomes
Etymology: By surface analysis, apoptosis (“cell death”) + -some (“body, mass”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A large ternary protein structure formed in the process of apoptosis.
Derived terms: apoptosomal
attentionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From attentional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With regard to attention
Related terms: attentional
caseous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caseous
form: most caseous
Etymology: From Latin cāseus + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.
ref: 1868, Felix von Niemeyer, J. L Parke, Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Phthisis, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 3:
glosses: Resembling cheese.
Derived terms: caseous degeneration
caseous necrosis
fibrocaseous
noncaseous
Related terms: caseification
lipoatrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lipo- + atrophic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to lipoatrophy.
lipoatrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lipo- + atrophy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The loss of subcutaneous fatty tissue.
Coordinate terms: lipodystrophy
merotelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing the attachment of one kinetochore to more than 2 centrosomes.
Coordinate terms: amphitelic
monotelic
syntelic
missegregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missegregations
Etymology: From mis- + segregation.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The faulty segregation of chromosomes.
flea-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flea-ridden
form: most flea-ridden
form: flearidden
Etymology: From flea + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: Two or three times a week a sort of Italian eil-wagen, a funereal and tumble-down, flea-ridden coach, with windows boarded up so high that, when seated, you cannot see out of them, and closed hermetically, after Italian fashion, shambles along at jog-trot pace between the two towns, and takes a livelong day, from early morning to late at night, to perform the journey.
ref: 1861, Edward Dicey, chapter 14, in Rome in 1860, London: Macmillan, pages 207–208:
text: He threw Dormer the paper, stooped to pat the flea-ridden puppy of the hotel, and went in.
ref: 1913, D. K. Broster, G. W. Taylor, The Vision Splendid, London: John Murray, Book II, Chapter 15 (1):
text: “Tell them, then, that if they don't go...I’ll knock all their teeth out...I’ll tear their ears off...I’ll hang the lot of them...and that I'll burn down their entire flea-ridden village. Understand?”
ref: 2002, Karel Čapek, translated by David Wyllie, The War with the Newts, published 1936, Book One, Chapter I:
glosses: Infested with fleas.
glosses: Mangy; filthy.
Synonyms: flea-bitten
flearidden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flearidden
form: most flearidden
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flea-ridden.
trimethyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimethyltransferases
Etymology: From trimethyl + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyses the transfer of three methyl groups
potato head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato heads
form: potatohead
form: potato-head
Etymology: Perhaps in reference to Mr. Potato Head, a plastic toy of the mid-20th century, resembling a potato with human features.
Senses: glosses: A foolish person.
wikipedia: Mr. Potato Head
turnip head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnip heads
Senses: examples: text: This move was received with a contemptuous snort from Zan Zoo. "Ach, you turnip-head! You think I am afraid of you?"
ref: 1891, Harper's Magazine:
text: 'None of your fooling, Joe,' said the latter gruffly, re-entering at the moment; 'this one isn't one of your sort, you turnip-head,' he continued...
ref: 1899, Laura Ormiston Dibbin Chant, Sellcuts' Manager:
glosses: a foolish person.
spud head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spud heads
Senses: glosses: a foolish person.
menstrual period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menstrual periods
form: menstruation period
Senses: glosses: An event of a woman's discharging of menstrual flow of blood and cells.
menstruation period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menstruation periods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of menstrual period.
rose windows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rose window
Qataris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Qatari
Germanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Germanism
melene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of melissic + ethylene
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C₃₀H₆₀, of the ethylene series, obtained from beeswax as a white, scaly, crystalline wax.
Synonyms: melissene
melissylene
Nadal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nadals
Etymology: From Romance (French Nadal (“Occitan Nadal”), Spanish Nadal (“Catalan Nadal, Occitan Nadal”), Italian Nadal (“Venetan Nadal”)). From Latin natalis (“birth, birthday”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Romance languages.
substance abuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: drug abuse
drug use
glosses: An overindulgence in and dependence on a drug or other chemical.
dried plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dried plum
spumone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spumoni
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spumoni.
coquit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coquits
form: coquitting
form: coquit
form: coquit
Etymology: Blend of coquette + quit
Senses: glosses: To quit being coquette; to give up on being feminine and frilly.
domotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to domotics.
optatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From optative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an optative way.
extradoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extrados
intradoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrados
squinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squinch
cavemouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavemouths
Etymology: From cave + mouth.
Senses: glosses: The mouth or entrance of a cave.
cavemouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavemouth
xenodochia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenodochium
compressively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compressively
form: most compressively
Etymology: From compressive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a compressive way.
cavernlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cavernlike
form: most cavernlike
Etymology: From cavern + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cavern.
Synonyms: cavelike
cavernous
supereruption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːpəɹɨˈɹʌpʃn̩/
rhymes: -ʌpʃən
Forms: form: supereruptions
Etymology: From super- + eruption.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Overeruption.
examples: text: Another study performed by Stanley Ambrose, a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois in 1998, suggests that a bottleneck occurred in human evolution at around 70,000 years ago, coinciding with a volcanic winter following the Toba supereruption.
ref: 2003, Ian Lawton, Genesis Unveiled: The Lost Wisdom of Our Forgotten Ancestors, London: Virgin, →ISBN, page 143:
text: Though the causes and interactions remain incompletely understood, study of extinctions does show that life on Earth is fragile. Extinctions have occurred regularly throughout Earth history and all of life is vulnerable to the violent actions of this mobile planet and to the effects of giant meteorite impacts. A list of the five largest extinctions in Earth history is given in the table on page 1 08 . Many more of smaller magnitudes have occurred. In relatively small ways, earthquakes form hazards: The most deadly earthquake in recorded history took place in China’s Shaanxi province in 1556, killing 800,000 people. Volcanoes, on the other hand, can change the entire planet’s climate: 73,500 years ago a volcanic supereruption occurred in Sumatra, filling the atmosphere with sulfur, ash, and carbon dioxide, blocking the Sun’s energy to such an extent that plants couldn’t sufficiently photosynthesize, and the global ecosystem almost collapsed.
ref: 2006, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, The Earth and the Moon, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 107:
text: The Los Alamos mesa rested against the eastern slope of the Jemez Mountains, on the rime of the Valles Caldera, formed as a result of two explosive super-eruptions 1.6 and 1.1 million years ago.
ref: 2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 204:
text: All these lines of evidences (formation of giant calderas like 11-18 k, Oued Dar'a caldera in the Saghro massif, ignimbrites, and thick successions and ignimbrite flow unites without any intervening sedimentary units) point toward an occurrence of multiple supervolanoes/supereruptions (resembling the 74, 000 yr Toba event) during emplacement of the ca. 580 Ma pulse of the Central Iapetus magmatic province.
ref: 2020, Mass Extinctions, Volcanism, and Impacts: New Developments, London: Virgin, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 55:
glosses: The massive eruption of a supervolcano.
supereruptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supereruption
Marsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Mārsī.
Senses: glosses: An ancient tribe who inhabited a region in central Italy, around the basin of the lake Fucinus.
Derived terms: Marsian
Marsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Marsī.
Senses: glosses: A small Germanic tribe settled between the Rhine, Ruhr and Lippe rivers in northwest Germany.
poperies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popery
popishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From popish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being popish.
Synonyms: Roman Catholicism § Synonyms
popishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more popishly
form: most popishly
Etymology: From popish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a popish way.
grifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪftɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grift
grifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grift
rain dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain dances
Senses: examples: text: The women stripped naked and took part in a rain-dance, a girl being chosen for the sacrificial victim.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 180:
glosses: A ceremonial dance intended to provoke rain.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any sequence of actions performed in order to provoke rain.
glosses: Any sequence of arbitrary actions performed in order to achieve a goal.
blackbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackbucks
form: blackbuck
Etymology: From black + buck.
Senses: glosses: An Indian antelope, Antilope cervicapra; a sasin.
bongo drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bongo drums
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of bongo (“either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin”).
synonyms: word: bongo
extra: either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin
Sexagesima Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sexagesima Sundays
form: Sexagesima
Etymology: Latin sexagesima, the feminine inflection of sexagesimus 'the sixtieth' + Sunday
Senses: glosses: In the Catholic liturgical year, the eighth Sunday (i.e. the sixtieth—minus one—day) before Easter (and the second before Lent).
Synonyms: english: after its introit(us)
translation: after its introit(us)
word: Exsurge
word: Dominica Carnisprivii
regroover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regroovers
Etymology: From regroove + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, regrooves.
regroovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regroover
regroove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regrooves
form: regrooving
form: regrooved
form: regrooved
Etymology: From re- + groove.
Senses: glosses: To recut the grooves of a pneumatic tyre.
Derived terms: regroover
regrooves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regroove
regrooving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regroove
regrooved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regroove
crap artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crap artists
Senses: glosses: A habitual liar.
Synonyms: word: bullshitter
crap artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crap artist
sugarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sugarlike
form: most sugarlike
Etymology: From sugar + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling sugar or some aspect of it.
Synonyms: sugary
tigerstripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tigerstripes
Etymology: From tiger + stripe.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of camouflage patterns developed for close-range use in jungle warfare, having narrow brushlike strokes of green and brown accompanied by broader strokes of black printed over a lighter olive or khaki.
tigerstripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tigerstripe
schoolteacherish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schoolteacherish
form: most schoolteacherish
Etymology: From schoolteacher + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a stereotypical schoolteacher in some way; pedantic, patronising, etc.
Related terms: schoolmarmish
Oxon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oxon.
Etymology: From Latin Oxonia (“Oxfordshire”).
Senses: glosses: Postal abbreviation for Oxfordshire.
Oxon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oxon.
Etymology: From Latin Universitas Oxoniensis (“University of Oxford”).
Senses: examples: The Crown Proceedings Act, 1947. By J. R. Bickford Smith, b.a. (Oxon), of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law
synonyms: Oxf
glosses: University of Oxford, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
Related terms: Cantab
trabeculas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trabecula
overcategorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcategorizes
form: overcategorizing
form: overcategorized
form: overcategorized
Etymology: From over- + categorize.
Senses: glosses: To categorize more than is suitable or necessary.
Synonyms: overcompartmentalize
Derived terms: overcategorization
overcategorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcategorize
overcategorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcategorize
overcategorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcategorize
carry water for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries water for
form: carrying water for
form: carried water for
form: carried water for
Senses: examples: text: Julie heard a woman's voice saying that she certainly was not going to carry water for any conceited bitches who thought themselves too good for ordinary....
ref: 1967, Sarah Gainham, Night falls on the city, page 558:
text: For such a caring man she would carry water for the rest of her life: no man of her acquaintance would have done what Edward Cooper did, for a woman.
ref: 2003, Barbara Ewing, The Trespass, page 329:
text: "We won't get another chance to talk, so tell me, deab: is Peter the man to carry water for me between the Israelis and the Palestinians, or should I find another horse for that plow?
ref: 2006, Larry Bond with James DeFelice, First Team: Angels of Wrath, page 375:
text: His job was to watch Stanton's back, not carry water for his ex-boss.
ref: 2008, Ralph Reed, Dark Horse, page 229:
glosses: To perform menial tasks for; to serve; to assist; to be forced by politics or pragmatism to endorse or promote a belief, individual, or organization that in reality one does not fully support.
Related terms: carry someone's water
carry someone's water
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries someone's water
form: carrying someone's water
form: carried someone's water
form: carried someone's water
Senses: examples: text: "I hear things are good." / Moran shrugged. "Depends on who you're talking to. Who would you be talking to, Squire?" / "Frank" / "I thought that might be it. You still carrying his water?
ref: 1996, James Carroll, The City Below, page 287:
text: I've discovered the Lord doesn't need lackeys, lieutenants, minions, representatives and envoys to carry His water and discharge His affairs.
ref: 2005, Martin Clark, Plain Heathen Mischief, page 394:
text: "Nope. Just here to see a staffer about something." / "Staffers. Yeah, well. They hold the Congressman's bag and carry his water sometimes all right."
ref: 2006, James Bruno, Chasm, page 113:
glosses: To do someone's bidding; to serve someone's interests.
Synonyms: serve
string orchestra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: string orchestras
form: string band
form: string ensemble
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A music group consisting solely of stringed instruments.
Related terms: orchestra
string instrument
string ensemble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: string ensembles
form: string orchestra
form: string band
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A music group consisting solely of stringed instruments.
Related terms: orchestra
string instrument
philharmonic orchestra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philharmonic orchestras
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.
Related terms: orchestra
gravity boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Boots designed to enable a person to hang upside-down for inversion therapy.
Related terms: inversion table
bel-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English bel (“fair, excellent"; in compounds "great-, grand-”), from Anglo-Norman bel, Old French bel (“beautiful, noble, honorable”).
Senses: examples: belchild (“grandchild”)
beldame (“grandmother”)
belsire (“grandfather”)
glosses: A prefix equivalent to grand-
inversion table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inversion tables
Senses: glosses: A device to enable a person to be comfortably upside-down as part of inversion therapy.
Related terms: gravity boots
misotheist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /maɪsəʊˈθiːɪst/
Forms: form: more misotheist
form: most misotheist
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to misotheism
misotheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /maɪsəʊˈθiːɪst/
Forms: form: misotheists
Senses: glosses: A follower of misotheism
hoggan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoggans
form: hoggen
Etymology: Use of the term in Cornwall is attributed to Old Cornish hoggan, hogen (“pork pasty; pie”), from hoch (“pig”), from Proto-Brythonic *hux, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-, related to Welsh hwch (“sow”). However, the term was also common in Essex, so perhaps compare Old English hogg.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the mine-owners provide no facilities whatever for the children to rewarm their pasties and hoggans […]
ref: 1852, Chambers's Repository of Instructing and Amusing Tracts:
text: Tom Trevarton had a piece of hoggan weth un.
ref: 1866, Higham, Dial., 14
text: And these are no ordinary feasts; what with her pasties, saffron cake, "hoggans", "figgy hobbins", marinated pilchards, and, of course, her delicious cream, the Cornish woman has many unusual dishes with which to whet the appetite.
ref: 1948, Norman Wymer, The Southern Shires, page 46:
text: […] those who had to eat cold hoggans or pasties.
ref: 2004, Lynne Mayers, Balmaidens:
text: “Of course, the truly poor people had to make do with hoggans,” Tamsin was saying. “Hoggans?” Chloe mumbled around a mouthful of herby pasty. “Flatbread with a morsel or two of pork baked into it,” Tamsin explained. "My father said they were hard as rocks. […] Don't worry, dear. I won't serve you hoggans."
ref: 2017, Kathleen Ernst, Mining for Justice, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:
glosses: A pork pasty.
barking up the wrong tree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bark up the wrong tree
Goi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Goiim
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goy.
grand prince
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand princes
Etymology: From grand + prince.
Senses: glosses: An unusual ruler's title, sometimes incorrectly rendered as grand duke, mainly used in Lithuania and some parts of Russia (Muscovy would ultimately unite most Russian principalities and rise to imperial rank) and the Holy Roman Empire.
Derived terms: grandprincely
Related terms: grand principality
grandprincess
annidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annidations
Etymology: From Latin ad (“to”) and nidus (“nest”).
Coined by German biologist and university teacher Wilhelm Ludwig in 1950 as "a fifth evolutionary factor".
Senses: examples: Flax grew more rapidly and matured earlier than linseed and this difference in timing of growth led to annidation.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The adaptation of the various genotypes to different ecological niches, such as where a mutant form of a species is maintained in a population because it can flourish in a way that the parent organisms cannot.
Mishnaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mishnaic
form: most Mishnaic
Etymology: From Mishna + -ic.
Senses: glosses: From or referring to the Mishnah, the first part of the Talmud.
glosses: In those rabbinical scriptures' Archaic form of Hebrew.
Synonyms: Mishnic
Mishnical
Related terms: Biblical
Talmudic
stie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sties
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of stye (“eye infection”).
stornello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stornellos
form: stornelli
Etymology: From Italian stornello.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: An Italian lyric poem or folk song.
stornelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stornello
overdosage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdosages
Etymology: From over- + dosage.
Senses: glosses: Excessive dosage; taking too much of a pharmaceutical drug.
Synonyms: word: overdose
Lesers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Leser
Afrocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afrocentricism
Etymology: From Afro- + -centrism. The adjective Afrocentric dates to the early 1960s; "Afrocentrism" is attested from the late 1960s or early 1970s, both in the context of the civil rights movement and black nationalism in the United States.
Senses: glosses: Black African ethnocentrism.
non-perishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Varamis plans to carry parcels and non-perishable consumer goods.
ref: 2020 April 8, “Network News: Varamis plans electric freight to carry light goods”, in Rail, pages 16–17:
glosses: Alternative form of nonperishable.
Mishnah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mischna
form: Mishna
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew מִשְׁנָה (mišnāh, “repetition, oral law”), from שָׁנָה (šānāh, “to repeat, teach”).
Senses: examples: text: The Mishnah is believed by Jews to have been handed down orally from the patriarch-prophet Moses, who received it on Mount Sinai with the written Torah.
glosses: The oldest part of the Talmud, rabbinical writings collected by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and published in 250 C.E. in Javneh (יבנה, in Israel).
Synonyms: the Oral Torah
Derived terms: word: Mishnaic
word: Mishnic
word: Mishnical
Related terms: Torah
Turners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Turner
Turners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turner
Ashkenazim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæʃkɪˈnɑːzɪm/
ipa: /ˌæʃkɪnəˈzɪm/
ipa: /ˌɑːʃkɪˈnɑːzɪm/
ipa: /ˌɑːʃkɪnəˈziːm/
Forms: form: Ashchenazim
form: Ashkanazim
Etymology: From Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַזִּים (ashk'nazím), plural of אַשְׁכְּנַזִּי (ashk'nazí), from אַשְׁכֲּנַז (ashk'naz, “Ashkenaz”), son of Gomer, grandson of Japheth, and great-grandson of Noah, mythical progenitor of the Ascanians of Phrygia, and later, in mediaeval times, identified with the Germans.
Senses: examples: text: Ashkenazim and Sephardim: Their Relations, Differences, and Problems as Reflected in the Rabbinical Responsa.
ref: 1993: Hirsch Jakob Zimmels, Ashkenazim and Sephardim, main title (KTAV Publishing House; →ISBN, 9780881254914)
text: Following the return of Jews to England in the second half of the seventeenth century, the Ashkenazim at first worshipped with the Sephardim, but hardly any were admitted to membership in the Sephardic congregation. In 1679 the Sephardim prohibited Ashkenazim from being called to the Torah, receiving any honors, voting, holding office or even making contributions without express permission. By 1690 the Ashkenazim began to worship separately, and in 1694 the leaders of the Sephardic congregation decreed that “the Synagogue Saar Asamaim shall only serve for the Jews of our Portuguese and Spanish nation . . . and the Jews of other nations that may come shall be admitted to say prayers if it seems good to the gentlemen of Mahamad.” This regulation merely affirmed one adopted thirty years before, which required the approval of the governing body for non-Sephardim to worship among them. By 1697 London’s Ashkenazim and Sephardim were being interred in separate burial grounds, following a demand by the Sephardic leadership four years earlier that the Ashkenazim establish their own cemetery. In Amsterdam, the two groups built grand, but separate, synagogues during the early 1670s. The Sephardim permitted Ashkenazim to attend services in their synagogue but segregated them to the sides. In 1772, when a large throng filled the structure to observe a competition to select a new hazan, the Ashkenazim in attendance broke through wooden barriers meant to restrict them to the sides, trampling six attendants in the process, in order to gain entrance to the central part of the synagogue. The occurrence undoubtedly confirmed Sephardic views of Ashkenazic barbarism.
ref: 1995, Eli Faber, Hanry L Feingold, A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654–1820, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 61, →ISBN:
text: 2005: Mehran Kamrava, The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War, page 219 (University of California Press; hardcover: →ISBN; paperback: →ISBN
The Ashkenazim, many of whom trace their origins back to the early days of Labor Zionism in the late 1800s, have long held most of the economic and political power in Israel.
glosses: plural of Ashkenazi
Synonyms: Ashkenazis
Related terms: Ashkenazic
Sephardim
aweel
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: ah + well
Senses: glosses: Well; well then.
baseball caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baseball cap
vaginæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vəjīnē
ipa: /vəˈd͡ʒaɪni/
Etymology: From Latin vāgīnæ, nominative plural form of vāgīna (“sheath”, “scabbard”).
Senses: glosses: plural of vagina
plectoneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plectonemes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλεκτός (plektós, “twisted”) + Ancient Greek νῆμα (nêma, “thread”).
Senses: glosses: A loop of helices (especially of nucleic acid) twisted together such that they cannot be separated without breaking them
Related terms: plectonemic
plectonemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plectoneme + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a plectoneme
Related terms: paranemic
introitus vaginæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭntrōʹĭtəs vəjīʹnē
ipa: /ɪnˈtɹəʊ.ɪtəs vəˈdʒaɪniː/
enpr: ĭntrōʹĭto͞os vəjīʹnē
ipa: /ɪnˈtɹəʊ.ɪtuːs vəˈdʒaɪniː/
Forms: form: introitus vaginæ
form: introitus vaginarum
form: introitus vaginae
Etymology: From Latin introitus vāgīnæ (“entrance of [a/the] vagina”).
Senses: examples: text: A great many prostitutes can contract their introitus vaginæ at will, and you will find the action of a hypertrophied ring, constrictor cunni, around the outlet of the vagina, and in a great many prostitutes you will find prolapse, too.
ref: 1909, Transactions of the Chicago Gynecological Society, W. Wood & Co., page 56:
text: Your women get hysterectomies, their introitus vaginae tightened, and take estrogen to begin again. I don’t know what you men do.
ref: 1978, Arnold J. Mandell, Coming of Middle Age: A Journey, Summit Books, →ISBN, page 143, →ISBN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The entrance to the vagina.
Synonyms: vaginal introitus
vaginal opening
Derived terms: introitus neovaginae
introitus vaginarum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭntrōʹĭto͞os vəjīnäʹrəm
ipa: /ɪnˈtɹəʊ.ɪtuːs vəˈdʒaɪnɑːɹəm/
Senses: glosses: plural of introitus vaginae
introitus vaginae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: introitus vaginae
form: introitus vaginarum
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of introitus vaginæ.
inversion tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inversion table
preparse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preparses
form: preparsing
form: preparsed
form: preparsed
Etymology: From pre- + parse.
Senses: glosses: To parse in advance.
Derived terms: preparser
preparsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preparse
preparsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preparse
preparses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preparse
Annabella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Annabellas
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Annabel or Annabelle.
holoparasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holoparasites
Etymology: From holo- + parasite.
Senses: glosses: A holoparasitic organism.
holoparasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holoparasite
forsay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fə(ɹ)ˈseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: forsays
form: forsaying
form: forsaid
form: forsaid
Etymology: From Middle English forsayen (“to renounce”), from Old English forseċġan (“to accuse, accuse falsely, slander, speak about, discourse on”), equivalent to for- + say. Cognate Dutch verzeggen (“to deny, forbid”), German Low German verseggen (“to refuse, deny”), German versagen (“to refuse, deny”), Swedish försäga (“to misspeak, say too much”). More at for-, say.
Senses: examples: text: worldly sovenance he must forsay
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: to forbid; to renounce
glosses: to deny, gainsay
glosses: to forsake
forlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forlets
form: forletting
form: forlet
form: forlet
form: forelet
form: forleet
form: forleit
form: forlete
form: foreleit
Etymology: From Middle English forleten (“forsake, reject, renounce, omit, lose, forgive”), from Old English forlǣtan (“to leave”), from Proto-Germanic *fralētaną (“to leave, dismiss”), equivalent to for- + let. Cognate with Scots forleet (“to forsake, abandon”), Saterland Frisian ferläite (“to forlet, abandon”), West Frisian forlitte (“to forlet”), Dutch verlaten (“to desert, abandon”), German verlassen (“to leave”), Swedish förlåta (“to excuse, forgive, remit”).
Senses: examples: text: to forlet your sins
text: I soothly quoth, then say, to you, for that each such, he that forlets wife his, be-out unclean lust doing forth-lying thing, doeth (works) he doeth the same to sin, …
ref: 1807, The Gothic Gospel of saint Matthew
text: But, by my soul, I dare well swear His wretched life he shall forlet [...]
ref: 1834, Samuel Astley Dunham, A History of Europe During the Middle Ages - Volume 4:
text: … whether his mind and his soul were deadly and perishing, or it were aye living and eternal; and again, about his good, what it was, and what good was best for him to do, and what evil to forlet.
ref: 1920, Alfred (King of England), Pope Gregory I, Paulus Orosius, King Alfred's books - Page 11
text: [...] and then, if upon mature deliberation, when our mind is staid and our senses settled, the thing appear to be naught, we are to hate and abhor it, and in no wise either to forlet and put off, or altogether to omit and forbear correction, like as they refuse meats who have no stomach nor appetite to eat.
ref: 2014, Philemon Holland, Plutarch, Plutarch's Moralia - Page 121:
glosses: To abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; forsake; desert; neglect.
glosses: To forget.
qajaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qajaqs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kayak.
uh-oh, Spaghetti-O
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Advertising campaign for SpaghettiOs, an American brand of canned spaghetti rings.
Senses: examples: text: "Uh-oh, spaghetti-o!" She retreated a couple of steps. "Guess I'm in for it now."
ref: 1987, Ellen Frye, Look under the hawthorn:
text: Mary clucked, "Uh-oh, spaghetti-o." I raced to the bathroom door, kicked it open . . . and stopped dead in my tracks. Ai, talk about squalid scenes!
ref: 2001, John Treadwell Nichols, The voice of the butterfly:
text: Uh-oh, Spaghetti-ohs. You sunk my battleship. But wait!
ref: 2005, Erik Grayson, A mind of summer: post-punk dispatches from a post-structuralist world:
text: Uh oh, Spaghetti-O. We exchange places. Bobby walks up to the pole, bends over, sets himself, and gets a good grip.
ref: 2006, Jack Myers, Row House Blues:
glosses: Uh-oh.
fansite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fansites
Etymology: From fan + site.
Senses: glosses: A website aimed at fans of something, such as a singer or football team.
Hyponyms: fanlisting
fansites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fansite
prothallus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prothalluses
form: prothalli
Senses: glosses: A prothallium.
prothalli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prothallus
unactual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + actual.
Senses: glosses: Not actual.
prothallium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prothallia
Etymology: From Latin pro (“forwards”) + Ancient Greek θᾰλλός (thăllós, “young branch, twig”).
Senses: glosses: A plant, usually a pteridophyte, in gametophyte stage in the metagenesis cycle.
glosses: The young gametophyte of a liverwort or peat moss.
Synonyms: prothallus
prothallia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prothallium
dolent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊlənt/
ipa: /ˈdoʊlənt/
Forms: form: more dolent
form: most dolent
Etymology: From Middle English dolent, from Old French dolent, from Latin dolēns, present participle of doleō (“to grieve”).
Senses: examples: text: Poor wretch! who once hath paced that dolent city
Shall pace it often, doomed beyond all pity,
With horror ever deepening from the first.
ref: 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
text: ‘Did you find them all, Uncle Van?’ she inquired, sighing, laying her dolent head on his shoulder.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 148:
glosses: Sad, sorrowful.
irenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eirenology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εἰρήνη (eirḗnē, “peace”) + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Up to now, the irenological perspective has only been dealt with in passing. Just as for polemology, irenology must be systematically pursued as a necessary complement to what has so far been the exclusively polemological orientation of research. Peace itself, and different forms of peaceful coexistence, must be subjected to a greater degree of systematic documentation and analysis.
ref: 2002, C. Scherrer, Structural Prevention of Ethnic Violence, →ISBN, page 76:
text: As one of China's most important non-official think tanks on diplomacy and international relations, the Charhar Institute has been focusing on public diplomacy and irenology since its establishment in October 2009.
ref: 2016, Chenyang Li, Myanmar: Reintegrating into the International Community:
glosses: The study of peace.
Related terms: irenic
irenics
waste breath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wastes breath
form: wasting breath
form: wasted breath
form: wasted breath
Senses: examples: text: Middleton and Paul saw no use in wasting their breath in remonstrances against this proposal.
ref: 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 24, in The Prairie:
text: Why waste breath saying self-evident things?
ref: 1906, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 1, in R. Holmes & Co.:
text: "Please don't waste your breath asking me ridiculous questions," he says.
ref: 2009 May 19, “Akshay jealous of Sanjay's tattoos?”, in Times of India, retrieved 14 Jun 2009:
glosses: To speak in a manner which is needless or futile; in discussion or argument to make points which are not appreciated or heeded.
Related terms: like talking to a wall
waste of breath
inter alios
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inter aliōs.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Among other people.
Related terms: i.a.
inter al.
inter alia
strange bedfellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strange bedfellow
Etymology: 1610, from Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Senses: examples: text: The USA and the USSR were strange bedfellows. They were united only in their opposition to Hitler and Fascism.
ref: 1996, Tony Downey, Nigel Smith, Russia and the USSR, 1900-1995, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 66:
text: Lacan and feminism: strange bedfellows? There never was an alliance between the person Lacan and feminism.
ref: 2002, Teresa Brennan, Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: An unusual combination or political alliance.
wikipedia: The Tempest
Related terms: in bed with
make common cause
unholy alliance
ill-boding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-boding
form: most ill-boding
Etymology: From ill + boding.
Senses: synonyms: word: inauspicious
word: portentous
word: augurous
word: baleful
word: bodeful
word: boding
word: dire
word: disastrous
word: fatal
word: foreboding
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-omened
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicate
word: inauspicious
word: nefastous
word: omenic
word: ominous
word: brooding
word: portentous
word: presageful
word: presagious
word: prodigious
word: sinister
word: star-crossed
word: sullen
word: auspicious
word: propitious
word: auspicial
word: auspicious
word: favorable
word: fortunate
word: fortuitous
word: lucky
word: propitious
word: prosperous
word: serendipitous
word: teratical
glosses: Which bodes evil; portending bad things.
Related terms: ill-fated
pædomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pē'dəmôʹfĭk
enpr: pĕ'dəmôʹfĭk
ipa: /ˌpiːdəˈmɔːfɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛdəˈmɔːfɪk/
enpr: pē'dəmôʹfĭk
enpr: pĕ'dəmôʹfĭk
ipa: /ˌpiːdəˈmɔɹfɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛdəˈmɔɹfɪk/
Forms: form: more pædomorphic
form: most pædomorphic
Etymology: From pædo- + -morphic.
Senses: examples: text: The child’s imagination will also be awake and active at five. He will look out on the world with anthropomorphic (or rather with pædomorphic) eyes.
ref: 1903, Herbert George Wells, Mankind in the Making, 3rd edition, Chapman & Hall, page 155:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pedomorphic.
urinary meatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urinary meatuses
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The external orifice of the urethra, from which urine is ejected during urination and semen is ejected during ejaculation.
Synonyms: external urethral orifice
urethral meatus
pisshole
cockhole
dickhole
piss slit
urinary meatuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urinary meatus
Ashchenazim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Identical with Ashkenazim, but formed on the pattern of Ashchenaz, the spelling of the name of the Biblical figure found in the Bible's First Book of the Chronicles, as opposed to Ashkenaz, the spelling which occurs in the Book of Genesis.
Senses: examples: text: 1845: [a rabbinical council in Jerusalem], [an edict forbidding Jews from entering the Jews' Hospital in Jerusalem]; quoted in:
text: […] the chief, great, wise & learned man of the holy congregation of the Sephardim, met together with the chiefs & leaders of the holy congregation of the Ashchenazim Perushim & Khasidim, who reside here in Jerusalem our holy & glorious city (may she be built & established!) […]
ref: 2003, Yaron Perry, British Mission to the Jews in Nineteenth-Century Palestine, Routledge, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Ashkenazim.
doorperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorpersons
form: doorpeople
Etymology: From door + person.
Senses: glosses: A doorman or doorwoman; a greeter.
Ashkanazim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Identical with Ashkenazim, but spelt closer to the Hebrew transliteration of אַשְׁכֲּנָזִים (ashkanazím).
Senses: examples: text: [… A]s to the testimony of the ancients, Diodorus Siculus affirms that the Germans had their origin from the Cimmerians; and the Jews to this day called them Ashkanazim, or descendants of Ashkenaz, son of Gomer.
ref: 1841, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, editor, The Dublin Review, page 281:
text: Reform Judaism, which has been called “the folk religion of the German-American Jew,” represented a crisis in the longstanding linguistic and religious differences dividing Sephardim and Ashkanazim.
ref: 1999, Charles W. Joyner, Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 190:
text: It is in the distribution of the Rh (rhesus) factor that the blood of the various Jewish communities of Europe shows some significant differences compared to their gentile neighbors — apparently due to an old core of Mediterranean ancestry among the Ashkanazim.
ref: 2002, Frank Heynick, Jews and Medicine: An Epic Saga, KTAV Publishing House, →ISBN, page 437, →ISBN:
text: Ben-Gurion's legacy has been an enduring one. The projection of a national consensus, the domination of the state over other political actors, and the hegemony exercised over decision-making by a largely Ashkanazim élite remain features of Israeli politics today.
ref: 2002, Clive Jones, Emma Murphy, Israel: Challenges to Identity, Democracy, and the State, Routledge, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Ashkenazim.
tabuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tabbouleh.
talee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tali (“marriage string”).
devvel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devvels
form: devel
Senses: examples: text: "Weel," said the beggar, "that's the likeliest bit of ony—it will be but a muckle through-stane to kiver the gowd; tak the pick till't, and pit mair strength man—ae gud downright devvel will split it, I'se warrant ye—Ay, that will do—Odd, he comes on wi' Wallace's straiks!"
ref: 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary:
glosses: A hard blow.
devvel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: devvels
form: devvelling
form: devvelled
form: devvelled
form: devel
Senses: glosses: To hit (something) hard.
glosses: To stun (someone) by hitting.