cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Mosley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊzli/
Forms: form: Moseley
form: Mosely
form: Mossley
form: Mozeley
form: Mozley
Etymology: From several places in England, including the derivations:
* Old English mos (“peat bog”) + leah (“woodland, clearing”), equivalent to moss + -ley (“lea”).
* Old English mus (“mouse”) + leah (“woodland, clearing”), equivalent to mouse + -ley (“lea”).
* From the Old English byname Moll.
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname.
Derived terms: Mosleyan
Mosleyite
Löwchens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Löwchen
I-hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ihood
Etymology: From I + -hood, chiefly a calque of German Ichheit (“selfhood”). Compare also Dutch ikheid (“individuality”).
Senses: examples: text: Our Humane Will dyed away in the Death of Christ from its own I-hood, and own Willing.
ref: 1653, J. Sparrow tr. J. Boehme, Considerations upon Esaiah Stiefel:
text: The Man Christ is..the First who in the Anointing dyed to the Humane I-hood.
ref: 1662, J. Sparrow tr. J. Boehme, Apol. Perfection in Remainder Bks.:
text: He inclineth himself to my Minehood, and my Ihood inclineth it self up into him.
ref: 1662, J. Sparrow tr. J. Boehme, 2nd Apol. B. Tylcken in Remainder Bks.:
text: He has no autarkia, or self-sufficingness—no ichheit, or I-hood, as the Germans would say.
ref: 1871, H. Macmillan, True Vine (1872) iii.:
text: The voice, as pure, lyric, unselfconscious I-hood spilling or erupting into the world, suddenly becomes part of that world and recoils upon its originator.
ref: 2000, S. Connor, Dumbstruck:
text: Hence, in that respect Henrich's theory of more modest I-hood is definitely an improvement. I heartily support Henrich's attempts to bring the I 'down to earth' and to base a theory of I-hood on daily life's experiences.
ref: 2010, Cia Van Woezik, God - Beyond Me:
glosses: The state of one's own self or identity; one's conscious personality.
Synonyms: I-ness
I-ship
Nelda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Ihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From I + -hood.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of I-hood.
Parrish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Parish
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Passovers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Passover
Patton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpætən/
ipa: /ˈpætn̩/
homophone: paten
homophone: patten
homophone: pattern (non-rhotic)
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Walker County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Ford County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clark County and Edgar County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Carroll County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Union Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough and historic district in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Centre County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County and Monroe County, West Virginia.
glosses: A hamlet in Stanton Long parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5895).
Derived terms: Patton Village
Penn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛn
Etymology: * As an English surname, named after various places such as Penn in Buckinghamshire or Staffordshire, of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *penn (“(hill) top, head”).
* Also as an English surname, from the noun pen (“enclosure”).
* Also as an English surname, spelling variant of Parnell.
* As a German surname, from Sorbian pien (“tree stump”), from Proto-Slavic *pьňь.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: text: High on a ridge of the Chilterns stands the village from which a celebrated Buckinghamshire family took its name. It was the home of the ancestors, and some of the descendants, of William Penn, the Quaker who in 1682 founded Pennsylvania in America.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 312:
glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, previously in Chiltern district (OS grid ref SP9094).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Wootton Fitzpaine parish, west Dorset (OS grid ref SY3495).
glosses: A place in England:
A western suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO8996).
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ramsey County, North Dakota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, named after William Penn.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, including in Illinois (2), Indiana (3), Iowa (4), Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio (2), and Pennsylvania (12), listed under Penn Township.
examples: text: Well, he [Donald J. Trump] did go to Penn. Whether he got in on merit is a whole other question.
ref: 2025 April 21, Gail Collins, Bret Stephens, “Only 1,370 Days to Go”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: UPenn
glosses: University of Pennsylvania
Derived terms: word: East Penn
english: Staffordshire
translation: Staffordshire
word: Lower Penn
word: Penn effect
word: Pennfield
word: Pennsville
word: Pennsylvania
Related terms: Penn State
I-ness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: I-nesses
Etymology: From I + -ness. Compare earlier I-hood; later me-ness.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, if "I" is the object of the ontological interpretation, then this is not the individual I-ness, of my self, but I-ness in its metaphysical neutrality; we call this neutral I-ness "egoicity."
ref: 1984, Martin Heidegger, The metaphysical foundations of logic:
text: The Marriage of Time and 'I' This concept of time is closely tied up with our illusory sense of 'I-ness'.
ref: 2010, Alistair Conwell, The Audible Life Stream:
glosses: I-hood.
Pentecosts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pentecost
Phelps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /fɛlps/
Forms: form: Phelpses
Etymology: From Philip + genitive (mainly patronymic) suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A census-designated place in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A town and village therein, in Ontario County, New York, United States.
glosses: A town and unincorporated community therein, in Vilas County, Wisconsin, United States.
Derived terms: Phelps County
Related terms: Phillips
Phelps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /fɛlps/
Senses: glosses: plural of Phelp
Phipps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /fɪps/
Forms: form: Fipps
Etymology: From Middle English Phipp, a diminutive of Philip + genitive (mainly patronymic) suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lenroot, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States, named after a railroad official.
Pitts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪts/
homophone: pits
Forms: form: Pittses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A minor city in Wilcox County, Georgia, United States.
Pitts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪts/
homophone: pits
Senses: glosses: plural of Pitt
Polk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Polks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Will County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri, named after the county.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Polk County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Ashland County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Washington County, Wisconsin, named after President James K. Polk.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships, listed under Polk Township.
Derived terms: Polk County
Potts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: pots
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
Derived terms: Potts model
Pottsville
Putnam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A reduced variant of Puttenham.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A community in Thames Centre municipality, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Marengo County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Windham County, Connecticut.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Fayette County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Linn County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Anderson County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sedgwick Township, Harvey County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Livingston County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Washington County, New York, named after Israel Putnam.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Dewey County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small township in Covington Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Callahan County, Texas.
Derived terms: Putnam County
Putnamian
Putnam model
Quine-Putnam indispensability argument
Zimmerman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zimmermann
Senses: examples: text: The case inspired widespread rallies and “Million Hoodie Marches” in early 2012, after Sanford, Fla., police refused to charge Zimmerman with a crime, saying they couldn’t counter his self-defense claim. A special state prosecutor indicted him 44 days later. The trial began June 10.
ref: 2013 July 10, Patrik Jonsson, “George Zimmerman speaks, but won’t testify in his defense”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: A surname from German.
I-ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From I + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Who can comprehend his own..personeity, that is his I-ship (Ichheit).
ref: a1834, S. T. Coleridge, Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 232
glosses: I-hood.
Whitman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪt.mən/
note: wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈʍ-/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Winona County, Minnesota.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Grant County, Nebraska.
glosses: Whitman County, Washington.
Derived terms: Whitman County
Whitmanese
Whitmanesque
Whitmania
Whitmaniac
Whitmanian
Whitmanism
Whitmanize
Whitman's sampler
Related terms: Whiteman
Wightman
Redmond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛd.mənd/
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], an anglicization of Mac Réamoinn (“son of Raymond”).
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A city in Washington; named for early settler Luke McRedmond.
glosses: A city in Oregon; named for early settler Frank T. Redmond.
glosses: A town in Utah; apparently named for red mounds near the town.
glosses: A town in Western Australia; named for Irish nationalist leader John Redmond.
glosses: Microsoft, a technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Derived terms: word: McRedmond
word: Redmondian
word: Redmondite
reffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ref
reffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ref
repleting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of replete
Sanchez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sanchezes
form: Sanchezs
Etymology: From Spanish Sánchez.
Senses: examples: text: […]—clearing out by military murders,—since they are executions without judicial trials—the descendants of the Sanchezs, the Garcias and the Remirezs,—the brave men who had achieved all that has been done for liberty and independence,—the result of Spain’s surrender of her colony by the Treaty of Bâle.
ref: 1862, Richard Hill, Haïti and Spain: A Memorial, by Richard Hill, Dedicated to the Honorable W. H. Seward, Secretary of State at Washington, Jamaica: M. De Cordova & Co., […], page 10:
glosses: A surname from Spanish [in turn originating as a patronymic] of Spanish origin.
Related terms: Sanchez-Mira
Sanchez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Sánchez.
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Asingan, Pangasinan, Philippines.
Santana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Santana.
Senses: examples: text: CNN anchor and correspondent Maria Santana was reporting from the scene when she and her team were hit by pepper balls and tear gas that officers fired into the crowd. “At that time, I can tell you, it is very hard to breathe, very hard to talk, your eyes begin to water,” she reported.
ref: 2025 September 19, Alisha Ebrahimji, Emma Tucker, “Chicago-area mayor says federal agents teargassed him at a protest outside an ICE facility”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
skiffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skiff
skiffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skiff
sirring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sir
sirred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sir
Slovakians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Slovakian
Talmuds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Talmud
tassells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tassell
travellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travelling
Majors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Major
Majors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Major
Solos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Solo
Soli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language spoken in Zambia.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Soli terms
Soli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Solis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Soli.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Perlmutters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Perlmutter
nose rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nose ring
Galas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gala
Kaders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kader
Thalers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thaler
Halos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Halo
Freiers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Freier
Ukaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ukase.
Reichspfennigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Reichspfennig
cloud cuckoo land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cloud-cuckoo-land.
fullstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fullstanding
form: most fullstanding
form: full-standing
Etymology: From full + standing. Compare German vollständig (“complete, whole, entire, perfect”), Dutch volstaan (“to suffice”), Swedish fullständig (“full, complete, with everything included”).
Senses: examples: text: […] could be watched by small groups of people at about eye level through a hole cut in a wall or other fullstanding opaque divider.
ref: 1995, Film History, volume 7, page 120:
text: With the escutcheon is an original Collis family scrapbook containing numerous postwar newspaper clippings about the life of this remarkable citizen and the honors paid to him at his death. Included in the book is a faded, fullstanding carte de viste photograph of Collis as sergeant major of the 18th Pa. Vol. Infantry, […]
ref: 2009, Heritage Auctions, “Heritage Civil War Auction #6024 - Page 78”, in Inc.:
glosses: Completely standing; standing fully upright.
examples: text: To achieve a fullstanding objective method of historical research is neither possible nor desirable in the view of Robin Collingwood (Clausen 1968, p35).
ref: 1982, Arild Holt-Jensen, Geography, its history and concepts:
text: Participation means that a member state, as such, as a fullstanding state and independently from the size of their territory or their population, is entitled to be involved in decision making at the level of the federation.
ref: 1999, Arnault Serra-Horguelin, The federal experiment in Ethiopia:
glosses: Complete in standing; standing fully on one's own; whole; sound; complete; entire; absolute.
Related terms: self-standing
Aristotelean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aristoteleans
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Aristoteleanus, from Aristoteles + -anus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Aristotelian.
Aristotelean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Aristoteleanus, from Aristoteles + -anus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Aristotelian.
Aristoteleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aristotelean.
hyperoödon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of hyperoodon.
elephant ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elephant ear
elephant ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: taro (Colocasia esculenta)
re-upping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-up
re-upped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-up
pommel horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pommel horse
pantun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantuns
Etymology: From Malay pantun.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pantoum.
synonyms: word: pantoum
advocaats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advocaat
Kirkist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kirkists
Etymology: From kirk + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I answered that such freedom would be worse than the vilest slavery, for it would leave me free to do nothing but grappel till death with clusterfist creditors and esurient Kirkists […]
ref: 1983, Alasdair Gray, “Logopandocy”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 177:
glosses: Someone who supports the Kirk, or Church of Scotland, especially with reference to Oliver Cromwell's Scottish campaign of 1650-1.
Kirkists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kirkist
Dutch disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the Dutch disease
Etymology: Coined by The Economist magazine in 1977, to describe the situation in the Netherlands where a natural resources find of a large natural gas field caused the Dutch guilder to rise in valuation, depressing exports and causing the manufacturing sector to decline, that occurred after 1959.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An increase in the value derived from the natural-resources sector of the economy, leading to a rise in the valuation of the currency increasingly based on the natural-resources sector, and thus causing a deterioration in the manufacturing sector by making the manufactured goods less competitive in the export marketplace compared to those manufactured by economies with lower valuation currencies, because they are relatively more expensive.
glosses: Hollanditis.
glosses: Dutch elm disease.
bean geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bean goose
dual photon absorptiometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dual photon absorptiometries
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Use of two differing sources of radiation to measure the density of a substance, typically bone.
dual photon absorptiometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dual photon absorptiometry
absorption costing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˈkɑs.tɪŋ/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˈkɑs.tɪŋ/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˈkɑs.tɪŋ/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ ˈkɑs.tɪŋ/
Forms: form: absorption costings
Senses: topics: business
glosses: An accounting method to calculate the total cost of a product by factoring both direct and indirect costs.
absorption costings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorption costing
steam reforming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The production of hydrogen (and carbon monoxide) from water and methane at high temperature
absorption spectrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorption spectrum
Anonymous
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A decentralized hacktivist group that conducts cyberattacks opposing primarily Internet censorship and government corruption.
glosses: A member of an anonymous imageboard website, especially of 4chan.
glosses: The members of an anonymous imageboard website, especially of 4chan.
Ratna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit रत्न (rátna, “jewel, gem”).
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Sanskrit used commonly in India.
tanksful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tankful
rechain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rechains
form: rechaining
form: rechained
form: rechained
Etymology: From re- + chain.
Senses: examples: text: It is unclear if they were still chained from two days earlier or if Cho had rechained them before he began his shooting spree.
ref: 2009, John Nicoletti, Sally Spencer-Thomas, Christopher Bollinger, Violence Goes to College: The Authoritative Guide to Prevention and Intervention, page 238:
glosses: To chain again
respun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌn
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of respin
respins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of respin
respinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of respin
respinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: respinnings
Senses: glosses: An act of spinning again.
revivability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revivabilities
Etymology: From revive + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being revivable.
replunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: replunges
form: replunging
form: replunged
form: replunged
Etymology: From re- + plunge.
Senses: glosses: To plunge again.
rewaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rewakens
form: rewakening
form: rewakened
form: rewakened
Etymology: From re- + waken.
Senses: examples: text: And love will last as pure and whole
⁠As when he loved me here in Time,
⁠And at the spiritual prime
Rewaken with the dawning soul.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: To awaken again; to rewake
rewakening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rewakenings
Senses: glosses: reawakening
rewakening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rewaken
rustily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rustily
form: most rustily
Etymology: From rusty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rusty manner
runted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more runted
form: most runted
Etymology: From runt + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Not properly grown; having a growth shortage.
scaley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: scalier
form: scaliest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scaly.
scaley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaleys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scaly.
scummed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scum
placably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more placably
form: most placably
Etymology: From placable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a placable manner
possessingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more possessingly
form: most possessingly
Etymology: From possessing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a possessing manner
puffily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more puffily
form: most puffily
Etymology: From puffy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a puffy manner
quizzingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more quizzingly
form: most quizzingly
Etymology: From quizzing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a quizzing manner.
unpitiably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpitiably
form: most unpitiably
Etymology: From unpitiable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an unpitiable manner; not pitiably
dialetheia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialetheias
form: dialetheia
Etymology: Coined by Graham Priest and Richard Routley, from di- + Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia, “truth”), in 1981.
Senses: glosses: A statement that is both true and false; a true contradiction.
Related terms: dialetheism
paradox
Turkish Vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turkish Van
tall one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tall ones
Senses: glosses: A drink, especially beer, served in a tall glass.
swear like a sailor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swears like a sailor
form: swearing like a sailor
form: swore like a sailor
form: sworn like a sailor
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of swear like a trooper.
synonyms: word: swear like a trooper
strike it rich
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes it rich
form: striking it rich
form: struck it rich
form: struck it rich
Senses: glosses: To become rich suddenly and unexpectedly.
rug up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rugs up
form: rugging up
form: rugged up
form: rugged up
Senses: examples: text: The mare was naturally very weak and almost in a state of collapse, so we gave her half a pint of neat whisky, rugged her up, and rubbed her all over with embrocation.
ref: 1913, VM/SAC, Veterinary Medicine & Small Animal Clinician Volume 8, page 677:
glosses: To put a rug on a horse
examples: text: To us, a rainy day may mean that we have to rug up and stay inside out of the elements, but the coming of a storm or the rising swell will find a mulloway that lives and feeds along the beaches, waiting around a river entrance for the mullet...
ref: 2005, Gary Brown, Beach and Rock Fishing:
glosses: To put on layers of warm clothes; to wrap up
press the panic button
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presses the panic button
form: pressing the panic button
form: pressed the panic button
form: pressed the panic button
Senses: glosses: To start to panic.
fuck like a mink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fucks like a mink
form: fucking like a mink
form: fucked like a mink
form: fucked like a mink
form: fuck like minks
Senses: examples: text: "She's a really sweet girl, kind and honest and decent, and all of her clients tell me that she fucks like a mink."
"With that endorsement and the boots and the whips, maybe I should give her a try."
ref: 1979, Warren Murphy, Frank Stevens, Atlantic City, page 209:
text: "...But, for general info, she'd just as gladly slide a knife in as anything else. Don't let her fool you. On the other hand, she can fuck like a mink. Have fun. I'll take Bambi any day."
ref: 2006, John Ringo, Kildar:
text: “You fuck like a mink,” Eric told me one night in his sister's bedroom. His parents were out of town, and Eric and I had the run of the house.
ref: 2011, Carolyn Briggs, Higher Ground: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To have sex with great enthusiasm.
State of Palestine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the State of Palestine
Senses: glosses: Official name of Palestine: a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East.
wear up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wears up
form: wearing up
form: wore up
form: worn up
Senses: examples: text: ["']The horses soon wear up, or get diseased, and they come for another pair.' That," said Max, "is what he said in my hearing, and you can judge for yourself."
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “A Strike for Liberty”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 109:
glosses: To tire; to become tired
lunar orbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunar orbits
Senses: examples: text: From the present position of the lunar orbit, it does not appear that any very striking occultations will happen in this country during the present year; [...]
ref: 1690, John Partridge, Merlinus liberatus, page 43:
text: But whereas the plane of the lunar orbit, which is always inclined to the plane of the ecliptic in an angle of about 5 degrees, never continues in a constant position [...]
ref: 1755, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, page 389:
text: With these preliminary explanations, the reader will be prepared for the discussion of the relation of the eccentricity of the lunar orbit to its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic.
ref: 1855, Samuel Elliott Coues, Arithmetical Calculations of the Elements of the Orbit of the Moon:
text: The lunar orbit and the solar orbit do not coincide, but intersect each other at an angle of 5°8'48". The place where the lunar orbit intersects the solar orbit is called the "Lunar Node."
ref: 1865, Alexander Hamilton Howe, A Theoretical inquiry into the physical cause of epidemic diseases:
text: If the lunar orbit is assumed circular, then the rotation rate and the earth-moon distance are constant [...]
ref: 1967, D. L. Mootchnik, J. Kork, Lunar Orbit Mission Analysis:
glosses: The orbit of the Moon around the Earth.
glosses: The orbit of an object around the Moon.
lunar orbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunar orbit
mammering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From mammer + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mammer
mammering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mammering
form: most mammering
Etymology: From mammer + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This doctrine doth abolish quite the doctrine of the law, of repentaunce,..and commaundeth a mammering doubtfulnesse.
ref: 1581, J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe, Against Jerome Osorius 358
glosses: Hesitating; hesitant; wavering.
mimmering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mimmering
form: most mimmering
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly an alteration of mammering; or a derivation from earlier unrecorded *mimmer, from Middle Dutch mimmeren, mīmeren ("to ponder"; > Modern Dutch mijmeren (“to ponder, muse”)); or perhaps representing a continuation of Old English mymerian, mimorian (“to remember, commemorate”). See also mammer, mimmerkin.
Senses: examples: text: A half-brain'd loon! A mimmering driveller!
ref: 1827, G. Darley, Sylvia 64:
glosses: Doting; dreaming; mammering.
mimmerkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mimmerkins
form: mymmerkin
form: memmerkin
form: mymerken
form: mymmerkyn
form: memmerkyn
Etymology: From mimmer + -kin. Cognate with Scots mimmerkin, memmerkin (“a dwarf, dwarfish creature”). Compare also mimmering (“doting, dreaming”).
Senses: examples: text: 'So it's your problem, no mine, if the wee mimmerkin's run,' he added, wiping his hand on his jerkin. 'Get a move on, man, Iw ant to get a hold of Bernard Stewart before he takes refuge the wrong side of that wall.'
ref: 2014 February 14, Pat McIntosh, The Gil Cunningham Omnibus: The Harper's Quine, The Nicholas Feast, The Merchants's Mark, St. Mungo's Robin, C & R Crime, →ISBN:
text: 'A mimmerkin. A dwarf.' 'I am not a dwarf.' Maude Benet had been stern. Sometimes even sharp. But she had not called folk names. Elspet had telt him, as Maude would have done. And he had laughed at her.
ref: 2016 November 3, Shirley McKay, 1588: A Calendar of Crime: A Novel in Five Books, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:
glosses: A deformed or freakish person; a dwarf or dwarfish creature.
Synonyms: sense: dotard
word: dobby
word: dotel
word: dotard
Scooter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male nickname.
roulette wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roulette wheel
mimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mimmers
form: mimmering
form: mimmered
form: mimmered
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from an alteration of mammer; or from Middle Dutch mimmeren, mīmeren (“to ponder”); or from Old English mymerian, mimorian (“to keep in mind, remember”). See also mammer. Compare also Saterland Frisian miemerje (“to ponder sadly, think deeply”), Danish mimre and Norwegian mimre (“to reminisce”).
Senses: examples: text: A mimmering driveller! — Shove him without! He's not worth torments.
ref: 1892, George Darley, Sylvia: or, The May queen, a lyrical drama - Page 81:
text: One many rainbow all ways beginning To bring the mimmered underside Where may a new colour unravel the story In ever changing labyrinths [...]
ref: 2007, Andreas Diesel, Dieter Gerten, Looking for Europe:
glosses: To dote; dream; mammer.
Derived terms: mimmering
mimmerkin
Related terms: mammer
mimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mimmers
Etymology: Variation of mummer.
Senses: examples: text: Plays performed by troupes of medieval traveling players, or occasionally by a few daring townsfolk, were known as mummers' plays, and those who performed them were alternately known as mummers or mimmers.
ref: 2011, Daniel Diehl, Mark P Donnelly, Medieval Celebrations:
glosses: Alternative form of mummer.
Bratslav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
half-broken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more half-broken
form: most half-broken
Etymology: From Middle English *half-broken, from Old English healfbrocen (“half-broken”), equivalent to half- + broken. Compare Dutch half gebroken (“half-broken”).
Senses: glosses: Halfway or partially broken; somewhat broken.
solar energetic particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar energetic particles
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A high-energy particle coming from the Sun.
Srebrenicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Srebrenica
pochteca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pochtecatl
hallowly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hallowly
form: most hallowly
Etymology: Apparently a corruption of hallowedly, equivalent to hallow + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I looked up—the stars were dimly shining about my head, and the coldness of the wind, which "blew hallowly by," quickly reminded me-that I was in the open air!
ref: 1822, The Literary melange; or, Weekly register of literature and the arts - Page 212
text: But if it were not so, if I could find No love in all this world for comforting, Nor any path but hallowly did ring, Where 'dust to dust,' the love from life disjoined; [...]
ref: 1859, Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey, The Mother's magazine:
text: By thee unhallowed, the loud acclamation Of the vain world but peals discordantly; The tongue of fame, the poet's adulation, Fall on the untuned heart, all hallowly; As wind o'er unstrung lyres makes wild vibration, [...]
ref: 1863, John Francis Waller, Poems - Page 183, published 1837:
text: "Yes," he said hallowly. "Yes, I'll rest a little while."
ref: 1979, The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction, volume 58, numbers 1-3, page 89:
text: "[...] The phrase has become worse than hallowly archaic; moderns find it downright offensive."
ref: 1992, James Hugh Toner, The Sword and the Cross:
text: [...] we live side by side i too, am struggling to find myself i am too far away. duplicated hours unreel and blonk hallowly / days, abysmally conceived.
ref: 2003, Alan Finaly, Siphiwe Ka Ngwenya, Insight: six South African poets - Page 92:
glosses: In a sacred, hallowed, or solemn manner; solemnly; sacredly.
Related terms: hallowedly
hallowedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hallowedly
form: most hallowedly
Etymology: From hallowed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So hallowedly have ye fulfilled your part, My pride repudiates ev'n the sigh that blends With Poland's name — name written on my heart.
ref: 1837, Thomas Campbell, The poetical works of Thomas Campbell - Page 230:
text: At first, during regeneration in spirit, it finds its way to an enchanted wood, and then, arriving at integration, it breaks into the open and discovers a hallowedly resplendent world.
ref: 1994, Michael Washburn, Transpersonal Psych in Psyc - Page 301:
text: The Ground of Being begins to take on the sense, in Washburn's beautiful phrase, of the self's own "hallowedly resplendent home."
ref: 2000, Kathleen D. Singh, Grace in Dying:
text: She shall be with me, sweetly and hallowedly, for the time it takes for me to fill these pots.
ref: 2006, Carol Desjarlais, Shhhhhh: A Creation Story - Page 246:
glosses: In a hallowed, sacred, or solemn manner; sacredly; solemnly.
Related terms: hallowly
skinter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of skint: more skint
skintness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From skint + -ness .
Senses: glosses: The quality of being skint (i.e., without money, penniless, poor, impecunious, broke).
Elazar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.əˌzɑ(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: A male given name: alternative form of Eliezer.
fair cop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fair cops
Etymology: Compound of fair (“just, correct”) + cop (“capture, arrest”). Attested from the late 19th century. The cop portion is originally from Northern England and is perhaps from a regional pronunciation of the now obsolete verb cap (“to capture; to seize”). Compare Scots cap (“seize, take by force”), kep (“catch”).
Senses: examples: text: Several other witnesses gave corroborative evidence, and a constable who helped to arrest the prisoners stated that one of them, on being taken into custody, said: “Ah, well, this is a fair cop.”
ref: 1891, Montagu Stephen Williams, Later Leaves: Being the Further Reminiscences of Montagu Williams, Q. C., Macmillan and Co.:
text: ‘A fair cop,’ murmured Ladd feebly. ‘I give in, mister; it’s a fair cop.’
ref: 1900, William Pett Ridge, A Breaker of Laws, Harper & Brothers:
text: hector. No, by thunder! It was not a fair cop. We were four to one.
ref: 1919, George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets of the War, Brentano's:
text: Inspector: I shall have to ask you to accompany me to the station.
Mr. Hilton: It’s a fair cop.
ref: 1969 November 23, “Crunchy Frog”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, season 1, episode 6:
text: Okay, it’s a fair cop. Claire’s not a Bible scholar, and neither am I. It wasn’t Gideon, it was Jephthah (Judges 12).
ref: 1999, Diana Gabaldon, The Outlandish Companion, Delacorte Press:
text: The chap opposite seems to be trying to pull a fast one, and having seen the guard is trying to buy a ticket online... but doesn't succeed. The guard helpfully sells him one, but not quite at the price of one purchased in advance. In fairness he doesn't kick off, nor does the guard treat him like some common criminal. It's a fair cop - or should that be a fare cop?
ref: 2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 57:
glosses: A justifiable or reasonable capture or apprehension; also, broadly, a just or inescapable accusation.
Related terms: bang to rights
abstinence of war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbstɪnɪns əv ˈwɔɹ/
Forms: form: abstinences of war
Senses: glosses: A truce.
necroed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of necro
necros
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of necro
necros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necro
necroes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of necro
necroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necros
Senses: glosses: plural of necro
necroing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of necro
Abstinent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.stɪ.nn̩t/
ipa: /ˈæb.stə.nn̩t/
Forms: form: Abstinents
Etymology: From Middle English abstinent (adjective form).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: One of a Christian sect that appeared in France and Spain in the 3rd century, and practised abstinence from meat and sex.
Abstinents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abstinent
abstr.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of abstract.
glosses: Abbreviation of abstracted.
trumeau mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trumeau mirrors
Etymology: From French trumeau (“pillar between large windows or other openings; wood panel or mirror covering such pillar; mirror placed above a fireplace”).
Senses: glosses: A wall mirror set in a decorative frame that often features a painted or carved panel under or above the mirror.
Related terms: pier glass
abstinences of war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstinence of war
abstract expressionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Abstract Expressionism.
Big Macs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Big Mac
abstract expressionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbˌstɹækt ɪkˈspɹɜʃ.n̩ˌɪst/
ipa: /ˈæbˌstɹækt ɪkˈspɹɜʃ.n̩ˌɪst/
Forms: form: abstract expressionists
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An artist who works within the genre of Abstract Expressionism.
abstract expressionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstract expressionist
conscion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conscions
form: conscioning
form: conscioned
form: conscioned
Etymology: Some modern uses may be back-formations from conscionable.
Senses: examples: text: And the Popes of those Times were not so nice conscioned to deny Princes such Requests, but were easily wonne thereunto either by Favor or Rewards :
ref: 1750, A collection of scarce and valuable tracts, volume 5, page 256:
text: For which reason the very zealous, tender-conscioned reformers of those times thought fit to turn him out of his benefice (which was his freehold), contrary to all law and justice;
ref: 1899, Frederic Jesup Stimson, King Noanett: a story of old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay, page 30:
glosses: To have a (specified kind of) conscience.
examples: text: Callie found herself the slightest bit irate. Her father had been so eager for her to wed a nobleman, but here he was conscioning Zeus' s dalliance with a tavern-wench!
ref: 1997, Mallory Burgess, Beloved Heart, →ISBN, page 118:
text: That he conscioned when he deeded the lands known as the Camp Ground Tract to the Trustees it was for the use, benefit and behoof of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and these trustees were controlled in their management […]
ref: 2007, Dale Wiley, There Is a Fountain: Voices and Stories, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: To find conscionable.
Twelfth Nights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Twelfth Night.
Gregorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gregorian
Winch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Winches
Etymology: Various origins:
* A topographic surname for someone who lived at a place where boats were hauled up onto the land by means of pulleys, from Old English winċe (“winch”).
* From the second part of Old English hlēapewince (“lapwing”), probably a nickname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Related terms: East Winch
West Winch
B'wood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Bollywood.
Sindhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu).
Senses: glosses: The Indus river
glosses: an ancient kingdom on the Indian subcontinent
Related terms: Sindh
Sindhi
clavicularium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləˌvɪk.jʊˈlɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /klæˌvɪk.jəˈlɛɹi.əm/
ipa: /kləˌ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: clavicularia
Senses: glosses: An epiplastron of turtles that takes the place of a clavicle
taphonomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taphonomy
monoxyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoxyle
well-stomached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-stomached
form: most well-stomached
Senses: examples: text: Ellison himself began to get well-stomached, and he had a red face, big and sappy, and eyes like a cat [...].
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16:
glosses: Somewhat fat.
capade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capades
Etymology: From Ice Capades, a skating entertainment show, the name of which is a pun on escapade.
Senses: examples: text: A feature of "Horse-capades" will be the appearance of horses and chariots used in the Academy award winning motion picture "Ben-Hur."
ref: 1960 May 22, “Chariots of 'Ben-Hur' in Medinah's 'Horsecapades'”, in Chicago Tribune:
text: Al Neuharth, the founder of USA Today, who has crisscrossed the world as a "special correspondent" on his BusCapade and JetCapade
ref: 1988 December 12, New York Magazine, volume 21, number 49, page 14:
text: Walt Disney announced that it was recalling 3.4 million copies of the newly remastered video version of The Rescuers, its 1977 animated mice-capade.
ref: 1999 January 22, “Mouse Droppings”, in Entertainment Weekly:
text: In September 1951, two Catskills—style comedy shows, Bagels and Yox and Mickey Katz's Borscht Capades opened on Broadway.
ref: 2013, Mark Cohen, Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman:
glosses: An exhibition or event, usually for entertainment.
raw_tags: in proper nouns
examples: text: I've wondered what happened when the little boy ran home and told his mom about his lunch-capade.
ref: 2006, Patsy Clairmont, B. J. Thomas, Jerry B. Jenkins, All Cracked Up, page 56:
text: And you don't think it's inconsistent for the leader of a religion to indulge in sexcapades with porn stars and watch pornographic films in his spare time?
ref: 2010, Robert Morrow, Ringing True, page 307:
text: Years later Mom found out about our childhood bike-capades. She just shook her head.
ref: 2012, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Gift of Christmas:
glosses: An adventure.
Derived terms: sexcapade