cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
preggo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A clipping of pregnant + -o (“diminutive suffix”). First use appears c. 1951 in the novel Come In Spinner. See citations page.
Senses: examples: text: “[…]how interesting is it to read that one out of every four Australian girls is slightly preggo before her wedding night? More American influences no doubt.”
ref: 1967, Harry Roskolenko, The Terrorized, Prentice-Hall, page 57:
text: 1998, Suzanne Brockmann, Everyday, Average Jones, Silhouette Intimate Moments, US, page 67,
“Actually, being careless got me... preggo. And to tell you the truth,″ Melody said seriously, “not using a condom could' ve gotten me far more than just pregnant. […] ”
text: Third test today, mama bear. Your eggo’s preggo, no doubt about it.
ref: 2007, Diablo Cody, Juno, spoken by Rollo (Rainn Wilson):
text: 2010, Dana Wood, Momover: The New Mom's Guide to Getting It Back Together, Adams Media, US, page 5,
And if you were a little panicky while preggo, I urge you to cut yourself some slack, too.
text: 2010, Hilary Smith, Welcome to the Jungle: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bipolar But Were Too Freaked Out to Ask, Red Wheel/Weiser LLC, US, page 193,
You automatically qualify for Medicaid if you′re preggo and poor. Just saying.
text: Radiating in a preggo glow, Howard tells us, "I feel privileged to be pregnant, and I'm gonna be honest, I'm a little nauseous."
ref: 2011 August 1, Bruna Nessif, “Bryce Dallas Howard Opens Up About Her 'Postpartum Denial'”, in E Online:
text: For more usage examples of this term, see the citations page.
glosses: Pregnant.
preggo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preggos
Etymology: A clipping of pregnant + -o (“diminutive suffix”). First use appears c. 1951 in the novel Come In Spinner. See citations page.
Senses: examples: text: Michael Stivic: Come on, Gloria. No one, no one, is going to deny you your constitutional rights.
ref: 1975 October 27, Larry Rhine & Mel Tolkin, "Mike Faces Life", episode 6-7 of All in the Family, 00:20:32-00:20:44
roman: Gloria Stivic: Power to the preggos!
text: So we had a nice rainbow coalition of preggos and their mates — even one lesbian couple.
ref: 2007, Philip Lerman, Dadditude: How a Real Man Became a Real Dad, page 56:
text: 2009, Joel Grus, Your Religion Is False, Brightwalton LLC, US, page 105,
Accordingly, they tend to send their gay children off to “conversion therapy” (involving techniques ranging from clitoridectomy to shame) and their pregnant children off to single-sex maternity homes (which are full of all sorts of oddly-titillating preggo-on-preggo action, according to the videos on a website I accidentally stumbled across several times).
text: 2009, Rebeca Seitz, Scrapping Plans, B&H Publishing, US, page 306,
“You bet!” Clay trots back into the diner, reappearing a moment later with a chair. “Here ya go, preggo.”
text: For more usage examples of this term, see the citations page.
glosses: A pregnant female.
firless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: furless
Etymology: From fir + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The Great Desert of Africa of course puts a limit to its wanderings, and the firless plains of Egypt equally discourage its approach.
ref: 1882, William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders, A history of British birds:
text: Artists and others who have grown up in firless countries can have no idea of the true grandeur and beauty of a real forest...
ref: 1890, Henry Theophilus Finck, The Pacific Coast Scenic Tour:
glosses: Without fir trees.
foundationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From foundation + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without foundation; unfounded.
Derived terms: foundationlessness
sweet cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet creams
Etymology: From sweet + cream, by analogy with the contrasting sour cream.
Senses: glosses: Cream: the oily part of milk that rises to the top.
pantalons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantalon
Mickey Bliss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: mickey
glosses: piss (act of urination)
lactivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of lactation + activism
Senses: glosses: The advocacy of breastfeeding, and especially of the right to nurse children in public.
Derived terms: lactivist
lactivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactivists
Etymology: From lactivism + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of breastfeeding, and especially of the right to nurse children in public; one who engages in lactivism.
Hyponyms: word: lactonazi
lactivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactivist
ecodevelopment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecodevelopments
Etymology: From eco- + development.
Senses: glosses: development of real estate that takes environmental factors into account
Related terms: ecodevelopmental
ecodevelopments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecodevelopment
ecotecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of eco- + architecture
Senses: glosses: Architecture of an environmentally-friendly kind.
resiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resile
browseable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more browseable
form: most browseable
Etymology: From browse + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of browsable.
Related terms: browseability
unban
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbans
form: unbanning
form: unbanned
form: unbanned
Etymology: From un- + ban.
Senses: examples: text: De Klerk was not acting totally unilaterally and independently when he announced the decision to unban previously banned parties like the ANC […]
ref: 2000, Julian Kunnie, Is apartheid really dead?:
text: ChanServ can unban you from your channel when someone has banned you […]
ref: 2004, Paul Mutton, IRC Hacks:
text: Over three and a half decades, "Deep Throat" has been damned by religious groups, decried by feminists, defended by First Amendment advocates, derided by critics and debated by social scientists. It dragged for years through local and federal courts around the country in a welter of obscenity trials in which it was variously banned, unbanned and rebanned.
ref: 2008 October 29, Margalit Fox, “Damiano, 80, directed 'Deep Throat'”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To lift a ban against.
unban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unbans
Etymology: From un- + ban.
Senses: examples: text: As a matter of fact, I have unbanned you several times, and let an unban that I did not agree with stand.
ref: 1998 May 2, JMarino516, “Necromancy”, in alt.religion.christian.calvary-chapel (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025:
text: I'm not asking for an unban..even when that would happen I wouldn't enter...I dont feel the need to after the hostile approach of my being there.
ref: 1998 November 24, paladijn, “Beware of possible PK'r in Justus”, in alt.games.diablo (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025:
text: I'm not asking necessarily for an unban on myself, just a peek into your common sense and an unban on saravo connecting from nether.
ref: 2000 December 1, DOSIUS, “[RANT] #rgvac”, in rec.games.video.arcade.collecting (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025:
synonyms: unbanning
glosses: The removal of a ban.
unbans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unban
unbans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unban
unbanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unban
unbanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unbannings
Senses: examples: text: While the liberalisation of politics took place inter alia through the unbanning of the liberation movements, the securocratic mindset that had been intentionally developed and honed since 1972 plus the implementation of the State Security Council (SSC) remained intact.
ref: 1998, Carl Schutte, The Hidden hand: covert operations in South Africa, page 145:
synonyms: unban
glosses: The removal of a ban.
unbanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unban
unbannable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bannable.
Senses: glosses: Not bannable; that cannot be banned.
bannable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ban + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be, or is liable to be, banned.
examples: a bannable offence
glosses: For which one may be banned.
Derived terms: unbannable
unblanchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unblanching + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unblanching way; without blanching.
Synonyms: blanchingly
untrembling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + trembling.
Senses: glosses: Not trembling; staunch, unafraid.
Derived terms: untremblingly
kittenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kittenlike
form: most kittenlike
Etymology: From kitten + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a kitten.
Synonyms: kittenish
Related terms: catlike
hypertelorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypertelorisms
Etymology: From hyperteloric + -ism.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormally increased distance between two organs or body parts, usually the eyes.
Derived terms: pseudohypertelorism
Related terms: hypotelorism
hypertelorisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypertelorism
lentigo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛnˈtaɪɡoʊ/
ipa: /lɛnˈtaɪɡəʊ/
Forms: form: lentigos
form: lentigines
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo. Earliest attestation as Late Middle English lentigines (plural).
Senses: examples: text: […] too much lentigo camouflaged her rosy rustic features […]
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, The Olympia Press:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A brown pigmented spot on the skin.
Hyponyms: freckle
Related terms: lentiginous
lentiginose
lentigos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lentigo
lentigines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lentigo
Derived terms: lentiginosis
piebaldism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From piebald + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare autosomal dominant disorder of melanocyte development, whose common characteristics include a congenital white forelock, scattered normally-pigmented and hyperpigmented macules, and a triangular depigmented patch on the forehead.
bicornuate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bicornuate
form: most bicornuate
Etymology: From bi- + cornuate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Resembling a pair of horns, as a malformed uterus may.
hypospadias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhʌɪ.pəʊˈspeɪ.di.əs/
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pəˈspeɪ.di.əs/
rhymes: -eɪdiəs
Forms: form: hypospadiases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑποσπαδίᾱς (hupospadíās, “one who has the orifice of the urethra too low”).
Senses: examples: text: This condition, hypospadias, may be examined ad stuporem in the hundreds of photographs of Hugh Hampton Young's pioneering text, Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism, and Related Adrenal Diseases (1937).
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
text: At the same time, they corrected Jack’s hypospadias, a condition that meant his urethra opened at the base of his penis, moving it further up so he could pee more like a boy.
ref: 2016 July 2, Jenny Kleeman, The Guardian:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A congenital condition in males in which the opening of the urethra is on the underside of the penis.
Derived terms: hypospadiology
cublike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cublike
form: most cublike
Etymology: From cub + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cub.
facelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more facelike
form: most facelike
Etymology: From face + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Astronomers have found facelike features on the Moon.
text: If there is a heaven up there, Carl Sagan will be in his element on November 30, when Venus, Jupiter, and the moon align in a facelike formation. Gaze skyward to appreciate this rare triple feature of the brightest planets with a wry grin from the moon.
ref: 2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:
glosses: Resembling a face.
eyelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eyelike
form: most eyelike
Etymology: From eye + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Peacocks have eyelike spots on their tail feathers.
glosses: Resembling an eye.
wormless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From worm + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without worms.
Derived terms: wormlessness
historied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more historied
form: most historied
Etymology: From history + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having much history.
Synonyms: storied
historied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From history + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of history
to the manner born
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: to the manor born
Etymology: Coined by William Shakespeare in 1603 in Hamlet, act 1, scene 4:
: But to my mind, though I am native here
: And to the manner born, it is a custom
: More honored in the breach than the observance.
Senses: examples: text: This [...] involved not only wearing certain clothes as if to the manner born, but being familiar with the gestures and the style of conversation associated with such clothes.
ref: 1977, Gāmini Salgādo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society, published 2006, page 16:
text: Stephen Ward, a winger converted to emergency left-back two months ago, now looks to the manner born.
ref: 2008 November 10, Jeremy Alexander, The Guardian:
glosses: Familiar or adapted as if from birth with a specified custom, behavior, accouterment, etc.; naturally suited to it.
Related terms: more honored in the breach
cri du chat syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French cri du chat (“cry of the cat; cat's cry”). First described and coined by French pediatrician and geneticist Jérôme Lejeune in 1963.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: cri du chat
glosses: A rare genetic disorder identified by the catlike cry of the infant, caused by an absence of some genetic material on the fifth chromosome.
historyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more historyless
form: most historyless
Etymology: From history + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking history.
Synonyms: unhistoried
Derived terms: historylessness
matriarchally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more matriarchally
form: most matriarchally
Etymology: From matriarchal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a matriarchal way.
Synonyms: matriarchically
mentalité
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛntalɪˈteɪ/
Forms: form: mentalités
Etymology: Borrowed from French mentalité. Doublet of mentality.
Senses: examples: text: Yet changing a traditional economic mentalité was an uphill task and, significantly, Law never fully disenchanted even his most intimate supporters (and maybe even himself) with customary forms of wealth [...].
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 67:
text: David Thomson's objectives in this big, ambitious book are nothing short of Promethean, for he aims to deliver both a comprehensive history of the movies and a Marshall McLuhan-style examination of the mentalités produced by watching films and television.
ref: 2012, Frank McLynn, “What's Your Take?”, in Literary Review, section 404:
glosses: A person's feelings about the wider society and world they live in, and their place within it; a worldview, outlook.
mentalités
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mentalité
jibber-jabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɪbə(ɹ)ˌdʒæbə(ɹ)/
Etymology: A reduplicative form of jabber.
Senses: examples: text: And I would ask counsel to check his sense of humor at the door. My courtroom is a temple of decorum, and I do not tolerate jibber-jabber.
ref: 2006 March 14, “Stick It”, in Boston Legal, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Judge Sanders (Shelley Berman):
text: Douglas: Well done on passing the test, Jen... Yes, all those clumsy attempts at seduction. Don't tell me you couldn't see through them. They were a test to find out whether you really wanted to work for me or whether you just wanted to come up here for my body.
Jen: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, not at all.
Douglas: All right.
Jen: No, physically you're just not the sort of man I go for.
Douglas: Yeah, thanks, Jen.
Jen: I go for the classically good-looking men: Blond, broad, and generally clean shaven.
Douglas: Alright, yeah, enough of the jibber-jabber!
ref: 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
text: Booth: Guys, listen, I'm going to need some science jibber-jabber to distract these guys.
Brennan: Oh, you know who can do jibber-jabber?
[...]
Brennan: Because you have forbidden us from taking samples in order to estimate the osteoconductivity of the oblique taphonomic remodeling pertaining to the midsagittal plane, encephalometric transaction — or translation, if you will — of the intramatrix can be deduced by correlating the force-displacement values with the osteogenic and geogenic hydrogel nanocomposite we placed inside the surrogate.
ref: 2010 January 21, “The Proof in the Pudding” (27:40), in Bones, season 5, episode 12, spoken by Special Agent Seeley Booth and Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel):
text: “Laszlo!” (muffled scream) “Woops.” “Prick was getting on my nerves with his jibber-jabber. We'll drain him later.”
ref: 2022 August 9, Ayo Edebiri & Shana Gohd, “Private School” (17:23 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
synonyms: blather
jabber
gibberish
gibble-gabble
glosses: Excessive or meaningless talk.
jibber-jabber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɪbə(ɹ)ˌdʒæbə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: jibber-jabbers
form: jibber-jabbering
form: jibber-jabbered
form: jibber-jabbered
Etymology: A reduplicative form of jabber.
Senses: examples: text: Is my mind goin' on me or am I watching you jibber-jabber like some sort of jibberty box. Jibber-jabber on! Jibber-jabber on!
ref: 2005 October 23, “Take This Job and Love It” (9:21), in Squidbillies, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Early Cuyler (Unknown Hinson):
glosses: To talk excessively or meaninglessly.
upholden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: up- + holden
Senses: examples: text: Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
ref: 1611, Authorized King James Version, Job 4:4:
text: For these wretches would be necessitated then to betake themselves to some honest livelihood, if they were not fed and upholden, by these.
ref: 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, Proposition XV, §. VIII.:
glosses: past participle of uphold
babealicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more babealicious
form: most babealicious
form: babelicious
Etymology: From babe + -licious.
Senses: examples: text: "So much for my big after-the-shoot plans with Nikos," Phoebe said morosely, poking at her honey's babealicious but inert body.
ref: 2001, Elizabeth Lenhard, Constance M Burge, Soul of the Bride:
text: I look back at the babealicious guy and he's smiling at me, giving me a knowing nod.
ref: 2004, Carrie Gerlach, Carrie Cecil, Emily's reasons why not:
text: But the best proof of the pleasing side of his personality was how he smiled and talked his way into the arms of a babealicious TWA flight attendant...
ref: 2005, Curt Sampson, The Lost Masters: grace and disgrace in '68:
text: […] an international scouting trip to find babealicious racks for the SI swimsuit issue […]
ref: 2007, David Steinberg, The Book of David:
glosses: Sexually attractive, like a babe.
Synonyms: foxy
sexy
philologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philologer
budgetarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From budgetary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With regard to budgets.
godlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more godlessly
form: most godlessly
Etymology: From godless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a godless way.
verbless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From verb + -less.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Without a verb.
repaginate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repaginates
form: repaginating
form: repaginated
form: repaginated
Etymology: From re- + paginate.
Senses: glosses: To paginate again or in a different way.
Derived terms: repagination
repaginates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repaginate
repaginating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repaginate
repaginated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repaginate
gluily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gluily
form: most gluily
form: glueyly
Etymology: From gluey + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gluey manner.
tricklingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tricklingly
form: most tricklingly
Etymology: From trickling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a trickling way.
weepingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more weepingly
form: most weepingly
Etymology: From weeping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Only look up, as they did that were wounded, weepingly, wishingly, pitifully, cravingly; see and sigh, look upon him whom you have pierced […]
ref: 1841, Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey, Course of Lectures on the Scripture Types, page 305:
glosses: In a weeping manner.
unsmilingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unsmiling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unsmiling way.
pearlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pearlike
form: most pearlike
Etymology: From pear + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pear.
Synonyms: peary
pearlised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pearlized.
meatlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meatlike
form: most meatlike
Etymology: From meat + -like.
Senses: examples: text: ...one reads between the lines the disappointment of some who report new compounds and note that they do not have a meatlike aroma.
ref: 1986, C O Chichester, E M Mrak, B S Schweigert, Advances in Food Research:
glosses: Resembling meat or some aspect of it.
Synonyms: meaty
sacrality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacralities
Etymology: From sacral + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: An oath may be defined as either a statement of fact or a promise taken by a sacrality as a sign of verity.
glosses: The property of being sacral; sacredness.
sacralities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacrality
mixte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːkst/
rhymes: -iːkst
Forms: form: mixtes
Etymology: Borrowed from French mixte.
Senses: glosses: A kind of bicycle frame where the top tube of the traditional diamond frame is replaced with a pair of smaller lateral tubes running from the top of the head tube all the way back to the rear axle, connecting at the seat tube on the way.
sarkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sarkily
form: most sarkily
Etymology: From sarky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sarky manner; sarcastically.
mixtes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixte
reknit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: reknits
form: reknitting
form: reknit
form: reknit
form: reknitted
form: reknitted
Etymology: From re- + knit.
Senses: examples: text: It was at once strange and familiar to see the chickens in the kitchen; and, wishing to re-knit himself to the old habits, he begged of Mrs. Scully not to drive them out, saying he did not mind them.
ref: 1903, George Moore, “Home Sickness”, in The Untilled Field, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 158:
text: Bright-beady of eye, bony of cheek and jaw, scarred, toughened, broken and reknit, indestructible, grisly, gladiatorial as a hornet, he was a type neither new nor unfamiliar.
ref: 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 173, columns 1–2:
text: “At home, I found the wine is often bottle shocked and better to drink the next day after opening.” Or kept in the cellar for a month or two to let it settle and reknit.
ref: 2009 January 24, Gord Stimmell, “Fuzion frenzy uncorked”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: To knit again.
lithographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithography
reknitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reknit
reknitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reknittings
Senses: glosses: The act of knitting something back together.
reknitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reknit
reknits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reknit
rearticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊleɪt
Forms: form: rearticulates
form: rearticulating
form: rearticulated
form: rearticulated
Etymology: From re- + articulate.
Senses: examples: text: Can such a child be ennobled by the passage of time, his struggles granted retroactive gravitas and his childish confusions rearticulated with adult clarity?
ref: 2007 April 15, Liesl Schillinger, “The Night Train to Bucharest”, in New York Times:
glosses: To articulate again
Related terms: rearticulation
constatation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constatations
Etymology: From French constatation.
Senses: glosses: The process of verification.
examples: text: In Q₂, he marks his departure from alternative constatation of fact (“Either love has put eyes in my head that have not true sight, or they see truly, but my judgment is amiss”) to social speculation by avoiding the see of visual perception in favor of the words eyes dote and love's eye, which clearly denote not simple perception but biased judgement.
ref: 1997, Helen H. Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, page 626:
text: From that constatation which is similar to the constatation that the human rights system expresses the views of the dominant group, Kymlicka concludes the need for cultural accommodation.
ref: 2001, Eva Brems, Human Rights: Universality and Diversity, page 334:
text: To ascertain those conventions, it is important to see how some of the tensions between natural law and positive law (between constatation and declaration) manifest themselves textually.
ref: 2007, Joseph Slaughter, Human Rights, Inc: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law, page 65:
glosses: An assertion; a proposition assumed for the sake of argument, an axiom.
Synonyms: word: constation
rearticulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rearticulate
rearticulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rearticulate
rearticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rearticulate
constatations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constatation
anticensorship
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticensorship
form: most anticensorship
Etymology: From anti- + censorship.
Senses: examples: text: The war between parents and children over control of the Internet is mirrored in the technological world’s battles over filters and monitoring software; there are anticensorship Web sites like peacefire.org that show how to circumvent blocking software.
ref: 2007 April 14, Alina Tugend, “Tools to Keep the Web Safe for Children”, in New York Times:
glosses: Acting against or opposed to censorship.
charism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charisms
form: charismata
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek χάρισμα (khárisma, “grace”). Doublet of charisma.
Senses: examples: text: Reviewing the prudential warnings and moral qualms issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, “it is hard not to conclude,” the editors write, “that the bishops’ charism, rather than the president’s, has better served the nation.”
ref: 2007 April 14, Peter Steinfels, “A Catholic Debate Mounts on the Meaning of ‘Just War’”, in New York Times:
text: The Roman Catholic Church has as its named charism the unity of a truly catholic gathered people. Unfortunately, that very ethos is challenged by division and factionalism that could put protestants to shame.
ref: 2024 January 11, Kelvin Holdsworth, “What’s really happening to the churches in Scotland”, in Thurible.net:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
synonyms: charisma
glosses: A power or authority, generally of a spiritual nature, believed to be a freely given gift by the Grace of God.
Related terms: Holy Ghost
Holy Spirit
laying on of hands
charismata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charism
glosses: plural of charisma
tetraiodothyronine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraiodothyronines
Etymology: From tetra- + iodo- + thyronine.
Senses: glosses: Thyroxine: a hormone produced by the thyroid gland.
Synonyms: sense: hormone
word: thyroxine
sense: hormone
word: T4
flashless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flash + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not fitted with a flash.
raw_tags: of a camera
glosses: Not generating a flash of light when fired.
raw_tags: of ammunition
Derived terms: flashlessly
flashlessness
pressure groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressure group
stumblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stumblingly
form: most stumblingly
Etymology: From stumbling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stumbling way; unsteadily, haltingly.
parrot snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parrot snakes
Senses: glosses: Leptophis ahaetulla, a snake found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago.
Synonyms: lora
beerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beerlike
form: most beerlike
Etymology: From beer + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling beer or some aspect of it.
textlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more textlike
form: most textlike
Etymology: From text + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling text.
snowlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snowlike
form: most snowlike
Etymology: From snow + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling snow.
rainlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rainlike
form: most rainlike
Etymology: From rain + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling rain.
traplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more traplike
form: most traplike
Etymology: From trap + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a trap.
rejet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rejets
form: rejetting
form: rejetted
form: rejetted
Etymology: From re- + jet.
Senses: examples: text: As a general rule the four-hole spacer helps torque while the one-hole spacer helps top end. You may have to rejet the carburetor before any gain from the spacer is found, whether it is a one-hole or a four-hole.
ref: 1989, Larry Shepard, How to Hot Rod Small-block Mopar Engines, page 140:
glosses: To change the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to replace or adjust a carburetor jet.
winelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more winelike
form: most winelike
Etymology: From wine + -like.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: vinous, vinaceous, wine-blue, wine-dark, winy
glosses: Resembling wine.
Related terms: vinelike
viny
windowlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more windowlike
form: most windowlike
Etymology: From window + -like.
Senses: examples: text: There was a series of windowlike slits in the castle wall.
glosses: Resembling a window (an opening in the wall).
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Resembling a window (a rectangular area displaying the output of a program).
voicelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more voicelike
form: most voicelike
Etymology: From voice + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The synthesiser produced an eerie, voicelike sound.
text: It's got so I don't even know for sure
Whether I am glad, sorry, or anything.
There's nothing but a voice-like left inside
That seems to tell me how I ought to feel,
And would feel if I wasn't all gone wrong.
You take the lake.I look and look at it.[…]
ref: 2015 August 18, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: Resembling a voice.
swishingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swishingly
form: most swishingly
Etymology: From swishing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a swishing way; with a swishing sound or motion.
swashbucklingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swashbucklingly
form: most swashbucklingly
Etymology: From swashbuckling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a swashbuckling way; adventurously, excitingly.
wasplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wasplike
form: most wasplike
Etymology: From wasp + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a wasp.
doorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doorlike
form: most doorlike
Etymology: From door + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a door.
rejets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rejet
urnlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more urnlike
form: most urnlike
Etymology: From urn + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling an urn.
jarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jarlike
form: most jarlike
Etymology: From jar + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a jar.
potlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more potlike
form: most potlike
Etymology: From pot + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a pot.
matériels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matériel
formlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more formlike
form: most formlike
Etymology: From form + -like. Cognate with German förmlich (“formal, official”).
Senses: examples: text: Terse, snappy, forceful letters should be used, rather than long, verbose, repetitive, unimpressive, formlike letters.
ref: 1919, Charles Albert Meyer, Mercantile Credits and Collections:
glosses: Resembling a form (document to be filled in).
tablelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tablelike
form: most tablelike
Etymology: From table + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a table (furniture).
unrefreshed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrefreshed
form: most unrefreshed
Etymology: From un- + refreshed.
Senses: glosses: Not refreshed.
unweary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unweary
form: most unweary
Etymology: From un- + weary.
Senses: synonyms: unwearied
glosses: Not weary.
unweary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwearies
form: unwearying
form: unwearied
form: unwearied
Etymology: From un- + weary.
Senses: glosses: To refresh (a person) after weariness.
bimboesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bimboesque
form: most bimboesque
Etymology: From bimbo + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Kite's bimboesque daughter (Liz Fraser) is totally bemused by her dad's monomaniacal obsession with politics...
ref: 1999, Larry Elliott, Dan Atkinson, The Age of Insecurity:
text: Of course, your Gemini will be much more stable, and less bimboesque, but she also will be a woman of many interests, all dependent upon her mood...
ref: 2002, Hazel Dixon-Cooper, Born on a Rotten Day:
text: ...it generated a rare national campaign of nurses who protested the show's bimboesque depiction of both nurses and nursing students.
ref: 2005, Suzanne Gordon, Nursing against the odds:
glosses: Like a bimbo; ditzy and foolish.
incapables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incapable
pearlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearly
Eyetie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪtaɪ/
Forms: form: Eyeties
form: eye-tie
form: Itie
Etymology: From Italian, + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: The only danger of gas from the Eyeties was when they breathed garlic on you.
ref: 1944, Lawson Glassop, We were the rats:
text: We got out to sea again, but it was not long before the Eyeties were on our track again.
ref: 1944, Richard Baxter, Stand by to surface:
text: The Frenchies eat 'em [small birds] and so do the Eyeties.
ref: 1977, Roald Dahl, The Swan:
text: D'you think they're Eyeties? Supposed to be great lovers...
ref: 1986, Aidan Chambers, Dance on My Grave:
text: 'Someone give this girl the bumps! She's getting married. Ah, the good die young. What's his name again? Francesco. An eye-tie? I move for a mistrial.
ref: 2012, Zadie Smith, NW:
glosses: An Italian.
Synonyms: sense: person of Italian descent
word: dago
sense: person of Italian descent
word: goombah
sense: person of Italian descent
word: greaseball
sense: person of Italian descent
word: guido
sense: person of Italian descent
word: guinea
sense: person of Italian descent
word: wog
sense: person of Italian descent
word: wop
Eyeties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eyetie
drony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹəʊni/
ipa: /ˈdɹoʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
homophone: dronie
Forms: form: dronier
form: droniest
Etymology: From drone + -y.
Senses: glosses: Dronelike.
raw_tags: of a sound
exclus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exclus
Senses: glosses: An exclusionist
taifa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɑˈiːfə/
Forms: form: taifas
Etymology: From Spanish taifa, from Arabic طَائِفَة (ṭāʔifa, “sect, faction”).
Senses: glosses: A Muslim principality on the Iberian Peninsula during the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries.
snakiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakinesses
Etymology: From snaky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state or condition of being snaky
fascistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fascistically
form: most fascistically
Etymology: From fascistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The only way that the world is ever going to be free is when the youth of this country moves with every principle of human respect and with every soft spot we have in our hearts for human life, in a fashion that lets the pig power structure know that when people are racistly and fascistically attacked, the youth will put a foot in their butts and make their blood chill.
ref: 1970 March 5, Bobby Seale, Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton, Black Classic Press, published 1991, →ISBN, →OL:
text: I believe this is the first fairy tale retelling I’ve seen that incorporates the classic version of the text as official propaganda of a fascistically sexist (and homophobic) police state, so that’s an interesting premise to start from.
ref: 2021 October 27, Joe Kessler, “Book Review: Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron”, in The Lesser Joke:
glosses: In a fascistic way.
yummo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From yum + -o.
Senses: examples: text: "Yummo! A maiden! Can I have a bit?" it asked Knight. "Certainly not," said Knight grumpily. "It's mine!"
ref: 2001, Jennifer Rowe, Fairy tales for grown-ups:
text: Use a spatula to lift the eggs from the pan one at a time, and flip over directly on top of the melted cheese. Yummo — eat now.
ref: 2003, Diane Morgan, Peter Medilek, Midnight munchies:
text: "Mmm. Yummo." Fitzy told her to keep talking. She chewed, she swallowed, and then she had another forkful, talking the whole time.
ref: 2003, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, She's not there:
text: Check often to be sure beef is covered in liquid, adding more beer or water if necessary. Serve with rice and salad. Yummo!
ref: 2008, Anthony William Brownless, Billy's Book for Blokes:
glosses: Yum; yummy.
yummo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From yum + -o.
Senses: examples: text: Lunch was yummo today. Sammy gave us hot soup with little noodles, and roast lamb with big crunchy potatoes — I had three.
ref: 1999, Tanya Dalgleish, Excel basic skills homework book: English and mathematics:
text: ...canal views and yummo lunches, like goat-cheese salads and Stellendam shrimps (seafood that's apparently very highly prized round these here parts).
ref: 2007, Neal Bedford, Simon Sellars, Jeremy J Gray, The Netherlands:
text: Back on the ground, take a yummo food-and-wine tour in a stretch limo...
ref: 2008, Donna Wheeler, Simone Egger, Cath Lanigan, Jocelyn Harewood, Rowan McKinnon, Lonely Planet Melbourne and Victoria City Guide:
glosses: Yummy; delicious.
cheatsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheatsheet
cheat sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheat sheet
imputer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imputers
Etymology: From impute + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who imputes.
absolute advantage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absolute advantages
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
antonyms: comparative advantage
glosses: The capability to produce more of a given product using the same quantity or less of a given resource than a competing entity.
zoolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zoolike
form: most zoolike
Etymology: From zoo + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a zoo.
corndog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corndogs
Senses: examples: text: It doesn’t help that it gets sold alongside corndogs and transmission fluid at gas stations.
ref: 2007 July 25, David Hochman, “For Epicures, a New Take on Jerky”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of corn dog.
corndogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corndog
detailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detailers
Etymology: From detail + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] the general disposition of those memoir writers and detailers of state secrets (even when there is no malice) to sacrifice truth for the sake of a more striking effect.
ref: 1847, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, Pictorial history of England, volume 8, page 312:
glosses: One who gives details of something.
examples: text: In the case of Richmond Hill, the torch has been passed to Simcha Waisman, 62, vice president of the neighborhood’s block association. Mr. Waisman’s devotion to neighborhood welfare is legendary; he has been known to stake out freshly painted walls for as long as a week, waiting to catch someone painting graffiti. Mr. Waisman drives a cranberry-colored Expedition, which he says has been so marred by dripping creosote that his detailer now refuses him service.
ref: 2007 July 25, Ellen Barry, “Drips, Squeals and Patience: Life by the El”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who details (cleans cars).
detailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detailer
derailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derailers
Etymology: From derail + -er. Doublet of derailleur.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, derails.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: One who, or that which, derails.
Synonym of derail: A device placed on railway tracks in order to cause a train to derail.
synonyms: word: derail
extra: A device placed on railway tracks in order to cause a train to derail
examples: text: Very few bicycles are of a different color or employ more gears with derailer sprockets and hand brakes.
ref: 2009, Louis G. Perez, “Society in the Twenty-First Century”, in The History of Japan (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations), 2nd edition, Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 202:
text: Through sheer ingenuity and resourcefulness, these men handproduced parts such as derailers, stands, seat posts, cranks, fenders, and all manner of elements used in the production of a functional bicycle.
ref: 2009, Christine Elliott, David Jablonka, “Cycles Alex Singer”, in Custom Bicycles: A Passionate Pursuit, Images Publishing, →ISBN, page 72, column 2:
text: Inside, two bearded men are working on a busted fuel pump, and another is repairing a bicycle derailer.
ref: 2016, Erik Reece, Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America’s Most Radical Idea, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 170:
text: Recent American attempts to further Anglicize the word to “derailer” have met with little success. In any case, no rails are involved.
ref: [2016, Tony Hadland, Hans-Erhard Lessing, Bicycle Design: An Illustrated History, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 246:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of derailleur.
derailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derailer
lingchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ling chi
form: leng t'che
Etymology: From Mandarin 凌遲 (língchí).
Senses: examples: text: The face of the dying man in the lingchi video monotonously evokes Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer ’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.”
ref: 2007 July 25, Roberta Smith, “Figures Moving as if in a Trance Across an Isolated, Lawless Island”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: slow slicing
glosses: A form of execution used in China from roughly 900 to 1905 C.E., the "death by a thousand cuts", in which the condemned was killed by methodical removal of body parts with a knife.
oolacunta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oolacuntas
Etymology: Aboriginal.
Senses: examples: text: The fabulous oolacunta, a rat kangaroo that is now extinct, streaked across the desert at speeds that made it seem to float above the ground.
ref: 2007 July 25, William Grimes, “A Zoologist With a Pouch of Stories”, in New York Times:
glosses: An extinct marsupial, the desert rat kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), that lived in a sand-ridge and gibber-plain habitat in south-western Queensland and north-eastern Australia.
oolacuntas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oolacunta
possumlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more possumlike
form: most possumlike
Etymology: From possum + -like.
Senses: examples: text: On that occasion Mr. Flannery had discovered a tooth that belonged to what may prove to be the missing link between ancient possumlike creatures and the modern kangaroos.
ref: 2007 July 25, William Grimes, “A Zoologist With a Pouch of Stories”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a possum or some aspect of it.
reinvasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinvasions
Etymology: From re- + invasion.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of reinvading; a subsequent invasion.
reinvasions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reinvasion
troughlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more troughlike
form: most troughlike
Etymology: From trough + -like.
Senses: examples: text: SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 — Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern California’s major utility, is announcing a commitment on Wednesday to purchase 550 megawatts of solar power to be generated by troughlike arrays of mirrors spread over nine square miles in the Mojave Desert.
ref: 2007 July 25, Felicity Barringer, “California Utility Agrees to Buy Power Generated by Solar Array”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a trough.