cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Đồng Nai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒŋnaɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Đồng Nai.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
Đồng Tháp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒŋθæp/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Đồng Tháp.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
Điện Biên
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdjɛnbjɛn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Điện Biên.
Senses: glosses: Dien Bien (a province of Vietnam).
Hà Giang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːjæŋ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Hà Giang.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Hà Nam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːnæm/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Hà Nam.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
Hải Dương
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪzʊəŋ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Hải Dương.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Hoà Bình
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɑːbɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Hoà Bình.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Hậu Giang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊjæŋ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Hậu Giang.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
Hưng Yên
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌŋjɛn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Hưng Yên (興安).
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Related terms: Xing'an
Khánh Hoà
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kaɪnˈwɑː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Khánh Hoà.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
Kiên Giang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkjɛnjæŋ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Kiên Giang.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
Kon Tum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒntʊm/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Kon Tum.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Lai Châu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪtʃaʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Lai Châu.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Lạng Sơn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlæŋsʌn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Lạng Sơn.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Lâm Đồng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈləmdɒŋ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Lâm Đồng.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
Long An
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /lɒŋˈæn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Long An.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
Nam Định
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnæmdɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Nam Định.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Ninh Bình
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪnbɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Ninh Bình.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Ninh Thuận
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪnθwən/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Ninh Thuận.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
Phú Yên
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfuːjɛn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Phú Yên.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
Quảng Bình
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkwæŋbɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Quảng Bình.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
Quảng Nam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkwæŋnæm/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Quảng Nam.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam, which merged with the city of Da Nang in 2025.
Quảng Ngãi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkwæŋnaɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Quảng Ngãi.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Quảng Ninh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkwæŋnɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Quảng Ninh.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
Quảng Trị
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkwæŋtɹiː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Quảng Trị.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
Sơn La
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌnlɑː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Sơn La.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Tây Ninh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈteɪnɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Tây Ninh.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Thái Bình
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈθaɪbɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Thái Bình.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Thái Nguyên
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈθaɪnwɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Thái Nguyên.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Thừa Thiên Huế
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /θʊəθjɛnˈweɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Thừa Thiên Huế.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
Tiền Giang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtjɛnjæŋ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Tiền Giang.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
Tuyên Quang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtwɪnkwæŋ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Tuyên Quang.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Vĩnh Long
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪnlɒŋ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Vĩnh Long.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Vĩnh Phúc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪnfʊk/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Vĩnh Phúc.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
Yên Bái
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjɛnbaɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Yên Bái.
Senses: glosses: A former province of Vietnam (abolished in 2025).
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Nha Trang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Nha Trang.
Senses: glosses: A city in Vietnam.
hounfour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hounfours
form: hounfor
form: ounfò
Etymology: From Haitian Creole oungfò.
Senses: examples: text: A stretch of straw mats is laid on the ground leading from the door of the hounfor.
ref: 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 47:
text: I arrived around ten and was taken into the peristyle, the roofed court of the hounfour, and was led around a semicircle of tables to the one where Beauvoir sat at the head.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 47:
text: In the afternoon, Magda and I went out to purchase some gifts: perfume for Ezili and a bottle of rum for the ounfò.
ref: 1995, Marilyn Houlberg, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 276
text: Because her Western science has failed to restore Jessica to health, Betsy secretly takes her charge to see the houngan priest at the hounfour for help.
ref: 2011, Kyle William Bishop, American Zombie Gothic, page 88:
glosses: A voodoo temple.
hounsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hounsi
tree seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A bench placed around a tree
Related terms: tree isle
tree pit
catches a cold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catch a cold
catching a cold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catch a cold
caught a cold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catch a cold
tree isle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree isles
Senses: glosses: A raised bed designed to contain one or more trees.
Related terms: tree seat
tree pit
memory-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memory-holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of memory hole.
memory-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: memory-holes
form: memory-holing
form: memory-holed
form: memory-holed
Senses: examples: text: […] since the stage was a classic and had been around a long time, most people still called it by its original and now memory-holed name.
ref: 2009, Stephen Hunter, I, Sniper: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel, page 458:
text: His response, supported by Vasilevsky and Khrushchev, presented a highly embellished account that mollified the Vozhd and was memory-holed by a subsequent field performance solid enough to bring Rotmistrov assignment as deputy commander of Red Army armored and mechanized forces in November 1944.
ref: 2013, Dennis E. Showalter, Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II, page 164:
text: It's possible that the New York Times memory-holed the Pastor Giglio paragraph on its own, without any pressure from the Obama White House. That seems unlikely since it was done in violation of the Times' own policy.
ref: 2018, Michael Youssef, The Hidden Enemy: Aggressive Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Fight for Our Future, page 105:
text: But at a moment when the Democratic Party wants to memory-hole calls to defund the police, some who were once turned off by Harris’s record as a prosecutor are thrilling to her law-and-order case against Trump.
ref: 2024 August 2, Michelle Goldberg, “Don’t Listen to the Right. The Kamalanomenon Is Real.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The administration isn’t even pretending that it forced China to pay any special price for its defiance. It is memory-holing the entire “do not retaliate” episode and moving on as if the point this whole time was to get along better with Beijing.
ref: 2025 May 12, Jonathan Chait, “China Called Trump’s Bluff”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To cause something or someone to be forgotten.
tree pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree pits
Senses: glosses: An underground soil area for tree roots (often with root barriers to direct roots downwards), and the surface treatment for pedestrian safety, and irrigation. Can be used as a flowerbed.
Related terms: tree isle
memory-holing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, the extent of memory-holing that occurred with Elder Poelman's talk was not only extensive and unprecedented (as far as we know) but altogether ironic, given that all this occurred during the actual year of 1984.
ref: 2015, D. Christian Markham, There Are Save Two Churches Only, Volume II, Volume 2:
glosses: An action or instance of alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records.
memory-holing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of memory-hole
Baryton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A reed stop on an organ of 16' or 8' that is imitative of a baryton.
vodounist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vodounists
Senses: examples: text: As the Haitians say, the Catholic goes to church to speak about God, the vodounist dances in the hounfour to become God.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 73:
glosses: Alternative form of voodooist.
Villablanca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Huelva, Andalusia, Spain.
mapou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mapous
Etymology: From Haitian Creole.
Senses: examples: text: “They found him beneath a great mapou tree, and one by one he called for his grandchildren, including Max's father.”
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 75:
text: The mapou belongs to Legba, the master of the crossroads, one of the most important gods in the pantheon, Apollo to Ogoun's Ares.
ref: 2013, Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, Simon & Schuster, page 78:
text: It was calm and surprisingly cool in the mapou grove.
ref: 2015, Madison Smartt Bell, Soul in a Bottle:
glosses: On Haiti, the kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra.
mombin batard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mombin batards
Senses: examples: text: Seven leaves of mombin bâtard and seven leaves of loupgarou must be picked with the same invocation.
ref: 1966, Francis Huxley, The invisibles: Voodoo gods in Haiti, page 56:
text: Oris was stretched out in the shade of a mombin batard tree, resting on one elbow and gnawing on a stick of sugarcane.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 78:
text: Mombin (Spondias Mombin) is a kind of plum much prized in Haiti, and the mombin-batard (Trichilia Hirta) is the wild variety, a common Haitian tree whose leaves are believed to drive away evil spirits through purifying powers related to the plant's supposed African origin.
ref: 2008, Rene Philoctete, Massacre River, page 231:
glosses: A deciduous shrub growing on Haiti of species Trichilia hirta (red cedar).
OMZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OMZs
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: Initialism of oxygen minimum zone.
chondriocont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondrioconts
form: chondriokont
Etymology: From chondrio- (Clipping of mitochondrion) + -kont.
Senses: glosses: A threadlike mitochondrion
chondriome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondriomes
Etymology: From chondrio- (Clipping of mitochondrion) + -ome.
Senses: examples: text: In one of his 1913 papers Guillermond discusses the function of the chondriome (collective term for the chondriosomes of the cell or the plant) in Fungi.
ref: 1914 April - May, F. Cavers, “Chondriosomes (Mitochondria) and their Significance”, in The New Phytologist, volume 13, number 4/5:
text: Several characteristics of the chondriome require investigation. What is the biological significance of base sequence homology between parts of mitochondrial DNA (mt-DNA) and nuclear DNA in eukaryotes?
ref: 1986, S. H Mantell, The Chondriome: chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The set of intracellular organelles contained in the cytosol.
Related terms: chondriosome
tcha-tcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tcha-tchas
Senses: examples: text: The plants were easier to identify. One was a species of Albizzia known in Haiti as tcha-tcha, and planted as a shade tree throughout the country.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 95:
text: Haitians cheered and waved tcha-tcha branches, symbols of joy, as their first freely elected leader, above, gives a victory wave from the balcony of the National Palace.
ref: 1994 October 3, Time, page 29:
glosses: In Haiti, the small flowering tree Albizia lebbeck.
glosses: A type of rattle or maraca used in Haitian music.
semi-profile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + profile.
Senses: glosses: The position (of the subject of a photograph or portrait) of being partly in profile, but partly turned away from the side.
cynocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyno- + -cephalic; compare Ancient Greek κυνοκέφαλος (kunoképhalos).
Senses: glosses: dog-headed; having the head of a dog or a head that resembles a dog's head.
topics: fiction
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to dogheads, humanoid dog-headed monsters.
Haskalah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Haskalah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew הַשְׂכָּלָה.
Senses: glosses: The Jewish Enlightenment, an Enlightenment movement among European Jewry.
Derived terms: Haskalic
Related terms: maskil
Haskalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: haskalic
Etymology: From Haskalah + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Haskalah (relating to the Jewish Enlightenment movement).
maskil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maskilim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew מַשְׂכִּיל.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of the Haskalah.
Derived terms: maskilic
maskilim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maskil
showcaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showcasers
Etymology: From showcase + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The showcasers on the other hand were hard-line marketeers who wanted to display selected aspects of America at their best, under skillful lighting and before compelling backdrops; they wanted the showcases to be visited only by the right people, if possible with a persuasive guide at hand.
ref: 2011, Richard T. Arndt, The First Resort of Kings: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century:
glosses: One who showcases something.
showcasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showcaser
polisman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polismen
Senses: examples: text: The march turned out not te be a real march at all on account of the fact that as soon as we tried te move aff from the Waterside station, all two thousand of us, we foun' our way blocked be a cordon of polismen lookin' wile fierce.
ref: 2009, Sarah O’Connor, Christopher C. Shepard, Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland, page 83:
text: They wint again polismen, mostly. Mebbe that's because polismen's th' nearest things to kings they cud find.
ref: 2020, Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, page 97:
text: Now all we need to establish is what a shooter belonging to one of Maitland's goons is doing in a polisman's locker.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 188:
glosses: Policeman.
theoretical physicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theoretical physicists
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: profession
glosses: A scientist who studies theoretical physics; using math and other abstract analysis rather than practical experimentation.
wikipedia: List of +s
theoretical physicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theoretical physicist
common gundi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common gundis
Senses: glosses: Ctenodactylus gundi, a species of rodent in the family Ctenodactylidae.
moves the goalposts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of move the goalposts
moving the goalposts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of move the goalposts.
moved the goalposts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of move the goalposts.
ostikan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostikans
Etymology: Transliteration of Old Armenian ոստիկան (ostikan).
Senses: examples: text: The Sadjid ostikans were eager to foster mistrust amongst the nakharars, seeking to destabilize Bagratuni rule and to usurp the Bagratuni king's right to send taxes to the caliph.
ref: 2007, Lynn Jones, Between Islam and Byzantium: Aght'amar and the Visual Construction of Medieval Armenian Rulership:
glosses: Any of the Arab governors of Armenia.
wikipedia: ostikan
Derived terms: ostikanate
ostikans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostikan
luluai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luluais
form: luluai
Senses: synonyms: kukurai
glosses: A village or tribal chief under colonial rule in New Guinea.
Weimerica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vaɪˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kə/
Etymology: Blend of Weimar + America.
Senses: glosses: The United States of America, with the implication that it has undergone Weimarization.
sapotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapotoxins
Senses: examples: text: “Many species of the genus contain a special class of compounds known as sapotoxins that are absorbed by the intestines.”
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 111:
glosses: A toxic saponin.
sapotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sapotoxin
ichthyotoxicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From ichthyo- + toxicology.
Senses: examples: text: One of the earliest reports on experimental ichthyotoxicology is by an unknown Japanese investigator and appeared in 1825 in the publication Toyen Shosetsu, in which the author related how he fed poisonous puffers to cats and dogs.
ref: 1965, Bruce W. Halstead, Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World: Invertebrates:
text: “Last scene in From Russia with Love, one of the great moments in ichthyotoxicology. British agent double-oh-seven utterly helpless, paralyzed and unconscious after a minute wound from a hidden knife.”
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 117:
text: Therefore it was just the ichthyotoxicology to which the attention was focused in the framework of the first phase of aquatic toxicology development in Czechoslovakia. Recently the content of mercury is being evaluated in the other components of aquatic ecosystem.
ref: 1986, Ecology Abstracts - Volume 12, Issues 1-6150, page 144:
text: Amongst his haul, Davis found a number of toxic and irritant ingredients. But it wasn't until his Mulderesque quest led him to the department of ichthyotoxicology that he learned the significance of an ingredient that turned out to be the vital one: the puffer fish.
ref: 1997, Jane Goldman, The X-Files Book of the Unexplained - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 189:
text: For the scarce literature, concerning mainly acute toxicity, no hypotheses could be suggested for the effect of heavy metals on fish and the reasons and nature of this phenomenon. The knowledge of metal interactions, however, is of great theoretical and practical importance. That is why, investigations like these are essential and necessary for ichthyotoxicology.
ref: 2002, Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science - Volume 8, page 84:
text: Fish were sampled at the shallow part of the Kerch Strait, where the shipwreck brought to ecological emergency in 2007. There were used ichthyotoxicology, biochemistry and immunochemistry methods for the research of fish populations
ref: 2008, EV Sukharenko, RА Novitsky, VS Nedzvetsky, “Using biomarkers of ground fish brain for pollution assessment of the Kerch strait (the Black sea)”, in Regulatory Mechanisms In Biosystems, volume 3, number 2:
glosses: The study of toxins found in fish; the toxicology of fish.
common gundis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common gundi
daresays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of daresay
besays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of besay
aftersees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aftersee
forsees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forsee
insees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insee
forsets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forset
LMWAO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of laughing my white ass off.
MUPPIEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MUPPIE
once and again
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: More than once; repeatedly.
Synonyms: over and over
over and over again
time and again
repeatedly
once for all
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Dated form of once and for all.
haqueton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haquetons
Senses: examples: text: my heart bleeds to see the gore trickle down his rich embroidered haqueton, and his corselet of goodly price
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: Alternative form of aketon.
haquetons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haqueton
estridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estridges
Senses: examples: text: Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims?
ref: 1634 (first performance), William D’avenant [i.e., William Davenant], The Wits: A Comedie; […], published 1636; republished in Two Excellent Plays: […], London: […] G. Bedel, and T[homas] Collins, […], 1665, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of ostrich.
estridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estridge
tacheometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tachymetry.
Mishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mishings
form: Mishing
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous Assamese community, formerly called the Miris.
Mishings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mishing
Miris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Miri
Valdenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Waldenses.
cashierment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashierments
Etymology: From cashier + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: My friend's consolatory speech failed to cheer me; and, in no very joyous mood, I walked towards the quarters of the captive, to add still further to my chances of “cashierment.”
ref: 1872, Mayne Reid, Osceola the Seminole, Or The Red Fawn of the Flower Land, page 243:
glosses: dismissal
cashierments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cashierment
pantomimings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantomiming
relisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relishers
Etymology: From relish + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As a relisher of fine wines, I was always looking for ways to keep my cellar well stocked.
glosses: One who relishes something.
relishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relisher
redhibitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redhibition
natrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natrometers
Etymology: From natro- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the quantity of soda in salts of potash and soda.
natrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natrometer
historicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: historicises
form: historicising
form: historicised
form: historicised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of historicize.
historicised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of historicise
historicises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of historicise
historicising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of historicise
fimbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fimble
fimbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fimble
toxophilitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From toxophilite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to archery.
hook-nosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hook-nosed
form: most hook-nosed
form: hooknosed
Senses: examples: text: She is a large, oleaginous, black-haired, hook-nosed woman, who invariably wears ear-rings, and perfumes a room with the odor of fried fish.
ref: 1857, Thomas Butler Gunn, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses, page 161:
text: The mother, a hard, hook-nosed creature, was doing up a bundle of overalls she had but finished at the sewing-machine.
ref: 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill.; […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 88:
text: As the conversation got around to what he thought of the United States, he said that it was “a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards.
ref: 2007, Mark Borders, The Self-Improvement of Chess, page 158:
glosses: Having a hooked or curved nose.
isoseismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪzmɪk
Etymology: From iso- + seismic.
Senses: glosses: isoseismal
gazetteerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gazetteerish
form: most gazetteerish
Etymology: From gazetteer + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a gazetteer in style.
vegaviid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegaviids
Etymology: From translingual Vegaviidae.
Senses: examples: 2017 October 7, F. L. Agnolín, F. B. Egli, S. Chatterjee, J. A. G. Marsà, F. E. Novas, Vegaviidae, a new clade of southern diving birds that survived the K/T boundary, Naturwissenschaften, 104(11-12):87, doi: 10.1007/s00114-017-1508-y,
Vegaviids share a combination of characters related to diving adaptations, including compact and thickened cortex of hindlimb bones, femur with anteroposteriorly compressed and bowed shaft, deep and wide popliteal fossa delimited by a medial ridge, tibiotarsus showing notably proximally expanded cnemial crests, expanded fibular crest, anteroposterior compression of the tibial shaft, and a tarsometatarsus with a strong transverse compression of the shaft. […] Moreover, vegaviids represent the first avian lineage to have definitely crossed the K-Pg boundary, supporting the idea that some avian clades were not affected by the end Mesozoic mass extinction event, countering previous interpretations.
glosses: Any species of the extinct family Vegaviidae of goose-like birds.
vegaviids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegaviid
rantistirion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæn.tɪsˈtɪ.ɹi.ɒn/
ipa: /-dɪs-/
ipa: /-ən/
ipa: /ɹæn.tisˈti.ɹi.ɑn/
ipa: /-dis-/
ipa: /-ən/
Forms: form: randistirion
Etymology: Borrowed from Byzantine Greek ῥαντιστήριον (rhantistḗrion), from ῥαντίζω (rhantízō) (a late form of ῥαίνω (rhaínō, “to sprinkle, purify”), from Proto-Indo-European *weri) + -ῐον (-ĭon, “suffix forming diminutive nouns”).
Senses: examples: text: The Kastrinsios was charged with military duties and was responsible for a military unit (similar to that of a captain of the guard). When the Office became ecclesiastical in nature it was charged with the storage and safe keeping of ecclesiastical supplies and assisted in the vesting of the hierarchs. He would also bestow the divine blessing upon the congregation by sprinkling from the randistirion, and proclaim the arrival of His All Holiness the Patriarch with, "Evlogison Thespota" (Master Give The Blessing).
ref: 2001, Aspasia Smith, editor, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, millennium edition, New York, N.Y.: Order of St. Andrew the Apostle, →OCLC, page 72:
text: The priest stands in front of the Kouvouklion throughout the Encomia. At the Third Stasis when the verse "Eranan ton Tafon ai miroforoi mira lian proi elthousai – early in the morning the myrrh-bearers came to Thee and sprinkled myrrh upon Thy tomb" is sung the priest sprinkles the Epitaphios with rosewater, using the rantistirion (sprinkler).
ref: [2003], Alkiviadis Calivas, “Great and Holy Saturday”, in Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, archived from the original on 23 May 2017:
text: After joining with Archdeacon Panteleimon Papadopoulos and Deacon Eleftherios Constantine in chanting the "Feast of the Cross" – "The cross is the glory of the angels, and the defeat of the demons" – Archbishop Demetrios sanctified the steel cross with water from a golden rantistirion, or sprinkler.
ref: 2016 November 29, David W. Dunlap, “Cross takes its place, temporarily, atop shrine at World Trade Center”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2017:
text: Archbishop Demetrios joined Deacon Eleftherios Constantine and Archdeacon Panteleimon Papadopoulos in chanting "Feast of the Cross." The Archbishop then sanctified this steel cross with water poured from a golden sprinkler or rantistirion.
ref: 2016 November 30, Nathan Glover, “Christian cross tops Saint Nicholas National Shrine at World Trade Center”, in World Religion News, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2016:
synonyms: aspergillum
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A ritual sprinkler used in some Christian rites.
scovan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scovans
Etymology: From Cornish scoren.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A vein of tin.
scovans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scovan
Trullan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Byzantine Greek τρούλλος (troúllos, “a dome”), from Latin trulla (“a ladle”), in reference to the domed hall of the palace in Constantinople in which the council was held.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Quinisext Council held in 692 in the dome-roofed hall in the imperial palace at Constantinople.
phrenetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more phrenetically
form: most phrenetically
Senses: glosses: Dated form of frenetically.
overtradings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overtrading
bring under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings under
form: bringing under
form: brought under
form: brought under
Senses: examples: The king brought the native people under.
glosses: To subdue (something or someone).
examples: text: We should bring that department under HR.
text: Christ will bring you under a state of grace.
text: My talent brought me under the gaze of millions of fans.
glosses: To make (someone or something) subject to (something else); to place (someone) in a state of (something).
displeasingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From displeasing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being displeasing.
catacumbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catacumbal
form: most catacumbal
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a catacomb.
Gallowegian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gallowegian
form: most Gallowegian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Galwegian.
Gallowegian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gallowegians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Galwegian.
Gallowegians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gallowegian
steal someone's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steals someone's heart
form: stealing someone's heart
form: stole someone's heart
form: stole someone's heart
Senses: examples: text: I used to take girls up to Stony Brook and steal their hearts like some crook, true story
ref: 2023, “3D (song)”, performed by Jungkook ft. Jack Harlow:
glosses: To captivate someone; to mesmerize someone.
randistirion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: randistiria
Senses: examples: text: The Kastrinsios was charged with military duties and was responsible for a military unit (similar to that of a captain of the guard). When the Office became ecclesiastical in nature it was charged with the storage and safe keeping of ecclesiastical supplies and assisted in the vesting of the hierarchs. He would also bestow the divine blessing upon the congregation by sprinkling from the randistirion, and proclaim the arrival of His All Holiness the Patriarch with, "Evlogison Thespota" (Master Give The Blessing).
ref: 2001, Aspasia Smith, editor, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, millennium edition, New York, N.Y.: Order of St. Andrew the Apostle, →OCLC, page 72:
glosses: Alternative spelling of rantistirion.
DNRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium.
well-behavedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From well-behaved + -ness.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The quality or condition of being well-behaved.
LML
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LMLs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of lightweight multiple launcher.
LMLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LML
chondriomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondriome
rotondes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotonde
rat-fink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat-finks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ratfink.
rat-fink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rat-finks
form: rat-finking
form: rat-finked
form: rat-finked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ratfink.
rat-finks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rat-fink.
rat-finks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rat-fink (alternative form of ratfinks)
rat finking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rat fink (alternative form of ratfinking).
rat finked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rat fink (alternative form of ratfinked).
rat-finking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rat-fink (alternative form of ratfinking).
rat-finked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rat-fink (alternative form of ratfinked).
camagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camagons
Etymology: From Spanish camagón, from Cebuano kamagong.
Senses: glosses: A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros blancoi) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies.
glosses: The reddish wood of this tree.
cnidoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cnidoblast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a cnidoblast
tasktray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tasktrays
Etymology: From task + tray.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The notification area or tray, part of the taskbar.
tasktrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tasktray
chelps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chelp
chackles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chackle
beclumpses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beclumpse
bedutches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedutch
camagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camagon
aerographite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + graphite.
Senses: glosses: A synthetic foam consisting of a porous interconnected network of tubular carbon. It is one of the lightest structural materials ever created.
nomenclatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nomenclator + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Every conceptual act is so immediately followed as to seem accompanied by a nomenclatory one.
ref: 1883, William Dwight Whitney, The Life and Growth of Language, page 139:
text: As to the name, there is no reason to change it; Scalpellidae was already used by Pilsbry in 1907, and the generic name Pollicipes must be dropped, according to the nomenclatory rules, so that nothing is gained by the change proposed by Annandale.
ref: 1917, Theodor Mortensen, Observations on Protective Adaptations and Habits, Mainly in Marine Animals:
glosses: Relating to nomenclature.
Derived terms: nomenclatorial
nomenclatorially
undeceiveth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: undeceive + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undeceive
imitateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: imitate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imitate
demonspawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demon + spawn.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: demonic creatures; hellspawn
spriggan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsprɪd͡ʒən/
Forms: form: spriggans
Etymology: Borrowed from Cornish spyrysyon (“spirits; fairies”).
Senses: glosses: In Cornish folklore, a malicious spirit in the form of a wizened old man.
spriggans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spriggan
swapover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swapovers
Etymology: Deverbal from swap over.
Senses: glosses: A conversion or transition from one thing to another; a changeover.
swapovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swapover
oaken towel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oaken towels
Senses: glosses: A truncheon.
oaken towels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oaken towel
grandstandings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandstanding
Afrofeminist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Afrofeminist
form: most Afrofeminist
Etymology: From Afro- + feminist.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a form of feminism focusing on women of African descent.
Moz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Morrissey + -z.
Senses: synonyms: Mozzer
glosses: Morrissey (born 1959), an English singer-songwriter and author.
Moz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Mozambique.
Mozzer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɒzə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Moz (“Morrissey”) + -er (suffix forming colloquial equivalents).
Senses: synonyms: Moz
glosses: Morrissey (born 1959), an English singer-songwriter and author.
Mozzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Mozzers
Etymology: From Moz (“Morrissey”) + -er (“fan”, occupational suffix).
Senses: glosses: A fan of Morrissey.
Mozzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Mozzers
Etymology: From Moz + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: glosses: An employee of Moz, a search engine optimization company.
Mozzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Mozzers
Etymology: Clipping of Muslim + -er (suffix forming colloquial equivalents).
Senses: glosses: A Muslim.
fissionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissionists
Etymology: From fission + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A scientist who works on nuclear fission.
fissionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fissionist
deterritorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + territorial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or facilitating, deterritorialization.
overposters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overposter
cationize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cationizes
form: cationizing
form: cationized
form: cationized
Etymology: From cation + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To treat with cations.
Related terms: cationization
cationizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cationize
cationizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cationize
anionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anionizes
form: anionizing
form: anionized
form: anionized
Etymology: From anion + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To treat with anions.
Related terms: anionization
anionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anionize
anionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anionize
anionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anionize
nontangling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tangling.
Senses: glosses: Not forming tangles.
workingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more workingly
form: most workingly
Etymology: From working + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: God is replenishingly everywhere: but most contractedly, and workingly in the temple.
ref: a. 1631, John Donne, Sermon No. 5 preached to the Nobility:
text: So there are persons in the Christian life that are living faithfully, humbly, workingly, but to whom, now and then, there springs out, at some unexpected hour, at some hour of great health and clearness of vision, […]
ref: 1886, The Brooklyn Magazine, volume 4, page 47:
glosses: With work or labour.
fail-deadly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfeɪlˈdɛdli/
rhymes: -ɛdli
Etymology: From fail (verb) + deadly, modelled on fail-safe.
Senses: examples: text: One, admittedly extreme, means of reducing the impact of a command, control, and communication failure would be the adoption of a "fail deadly" mode of operation. For example, as opposed to requiring a positive signal to proceed on to target after launch-on-warning, airplanes might be permitted to continue until a negative recall signal were received. The risk of unauthorized action would be increased, as would the danger of accidental or inadvertent war due to equipment malfunction.
ref: 1976 May 15, Lewis A. Dunn, Herman Kahn, “Parameters of Nth Country Nuclear-weapon Programs and Postures”, in Trends in Nuclear Proliferation, 1975–1995: Projections, Problems, and Policy Options: Final Report (HI-2336/3-RR), Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.; Paris: Hudson Institute, →OCLC, page 92:
text: If one were to assume a more traditional Realist image of human fallibility, then one's confidence in the safety of the elaborate nuclear "fail deadly" deterrence order might not be so sanguine.
ref: 1993, Daniel Deudney, “Dividing Realism: Structural Realism versus Security Materialism on Nuclear Security and Proliferation”, in Zachary S. Davis, Benjamin Frankel, editors, The Proliferation Puzzle: Why Nuclear Weapons Spread (and What Results) (“Security Studies” Special Issue), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2021, →ISBN, →ISSN, part I (Realist Approaches), page 17:
text: [F]ail-deadly is a concept from nuclear military strategy, suggesting deterrence by an immediate and forceful response to an attack. It is interesting to investigate what differentiates these two design approaches to security protocols, and what they have in common when we consider a family of protocols where both fail-safe and fail-deadly versions are considered.
ref: 2018, “Preface”, in Vashek Matyáš, Petr Švenda, Frank Stajano, Bruce Christianson, Jonathan Anderson, editors, Security Protocols XXVI: 26th International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, March 19–21, 2018: Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 11286), Cham, Zug, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page v:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Of a nuclear weapons strategy: encouraging deterrence by guaranteeing an automatic, immediate, and overwhelming response to an attack, even if the command-and-control infrastructure has been damaged by the enemy's first strike.
Related terms: Dead Hand