cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
celestial equator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celestial equators
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A great circle on the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of Earth's Equator.
bongoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bongos
Senses: glosses: plural of bongo
confiscator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confiscators
Etymology: From confiscate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who confiscates
confiscatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: At some point along the curve of tax rates, the rate changes qualitatively from contributory (the payer is duly pitching in) to confiscatory (the taxer is confiscating); the cutoff value between those categories depends on one's political philosophy.
glosses: Using confiscation.
Related terms: appropriative
conformance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɔːm(ə)ns/
Forms: form: conformances
Senses: glosses: The act of conforming; conformity.
Synonyms: conformation
Derived terms: nonconformance
Related terms: compliance
conformism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conformisms
Senses: glosses: A willingness to conform; conformity.
Derived terms: hyperconformism
nonconformism
ultraconformism
Related terms: conformist
congealment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congealments
Etymology: From congeal + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of congealing.
glosses: Something that has congealed; a clot.
Related terms: congelation
congestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more congestive
form: most congestive
Etymology: From congest + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by congestion
Derived terms: congestive cardiac failure
congestive cardiomyopathy
congestive collapse
congestive heart failure
noncongestive
vasocongestive
congratulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒŋˌɡɹæt͡ʃuːˈleɪtəɹiː/
ipa: /kənˈɡɹæt͡ʃələˌtɔɹi/
Forms: form: more congratulatory
form: most congratulatory
Etymology: From congratulate + -ory.
Senses: synonyms: congratulational
congratulationary
glosses: Serving to congratulate.
Derived terms: congratulatorily
noncongratulatory
selfcongratulatory
self-congratulatory
uncongratulatory
congregant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹɪ.ɡənt/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹɪ.ɡənt/
ipa: /ˈkɔŋ.ɡɹɪ.ɡənt/
Forms: form: congregants
Senses: examples: text: The wedding was at Timmyʼs fatherʼs church, and all the female congregants had cooked a meal fit to feed a king.
ref: 2016, Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, Penguin Books (2017), page 123:
text: Did he have any regrets about signing “I’ll be back”? Some social-media congregants had criticized the message as “tacky” and “flippant,” among other things.
ref: 2023 March 8, Mark Leibovich, “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A member of a congregation.
congressperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congresspersons
form: congresspeople
Etymology: From congress + -person.
Senses: glosses: A member of congress.
glosses: A member of the House of Representatives.
Hyponyms: congressman
congresswoman
Derived terms: congresscoon
congresscritter
conjoiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjoiners
Etymology: From conjoin + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who conjoins
Malto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Dravidian language of India.
Related terms: Kumarbhag Paharia
Sauria Paharia
Malto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group of India.
prochronisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹoʊkɹənɪzmz/
/ˈpɹɑkɹənɪzmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of prochronism
parachronisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɚˈækɹənɪzmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of parachronism
metachronisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈtækɹənɪzmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of metachronism
Shabo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A language of southwestern Ethiopia.
Synonyms: Mikeyir
prolepses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹoʊˈlɛpsiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of prolepsis
sequent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːkwənt/
rhymes: -iːkwənt
Forms: form: more sequent
form: most sequent
Etymology: 1550s; borrowed from Middle French sequent, from Old French sequent, itself borrowed from Latin sequentem, present participle of sequī (“to follow”).
Senses: examples: text: Why are your songs all wild and bitter sad
As funeral dirges with the orphans' cries?
Each night since first the world was made hath had
A sequent day to laugh it down the skies.
ref: 1860, James Thomson (B.V.), Two Sonnets:
glosses: That comes after in time or order; subsequent.
examples: text: But let my Triall, be mine owne Confession: / Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, / Is all the grace I beg.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Maisie found herself clutched to her mother's breast and passionately sobbed and shrieked over, made the subject of a demonstration evidently sequent to some sharp passage just enacted.
ref: 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
glosses: That follows on as a result, conclusion etc.; consequent to, on, upon.
examples: text: The Gallies Haue sent a dozen sequent Messengers / This very night, at one anothers heeles: / And many of the Consuls, rais'd and met, / Are at the Dukes already.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Recurring in succession or as a series; successive, consecutive.
Related terms: sequence
sequent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːkwənt/
rhymes: -iːkwənt
Forms: form: sequents
Etymology: 1550s; borrowed from Middle French sequent, from Old French sequent, itself borrowed from Latin sequentem, present participle of sequī (“to follow”).
Senses: examples: text: The One is somewhat shadowy. It is sometimes called God, sometimes the Good; it transcends Being, which is the first sequent upon the One.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:
glosses: Something that follows in a given sequence.
examples: A sequent a,b⊢c,d could be interpreted to correspond to an Existential Graph, whose expression in Existential Graph Interchange Format would be
~[(a) (b) ~[(c)] ~[(d)]], which in ordinary language could be expressed as "a and b give c or d".
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A disjunctive set of logical formulae which is partitioned into two subsets; the first subset, called the antecedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as false, and the second subset, called the succedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as true. (The set is written without set brackets and the separation between the two subsets is denoted by a turnstile symbol, which may be read "give(s)".)
examples: text: Sir Nathaniel, this Biron is one of the votaries with the king; and here he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger queen's, which accidentally, or by the way of progression, hath miscarried.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: A follower.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A sequential calculus
Derived terms: hypersequent
sequent calculus
bankcard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋk.kɑɹd/
Forms: form: bankcards
Etymology: From bank + card.
Senses: glosses: A card that a bank issues used by the cardholder in the course of authorization to receive bank services.
bankcards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋk.kɑɹdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of bankcard
sparke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparkes
Senses: examples: text: And, as it fell, his steed he ready found:
On whom remounting fiercely forth be rode,
Like sparke of fire that from the andvile glode
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of spark.
arads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arad: nomadic herders.
brosy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brosy
form: most brosy
form: brosey
Etymology: From brose + -y, from brose (“oatmeal mixed with boiling water”); from the Doric dialect of northeast Scotland.
Senses: glosses: In rural and farming circles, stout and strong; well-built; well fed with brose.
glosses: Semiliquid.
glosses: Containing brose.
Derived terms: brosy-faced
meganiche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meganiches
Etymology: From mega- + niche, coined by Clay Shirky.
Senses: glosses: A small niche on the World Wide Web that is highly specific and appeals only to a limited demographic but may still be worthwhile and successful because of the huge total number of users.
wikipedia: Clay Shirky
smiddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɪdi/
rhymes: -ɪdi
Forms: form: smiddies
Senses: examples: text: Well, he closed the door next and after a while some folk went over and chapped at the door, but they got not a cheep, and waited for Bruce, he'd gone to the smiddy to borrow an axe.
ref: 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 445:
glosses: Alternative form of smithy.
metalation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalations
form: metallation
Etymology: From metal + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chemical reaction in which a hydrogen atom is replaced by one of a metal
Derived terms: cyclometalation
demetalation
hydrometalation
multicombination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multicombinations
Etymology: From multi- + combination.
Senses: glosses: A combination where repetitions are permitted.
regs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reg
regs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening of regular + -s (possibly either genitive or plural).
Senses: glosses: Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana.
Synonyms: mersh
schwag
Coordinate terms: mids
middies
kine bud
kind bud
KB
KBs
heads
headies
bleeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblidɚ/
ipa: /ˈbliːdə/
rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bleeders
Etymology: From bleed + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And then finally to pass on to the rising generation there were Sean's two little girls Rose and Cerise, aged five and four respectively, and these innocent little girlies were bleeders like their papa and mama […]
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
examples: text: Ligate or cauterize small subcutaneous bleeders and identify the linea alba.
ref: 2013, Theresa Welch Fossum, Small Animal Surgery Textbook:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
glosses: Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
glosses: A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
examples: text: His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish, / Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.
ref: 1938, Louis MacNeice, Bagpipe Music:
text: ‘Well, what did the old bleeder say?’ said Opus Fluke.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 36, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
glosses: A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of scratch hit.
synonyms: word: scratch hit
examples: text: Vostral (2008) sees menstrual technology as focused on allowing women to “pass” as non-bleeders, speaking to the sense of the female body as dysfunctional, problematic, and “out of control.”
ref: 2014, Michael O'Loughlin, Marilyn Charles, Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering, page 154:
glosses: A person who menstruates (used in the context of transgender inclusivity).
Derived terms: bench bleeder
nosebleeder
squabbling bleeder
bleeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bleeder
spinal tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinal taps
Senses: examples: text: Then they tested my spinal column. They gave me a spinal tap even.
ref: 2017, Sam Shepard, Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 5:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Lumbar puncture (LP).
lumbar puncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumbar punctures
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: LP
word: spinal tap
word: ;
word: rachicentesis
word: rhachicentesis
glosses: A diagnostic and at times therapeutic procedure performed to collect a sample of cerebrospinal fluid for biochemical, microbiological, and cytological analysis, or rarely to relieve increased intracranial pressure.
Related terms: word: intrathecal
english: disease that may require LP
translation: disease that may require LP
word: meningitis
lumbar punctures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumbar puncture
spinal taps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinal tap
cerebrospinal fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebrospinal fluids
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A clear bodily fluid in the form of a very pure saline solution with microglia that occupies the subarachnoid space in the brain (between the skull and the cerebral cortex), and which acts as a cushion or buffer for the cortex.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A bodily fluid filling the third ventricle and surrounding the interthalamic adhesion.
Synonyms: word: brain fluid
word: CSF
smiddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɪdiz/
rhymes: -ɪdiz
Senses: glosses: plural of smiddy
cerebrospinal fluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerebrospinal fluid
fluorescently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /floʊɹˈɛsəntli/
Forms: form: more fluorescently
form: most fluorescently
Etymology: From fluorescent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Fully air-conditioned and fluorescently lit, it is strikingly decorated and there is a magnificent outlook through the wide windows.
ref: 1960 December, “Modern lightweight coaches of the Swiss Federal Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 745, photo caption:
glosses: In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
Derived terms: biofluorescently
Related terms: fluorescent
fluorescence
fluoresce
luminescently
iridescently
intermit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntəˈmɪt/
ipa: /ɪntɚˈmɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: intermits
form: intermitting
form: intermitted
form: intermitted
Etymology: From Latin intermittere, from inter- + mittere.
Senses: examples: text: Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: The bell doth toll for him, that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute, that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God.
ref: 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII., in The Works of John Donne, vol. 3, ed. Henry Alford, London: John W. Parker (1839), pp. 574-5
text: Idleness[…]of body is nothing but a kind of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[…] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.”
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter I, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 243:
glosses: To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
Derived terms: intermittedly
intermittence
intermittency
intermittent
intermitter
intermittingly
unintermitted
unintermitting
Related terms: intermission
mission
conservatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɜːvətɪzəm/
ipa: /kənˈsɝvətɪzəm/
ipa: /kənˈsɜːvətɪzəm/
ipa: /kənˈsøːvətəzəm/
Forms: form: conservatisms
Etymology: Either irregularly from conservative + -ism or from conservate + -ism; ultimately from Latin cōnservāre (“to conserve; to keep, guard, observe”).
Senses: examples: text: Oddly, with the liberals and radicals in power in NSW, the conservatives realized that a nominated upper house was no longer a bastion of conservatism and some began to call for an elected legislative council.
ref: 2009, Jack P. Greene, Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, 1600-1900, page 240:
glosses: A political philosophy that advocates traditional values.
glosses: A risk-averse attitude or approach.
Synonyms: conservativism
Derived terms: archconservatism
bioconservatism
compassionate conservatism
fiscal conservatism
hyperconservatism
liberal conservatism
national conservatism
neoconservatism
one-nation conservatism
overconservatism
paleoconservatism
social conservatism
theoconservatism
ultraconservatism
Related terms: conservation
conservationist
conservative
conservativeness
conservator
conservatory
conserve
conservatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conservatism
prosodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɑsədiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of prosody
Chilpancingo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Chilpancingo, from a Nahuan language.
Senses: glosses: A city, the state capital of Guerrero, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality of Guerrero, Mexico.
Kali Yuga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kaliyuga
form: Kali-Yuga
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Sanskrit कलियुग (kaliyuga, “age of darkness”), from कलि (kali, “Kali”) + युग (yuga, “yuga”)
Senses: glosses: In Hinduism, the fourth and most evil of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas, traditionally thought to have begun at midnight (00:00) on 18 February, 3102 B.C.E. under the Julian calendar (23 January under the Gregorian calendar), and lasts for 432,000 years.
Related terms: Dvapara Yuga
Treta Yuga
Satya Yuga
braves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪvz/
rhymes: -eɪvz
Senses: glosses: plural of brave
braves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪvz/
rhymes: -eɪvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brave
coordinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coordinate
coordinating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: coordinating conjunction
glosses: That coordinates
Air Marshals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Air Marshal
Americanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Americanism
Anglo-Catholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anglo-Catholic
plotless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɑtləs/
rhymes: -ɒtləs
Forms: form: more plotless
form: most plotless
Etymology: From plot + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The highlights of the plotless road movie appear to be a 15-minute shot of a dirty windscreen gradually accumulating dead bugs, and an equally tedious blow-job involving Chloë Sevigny and a very pleased-looking Gallo.
ref: 2003 November 14, Jacques Peretti, “You are a bad man trying to do bad things to Vincent”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Lacking a substantial plot (storyline).
Derived terms: plotlessly
Related terms: plot
plotlessness
plotlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈplɑtləsnəs/
Etymology: From plotless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I was disappointed by the plotlessness of the film: it was all action and explosions.
text: Both books pushed realism so far that it touched on surrealism, and both freeze-framed the present moment, compensating for their plotlessness by chronicling in loving detail the minutiae of late-20th-century life — the way the light falls on the handrail of a moving escalator, the design flaws of drinking-straws that, annoyingly, float instead of standing upright.
ref: 2000 November 4, Susannah Herbert, “Save the front page”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 45,222, section “arts&books”, page A1, column 3:
glosses: The state of lacking a substantial plot or scheme.
Related terms: plot
plotless
announces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of announce
Shahab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian شهاب (šahâb, literally “meteor”), from Arabic شِهَاب (šihāb).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian male given name شهاب (šahâb).
Shahab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shahabs
Etymology: From Persian شهاب (šahâb, literally “meteor”), from Arabic شِهَاب (šihāb).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kind of Iranian missile.
soft-shelled turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft-shelled turtles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soft-shell turtle.
softshell turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softshell turtles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soft-shell turtle.
Derived terms: Red River giant softshell turtle
Shanghai softshell turtle
speckled softshell turtle
Swinhoe's softshell turtle
Yangtze giant softshell turtle
soft-shell turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft-shell turtles
Senses: glosses: Any turtle of the family Trionychidae, such turtles having a carapace that has no scutes and is leathery and pliable at the sides.
Derived terms: black soft-shell turtle
Chinese soft-shelled turtle
Florida softshell turtle
Nagpur soft-shell turtle
Red River giant softshell turtle
Shanghai softshell turtle
speckled softshell turtle
spiny softshell turtle
Swinhoe's softshell turtle
wattle-necked soft-shelled turtle
Yangtze giant softshell turtle
spiny softshell turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiny softshell turtles
Senses: glosses: A type of soft-shell turtle (Apalone spinifera) native to Canada, the United States and Mexico, having spiny projections on the leading edge of its carapace.
Derived terms: Guadalupe spiny softshell turtle
Gulf Coast spiny softshell turtle
pallid spiny softshell turtle
Texas spiny softshell turtle
western spiny softshell turtle
turtleneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turtlenecks
form: turtle neck
form: turtle-neck
Etymology: From turtle + neck.
Senses: synonyms: polo-neck
turtleneck collar
glosses: A high, close-fitting collar, turned back on itself and covering all or most of the neck, on a sweater or similar garment.
examples: text: I've got billions and billions of rhymes to flex / 'Cause I've got more rhymes than Carl Sagan's got turtlenecks
ref: 2004, “Hey Fuck You”, in To the 5 Boroughs, performed by Beastie Boys:
text: Still, Jobs became friends with fashion designer Issey Miyake, who had designed some Sony uniforms, and asked him to make some black turtlenecks that he liked.
ref: 2012, Karen Blumenthal, Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 183:
synonyms: polo neck sweater
glosses: Ellipsis of turtleneck sweater.
glosses: A foreskin.
Derived terms: mock turtleneck
tactleneck
turtleneck collar
turtle-necked
turtlenecked
turtle-neck sweater
turtleneck sweater
Related terms: crew neck
turtle neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turtle necks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of turtleneck.
turtle-neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turtle-necks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of turtleneck.
turtle-peg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turtle-pegs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of turtle peg.
turtle peg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turtle pegs
form: turtle-peg
Senses: glosses: A spike attached to a cord or rod, used for catching sea turtles.
Derived terms: turtle-pegger
turtle-pegging
matamata turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matamata turtles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of matamata.
Miztec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Miztecs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mixtec.
Miztec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mixtec.
dreamgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹiːmɡɜːl/
ipa: /ˈdɹimˌɡɝl/
ipa: [ˈdʒɹim-]
Forms: form: dreamgirls
form: dream girl
Etymology: From dream + girl.
Senses: examples: text: The daughter of an Irish bricklayer became the American ideal: the dreamgirl of young, upward-bound males who yearned for the finer things of life
ref: 1989, Joseph M. Curran, Hibernian Green on the Silver Screen:
coordinate_terms: dreamboy
glosses: One's ideal vision of a female companion.
Derived terms: manic pixie dreamgirl
loose end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loose ends
Senses: glosses: The end of a rope that has not been fastened.
glosses: A small job that needs to be done, or minor problem that needs to be resolved, before a task can be considered complete.
Derived terms: at a loose end
at loose ends
tie up loose ends
Tungusological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tungusology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to the Tungusic languages.
Related terms: Tungusologist
Tungusology
Tungusic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tʊŋˈɡʊsɪk/
Etymology: From Tungus + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A language family spoken in Inner Mongolia and parts of Siberia.
Derived terms: Proto-Tungusic
Southern Tungusic
Tungusic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tʊŋˈɡʊsɪk/
Etymology: From Tungus + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to these languages or their speakers.
sniffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sniffle
sniffling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snifflings
Senses: examples: text: We heard snifflings and a cough from behind the hedge.
glosses: A sniffle sound or action.
wind-blown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Where the ſoft tale of Love She breathes, / Mixt with the ruſhing of the wind-blown leaves, / The different Notes of Cheerful Birds, / And diſtant Bleating of the Herds: / Is Muſick far more raviſhing and ſweet, / Then all the Artful Sounds that pleaſe the noiſey Great.
ref: 1684, A[phra] Behn, “A Farewel to Celladon, On his Going into Ireland”, in Poems upon Several Occasions: with a Voyage to the Island of Love, London: […] R[ichard] Tonson and J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, stanza VI, page 17:
text: But the disadvantages of proximity to sand dunes have become apparent in the past year. War is being waged on wind-blown sand by planting marram grass.
ref: 1961 September, “Margam yard revisited”, in Modern Railways, page 537:
glosses: Alternative spelling of windblown.
mull over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mulls over
form: mulling over
form: mulled over
form: mulled over
Etymology: See mull.
Senses: examples: text: I have been mulling over this math problem for weeks.
text: Sharing with sellers ahead of time other terms of the sales contract—for example, type of financing, closing date, amount of deposit, inclusions and exclusions—and giving them time to mull over their importance helps to put these issues in proper perspective when the real offer arrives.
ref: 1998, John Tuccillo, Buddy West, Betsy West, Targeting the Over 55 Client: Your Guide to Today's Fastest Growing Market, Dearborn Real Estate, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: To think deeply about something; to ponder, deliberate or ruminate.
Synonyms: ponder
chew over
wagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wag
goddam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goddams
Etymology: From French goddam (“English person”), from English goddamn.
Senses: examples: text: That is why the goddams will take Orleans. And you cannot stop them, nor ten thousand like you.
ref: 1991, Philip George Hill, Our Dramatic Heritage: Reactions to realism, page 90:
glosses: An English person, from the perspective of a French person or in the context of French history, originating during the Hundred Years' War.
goddam
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “[…] This sand,” he said vaguely; then he said it again, viciously, “this sand. This goddam sand. Its like a goddam fuckin desert.”
ref: 1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 742:
text: The funny part was, though, we were the worst skaters on the whole goddam rink.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 167:
text: ‘No, Paul, not now and not in this goddam car!’
ref: 2021, Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun, Faber & Faber Limited, page 273:
glosses: Uncommon spelling of goddamn.
nudged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nudge
merino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹinoʊ/
Forms: form: merinos
form: Merino
Etymology: From Spanish merino.
Senses: glosses: A sheep of a Spanish breed with long, fine hair.
glosses: The wool of this sheep.
examples: text: The Priest pulled the light merino carriage rug higher about his knees.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth (hardback), Duckworth, page 5:
glosses: The fabric made from this wool (or from any similar yarn).
examples: text: "Oh, mamma," cried Georgiana, and the speech was heroic for her who dearly loved dress, "I would rather wear my merino, and then I should keep Isabella in countenance."
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 89:
glosses: A dress made out of merino fabric.
glosses: A yarn made from a combination of wool and cotton in imitation of this wool.
Derived terms: French merino
more-or-less
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of more or less.
overarching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹˈɑːtʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌoʊvəɹˈɑɹt͡ʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌoʊvəɹˈɑɹkɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overarch
overarching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹˈɑːtʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌoʊvəɹˈɑɹt͡ʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌoʊvəɹˈɑɹkɪŋ/
Forms: form: more overarching
form: most overarching
Senses: examples: text: the overarching sky
glosses: Arching over; that forms an arch overhead.
examples: text: the overarching idea of a work
text: Firstly, there needs to be an overarching plan - in the sense that each part of the rail system must be considered together, precisely because it is an integrated network.
ref: 2020 May 20, David Thrower, Ian Wray, “Revisiting the plan for developing the North's rail network”, in RAIL, page 39:
synonyms: all-embracing
all-encompassing
glosses: Dominating or covering something for the most part.
Derived terms: overarchingly
overarchingness
overarching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹˈɑːtʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌoʊvəɹˈɑɹt͡ʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌoʊvəɹˈɑɹkɪŋ/
Forms: form: overarchings
Senses: examples: text: But in this case the overarchings do not grow uniformly, but in such a manner that their rims form at least a fissure […]
ref: 1875, Julius Sachs, Alfred William Bennett, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Text-book of Botany: Morphological and Physiological, page 27:
glosses: A structure that arches over something.
overarch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overarches
form: overarching
form: overarched
form: overarched
Etymology: From over- + arch.
Senses: glosses: To form an arch over something.
perverseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perversenesses
Etymology: From perverse + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore, thus ſaith the holy one of Iſrael, Becauſe ye deſpise this word, and truſt in oppreſſion and peruerſeneſſe, and ſtay thereon: Therefore this iniquitie ſhalbe to you as a breach ready to fall, ſwelling out in a high wall, whoſe breaking commeth ſuddenly at an inſtant.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 30:12–13, column 1:
glosses: The quality of being perverse; doggedness, obstinacy.
Mixtec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mixtecs
form: Mixtec
form: Mistec
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mixteco, alteration of mixteca, from Classical Nahuatl mixtēcah (“Mixtecs”, plural).
Senses: synonyms: Mixteco
Ñudzahui
Ñudzavui
glosses: A member of a Mesoamerican people who live primarily in southern Mexico.
Related terms: la Mixteca
Mixteca
Mixteca Alta
Mixteca Baja
Mixtec
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mixtec
form: most Mixtec
form: Mistec
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mixteco, alteration of mixteca, from Classical Nahuatl mixtēcah (“Mixtecs”, plural).
Senses: synonyms: Mixteco
Ñudzahui
Ñudzavui
glosses: Relating to the Mixtecs or their language.
Mixtec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mistec
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mixteco, alteration of mixteca, from Classical Nahuatl mixtēcah (“Mixtecs”, plural).
Senses: synonyms: Mixteco
Ñudzahui
Ñudzavui
glosses: The language or language family of this people.
Derived terms: Mixtecan
bottomonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottomoniums
form: bottomonia
Etymology: From bottom + -onium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any meson, such as an upsilon particle, formed from a bottom quark and its antiquark.
Derived terms: sbottomonium
Related terms: charmonium
quarkonium
strangeonium
toponium
charmonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charmoniums
form: charmonia
Etymology: From charm + -onium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any meson formed from a charm quark and its antiquark.
Derived terms: charmoniumlike
orthocharmonium
paracharmonium
Related terms: J
ψ particle
bottomonium
quarkonium
strangeonium
toponium
graduands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graduand
deodorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deodorizes
form: deodorizing
form: deodorized
form: deodorized
form: deodorise
form: deodourise
form: deodourize
Etymology: From de- + odor + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To mask or eliminate the odor of, or an odor in, (something).
Derived terms: deodorizable
nondeodorized
undeodorized
Related terms: deodorant
deodorization
deodorizer
depilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛpɪleɪt/
Forms: form: depilates
form: depilating
form: depilated
form: depilated
Etymology: First attested in 1575; borrowed from Latin dēpilātus, perfect passive participle of dēpilō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In Siena, the donkey upon which Bernardino had traveled so many miles was literally and thoroughly depilated in the mad rush for miracle-working relics.
ref: 1999, Franco Mormando, The Preacher’s Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy, →ISBN, page 38:
synonyms: hair#Verb
glosses: To remove all hair from skin so as to make it smooth.
Hyponyms: epilate
Derived terms: depilator
Related terms: depilation
pelota
pilose
pilosity
pilous
deportee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌpɔːˈti/
Forms: form: deportees
Etymology: From deport + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: That year ICE also said the average cost of transporting one deportee to their home country was $1,978.
ref: 2024 October 19, Catherine E. Shoichet, “Trump’s mass deportation plans would be costly. Here’s why”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2025:
text: But on Friday, a U.S. Air Force plane carrying more than 70 deportees arrived around midday in the city of San Pedro Sula, about 100 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.
ref: 2025 February 1, Annie Correal, “U.S. Military Planes Deliver Deportees to Honduras”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025:
glosses: A deported person.
pooftah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pooftahs
form: poofta
Senses: examples: text: A backslapping, beerswilling Jack-the-Lad who wears chunky gold jewellery and cracks crude gags about “bearded oysters” and pooftahs. That′s Tony Sanderson′s perception of the public′s perception of Tony Sanderson, and he is not far wrong. But it does upset him a little,[…].
ref: 1989, Hilary Prendini Toffoli, Gus Silber, Who′s Really Who in South Africa, page 168:
text: 2001, Lindsay Charman-Love, Been There, Done That, Top Hat and Taiaha, and Other Stories, Huia Publishers, New Zealand, page 6,
Screaming like a banshee he turned on his heels and fled.
‘Gutless bastard,’ one of them yelled. ‘You fucking girl!’
‘Yeah, ya pooftah,’ his mate yelled. ‘Fuckin′ chicken pooftah!’
glosses: Alternative spelling of poofter.
Related terms: poof
gialli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giallo
single supplement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single supplements
Senses: glosses: A charge added to a per-person occupancy rate that is based on an assumption of double occupancy, as on a cruise ship.
backscatters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backscatter
backscatters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backscatter
backscattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backscatterings
Etymology: From back + scattering.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The scattering of waves, particles, or signals back in the direction of their source.
backscattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From back + scattering.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backscatter
backscattered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of backscatter
irradiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of irradiate
irradiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irradiated
form: most irradiated
Senses: glosses: Emitted outwards from a centre like rays.
examples: text: Per Fess, Or, and Argent, a Rose irradiated Gules, therefrom issuant two Griphons' heads addorsed Sable. William Barlow.
ref: 1829, Stephen Hyde Cassan, Lives of the bishops of Bath and Wells, page 65:
text: A Lion of England imperially crowned, between three roses gules in chief, and as many argent in base, barbed, seeded, and irradiated or […]
ref: 1893, John Edwin Cussans, Handbook of Heraldry, page 277:
text: [...] a naked child seized by a bear passant sable semee d'estoiles or, on a chief argent three roses gules irradiated.
ref: 1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy … of England and Wales, page 187:
text: Azure, on a cross quarterly pierced or, four chevrons gules, with an honourable augmentation, a chief argent, thereon a rose gules, irradiated gold, within a wreath of oak proper.
ref: 1899, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, page 878:
text: Quarterly : 1st and 4th, Sable, a fesse wavy between two estoiles irradiated argent, Drake; 2nd, Gules, on a bend or, a baton azure, on a chief the arms of[…]
ref: 1902, Joseph Jackson Howard, Visitation of England and Wales, page 1:
text: [...] in her dexter hand a pair of scales or, and in her sinister a touchstone sable, her head irradiated.
ref: 1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms, London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 326:
text: Crest — Rising from the top of a lighthouse argent irradiated or a martlet azure.
ref: 2020 April 20, Susan Morris, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019, eBook Partnership, →ISBN, page 2780:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having rays; radiant.
antonyms: unirradiated
glosses: Having been exposed to radiation (as for example by imaging, food-safety sterilization, or a nuclear blast).
Derived terms: inirradiated
microirradiated
nonirradiated
postirradiated
preirradiated
unirradiated
Related terms: word: nonirradiating
directorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: directoria
Etymology: From Latin dīrēctōrium (literally “guide”). Doublet of directory.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: In the later Middle Ages, a Catholic liturgical guide for praying the Divine Office and Holy Mass.
derivatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derivative
contexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of context
contexts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of context
ions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ion
reacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
The annellation of the pyrimidine ring onto alicyclic alkenes has been achieved using Diels-Alder chemistry. 2,4-Dimethoxy-1,3-diazaanthracene (DDA) reacts with Smith’s diene under forcing thermal conditions (sealed tube at 180 °C) to form a mixture of stereoisomeric adducts which can be separated by fractional crystallization.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of react
reacts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of react
reacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of react
cocoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocoon
cocoons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cocoon
filthy rich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From filthy lucre.
Senses: glosses: Very rich (wealthy).
wind power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Power of the wind.
glosses: Such power harnessed as a power source, especially as applied to a category of electrical generation.
Synonyms: english: broadly synonymous despite precise differentiability of energy from power (energy per time unit)
translation: broadly synonymous despite precise differentiability of energy from power (energy per time unit)
word: wind energy
Hypernyms: renewable energy
energy
Related terms: windfall
wind farm
windmill
wind mill
wind park
wind band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind bands
Senses: glosses: A musical group consisting solely of woodwind and brass instruments.
+
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: Second course: sauvignon blanc, chicken + rice, ratatouille niçoise
glosses: Abbreviation of and.
examples: text: I h a kr. i i a gd kr wn i rn. i hz a gd mtr. i i g bd, I k h i fx. i e b i, e k pa e f i. i I c a btr kr, I k b i. I h sm mne + I k pa fr i.
ref: 1950, Dana F. Kellerman, chapter 1, in Catherine M. Lang, Elizabeth J. Ryan, editors, Stenoscript abc Shorthand, SRA edition, published 1968, Review IV, page 7:
english: I have a car. It is a good car when it runs. It has a good motor. If it goes bad, I can have it fixed. If he buys it, he can pay me for it. If I see a better car, I can buy it. I have some money, and I can pay for it.
translation: I have a car. It is a good car when it runs. It has a good motor. If it goes bad, I can have it fixed. If he buys it, he can pay me for it. If I see a better car, I can buy it. I have some money, and I can pay for it.
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glosses: Abbreviation of and.
Abbreviation of and.
examples: text: Despite winning every award under the sun and being critically acclaimed + beloved, Schitt's Creek didn't become household-name-levels of popular until its last few seasons.
ref: 2024 September 16, Mehera Bonner, “Wondering What Dan Levy Is Making for Hosting the 2024 Emmys? Here's a Deep Dive on His Net Worth!”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Used to connect two elements: and, plus.
Related terms: A+
A++
Bremelo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bremelos
form: Bremerlo
Etymology: Blend of Bremerton + buffalo. The word has been in use since the 1960s in Kitsap County.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A young overweight woman in the area around Puget Sound Naval Station Bremerton, Washington, a major naval base, particularly one who seeks to partner with Navy personnel.
Bremelos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bremelo
nutzoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nutzoid
form: most nutzoid
Etymology: From nuts + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Crazy; insane.
nutzoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutzoids
Etymology: From nuts + -oid.
Senses: glosses: An insane or wacky person.
Related terms: creepazoid
dorkazoid
freakazoid
geekazoid
scuzzoid
sleazoid
congregational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑŋɡɹəˈɡeɪʃənəl/
ipa: /kɒŋɡɹəˈɡeɪʃənəl/
Etymology: From congregation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a congregation.
Derived terms: congregationalism
congregationalist
congregationalize
congregationally
noncongregational
uncongregational
Congregational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑŋɡɹəˈɡeɪʃənəl/
ipa: /kɒŋɡɹəˈɡeɪʃənəl/
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Congregationalism, Congregationalists or a Congregational church
Derived terms: Congregationalism
Congregationalist
congregationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑŋɡɹəˈɡeɪʃənəˌlɪzəm/
ipa: /ˌkɒŋɡɹəˈɡeɪʃənəˌlɪzəm/
Forms: form: congregationalisms
Etymology: From congregational + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of church organization in which each congregation is responsible for its own government.
Derived terms: congregationalist
Related terms: episcopacy
high church
low church
Congregationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A system of self-governing Protestant churches
Related terms: Congregational church
congregationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From congregational + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to congregationalism.
congregationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congregationalists
Etymology: From congregational + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Congregationalist.
conjoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle French. Doublet of conjunct.
Senses: glosses: joined together; combined; joint
Derived terms: conjoint bundle
conjointly
conjointment
conjointness
nonconjoint
stumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌmpi/
rhymes: -ʌmpi
Forms: form: stumpier
form: stumpiest
Etymology: From stump + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “That’s better. Gilbert Goodie! I should have known it was you. The one-legged layabout. The uni-ped idler. The stumpy skiver. Stealing coins from a wishing well now, are we? You couldn’t make it up!”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Like or resembling a stump; short and cut off.
examples: text: a stumpy forest
glosses: Full of stumps.
Derived terms: stumpily
stumpiness