cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
moringa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɔːˈɹɪŋɡə/
Forms: form: moringas
Etymology: Probably from Tamil முருங்கை (muruṅkai, “drumstick”), from the shape of the fruits.
Senses: glosses: Any of several trees, of genus Moringa, that grow in tropical and subtropical India and Africa.
Synonyms: ben
drumstick tree
horseradish tree
Derived terms: moringic acid
efficacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: efficacities
Etymology: From Middle French efficacité.
Senses: glosses: Efficacy.
Related terms: effect
effective
effectiveness
effectivity
effector
effectual
effectuate
efficacious
efficaciously
efficacy
efficiency
efficient
November moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: November moths
Senses: glosses: A moth, Epirrita dilutata, found throughout Europe and the Middle East.
Derived terms: pale November moth
imperfect subjunctive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperfect subjunctives
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:imperfect subjunctive.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The imperfect tense in the subjunctive mood.
script monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: script monkeys
Senses: glosses: An operator at a call center who works entirely from a script and is therefore unable to help with any problems for which no script exists.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hacker who has no talent other than for using other people's scripts.
Related terms: script kiddie
Joachim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.ə.kɪm/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊ.ə.kɪm/
ipa: /ˈjoʊ.kɪm/
ipa: /joʊ.əˈkiːm/
Etymology: Derived from Latin Iōāchīmus, from Ancient Greek Ἰωακείμ (Iōakeím), Ἰωακίμ (Iōakím) (2 Kings 24:1), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוֹיָקִים (yəhôyâqîm, literally “may Yahweh raise up”). The Septuagint in 2 Kings 24 mentions "Ιωακιμ" and his son "Ιωαχιμ" (יהויכין), but the latter does not seem to be the source of the name Joachim, as in the Vulgate it is "Ioachin", and in Greek the father of Mary is Ιωακειμ, not Ιωαχιμ.
Senses: glosses: The father of the Virgin Mary, according to apocryphal gospels.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, always rare in English.
Derived terms: Joachimism
Joachimite
Dynbaer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Dunbar.
present subjunctive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: present subjunctives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The present tense in the subjunctive mood.
schoolie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːli
Forms: form: schoolies
form: schooly
form: skoolie
Etymology: From school + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: Known as the Drug Awareness Network, it was able to find funding assistance for its work from the National Drug Education unit. The network devised a programme of activities which was later advertised to intending Schoolies by helpers walking the streets and distributing leafets containing information about forthcoming events.
ref: 1996, John Cotterell, Social Networks and Social Influences in Adolescence, page 176:
text: Some of the locals prey on the Schoolies.
ref: 2007, John Chalmers, Byron Bay Taxis and Lunacies, page 78:
text: If staying in November or December, the place is filled with hundreds of schoolies.
ref: 2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 338:
text: But the victim in this case had been a schoolie, she′d been assaulted during Schoolies Week, and her attacker might have been a fellow schoolie.
ref: 2010, Garry Disher, Blood Moon, page 17:
glosses: A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
glosses: A schoolteacher.
examples: text: Arbroath, being a training station for young naval airmen, also housed several ‘schoolies’ (education officers), four of whom lived in an adjacent building to mine. I quickly struck up a close friendship with two of the schoolies, Ron Horner and Vivian Price.
ref: 2008, John H. Dunning, Seasons of a Scholar: Some Personal Reflections of an International Business Economist, page 46:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An education officer.
examples: text: 1997 August, Lawrence Pine, Massachusetts′s Plymouth Rock Bass, Field & Stream, page 94,
Poppers and Clouser-style flies can produce large numbers of schoolies that average 16 to 24 inches, with a sprinkling of fish from 24 to 28 inches.
text: Oklahomans Jim Campbell and Gary Tyler caught 123 peacocks (including two teeners) by concentrating on the schoolies with jigs and other small lures that day.
ref: 2003, Larry Larsen, Amazon Peacock Bass Fishing: Top Tactics for Top Locations, page 150:
text: Schoolies tend to concentrate inside harbors and along beaches, often moving far inside tidal creeks and salt ponds.
ref: 2009, Tom Rosenbauer, Nick Lyons, The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing: 101 Tips for the Absolute Beginner, page 88:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: Synonym of school horse.
synonyms: word: school horse
Synonyms: sense: senior school student attending school-leaving celebrations
word: leaver
sense: bass that swims in a school
word: schoolie bass
Derived terms: schoolies week
Related terms: toolie
native bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: native bears
Senses: glosses: A koala.
native monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: native monkeys
Senses: examples: text: 1892: James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wiradhurri, Appendix D of John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
Barrandang—a native monkey.
text: It forms the genus Phascolarctos, and is called by the colonists “native bear” or “native monkey.”
ref: 1894, Australasia:
glosses: A koala.
coffeehousing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: (distracting an opponent): From the chat or banter in a coffeehouse.
Senses: glosses: The act of distracting an opponent in a game by chattering.
glosses: Unethical behaviour at the table during bridge or another game.
y'allselves
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From y'all + -selves.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the list is Bill Varnedoe (NSS 3160) Field Trip Coordinator tailored both for the “do-it-y’allselves” cavers and for the convention field-trippers.
ref: 1958, National Speleological Society, NSS News, page 65:
text: “Oh, yeah, I’ll do that. And y’all take care of y’allselves. —And write me.”
ref: 1980, Samuel Wheat, Melting Pot: A Novel, page 137:
text: I know both of y’all better than y’all know y’allselves.
ref: 1996: James Earl Hardy, 2 ⁿᵈ Time Around, p104
text: Y’all worms call y’allselves soldiers? Y’all still wet behind the ears from being coddled by your mamas!
ref: 2005, J. C. Arlington, A Red Horse Rode Out, page 17:
glosses: Yourselves.
Related terms: y’allself
youseselves
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From youse + -selves.
Senses: examples: text: ...passin’ youseselves as honest hobos when youse airn’t [sic] nothin’ but workin’ men!
ref: 1927, St John G. Ervine, The Wayward Man:
coordinate_terms: youseself
glosses: Yourselves, reflexive case of youse.
diate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diates
Senses: examples: text: The chang of aire, diate, & drinking of water, would infecte their bodies with sore sickneses, and greevous diseases.
ref: 1620-1647, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of diet.
by oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I have always wondered why shoe salesmen think I can't tie my shoes by myself.
text: You ate the whole thing by yourself?
glosses: Unaided; without assistance or help from others.
examples: text: She sat by herself in the corner, waiting quietly.
glosses: Alone, without another's immediate company.
examples: text: He kept the gun by himself at all times.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see by, oneself.
Synonyms: sense: alone
word: on one's own
florescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɔˈɹɛsəns/
homophone: fluorescence
homophone: in some pronunciations
Forms: form: florescences
Etymology: From Latin florēscō, from flōreō (“I bloom, flower”) + -ēscō, from flōs (“flower”), from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”), as if through the form flōrēscentia.
Senses: glosses: The time, or the condition, of budding or flowering.
Derived terms: reflorescence
synflorescence
florescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /floɹˈɛsənt/
ipa: /flɔˈɹɛsənt/
homophone: fluorescent
homophone: in some pronunciations
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more florescent
form: most florescent
Etymology: From Latin florescens, present active participle of floresco (“I flower”).
Senses: glosses: Flowering or budding.
Derived terms: reflorescent
smoke jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke jumpers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smokejumper.
floret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləˈɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: florets
form: florette
Etymology: From Old French florete, diminutive of flor (“flower”). Doublet of fleuret and floweret.
Senses: glosses: A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower.
Synonyms: floweret
Derived terms: ray floret
semifloret
fluoroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From fluoroscope + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or using a fluoroscope.
Derived terms: fluoroscopically
nonfluoroscopic
forensically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more forensically
form: most forensically
Etymology: From forensic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: He banged his fist forensically on the top of a dinner-wagon.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 486:
text: a forensically thorough search
glosses: In a forensic manner.
glosses: Regarding forensics, or forensic science.
forensics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fəˈɹɛn.zɪks/
Senses: glosses: The study of formal debate; rhetoric.
glosses: A type of rhetoric or debate society or club, particularly one affiliated with a school.
glosses: Forensic science.
Derived terms: antiforensics
atomic forensics
bioforensics
cyberforensics
digital forensics
geoforensics
nuclear forensics
phytoforensics
Related terms: forensic
forensic science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forensic sciences
Senses: glosses: Any of several fields of study involving the collection of physical evidence and its subsequent analysis.
Hyponyms: forensic biology
forensic chemistry
forensic dentistry
forensic entomology
forensic genetics
forensic linguistics
forensic medicine
forensic odontology
forensic palynology
forensic pathology
forensic physics
forensic psychiatry
forensic psychology
forensic toxicology
forsythia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [fɔːˈsajθijə]
ipa: [fɔɹˈsɪθijə]
Forms: form: forsythias
Etymology: From New Latin, named in honor of Scottish horticulturist William Forsyth, who brought the shrub over from China. Forsyth's own name is from Irish Fearsithe, meaning "man of peace."
Senses: examples: text: They heard laughing then, and looked up to see Ann and Bell coming down the street toward them. Ann had plucked a twig of forsythia, and was trying to arrange it in her hair. "Take that off!" Bell was saying. "It's got bugs crawling on it!"
ref: 1981 April 25, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voicens In The Night”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
glosses: Any of several shrubs, of the genus Forsythia, native to Asia and Eastern Europe, that are cultivated for their yellow flowers, which bloom in early spring.
wikipedia: William Forsyth (horticulturist)
hukka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hukkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hookah.
pull the other leg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls the other leg
form: pulling the other leg
form: pulled the other leg
form: pulled the other leg
Senses: glosses: In imperative/precative form, used to imply that the speaker does not accept or believe what another has just said.
Synonyms: pull the other one, it's got bells on
bullshit
dormant volcano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dormant volcanoes
form: dormant volcanos
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A volcano that has not erupted for a considerable length of time, but is still capable of erupting.
Coordinate terms: word: active volcano
word: extinct volcano
fungoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fungoid
form: most fungoid
Etymology: From fungus + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: He had no hair on the front of his head at all so that the sweep of bone skin, daunting in its fungoid pallor, came right over above his ears.
ref: 1955, William Golding, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 142
coordinate_terms: fungal#Adjective
fungous#Adjective
mycotic#Adjective
;
nonfungal#Adjective
nonmycotic#Adjective
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus.
fungoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fungoids
Etymology: From fungus + -oid.
Senses: examples: G. K. Chesterton
He found the suspicion correct which supposed the tree branched from one great root, like a candelabrum; the fork, though stained and slimy with green fungoids, was quite near the ground, and offered a first foothold.
glosses: A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus.
fungous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin fungōsus. Equivalent to fungus + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: With the memory of that roadside claw-print fresh in my mind, Akeley’s whispered paragraphs had affected me queerly; and the hints of familiarity with this unknown world of fungous life—forbidden Yuggoth—made my flesh creep more than I cared to own.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 7, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
synonyms: fungal
mycotic
antonyms: nonfungal
nonmycotic
coordinate_terms: antifungal
antimycotic
glosses: Of or pertaining to fungi.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of or containing a spongy, abnormal excrescence.
Derived terms: fungosity
going to the dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go to the dogs
0-6-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-6-2s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has six coupled driving wheels followed by two trailing wheels, with no leading wheels.
2-6-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-6-0s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has a pair of leading wheels followed by six driving wheels, with no trailing wheels.
synonyms: Mogul
glosses: ;
2-6-0+0-6-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-6-0+0-6-2s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Garratt steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts, with a boiler mounted on the centre frame, and two steam engines mounted in opposite directions on separate frames, one on each end of the boiler, and each engine having a 2-6-0 wheel configuration.
broken heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broken hearts
Senses: examples: text: It took all the strength I had, not to fall apart / Just tryin' hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart
ref: 1978, Dino Fekaris, Freddie Perren, “I Will Survive”, in Love Tracks, performed by Gloria Gaynor:
text: Last night a DJ saved my life / Last night a DJ saved my life from a broken heart
ref: 1982, Michael Cleveland, “Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life”, performed by Indeep:
synonyms: heartbreak
glosses: A feeling of grief or loss, especially after a failed romantic relationship.
Derived terms: broken hearted
broken heart syndrome
Related terms: brokenhearted
heartbroken
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nasho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nashos
form: Nasho
Etymology: Clipping of national service + -o.
Senses: examples: text: National Service was meant to turn boys into men and make the Yellow Peril think twice about moving south. It was universally known as Nasho – a typically Australian diminutive.[…]But the most brutal fact about Nasho was the initial seventy-seven-day period of basic training, most of which took place at Ingleburn.
ref: 1981, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, unnumbered page:
glosses: Military national service, conscription.
examples: text: The white Rhodie ‘nashos’ (another derogatory term for national servicemen—this time from the Brit regulars), however, brought to the battalion a level of education that was previously unknown.
ref: 2007, Alexandre Binda, Chris Cocks, The Saints: The Rhodesian Light Infantry, page 176:
text: 2009, Raja (Arasa) Ratnam, The Dance of Destiny, page 166,
[…] an English acquaintance. He had been one of the national servicemen from the UK stationed in Malaya, and had had his share of duty on the night train. He explained that many of his ‘nasho’ colleagues were sensibly afraid of being shot at.
text: Apart from 1 RAR, all the battalions included National Servicemen (Nashos), but in the field there was no distinction between the Nashos and the Regular soldiers (Regs).
ref: 2010, David Horner, Australia′s Military History For Dummies, unnumbered page:
text: Two groups of soldiers made up the Australian forces in Vietnam—members of the Regular Army and National Servicemen. The Nashos, as they were popularly known, had been plucked willy nilly from the general male population, chosen by lottery.[…]Officially only National Servicemen who volunteered to go to Vietnam did so, but many Nashos said they had never been given an option.
ref: 2011, Gerard Windsor, All Day Long the Noise of Battle: Charlie Company at the Bunkers, unnumbered page:
glosses: A person doing military national service.
semiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiologies
Etymology: From New Latin semaeologia, from Ancient Greek σημεῖον (sēmeîon, “sign”) + -logia (“-logy”).
Senses: glosses: Semiotics, the study of signs.
glosses: The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology.
glosses: The art of using signs in signalling.
glosses: The symptom expression of an epileptic seizure.
Synonyms: semiotics
Related terms: symbology
viri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪɹaɪ/
ipa: /ˈvɪɹiː/
rhymes: -aɪɹaɪ
Senses: glosses: plural of virus
parlando
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parlandos
Etymology: From Italian parlando (“saying”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece of music to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.
parlando
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italian parlando (“saying”).
Senses: synonyms: parlante
glosses: Declamatory in style; in recitative.
parlando
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian parlando (“saying”).
Senses: synonyms: parlante
glosses: In a declamatory style.
parlante
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of parlando.
synonyms: word: parlando
parlante
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of parlando.
synonyms: word: parlando
Looney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Looneys
form: Lunney
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Luanaigh (“descendant of Luanach”), a personal name based on Middle Irish lúan (“light, warrior's halo, warrior”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Panzerschrek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Panzerschreks
form: Panzerschreck
form: Panzershrek
Etymology: Misspelled from German Panzerschreck, which was a nickname of the anti-tank weapon officially known as Raketenpanzerbüchse 54.
Senses: glosses: a portable anti-tank rocket launcher developed by the Germans during WW2
wikipedia: de:Raketenpanzerbüchse 54
Plastic Paddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ædi
Forms: form: Plastic Paddies
form: plastic Paddy
Etymology: From the sense of plastic as fake, ersatz, inauthentic, etc. and Paddy (“Patrick”) as a generic name for any Irish man.
Senses: examples: text: He’s just a Plastic Paddy singing Plastic Paddy songs. In a Plastic Paddy pub that they call The Blarney Stone. There’s plastic shamrocks everywhere. There’s Guinness and green beer. And a sign in Gaelic above the bar which says “God Bless All Here”.
ref: 1993, “Plastic Paddy”, in Mirrors, performed by Eric Bogle:
glosses: A person of another ethnicity considered to be passing or posing as Irish.
glosses: An Irish person considered to be inauthentically Irish, especially (UK) recent Irish arrivals to London.
Synonyms: plastic
Related terms: Hollywood Irish
tailless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English tailles, equivalent to tail + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Cavies are caviomorphs. Caviomorphs are tailless South American rodents that are characterized by having one pair of mammae (teats), four digits on the forefoot, and three digits on the hind foot, as well as special anatomical features of the head and jaws.
ref: 2003, Sharon Lynn Vanderlip, The Guinea Pig Handbook, page 11:
text: The Manx Rat: This tailless rat variety is usually smaller than the standard rat with front legs that are shorter than its hind legs.
ref: 2006, Colin Patterson, Pet Rats, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 23:
text: Strictly speaking, the term toad should be restricted to members of the family Bufonidae, of which the common European and natterjack toads are good examples. But common parlance has seen the name applied to any warty tail-less amphibian.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 36:
glosses: Without a tail; not having a tail.
Synonyms: acaudal
acaudate
scornfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɔɹnfəli/
ipa: /ˈskɔːnfəli/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nfəli
Forms: form: more scornfully
form: most scornfully
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English scornfully; equivalent to scornful + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Senses: examples: text: "Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 82:
text: 'What does he look like?' asks John Halgard. 'A salesman,' says Gerontius scornfully.
ref: 1985, Joan Morrison, chapter 7, in Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 91:
glosses: In a scornful manner; contemptuously, derisively.
scoutmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoutmasters
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Scoutmaster.
seborrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seborrheas
form: seborrhoea
form: seborrhœa
Etymology: From seb(um) + -o- + -rrhea.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A skin disorder causing scaly, flaky, itchy, red skin.
Synonyms: word: seborrhagia
Derived terms: seborrheal
seborrheic
Related terms: sebaceous
cradle cap
seductiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seductive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Her seductiveness came from her apparent innocence.
text: Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 219:
text: She brought a tigresslike seductiveness and a husky-voiced irreverence to roles as worldly, devil-may-care women, becoming adept at playing exotic vamps and free-spirited protagonists, […]
ref: 1990 January 26, Peter B. Flint, “Ava Gardner Is Dead at 67; Often Played Femme Fatale”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The property of being seductive
Synonyms: seductivity
seedbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsidˌbɛd/
Forms: form: seedbeds
Etymology: From seed + bed.
Senses: glosses: Ground prepared for the planting of seeds.
examples: text: Paris was a seedbed of artistic creation in the 1920s.
synonyms: hotbed
glosses: A place conducive to development and attainment.
sedation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: sedations
Senses: examples: text: The patient was so agitated that the doctor resorted to sedation.
glosses: The act of sedating, especially by use of sedatives.
Derived terms: conscious sedation
terminal sedation
oughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːts/
ipa: /ɑːts/
rhymes: -ɔːts
rhymes: -ɑːts
Senses: glosses: plural of ought
oughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːts/
ipa: /ɑːts/
rhymes: -ɔːts
rhymes: -ɑːts
Senses: examples: text: He and his clever staff of minor blackguards exploited to the full every weakness and caries in the London Society of the 'eighties, 'nineties, and 'oughts.
ref: 1919, Harry Hamilton Johnston, The Gay-Dombeys: A Novel, Macmillan, page 172:
text: 2000, John Maxtone-Graham, Liners to the Sun, Sheridan House, Inc., →ISBN, page xii,
And for the oughts—by which I suppose we must identify our new millennium's first decade—projected tonnage figures keep up the mind-boggling pace.
text: The "experts" of the Western world are slower to turn around than an ocean liner, and in Europe they were still yakking about the "population explosion" even as their 1970s schoolhouses, built in anticipation of traditional Catholic birth rates, were emptying through the nineties and oughts.
ref: 2006, Mark Steyn, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Alternative spelling of aughts (“first decade of a century”).
naked as the day one was born
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: as naked as the day one was born
Senses: glosses: Completely naked.
Synonyms: word: naked as the day one entered the world
word: naked as a jaybird
Related terms: birthday suit
top tier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒp ˈtɪə/
ipa: /ˈtɑp ˈtɪɚ/
Forms: form: more top tier
form: most top tier
form: top-tier
form: toptier
Etymology: From top + tier (“rank, level, grade”).
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the top tier: elite, prestigious.
top tier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒp ˈtɪə/
ipa: /ˈtɑp ˈtɪɚ/
Forms: form: top tiers
form: top-tier
form: toptier
Etymology: From top + tier (“rank, level, grade”).
Senses: glosses: Top level, top rank, top standing.
glosses: Elite.
at symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: at symbols
Senses: glosses: The at sign (@).
scoffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoffers
Etymology: From scoff + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church’s lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there remains a remnant.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 267:
glosses: One who scoffs or mocks.
glosses: One who eats a large amount.
résumés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of résumé
padri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padre
biscotti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈskɒtɪ/
ipa: /bɪˈskɑti/
ipa: [bɪˈskɑɾi]
ipa: /bɪˈskɒtɪ/
ipa: /bɪˈskɔtɪ/
ipa: /bɪˈskɒtɪ/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: biscotti
form: biscottis
form: biscotto
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian biscotti, plural of biscotto (“cookie, biscuit”); doublet of biscuit.
Senses: examples: text: If you like your biscottis to be softer, keep them refrigerated.
ref: 2000, Nick Ligidakis, My Private Collection, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A hard, usually nut-flavored biscuit, derived from the Tuscan cantuccio.
biscotti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈskɒtɪ/
ipa: /bɪˈskɑti/
ipa: [bɪˈskɑɾi]
ipa: /bɪˈskɒtɪ/
ipa: /bɪˈskɔtɪ/
ipa: /bɪˈskɒtɪ/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: biscotto
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian biscotti, plural of biscotto (“cookie, biscuit”); doublet of biscuit.
Senses: glosses: plural of biscotto
bave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baves
Senses: glosses: silkworm thread extruded as brins from the two glands and stuck together with sericin proteins
budini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budino
OPM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Both Bobba and Coristine are listed in internal OPM records reviewed by WIRED as “experts” at OPM, reporting directly to Amanda Scales, its new chief of staff.
ref: 2025 February 2, Vittoria Elliott, “The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025:
topics: government
glosses: Initialism of Office of Personnel Management.
glosses: Initialism of Original Pilipino Music, Original Philippine Music, or Original Pinoy Music.
OPM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Suspicions should have been raised when the company was named OPM Leasing.
glosses: Initialism of other people's money.
sandgrounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandgrounders
Etymology: From sand + ground + -er, from the fact that Southport is built upon a bed of sand.
Senses: glosses: A person from Southport.
sandgrounder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sand + ground + -er, from the fact that Southport is built upon a bed of sand.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Southport, England.
apostrophize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apostrophizes
form: apostrophizing
form: apostrophized
form: apostrophized
form: apostrophise
Etymology: From apostrophe + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he resumed her former occupation, and continued to soliloquize and apostrophize her absent hand-maidens, without even appearing sensible of his presence.
ref: 1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], “The Guest”, in St Ronan’s Well. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 33:
text: "He fully believes he is one of the aristocracy! And he is so condescending to the son he so egregiously deludes that you might suppose him the most virtuous of parents. Oh!" said the old lady, apostrophizing him with infinite vehemence. "I could bite you!"
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 14, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: “Ah! poultry, poultry! You little thought,” said Mr. Pumblechook, apostrophising the fowl in the dish, “when you was a young fledgling, what was in store for you. […]”
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XIX, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 329:
text: Just as I could not shed tears, so was I incapable of apostrophizing God in my despair.
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 11:
text: Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 2, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: To deliver an apostrophe (an exclamatory speech) to someone, especially someone not present.
glosses: To add one or more apostrophe characters to text to indicate missing letters.
Derived terms: apostrophization
mis-apostrophize
unapostrophized
aurify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːɹɪˌfaɪ/
Forms: form: aurifies
form: aurifying
form: aurified
form: aurified
Etymology: From aur- + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: The alchemist's dream was ever to aurify base metal.
glosses: To turn into gold.
Related terms: aurific
aurification
bedazzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈdæzl̩/
rhymes: -æzəl
Forms: form: bedazzles
form: bedazzling
form: bedazzled
form: bedazzled
Etymology: From be- + dazzle.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: daze
text: He was bedazzled by her charm and wit.
glosses: To confuse or disarm by dazzling.
examples: text: She bedazzled her handbag.
synonyms: embellish#Verb
glosses: To decorate with sequins or other sparkly material; to bespangle.
Derived terms: bedazzlement
bedazzler
vajazzle
carpet bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carpet bombs
form: carpet bombing
form: carpet bombed
form: carpet bombed
form: carpet-bomb
Senses: examples: text: The infantry were destroyed after the enemy carpet bombed the ground they were occupying.
text: Russian bombers were carpet bombing the ridge directly above them, in a vain attempt to kill the Mujahideen fighters that plagued their operations on the ground.
ref: 2008, Conrad Jones, Soft Target: Tank. II, page 237:
text: Vietnamese Air Force continued to carpet bomb any base areas that we found to be lucrative targets at the time.
ref: 2010, Ken Welch, Tiger Hound: How We Won the War & Lost the Country, page 52:
text: Post World War II (WW II), terrorism against the people acquired a new dimension when America bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and later carpet bombed Vietnam with Napalm.
ref: 2015, Ram Puniyani, Deconstructing Terrorist Violence: Faith as a Mask:
glosses: To bomb an area in such a manner that the ordnance covers the entire area without gaps.
Derived terms: carpet bombing
carpet bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpet bombs
form: carpet-bomb
Senses: examples: text: This multiplicity of outlets work like carpet bombs that leave very little empty space for competition to be comfortable.
ref: 2007, Services Marketing: Text And Cases:
text: There was a whole new lexicon to learn: cluster bombs, fragmentation bombs, carpet bombs, napalm bombs, phosphorous bombs with their delicate spidery fingers stretching in all directions.
ref: 2009, William Ayers, Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist:
text: What he really means is that the psychics' powers under test functioned more like a carpet bomb than a precision missile.
ref: 2010, William Little, The Psychic Tourist: A Voyage into the Curious World of Predicting the Future:
glosses: A bomb used in a carpet bombing.
examples: text: This underground arena features switches that trigger lasers, and a carpet bomb of the entire lower and upper levels.
ref: 2004, Keats Hanson, James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing: Prima's Official Strategy Guide:
text: I watched in awe as the pans and glasses exploded halfway across the lawn, erupting from the tarp like a simulated war scenario where the plan of attack was a carpet bomb initiated from the sky.
ref: 2007, Doug Green, No Wife No Kids No Plan:
text: They were probably afraid that we would bury them in another carpet bomb of expletives.
ref: 2014, Jerald Ford, When I Am King, volume 2, page 290:
glosses: A bombing of this kind.
Teddie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ted + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, look!” said Teddie, who had never ceased to explore every possible place on his person where a match might lodge; and he exhibited a round object which gave a sudden flash in the sunlight.
ref: 1875, St. Nicholas, volume 2, page 641:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Edward and Theodore, or of their diminutives Ted and Tedd. Alternative spelling of Teddy.
Edwina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Female form of Edwin from Old English.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Old English, masculine equivalent Edwin.
wilbe
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of will be.
scangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scanger
skangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skanger
centralise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: centralises
form: centralising
form: centralised
form: centralised
form: centralize
Etymology: From central + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: The government decided to centralise the issuing of passports.
text: In the United States the Santa Fe was a pioneer in centralising its scrap handling at Corwith, near Chicago, but after 1924 abandoned this plan in favour of sorting at the point of origin.
ref: 1941 October, “Reclaiming Permanent Way Material”, in Railway Magazine, page 436:
text: All these activities are centralised at Derby, where the L.M.S. research department was formed before the war.
ref: 1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 92:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of centralize.
Derived terms: centralisation
deduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deduce
deducing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deduce
clamourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clamourous
form: most clamourous
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of clamorous.
Derived terms: clamourously
clamorously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clamorously
form: most clamorously
form: clamourously
Etymology: From clamorous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a clamorous manner.
clamourously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clamourously
form: most clamourously
Etymology: From clamourous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of clamorously.
overirrigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + irrigation.
Senses: glosses: excessive irrigation
Related terms: overirrigate
MRB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MRBs
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Initialism of Material Review Board, system of recorded investigative checks done on failed components or processes to improve quality.
glosses: Initialism of Mortgage Revenue Bond.
MRB
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: To send a failed component through the MRB process.
gusty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌs.ti/
rhymes: -ʌsti
Forms: form: gustier
form: gustiest
Etymology: From gust + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
ref: 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza I, page 45:
glosses: Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.
examples: text: A change evidently came over the countess's thoughts; her thin lips grew white (her eyes remained the same), and her voice when she spoke evidently surprised even herself by the violence of its gusty outburst.
ref: 1898, Leo Tolstoy (Nathan Haskell Dole, trans.), War and peace, page 103:
text: 'No, no, no,' she said. 'Who could be disloyal to you, Miss?' And then the gusty tears came.
ref: 2012, Adam Roberts, Jack Glass:
text: The spirit becomes an ingrained part of one's life, not subject to gusty moods and feelings, but a habitual part of life.
ref: 2016, Robert Ellwood, Introducing Religion:
glosses: Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression.
examples: text: “I am a man of few words,” shouted a red-necked House member as he started his second hour of a gusty speech.
ref: 1966, Jacob Morton Braude, Speech openers and closers - Volumes 1-4, page 53:
text: From the vigorous, warm, gusty oratory of the Gallican apologists, we pass into a thinner and cooler and quieter atmosphere, that of the Spanish lecture-room.
ref: 1987, Owen Chadwick, From Bossuet to Newman, page 21:
text: Kingsley came back again, Leonard countered his reply, and so it went on, with personal insults buried in paragraphs of gusty rhetoric.
ref: 2006, Victoria Glendinning, Leonard Woolf: A Biography, page 355:
text: Back then, it was the conservative backlash to canon reformation that blew hot with the gusty rhetoric of politics.
ref: 2010, Henry Louis Gates, Tradition and the Black Atlantic:
glosses: Bombastic, verbose.
gusty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌs.ti/
rhymes: -ʌsti
Forms: form: gustier
form: gustiest
Etymology: From Latin gustus (“tasting”).
Senses: examples: text: His lips, warm with his words, caught hers in a gusty kiss.
ref: 1917, The Green Book Magazine - Volume 18, page 486:
text: I give her a gusty wink.
ref: 2004, John Cottle, The Blessings of Hard-used Angels, page 152:
text: The prime aim of the Bondo dormitory is selection of marriage partners and they are free to have sexual experiences, but not, of course, intercourse, which the boys call with a gusty smile "breast play".
ref: 2007, Prakash Chandra Mehta, Sonu Mehta, Cultural Heritage of Indian Tribes, page 31:
text: She laughed, a gusty laugh, one that lit up her entire face and told you that she found fun in most situations.
ref: 2009, Deni Bash Hoffman, All's Fair in Love and Mystery, page 48:
text: And so did his lordship as he stood and praised her performance, his beard scratching a gusty kiss on her cheek while handing her the winners' trophy in our behalf.
ref: 2012, Irene Hope-Hedrick, 'Twill Be All Right Come Mornin', Luv, page 32:
glosses: With gusto
Derived terms: gustily
gustiness
gustily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gustily
form: most gustily
Etymology: From gusty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gusty manner; in gusts.
second-hand smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondhand smoke
Senses: glosses: The smoke from smokables, especially cigarettes (also cigars or joints), especially in an enclosed environment, and which any individual, including non-smokers, might be forced to breathe.
Related terms: word: cigar smoke
word: smoking
word: smokiness
word: third-hand smoke
gustiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gusty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being gusty; the presence of gusts of wind
half-metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-metals
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any substance that acts as a conductor to electrons of one spin orientation, but as an insulator to those of the opposite orientation
Related terms: half-metallic
semiconductor
spintronics
half-metallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half- + metallic.
Senses: glosses: Made half of a metal and half of some other material.
half-metallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half-metal + -ic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or relating to a half-metal.
nanospintronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + spintronics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The application of spintronics using nanoscale devices
Spock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɒk/
Forms: form: Spocks
Etymology: Anglicized from Dutch Spaak.
Senses: glosses: An American surname from Dutch.
examples: text: This caricature called economic man was not only completely self-centered, he was also entirely rational in all his decisions, whether consuming or investing—a veritable Mr. Spock.
ref: 2010, William McDonald Wallace, The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Economy: How Liberals and Conservatives Both Got It Wrong, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, page 48:
text: Phelps's calorie intake may seem superhuman, and his 6' 4", 185-pound body may recall Greek statuary, but fans are also drawn to him by a goofy grin and oversized ears that led to his being called Spock on the school bus.
ref: 2008 December 2, “Sportsman of the Year: Michael Phelps”, in Sports Illustrated:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
related: word: Mr. Spock
glosses: In Star Trek, a Starfleet commander and science officer of the USS Enterprise, especially known for his Vulcan logic, reason, and stoicism and his distinctive pointed ears.
glosses: Ellipsis of 2309 Mr. Spock: an asteroid in the main belt, Solar System.
Derived terms: Spock ears
Spockery
Spock generation
Spockian
Spocking
Spockish
Spockism
Spock-marked
Spock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɒk/
Forms: form: Spocks
Etymology: Anglicized from Dutch Spaak.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A person or character like a Star Trek Vulcan; someone resembling Star Trek's character Spock.
topics: games
rock-paper-scissors
glosses: The Vulcan salute when used in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock, a handshape that beats rock and scissors and loses to lizard and paper.
Synonyms: Vulcan
Spock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɒk/
Forms: form: Spocks
form: Spocking
form: Spocked
form: Spocked
Etymology: Anglicized from Dutch Spaak.
Senses: topics: games
rock-paper-scissors
glosses: To play the Vulcan salute hand.
attender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: attenders
Etymology: From Middle English attender, attendere, equivalent to attend + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She was a very constant attender of First-day and week-day meetings, at the meeting places she belonged to
ref: 1850, William Ellis, Alice Ellis, James Backhouse, The Life and Correspondence of William and Alice Ellis, of Airton, H. Longstreth, page 305:
text: 1900, James Wideman Lee, Naphtali Luccock, and James Main Dixon, The Illustrated History of Methodism, page 345, The Methodist Magazine Publishing Co.
And she continued her infamous trade of procuress, while a zealous and regular attender of the Tabernacle at Tottenham-Court!
text: The great distance that some youth travel...is bound to play its part in the case of the borderline student who becomes an infrequent attender and finally drops out of school.
ref: 1950, Harold Spears, The High School for Today, American Book Co., page 2:
text: If there is no spiritual distinction between member and attender, the question is asked, Why have membership at all?
ref: 2000, Linda Woodhead, Paul Heelas, Religion in Modern Times: An Anthology, Blackwell Publishing, page 401:
glosses: An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting, school, etc.
examples: text: Sri C. Rajabather was appointed to assist in the office as typist attender from 7-4-41.
ref: 1969, University of Melbourne Library: Report, Melbourne: University Press, page 1:
glosses: An attendant; one who attends to someone or something.
examples: text: the whole process of ages’-long mentalization, of which our present ability of conceiving “Mind” forms only the culmination, and by no means the constant attender.
ref: 1873, Sara S. Hennell, Present Religion: As a Faith Owning Fellowship with Thought, Trübner and Co., page 159:
text: Activity of attention for the sake of knowledge changes only the mind of the attender and is resisted only by the habits, biases, laziness and the like
ref: 1954, Wilmon Henry Sheldon, God and Polarity: A Synthesis of Philosophies, Yale University Press, page 48:
text: The other aspect pertains to the subject’s own subjectivity, those qualities that constitute the subject as the experiencer or attender.
ref: 1996 July, Daniel A. Helminiak, The Human Core of Spirituality: Mind as Psyche and Spirit, State University of New York Press, page 53:
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: The subject; one who experiences.
Derived terms: attendress
nonattender