cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cause célèbre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːz sɛˈlɛbɹ(ə)/
ipa: /ˈkɔz səˈlɛb/
ipa: /-ˈlɛbɹə/
other: /-ˈlɛbɹeɪ/
note: like French
ipa: /ˈkoʊz seɪˈlɛbɹ(ə)/
Forms: form: causes célèbres
form: cause celebre
Etymology: From French cause (“cause, case”) + célèbre (“famous”), in the title of an 18th-century compilation of famous legal cases, Causes célèbres.
Senses: examples: text: Getting iced out by the tech giants turned Parler into a cause célèbre for conservatives who complained they were being censored, as well as a test case for the openness of the internet.
ref: 2021 February 15, Jack Nicas, “Parler, a Social Network That Attracted Trump Fans, Returns Online”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2021:
text: As Musk has waged this pressure campaign, he has incessantly posted in support of the far right in Europe and their current causes célèbres.
ref: 2025 January 10, Ali Breland, “Elon Has Appointed Himself King of the World”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2025:
glosses: An issue or incident (originally, a legal case) arousing widespread controversy or public debate.
wikipedia: Nicolas-Toussaint Des Essarts
gracious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more gracious
form: most gracious
form: gratious
Etymology: From Middle English gracious, from Old French gracieus, from Latin gratiosus, from gratia (“esteem, favor”). See grace. Displaced native Old English hold (“gracious”). Doublet of gracioso and grazioso.
Senses: glosses: kind and warmly courteous
glosses: tactful
glosses: compassionate
glosses: indulgent
glosses: benignant
examples: text: The gracious movements of the figure skaters impressed the judges.
glosses: full of grace; graceful; charming; elegant (in appearance, conduct, movement)
examples: text: The actress's gracious acceptance of being named only in the end credits allowed her character's appearance in the episode to remain a surprise.
glosses: magnanimous, without arrogance or complaint, benevolently declining to raise controversy or insist on possible prerogatives.
Derived terms: graciously
graciousness
ingracious
overgracious
ungracious
Related terms: graceful
gracious
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: gratious
Etymology: From Middle English gracious, from Old French gracieus, from Latin gratiosus, from gratia (“esteem, favor”). See grace. Displaced native Old English hold (“gracious”). Doublet of gracioso and grazioso.
Senses: glosses: Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, or frustration.
Synonyms: sense: expression of surprise
word: wow
Derived terms: good gracious
goodness gracious
goodness gracious me
gracious me
oh my goodness gracious
ghillie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gĭlʹē
ipa: /ˈɡɪli/
ipa: /ˈɡɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: ghillies
Senses: glosses: A low-cut type of shoe with decorative lacing.
examples: text: [H]e said, "I hae the day off tomorrow. I'll take ye out on the Anstey if ye want." This met with Patricia's ideas of what was right or fitting. Fishing on a Scottish river with a policeman as ghillie was socially acceptable to her mind.
ref: 1998, M. C. Beaton [pseudonym; Marion Chesney], chapter 1, in Death of a Scriptwriter (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Mysterious Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gillie.
ghillie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gĭlʹē
ipa: /ˈɡɪli/
ipa: /ˈɡɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: ghillies
form: ghillying
form: ghillied
form: ghillied
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gillie.
Related terms: ghillie suit
godparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godparents
Etymology: From god- + parent, modelled after godfather, godmother, godsib, etc.
Senses: hyponyms: godfather
godmother
glosses: A person who, at a child's naming ceremony or baptism, agrees to help raise the child, originally and especially in regard to their religious development.
glosses: A child's designated guardian in the case that the child's parents die.
Derived terms: godparental
godparenthood
godparenting
anti-abolitionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + abolitionism.
Senses: glosses: The campaign against the abolition of the slave trade and/or slavery.
fistmele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪstˌmiːl/
Forms: form: fistmeles
Etymology: From fist + mele, variant of meal (“measure”), from Old English mæl.
Senses: topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A traditional unit of distance equal to the width of a clenched fist with the thumb extended (approx. 6½ inches or 16½ centimetres).
icicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌɪsəkəl/
ipa: /ˈaɪs.ɪkl̩/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.sɪ.kl̩/
Forms: form: icicles
Etymology: From Middle English isykle, isikel, from Old English *īsġicel, from Proto-West Germanic *īsajikil, *īsajekul, equivalent to ice + ickle. It was assimilated to nouns in -icle, from Latin -iculus—the expected spelling would have -ickle. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Iesjuukel (“icicle”), German Low German Iesjökel, dialectal Danish jisegel (“icicle”), Norwegian isjukel (“icicle”) and Elfdalian aisikkel.
Senses: examples: text: Mor. Miſlike me not for my complexion, / The ſhadowed liuerie of the burniſht ſunne, / To whom I am a neighbour,and neere bred. / Bring me the faireſt creature North-ward borne, / Where Phœbus fire ſcarce thawes the yſicles, / And let vs make inciſion for your loue, / To proue whoſe blood is reddeſt,his or mine.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 167:
text: Several days of sub-zero temperatures caused icicles up to 1.5 metres long to form in tunnels across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria.
ref: 2021 February 24, “Network News: NR takes pride in track teams as effects of Storm Darcy repelled...”, in RAIL, number 925, page 13:
glosses: A drooping, tapering shape of ice.
Derived terms: brinicle
icicled
icicle plant
icicle radish
icicular
lavacicle
pissicle
popsicle
rusticle
snotsicle
corpsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corpsicles
Etymology: Blend of corpse + popsicle. The cryogenic sense is a coinage by author Frederik Pohl in The Age of the Pussyfoot (1969).
Senses: examples: text: 'Your newspapers called you people corpsicles,' said the blond man. 'I never understood what the tapes meant by that.'
'It comes from Popsicle. Frozen sherbet.' Corbell had used the word himself before he became one of them. One of the corpsicles, the frozen dead.
ref: 1976, Larry Niven, A World Out of Time:
text: There are dozens of companies that will turn you into a human corpsicle and store your chilled earthly remains indefinitely.
ref: 2007, Daniel H. Wilson, Where's My Jetpack?:, page 176:
text: I won't turn you into a corpsicle and hope somebody knows how to fix you in a hundred years.
ref: 2010, Greg Bear, Vitals:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A person who has been cryonically frozen in the hope of later revival.
examples: text: It started when a janitor found a corpsicle floating in a rooftop swimming pool next to Central Park one August morning. A stiff, but I mean stiff.
ref: 1992, Spider Robinson, Lady Slings the Booze, page 9:
text: Eventually, the much-travelled corpsicle arrived back at the family farm, where she was stripped of her plastic shroud and set on the lawn to thaw out before being laid to rest.
ref: 1995, The Bermudian - Volume 66, Issues 7-12, page 13:
text: But if he wandered away in a confused state when the dark came on, he's a corpsicle by now.”
ref: 2007, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Out of the Deep I Cry:
glosses: A frozen corpse.
turner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tûrʹnər
ipa: /ˈtɝ.nɚ/
note: r
enpr: tûʹnə
ipa: /ˈtɜː.nə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Forms: form: turners
Etymology: From Middle English turner, torner, tornere, turnere, turnare, equivalent to turn + -er. Also from Middle English turnour, tornour, tournour, turnoure, from Old French tornour, tourneour, tourneur, tornëor (“one who fashions something by turning”).
Senses: examples: text: Everyone kept turning around and craning their necks to look at the gaps, and Miss Griffin gave all the turners and craners paralyzing stares whenever she caught their eye.
ref: 2016, Robin Stevens, Murder Is Bad Manners, page 236:
glosses: One who or that which turns.
glosses: A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe.
synonyms: fish slice
spatula
glosses: A kitchen utensil used for turning food.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A very dry pitch on which the ball will turn with ease.
Derived terms: cooking turner
head-turner
kitchen turner
leaf-turner
neck-turner
page-turner
pancake turner
table-turner
trick turner
U-turner
turner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tûrʹnər
ipa: /ˈtɝ.nɚ/
note: r
enpr: tûʹnə
ipa: /ˈtɜː.nə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Forms: form: turners
Etymology: From German Turner (“gymnast”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An acrobat or gymnast, especially (historical) a member of the German Turnvereine, German-American gymnastic clubs that also served as nationalist political groups.
turner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tûrʹnər
ipa: /ˈtɝ.nɚ/
note: r
enpr: tûʹnə
ipa: /ˈtɜː.nə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Forms: form: turners
Senses: glosses: An old Scottish copper coin worth two pence, issued by King James VI.
god-awful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more god-awful
form: most god-awful
form: God-awful
form: god awful
form: godawful
form: goshawful
form: gawdawful
Senses: examples: text: Your roast beef was the most god-awful piece of meat I ever ate.
text: LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Penguin, published 1976, →OCLC, part 1, page 86:
text: It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
ref: 1971, “Life on Mars?”, performed by David Bowie:
glosses: Extremely awful, unpleasant or dreadful.
foob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foobs
Etymology: Blend of fake + boob.
Senses: examples: text: I'm now about six weeks post-surgery, the (proud?) owner of two brand spanking new "foobs" (fake boobs), and I've had some time to process the new additions.
ref: 2013 September 14, Joanna Montgomery, “Me and My Foobs: What It's Really Like Post-Mastectomy”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2021:
text: A mastectomy is far different from a breast augmentation, because the surgeon removes all of your breast tissue, which sometimes makes it more difficult for your new breasts to look natural. Would I have to go through all of this and hate my body? But, I can very happily report that I love my foobs.
ref: 2018 October 23, Sara Altschule, “I Had A Double Mastectomy To Lower My Genetic Risk Of Cancer A Month Ago. Here's How I'm Doing Now”, in Bustle, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2022:
text: Gradually, I became more and more confident about spending time without a foob. I started going foobless around the house with my family, then gradually started introducing short shopping trips and family walks, and within months I had given up on post-surgical bras and foobs altogether.
ref: 2021 April 28, “'Bras are a curse!' How lockdown changed readers' views of their breasts”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022:
text: The suggestions that came back to me either assumed I’d be wearing foobs (breast cancer lingo for fake boobs) or that I would want to conceal my flat chest and its battle scars under high necklines, loose-fitting tops and ugly patterns.
ref: 2022 July 23, Ellyn Winters, “I’m as flat as pancake since my mastectomy, but I’m not afraid to wear revealing clothes”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2022:
glosses: An artificial breast implanted after the original has been removed by a mastectomy.
coyote ugly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: coyote-ugly
Senses: examples: text: A girl was coyote ugly if, when a man got too drunk, picked her up, took her to bed, and woke up with her asleep on his arm in the morning, he'd chew his arm off to escape without waking her up.
ref: 2003, Georgina Gentry, To Tame A Texan, Zebra Books, →ISBN:
text: Poodles, Pomeranians, those uglier than coyote ugly Pugs, Chihuahuas—you name it, he'd been in a cage with the fuckers, fighting for his right to a stupid rubber hot dog coated in beef broth while he waited for Gustav to milk his renal glands.
ref: 2009, Dakota Cassidy, Kiss & Hell, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Crocs are coyote ugly. Some people like the Crocs clog style; others simply hate it.
ref: 2011, Howard Lindzon, Philip Pearlman, Ivaylo Ivanhoff, The StockTwits Edge, Enhanced Edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: Very ugly.
ambiguity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æm.bɪˈɡjuː.ɪ.ti/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌæm.bəˈɡjuː.ə.ti/
rhymes: -uːɪti
Forms: form: ambiguities
Etymology: From Middle English ambiguite, from Old French ambiguite (French ambiguïté), from Latin ambiguitas, equivalent to ambiguous + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: His speech was made with such great ambiguity that neither supporter nor opponent could be certain of his true position.
text: Whan this ſayd monument diſcouered was / Suche a ſuauite and fragrant odoure / Aſcended from the corps by ſingular grace / Paſſyng all worldly ſwetnes and ſauour / That all there present that day and hour / Suppoſed they had ben / in the felicite / Of erthely paradiſe / without ambiguite.
ref: 1513, Henry Bradshaw, edited by Edward Hawkins, The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge: Very Frutefull for All Christen People to Rede (Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester Published by The Chetham Society; volume XV), […] The Chetham Society, published 1848:
glosses: The state of being ambiguous; the state of leaving room for more than one interpretation.
examples: text: If two persons bore the same name, and confusion was likely to be caused, ambiguity was avoided by adding the name of the father[…]
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiii:
text: For people who would rather face a plague of locusts than permit an avoidable ambiguity, this is like having their underwear twisted. You may think we should say to such people, “Get a life.” By all means tell them that. I’m neither making these rules up nor trying to enforce them; my job in this book is to point out to you what seems to be the current state of the language and its speakers."
ref: 2024, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: An instance of this state: words or statements that are open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, especially if that meaning cannot be determined from the context.
Synonyms: sense: state of being ambiguous
word: ambiguousness
sense: state of being ambiguous
word: imprecision
sense: state of being ambiguous
word: polysemy
word: weasel word
Derived terms: ambiguity aversion
Related terms: ambiguous
rudiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːdɪmənt/
Forms: form: rudiments
Etymology: From Old French, from Latin rudimentum (“a first attempt, a beginning”), plural rudimenta (“the elements”), from rudis (“rude”); see rude.
Senses: examples: text: We'll be learning the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
text: This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
glosses: A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning.
examples: text: I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
text: But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments, and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
text: The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.
ref: a. 1865, Isaac Taylor, Ornamentation of Nature:
glosses: A form that lacks full or complex development.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A body part that no longer has a function
examples: text: Show me your rudiments.
ref: 2014, Damien Chazelle, Whiplash, spoken by Terence Fletcher (J. K. Simmons):
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.
Hypernyms: topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: vestigiality
Derived terms: rudimental
rudimentary
Related terms: erudite
rudiment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːdɪmənt/
Forms: form: rudiments
form: rudimenting
form: rudimented
form: rudimented
Etymology: From Old French, from Latin rudimentum (“a first attempt, a beginning”), plural rudimenta (“the elements”), from rudis (“rude”); see rude.
Senses: glosses: To ground; to settle in first principles.
someone's goose is cooked
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Unclear. Unconvincing claims have been made of the term's origin in Aesop's Fables (The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs) and in Swedish history.
Attested as cook someone's goose from 1845.
Senses: examples: text: If he doesn't win the next round, then his goose is cooked.
text: On our wedding day, a friend said to me sadly:
'Poor old Bernard, now your goose is cooked. Women are like cats, they like walls...'
ref: 1969, Bernard Moitessier, “Cape Horn: The Logical Route”, in Inge Moore, transl., [1967, Cap Horn à la Voile], page 49:
text: "I think that she was so concerned that she was afraid to even mention it in her own journals," Jennifer told him. “In fact, she doesn't bring it up again until it's pretty clear that the South's goose is cooked.”
ref: 2004, Tom Morrisey, Deep Blue, page 27:
text: I thought that Texaco made a pretty good reply, but one of the federal lawyers gave me her take: “When you have to withdraw the evidence on which your expert based his opinion, your goose is cooked.”
ref: 2001, Kenneth S. Deffeyes, Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage, page 48:
glosses: All hope is gone; there is no possibility of success; the period of good fortune is over.
wikipedia: Aesop's Fables
The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
acousmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin acousmaticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκουσματικός (akousmatikós), from ἀκούω (akoúō, “I hear”).
Senses: glosses: Referring to a sound that has no visually identifiable cause.
glosses: Referring to Pythagorean disciples who for years listened to his lectures from behind a curtain, unable to see him.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Referring to pre-recorded music that is presented in concert using loudspeakers, e.g. some types of computer music.
Derived terms: acousmatically
oxy-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”).
Senses: glosses: Sharp, keen, acute, pungent, acid
Derived terms: sense: sharp
word: oxyrhynch
Related terms: oxymel
oxymoron
oxygenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒksɪdʒəneɪt/
Forms: form: oxygenates
form: oxygenating
form: oxygenated
form: oxygenated
Etymology: From oxygen or French oxygéner + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: After we oxygenated the river, the fish returned.
text: The function of the respiratory system is to oxygenate the blood and remove carbon dioxide.
ref: 2012, Teresa Hopper, Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice, 3rd edition, Elsevier Saunders, →ISBN, page 589:
synonyms: oxygenize
glosses: To treat or infuse with oxygen.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To give (a patient) oxygen therapy.
Derived terms: deoxygenate
disoxygenate
hyperoxygenate
overoxygenate
overoxygenation
oxygenation
oxygenator
preoxygenate
reoxygenate
superoxygenate
underoxygenate
Popsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Popsicles
Etymology: Blend of pop + Epsicle. From Epperson+icicle. Named after Frank Epperson, its inventor. The Epsicle ice pop; the inventor's children renamed it popsicle, from (soda) pop.
Senses: glosses: A Popsicle brand popsicle, a type of ice lolly.
Derived terms: popsicle
ghillie suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪli ˈsuːt/
ipa: /ˈɡɪli ˈsut/
Forms: form: ghillie suits
Etymology: As worn by ghillies (gillies) (Scottish hunting guides) in the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A type of overall covered in torn cloth shreds (faux foliage), used as camouflage by hunters and military snipers.
canine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kāʹnīn
enpr: kaʹnīn
ipa: /ˈkeɪnaɪn/
ipa: /ˈkænaɪn/
ipa: /kəˈnaɪn/
enpr: kāʹnīn'
ipa: /ˈkeɪˌnaɪn/
ipa: /kəˈnaɪn/
rhymes: -eɪnaɪn
rhymes: -ænaɪn
rhymes: -aɪn
homophone: K9
Etymology: From Latin canīnus (“of dogs, dog-like”), from canis (“dog”). Compare French canin.
Senses: examples: text: Two canine animals in a time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live.
ref: 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:
text: We carried the dog round to the yard, and I examined his head. […] I accepted the care of the canine patient.
ref: 1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter 8, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:
text: Police in a West Springfield arrested a man named Kenneth Appleby and suggested that he might be a local version of Houston's Dean Corll (this was before John Gacy's Illinois murders had been discovered). Appleby's yard was dug up, but the only bones discovered was canine.
ref: 1979 February 10, Allen Young, “Living In The Country”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 28, page 8:
text: A lost dog sniffed around the flower beds wishing it had some canine company[…]
ref: 2005, Gareth Roberts, Only Human, page 17:
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.
examples: text: In many respects she made me an admirable wife. Her affection for me was canine—positively.
ref: 1891, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands,”, in Noughts & Crosses:
text: I look for reflections, in your face
Canine devotion, time can't erase
Out on the corner, locked in your room
I never believe them and I never assume
ref: 2000, Josh Homme, Nick Oliveri, “The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret”, in Rated R, performed by Queens of the Stone Age:
glosses: Dog-like.
examples: text: Then his upper lip may be seen to be raised, especially at the corners, so that his huge canine teeth are exhibited.
ref: 1872, Charles Darwin, chapter 10, in Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to mammalian teeth which are cuspids or fangs.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of an appetite: depraved or inordinate; used to describe eating disorders.
Synonyms: sense: of dogs
word: dogly
sense: of dogs
word: houndly
sense: dog-like
word: dogly
sense: dog-like
word: doglike
sense: dog-like
word: houndly
Derived terms: canicross
caninal
canine council
canine distemper
canine distemper virus
canine epileptoid cramping syndrome
canine hysteria
caninekind
canine letter
caninelike
caninely
canine madness
canineness
caniniform
caninity
caninize
caninophile
condylocanine
intercanine
noncanine
postcanine
precanine
pretercanine
pseudocanine
supercanine
uncanine
canine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kāʹnīn
enpr: kaʹnīn
ipa: /ˈkeɪnaɪn/
ipa: /ˈkænaɪn/
ipa: /kəˈnaɪn/
enpr: kāʹnīn'
ipa: /ˈkeɪˌnaɪn/
ipa: /kəˈnaɪn/
rhymes: -eɪnaɪn
rhymes: -ænaɪn
rhymes: -aɪn
homophone: K9
Forms: form: canines
Etymology: From Latin canīnus (“of dogs, dog-like”), from canis (“dog”). Compare French canin.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever the case, the pair’s adventure certainly became famous in 2016, when a large dating program of fossils and artefacts from Chauvet Cave, which included the smear of charcoal discarded by the child, confirmed that the tracks constitute the oldest unequivocal evidence of a relationship between humans and canines.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 187:
glosses: Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae.
examples: text: The canine ran across the room to the open window, put his front paws on the sill and pointed his nose at the sidewalk below.
ref: 2010, M. S. Mititch, The Spychip Conspiracy, page 189:
glosses: Any of certain extant canids regarded as similar to the dog or wolf (including coyotes, jackals, etc.) but distinguished from the vulpines, which are regarded as fox-like.
examples: text: He tried to push Kissu into his cage, but the cougar charged back out and sank his canines into Wilson's rump.
ref: 2006, Amy Sutherland, Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Animal Trainers:
glosses: In heterodont mammals, the pointy tooth between the incisors and the premolars; a cuspid.
examples: text: You have been dealt King-9 unsuited ("canine") in your pocket.
ref: 2005, Dennis Purdy, The Illustrated Guide to Texas Hold'em, page 270:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.
Synonyms: sense: dog or wolf
word: dog
sense: pointy tooth
word: cuspid
Derived terms: caninoid
K9
Related terms: word: lupine
word: vulpine
english: tribe within subfamily Caninae
translation: tribe within subfamily Caninae
word: Canini
upsert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upserts
form: upserting
form: upserted
form: upserted
Etymology: Blend of update + insert.
Senses: examples: text: Each entity event is upserted into the key/value table, such that the most recently read event for a given key is represented.
ref: 2020, Adam Bellemare, Building Event-Driven Microservices, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 25:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To insert rows into a database table if they do not already exist, or update them if they do.
upsert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upserts
Etymology: Blend of update + insert.
Senses: examples: text: The upsert option lets you specify whether the update should be an upsert—that is, it tells MongoDB to update the record if it exists, and create it if it doesn't.
ref: 2013, David Hows, Eelco Plugge, Peter Membrey, Tim Hawkins, The Definitive Guide to MongoDB, Apress, →ISBN, page 66:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: merge
upsertion
glosses: An operation that inserts rows into a database table if they do not already exist, or updates them if they do.
paronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paronyms
Etymology: Coined around 1846 from Ancient Greek παρώνυμος (parṓnumos, “derivative”), equivalent to para- + -onym.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
synonyms: isonym
hypernyms: derivative#Noun
glosses: A word derived from the same root or stem as another word; classes include cognates and naturalizations of foreign words.
glosses: A near-homophone, a word that sounds like another word (some example pairs are cognate).
Related terms: word: parasynonym
word: paronymic
word: paronymize
word: paronymous
word: paronymy
facetiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈsiːʃəsli/
Forms: form: more facetiously
form: most facetiously
Etymology: From facetious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Pirates are revered as the original Pastafarians, and Pastafarians facetiously assert that a steady decline in the number of pirates has resulted in a significant rise in global temperature.
ref: 2010 May 31, Intelligent Design Parodies: Flying Spaghetti Monster, Books LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: In a facetious or flippant manner; in a manner that treats serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor.
glosses: In a pleasantly humorous or playful fashion.
Synonyms: sense: with inappropriate humor
word: flippantly
sense: in a pleasantly humorous fashion
word: humorously
sense: in a pleasantly humorous fashion
word: jocularly
sense: in a pleasantly humorous fashion
word: playfully
Related terms: facetious
facetiousness
rhythmless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhythm + -less.
Senses: examples: text: ‘OK,’ Fatou said, and set off, and she found that each lap was more distracted and rhythmless than the last. She was not used to being watched while she swam.
ref: 2013, Zadie Smith, The Embassy of Cambodia, Hamish Hamilton, page 62:
glosses: Without rhythm.
latchstring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latchstrings
Etymology: From latch + string.
Senses: glosses: A string attached to a latch allowing it to be disengaged from the opposite side.
Derived terms: find the latchstring out
the latchstring is out
claustrophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɒs.tɹəˌfəʊb/
ipa: /ˈklɔstɹəˌfoʊb/
Forms: form: claustrophobes
Etymology: From Latin claustrum (“a shut-in place”), from claudō (“I shut, close; I imprison, confine”) + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: She has never considered herself either a claustrophobe or an agoraphobe but, well, this was different. This was both fears together – the fear of wide-open spaces jammed shoulder to shoulder with angry people.
ref: 1998, Jim Mortimore, chapter 3, in Beltempest, page 73:
glosses: One who suffers from claustrophobia.
claustrophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claustrophiles
Senses: examples: text: Since I am a claustrophile, I actually feel more secure in small cluttered spaces, I preferred to guide both ships from the Windsinger.
ref: 2000, Nicola Cuti, Spin a Web of Death:
text: The question is disputable to what extent Xu Ruhua, the claustrophile who finally confines herself in a cagelike room, can be identified with Can Xue the author.
ref: 2002, Xiaobin Yang, The Chinese Postmodern:
text: Many of the racquetball courts were new—because the game was new—and had attractive glass back walls in the middle of a health club, not dingy courts in the basement of a club that only a claustrophile would enjoy.
ref: 2003, James Zug, Squash:
glosses: A person who has the condition of claustrophilia, a love of closed-in spaces.
Derived terms: claustrophilia
claustrophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪliə
Etymology: Based on the Latin claustrum (“a shut in place”), from claudere (“to close”) + -philia ("love").
Senses: glosses: The love of, or arousal from, enclosed, tight places.
Derived terms: claustrophiliac
cascabel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæskəbɛl/
Forms: form: cascabels
Etymology: From Spanish cascabel (“bell, rattle”).
Senses: examples: text: The very pungent Mexican Cascabel looks a lot like the Cherry pepper when it is growing.[…]In the dry state the skin becomes translucent and the seeds are loose so that they rattle, hence cascabel, which means sleigh or jingle bells. Another cultivar, the elongate Catarina, is often called Cascabel because its dry seeds also make a noise within its translucent dry skin.
ref: 1984, Jean Andrews, Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums, published 1995, page 100:
text: Cascabels are available dried in Latin American markets. Hot and nutty in flavor, cascabels are good in sauces, beans, and chilis.
ref: 1997, Didi Emmons, Vegetarian Planet: 350 Big-Flavor Recipes for Out-Of-This-World Food Every Day, page 415:
text: Prepare the cascabels using one of the methods in the Preparing Cascabels box, at left.
ref: 2004, Rick Greenspan, Hal Kahn, The Leave-No-Crumbs Camping Cookbook, page 94:
glosses: A small, round, hot variety of chili pepper, Capsicum annuum, which rattles when dry.
examples: text: The cascabel, instead of being permanently attached to the breech of the piece, is set into it by means of a screw, and thus in reality the bore extends the entire distance of the gun, so that when the cascabel is taken off one can look directly through the gun.
ref: 1862, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss, David Ames Wells, William Ripley Nichols, edited by Charles Robert Cross and John Trowbridge, Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art, page 91:
text: This iron cannon with a single muzzle band, without trunnions and with an oversized cascabel is believed by many to be the original “Come and Take It” cannon and is displayed at the Gonzales Memorial Museum and occasionally elsewhere within Texas.
ref: 2011, Roy F Sullivan, The Texas Revolution: Tejano Heroes, page 137:
text: I was looking at a 151 mm caliber cannon, which used the twentyfour pound cannon ball and displayed a beautiful lion′s head on the back end of its breach area. An elaborate cascabel stuck out of the mouth of each animal. The cascabel was primarily used to attach ropes that secured the cannon during the recoil blowback that came from firing.
ref: 2011, Chris Messner, Cuba Open from the Inside: Travels in the Forbidden Land:
glosses: A knob at the end of a cannon, cast onto the gun breech, to which a heavy rope is attached in order to control recoil.
glosses: A bell attached to a sleigh or sleigh harness.
Synonyms: sense: pepper
word: chile bola
sense: pepper
word: bola chile
sense: pepper
word: rattle chile
sense: pepper
word: coban
sense: bell attached to a sleigh
word: jingle bell
confessio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɛsi.əʊ/
ipa: /kənˈfɛsi.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɛsiəʊ
Forms: form: confessiones
Etymology: From Latin cōnfessiō. Doublet of confession.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A confession; a defense of one's faith, or a confession of guilt.
Derived terms: confessio amantis
dollymop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dollymops
Etymology: Dolly was a slang term for the penis.
Senses: examples: text: Those women who, for the sake of distinguishing them from the professionals, I must call amateurs, are generally spoken of as “Dollymops.” Now many servant-maids, nurse-maids who go with children into the Parks, shop girls and milliners who may be met with at the various “dancing academies,” so called, are “Dollymops.” We must separate these latter again from the “Demoiselle de Comptoir,” who is just as much in point of fact a “Dollymop,” because she prostitutes herself for her own pleasure, a few trifling presents or a little money now and then, and not altogether to maintain herself.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: An amateur, often part-time, female prostitute in 19th-century London.
eugeroic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eugeroics
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of stimulants that produce long-lasting mental arousal.
eugeroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Producing mental arousal
Outside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: She's going Outside for Christmas.
text: 'When did you leave the Outside?' asked a blue-eyed, blonde, shaggy man. (The Outside means anywhere but Alaska—a man who has been long in the country falls into the idea of considering himself in a kind of a prison, and refers to the rest of the world as lying beyond the door of this.)
ref: 1900, Josiah Edward Spurr, Through The Yukon Gold Diggings, page 156:
text: Fairbanks North Star Borough school board candidate Michael Humphrey attempted to import one of the most distasteful elements of the Outside culture wars into Fairbanks on Saturday through his deployment of hate speech targeting transgender children.
ref: 2023 July 19, Sine Anahita, “Political float has no place in parade”, in Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Letters to the editor:
qualifier: Alaska
glosses: The United States excluding Alaska, (especially) the contiguous 48 states south of Canada.
Synonyms: the lower 48
United States
deferred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɜːd/
ipa: /dɪˈfɝd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defer
deferred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɜːd/
ipa: /dɪˈfɝd/
Forms: form: more deferred
form: most deferred
Senses: examples: text: requested a deferred payment
text: In retrospect, it was small wonder that Railtrack found its finances under pressure, as with ever increasing demand there was an inevitable effect on infrastructure renewals. Matters came to a head with the Hatfield accident on October 17 2000, when there was a high-speed derailment as a result of deferred track maintenance.
ref: 2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:
synonyms: delayed
postponed
glosses: Delayed; put off till later.
examples: text: The decision was deferred to the regional manager
glosses: Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes, and income, either as an asset or liability.
Derived terms: deferred prosecution agreement
deferred time
nondeferred
undeferred
deferred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɜːd/
ipa: /dɪˈfɝd/
Forms: form: deferreds
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
synonyms: word: promise
extra: object representing delayed result
examples: text: Only some Eurobonds are Euro straights with normal fixed coupons: many have innovative coupon structures, like zeros, deferreds, or step-ups; many are dual-currency (coupon and principal currencies are not the same); […]
ref: 2005, Robert Dubil, An Arbitrage Guide to Financial Markets, page 88:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A deferred bond.
CHONPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur: the main elements that occur naturally in carbon-based living systems on Earth.
capital surplus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital surpluses
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A balance sheet item under shareholders' equity. Increases by the value above an original par value per share that newly issued shares are sold for.
cislunar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cis-lunar
Etymology: From cis- + lunar.
Senses: examples: text: Lt. Gen. Zhang Yulin, a former deputy commander of China’s astronaut program, wrote in The People’s Daily last year that cislunar space — the area between the Earth and moon — would “become another broad field for the expansion of human living space.”
ref: 2020 December 16, Steven Lee Myers, Kenneth Chang, “China Brings Moon Rocks to Earth, and a New Era of Competition to Space”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Situated between the Earth and the Moon.
glosses: Situated below the orbit of the Moon, or equivalent distance from the Earth.
Synonyms: sublunar
Related terms: translunar
clairgustance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Presumably from 17th-century French clair (“clear”) + gustance
Senses: glosses: The paranormal ability to taste a substance without putting anything in one's mouth. It is claimed that those who possess this ability are able to perceive the essence of a substance from the spiritual or ethereal realms through taste.
Derived terms: clairgustant
Related terms: clairvoyance
clairaudience
clairsentience
claircognizance
clairalience
concurring opinion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concurring opinions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An opinion which follows the outcome of the majority of the court, but might be reached in a differing manner.
dead beat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead beats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deadbeat.
dromotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɹɒm.əˈtɹɒp.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌdɹɒm.əˈtɹəʊ.pɪk/
ipa: /ˌdɹɑm.əˈtɹɑp.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
rhymes: -əʊpɪk
Etymology: From dromo- (“course, speed”) + -tropic (“affecting, changing”), from Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos, “course, race”) + τρόπος (trópos, “turn, direction, way”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Affecting the conductivity of cardiac muscle, used of the influence of cardiac nerves.
Related terms: dromotrope
dromotropy
frosted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frosted
form: most frosted
Etymology: From frost + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Eiswein is made from frosted grapes.
glosses: Covered in frost; frosty.
examples: text: She installed frosted windows, since there was a clear view of her bathroom from her neighbor's bedroom.
text: The point of interest about this particular specimen was that it must have remained intact for at least a quarter of a century, as it had embossed in the frosted glass the initials of the old Great North of Scotland Railway in the form of a scroll, the sort of relic of pre-grouping days that can still be found here and there if one is observant.
ref: 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
text: The vestibule has a row of brass mailboxes and a varnished umbrella rack and a rubber mat on the marble floor and two doors, one to the right with frosted glass and another in front of them of wire-reinforced glass through which he sees rubber-treaded stairs.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', pages 65–66:
glosses: Translucent, appearing to be covered in frost.
examples: text: Frosted fruit will be unsalable.
coordinate_terms: frostbitten
glosses: Damaged by frost.
examples: text: I was so frosted after drinking that 12-pack.
glosses: Extremely intoxicated.
Synonyms: sense: covered in frost
word: frosty
sense: covered in frost
word: frostbound
sense: covered in frost
word: rimed
sense: damaged by frost
word: frostbitten
sense: extremely intoxicated
word: drunk
Derived terms: frosted heart
frosted liver
frosted ribbon loaf
frosted ribbon sandwich
frosted tips
hoarfrosted
nonfrosted
unfrosted
Related terms: cold-sensitive
frosted
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frosteds
Etymology: From frost + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Except for those times when I am drugging myself with movies, vanilla frosteds, the latest novel, or cremes de nepenthe, it is difficult for me to avoid the bothersome thought […]
ref: 1947, Geoffrey Hellman, How to Disappear for an Hour, page 266:
text: They had continued to laugh at the milk bar, tasting in the chocolate frosteds the unlikely flavor of Mr. Mather's turpitude.
ref: 1957, Dorothy Erskine, Patrick Dennis, The Pink Hotel, page 49:
text: Opening with standard flavors and moving quickly to grape, raspberry, blueberry, cinnamon, apple and the frosteds, the variety is putting many chains in a one-out-for-every-one-in frame of mind.
ref: 1970, CSA Super Markets, volume 46, page 106:
glosses: A kind of milkshake made with ice cream.
frosted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From frost + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frost
fab lab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fab labs
Senses: glosses: A small-scale workshop with the ability to fabricate almost everything, including products generally perceived as limited to mass production.
doghead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogheads
Etymology: From dog + head.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: That part of a matchlock or flintlock gun or rifle that holds the burning fuse or flint and applies it to the gunpowder.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical creature with a human body and a dog's head.
Synonyms: sense: mythical creature
word: cynocephalus
goon stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goon sticks
form: goon-stick
Senses: glosses: An ax handle, used as an improvised weapon by train-riding hobos.
glosses: The penis
Derived terms: goon sticking
screenburn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screen burn
Etymology: From screen + burn.
Senses: glosses: Damage caused to certain types of computer screens where a frequently-displayed image "burns" a dull copy of itself onto the screen, and remains permanently visible.
Related terms: screensaver
screensaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screensavers
form: screen saver
form: screen-saver
Etymology: From screen + saver.
Senses: examples: text: I configured my screensaver to appear after only two minutes, because I enjoyed watching it so much.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A computer program that displays aesthetic patterns or images when the computer is not being used, originally intended to prevent screenburn.
examples: text: But she changed her screensaver, which was a photo of Julian eating scrambled eggs—he was smiling, holding his fork away from himself, as if he were waving the eggs at her—and replaced it with a photo of Olivia, looking up from her desk […]
ref: 2008, Joshua Henkin, Matrimony, Vintage, →ISBN, page 163:
text: If he wanted praise, or sympathy, or the chance to talk over a sensitive subject, he turned to me. A friend told me that she sat down at her computer one day to discover that her husband had changed her screensaver to read: “Be nice to Lloyd.
ref: 2012, Gretchen Rubin, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life, Harmony, →ISBN:
text: You can tell a lot about a person by the desk they keep. Her real name was Mary Stachowicz but we decided to call her Jenny Talia. It's funnier for us. She uses bulldog clips, which I think is a bit lesbiany, but I guess it's right for the character. Her screensaver is a picture of Cher, not the actual Cher, but her mother in fancy dress.
ref: 2012, Johnny McKnight, Double Nugget:
text: While we waited for Zac to be taken into surgery, I thought of all of his suffering up to this point […] It brought to mind the screensaver that Zac, a few months earlier, had changed his Ipod to.
ref: 2015, Carol Ann Bartz, chapter 36, in The Believer: An Inspirational Story of Zachary David Bartz (The Boy Who Never Gave Up), →ISBN:
text: When I arrived at the lab this morning he was back sitting in front of his computer, a million miles away, leaning forward on his elbows and staring into the depths of space. He has changed his screensaver again. The Orion nebula has been replaced with some other astronomical scape, far bleaker in its appearance but more realistic. It looks like the outermost edge of the universe.
ref: 2016, Austin Duffy, This Living and Immortal Thing, Granta Books, →ISBN:
text: I tiptoed over to Trent's nightstand and took his phone into the bathroom. I sat on the edge of the bathtub as I entered his code. When I saw that he'd changed his screensaver from our wedding picture to a picture of Diamond, my blood began to boil. I couldn't believe that he'd done that.
ref: 2016, Tamia Gore-Felton, Bangles and Broken Hearts 3: Return of the Bangles, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 97:
text: She sat at the desk and opened the drawers, then looked up at the computer screen and gave a snort.
 “Sally has Alex's picture as her screensaver. Ha, you'd think she'd be worried he'd see it. […]”
ref: 2016, Candy J Starr, The Trouble With Rock Stars: Jackson's Story:
glosses: The background picture of a computer, smartphone, or similar mobile device.