cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unbiasedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unbiasedly
form: most unbiasedly
Etymology: From unbiased + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unbiased manner; without bias.
Synonyms: impartially
biphoton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biphotons
Etymology: From bi- + photon.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A quantum-entangled state comprising two photons.
quantum-entangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: joined together by quantum entanglement
oo-er
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: ooer
Senses: examples: text: Oo-er, how peculiar.
glosses: An expression of surprise or befuddlement.
examples: text: So, I went around the back with her...
Oo-er!
glosses: Said to acknowledge a double entendre or innuendo.
ooer
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: oo-er
Senses: glosses: Said to acknowledge a double entendre or something that sounds sexually suggestive.
Derived terms: ooer missus
oo-er missus
nonlaborer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonlaborers
Etymology: From non- + laborer.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a laborer.
nonlaborers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonlaborer
antidiuretics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antidiuretic
fynde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of find.
knyght
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knyghts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of knight.
antielitists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antielitist
antients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antient
sawe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of saw, simple past of see.
antimosquito
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + mosquito.
Senses: glosses: Countering mosquitos.
getten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Nau, if ony chap ax you wheere yone getten these, yo mun say, yo hadden um fro' t' boggart o' Deerpley Fell. Good-bye, meaustur; and nau, lads, let's to our wark.
ref: 1860, Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth, “The Attack on the Eagle Mill—The Ride to the Rescue”, in Scarsdale, or, Life on the Yorkshire-Lancashire Border, Thirty Years Ago, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 61:
glosses: past participle of get
ellipsoidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ellipsoidally
form: most ellipsoidally
Etymology: From ellipsoidal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ellipsoidal manner
glosses: In the form of an ellipsoid
manipulability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manipulabilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being manipulable.
monoperiodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + periodic.
Senses: glosses: Recurring with a single period
Derived terms: monoperiodically
Related terms: multiperiodic
multilepton
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + lepton.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple leptons
multiperiodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiperiodic
form: most multiperiodic
Etymology: From multi- + periodic.
Senses: glosses: Recurring with multiple periods
Derived terms: multiperiodically
Related terms: monoperiodic
nanoHertz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoHertz
form: nanohertz
Etymology: From nano- + Hertz.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A frequency of 10⁻⁹ Hertz
parabolically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more parabolically
form: most parabolically
Etymology: From parabolic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In the form of a parabola.
glosses: By means of a parable.
presphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + sphenoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: presphenoidal
glosses: Situated in front of the sphenoid bone
presphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presphenoids
Etymology: From pre- + sphenoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The anterior part of the sphenoid bone (a separate bone before being fused)
Synonyms: presphenoid bone
fatassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fatassed
form: most fatassed
form: fat-assed
Etymology: From fat + assed.
Senses: glosses: fat, obese, having a fat rear
halfassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more halfassed
form: most halfassed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half-assed.
multibuy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multibuys
Etymology: From multi- + buy.
Senses: examples: text: If they did not have efficient computerised systems, supermarkets would not be able to offer multibuy schemes (such as buy two and get the third free).
ref: 2001, Steve Cushing, GCSE information and communication technology for OCR specification B:
text: Everyone likes to get something for nothing and these multibuys are a successful way of encouraging consumers to buy products they do not really want.
ref: 2001, Keith Brumfitt, Stephen Barnes, Liz Norris, The Competitive Business Environment, page 31:
glosses: An offer in which more than one of an item is purchased at the same time.
antimonopolist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimonopolists
Etymology: From anti- + monopolist.
Senses: qualifier: economy
glosses: One who opposes monopolies.
Related terms: antimonopolism
antimonopolists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimonopolist
sparkline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparklines
Etymology: From spark + line, coined by American statistician Edward Tufte.
Senses: glosses: A small graph of data presented as a line without axes.
sparklines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparkline
parasitisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasitism
PHB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PHBs
Etymology: After the character in Scott Adams' Dilbert comic strip.
Senses: examples: text: I know this. Which is why I use it. However proving it to my PHB is a diffrent ^([sic]) matter :-)
ref: 2001, John Imrie, “my variables in foreach loops”, in comp.lang.perl.moderated (Usenet):
text: […] identically dressed in blue three-piece suits, hung around accosting visitors with annoyingly impenetrable PHB marketroid jargon […]
ref: 2002, Gardner Dozois, Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future:
glosses: Initialism of pointy-haired boss, an incompetent micromanager.
wikipedia: Dilbert
nonphatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + phatic.
Senses: glosses: Not phatic.
nonsettled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + settled.
Senses: glosses: Not settled.
nonwhipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + whipped.
Senses: examples: a nonwhipped dairy product
glosses: Not whipped.
nonsatisfied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + satisfied.
Senses: glosses: Not satisfied.
nonsatisfying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + satisfying.
Senses: glosses: Not satisfying.
nonshelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + shelled.
Senses: glosses: Not shelled.
nonplanted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + planted.
Senses: glosses: Not planted.
nonupset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + upset.
Senses: glosses: Not upset.
Prekmurian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An autonomous dialect of Slovene, of Prekmurje and Hungary (Hungarian Slovenes).
yslain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But fame now flies, that of a forreine foe / He is yslaine, which is the ground of all our woe.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: past participle of slay
boar-spear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boar-spears
Senses: examples: text: And still the foster with his long bore-speare / Him kept from landing at his wished will […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A spear used for hunting boar.
forest-bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forest-bills
Senses: examples: text: the third brother him did sore assay, / And droue at him with all his might and maine / A forrest bill, which both his hands did straine […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A bill-hook used by woodsmen.
Related terms: wood-bill
unenvisaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenvisaged
form: most unenvisaged
Etymology: From un- + envisaged.
Senses: glosses: Not envisaged.
blin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: blins
form: blinning
form: blinned
form: blan
form: blinned
form: blan
form: blun
Etymology: From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- + lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin.
Senses: examples: text: nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: One while the little foot page went, / And another while he ran; / Until he came to his journey's end / The little foot page never blan.
ref: 1846, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Borderer's Table Book: Or, Gatherings of the Local History and Romance of the English and Scottish Border, VI, 46:
text: A child may cry for half an hour, and never blin ; it may rain all day, and never blin ; the train ran 100 miles, and never blinned.
ref: 1880, Margaret Ann Courtney, English Dialect Society, Glossary of words in use in Cornwall:
text: Thus blinned their boast, as we well ken
ref: 1908, John Masefield, A sailor's garland:
qualifier: Northumberland
glosses: To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
Synonyms: sense: to cease
word: stop
word: desist
blin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Etymology: From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- + lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin.
Senses: glosses: Cessation; end.
avize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: avizes
form: avizing
form: avized
form: avized
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of advise.
pannicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pannicles
Etymology: From Middle French pannicle, and its source, Late Latin panniculus (“membrane”), from Latin panniculus (“small rag”), from pannus (“cloth”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A membrane of tissue in the body of a human or animal.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A pannus.
examples: text: To him he turned, and with rigour fell / Smote him so rudely on the Pannikell, / That to the chin he cleft his head in twaine [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The skull.
nonviviparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + viviparous.
Senses: glosses: Not viviparous.
roguishnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roguishness
overhent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overhents
form: overhenting
form: overhent
form: overhent
Etymology: From over- + hent.
Senses: examples: text: With that he would haue fled into the wood; / But Timias him lightly ouerhent, / Right as he entring was into the flood […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To catch hold of; to overtake.
fibrofog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fibro- + fog.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly, when we are in fibrofog, we have difficulties communicating...
ref: 1998, Devin J Starlanyl, The fibromyalgia advocate:
glosses: Cognitive dysfunction associated with fibromyalgia.
Synonyms: brain fog
craftwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craftworks
Etymology: From craft + -work.
Senses: glosses: Handicraft.
glosses: An item produced by handicraft.
Derived terms: craftworker
craftworking
craftworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craftwork
craftworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craftworkers
Etymology: From craft + worker.
Senses: glosses: A maker of craftwork.
Synonyms: handicrafter
craftworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craftworker
careworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: careworkers
Etymology: From care + worker.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in carework.
careworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of careworker
leapeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: leap + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leap
leapest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: leap + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of leap
blankety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blankity
Etymology: Fro blank + -ety, from the printer's mark (as in d—! for damn!).
Senses: examples: text: I'm the blankety-blankety-blank-blank worst man in all this blankety-blankety-blank-blank country […]
ref: 1912, Howard Benjamin Grose, Missions: an international Baptist magazine, Volume 3:
text: […] a megaphone demanded to know who the, what the, how the, why the blankety-blank-blank wasn't I keeping my blankety watch on the blankety-blank-blank deck!!
ref: 1915, Stanley William Coxon, And that reminds me:
text: "These blanketytin faces are no good to us," they would complain.
ref: 2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 131:
glosses: damnable, damned
blankety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blanket + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] for the cold had struck through his person, his fine clothes being a poor substitute for his thick double-milled red coat, blankety waistcoat, and Jersey shirt.
ref: 1853, Robert Smith Surtees, chapter IV, in Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, page 206:
text: Later in the day, clad in an odd collection of baggy garments, he sat and warmed himself in the sun, which was fast drawing up in the form of a blankety mist the moisture from the ground.
ref: 1917, Henry Handel Richardson, chapter VIII, in Australia Felix:
text: It's a floating feeling, an eyes-closed, comfy, blankety feeling, the feeling of not having to worry about anything.
ref: 2009, Laura Resau, The Indigo Notebook, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a blanket.
Related terms: blankety-blank
reviewee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reviewees
Etymology: From review + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Encourage the reviewee to do most of the talking.
glosses: One who undergoes a review.
reviewees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reviewee
asylees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asylee
pumice stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumice stones
form: pumie stone
form: pumy stone
Senses: examples: text: in the midst a little riuer plaide / Emongst the pumy stones, which seemd to plaine / With gentle murmure, that his course they did restraine.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A piece of pumice
glosses: pumice (substance)
tattooees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tattooee
pumy stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumy stones
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pumice stone.
pumice stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumice stone
allegeance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allegeances
form: allegeaunce
Etymology: From Middle English allegeaunce, alleggeaunce, from Old French alegeance.
Senses: examples: text: What bootes it him from death to be vnbound, / To be captiued in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despaire without aleggeaunce?
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Alleviation, relief.
allegeance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allegeances
form: allegeaunce
Etymology: See allegiance.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of allegiance.
ethno-neutral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethno-neutral
form: most ethno-neutral
Etymology: From ethno- + neutral.
Senses: glosses: Having no regard to ethnicity
sexsomnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛkˈsɒmni.ə/
Senses: glosses: A form of non-rapid eye movement parasomnia that causes people to engage in various sexual acts while they are asleep.
Related terms: insomnia
sexsomniac
somnophilia
will you marry me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to propose marriage to someone
Synonyms: marry me
Related terms: WYMM
like that
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: that way
glosses: Gay; homosexual.
like that
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We don't talk like that around here.
text: I can't believe anyone past the age of six would behave like that in public.
text: It happened just like that.
glosses: Used adverbially or adjectivally to indicate similitude, similarity, equivalent or comparable quality
In such, the same, a similar way, in that particular manner
synonyms: like so
that way
examples: text: We don't say stuff like that around here.
text: I've never seen anything like that in my life. Folks like that I just can’t stand.
glosses: Used adverbially or adjectivally to indicate similitude, similarity, equivalent or comparable quality
Of the same, a similar, that particular kind.
synonyms: such
of the/that kind
of the/that sort
of the like
of that ilk.
examples: text: Macham [like] monster like that. My eyes lagi [even more] worse.
ref: 2018, Jean Tay, Sisters & Senang: The Island Plays, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Scene 3, Island Talk 1:
glosses: Used adverbially or adjectivally to indicate similitude, similarity, equivalent or comparable quality
Used at the end of a sentence to emphasize a resemblance to something, reinforcing a previous instance of the preposition like (or a similar term).
related: word: liddat
examples: text: Near-synonym: out of nowhere
text: He was playing in the yard and, then, like that, he was gone.
synonyms: just like that
bam, wham
all of a sudden
glosses: suddenly; unexpectedly.
examples: text: "And then the truck turned, the box fell out the back, and the truck just kept going." / "Yeah, like that."
synonyms: what he said
glosses: Used to indicate agreement with another speaker's statement.
feminity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feminities
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English femynyte, from Middle French feminite; compare femininity.
Senses: examples: text: vnto Psyche with great trust and care / Committed her, yfostered to bee, / And trained vp in true feminitee […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of femininity.
synonyms: word: femininity
Derived terms: transfemininity
sickerness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English sikirnes, sikernesse, Old English sicornes (“certainty; secureness”), equivalent to sicker (“secure”) + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state, condition, or quality of being certain; certainty; assurance.
examples: text: Lightly she leaped, as a wight forlore, / From her dull horse, in desperate distresse, / And to her feet betooke her doubtfull sickernesse.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Comprehending the world casual and transitory, Who list to consider shall never be beguiled, If it be regist'red well in memory; A plain example of worldly vainglory: How in this world there is no sickerness, But fallible flattery enmixed with bitterness.
ref: 1980, John Skelton, Paula Neuss, Magnificence - Page 215:
glosses: security; safety; freedom from danger.
emeritum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭmĕʹrĭtəm
ipa: /ɪˈmɛɹɪtəm/
Forms: form: emerita
Etymology: From the Latin ēmeritum (“a thing earned upon completion of a term of service”), a substantive use of the neuter singular form of ēmeritus (“earned, merited, having been earned; served, having done one’s service”), the perfect passive participle of ēmereō (“I earn, I merit”).
Senses: examples: text: At the expiration of the term of service, the soldiers received a bounty or donation in land or money, which was sometimes called emeritum; those who had served their time out being also called emeriti.
ref: 1854, Johann Joachim Eschenburg, Manual of Classical Literature, page 275:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bounty awarded to a soldier upon the completion of his term of service.
quight
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: But, through long anguish and selfe-murd'ring
He was so wasted and forpined quight
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of quite.
quight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quights
form: quighting
form: quighted
form: quighted
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quit.
descreens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of descreen
descreening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of descreen
nondetermined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + determined.
Senses: glosses: Not having been determined.
herpetofauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɜː(ɹ)pɪtəʊˌfɔːnə/
Forms: form: herpetofaunas
Etymology: From herpeto- + fauna.
Senses: examples: text: The island is noted for its diverse herpetofauna.
text: The herpetofaunas of the two regions reflect the differences in their geological histories.
glosses: Reptiles and amphibians as a group, especially those of a particular region or time period.
Related terms: herp
herpetological
herpetologist
herpetology
herptile
descreened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of descreen
descreened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more descreened
form: most descreened
Senses: glosses: modified by descreening
ameros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amero
ropeway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹoʊpˌweɪ/
Forms: form: ropeways
form: rope-way
Etymology: From rope + way.
Senses: examples: text: An overhead ropeway was installed to pass the tablet from the signalbox at Dunton Green across the main line to an elevated stage on the branch platform, but this is no longer used.
ref: 1952 September, D. W. Winkworth, “The Westerham Valley Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 626:
text: Meanwhile, French ropeway transport company POMA SAS specialises in rope-operated systems around the globe.
ref: 2024 March 6, “Network News: Companies invited to bid for HS2 Interchange light rail contract”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 18:
glosses: A system of cables, slung from towers, from which carriers are suspended to transport materials.
Synonyms: cableway
Derived terms: aerial ropeway
ropeways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ropeway
Yahoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yahoo
Yahoos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Yahoo
unangelically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unangelically
form: most unangelically
Etymology: From unangelic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an unangelic manner.
unanimities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unanimity
hostmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hostmaster
sheetline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheetlines
Etymology: From sheet + line.
Senses: examples: text: The sheetlines were chosen to ensure coverage of the National Park on one sheet.
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the edges of a map, as shown in a map index, used to define each sheet's extent.
Related terms: neatline
Serengeti cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Serengeti cat
ropeworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ropework
neatline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neatlines
Senses: examples: text: The horizontal neatlines were formed by lines of latitude.
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The innermost line near the edge of a printed map which separates it from the margin.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The line on plan to which a structure is to be built, usually ignoring any small irregularities of the building material.
glosses: The margin of a drawing.
Related terms: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
word: sheetline
impertinency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impertinencies
Senses: examples: text: And the eſpeciall intent of this meeting is, to receive our Biſhops directions for the adminiſtration of the Sacraments and Preaching, as his Articles informe us. Hitherto, if I can but hold me by my text, I hope not to fall into impertinencies.
ref: 1635 August 27 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), John Pocklington, Sunday No Sabbath. A Sermon Preached before the Lord Bishop of Lincolne, at His Lordships Visitation at Ampthill in the County of Bedford, Aug. 17. 1635, London: […] Robert Young, published 1636, →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: Irrelevancy; impertinence.
glosses: Absurdity; inappropriateness.
glosses: Insolence.
tinyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tiny + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state or quality of being tiny
spelling alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spelling alphabets
Senses: glosses: A set of code words that stand for the usual names of the letters of an alphabet, usually for clarity of communication when spelling out words, especially over the radio and especially despite any static thereon.
Synonyms: phonetic alphabet
radio alphabet
telephone alphabet
voice procedure alphabet
word-spelling alphabet
Hyponyms: english: NATO phonetic alphabet, ICAO spelling alphabet
translation: NATO phonetic alphabet, ICAO spelling alphabet
word: NATO spelling alphabet
word: French spelling alphabet
word: Finnish spelling alphabet
word: German spelling alphabet
word: Italian spelling alphabet
word: Korean spelling alphabet
word: Portuguese spelling alphabet
word: Russian spelling alphabet
word: Spanish spelling alphabet
word: Swedish spelling alphabet
word: Turkish spelling alphabet
Related terms: alphabet soup
veggie dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veggie dogs
form: veggiedog
Senses: glosses: A vegetarian hot dog, either a sausage or a sandwich made with it.
Synonyms: not dog
rever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revers
Senses: examples: text: It is a good plan to baste around close to the edge, until the rever is either pressed or stitched, especially if the latter is to be the trimming.
ref: 1895, Sophie Klug, The Art of Dressmaking, page 64:
text: Turn in the edges of facing and stitch over fronts, leaving top edge of rever shape open for inserting pocket.
ref: 1939, The Homestead - Issue 1214, page 11:
text: Turn facing over, and on the right half of jacket, commence basting from end of rever to the bottom edge, keeping the seam a little to the inside of jacket.
ref: 1968, Bertha Moulton, Garment-cutting and Tailoring for Students, page 214:
text: With wrong side facing and contrast wool, pick up and knit through double fabric, 20 sts. acros top of left rever, 36 across back of neck and 20 from right rever.
ref: 2016, A Collection of Vintage Knitting Patterns for the Making of Women's Dresses, page 16:
glosses: The upper part of some upper garments (such as a shirt or jacket) that folds back at or near the neck to give the appearance of a collar or lapel. Unlike a collar, the rever is always formed from the same piece of fabric as the rest of the garment's bodice.
Related terms: revers
abigailship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From abigail + -ship.
Senses: glosses: the role or duration of being an abigail, or lady's maid.
cocking of snooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocking of a snook
engagement rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engagement ring
abnormalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈnɔɹ.məl.aɪz/
Forms: form: abnormalizes
form: abnormalizing
form: abnormalized
form: abnormalized
form: abnormalise
Etymology: From abnormal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make abnormal.
Derived terms: reabnormalize
abnormalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abnormalize
abnormalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abnormalize
abnormalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abnormalize
abnormalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: abnormalises
form: abnormalising
form: abnormalised
form: abnormalised
Etymology: From abnormal + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of abnormalize.
abnormalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abnormalise
abnormalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abnormalise
abnormalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abnormalise
İzmir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Turkish İzmir.
Senses: examples: text: 1954, Amerikan Kız Koleji [aut.] and Margaret W. Meyer [ed.], İzmir: The Gateway to Turkey (Piyasa Matbaası), main title
text: One major problem in towns of all sizes is the lack of street signs, but almost every local tourist office can provide you with a map. City tourist offices almost always provide acceptable maps; those for İstanbul and İzmir are as good as any you pay for.
ref: 2000, Dana Facaros, Michael Pauls, Turkey, page 14:
text: It may be Turkey’s third-largest city in terms of population, but in the congestion stakes İzmir has to be challenging for top honours.
ref: 2009, James Bainbridge, Turkey, page 221:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Izmir
glosses: Alternative spelling of Izmir:
A province and metropolitan municipality in western Anatolia in Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Izmir:
A major port city, the capital of İzmir Province, Turkey, geographically continuous with the ancient city of Smyrna.
hippie trails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hippie trail
Izmir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭzʹmîr
ipa: /ˈɪzmɪə/
Forms: form: İzmir
Etymology: From Turkish İzmir, from Ottoman Turkish ازمیر (İzmir). Doublet of Smyrna.
Senses: glosses: A province and metropolitan municipality in western Anatolia in Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast.
examples: text: 1954, Amerikan Kız Koleji [aut.] and Margaret W. Meyer [ed.], İzmir: The Gateway to Turkey (Piyasa Matbaası), main title
text: One major problem in towns of all sizes is the lack of street signs, but almost every local tourist office can provide you with a map. City tourist offices almost always provide acceptable maps; those for İstanbul and İzmir are as good as any you pay for.
ref: 2000, Dana Facaros, Michael Pauls, Turkey, page 14:
text: It may be Turkey’s third-largest city in terms of population, but in the congestion stakes İzmir has to be challenging for top honours.
ref: 2009, James Bainbridge, Turkey, page 221:
glosses: A major port city, the capital of İzmir Province, Turkey, geographically continuous with the ancient city of Smyrna.
Synonyms: english: prior to the Turkish Postal Service Law of 28 March 1930
translation: prior to the Turkish Postal Service Law of 28 March 1930
word: Smyrna
Derived terms: Izmirian
confessorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confessorships
Etymology: From confessor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The condition of a person who continues to confess their faith when suffering persecution.
confessory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confessory
form: most confessory
Senses: glosses: That constitutes a confession
confidee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confidees
Etymology: From confide + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The person in whom one confides.
abominationly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌbɑm.əˈneɪ.ʃn̩.li/
ipa: /əˌbɑm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃn̩.li/
Forms: form: more abominationly
form: most abominationly
Etymology: From abomination + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of an abomination.
abridgable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abridgable
form: most abridgable
form: abridgeable
Etymology: From abridge + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being abridged.
dodgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dodgeable
form: most dodgeable
Etymology: From dodge + -able.
Senses: glosses: capable of being dodged
Synonyms: avoidable
evitable
brook trouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brook trout
undodgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undodgeable
form: most undodgeable
Etymology: From un- + dodgeable.
Senses: glosses: not dodgeable
Synonyms: inevitable
unavoidable
Roomba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roombas
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of roomba.
graphemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: grăfēʹmĭk
ipa: /ɡɹæˈfiːmɪk/
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: graphematic
Etymology: From grapheme + -ic, on analogy with phonemic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
glosses: Being or that is a grapheme; being or that is an irreducibly meaningful unit of written language.
Derived terms: graphemically
nongraphemic
paragraphemic
thumbs down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumbs downs
form: thumbs down
form: thumbs-down
Etymology: See thumbs up.
Senses: examples: text: He shook his head and gave a thumbs down.
glosses: A gesture signifying disapproval; a thumb pointing down out of a fist.
examples: text: We requested permission but got a thumbs-down.
text: Indeed, THC does lower damaging pressure inside the eye, but as Drs. Finny T. John and Jean R. Hausheer […] wrote, “to achieve therapeutic levels of marijuana in the bloodstream to treat glaucoma, an individual would need to smoke approximately six to eight times a day,” […]. The major eye care medical societies have put thumbs down on marijuana to treat glaucoma.
ref: 2021 March 8, Jane E. Brody, “Medical Marijuana Is Not Regulated as Most Medicines Are”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A rejection or refusal.
thumbs down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thumbs-down
Etymology: See thumbs up.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thumb down
puzzlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puzzlists
Etymology: From puzzle + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: "Sam Loyd: America's Greatest Puzzlist" [chapter title]
ref: 1959, Martin Gardner, Hexaflexagons and other mathematical diversions:
glosses: One who enjoys creating or solving puzzles; a puzzle aficionado.
cerebel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɹəbəl/
Forms: form: cerebels
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cerebellum.
ungrafted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + grafted.
Senses: glosses: Not grafted.
rampacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rampacious
form: most rampacious
Senses: glosses: high-spirited
glosses: rampageous
herpet-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: hûrpĕt
ipa: /hɜːpɛt/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ἑρπετ- (herpet-), the stem of ἑρπετόν (herpetón, “serpent, creeping animal, reptile”), from ἕρπω (hérpō, “I creep”); compare herpet-².
Senses: glosses: reptile
Derived terms: herpetic
herpetography
herpetoid
herpetologic
herpetological
herpetologically
herpetologist
herpetology →
herpetotomist
herpetotomy →
herpet-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: hûrpĕt
ipa: /hɜːpɛt/
enpr: hûrpēt
ipa: /hɜːpiːt/
enpr: hûrpĕt
ipa: /hɜːpɛt/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ἑρπητ- (herpēt-), the stem of ἕρπης (hérpēs, “a creeping, shingles”), from ἕρπω (hérpō, “I creep”); compare herpet-¹.
Senses: glosses: herpes
Derived terms: herpetical
herpetic →
herpetographical
herpetography →
herpetology
Related terms: herpetiform
herpetism
herpeto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of herpet-.
piece of tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieces of tail
Senses: examples: text: You've got a piece of tail. I want a piece of tail too.
ref: 1960, Graham Greene, The Quiet American, page 38:
glosses: Synonym of piece of ass.
synonyms: word: piece of ass
axillary hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axillary hairs
Etymology: From axillary (“adjacent or pertaining to the armpit, axilla, or shoulder”) + hair.
Senses: glosses: Androgenic hair growing in the armpit, normally beginning at the onset of, or shortly after, pubarche.
glosses: A single strand of axillary hair.
Related terms: pubic hair
axillary hairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axillary hair
eburnine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eburnine
form: most eburnine
Etymology: From Latin eburnus.
Senses: examples: text: On a square of grey silk lay several objects with a direct relationship to our brimming thoughts – the great hatpin with its ugly blue stone head, and the eburnine ring of my lover which I could not see even now without a pang.
ref: 1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar:
glosses: Like ivory.
fish sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish stick
rebandage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebandages
form: rebandaging
form: rebandaged
form: rebandaged
Etymology: From re- + bandage.
Senses: glosses: To bandage again; to apply a further bandage.
rebandages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebandage
rebandaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebandage
rebandaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebandage
spectred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spectred
form: most spectred
Etymology: From spectre + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: And the picture's tints grew deeper, Redder, blacker, as I gazed, And my weak knees smote together, And my eyes grew dim and glazed, At the vision's spectred horrors From the graves of vengeance raised.
ref: 1864, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864:
glosses: ghostly
spectatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɛktəˈtɔːɹɪəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more spectatorial
form: most spectatorial
Etymology: From spectator + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: He was a psychologist rather than a philosopher, and his interest and zest in life, in the relationships of simple people, the intermingling of personal emotions and happy comradeships, kept him from ever forming cynical or merely spectatorial views of humanity.
ref: 1905, William Cory (William Johnson), Ionica:
text: Louis XIV had been his own Principal Dancer in court ballets down to the 1670s, but he increasingly took a spectatorial rather than a participatory role in entertainments, which became fewer and less grand.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 19:
glosses: Pertaining to a spectator.
examples: text: Upon these Directions, together with other secret Articles herein inclosed, you are to govern your self, and give Advertisement thereof to me at all convenient and spectatorial Hours, when Men of Business are to be seen.
ref: 1891, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3:
glosses: Suitable for spectating.
Derived terms: spectatorially
dammar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dammars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of damar.
spectatorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spectatorially
form: most spectatorially
Etymology: From spectatorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a spectatorial manner, as a spectator rather than an actor
spectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spectable
form: most spectable
form: 'spectable
Etymology: By aphesis.
Senses: examples: text: Suffice it to say that the few Democratic members uv Congress had hard work borrowin money enuff to git the most spectable uv the crowd home agin, and even then thousands uv em who wuz drawed there by that speech, shoor uv apintments, wuz obliged to walk home ignominiously, uv whom I wuz which.
ref: 1867, Petroleum V. Nasby, "Swingin Round the Cirkle.":
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of respectable.
spect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛkt
Forms: form: spects
form: specting
form: spected
form: spected
form: 'spect
Etymology: aphetic form of expect
Senses: examples: text: "I's growing so big now, mamma," said she, coaxingly, "don't you spect I must have some tea?"
ref: 1871, Sophie May, Dotty Dimple's Flyaway:
text: Looks like rain, Elder; I 'spect she'll have to go over with me arter all," said George Thayer, the handsomest, best-natured stage-driver in the whole State of New Hampshire.
ref: 1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Saxe Holm's Stories:
text: We didn' 'spect Marse Wes to bring home a wife whenas he lef', but that ain' no sign that it ain' a mighty fine thing."
ref: 1922, Various, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921:
text: I'm comin' home, I know I'm overdue
Spect me any day now real soon
ref: 1962, “Comin' Home Baby”, in Comin' Home Baby!, performed by Mel Tormé:
text: With global warming, you may need sweat towels more than you currently 'spect.
ref: 2002 September 6, Richard Meltzer, “Autumn Rhythm”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: expect
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: spect-actor
speckly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more speckly
form: most speckly
Etymology: From speckle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In some eggs the markings are very dense towards the large end, in others they are pretty uniformly distributed over the whole surface; in some they are very minute and speckly, in others they average the tenth of an inch in diameter.
ref: 1889, Allan O. Hume, The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1:
text: The clouds hung unevenly over the climbing mountains, so that far snow-bestrewn headlands looked like the speckly backs of monsters stalking up into the sky.
ref: 1913, Stephen Graham, A Tramp's Sketches:
text: April 3 2010, Huffington Post - Fresh Eggs, Grace, Rebirth, & Popovers
Sometimes they're just brown and speckly; sometimes they're pointy, sometimes petite. But always their yolks are plump and perky and marigold-yellow.
glosses: speckled; marked with speckles
speckless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more speckless
form: most speckless
Etymology: From speck + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Modest and tasteful poverty expressed itself in the speckless cleanliness and the modestly proportioned skirts of her light "print" gown, and in the scanty little mantilla of cheap black silk which she wore over it, edged with a simple frilling of the same material.
ref: 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale:
text: They did not walk in altogether speckless Sunday pumps, or much clear-starched into consciousness of the moral sublime; but in rugged practical boots, and by such roads as there were.
ref: 1865, Thomas Carlyle, History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.):
text: It shed a kind of good influence through the house, to see the little fellow in his fine linens flitting around, so careful was he to keep all things in speckless order.
ref: 1901, Hezekiah Butterworth, Little Sky-High:
text: There was never a millionaire who had more speckless white suits than I had, though it's a matter almost of routine for officers to go dirty on anything but the swell liners.
ref: 1912, Gouverneur Morris, IT and Other Stories:
text: When the appointed time arrived and Majors Gladwyn and Rogers; Captains Dalzell, Grant, and Gray; Lieutenants Cuyler, Hay, and Brown, and half a dozen more, all in speckless uniforms, were assembled about the homely but well-laden mess-table, there entered still another at whom the newcomers gazed in surprise but without recognition.
ref: 1922, Kirk Munroe, J. Finnemore, At War with Pontiac:
glosses: spotless, perfectly clean
examples: text: All the wood used was new and speckless, and smelt sweet and clean.
ref: 1919, George Herbert Fosdike Nichols (a.k.a. Quex), Pushed and the Return Push:
text: The noonday sunshine lay in a thin, silvery glister on the slopes of the mountain before them, and in the brilliant light the colossal forms of the Lion's Head were prismatically outlined against the speckless sky.
ref: 1896, William Dean Howells, The Landlord at Lion's Head, Volume 1:
glosses: spotless; without blemish
Derived terms: specklessly
specklessness
loucher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of louche: more louche
flying monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Smash the emergency glass, press the big red button and just STOP. Step off the Yellow Brick Road, get mixed up with some flying monkeys and throw yourself into all manner of trouble. Trust me. IT'S YOUR LAST CHANCE.
ref: 2011 August 19, Emma Kennedy, “Relax - a gap year's supposed to be fun”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of winged monkeys (“ominous pawns of evil forces”).
synonyms: word: winged monkeys
extra: ominous pawns of evil forces