cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unpatriotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpatriotic
form: most unpatriotic
Etymology: From un- + patriotic.
Senses: examples: text: What is a Christian's duty, when his country is bled and plundered and ground down to the dust under the iron heel of military despotism, when the political fabric of his native land is crumbling, and his countrymen are listless, selfish, sensual, unpatriotic, not unhappy so long as their bellies are filled and their backs covered?
ref: 1858 November 1, “Lettres De Silvio Pellico”, in The Atlantic:
text: Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic. Countless loyal Americans honestly feel that a world body such as the United Nations should include even Red China, but they fear being called Communist sympathizers.
ref: 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “Transformed Nonconformist”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 13:
text: Nigeria’s media regulator has directed all TV and radio stations to delete their Twitter accounts and described its use as unpatriotic[.]
ref: 2021 June 7, “Nigerian broadcasters ordered to stop using ‘unpatriotic’ Twitter”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Not patriotic.
unpeeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unpeel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpeel
unpeeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + peeled.
Senses: examples: text: Place whole, unpeeled knobs of ginger in a zipper-lock freezer bag for up to 3 months. Slice or break off what you need and return the rest to the freezer.
ref: 2001, David Joachim, The Clever Cook's Kitchen Handbook:
glosses: Not peeled.
unperceived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unperceived
form: most unperceived
Etymology: From un- + perceived.
Senses: glosses: Not perceived
unperceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unperceptive
form: most unperceptive
Etymology: From un- + perceptive.
Senses: glosses: Not perceptive.
unperformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + performed.
Senses: glosses: Not performed.
unperformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unperform
unpersuasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpersuasive
form: most unpersuasive
Etymology: From un- + persuasive.
Senses: synonyms: unconvincing
glosses: Not persuasive
Related terms: implausible
unperturbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unperturbed
form: most unperturbed
Etymology: From un- + perturbed.
Senses: synonyms: imperturbed
glosses: Not perturbed.
unpolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpolitical
form: most unpolitical
Etymology: From un- + political.
Senses: glosses: Not political
unpracticed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpracticed
form: most unpracticed
Etymology: From un- + practiced.
Senses: examples: text: Even to his unpracticed eye, the stitching showed the results of a patient hand. A loudly expelled breath drew his attention to Belle Latchett. Her impressive bosom rose inside a plum-colored brocade dress. A buffont of white gauze trembled ...
ref: 1992, Stella Cameron, Only by Your Touch, Avon Books, →ISBN, pages 64–65:
glosses: Not practiced; inexperienced.
glosses: Not carried out in practice; not usually done.
unprejudiced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprejudiced
form: most unprejudiced
Etymology: From un- + prejudiced.
Senses: examples: text: On becoming a member of the College of Physicians, I made a tour of the principal cities of Europe, taking letters of introduction to eminent medical men; and gathering from many theories and modes of treatment, hints to enlarge the foundations of unprejudiced and comprehensive practice, I had resolved to fix my ultimate residence in London.
ref: 1861 September 28 – 1862 March 8, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in A Strange Story. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC, page 1:
text: But when it comes to capacity on the road, no unprejudiced observer can deny that Mr. Bulleid produced in these engines two designs that are capable of almost anything, whether in speed or load haulage.
ref: 1951 April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance, 1939-1951”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 267:
synonyms: word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
glosses: Not prejudiced.
unpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpress
unpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an unpressed shirt
an unpressed button
glosses: Not pressed.
Derived terms: wine from unpressed grapes
unprintable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + printable.
Senses: examples: text: "There was poor old Wadley, of the Zoological Institute. Wadley sent a message: 'The President of the Zoological Institute presents his compliments to Professor Challenger, and would take it as a personal favor if he would do them the honor to come to their next meeting.' The answer was unprintable." "You don't say?" "Well, a bowdlerized version of it would run: 'Professor Challenger presents his compliments to the President of the Zoological Institute, and would take it as a personal favor if he would go to the devil.'"
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Once a neighbor complained that a Gilbreth had called the neighbor's boy a son of an unprintable word.
ref: 1949, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.; Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Cheaper by the Dozen:
glosses: Not printable; obscene, or unable to be displayed textually.
Related terms: printability
unprintable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unprintables
Etymology: From un- + printable.
Senses: examples: text: LabVIEW will interpret one- or two-character codes following the backslash character, as shown in Table 2.1. You can also enter unprintables by simply typing them into the string.
ref: 2019, Richard Jennings, LabVIEW Graphical Programming, Fifth Edition, page 91:
glosses: Something that is not printable.
unprocessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + processed.
Senses: synonyms: word: raw
word: crude
word: natural
word: pure
word: pristine
word: unprocessed
word: unrefined
word: untouched
word: untreated
antonyms: processed
ultra-processed
glosses: Not processed.
unprofessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprofessional
form: most unprofessional
Etymology: From un- + professional.
Senses: examples: text: unprofessional behavior
text: Pitarch went just days after the coach, Cesare Prandelli. A little before Christmas, Prandelli had held a press conference in which he had declined to answer questions and instead delivered a speech one minute 57 seconds long in which he accused his players of being unprofessional.
ref: 2017 January 18, Sid Lowe, “Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, in the Guardian:
glosses: unbecoming of a professional; hence inappropriate in the workplace
glosses: Lacking a profession.
Derived terms: unprofessionalize
unprofessionalization
unprofessional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unprofessionals
Etymology: From un- + professional.
Senses: examples: text: The guests, on the other hand, are unprofessionals, the mere receivers of service, the others. Such is the frame of interaction or the role definitions and how these roles are played out in the service encounters.
ref: 2011, Jon Sundbo, Marja Toivonen, User-based Innovation in Services, page 59:
glosses: One who is not a professional.
Related terms: nonprofessional
amateur
unpromising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpromising
form: most unpromising
Etymology: From un- + promising.
Senses: glosses: Not promising
unpromising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + promising.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpromise
unprompted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprompted
form: most unprompted
Etymology: From un- + prompted.
Senses: examples: text: The unprompted, rapid, and reliable emergence of hierarchical relationships within human social groups (Gruenfeld & Tiedens, 2010; Leavitt, 2005) means that differences in social status exist in perhaps all human social environments (Anderson & Kilduff, 2009; Gould, 2002; Ridgeway, 1991).
ref: 2018 December, Nathan Betancourt, Balázs Kovács, Sarah M. G. Otner, “The perception of status: How we infer the status of others from their social relationships”, in Network Science, volume 6, number 3, →DOI:
text: Donald Trump’s frequently bizarre public appearances, which this month have seen the president claim, wrongly, that his uncle knew the Unabomber and rant unprompted about windmills on his recent trip to the UK, have once again raised questions about his mental acuity, experts say.
ref: 2025 August 3, Adam Gabbatt, “‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: "Seven years," he confirms. "Nobody else has done more than four. The job has been wonderfully rewarding, but very full-on. There hasn't been a lot of time in my life for normal things. I needed to find a better balance." Unprompted, he dives straight into the obvious question: having told everyone he intended to be the last chief executive of Network Rail, why the change of heart?
ref: 2025 September 17, Paul Clifton, “"You don't get the luxury of self-pity in this job, because the machine is continuing to churn problems at me" says Sir Andrew Haines”, in RAIL, number 1044, page 28:
synonyms: unstimulated
glosses: Not prompted; not urged or instigated; spontaneous.
unproved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unproved
form: most unproved
form: unproven
Etymology: From un- + proved.
Senses: glosses: Not proved.
unproved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unprove
unprovided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + provided.
Senses: examples: text: The shepheards God so wel them guided,
That of nought they were unprovided,
Butter enough, honye, milke, and whay,
And their flockes fleeces, them to araye.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
text: Why, sir, you know this is your wedding-day.
First were we sad, fearing you would not come;
Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.
Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate,
An eye-sore to our solemn festival!
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Mean while, if you are unprovided of a Lodging, I dare undertake, you shall be welcome to this Gentlewoman.
ref: 1697, Aphra Behn, The Adventure of the Black Lady:
text: Miss Tilney, understanding in part her friend’s curiosity to see the house, soon revived the subject; and her father being, contrary to Catherine’s expectations, unprovided with any pretence for further delay […] was at last ready to escort them.
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: Perhaps it is an oversight on Mr Macgregor’s part that he has left these young infants quite unprovided for, and that some of their mothers are in danger of starvation […]
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 1”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: Originally unprovided with cabs, the first to acquire them did so during the Webb period in the 1890's, [...].
ref: 1941 December, “Notes and News: The L.N.W.R. "Special" Tanks”, in Railway Magazine, page 568:
text: [...] but there are other northbound trains, unprovided with any refreshments, on which this car's appearance would be most welcome, [...].
ref: 1959 March, “Talking of Trains: Fewer meals on wheels?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 121:
glosses: Not provided; not supplied or equipped; unprepared.
unladylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unladylike
form: most unladylike
form: unlady-like
form: unladilike
Etymology: From un- + ladylike.
Senses: examples: text: Women enjoy being pursued, but men still don’t! They don’t want anything that seems too easy to win. If the woman takes the initiative—at least if she takes it conspicuously—the world will think her aggressive, and unladylike.
ref: 1946, Clifford Rose Adams, Vance O. Packard, How to Pick a Mate:
glosses: Not ladylike; ill-mannered.
Derived terms: unladylikely
Related terms: ungentlemanly
unknowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unknowable
form: most unknowable
Etymology: From un- + knowable.
Senses: examples: text: Number fourteen: Some of the things you need to know are things that are unknowable.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, “NINETY-NINE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 39:
text: The mascot for the manosphere, Andrew Tate, believes that women belong at home, are a man’s property, and shouldn’t be able to drive. And an unknowable amount of young men are following this rhetoric through sites like Reddit, 4chan, and YouTube. But once they fall down the rabbit hole of the manosphere, is there any getting out?
ref: 2024 November 20, Fortesa Latifi, “How These Men Left the Manosphere — and Why Some May Never”, in Teen Vogue:
synonyms: word: unintelligible
word: abstruse
word: Chinese
word: dense
word: enigmatic
word: fathomless
word: Greek
word: inapprehensible
word: incognizable
word: incomprehensible
word: ineffable
word: inenubilable
word: inexplicable
word: impenetrable
word: insensible
word: inscrutable
word: insoluble
word: insolvable
word: mysterious
word: nonunderstandable
word: obscure
word: retruse
word: thick
word: undecipherable
word: undiscoverable
word: unexplainable
word: unfathomable
word: ungraspable
word: unintelligible
word: unknowable
word: ununderstandable
antonyms: word: knowable
word: confusing
word: incomprehensible
glosses: Not knowable; not able to be known.
Related terms: unknowability
unknowable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unknowables
Etymology: From un- + knowable.
Senses: examples: text: That night I think of other unknowables. How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps.
ref: 2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 138:
glosses: Something that cannot be known.
uninspiring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌn.ɪnˈspaɪə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ʌn.ɪnˈspaɪɹ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: more uninspiring
form: most uninspiring
Etymology: From un- + inspiring.
Senses: examples: text: One might imagine that the directors foresaw the somewhat uninspiring appearance of the future Manchester stations, and decided to start as it was intended to go on.
ref: 1957 September 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 615:
glosses: Not inspiring.
Derived terms: uninspiringly
Related terms: uninspired
uninvited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + invited.
Senses: examples: text: But you, you're not allowed / You're uninvited / An unfortunate slight
ref: 1997, Alanis Morissette, “Uninvited”, performed by Alanis Morissette:
glosses: Not invited.
uninvited
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uninviteds
Etymology: From un- + invited.
Senses: examples: text: The uninvited came to a Twilight concert! He was old and gray and blase and a cynic.
ref: 1917 April, Charme Seeds, “School Activities and the College Girl”, in The Ohio State University Monthly, volume 8, number 9, page 38:
text: In the future, if you know that you're going to be mixing inviteds and uninviteds while out, call them all ahead of time to caution the inviteds against talking about the wedding and to tell the uninviteds about your guest list so they know you didn't forget about them […]
ref: 2011, Sam Scholfield, Awkward.: What to Do When Life Makes You Cringe-A Survival Guide:
text: As if the uninvited was trying to escape from pain and that truth of that the lake's waters turned black because of her presence.
ref: 2020, Natali Stoyanov, translated by Ingrid Turis, The forest’s legends, →ISBN:
glosses: One who was not invited.
uninvited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From uninvite.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uninvite
uninformative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninformative
form: most uninformative
Etymology: From un- + informative.
Senses: examples: text: That magazine article was uninformative.
text: Some of the photographs are new and interesting, but many captions are amateurish, uninformative or simply careless.
ref: 1964 September, “New Books: The History of Railways. By Erwin Berghaus. Barrie & Rockcliff. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, page 222:
antonyms: informative
glosses: lacking useful or interesting information
sex economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Reichian theory, progressing from Freudian psychoanalysis, of the energy household of the human organism.
glosses: The way in which society regulates, promotes, or hinders gratification of the sexual needs; also defined by Reich.
Derived terms: sex economic
Reichian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Reich + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: A shocking Riechian ^([sic]) look at how repressed and thwarted sexuality manifests itself in fascist politics.
ref: 1991 April 6, Michael Bronski, “Spanning the Years”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: Relating to or influenced by the Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) and his therapeutic methods.
glosses: Of or relating to Charles A. Reich (1928–2019), American academic whose 1970 book The Greening of America was a paean to the counterculture of the 1960s.
Reichian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Reichians
Etymology: From Reich + -ian.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: A follower of Reich or his methods.
Nowheresville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nowheresvilles
Etymology: From nowhere + -s- + -ville.
Senses: related: word: Nowhereville
word: nowheresville
synonyms: word: Bumfuck, Nowhere
word: Isolated town
word: bump in the road
word: jerkwater
word: jerk-water
word: jerkwater town
word: one-horse town
word: wide spot in the road
word: Isolated place
word: arse end of nowhere
word: back of beyond
word: back forty
word: backcountry
word: backwater
word: backwoods
word: beyond the black stump
word: boondock
word: boondocks
word: boonies
word: bumfuck middle of nowhere
word: bumfuck nowhere
word: dullsville
word: edge of the earth
word: edge of the world
word: ends of the earth
word: ends of the world
word: hinterland
word: middle of nowhere
word: north forty
word: off the beaten track
word: out of the way
word: sticks
word: the sticks
word: Actual places
word: back o' Bourke
word: Outer Mongolia
word: Timbuktu
word: Tuktoyaktuk
word: Fictional places
word: Anytown
word: BFE
word: Bumblefuck
word: Bumfuck
word: Egypt
word: Idaho
word: Iowa
word: Kansas
word: Minnesota
word: Nowhere
word: Ohio
word: Buttfuck
word: East Bumfuck
word: East Jesus
word: Hicksville
word: Nowheresville
word: Podunk
word: Squedunk
word: Whateverville
word: wop-wops
word: Woop Woop
coordinate_terms: Whateverville
Whateversville
Anytown
glosses: A geographical location that is deemed obscure or unimportant.
defenselessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛnsləsnəs/
Etymology: From defenseless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being defenseless; vulnerability.
pandemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pandemic
hog-baying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hog baying
Senses: synonyms: hog-dogging
glosses: a sport in which one or more bay dogs are put into a pen and attempt to contain a wild hog for a defined amount of time.
Related terms: hog-catching
g-force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: g-forces
form: g force
Senses: glosses: The acceleration of a body, relative to the freefall acceleration due to any local gravitational field, expressed in multiples of g0 (the mean acceleration due to gravity at the Earth's surface).
Related terms: proper acceleration
off board
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Not on or in a means of transportation.
glosses: Not participating.
off board
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of items or equipment: discrete or separate instead of being integrated or contained within.
sexual literacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexual literacies
Senses: topics: health
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
sexology
sexuality
glosses: Knowledge required to advance and protect one's own sexual health and well-being.
ludus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ludi
Etymology: From Latin ludus.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] and I'd just as soon not set foot in another ludus." "I've had my fill of ludi, believe me," he mutters. "But I've falsified a life before. I can do it again." Then he smiles. "I hear Rome is lovely." I wrinkle my nose . " I'd rather live in Pompeii's sewer[…]"
ref: 2016 November 6, Ann Gallagher, The Left Hand of Calvus: M/M Trans Historical Romantic Suspence, GallagherWitt, →ISBN:
glosses: A school, in particular:
A gladiatorial training school.
examples: text: […] the routine of the Roman ludus emphasized strenuous discipline and corporal punishment. An institution for developing the skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic, the ludus was attended by children from the ages of seven through twelve.
ref: 1994 December 14, Gerald L. Gutek, A History of the Western Educational Experience: Second Edition, Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: A school, in particular:
A private school for teaching children reading, writing, arithmetic, and sometimes Greek.
flammeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flammeous
form: most flammeous
Etymology: From Latin flammeus (“fiery”), derivative of flamma (“a flame”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling fire; fiery.
examples: text: And that’s why his book lay in front of him, unfinished, though he could vouch for having written all these years, the ink vanishing on the pages each morning, when flammeous daylight broke into the room through a slight gap in the shutters.
ref: 2003, Siddharth Katragadda, The Rebellious Daughter, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2003:
glosses: Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling fire; fiery.
Having the color of fire or flame.
Related terms: fiery
blazing
pyrrhous
sanity check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanity checks
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: reality check; sniff test
synonyms: sanity test
glosses: A check to make sure that something does not contain elementary mistakes or impossibilities and is not based on invalid assumptions.
Related terms: pub test
sanity check
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sanity checks
form: sanity checking
form: sanity checked
form: sanity checked
Senses: glosses: To perform a sanity check.
g force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: g forces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of g-force.
jet machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet machines
Senses: glosses: Any of several devices that use a jet of water or abrasive mixture to clean something
æolian harp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æolian harps
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Aeolian harp.
Aeolian harp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aeolian harps
form: æolian harp
form: aeolian harp
Etymology: Refers to Aeolus, who in Greek mythology was said to control the winds.
Senses: examples: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
[…] the noise made by the beating of the waves on the land and the sighing of the wind amongst the pendulous leaves—or rather pendant fringe of the casuarina or she-oak, those aeolian harps of the Australian bush, almost drowned their voices.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An open box over which strings are stretched that sound when the wind passes over them.
wikipedia: Aeolus (son of Hippotes)
Synonyms: wind harp
serologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From serology + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Over the past several months, strong biologic and serologic evidence has been accumulating which links HTLV-III to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
ref: 1984 August 18, Robert T. Schooley, Martin S. Hirsh, Teri Flynn, “MGH Responds”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 4:
synonyms: serological
glosses: Relating to serology.
galoche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galoches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of galosh.
galoches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galoche
Lhermitte's sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Electric sensations of the spine and limbs induced by flexing the neck forward.
Lhermitte sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Electric sensations of the spine and limbs induced by flexing the neck forward.
gargoyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gargoyle
spasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spasm
spasms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spasm
Chungyang Shanmo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 中央山脈 /中央山脉 (Zhōngyāng Shānmò, “Central Mountain Range”), Wade-Giles romanization: Chung¹-yang¹ Shan¹-mo⁴.
Senses: examples: text: The East-West Cross-Island Highway, costing almost $11 million, is completed after nearly four years of labor by 100,000 workers. It opens the Chungyang Shanmo in eastern Taiwan to development by agricultural and logging interests and tourism.
ref: 1999, “Taiwan”, in Worldmark Chronology of the Nations, volume 3, Gale Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 587–588:
text: Taiwan’s most prominent topographical feature is the Chungyang Shanmo (Central Mountain Range), a ridge of towering mountains that runs for about 270 km (167 miles) of the island’s length and formed by ancient tectonic, and, to a lesser extent, volcanic activity.
ref: 2003, “Features”, in Vivien Kim, editor, Taiwan (Insight Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 45, column 1:
text: Half of the main island of Taiwan is covered by a mountain range called the Chungyang Shanmo (CHONG-yuhng SHUHN-mor) mountains.
ref: 2004, Vanessa Wan, “The Land”, in Welcome to Taiwan (Welcome to My Country), Gareth Stevens Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: Synonym of Central Mountain Range on Taiwan: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Central Mountain Range on Taiwan
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
rosegarden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosegardens
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rose garden.
bestialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bestiality
your mother
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: your mother !
Senses: examples: text: In order to keep the teacher from knowing what we were doing, we just cleared our throats and that meant “your mother" (yo momma) .
ref: 1991, Evelyn Baker Dandy, Black Communications: Breaking Down the Barriers, page 87:
glosses: Alternative form of yo momma.
Synonyms: sense: insult
word: yo momma
your mother
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:your mother.
glosses: I, me
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:your mother.
glosses: You; He, she (referring to someone who previously used your mother to refer to herself or himself)
outgun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaʊtˈɡʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: outguns
form: outgunning
form: outgunned
form: outgunned
form: out-gun
Etymology: From out- + gun.
Senses: examples: text: Two can play at destructive industrialism, and now we out-gun you. We are piling up munitions now faster than you.
ref: 1917, H.G. Wells, War and the Future:
text: "Boarding is our only chance here. We are too heavily outgunned."
ref: 1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood:
text: There is no sporting purpose on earth that should stop the United States Congress from banishing assault weapons that outgun police and cut down children.
ref: 1994, Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address:
glosses: To defeat in terms of firepower.
outguns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outgun
outgunned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of outgun
outgunned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outgunned
form: most outgunned
Senses: examples: text: The fighters were hugely outgunned by the regular army.
text: The opposite is true, said Dulcie Flaherty, executive director of the Montgomery County Lands Trust: "We are very outgunned. We need to have funding […]
ref: 2002 February 17, “Environmentalists warn cutbacks could devastate programs, Funds are needed from every government level, not just from municipalities and private donations, conservationists say”, in Philadelphia Inquirer:
text: They greatly extended the battlefield and made the 6-pounder even more outgunned in action.
ref: 2003, Philip R. N. Katcher, The Army of Northern Virginia: Lee's army in the American Civil War, page 50:
text: Cockrell's men, becoming more outgunned with every passing minute, finally retreated back over the ridge and re-formed, supported by a Mississippi regiment.
ref: 2004, Michael B. Ballard, Vicksburg: the campaign that opened the Mississippi, page 239:
qualifier: literal
glosses: Having insufficient guns compared to the enemy.
examples: Near-synonyms: outmatched, in too deep, out of one's depth, over one's head
glosses: Up against formidable adverse circumstances or (especially) adversarial forces.
outgunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outgun
buffoonery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈfuːnəɹi/
Forms: form: buffooneries
form: buffoonry
Etymology: From buffoon + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Araminta, come I'll talk ſeriouſly to you now, could you but ſee vvith my Eyes the buffoonry of one Scene of Addreſs, a Lover, ſet out with all his Equipage and Appurtenances; […]
ref: 1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene [ii], page 14:
text: [W]e ſet him [the Devil] up like a Scare-Crovv to fright Children and old VVomen, to fill up old Stories, make Songs and Ballads, and in a VVord, carry on the lovv priz'd Buffoonry of the common People; […]
ref: 1726, [Daniel Defoe], “Of the Manner of Satan’s Acting and Carrying on His Affairs in This World, and Particularly of His Ordinary Workings in the Dark, by Possession and Agitation”, in The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern: […], London: […] T. Warner, […], →OCLC, part II (Of the Modern History of the Devil), page 222:
text: […] One could not expect any body to take such a part—Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 273:
text: The Temperance Reform was too serious a matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries.
ref: before 1891: P.T. Barnum, quoted in The Life of Phineas T. Barnum http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1576
text: Preamble is a hard-boiled steel commuter built for comfort, durability, and buffoonery on pavement and gravel.
ref: 2025, “Pavement Bikes”, in Surly Bikes, retrieved 21 Feb 2025:
glosses: The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.
0-10-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-10-2s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has ten coupled driving wheels followed by two trailing wheels, with no leading wheels.
Synonyms: Union
2-12-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-12-0s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has a single-axle leading truck followed by six powered driving axles, and no trailing wheels.
2-10-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-10-0s
Senses: examples: text: From Belgrade the train is hauled by a 2-10-0, and makes good time through undulating country, with vineyards and herds of woolly pigs, over single line to Nish, where the Sofia and Istanbul portion, including through coaches (until recently) from Prague to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is detached.
ref: 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has a single-axle leading truck followed by five powered driving axles, and no trailing wheels.
Hypernyms: Decapod
0-12-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-12-0s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive, with six axles connecting twelve powered driving wheels, and no leading wheels or trailing wheels.
4-10-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-10-0s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has four leading wheels on a leading truck followed by ten coupled driving wheels, and no trailing wheels.
Related terms: Mastodon
BEM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BEMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Empire Medal.
examples: text: Where OOCSS and SMACSS can be seen as a more of frameworks for thinking about structured CSS combined with some handy rules of thumb, BEM is a much more rigid system for how to author and name your styles. BEM is originally an application development methodology from the search engine company Yandex.
ref: 2016, Andy Budd, Emil Björklund, CSS Mastery, Apress, →ISBN, page 387:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
glosses: Initialism of block, element, modifier, a convention for authoring CSS.
BEM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BEMs
form: bem
Etymology: Acronym of bug-eyed monster.
Senses: examples: text: Incidentally, Mr. Bergey, the BEM's on your latest smear have extremely jovial expressions on their pans to be as tough a bunch of eggs as Friend made them out.
ref: 1940 November, Parmer Farrell, “The Reader Speaks”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 18, number 2, page 120:
text: This is my first time in active BEM service. They've never let me near the Bugs before.
ref: 1997, Lawrence Miles, Alien Bodies, →ISBN, page 89:
topics: lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A stock character in science fiction; a grotesque creature, often an extraterrestrial, that menaces the protagonists.
Derived terms: Bim, BEM, Bum
2-10-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-10-4s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has two leading wheels arranged in a leading truck, ten coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels in a trailing truck.
Decapod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Decapods
Senses: glosses: A decapod, the 0-10-0 (UK) and 2-10-0 steam locomotive configurations.
spigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiggers
Etymology: Blend of spic + nigger.
Senses: glosses: A person of mixed Hispanic and African-American heritage.
spiggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spigger
paranoid schizophrenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranoid schizophrenias
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A form of schizophrenia that is accompanied by delusions, either of persecution, grandeur or jealousy.
Derived terms: paranoid schizophrenic
six ways to Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He will fry me six ways to Sunday for sending daughters and young mothers off to war—and, quite possibly, for bringing them back in body bags.
ref: 1997, David Twohy, Danielle Alexandra, G.I. Jane:
text: If she chips so much as one of my porcelain piggies, I'll sue her six ways to Sunday!
ref: 2004, Sam Johnson, Chris Marcil, “The Ann Who Came to Dinner”, in Frasier, season 11, episode 13:
text: I'm not lying, Sally. I had Jeannine Lock six ways to Sunday all over this White House. And after some soul searching on all of our parts I think my constituents are going to forgive me for it
ref: 2013, Heather Mitchell, “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner”, in Scandal, season 3, episode 2, spoken by President Fitzgerald Grant:
glosses: Thoroughly, completely, in every way imaginable.
Synonyms: all the way to Sunday
every way to Sunday
nine ways to Sunday
six ways for Sunday
six ways from Sunday
six ways till Sunday
ten ways from Sunday
ten ways to Sunday
heng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hengs
Etymology: Blend of h + eng.
Senses: glosses: The character ꜧ, combining an h and an eng, which stands for the hypothetical phoneme in English that includes both [h] and [ŋ] as its allophones.
Derived terms: hooktop heng
heng
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /heŋ/
Forms: form: more heng
form: most heng
Etymology: From Teochew 興 /兴 (hêng¹, “fortunate”) or Hokkien 幸 (hēng, “fortunate”). Compare Thai เฮง (heng), Khmer ហេង (heeng), Vietnamese hên.
Senses: examples: text: Damn heng... The bus tire puncture right before my stop. Bad luck everyone else though.
ref: 2015 June 24, @BurgerBing, Twitter:
text: But Sunny very heng [lucky]... No damage on the driver's side.
ref: 2018, Jean Tay, Sisters & Senang: The Island Plays, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Scene 12, page 73:
text: Most Heng is join few month before June 2021. Your pay got adjusted to $4900 with all the new joiners in June + got 5k bonus.
ref: 2022 April 26, Unregistered, “Roles in accenture singapore”, in Salary.sg Forums:
glosses: Fortunate, lucky.
Derived terms: heng ah
keng
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈkeŋ˦]
Etymology: Clipping of chao keng, from Teochew 臭 (cao³, “dirty, ill-reputed”) + 經 /经 (gêng¹, “to evade; to pass the buck”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chao keng (“to malinger, to shirk military duties by reporting sick”).
synonyms: word: chao keng
extra: to malinger, to shirk military duties by reporting sick
Derived terms: kengster
0-4-4-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-4-4-2s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Mallet-type locomotive with no leading truck, two sets of four driving wheels, and two trailing wheels on a trailing truck.
Mastodons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mastodon
pau d'arco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Portuguese pau-d’arco (literally “bow wood”). Compare bois d’arc.
Senses: glosses: Tabebuia, the ipê tree.
glosses: The hardwood of this tree.
glosses: The inner bark of this tree, used medicinally.
life support
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The more immediate concern is the life support systems. Those units are fifty years old—a conservative estimate. If the air scrubbers stop working, we die. If the pressure regulators stop working, we die. Artificial gravity fails? We die. You get the picture.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Engineer's Report:
glosses: An artificial system designed to provide oxygen and other conditions necessary for human life in an inhospitable environment.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The equipment and special procedures used for life support.
examples: text: As we've seen, Belarus is a Soviet time capsule that continues only because Russia is keeping it on life support.
ref: 2011, Francis Tapon, The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us, page 135:
text: In a war of words that has broken out between Khan and Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps, the Mayor was accused of sending revenue-raising proposals to Shapps some three weeks late, giving him little choice but to extend negotiations. Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:
glosses: A means of sustaining existence or continuation of something, usually in an artificial manner when it should have changed or terminated in its natural environment.
barchan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːk(ə)n/
ipa: /bɑːˈkɑːn/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹˌkɑn/
ipa: /bɑɹˈkɑn/
rhymes: (one RP) -ɑːkən
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: barchans
form: barchane
form: barkan
form: barkhan
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Russian барха́н (barxán), from a Turkic language such as Kazakh барқан (barqan); further etymology unknown. The Russian word was first used in scientific literature in 1881 by the Russian zoologist and explorer Alexander von Middendorf (1815–1894).
Senses: examples: text: The sand is usually very well sorted in barchans, for it is constantly re-worked as the dune 'marches'. The marching also causes cross-bedding inside the barchan, with a dip parallel to the sand-fall face.
ref: 1966, E[dwin] S[herbon] Hills, C[liff] D. Ollier, C[harles] R[owland] Twidale, “Geomorphology”, in E. S. Hills, editor, Arid Lands: A Geographical Appraisal (Routledge Revivals), New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2024, →ISBN, page 72:
text: But to follow the dunes around the foot of their slopes is also tedious and one can walk for half a kilometre east or west, finding one barchan linked to another and no easy way through, and the unverifiable suspicion grows that one has been driven by insensible curves actually southwards.
ref: 1988, Robert Irwin, chapter 8, in The Mysteries of Algiers, London: Viking, →ISBN, page 69:
text: The structure out here was revealed immediately—desert punctuated by oases in a geography of cruelty, barkhans or traveling sand-dunes a hundred feet high, which might or might not possess consciousness, […]
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 752:
text: Barchans and transverse dunes are essentially of the same type, forming and migrating under a unidirectional wind regime. The difference between the two is related to the amount of sand: barchans are isolated mounds, whereas transverse dunes are composed of many barchans coalesced into a single, longer dune form[…].
ref: 2008, Julie Laity, “Aeolian Processes”, in Deserts and Desert Environments, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 205, column 2:
text: Perhaps the most distinctive is the barchan dune, an isolated crescentic form with arms that stretch downwind. Barchans are not huge, often with heights of only a few meters.
ref: 2010, Robert S[tewart] Anderson, Suzanne P[restrud] Anderson, “Eolian Forms and Deposits”, in Geomorphology: The Mechanics and Chemistry of Landscapes, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 482, column 1:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An arc-shaped shifting sand dune comprising well-sorted (uniformly sized) sand.
wikipedia: Alexander von Middendorf
Death Valley National Park
Derived terms: barchanoid
megabarchan
idiopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪdiˈɑpəθi/
ipa: /ɪdiˈɒpəθi/
rhymes: -ɒpəθi
Forms: form: idiopathies
Etymology: From Latin idiopathia, from Ancient Greek ἰδιοπάθεια (idiopátheia). By surface analysis, idio- + -pathy. First appears c. 1634, in the publications of Philiatreus (fl. 1630).
Senses: examples: text: The sterilization that was first conceived as a recourse of limited medical reach came to be considered an efficient eugenical procedure that could prevent descendents^([sic]) with hereditary and transmissible disorders, such as mental deficiency, epilepsy, idiopathies, etc.
ref: 1970, D. V. Salcedo, M. G. Mujica, “A Study of Sterilized Women in the Urban Communities of the Western Area of Santiago, 1963-1966”, in The Journal of Sex Research, volume 6, number 1, page 42:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disease or condition arising spontaneously or having no known cause.
Derived terms: idiopathic
boniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boninesses
form: boneyness
form: bonyness
Etymology: From bony + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property or degree of being bony.
broiling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broiling
form: most broiling
Etymology: From broil + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: But the butterflies were dead. A whiff of rotten eggs had vanquished the pale clouded yellows which came pelting across the orchard and up Dods Hill and away on to the moor, now lost behind a furze bush, then off again helter-skelter in a broiling sun.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter II, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: Very hot.
Derived terms: broilingly
broiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broilings
Etymology: From broil + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, when mixed broilings or skewered meats are offered, they can be kept warm or finished on a modest-sized table-top grill.
ref: 1974, Bruce H. Axler, Showmanship in the Dining Room, page 30:
glosses: A food prepared by broiling.
examples: text: Broiling is but another way of roasting those cuts of meat which have a broad, flat surface such as steaks, chops, or cutlets. And in broiling them the heat must be so intense that the meat surface is quickly seared, the pores sealed and every particle of flavor and rich juices imprisoned.
ref: 1922, “The Bride’s Cookery Primer”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 74, page 66:
text: Broiling is the most perfect way of cooking meat and fish. There are three ways of broiling,—what is known as broiling proper, pan broiling and oven broiling. Broiling proper is to broil directly over the coals; the fire must be hot, clear and free from smoke.
ref: 2007, Suzanne Tracy, Practical Cook Book, Applewood Books, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: gerund of broil: the act of broiling.