cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stuff and nonsense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Stuff and nonsense!" said Bartle, forgetting in his irritation to whom he was speaking—"I beg your pardon, sir; I mean it's stuff and nonsense for the innocent to care about her being hanged.[…]"
ref: 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Bitter Waters Spread”, in Adam Bede […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book fifth, page 99:
text: “It’s a pun!” the King added in an angry tone, and everybody laughed. ¶ “Let the jury consider their verdict,” the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. ¶ “No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first—verdict afterwards.” ¶ “Stuff and nonsense!” said Alice loudly. “The idea of having the sentence first!”
ref: 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Alice’s Evidence”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 187:
text: "This is all stuff and nonsense," said the king; "I shall have to go myself, if we are to get this confounded whistle from him.[…]"
ref: 1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “Ashiepattle and the King’s Hares”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 177:
text: I wrote it last Monday evening. It's called 'The Jealous Rival; or, in Death Not Divided.' I read it to Marilla and she said it was stuff and nonsense. Then I read it to Matthew and he said it was fine. That is the kind of critic I like.
ref: 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “The Story Club is Formed”, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, published August 1909, →OCLC, page 290:
text: "Have you seen his letter in the Times?" I asked. / "What was it?" / "Stuff and nonsense!" said Summerlee, harshly. / "Well, it's at the bottom of this oxygen business, or I am mistaken," said I. / "Stuff and nonsense!" cried Summerlee again, with quite unnecessary violence.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Blurring of the Lines”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: rubbish, foolishness, poppycock
Synonyms: See: Thesaurus:nonsense
depopulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depopulators
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English depopulator, borrowed Latin dēpopulātor. By surface analysis, depopulate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who depopulates an area, especially one who forcibly removes people from an estate.
depopulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /diːˈpɒpjʊlətɪv/
/diːˈpopjʊˌleɪtɪv/
Forms: form: more depopulative
form: most depopulative
Senses: glosses: That depopulates
dentinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dentin + -al, dentine + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to dentin/dentine.
Derived terms: amelodentinal
cementodentinal
dentinal fibre
dentinally
dentinal tubule
pulpodentinal
deipnophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deipno- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: People who heartily sympathise with the ‘deipnophobia’ of Gordon.
ref: 1891 June 23, The Daily News, 4/8
text: For those of us with deipnophobia—a fear of dining and dinner conversations—literally anything is more pleasant than a meal with friends.
ref: 2018 February 8, “'I Have A Severe Phobia—Here's What It's Like'”, in Women's Health:
text: For Krissy, the deipnophobia did not start after experiencing a traumatizing moment, but it was rather made by an accumulation of different experiences.
ref: 2018 April, “What It’s Like to Live with Deipnophobia”, in Best Womens Mag:
glosses: A fear of banquets or dinner parties.
dinner party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinner parties
form: dinner-party
Senses: examples: text: She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.
ref: 1919, Saki, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers:
text: If the dinner party does become extinct, I will mourn its passing. I like having them, and I love being invited to them.
ref: 2023 July 15, Rachel Cooke, “No, Nigella – dinner parties are great. Deliveroo just doesn’t cut it”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: A relatively formal meal at which invited guests eat in the home of the host.
Synonyms: guestmeal
Derived terms: a revolution is not a dinner party
virtual dinner party
anamonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anamonics
Etymology: Blend of anagram + mnemonic; coined by Scrabble player Bob Lipton.
Senses: examples: text: For example, the DAMOSEL stem only appears in the second of the two Internet lists mentioned above. The given anamonic is PRIZED GALS.
ref: 2004, Andrew Fisher, David Webb, The Art of Scrabble:
glosses: A mnemonic used for recalling lists of words, particularly in Scrabble, consisting of a "stem" of base letters and an accompanying phrase, each of whose letters can combine with the stem to form an anagram of a word.
deodand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deodands
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman deodande, from Latin deodandum, from Deo dandum (“to be given to God”).
Senses: examples: text: Really, it’s hard not to wonder whether some current civil forfeiture practices represent much less than a revival of the archaic common-law deodand.
ref: 2024 May 9, Neil Gorsuch, “CULLEY ET AL. v. MARSHALL, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ALABAMA, ET AL.”, in Opinions, Supreme Court of the United States:
topics: law
glosses: An object forfeited to the state (and supposedly to God) because it had caused the death of a person.
examples: pay the deodand
topics: law
glosses: A fine equal to the value of this object, paid by the owner of the object.
Related terms: bane
wergeld
midlife crisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midlife crises
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mid-life crisis.
mid-life
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of midlife.
minidress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭnʹ-ē-drĕs'
ipa: /ˈmɪn.iˌdɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɪnidɹɛs
Forms: form: minidresses
Etymology: From mini- + dress.
Senses: glosses: A woman's short dress with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level.
Derived terms: minidressed
squee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwiː/
ipa: [skwiː]
rhymes: -iː
homophone: skweee
Forms: form: squees
form: squeeing
form: squeed
form: squeed
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile on Usenet, a couple of anti-choicers are racing to out-stupid each other, squeeing like school children over something someone said.
ref: 2011, Spartakus, “Anti-abortion terrorism nipped in the bud in Madison, WI”, in talk.abortion (Usenet):
text: On Tuesday, Reddit user lern41 got the Reddit community squeeing when he posted a few photos of his pet cats, Artemis and Apollo.
ref: 2012, “Male Cat Stays By Female Cat's Side In Sickness And Health”, in Huffington Post:
glosses: To squeal with excitement or delight.
squee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwiː/
ipa: [skwiː]
rhymes: -iː
homophone: skweee
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: ref: 2001, Susan, “I got a hamster! Squee!”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):
text: The new console will certainly have more powerful graphics, processor, hard drive and all those specs that really only nerdy writers for technology websites care about: “Ermahgerd, moar polygons! More frame rate! Squee!”
ref: 2013 May 17, Peter Nowak, “There will be buttons: And other truths about the next-gen Xbox”, in The Globe and Mail:
glosses: A squeal of excitement or delight.
squee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwiː/
ipa: [skwiː]
rhymes: -iː
homophone: skweee
Forms: form: squees
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: It's just that the young female group squees seem to come at the most inopportune time. Sure enough, just about every time I'm on the phone — squee. Talking to someone important? Squee.
ref: 2008, Dale North, JapanaTen: The top ten things anime cons could do without:
text: "Oughta be more careful, El. Most people aren't accustomed to fanboyish squees." "Well, they aren't going to get used to it without exposure." "Fair 'nough."
ref: 2013 June 3, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Jun 3, 2013:
text: "Forgive me. I am imagining the two of you as a couple and it is making me very happy. This must be the 'squee' emotion I have heard so much about." "That is the most dignified squee I've ever seen."
ref: 2020, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4371: Held In Reserve:
glosses: A cry of squee.
fishbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishbones
Etymology: From fish + bone.
Senses: examples: text: He choked on a fishbone.
glosses: A bone from a fish.
examples: text: a faint fishbone pattern etched across the glass
coordinate_terms: dogbone
wishbone
glosses: Something with an appearance or structure suggestive of a fish's skeleton.
Derived terms: fishbone diagram
fishboning
Related terms: bonefish
bony fish
herringbone
metalcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalcrafts
Etymology: From metal + -craft.
Senses: glosses: Metalworking.
glosses: Collectively, items crafted from metal.
misaddress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misaddresses
form: misaddressing
form: misaddressed
form: misaddressed
Etymology: From mis- + address.
Senses: examples: text: She had written it to him before she died, but had misaddressed it — and hence the postal delay.
ref: 1970, Queen's Quarterly, volume 77, page 35:
glosses: To address (a letter, etc.) incorrectly.
thataway
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: thattaway
Etymology: From that + away.
Senses: examples: text: Now there’ll be a jackpot an’ no mistake. I’ll be desperate thataway. Like a hungry hobo locked up in a piehouse. Like a weary pilgrim who hears them pearly gates clang shut behind him . . .
ref: 1932, Robert Ormond Case, “A New Design”, in Whispering Valley, Oxford, Oxon: ISIS Publishing Ltd., published 2010, →ISBN, page 239:
text: I sure hope he don't get hisself hurt one of these days, running his mouth thataway.
ref: 1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:
text: "You'd talk thataway about your own daddy?"
ref: 1996, Elmer Kelton, Wagontongue:
text: "They went thataway," said Daisy, pointing.
ref: 2003, Carola Dunn, Rattle His Bones:
glosses: That way (usually in terms of physical direction).
Related terms: thisaway
—
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hereabout
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hereafters
hereagainst
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hereat
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herefore
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therefore
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thereinabove
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therethrough
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therewith
therewithal
therewithin
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thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
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whatsomedever
whatsomever
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whenabout
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whenever
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1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
possesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of possession.
mazelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mazelike
form: most mazelike
Etymology: From maze + -like.
Senses: examples: text: If a military man with AIDS were discharged for homosexuality, he would lose his medical benefits and be thrown into the already overtaxed and maze-like system of public welfare.
ref: 1985 February 9, Cindy Patton, “Heterosexual AIDS Panic: A Queer Paradigm”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 29, page 3:
text: The dark New York restaurant is a mazelike “ninja village,” with iron bars and cold stone lining the walls.
ref: 2015 April 30, Jordan Bissell, “10 wacky U.S. restaurants”, in CNN:
glosses: Like a maze; labyrinthine.
undecaying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + decaying.
Senses: examples: the undecaying power and grace of God
glosses: That does not decay; lasting, imperishable.
mercifulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercifulnesses
Etymology: From Middle English mercyfulnes, mercyfullenesse, equivalent to merciful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being merciful; mercy.
mooneye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mooneyes
form: moon-eye
Etymology: From moon + eye, from the silvery luster of the eyes.
Senses: glosses: A primitive ray-finned fish of the family Hiodontidae.
dropwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropworts
Etymology: From drop + wort, referring to its hanging tubers.
Senses: glosses: A perennial herb, Filipendula vulgaris, closely related to meadowsweet.
glosses: Any plant of genus Oenanthe.
glosses: Any plant of genus Oxypolis.
Synonyms: sense: Filipendula vulgaris
word: fern-leaf dropwort
Derived terms: english: Oenanthe
translation: Oenanthe
word: waterdropwort
english: Oenanthe
translation: Oenanthe
taxonomic: Oxypolis canbyi
word: water dropwort
taxonomic: Gillenia trifoliata
word: western dropwort
english: Oenanthe
translation: Oenanthe
word: hemlock dropwort
monowheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monowheels
Etymology: From mono- + wheel.
Senses: examples: text: We had bought the monowheel at Portal, where it had been left for sale by an absent missionary; it was a single bicycle wheel with a seat arranged on it […]
ref: 1926, Mary Hastings Bradley, Caravans and Cannibals:
glosses: A vehicle similar to a unicycle, its rider sitting within or adjacent to the single wheel.
Derived terms: monowheel tractor
miaowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miaow
miaowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miaowings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meowing.
withholding tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: withholding taxes
Senses: glosses: A withholding; a tax withheld from employees' salary and paid to the government. The withheld amount is considered a credit in final taxation.
cagelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cagelike
form: most cagelike
Etymology: From cage + -like.
Senses: examples: text: This version shows a small figure inside of cagelike towers, perhaps symbolizing the fledgling sculptor's dreams of creation.
ref: 1990, Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions:
text: Why would this cagelike structure be energetically unfavorable?
ref: 2004, Bruce Alberts, Essential Cell Biology: An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of the Cell:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cage.
non-existence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonexistence.
natalitial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: natalitious
Etymology: From Latin natalitius, from natalis. See natal.
Senses: examples: text: Thus we read in the life of Virgil, and how far his Natalitial Poplar had out-strip'd the rest of its Contemporaries.
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
text: […] the exceeding great stone upon Hamdon-hill in Somersetshire, so famous for the quarry, which is within a mile of the parish of Odcombe, my dear natalitial place.
ref: 1845, Charles Knight, The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 14, page 7:
glosses: Pertaining to a birthday.
Synonyms: birthdayish
shiftful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shiftful
form: most shiftful
Etymology: From shift + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Throughout his shiftful life he was a man of small means but many friends.
glosses: Habitually travelling; itinerant.
shigram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shigrams
Etymology: Borrowed from Marathi शीघ्र (śīghra), from Sanskrit शीघ्र (śīghra, “quick”).
Senses: examples: text: I afterwards bought a shigram, a kind of coach usually drawn by two bullocks, and which is much used in India.
ref: 1853, Thomas Quinney, Sketches of a soldier's life in India:
glosses: In India, a carriage drawn by animals.
shikaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shikarees
Senses: glosses: Dated form of shikari.
shikkaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shikkarees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shikari.
shimewaza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shimewaza
form: shime-waza
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 絞技.
Senses: glosses: A chokehold in judo.
shimmeriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shimmery + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust.
ref: 1913, D H Lawrence, Sons and Lovers:
glosses: The state of being shimmery.
shinanigan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinanigans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shenanigan.
shinily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shinily
form: most shinily
Etymology: From shiny + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shiny manner.
shiningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shiningly
form: most shiningly
Etymology: From shining + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shining manner; brilliantly.
shipless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ship + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I sit at my window and look over a shipless sea.
glosses: Without a ship.
shippable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ship + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be shipped.
shippable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shippables
Etymology: From ship + -able.
Senses: glosses: A commodity that can be shipped.
bladder cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bladder cherries
Senses: glosses: A plant, Alkekengi officinarum (syn. Physalis alkekengi), having a bright paper-like covering over its fruit, native to southern Europe.
Synonyms: Chinese lantern
Japanese lantern
winter cherry
Chinese lantern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese lanterns
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: sky lantern
hypernyms: lantern#Noun
glosses: A paper lantern in bright colours used for decorative purposes, commonly painted with Chinese art and calligraphy motifs; some float in the air like hot-air balloons, and some float on water.
glosses: A bladder cherry (Alkekengi officinarum, syn. Physalis alkekengi).
shipwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ship + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: But the boat was afloat, and with a hearty shove on the part of the navy and some hearty thanks on ours we were sent flying shipwards.
ref: 1929, Blackwood's Magazine:
glosses: Towards a ship.
Japanese lantern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese lanterns
Senses: glosses: bladder cherry (Alkekengi officinarum, syn. Physalis alkekengi).
glosses: A tropical East African shrub of species Hibiscus schizopetalus.
winter cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter cherries
Senses: glosses: bladder cherry or Chinese lantern (Alkekengi officinarum, syn. Physalis alkekengi)
glosses: other species of Physalis
glosses: Jerusalem cherry (Solanum pseudocapsicum)
glosses: ashwagandha (Withania somnifera)
glosses: lesser balloon vine (Cardiospermum halicacabum)
shock therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shock therapies
Etymology: From shock + therapy. The medical sense first appears c. 1917 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
hyponyms: insulin shock therapy
glosses: The use of a single, very large dose of a medicine.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A government policy of a sudden release of price controls and immediate trade liberalization within a country.
glosses: Synonym of electroconvulsive therapy.
synonyms: word: electroconvulsive therapy
shooting gallery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shooting galleries
Senses: glosses: A carnival game typically featuring a pellet gun and numerous moving mechanical tracks with small targets to be shot for prizes.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any game or match with lots of shooting (e.g. at a goal)
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A room where recreational drug users inject themselves with a drug.
short sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortsight
Senses: glosses: shortsightedness, myopia
Synonyms: near sight
nearsightedness
Related terms: at short sight
shotcrete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotcretes
Etymology: Blend of shot + concrete
Senses: glosses: concrete conveyed through a hose and pneumatically projected at high velocity onto a surface
Hyponyms: gunite
Related terms: shotcreter
shotcreting
moonchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonchildren
form: moon-child
form: moon child
Etymology: From moon + child, because the ruling planet of Cancer is the Moon. The term is used to avoid the negative connotations of the word cancer.
Senses: examples: text: The punk icon and bottle-blond beauty is a moonchild who, like most Cancer women, has a "heart of glass."
ref: 2007, Holiday Mathis, Rock Your Stars: Your Astrological Guide to Getting It All:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Cancerian.
phellandrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phellandrenes
Etymology: Eucalyptus phellandra (former name for Eucalyptus radiata) + -ene
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of organic cyclic monoterpenes, α-phellandrene and β-phellandrene, used in fragrances.
phenix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenixes
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of phoenix.
Derived terms: Phenix City
philosopheress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philosopheresses
form: philosophress
Etymology: From philosopher + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.
ref: 1873, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux:
synonyms: philosophess
glosses: A female philosopher.
philosophocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But, fortunately the dichotomy between populism and philosophocracy is a false dichotomy.
ref: 2007, Bonnie Steinbock, The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics:
glosses: Government by philosophers.
philosophress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philosophresses
Etymology: philosopher + -ess
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of philosopheress.
physicalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more physicalistic
form: most physicalistic
Etymology: From physicalist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to physicalism
Derived terms: physicalistically
physicalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physicalists
Etymology: From physical + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An adherent of physicalism; A cosmological proceduralist.
Derived terms: physicalistic
Related terms: word: ontological naturalist
word: metaphysical naturalist
word: antimetaphysicalist
english: philosophical or methodological
translation: philosophical or methodological
word: naturalist
pianoless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From piano + -less.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Without (the use of) a piano.
Derived terms: pianolessness
pigeongram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeongrams
Etymology: From pigeon + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A message sent by carrier pigeon.
euboxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eu- + box + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: For we seem to have created a situation in which medical cyberspace seems more real to us than the sick patient in the bed. What are the consequences of this bargain? ¶ To begin with, there is the gallows humor about the patient who dies with her electrolytes in perfect order (“she was euboxic”—an ironic expression that refers to the little boxes in the medical record where electrolyte values are recorded).
ref: c. 1992–1995, Frank Davidoff et al., Who Has Seen a Blood Sugar?: Reflections on Medical Education, American College of Physicians, page 98
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a certain medical statistic, or all medical statistics, within normal ranges.
raw_tags: of a patient
kaak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɑːk/
Forms: form: ka'k
form: kaʻk
form: ka'ak
Etymology: From Arabic كعك (“biscuit, cookie”). Likely a distant cognate with cake.
Senses: glosses: Any of a variety of Middle Eastern biscuits and baked goods, usually sweet.
preponderance of evidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of preponderance of the evidence.
toenadering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans toenadering, from Dutch toenadering.
Senses: glosses: A rapprochement.
flinchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flinch + -y.
Senses: glosses: Tending to flinch easily; timid, shy.
garnishings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garnishing
one-of-a-kinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-of-a-kind
consenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛntə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
homophone: concenter
Forms: form: consenters
Etymology: From Middle English consenter, consentour, from Old French consenteor and partly from Middle English consenten; equivalent to consent + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who consents.
Derived terms: nonconsenter
one of a kinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one of a kind
sdrucciola
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈzdɹuːtʃələ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian sdrucciola (feminine form of sdrucciolo (“slippery; stressed on the antepenult”)).
Senses: examples: text: Note that ending that couplet’s lines with the words ‘reparate’ and ‘separate’ would create a rhyme sdrucciola, if that helps.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: Formed of words stressed on their antepenults and rhyming on all three final syllables.
raw_tags: of a rhyme
Related terms: sdrucciolo
versi sdruccioli
acarodomatium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acarodomatia
Etymology: From acaro- + domatium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A pit with tufted trichomes in leaf vein axils and occupied by predatory and mycophagous mites.
mem.
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: examples: text: I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up in some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem., get recipe for Mina.)
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Folio Society, published 2008, page 3:
glosses: Memorandum.
Related terms: aff'd mem.
omis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omi
extradotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + dotal.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Describing the part of a wife's property that does not form part of her dowry and is administered by her husband
extrasystolia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrasystolias
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An alteration in the rhythm of the heart due to extrasystoles.
extratemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Etymology: From extra- + temporal.
Senses: glosses: That appears to happen outside of time.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the side of the head behind the eyes; external to the temporal bone of the skull.
Synonyms: sense: happening outside of time
word: atemporal
word: timeless
shrimpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹɪmpi/
rhymes: -ɪmpi
Forms: form: shrimpier
form: shrimpiest
Etymology: From shrimp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: These dried shrimp crackers […] have a pleasant shrimpy taste and are nice and crunchy.
ref: 2012, Marnie Henricksson, Everyday Asian:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of shrimp; shrimplike.
examples: text: I looked up, and there was a shrimpy little kid standing next to the rock, carrying a backpack that might have weighed more than he did.
ref: 2010, Jordan Sonnenblick, Zen and the Art of Faking It:
glosses: Physically puny.
Derived terms: shrimpiness
prawny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prawny
form: most prawny
Etymology: From prawn + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling prawn, prawn-like.
dumplingy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dumplingy
form: most dumplingy
Etymology: From dumpling + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a dumpling, dumpling-like.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, dumplings.
tomatoey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tomatoier
form: more tomatoey
form: tomatoiest
form: most tomatoey
form: tomato-y
Etymology: From tomato + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: The sandwich toaster. It makes toasted sandwiches. Hot, buttery, cheesy, sardiney, tomatoey, anything-you-likey sandwiches.
ref: 2012, Lucy Mangan, My Family and Other Disasters:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of tomatoes.
appley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæpl̩.iː/
Forms: form: more appley
form: most appley
form: apply
Etymology: From apple + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When it's good, a tarte tatin is divine: buttery pastry soaked in caramelly appley juices, sweet-tart tender fruit – the whole much greater than the summed parts.
ref: 2013, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, River Cottage Fruit Every Day!, page 179:
glosses: Resembling apples, apple-like.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, apples; malic.
Derived terms: appleyness
apricoty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apricoty
form: most apricoty
form: apricotty
Etymology: From apricot + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling apricots, apricot-like.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, apricots.
apricotty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apricotty
form: most apricotty
form: apricoty
Etymology: From apricot + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He takes a sip. He appreciates the slightly chocolatey, then smoothly apricotty, flavour.
ref: 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 264:
glosses: Resembling apricots, apricot-like.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, apricots.
fullish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From full + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat full; reasonably full, quite full.
cantaloupey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cantaloupey
form: most cantaloupey
Etymology: From cantaloupe + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling cantaloupes, cantaloupe-like.
examples: full of cantaloupey goodness
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, cantaloupes.
coconutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: coconuttier
form: coconuttiest
form: coco-nutty
Etymology: From coconut + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Here is a rich, coconutty, Keralan curry that takes me back to my student days.
ref: 2015, Atul Kochhar, Atul's Curries of the World, page 148:
glosses: Resembling coconuts, coconut-like
examples: Full of coconutty goodness
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, coconuts.
Grauniad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɔːniæd/
/-əd/
Etymology: Deliberate misspelling of Guardian, coined by the UK satirical magazine Private Eye, implying that the Guardian newspaper was prone to typographical errors.
Senses: examples: text: Good old Grauniad.
ref: 1984 [1981], Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay, “The Right to Know”, in The Complete Yes Minister, →ISBN, page 135:
text: Stop along the road for papers; scan headlines, make sure that no late-breaking story displaced the Vanguard piece and that it's intact (ninety-five percent – a satisfyingly high score), check out Doonesbury in the Grauniad, then away.
ref: 2008, Iain Banks, Complicity:
text: Katherine Viner wants to appoints a "1 per cent correspondent" to hound the filthy rich. As befits a possible Grauniad editrix, the NUJ misspelt her name.
ref: 2015 February 24, Patrick Kidd, “Guardian Angels Declare”, in The Times, page 11:
text: His appointment marked the start of a daily corrections and clarifications column, a first for a UK newspaper, which has mined a rich seam of typos and other slips for which “the Grauniad” is fondly known.
ref: 2021 May 12, Elisabeth Ribbans, “Typo negative: the best and worst of Grauniad mistakes over 200 years”, in The Guardian:
topics: journalism
media
newspapers
glosses: The Guardian, a British daily national newspaper.
Derived terms: Graun
grapefruity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grapefruity
form: most grapefruity
Etymology: From grapefruit + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This drink is full of grapefruity goodness.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
grapefruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grapefruit
greengagey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more greengagey
form: most greengagey
Etymology: From greengage + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It is definitely a good wine, with rich, soft, greengagey fruit […]
ref: 2005, Wine International, volume 20, numbers 1-6, page 184:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of greengages.
hawthorny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hawthorny
form: most hawthorny
Etymology: From hawthorn + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling hawthorns, hawthorn-like.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, hawthorns.
glosses: Full of hawthorns.
lemon drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛmən dɹɒp/
ipa: /ˈlɛmən dɹɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
rhymes: -ʌp
rhymes: -ɔːp
Forms: form: lemon drops
Etymology: Etymology tree
Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū)bor.
Persian لیموbor.
Arabic ليمونbor.
Old French lymonbor.
Middle English lymon
English lemon
Proto-West Germanic *dropōn
Old English dropian
Middle English droppen
Proto-Indo-European *dʰrbʰ-néh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ-
Proto-Germanic *dreupaną
Proto-Germanic *druppōną
Proto-Germanic *drupô
Proto-West Germanic *dropō
Old English dropa
Middle English droppen
Middle English drope
Middle English droppen
Middle English droppe
English drop
English lemon drop
Literally lemon + drop.
From the combination of lemon (referring to the flavor of the candy) and drop (referring to the shape of the candy, often a small, smooth, oval, or circular shape). The word lemon Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), and the word drop comes from Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small amount of something; speck”), from Old English dropa (“a drop”).
Senses: examples: text: I remember those times. The corner bodega shops with the quarter waters and yellow lemon drops and the now and later, Do you remember then?
ref: 2013, Yanatha Desouvre, Walk Through This Journey: Volume One, →ISBN:
glosses: A yellow lemon-flavored and lemon-shaped candy.
examples: text: “Honeybee. Sorry. Breakfast beers turned into lunchtime lemon drops, and next thing you know, we were three dinner-tinis deep, and then we saw that stray cat again, so obviously we had to follow it and... Whoa!” “Hey, Wolf. [singsongy] Welcome home. [chuckles]” “I must be drunker than I thought. 'Cause there are two of you and it looks like we're missing an entire wall. Whoa! [grunts] I'm okay. This freezing, extremely hard ice broke my fall.”
ref: 2025 June 19, Matt Lawton, “Super Smash Lovers Adventure” (12:02 from the start), in The Great North, season 5, episode 16, spoken by Wolf Tobin (Will Forte):
glosses: A cocktail of vodka with lemon juice and sugar.
glosses: A variety of mangosteen, especially Garcinia intermedia, or sometimes the similar Garcinia madruno.
Derived terms: lemon drop martini
lemon soda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemon sodas
Senses: glosses: A fizzy non-alcoholic drink made with soda and lemon.
Related terms: lemonade
melony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛləni/
homophone: Melanie
rhymes: -ɛləni
Forms: form: more melony
form: most melony
Etymology: From melon + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or having the characteristics of a melon.
examples: full of melony goodness
glosses: Relating to melons.
glosses: Curvaceous.
Synonyms: word: melonous
word: melonious
Melony
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, a less common spelling of Melanie.
make a stick for one's own back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a stick for one's own back
form: making a stick for one's own back
form: made a stick for one's own back
form: made a stick for one's own back
Senses: examples: text: Allowing a known trouble-maker to join the team is making a stick for your own back.
glosses: To make a decision that will have personally adverse consequences.
olivey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more olivey
form: most olivey
Etymology: From olive + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling olives, olive-like.
examples: text: Full of olivey goodness.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, olives.
biophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biophores
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of biophor.
peanutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peanutty
form: most peanutty
Etymology: From peanut + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling peanuts, peanutlike.
examples: full of peanutty goodness
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, peanuts.
peary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛəɹi/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
Forms: form: more peary
form: pearier
form: most peary
form: peariest
Etymology: From pear + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling pears, pear-like.
examples: text: full of peary goodness.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, pears.
biophor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biophors
Etymology: From bio- + -phor.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A supposed supramolecular unit of heredity
plumminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plummy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This jam is known for its plumminess.
text: […]Lore heard for the first time the rounded plumminess of her own voice[…]
ref: 2011, Nicola Griffith, Slow River:
glosses: The state or quality of being plummy.
pruney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pruney
form: most pruney
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pruny.
dystrobrevin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dystrobrevins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins that bind to dystrophin in the costamere of skeletal muscle cells
appleyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From appley + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being appley.
precycle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precycles
form: precycling
form: precycled
form: precycled
Etymology: From pre- + cycle, modelled on recycle.
Senses: examples: text: Recyling is good, but precycling - cutting out packaging in the first place and buying only what you need - is better.
ref: 2008 October 30, Tanis Taylor, “Waste Not, Want Not”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To avoid the need to recycle, for example by not using prepackaging.
dystrophin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dystrophins
Etymology: From dystrophy + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cytoplasmic structural protein that is deficient in some forms of muscular dystrophy
Derived terms: antidystrophin
microdystrophin
peachiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peachy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being peachy.
starriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starrinesses
Etymology: From starry + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being starry.
precycling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precycle
Benjie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Benjamin + -ie
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Benjamin.
lemoniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lemony + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being lemony.
shrimpiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shrimpy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being shrimpy.
gasotransmitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasotransmitters
form: gaseotransmitter
Etymology: From gas + -o- + transmitter.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any simple, gaseous compound, synthesized by an organism, that has a biochemical function
miriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From miry + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being miry.
hoggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hoggier
form: hoggiest
Etymology: From hog + -y.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hoggish (“resembling a pig”).
synonyms: word: hoggish
extra: resembling a pig
Derived terms: hogginess
hogginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hoggy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being hoggy.
haemolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haemolytic
form: most haemolytic
Etymology: From haemo- + -lytic.
Senses: examples: text: ‘And then there are haemolytic reactions due to mismatched blood groups.’
ref: 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 69:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hemolytic.
Derived terms: nonhaemolytic
Related terms: haemolysis
homeotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒmiːˈɒtɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Forms: form: homœotic
form: homoeotic
Etymology: From homeosis + -otic.
Senses: examples: text: A certain segment of the body, in other words, had done something appropriate to a different segment of the body. Something had gone wrong with the homeotic genes.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 176:
text: Further probings revealed the existence of a clutch of master control genes, each directing the development of a section of body, which were dubbed homeotic (from a Greek word meaning ‘similar’) or hox genes.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 365:
glosses: Of or pertaining to homeosis
Derived terms: homeotically
nonhomeotic
polyhomeotic
unhobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhobbles
form: unhobbling
form: unhobbled
form: unhobbled
Etymology: From un- + hobble.
Senses: glosses: To remove hobbles from (a horse).
examples: text: (It also highlights the central role of algorithmic progress: the ~0.5 OOMs/year of compute efficiencies, already significant, are only part of the story, and put together with unhobbling algorithmic progress overall is maybe even a majority of the gains on the current trend.)
ref: 2024, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Situational Awareness, page 32:
glosses: To unhinder, remove obstacles.
wibble-wobble
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: The sound of something liquidy wobbling (e.g. jello).
wibble-wobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wibble-wobbles
form: wibble-wobbling
form: wibble-wobbled
form: wibble-wobbled
Senses: glosses: To wobble or tremble lightly; to quiver.
Related terms: wibbly-wobbly
liquidy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liquidy
form: most liquidy
Etymology: From liquid + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having a consistency similar to a liquid, but also similar to a solid (for example custard); semifluid.
terraced house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terraced houses
Senses: hyponyms: mid-terrace
glosses: A type of house which shares one or both sidewalls with the adjacent houses, typical of Victorian and Edwardian housing in English cities.
Synonyms: word: linked house
word: rowhouse
word: townhouse
Related terms: detached
semi-detached
gloopier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gloopy: more gloopy
gloopiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: With a new laser-scanning tool, marine biologists are getting a fine-comb look at some of the gloopiest and most mysterious organisms in the ocean.
ref: 2020 June 5, William J. Broad, “The Sea’s Weirdest Creatures, Now in ‘Staggering’ Detail”, in The New York Times:
glosses: superlative form of gloopy: most gloopy
gloopiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gloopy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being gloopy.
gloopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡluːpi/
Forms: form: gloopier
form: gloopiest
Etymology: From gloop + -y.
Senses: synonyms: gloppy
glosses: Having a glutinous, sloppy consistency.
Derived terms: gloopily
gloopiness
myopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myopathy
nephrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephrins
Etymology: From nephr- + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of transmembrane proteins necessary for the proper functioning of the renal filtration barrier
Derived terms: nephrinuria
nephrocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephrocytes
Etymology: From nephro- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A specialized cell, especially in arthropods, whose function involves the accumulation or formation of waste or excretory products.
towers of Hanoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A puzzle in which stacks of disks are moved one at a time from one of three spindles to another so that no disk ever rests on a smaller disk.
Related terms: recursion