cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paedomorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedomorphy
Etymology: From paedo- + -morphy, after paedomorphic.
Senses: examples: text: The clade 4-1 salamanders recently lived in environments that would make paedomorphy unlikely, but now even when they are living in large, permanent ponds that induce paedomorphy in clade 4-2 salamanders, they are incapable of becoming paedomorphs.
ref: 2006, Alan R Templeton, Population Genetics and Microevolutionary Theory, page 481:
text: Richard Wrangham has noted that the domestication of animals usually tames them by slowing down components of the developmental timetable to retain juvenile traits into adulthood, a process called pedomorphy or neoteny.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 744:
glosses: The retention or emergence of juvenile characteristics in an adult organism.
Synonyms: paedomorphism
paedomorphosis
pedomorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + -morphy.
Senses: examples: text: Richard Wrangham has noted that the domestication of animals usually tames them by slowing down components of the developmental timetable to retain juvenile traits into adulthood, a process called pedomorphy or neoteny.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 744:
glosses: Alternative spelling of paedomorphy.
-morphy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːfi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “shape”), partly after -μορφία (-morphía).
Senses: glosses: Shaped or formed.
anticucho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticuchos
Etymology: From Spanish anticucho, from Quechua anti kuchu.
Senses: glosses: A grilled and seasoned piece of meat, especially beef heart, of a kind popular in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
female genital cutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Female genital cutting (FGC) is an ancient practice that affects girls and young women around the world, defining the identity of women in cultures where it is practised.
ref: 2007 May 9, Jean-Roger Kaseki, The Guardian:
text: Tolerance may run out, however, when a violation breaches a sacred value, as when immigrants to Western countries practice female genital cutting, honor killings, or the sale of underage brides […].
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 764:
glosses: Female genital mutilation.
bar mitzvahed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bar mitzvah
suddently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From suddent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suddenly.
suddent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English sodand, alternative form of sodeyn, by reanalysis of the ending as -and, -end, -ent (“present participle suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: "Oysters and whitebait and a tin of pate, peaches and a pineapple and one of our fowls; well, a woman might like to give herself a nice little dinner once in a while, but not a bottle of wine at four shillings and a three and sixpenny tin of cigarettes, for I never will believe she's took to drink and smoking of a suddent, so own up, Mr. Widgett, it's a little dinner-party on your account."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 167:
glosses: Alternative form of sudden.
historiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˌstɒɹɪə(ʊ)ˈmɛtɹɪk/
Etymology: From historiometr(y) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Dean Simonton has developed several historiometric measures that are reliable and valid (in the psychometrician's technical sense) and politically nonpartisan.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 777:
glosses: Pertaining to historiometry.
historiometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˌstɒɹiˈɒmətɹi/
Etymology: From historio- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: A statistical assessment of historical figures or phenomena.
Derived terms: historiometric
historiometrical
historio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From combining form of Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía, “history”). Compare historico-.
Senses: glosses: history.
ignominity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ignominities
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ignominy.
breastaurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breastaurants
Etymology: 1990s: blend of breast + restaurant.
Senses: examples: text: Two things attracted Andrew Rodgers and his bachelor-party buddies to Hooters of Virginia, Inc., Roanoke's first and only “breastaurant.”
ref: 1993 October 6, “Cheap Thrills”, in The Roanoke Times:
text: And feminists aren't the only ones complaining about the Island's inaugural “breastaurant”: Concerned parents whose broods play in the park across the street wonder how to shield them from the chain's double-entendre name, which is about as sophisticated as those looseleaf notes you furtively passed in high school health class.
ref: 1995 June 4, Denise Flaim, “Is Hooters Too Hot for the Island?”, in Newsday:
text: Busting out of Las Vegas and onto the local pub scene is this breastaurant. Think Hooters girls in micro-kilts and push-up bras.
ref: 2012, Josh Pahigian, Kevin O'Connell, The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip: A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums, Lyons Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
text: Yet despite negative media attention, breastaurants like Twin Peaks, Spice Rack, Hooters, and Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery seem to be thriving. While casual-dining chains like Applebee’s and Olive Garden are struggling mightily, many breastaurant chains reported 30% or more growth in the last few years.
ref: 2015 August 31, Dawn Szymanski & Chandra Feltman, “The psychological toll of being a Hooters waitress”, in Business Insider:
glosses: A restaurant featuring scantily clad female waitstaff.
examples: text: Helen calls her chest the “breastaurant.” By the time Lili was three months old, Helen says, breastfeeding — oh, excuse me, eating at the breastaurant — became a piece of cake.
ref: 1998, Janet Tamoro, So That's What They're For!: Breastfeeding Basics, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 193:
text: No small wonder, since your little one uses your breasts as everything from food supply to a source of comfort. Although time is the best healer, there are some things you can do until your body gets used to being a “breastaurant”: […]
ref: 1999, Pregnancy Fitness, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 157:
text: After a long feed, she's sleeping. I take this opportunity to transform from nurser to writer, and I don't know how much time I have until I must, Supermanlike, make the quick change back into “breastaurant” again.
ref: 2000 November 12, Lea Haravon Collins, “BST (Baby Standard Time) always means serious adjustment”, in The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa:
glosses: A lactating woman or her breasts, viewed as a source of nutrition for a child.
breastaurants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breastaurant
catshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catshits
Etymology: From cat + shit.
Senses: examples: text: my house is a shambles
empty bottles lined up
on table, clothes heaped
on chairs, here a sock,
there a catshit,
ref: 1978, "Eating Your Way To Heaven", Tilt: An Anthology of New England Women's Writing and Art, New Victoria Publishers (1978), page 58
text: A cat could give two catshits if you are in a good mood or a bad mood.
ref: 2009, Denis Leary, Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid, Plume, published 2009, →ISBN:
text: I mean, the catshit was piling up. And when the catshit gets bigger than the cat, you've got to get rid of the cat.
ref: 2011, Rob Tannenbaum, Craig Marks, I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, Plume, published 2011, →ISBN:
glosses: The feces from a cat (feline feces).
donkeyshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From donkey + shit.
Senses: examples: text: The truth is none of them have heard anything to the contrary, all of them (his wife included, most likely, although Sally would never say so) think his job sounds duller than donkeyshit, and only Maddy has the vaguest idea of what it is he does.
ref: 1993, Stephen King, Gerald's Game, link:
glosses: donkey excrement
flying saucer group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying saucer groups
Senses: examples: text: Two of the oldest and most studied flying saucer groups are the Aetherius Society (founded by George King) and the Unarius Foundation (founded by the late Ruth Norman).
ref: 1998, William H. Swatos, Peter Kivisto, Encyclopedia of Religion and Society, page 531:
glosses: UFO religion.
KBC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Kaun Banega Crorepati.
glosses: Initialism of Katy Barrel Company.
glosses: Initialism of Kentucky Baptist Convention.
glosses: Initialism of Kachemak Bay Campus.
glosses: Initialism of Karachi Boat Club.
glosses: Initialism of Kenya Broadcasting Corporation.
glosses: Initialism of Kevin Barry Cumann.
glosses: Initialism of Kingston Bible College.
continental drip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By analogy or alliteration with continental drift.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The phenomenon whereby southward-pointing landforms are more numerous and prominent than northward-pointing landforms.
Jappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jappy
form: most Jappy
Etymology: From Japanese.
Senses: examples: text: To be really Jappy...
ref: 1959, Beatrice Plumb, The Master Banquet and Party Book, T. S. Denison & Company, pages 85
text: When George moved to London later that year Jennie received him at her home, wearing a loose Japanese kimono instead of the conventional whale-boned corset and gown. The young, infatuated lieutenant wrote ecstatically of the 'lovely Jappy gown'.
ref: 1898 (2005), George Cornwallis-West, quoted in Elizabeth Kehoe, The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters And the British Aristocratic World Into Which They Married, page 206
glosses: Japanese
Jappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From JAP + -y, an acronym of the phrase Jewish American princess.
Senses: examples: text: ... erasing the term from society's consciousness without changing Jewish women's "Jappy" behavior makes about as much sense as a campaign to eradicate lung cancer while insisting on people's right to smoke.
ref: 1989, Carol Diament, Jewish Marital Status: A Hadassah Study, Jason Aronson:
text: 1992, Janice L. Booker, Yale Strom, The Expulsion of the Jews: Five Hundred Years of Exodus, Spi Books Trade
Nora once described a neighbor who was a convert to Judaism . “ She converted the whole way , ” she said . “ She is as Jappy as anybody on the block.
text: It was then that I began associating being Jewish with being Jappy and snobbish.
ref: 1995, Myrna Frommer, Harvey Frommer, Growing Up Jewish in America: An Oral History, Harcourt, →ISBN:
text: Evelyn Torton Beck writes, "I have repeatedly heard young Jewish women admit that they would be offended to be called 'too Jewy,' but claim not to mind being called 'too Jappy.' "
ref: 1995, Ellen Jaffe-Gill, Ellen Jaffe McClain, Embracing the Stranger: Intermarriage and the Future of the American Jewish Community, Basic Books:
text: I got my rap down with the Jewish girls. I was foreign to them, I didn't dress well. The jappier the better.
ref: 2016, Kevin Morris, All Joe Knight: A Novel, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, →ISBN:
text: Today, the stereotype is no longer immediately associated with Jews, as in Legally Blonde or Beverly Hills 90210 or The O.C., where the Jappiest characters are not even Jewish.
ref: 2008, Nathan Abrams, Jews and Sex, →ISBN:
glosses: Materialistic and shallow in a way stereotypically associated with Jewish women.
sirelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sireland
cource
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of course.
rowmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rowmates
Etymology: From row + mate.
Senses: examples: text: I'm sure I drove my rowmate, Kristen, crazy. I inadvertently stole her seat next to the window without thinking about it, and as we landed, I had to remind myself to pull my nose away from the glass, lest she wanted to watch the descent.
ref: 2010, Whitney Taylor Shaw, A Taste for Belize: A Tropical Travelogue, page 9:
glosses: Someone who is in the same row.
nether cheek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nether cheeks
Etymology: From nether- + cheek.
Senses: examples: text: He turned the freer upon his face downright, / Displaying his nether cheeks full broad and white.
ref: 1822, John Gay, “Tales”, in The Poems of John Gay:
qualifier: often pluralized
glosses: A buttock.
Synonyms: butt-cheek
gajas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaja
lucky devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucky devils
Senses: synonyms: lucky dog
glosses: Someone with astounding good luck.
Related terms: devil's luck
luck of the devil
clome oven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clome ovens
Senses: glosses: A type of masonry oven with a removable door made of clay or alternatively a cast iron door built into the side of a chimney.
clome ovens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clome oven
kogyaru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kogyarus
form: kogyaru
Senses: glosses: kogal
G-clef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: G-clefs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of G clef.
G-clefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of G-clef
angelique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænd͡ʒəˈliːk/
Forms: form: angeliques
Etymology: From French angélique. Doublet of angelic and angélique (“plucked bowl lute”).
Senses: synonyms: angelica
glosses: A tall plant, with hollow stems, genus Angelica, especially garden angelica (Angelica archangelica).
glosses: Alternative form of angélique.
trapesing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trapessing
form: trapsing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trapes
trapesing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trapesings
form: trapessing
form: trapsing
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of traipsing.
trapeses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trapes
trapeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trapes
trapesed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trapes
rotating beacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotating beacons
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rotating location light installed at an airport, allowing the type of airport to be determined by the color and speed of the rotation.
examples: text: the rotating beacon on top of a police car
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rotating, beacon.
Nigels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nigel
promposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promposals
form: prom-posal
Etymology: Blend of prom + proposal.
Senses: examples: text: Once posed as a timid "Will you go to prom with me?" in the locker room, the promposal is now an extravagant public affair: Think choreographed dance numbers, serenades, elaborate scavenger hunts and dramatic staging.
ref: 2011 May 26, Zosia Bielski, “‘Promposals’ ratchet up the fun, and the competition”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, retrieved 25 Apr 2013:
text: Rebecca Leet, 17, had an audience of more than 250 people for a prom-posal from her boyfriend, Joe Nelson, 18.
ref: 2012 April 22, Beth J. Harpaz, "‘Prom-posal’: Clever, elaborate prom invite, Washington Times / AP (retrieved 25 April 2013)
text: Promposals can mimic marriage proposals — dropping down to one knee, and all that — or they can be more fun. Most appear to simply spell “prom?” in a creative way, and involve flowers.
ref: 2013 April 16, William Wolfe-Wylie, “It’s the season for promposals, the new trend in high school love”, in canada.com, retrieved 25 Apr 2013:
text: “So, if we want to make an impulse promposal, we hold the door up, and ask him to go to prom, and then shoot the confetti gun.” “Simple. Tasteful. Elegant.”
ref: 2023 May 14, Caroline Levich, “For Whom the Smell Tolls Adventure Part One)” (6:20 from the start), in The Great North, season 3, episode 21, spoken by Judy Tobin (Jenny Slate):
glosses: An invitation, especially one which is made in an elaborate manner, in which the invitee is asked to accompany the inviter to a prom.
Related terms: prompose
prom-posal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prom-posals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of promposal.
counter-proposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-proposals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counterproposal.
mushhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mushheads
Etymology: From mush + head.
Senses: glosses: A stupid person.
dullwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dullwits
Etymology: From dull + wit.
Senses: glosses: A stupid person.
kit fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kit foxes
Etymology: From kit + fox.
Senses: synonyms: desert kit fox
glosses: Vulpes macrotis, a species of fox found in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
kit foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kit fox
Irrawaddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɪɹəˌwɑdi/
Forms: form: Ayeyarwady
form: Irawadi
form: Irawaddi
form: Irawaddy
form: Irawady
form: Irrawaddi
Etymology: From Burmese ဧရာဝတီ (erawa.ti), from Sanskrit इरावती (irāvatī, “granting drink or refreshment”).
Senses: glosses: A river that flows through Burma (Myanmar).
Derived terms: Irrawaddy dolphin
go-fast boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-fast boats
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: speedboat
synonyms: cigarette boat
rum-runner
hypernyms: powerboat
<
boat
<
vessel
glosses: A small, fast boat designed with a long, narrow platform and a planing hull to enable it to reach high speeds.
rum-runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rum-runners
form: rumrunner
form: rum runner
Etymology: From rum + runner.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: bootlegger; moonshiner, shiner
antonyms: revenuer
hypernyms: smuggler
<
outlaw
<
criminal
glosses: An alcohol smuggler, especially from the Prohibition era.
hypernyms: go-fast boat
<
powerboat
<
boat
<
vessel
coordinate_terms: cigarette boat
;
blockade runner
glosses: A fast boat used by these smugglers.
examples: Near-synonym: speedboat
synonyms: go-fast boat
;
cigarette boat
hypernyms: powerboat
<
boat
<
vessel
glosses: Any fast boat of the sort.
rum runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rum runners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rum-runner.
cigarette-boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cigarette-boats
form: cigarette boat
Etymology: From their use as cigarette smuggling boats between the USA and Canada.
Senses: glosses: a small, fast boat designed with a long narrow platform and a planing hull to enable it to reach high speeds.
Synonyms: sense: a small, fast boat designed with a long narrow platform and a planing hull to enable it to reach high speeds.
word: rum-runner
sense: a small, fast boat designed with a long narrow platform and a planing hull to enable it to reach high speeds.
word: go-fast boat
netback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netbacks
form: net-back
form: net back
Etymology: From net + back. The term was widely adopted by the oil industry in the second half of 1985.
Senses: qualifier: oil industry
glosses: Revenues received from the sale of oil or gas on spot market minus the costs of extraction, processing and transportation.
Joss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɒs
-ɔːs
Forms: form: Josses
Etymology: Verb usage evolved from the name of Joss Whedon, creator of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly.
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name
A diminutive of the female given name Jocelyn.
glosses: A unisex given name
A diminutive of the male given name Joseph.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Jossverse
Joss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒs
-ɔːs
Forms: form: Josses
form: Jossing
form: Jossed
form: Jossed
Etymology: Verb usage evolved from the name of Joss Whedon, creator of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly.
Senses: examples: text: Author's note part 2: I'm leaving it to the imagination of the reader what Cordelia saw of her future. Writing that out would be asking to be Jossed.
ref: 2000 December 25, Shanna, “Holiday at the Hyperion (2/2)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):
text: I have this pet theory which will no doubt be Jossed (Greenwalted?) sooner or later. That Wes's dad is not a Watcher, but someone wealthy and financially connected with the Council (if they have all that influence, at least some of the people involved must know who they are)--in short, some kind of profiteer in the war against the forces of evil.
ref: 2001 October 20, Sarah Trombley, “Re: Cut Scenes from Carpe Noctem Script”, in alt.tv.angel (Usenet):
text: Even if your pet subject was "Jossed" by HBP (in other words, your theorizing was annihalated^([sic]) or impacted by a canon development) we'd love to have your archival works on HPInkPot - just select "pre-HBP" in the "when was this work written?" section.
ref: 2005 December 5, heidi8 [username], “New Essay Archive at HPInkPot.com”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To invalidate a fan theory or original element of a fanwork through the introduction of new canon or retconning.
Josses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Joss
Jossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Joss
Jossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Joss
ananases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ananas
JDT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Julian date and time.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Jamaica Dogsled Team.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: Java programming language; eclipse; Java programming language; eclipse
glosses: Initialism of Java Development Tools.
topics: journalism
media
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Journal of Dermatological Treatment.
topics: human-sciences
language
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Judeo-Tat, a Judeo-Persian language.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C., a Malaysian football club.
JAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JARs
Senses: qualifier: file format; Java programming language; file format; Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Java archive.
whoop-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whoop-asses
form: whoop-assing
form: whoop-assed
form: whoop-assed
form: whoop ass
Etymology: From English whoop (variant of whip) + ass.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whoop ass.
whoop-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whoop-asses
form: whoop ass
Etymology: From English whoop (variant of whip) + ass.
Senses: glosses: An act of beating.
examples: text: Big Sis had come out the door for some more whoop-ass, while Mr. Man was trying to hold her back.
ref: 2013, Cora L. Hairston, Faces Behind the Dust, →ISBN:
glosses: A fight.
examples: text: There is a squat and fuss-free simplicity about its profile, which belies the amount of 'whoop-ass' that can be delivered with a prod of the accelerator pedal.
ref: 2006 June, David Khoo, “Sleeper hit. Torque Test: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Wagon GT-A”, in Torque, SPH Magazines, →ISSN, page 55:
glosses: Strength or will to fight or compete.
Derived terms: open a can of whoop ass
livelod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: livelods
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of livelihood.
visnomie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visnomies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of physiognomy.
leaf-cutter bees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf-cutter bee
retirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retiral
I am
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally after Biblical usage (Exodus 3:14), translating Hebrew אֶהְיֶה ('ehyeh).
Senses: examples: text: And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 3:14:
text: The primary imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
ref: 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literara, I.13:
glosses: God, seen as self-sufficient and self-existent.
examples: text: Joe entered and said, ‘Dinner-time. The Great I Am upstairs has grudgingly assented to oxtail soup, bangers and mash, tinned peaches with ice cream.’
ref: 2003, Alasdair Gray, “Miss Kincaid's Autumn”, in Every Short Story, Canongate, published 2012, page 751:
qualifier: frequently with great
glosses: A self-centred, arrogant person.
I am
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: I am something
form: someone
Etymology: Originally after Biblical usage (Exodus 3:14), translating Hebrew אֶהְיֶה ('ehyeh).
Senses: examples: I am Charlie Hebdo!
glosses: Indicates solidarity or a support of a shared conviction with the person or object upon which a perceived injustice is being inflicted.
Related terms: one for all, all for one
vinegrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinegrowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vine-grower.
vinegrowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vinegrower
morphinomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: morphinomaniacs
Etymology: From morphine + -o- + -maniac.
Senses: synonyms: morphinomane
glosses: A morphine addict.
morphinomaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphinomaniac
alcoholists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcoholist
pollicitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollicitation
greiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of greit
assumpted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assumpt
assumpting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assumpt
overscore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overscores
Etymology: From over- + score.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of overbar.
synonyms: word: overbar
overscore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overscores
form: overscoring
form: overscored
form: overscored
Etymology: From over- + score.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of overbar.
synonyms: word: overbar
glosses: To draw a line through; to cross out.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To score (a piece of music) for too many instruments.
overscores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overscore
ungainlinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ungainliness
trothplighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trothplight
swingled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swingle
applicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of applicate
applicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of applicate
Arianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Arianizes
form: Arianizing
form: Arianized
form: Arianized
Etymology: From Arian + -ize.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: To make Arian, or act as an Arian.
glosses: Alternative form of Aryanize.
Arianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Arianize
Arianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Arianize
Arianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Arianize
donatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donative
frescoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fresco
frescoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frescoings
Senses: examples: text: The ceiling was covered in ornate frescoings.
glosses: A fresco.
striplights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of striplight
homoousians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoousian
decompounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: A reverse series field gives a slight decompounding effect and is also used in conjunction with the short-rated starting field when motoring the engine from the battery for starting purposes.
ref: 1961 October, “The first 1,250 h.p. Birmingham/Sulzer Type 2 diesels enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 607:
glosses: present participle and gerund of decompound
decompounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decompound
augurated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of augurate
augurating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of augurate
tittle-tattles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tittle-tattle
Oktaha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in Oklahoma, United States.
daggered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dagger + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: It is true we wear a “dagger,” but we deny ever having been in our life an aggressor upon any man; so that if we be a “daggered assassin,” we ask the Governor to produce the proofs!
ref: 1845 July 22, [Cassius Marcellus Clay], “Thomas Metcalfe Again!”, in The True American, volume I, number 8, Lexington, Ky., page [3], column 1:
text: Yet in the plenitude of its philanthropy it allows the worse than daggered assassin to enter the home of our adopted citizens, and administer that bane which deprives them of health and life.
ref: 1848 May 10, An Adopted Citizen [pseudonym], “Empiricism in Boston”, in J[erome] V[an] C[rowninsfield] Smith, editor, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume XXXVIII, number 15, Boston, Mass.: David Clapp, […], page 307:
text: Then the dream returned to her, like some daggered thief.
ref: 1982, Adam Corby, The Divine Queen (Canto Two of The Doom-Quest of Ara-Karn; a dark romance), New York, N.Y.: Timescape Books, →ISBN, page 39:
text: The would be assassin charged the woman. Omniheckren’s minion would not have caught the daggered man in time enough had the young Agnarogian woman not stilled time itself to prevent the attack.
ref: 2007, Nathaniel Washup, A New Beginning to an Old Ending: Book of Airik, Bloomington, Ind.; Milton Keynes, Bucks: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 57:
text: Had we really two or so years together, before the indulgences of her previous existence caught up with her, like a daggered assassin who treads only a step behind?
ref: 2017, K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter, Grim Expectations (The George Dower Trilogy; 3), Nottingham, Notts.: Angry Robot, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: Wearing or carrying a dagger.
daggered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From dagger + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dagger
edulcorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more edulcorant
form: most edulcorant
Etymology: From French édulcorant.
Senses: glosses: sweetening.
edulcorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edulcorants
Etymology: From French édulcorant.
Senses: glosses: sweetener
cockered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cocker
cockering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cocker
garths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garth
Æthelbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Ethelbert.
ungarlanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungarlanded
form: most ungarlanded
Etymology: From un- + garlanded.
Senses: glosses: Not garlanded.
ungarlanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ungarland
extramental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From extra- + mental.
Senses: examples: text: He [Martin Heidegger] was influenced by Edmund Husserl, a German thinker born in 1859 who was soon to become the leading figure of the phenomenological movement, dedicated to the description and investigation of our conscious experience without reference to its extramental causes and consequences.
ref: 2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R10:
glosses: Outside of the mind or intellect.
nervewracking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nervewracking
form: most nervewracking
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
freightable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From freight + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […]the Postmaster-General decided at the time that that law was passed that a freightable lot was a carload. Anything less than that he did not regard as a freightable lot.
ref: 1910, United States. 61st Congress, Hearings, page 233:
glosses: Capable of being freighted; transportable.
hasteless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hasteless
form: most hasteless
Etymology: From haste + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Accepting this law, not only because he must, but also because of the freedom it gives him from the inglorious quest of completed endeavor and listless rest, he grows into energetic sympathy with the hasteless joy of nature.
ref: 1913, The Living Age, volume 276, page 743:
glosses: Without haste; leisurely.
Derived terms: hastelessness
unlamenting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lamenting.
Senses: glosses: Not lamenting.
appreciateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: appreciate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appreciate
annulates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annulate
annulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of annulate
curvetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Mounted on a snow-white horse, whose trappings of scarlet and gold swept the ground, and whose curvetting served but to show the graceful management of the rider;...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 108:
glosses: present participle and gerund of curvet
curvetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curvettings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of curveting.
curvetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: […] flights of small, low-flying brown doves chased one another to and fro, and bee-eaters, emerald-green, curvetted like slow swallows.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days:
glosses: simple past and past participle of curvet
Pynchonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪnˈt͡ʃəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /pɪnˈt͡ʃoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Pynchonian
form: most Pynchonian
Etymology: From Pynchon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937), American novelist.
glosses: Densely convoluted, verbose and full of allusion.
Related terms: Pynchonesque
Pynchonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪnˈt͡ʃəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /pɪnˈt͡ʃoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Pynchonians
Etymology: From Pynchon + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Academic feminists have for a decade worried that their “acceptance,” when, how, and to what extent it has occurred, is a form of repressive tolerance, a pretense on the part of departments of English that their enterprise could be smothered and subsumed under an expanded definition of “institutional criticism.” And though the rhetoric of Pynchon studies takes much the same line of argument, I suggest that the primary reasons for Pynchonians’ anxieties have less to do with repressive tolerance than with, for one thing, the idea of the academy as mausoleum and, for another, the nostalgia consequent upon the death of the author—a nostalgia complicated in Pynchon’s case by the nagging suspicion that it is we who have killed him.
ref: 1992, Michael Bérubé, “‘Surely to Pynchon’s Horror’: Canonicity as Conspiracy Theory”, in Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, pages 298–299:
text: Largely dismissed by tenured Pynchonians when it was first published, Vineland now seems to have been underrated.
ref: 1997 July, Rick Moody, “Surveyors of the Enlightenment”, in William Whitworth, editor, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 280, number 1, Boston, Mass.: The Atlantic Monthly Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 108, column 1:
text: Against the Day (2006), Cowart demonstrates in chapter 6, has been written against this condition, in an attempt to open up the one-language of national history to tenses and modalities, alternatives and not-yet-passed pasts that may still bode well for our common future. It is a future, in fact, that Pynchon has "actually"—"indicatively"—written into existence. For, stresses Cowart in the conclusion, the genealogist is also a visionary. What is more, the vision is shared by the Pynchonians following in his footsteps, many of whom are important authors already.
ref: 2013 winter, Christian Moraru, “David Cowart. Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History. […]”, in John N. Duvall, editor, Modern Fiction Studies, volume 59, number 4, Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press for the Department of English, Purdue University, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Book Reviews” section, pages 871–872:
glosses: An admirer or scholar of the works of the American novelist Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937).
unfaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + faired.
Senses: examples: text: If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low.
ref: 1948, George Stephen Baker, Ship Design, Resistance and Screw Propulsion, page 194:
glosses: Not having been faired.
unworshipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + worshipped.
Senses: examples: text: There cannot be worship without fear, and there cannot be an unworshipped God.
ref: 1866, Frederick William Faber, Notes on doctrinal and spiritual subjects, page 173:
glosses: Not worshipped.
paybook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paybooks
Etymology: From pay + book.
Senses: glosses: A booklet listing payments.
paybooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paybook
Semi-Arian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛ.miˈɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɛ.miˈɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Semi-Arians
Etymology: From semi- + Arian.
Senses: examples: text: As it frequently happens, that the sounds and characters which approach the nearest to each other accidentally represent the most opposite ideas, the observation would be itself ridiculous, if it were possible to mark any real and sensible distinction between the doctrine of the Semi-Arians, as they were improperly styled, and that of the Catholics themselves.
ref: 1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A member of the Semi-Arianism movement.
Semi-Arian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛ.miˈɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɛ.miˈɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From semi- + Arian.
Senses: examples: text: The highways of the East were crowded with Homoousian, and Arian, and Semi-Arian, and Eunomian bishops, who struggled to outstrip each other in the holy race: […].
ref: 1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to the Semi-Arianism movement.
Semi-Arians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Semi-Arian
tree tent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree tents
Senses: glosses: A camping tent that is designed to be used above the ground and is usually attached to or supported by the neighbouring trees.
smth
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: And exactly a month to the date after kissing the world with her sixth studio album, Short n' Sweet (it's like she planned it or smth...), she's [Sabrina Carpenter] kicking off her Short n' Sweet Tour in Columbus, Ohio on September 23.
ref: 2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan:
synonyms: sth
sthg
glosses: Abbreviation of something.
SMTH
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of smth.
tree tents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree tent
doctor shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: crime
glosses: The illegal practice of a patient requesting treatment from multiple physicians in order to obtain prescription drugs, either to feed an addiction or resell them.
Synonyms: double doctoring
rummagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rummaging
toss a coin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses a coin
form: tossing a coin
form: tossed a coin
form: tossed a coin
Senses: examples: text: We will toss a coin to see which team goes first.
glosses: To flick a coin into the air, making it spin, in order to use the resultant upturned side (“heads or tails”) for making a decision.
Synonyms: flip a coin
Related terms: coin toss
heads or tails
canceliers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cancelier
heads or harps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head or harp
Etymology: Copper coins minted in Georgian Ireland had the head of the British monarch on the obverse and the Irish harp on the reverse. The phrase "heads or harps" remained common even after 1823, when Irish minting ceased and only British coinage circulated; it was still current when the Irish Free State restored the harp on its newly introduced coins in 1927.
Senses: examples: text: A quarrel happened between two shoeblacks, who were playing at what in England is called pitch farthing, or heads and tails, and in Ireland, head or harp.
ref: 1802, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth, “The Dublin Shoeblack”, in Essay on Irish Bulls, London: J. Johnson, page 128:
text: ...he took out his purse, and, extracting half-a-crown, threw it up to the ceiling, saying,
“Well, Dot—head or harp? If you’re right, you have them.”
“Harp,” cried Dot.
They both examined the coin. “They’re yours,” said Frank, with much solemnity...
ref: 1848, Anthony Trollope, “XVI Brien Boru”, in The Kellys and the O'Kellys, volume II, London: Henry Colburne, page 55:
text: There was a family of peasants who never could make up their minds; they decided everything by a toss-up. The head of the family had settled the amount of dowry he got with his wife by ‘heads or harps,’ and when he died he left his land to be tossed for by his two sons.
ref: John P. Frayne, editor (1970), Uncollected prose by W. B. Yeats, volume 1, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 28
text: He dearly loves to smoke cigarettes and many of them, and he has an insurmountable weakness for the recondite mysteries of "Pitch and Toss," and when he has mastered the intricacies of the game, can foretell by repeatedly turning a copper in his hand while the stakes are revolving in the air whether they will settle on the ground heads or harps up.
ref: 1905 August 17, “The News-Vendor”, in The Weekly Irish Times, Dublin, page 6:
text: He looked up as they came nearer. ‘Hey, lads. Lookin’ for a game?’
‘A game?’ Victor said.
‘Pitch an’ toss.’ He spun the ha’penny, watched it fall between two broken pieces of brick and cocked his foxy head at the two boys. ‘Heads or harps?’
‘Harps,’ Victor said.
‘You win,’ Denis Doyle said.
ref: 1972, Brian Cleeve, Cry of morning, London: Corgi, →ISBN, page 210:
text: JIMMY. Heads or harps?
TONY. Heads.
JIMMY. (Tosses the coin onto the back of his hand.) Hard luck. Ha ha ha.
ref: 1988, Billy Roche, “A Handful of Stars; Act 1; Scene 1”, in The Wexford Trilogy, →ISBN:
text: Christina twirls on straps like a spinning coin that hasn’t decided if it will land on heads or harps.
ref: 2019 September 16, Tom Swift, “Winging It”, in RTÉ Culture, RTÉ:
text: “HEADS or harps?”
ref: 2021 November 11, Dermot Crean, “Toss Of A Coin To Decide Venue For Kerins O’Rahillys V Dr Crokes”, in Tralee Today:
glosses: heads or tails
disworshipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disworship
disworshipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disworship
ridottos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ridotto
conscriptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conscription
exemptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exempt + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being exempted.
skimble-scamble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [S]ometime he angers me / With telling me of the Mouldwarp and the Ant, / Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies, / And of a Dragon and a finles fiſh, / A clipwingd Griffin and a molten rauen, / A couching Leon and a ramping Cat, / And ſuch a deale of skimble ſcamble ſtuffe / As puts me from my faith.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: Alternative spelling of skimble-skamble.
mom and them
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: momma and them
form: mom'n'em
Senses: examples: text: How's your mom and them?
glosses: family
Related terms: mommy-and-me
marooning party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marooning parties
Senses: examples: text: It was made with different persons, and fitted out with more of accommodation and comfort; but the other, as made with my comrades, was more completely a marooning party
ref: 1806, George Pinckard, Notes on the West Indies:
glosses: A social excursion party that sojourns several days on the shore or in some retired place; a prolonged picnic.
marooning parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marooning party
courtezanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From courtezan + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of courtesanship.
scratting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrat
scratted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrat