cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dysæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There is only one criterion on which to base a diagnosis on dysæmia, and that is the changes in the blood.
ref: 1903, Louis J. Gravel, Clinical Notes On Dysæmia, from The Medical bulletin, Volume XXV., #460
glosses: Obsolete form of dysaemia.
garage queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garage queens
Senses: examples: text: Ferrari wasn't content just to build garage queens, status symbols or even street-going supercars. It wanted to prove itself on the track […]
ref: Die Cast X Magazine (volume 2, number 1, Winter 2006, page 62)
glosses: An automobile kept carefully in very good condition and rarely driven.
garage queens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garage queen
dysmenorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysmenorrhœas
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dysmenorrhea.
-rrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of -rrhoea.
nonaffixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonaffix
nonaffix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonaffixes
Etymology: From non- + affix.
Senses: examples: text: Where no ambiguity has resulted, the terms (i.e., "verb," "nonverb," "noun," "adjective," etc.) applied to these classes have been used to refer to forms consisting of anything from a stem (single, nonaffix morpheme) to a sequence of several morphemes, whether or not the form in question constituted a word.
ref: 1960, Alfred Louis Kroeber, George William Grace, The Sparkman Grammar of Luiseño, University of California Press, page 57:
text: In the extension of the affix Y to nonaffixes, the invented spelling is clearly more “phonetic” than standard spelling; it does not maintain the morphophonemic distinctions that are important in adult spelling.
ref: 1975, Charles Read, Children’s Categorization of Speech Sounds in English, National Council of Teachers of English, →ISBN, page 34, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A morpheme that is not an affix.
semi-autonomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semi-autonomous
form: most semi-autonomous
Etymology: From semi- + autonomous.
Senses: examples: text: The Midland merged with the Belfast & Northern Counties Railway on July 1 1903, to form the Midland Railway (Northern Counties Commission). This semi-autonomous organisation became the LMS (NCC) after Grouping in 1923 and then, upon Nationalisation on January 1 1948, the Railway Executive (NCC). BR's ownership would be short-lived - it sold the NCC to the Ulster Transport Authority on April 1 1949.
ref: 2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Northern Counties Commission”, in RAIL, number 974, page 46:
glosses: Alternative spelling of semiautonomous.
merchant prince
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchant princes
Etymology: Under the influence of Isaiah 23:8, describing "Tyre... whose merchants are princes..."
Senses: examples: text: The customs and duties paid by each ship, great or small, amount in the whole to 70 or 80 slaves. The king [sc. of Ardrah] has the first choice of goods, whether in the payment of duties, or in exchange for slaves; the hereditary prince the second, the merchant''' prince the third, the Marbut the fourth, and afterwards the great officers of the court.
ref: 1760, The Modern Part of an Universal History, Vol. XVI, Bk. xvii, Ch. vii, p. 466:
text: ...you’re establishing a plutocracy. You’re making us a land of traders and merchant princes. Then what of the future?
ref: 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation, Pt. V: “The Merchant Princes”, Ch. 18, p. 189
glosses: A mercantile plutocrat: a man who wields great de facto political power by virtue of economic assets derived from trade and commerce.
glosses: A prince among merchants: a wealthy and influential merchant.
Synonyms: sense: singularly successful businessman
word: captain of industry
Hypernyms: merchant
businessman
prince
ruler
merchant princes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merchant prince
Zeshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic زِشَان (zišān).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic, variant of Zeeshan or Zishan.
allœosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allœoses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of allesis.
invex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Introduced by Morgan A. Hanson in 1981 as a generalization of convex.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a differentiable function f:ℝⁿ→ℝ, being such that there exists a vector valued function g such that f(x)-f(u)≥g(x,u)·∇f(u),, for all x and u.
Derived terms: invexity
denaskulo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛnɑsˈkuːləʊ/
ipa: /ˌdeɪ-/
ipa: /də-/
ipa: /-nəs-/
rhymes: -uːləʊ
Forms: form: denaskuloj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Esperanto denaskulo.
Senses: glosses: a native speaker of Esperanto
denaskuloj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛnəsˈkuːlɔɪ/
ipa: /ˌdeɪnəsˈkuːlɔɪ/
ipa: /dənəsˈkuːlɔɪ/
rhymes: -uːlɔɪ
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Esperanto denaskuloj.
Senses: glosses: plural of denaskulo
obsonator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obsonators
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: examples: text: Thus also in Caius College the Obsonator and Dispensator were Scholars, and the Promus too: but this was altered in 1634 — “cum multa incommoda et non leve damnum Collegium sæpius sustinuit″ and it was determined to elect some “virum idoneum et non Scholarum.”
ref: 1840, John James Smith, editor, The Cambridge Portfolio, volume 1, page 275:
text: 1814. The offices of Obsonator, or Manciple, and Cook severed. Tuition fees to be increased, viz. Gentlemen Commoners to twenty-six guineas, Scholars and Commoners to thirteen guineas.
ref: 1897, Douglas Macleane, A History of Pembroke College, Oxford, Anciently Broadgates Hall, page 500:
text: He looked down at Demetrius, the Obsonator, who sat on a platform several feet below him. “Will you have them bring in the cask? I confess, Demetrius, that I am anxious about it. It is an experiment this time.”
ref: 1952, Thomas B. Costain, The Silver Chalice, page 399:
glosses: A caterer, a manciple.
go for the jugular
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes for the jugular
form: going for the jugular
form: went for the jugular
form: gone for the jugular
Senses: examples: text: You start to admire the flagrant disregard
For the sanctity of other people's lives
By the filthy few in positions of power
Who go for the jugular in order to survive
ref: 1985, J. G. Thirlwell, “Anything (Viva!)”, in Nail, performed by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel:
text: The cover story of last July's Journal was on hardball litigation tactics. It quoted lawyers talking about pulling out all the stops, going for the jugular.
ref: 1988 March 1, “Litigation is War–True or False?”, in ABA Journal, retrieved 29 Mar 2011, page 8:
text: Hewitt, angered by being kept hanging around, went for the jugular, breaking Roddick’s first and third service games to set himself up for a victory completed with another error from Roddick’s forehand wing.
ref: 2005 January 29, Neil Harmon, “Hewitt to carry the hopes of a nation”, in times.online, UK, retrieved 29 Mar 2011:
text: We have just now completed the month of August, which is the cruelest month for Democrats, the month when Republicans go for the jugular, trotting out arguments — some valid, most scurrilous — that paint their Democratic rivals as weak, élite or unpatriotic.
ref: 2008 August 28, Joe Klein, “What Bush Taught McCain”, in Time:
text: Sorkin and Boyle don’t go for the jugular. What’s here is all surface-scratching, albeit entertaining and riveting in parts.
ref: 2015 October 21, Dana Barbuto, “Review: Aaron Sorkin makes ‘Steve Jobs’ work”, in Northwest Herald:
glosses: Synonym of go for the throat.
synonyms: word: go for the throat
qwerty syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the QWERTY keyboard layout, a popular standard despite not necessarily being the most optimal.
Senses: examples: text: Nowhere is the QWERTY syndrome stronger than in computers […]
ref: 2000, Jason Kroll, “Readers' Choice Awards”, in Linux Journal:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
technology
synonyms: QWERTY phenomenon
glosses: The condition of favoring entrenched and inferior technologies or practices over superior ones.
Related terms: Betamax
opportunity cost
pericardiocentesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pericardiocenteses
Etymology: From peri- + cardio- + -centesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The removal of fluid from the pericardium for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes
Derived terms: postpericardiocentesis
transversality condition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transversality conditions
Etymology: To quote from Optimization in economics and finance
: This terminal condition on λ(T) has often been called a transversality condition, for historical reasons deriving from time-optimal problems, where the (variable) time T to reach a target is minimized. In that situation, the transversality condition appears as a description of how the optimal path crosses a terminal line (graphing state against T).
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A terminal condition on a costate variable in a, usually infinite, time optimization problem.
Cape Ann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by King Charles I in honour of his mother Anne of Denmark.
Senses: glosses: A rocky cape in northeastern Massachusetts.
amazonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæm.ə.zəˌnaɪt/
Forms: form: amazonites
Etymology: From Amazon + -ite; the gem does not actually come from the Amazon, but it was confused with an unrelated green stone that does.
Senses: glosses: A gem variety of microcline feldspar, varying from bright verdigris green to a bluish green.
Derived terms: amazonitic
Yowah nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yowah nuts
Senses: glosses: a form of boulder opal from Yowah, Australia.
xyloid jasper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A petrified wood, consisting mostly of jasper.
gaysian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪ.ʒən/
ipa: /ˈɡæɪ.ʒən/
rhymes: -eɪʒən
Forms: form: gaysians
form: Gaysian
Etymology: Blend of gay + Asian.
Senses: examples: Jimmy Nguyen (2011), “Why the gay rainbow needs to embrace more colors of beauty”, in San Diego Gay and Lesbian News: “It’s also supported by comments from my gaysian friends, and observing how Asian men are treated in gayville.”
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: A gay Asian, especially one who is male.
Gayville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Gay + -ville, after various persons with the surname Gay.
Senses: glosses: A tiny town in New York, United States.
glosses: A tiny town in South Dakota, United States.
Gayville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From gay + -ville.
Senses: examples: text: It’s also supported by comments from my gaysian friends and observing how Asian men are treated in Gayville.
ref: 2011 March 3, Jimmy Nguyen, “Gaysians Are Beautiful”, in Advocate.com
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: The gay community; gays, taken collectively.
liquesces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of liquesce
liquesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈkwɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: liquesces
form: liquescing
form: liquesced
form: liquesced
Senses: examples: 2011, James McCreet, The Thieves' Labyrinth
It is, of course, the nature of the London fog to descend and liquesce at its own whim. Merely two hours later, Waterloo-bridge presented an entirely different scene.
glosses: To become a liquid; to liquefy.
examples: text: At many points notes liquesce like the liquid letters, so that the interval from one note to another is begun with a smooth glide and does not appear to have a stopping place en route.
ref: 2009, Iain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music:
glosses: to become more like a liquid
Related terms: deliquesce
liquescence
liquescent
litura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liturae
Etymology: From Latin litūra.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A spot growing paler at one end.
Related terms: liturate
liturae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litura
locuplete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːt
Forms: form: more locuplete
form: most locuplete
Etymology: From Latin locuplēs (“rich, wealthy”).
Senses: glosses: Possessing wealth; rich.
glosses: Having an abundance of something; plentiful.
lunulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunula
Schrödinger's cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schrödinger’s cats
Senses: glosses: plural of Schrödinger's cat
apnoeae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Very remarkable, however, is the discovery that the apnoea-lengthening action of a maximal apnoea is already present after 10 sec. With 3 maximal apnoeae, with pauses of only 10 sec. each time, one nevertheless gets breath-holding times of, e.g., 79‒97‒102 sec.
ref: 1959, Excerpta Medica Foundation, Excerpta Medica: Internal Medicine, volume 13, part 1, page 616:
glosses: plural of apnoea
orthopnoeae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It helps those which are Liver-sick, and coughes, & ye Orthopnoeae, the quantitie of a spoonefull thereof being taken with hony, and it doth subducere alvum.
ref: 1655, John Goodyer [tr.], The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides…Englished by John Goodyer (1933 reprint, ed. Robert Theodore Gunther, Hafner Pub. Co.), page 201
glosses: plural of orthopnoea
orthopnœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We observed, on attentive examination, the following phenomena: cough, with sense of constriction in the middle of the chest; orthopnœa, threatening suffocation; face violet coloured; lips swollen; beatings of the jugular veins isochronous with those of the carotid arteries; palpitation; […]
ref: 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 179:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of orthopnoea.
allœotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ălēŏʹtĭk
ipa: /æliːˈɒtɪk/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ἀλλοιωτικός (alloiōtikós, “fit for changing”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Capable of causing allœosis; alterative.
archæastronomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of archaeastronomy.
extracts the urine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of extract the urine
extracting the urine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of extract the urine
extracted the urine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of extract the urine
stop-tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop-taps
Etymology: From stop + tap.
Senses: glosses: A stopcock.
examples: text: It was almost stop-tap time when my name came up, and that was the excuse my friends had been waiting for to shower me with beer.
ref: 1998, Peter Jackson, Lions of Wales, page 139:
text: But there we were together on the pavement after stop tap, him cadging a light off me.
ref: 2010, Gwen Davies, ‘The Professionals’, translated by William Owen Roberts, Best European Fiction 2011:
glosses: Last orders.
thnetopsychism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /θnɛtəˈsaɪkɪz(ə)m/
Etymology: From ecclesiastical Ancient Greek θνητόψῡχος (thnētópsūkhos), from θνητός (thnētós, “mortal”) and ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “soul”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: On the contrary, the metaphor of “soul sleeping” bridges what for thnetopsychism amounts to two sharply polarized concepts: on the one hand, that of death and nothingness in all its finality, and, on the other, that of eternal life.
ref: 2012, Henry Weinfield, The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens: Freethinking and the Crisis of Modernity:
glosses: The doctrine that when the body dies, the intangible soul and/or spirit also goes to sleep or in other words the person's consciousness ceases until the resurrection, and that the soul and/or spirit must be awoken and both are to be called back to life at the Day of Judgement. This was first recorded as taught by the Thnētopsȳchītæ, a third century sect of Christianity in Arabia, and is based on 1 Timothy 6:16, an epistolary doxology addressed to the God who alone has immortality.
Related terms: thnetopsychist
hemimelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemimelias
Etymology: From hemi- and Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”) and -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The congenital absence of part of one or more limbs. With legs, usually clarified as pedal (foot), fibular (outer lower leg), tibial (inner lower leg), or full hemimelia. With arms, usually clarified as manual, radial, ulnar, or full hemimelia.
Derived terms: fibular hemimelia
Related terms: amelia
amelus
nugu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nugu
form: most nugu
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 누구 (nugu, “who”, pronoun).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Unknown; unpopular.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Untalented; unremarkable.
nugu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nugus
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 누구 (nugu, “who”, pronoun).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
synonyms: who
nobody
glosses: Someone who is unknown; someone who is unpopular.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Someone who is untalented; someone who is unremarkable.
mirificent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mirificent
form: most mirificent
Etymology: From mirific + -ent.
Senses: glosses: wonderful; wondrous; awesome.
miserate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭ′-zər-āt′
ipa: /ˈmɪ.zəɹˌeɪt/
Forms: form: miserates
form: miserating
form: miserated
form: miserated
Etymology: By surface analysis, misery + -ate. Compare commiserate, immiserate, Latin miseror.
Senses: glosses: To feel unhappy, to experience sadness.
Kebecois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kebecois
Senses: glosses: Quebecer; Québécois person
match day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: match days
form: matchday
form: match-day
Senses: examples: text: On match day, at exactly noon, we would each receive a white envelope with a single piece of paper listing the hospital and program where we would spend the next several years.
ref: 1999, Ellen Lerner Rothman, White Coat, Perennial, published 2000, →ISBN, page 318:
text: The fourth-year medical students are getting anxious. It's getting close to match day. In a few weeks they will find out where they're going to spend the next several years of training.
ref: 2002, Richard C. Karl, Across the Red Line, Temple, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: The day when graduating medical-school students find out where they will serve as residents.
examples: text: For a player to perform, his body machinery must be continually fuelled, oiled and checked long before the first whistle. Match day strategies involving the consumption of large amounts of food deemed to have a beneficial content with regard to performance should therefore not be used as a substitute for a poor diet across the preceding days or weeks.
ref: 2001, David Griffiths, The Weekend Warrior, Reedswain, →ISBN, page 115:
text: The station will be adjacent to Millwall Football Club's ground and would help ease the burden of match-day crowds.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 48:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The day on which a sporting event takes place.
gynæcocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Physical strength never comes in question in the gynæcocratic state.
ref: 1907, Lester Frank Ward, chapter XIV, in Pure Sociology, page 345:
glosses: Obsolete form of gynecocratic.
myricas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrica
variable cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variable costs
Senses: examples: text: Variable costs of nuclear-generated electricity seem low.
text: Variable costs may actually vary with the number of shifts, the number of set-ups, or many other specific activities.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A cost that changes with the change in volume of activity of an organization.
Coordinate terms: fixed cost
semi-variable cost
chana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃʌnə/
/ˈt͡ʃɑːnə/
Forms: form: chanas
form: chaná
form: channa
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चना (canā).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A dish principally made from chickpeas or chickpea paste.
synonyms: kadala
glosses: Chickpeas.
Derived terms: chana dal
gynæconitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of gynaeconitis.
swike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: swikes
form: swiking
form: swoke
form: swicken
Etymology: From Middle English swiken, from Old English swīcan (“to wander, depart, cease from, yield, give way, fail, fall short, be wanting, abandon, desert, turn traitor, deceive, rebel”), from Proto-West Germanic *swīkwan, from Proto-Germanic *swīkwaną, *swīkaną (“to dodge, swerve, avoid, betray”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyg- (“to turn, move around, wander, swing”).
Senses: glosses: To deceive, cheat; betray.
glosses: To stop, cease.
swike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /swaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: more swike
form: most swike
Etymology: From Middle English swiken, from Old English swīcan (“to wander, depart, cease from, yield, give way, fail, fall short, be wanting, abandon, desert, turn traitor, deceive, rebel”), from Proto-West Germanic *swīkwan, from Proto-Germanic *swīkwaną, *swīkaną (“to dodge, swerve, avoid, betray”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyg- (“to turn, move around, wander, swing”).
Senses: glosses: Deceitful; treacherous.
swike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: swikes
Etymology: From Middle English swiken, from Old English swīcan (“to wander, depart, cease from, yield, give way, fail, fall short, be wanting, abandon, desert, turn traitor, deceive, rebel”), from Proto-West Germanic *swīkwan, from Proto-Germanic *swīkwaną, *swīkaną (“to dodge, swerve, avoid, betray”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyg- (“to turn, move around, wander, swing”).
Senses: glosses: Deceit; treachery.
examples: text: The Saxon Chronicle contradicts itself as to Algar's outlawry, stating in one passage that he was outlawed without any kind of guilt, and in another that he was outlawed as swike, or traitor, and that he made a confession of it before all the men there gathered.
ref: 1848, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Harold, the Last of the Saxons:
glosses: A deceiver; betrayer, traitor.
glosses: A hiding place; den; cave.
pseudoconvex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + convex.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a function: differentiable and increasing in any direction where it has a positive directional derivative.
Derived terms: pseudoconvexity
pseudoconcave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + concave.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (said of a function) differentiable and decreasing in any direction where it has a negative directional derivative.
Derived terms: pseudoconcavity
gee and haw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gees and haws
form: geeing and hawing
form: geed and hawed
form: geed and hawed
Senses: examples: text: He and I don't really gee and haw.
qualifier: southeast
glosses: get along
napa cabbage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: napa cabbages
form: nappa cabbage
Etymology: See napa.
Senses: synonyms: word: celery cabbage
word: wombok
glosses: A species of Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, commonly used as an ingredient in East-Asian cuisines.
cape ann
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cape anns
Etymology: Named after Cape Ann.
Senses: glosses: An oilskin cap whose brim is longer in back than in front, designed to repel wind and rain.
Synonyms: sou'wester
Charlie Chaplin mustache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Charlie Chaplin mustaches
Etymology: Named after English comic actor, filmaker and composer Charlie Chaplin.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of toothbrush mustache.
synonyms: word: toothbrush mustache
Charlie Chaplin mustaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charlie Chaplin mustache
toothbrush mustache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothbrush mustaches
form: toothbrush moustache
Senses: coordinate_terms: pencil moustache
glosses: A moustache covering only the philtrum.
Synonyms: word: Charlie Chaplin mustache
english: slightly offensive
translation: slightly offensive
word: Hitler mustache
Cæsarean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cæsarean
form: most Cæsarean
Etymology: From Caesar + -ean, but see also Caesarean section § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Caesarean.
Cæsarean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cæsareans
Etymology: From Caesar + -ean, but see also Caesarean section § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Caesarean.
cameræ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camera
Great Turk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Great Turks
Senses: examples: text: The great Turke [translating grand Seigneur] doth not permit at this day any Christian or Jew, to have or keep any horse for himselfe, throughout all his large Empire.
ref: 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas, I.48
glosses: The Ottoman sultan.
unpaunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpaunches
form: unpaunching
form: unpaunched
form: unpaunched
Etymology: From un- + paunch.
Senses: examples: text: The armie which the Emperor Bajareth had sent into Russia, was overwhelmed by so horrible a tempest of snow, that to find some shelter, and to save themselves from the extremitie of the cold, many advised to kill and unpanch [translating eventrer] their horses, and enter into their panches, to enjoy and find some ease by that vitall heat.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 48, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To eviscerate, disembowel (an animal).
nidificant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nidificants
Senses: glosses: A bird that builds nests.
kick it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks it
form: kicking it
form: kicked it
form: kicked it
Senses: examples: text: Pimp had been kicking it with one of the young jawns hanging around the apartment. She was real young and had bumpy skin and slum rings on every finger.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103:
text: I really want to come kick it with you / You'll be my American boy
ref: 2008 March 31, Estelle feat. Kanye West, “American Boy”performed by Estelle:
text: Girl, I'm tryna kick it with ya, (girl) I'm tryna kick it with ya / Man, I'm tryna kick it with ya, my feet up, I kick it with ya
ref: 2014 November 25, Beyoncé, Detail, Bobby Johnson, “7/11”, in Beyoncé: Platinum Edition, performed by Beyoncé:
text: Truly, I ain't got no business here / But since my friends are here, I just came to kick it
ref: 2015 April 30, Alessia Cara, “Here”:
text: You know what you need? You need some time with an old friend. My lady has a couple of coworkers who are single and bad. Let's kick it at my house for old time's sake, and when she gets home, I'll have her call up one of them.
ref: 2019, Untamed [pseudonym], The View, Farmingdale, N.Y.: Urban Books, →ISBN, page 194:
synonyms: kick with
glosses: To casually spend time relaxing; to hang out.
examples: text: You guys really kicked it at the concert last night!
glosses: To perform in an impressive manner, especially musically.
examples: text: Rix grinned and tried to joke. “Because you'll already own a city block and then inherit the state of New York when your old man kicks it?”
ref: 2021, Kristen Ashley, Chasing Serenity:
glosses: To kick the bucket; to die.
glosses: To rid oneself of a bad habit or addiction, especially to narcotics.
obvolute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obvolute
form: most obvolute
form: obvoluted
Etymology: From Latin obvolutus, past participle of obvolvere to wrap around.
Senses: glosses: overlapping; contorted; convoluted
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two opposite leaves, each with one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a circle of several leaves or petals which overlap in that manner.
hungerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hungerly
form: most hungerly
Etymology: From hunger + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Croesus passing alongst the citie of Sardis found certaine thickets, wherein were great store of snakes and serpents, on which his horses fed very hungerly, which thing, as Herodotus saith, was an ill-boding prodigy unto his affaires.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 48, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Hungrily.
hungerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hungerly
form: most hungerly
Etymology: From hunger + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: his beard grew thin and hungerly
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Wanting food; starved.
crednerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark grey mineral that is a mixed oxide of copper and manganese.
decimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛsɪˈmɛtɹɪk/
Senses: glosses: Having dimensions (especially wavelength) measured in decimetres
electrodiffusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + diffusional.
Senses: glosses: of, pertaining to, or causing electrodiffusion
flexomagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flexomagnetic
form: most flexomagnetic
Etymology: From flexo- + magnetic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any magnetic effect produced by bending a material
Related terms: flexomagnetism
flexomagnetoelectric
flexoelectric
nanovoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanovoid
photobiophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + biophysical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to photobiophysics
photobiophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + biophysics.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The branch of biophysics that deals with the interaction of light with biological systems
palmus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rhythmic tic or throb, such as a convulsion or the heartbeat.
palmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmo
draftings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drafting
ingrafted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ingraft
ingrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ingraft
ingrafting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ingraft
peries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peri
perstringes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perstringe
pices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pice
pinguescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more pinguescent
form: most pinguescent
Senses: glosses: growing obese, fattening
Related terms: pinguescence
pinguid
carbohæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carbo- + -hæmia, conjunction: Latin carbo (“charcol”) and Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).
Senses: examples: text: I submit, then, that tuberculisation is alone the result of carbohæmia, and that carbohæmia itself is induced by the respiration of air that has been respired before.
ref: 1868, Henry Mac Cormac, “Carbohæmia, The One And Only Possible Source Of Tubercle And Tubercle Induce Maladies”, in British Medical Journal, volume I, page 375:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Accumulation of wasteful elements of carbon or mere carbon inside blood.
Related terms: carbonæmia
carbonæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carbon + -aemia, conjunction: Latin carbo (“charcol”) and Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).
Senses: examples: text: While it produces less carbonæmia than the above mentioned agents, its special effect is to so alter the blood corpuscles as to prevent them from assimilating oxygen.
ref: 1875, Faneuil D. Weisee, “Nitrous Oxide Gas”, in The Sanitarian, volume II, page 29:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An excessive amount of carbon, particularity carbon dioxide, in the blood.
Related terms: carbohæmia
caricæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin carica.
Senses: examples: text: Caricæ taken largely give a fetor to the Sweat.
ref: 1776, John Rutty, Observations on the London and Edinburgh dispensatories, page 205:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: figs, especially those from Caria
cassiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cassia
vulvæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulva
aftertale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftertales
Etymology: From Middle English aftertale, equivalent to after- + tale. Cognate with Middle Dutch achtertale, achtertaele.
Senses: examples: text: Our cad's bit of strife (knee Bareniece Maxwelton) with a quick ear for spittoons (as the aftertale hath it) […]
ref: 1999, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:
glosses: Evil talk; slander; defamation.
glosses: A postscript added to the end of a story.
glosses: A postscript added where a story should end.
Related terms: afterword
epimythium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epimythia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπιμύθιον (epimúthion). More at epimyth.
Senses: examples: text: The fable is explained in an epimythium: "Indeed, what a man neither uses nor intends to use, […]"
ref: 1997, Gert-Jan van Dijk, Ainoi, logoi, mythoi: fables in archaic, classical, and Hellenistic Greek:
glosses: A moral appended to the end of a story; an aftertale.
Related terms: epimyth
aftertales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aftertale.
œconomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: œconomists
Senses: examples: text: It is impoſſible, Sir, for any perſon to be an œconomiſt where no order in payments is eſtabliſhed ; it is impoſſible for a man to be an œconomiſt, who is not able to take a comparative view of his means, and of his expences, for the year which lies before him ; it is impoſſible for a man to be an œconomiſt, under whom various officers in their ſeveral departments may ſpend,—even juſt what they pleaſe,—and often with an emulation of expence, as contributing to the importance, if not profit, of their ſeveral departments.
ref: 18th Century, Edmund Burke, The works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume III, pages 275–276
glosses: Obsolete form of economist.
œconomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: THE opinions of the œconomiſts were become faſhionable  ; the abilities, and the good characters of many of its votaries had convinced a few ; others took the matter on truſt, and all were willing at leaſt to try this new experiment.
ref: 1805 C.E., Adam Smith, William Playfair, An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, Volume III, Supplementary Chapter II, On the French Œconomiſts, page #515
glosses: plural of œconomist
Poconos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊkənoʊz/
Forms: form: the Poconos
Etymology: Said to be from Munsee pokawachne (“creek between two hills”).
Senses: examples: text: "Long Island's attractions will prosper because many people now won't travel to the Poconos or the Catskills," he said.
ref: 1991 May 5, Stewart Ain, “Bottom Falls Out Of Summer Job Market”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A mountain range in Pennsylvania.
glosses: A region of Pennsylvania.
lippening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From lippen (“to rely on”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lippen
lippening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lippening
form: most lippening
Etymology: From lippen (“to rely on”).
Senses: glosses: Occasional; accidental.
Synonyms: causeless
incidental
unintentional
accidental
Related terms: lippen
olent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊlənt/
Forms: form: more olent
form: most olent
Etymology: From Latin olens, present participle of olere (“to smell”).
Senses: examples: , Chapter IX
Which butterfly of the wide air shall brag
“I was preferred to Guido” — when 'tis clear
The cup, he quaffs at, lay with olent breast
Open to gnat, midge, bee and moth as well?
glosses: scented
pedicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedicants
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pēdīcans, present participle of pēdīcō (“sodomize, assfuck”).
Senses: examples: text: A male who prostitutes only his penis to homosexuals, either fellators, mutual masturbators, or passive pedicants.
ref: 1965, “Goofer”, in Guild Dictionary of Homosexual Terms, Guild Press:
text: Sullivan might renounce the whole enterprise if he knew their man was the pedicant.
ref: 1989, Christopher Bram, Hold Tight, New York: Plume, page 147:
text: With all of his sex partners, he thus avoided anal sex, in which he would feel obliged to take the passive feminine role of the pedicant.
ref: 2002, Henry L. Minton, Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America, The University of Chicago Press, page 200:
glosses: A person who takes the penetrated role in anal sex.
pedicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pedicates
form: pedicating
form: pedicated
form: pedicated
Etymology: From Latin pēdīcāt- (perfect passive participial stem of pēdīcō (“sodomize, assfuck”)).
Senses: examples: text: A male prostitute. (1) Heterosexual: will allow himself to be fellated but not pedicated. (2) Homosexual: will allow himself to be pedicated but will not perform fellation.
ref: 1965, “One-way man”, in Guild Dictionary of Homosexual Terms, Guild Press:
text: As this is anatomically absurd, absurd situations have to be invented to encompass it, as the fantasy, reported by Lesbians, of pedicating a man by means of an elongated clitoris.
ref: 1968, Gershon Legman, Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor, Grove Press, page 346:
text: Socrates, played by the ugly snub-nosed Athenian Pericles Anthropophagoi or something like it, began the film as a brave soldier, saving the life of Alcibiades at Potidaea and then very explicitly pedicating him.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 559:
synonyms: sodomise
bugger
glosses: To penetrate (someone) anally; to perform pedication on (someone).
Derived terms: pedicator
feltwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feltworks
Etymology: From felt + work.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A fibrous network
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A tight plexus of nerve fibrils
Mickey Mouse glove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mickey Mouse gloves
Etymology: Worn by the animated character Mickey Mouse.
Senses: glosses: A glove that is white and usually four-fingered.
Mickey Mouse gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mickey Mouse glove
midnight suns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Eight midnight suns. I photographed the sun every twenty minutes, beginning at 11 p.m., and finishing at 1:20 a.m.
ref: 1920, Illustrated London News, volume 67, page 1065:
text: Fox fires and midnight suns
ref: 2010, Roger Norum, The Rough Guide to Finland:
text: Crime is not the first thing that comes to mind at the thought of Sweden or Norway. More likely it's fantastic fjords, social democracies, IKEA, Saab, H&M, saunas, pine forests, white interiors, Ingmar Bergman, dark winters, midnight suns....
ref: 2011, Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer, John-Henri Holmberg, The Tattooed Girl, page 114:
glosses: plural of midnight sun
night-bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night-bat
oenomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: oenomaniacs
form: œnomaniac
Etymology: Fro oeno- + -maniac.
Senses: examples: text: It was Erskine Blight-Purley, war hero, Francophile, bibliophile, oenomaniac, and lecher of long standing and renown.
ref: 1979, [title?], quoted in Best Sellers: From the U.S. Government Printing Office
text: An oenophile does not become of professional concern to physicians until he becomes an oenomaniac, that is, one who is overly wild about wine.
ref: 2003, William S. Haubrich, Medical Meanings: A Glossary of Word Origins, →ISBN, page 162:
text: We stopped for a refreshing cup of milk, made our introductions, and moved on. The next stop was the Branquinho Ranch for lunch. There, we gave oenomaniac John Branquino his gallon of wine.
ref: 2009, Stan Otremba, So, You Want to Be a Cop?: An Inside Look at Law Enforcement, →ISBN:
glosses: One who is affected by oenomania, a morbid desire for wine; an alcoholic.
dæmonomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dæmonomaniæ
Senses: examples: text: A form of monomania which has now disappeared, but which was in a highly flourishing state three hundred years ago, is the monomania of possession, or dæmonomania.
ref: 1891, Théodule Ribot, chapter IX, in unknown, transl., Heredity, page 127:
glosses: Alternative spelling of demonomania.
pick-up lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pick-up line
skating on thin ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skate on thin ice
Sask.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: SK
glosses: Abbreviation of Saskatchewan: a province of Canada.
scandal sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scandal sheets
Senses: examples: text: Tony Curtis, a smutmonger for Stop magazine, described by its editors as "the most disgusting scandal sheet the human mind can recall," wants to write an exposé of her.
ref: 1965, "Cinema: Career Girl's Question" (film review of Sex and the Single Girl), Time, 1 Jan.
text: London's leading scandal sheet, The Daily Mirror, has been investigating the story with great relish and its most recent expose on the case featured by-lines by nine reporters.
ref: 1975 December 20, “Tory Tidbits”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 2:
glosses: A tabloid newspaper containing gossip and sensational news stories pertaining especially to well-known people.
pathopœia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of pathopoeia.
mythopœia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythopœiæ
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of mythopoeia.
harbor seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harbor seal
harbour seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harbour seal
avanturine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avanturines
Senses: examples: text: [F]rom out the silken curtain-folds / Bare-footed and bare-headed three fair girls / In gilt and rosy raiment came: their feet / In dewy grasses glisten'd; and the hair / All over glanced with dewdrop or with gem / Like sparkles in the stone Avanturine.
ref: 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “Gareth and Lynette”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 73:
text: During this period of two centuries little colour was employed in the lacquer-work, but much gold was used; and those particular kinds of work in which "clouded" gold effects, avanturines, and tesselated gold are introduced, as well as low-relief modelling of a most perfect kind, were invented and brought to a high state of perfection.
ref: 1882, Christopher Dresser, “The Lacquer Manufactures”, in Japan: Its Architecture, Art, and Art Manufactures, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 346–347:
glosses: Alternative form of aventurine.
aventurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aventurins
Senses: examples: text: Aventurin or avanturin glass was formerly made only in the Island of Murano, near Venice, but is now prepared throughout Germany, Italy, Austria, and France. It is a brown glass mass in which crystalline spangles of metallic copper according to [Friedrich] Wöhler (of protoxide of copper according to [Max Joseph] von Pettenkofer) appear dispersed. [...] The Bavarian and Bohemian glass-houses produce an aventurin glass rivalling the original.
ref: 1877, [Johannes] Rudolf Wagner, “Division III. Technology of Glass, Ceramic Ware, Gypsum, Lime, and Mortar.”, in William Crookes, transl., A Handbook of Chemical Technology … Translated and Edited from the Eighth German Edition, with Extensive Additions, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC, page 291:
text: Aventurin is also the name of a variety of quartz spangled with mica or other shiny mineral. A variety of spangled feldspar, found especially in Russia, and when polished used as a gem and highly prized, is also called Aventurin or popularly "sunstone".
ref: 2003, “The Mineral Kingdom. Dictionary of Gems, Jewels, Precious Metals and Minerals, with Their Significance and Use in the Superstition and Folklore of All Countries”, in Cora Linn Daniels, C[harles] M[acClellan] Stevans, editors, Encyclopædia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World: […], volume II, Honolulu, Hi.: University Press of the Pacific, →ISBN, page 724, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of aventurine.
photomesons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photomeson
hyperacetylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperacetylation
absent referents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absent referent