cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
jacinth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæ.sɪnθ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.sɪnθ/
Forms: form: jacinths
form: iacinth
form: iacinct
Etymology: From Middle English jacynct, partly from Old French jacincte, and partly from Old English iacinþ, both from Medieval Latin jacintus, jacinthus, from Latin hyacinthus, from Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos). Doublet of hyacinth.
Senses: examples: text: The fift Sardonix, the sixt Sardius, the seuenth Chrysolite, the eight Beryl, the ninth a Topas, the tenth a Chrysoprasus, the eleuenth a Iacinct, the twelfth an Amethyst.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:20:
glosses: A translucent, reddish type of zircon used as a gemstone; a hyacinth.
Related terms: ligure
katti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kattis
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of catty (“Chinese unit of weight”).
Kalat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A historic town in Pakistan.
Derived terms: Kalat Division
Related terms: Talkhab-e Kalat
debilitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɪlɪteɪtəd/
Senses: examples: text: His debilitated body, the victim of the wasting disease, could no longer support his weight.
glosses: Weakened.
glosses: run down, damaged, in disrepair.
Derived terms: immunodebilitated
undebilitated
debilitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɪlɪteɪtəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debilitate
splashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplæʃi/
rhymes: -æʃi
Forms: form: splashier
form: splashiest
Etymology: From splash + -y.
Senses: glosses: Relating to making splashes or the sound of splashing.
examples: text: His splashy car was supposed to show his wealth, but instead it showed his poor taste.
glosses: Showy, ostentatious.
glosses: Splashed with color.
examples: text: […] 'Cross splashy field where wild things grow, / Past shining reeds in knee-deep tarns, […]
ref: 1914, The Association Monthly, volume 7, page 254:
glosses: Wet and muddy; full of dirty water.
Related terms: plashy
splashily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more splashily
form: most splashily
Etymology: From splashy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a splashy manner.
spine-chilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spine-chilling
form: most spine-chilling
Senses: examples: text: The children's mother was worried that the spine-chilling ghost film would give them nightmares.
glosses: Inducing fear or nervousness; frequently used of a work of fiction.
Derived terms: spine-chiller
dites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dite
uncuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌf
Forms: form: uncuffs
form: uncuffing
form: uncuffed
form: uncuffed
Etymology: From un- + cuff.
Senses: glosses: To remove cuffs from (someone)
scrapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrape
scrapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scrape
football pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of football pool
Livy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪvi/
Senses: glosses: Titus Livius, a Roman historian
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Olivia.
x-direction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The direction aligned with the x-axis of a coordinate system.
Related terms: y-direction
z-direction
y-direction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The direction aligned with the y-axis of a coordinate system.
Related terms: x-direction
z-direction
z-direction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The direction aligned with the z-axis of a coordinate system.
Related terms: x-direction
y-direction
far-right
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːˌɹʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɑɹˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: more far-right
form: most far-right
Etymology: Adjectival form of far right.
Senses: examples: text: Other far-right sites would gravitate to Epik. Among the first to announce its migration in early 2019 was BitChute, a YouTube imitator that had been blocked by PayPal.
ref: 2021 December 9, Rob Kuznia, Curt Devine and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, “Epik is a refuge for the deplatformed far right. Here’s why its CEO insists on doing it”, in CNN:
text: The far-right glitterati were not impressed with Trump’s Epstein jiu-jitsu.
ref: 2025 July 16, Ryan Bort and Asawin Suebsaeng, “Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’”, in Rolling Stone:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: hard-right
ultraright
antonyms: far-left
glosses: Of or pertaining to the far right.
Derived terms: far-righter
far-rightist
far right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɑː ˈɹʌɪt/
ipa: /ˌfɑɹ ˈɹaɪt/
Etymology: From far + right, after French extrême droite.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: hard right
ultraright
reich-wing
glosses: The most right-wing or conservative part of a political faction or grouping.
Related terms: far-right
far-left
far left
Javier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Argentina has come out of a deep recession in a major victory for the country’s unorthodox President Javier Milei, who has spent the past year enacting sweeping — and painful — reforms in Latin America’s third-largest economy.
ref: 2024 December 17, Hanna Ziady, “Argentina exits recession in win for libertarian president Milei”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Spanish.
glosses: A municipality of Leyte, Philippines.
Related terms: San Francisco Javier
lady or tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the short story The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank R. Stockton, in which a condemned man is offered two doors, one of which leads to a beautiful woman and the other to a ferocious tiger.
Senses: glosses: A pure gamble with highly divergent outcomes.
distribution board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distribution boards
Senses: glosses: A board containing multiple electrical fuses or circuit breakers; a panelboard
avocadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æv.əˈkɑː.di/
Senses: examples: text: …specialized commodities — citrus and avocadi: — and the so-called staple crops like corn and the question of subsidy involved is separate and apart from these special commodities.
ref: 1943, Joseph Christopher O’Mahoney, Post-war Economic Policy and Planning: Report of Hon. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, United States senator…, page 83:
text: …green salad cream, butter, eggs, simple salad and vegetable oils, olives, avocadi, whole-milk cheeses, fresh fruits, potatoes and other root vegetables…
ref: 1945, Francis Walton, The Airman’s Almanac, page 110:
text: FOOD: Alfalfa, Avocadi, Banana, Carrots, Citrus, Corn…
ref: 2002, Barbara Bouyet, Akita-Treasure of Japan, Volume II: page unknown:
text: …grilled shrimp with avocadi and spicy papaya vinaigrette, 22…
ref: 2005, Susanna Foo, Hermine Kranzdorf, Susanna Foo Fresh Inspiration: New Approaches to Chinese Cuisine, page 325:
text: 2007: Eurofly Direct Flights — The Italian [Air]Way of Life, Destination: La Romana
…the green: the green of the level extended widths (where banana trees cultivate themselves, avocadi, manghi, oranges and above all the rice).
glosses: plural of avocado
hush kit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hush kits
Senses: examples: text: Even though they were fitted with hush kits, the overnight freighters were the subject of repeated noise complaints.
ref: 2007 February, News.com.au:
glosses: A series of modifications made to an aircraft's engine to dampen noise.
mämmi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæ.mi/
enpr: mă′-mē
note: æsh raising
ipa: [ˈmeə̯.mi]
homophone: mammy
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish mämmi, from Proto-Finnic *mämmi.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Finnish Easter dessert made from rye flour, malted rye, molasses and Seville orange zest.
paskha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paskhas
form: paska
form: pashka
form: pascha
form: pasha
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian па́сха (pásxa), from Па́сха (Pásxa, “Easter”). Doublet of Pasch, Pascha, paska, and Pesach.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Eastern Orthodox Easter dessert, made from curd.
Belize City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The largest city and former capital of Belize.
smoldered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smolder
Valentino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Valentinos
form: Valentinoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Valentino.
* (noun): Named after Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian
Valentino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Valentinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Valentino.
* (noun): Named after Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926).
Senses: examples: text: He was a real Valentino.
text: She was working on a stage which represented a guardroom for Christian prisoners, and presently they went there and watched Nicotera, one of many hopeful Valentinos, strut and pose before a dozen female “captives,” their eyes melancholy and startling with mascara.
ref: 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance … With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book IV (Escape: 1925–1929), page 230:
synonyms: word: benedick
word: cad
word: drabber
word: fuck boy
word: fuck-boy
word: fuckboy
word: gallant
word: goat
word: he-bitch
word: himbo
word: homme fatal
word: horndog
word: loverboy
word: loverman
word: man ho
word: man whore
word: man-whore
word: manslut
word: manwhore
word: muttonmonger
word: philanderer
word: pimp
word: playboy
word: player
word: rakehell
word: rake
word: rip
word: rolling stone
word: salty dog
word: satyriasist
word: satyromaniac
word: satyr
word: shag bandit
word: sleaze
word: smell-smock
word: striker
word: stringer
word: stud
word: swordsman
word: tart
word: tomcat
word: whoremonger
glosses: A ladies' man; a lothario.
Related terms: Valentin
Valentina
Valentine
Valentini
water shrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water shrews
Senses: glosses: Any semiaquatic red-toothed shrews of several species:
of genus Chimarrogale, certain Asiatic water shrews
glosses: Any semiaquatic red-toothed shrews of several species:
of genus Nectogale (elegant water shrew)
glosses: Any semiaquatic red-toothed shrews of several species:
of genus Neomys of small insectivores in the Soricidae family
glosses: Any semiaquatic red-toothed shrews of several species:
of genus Sorex of red-toothed shrews of North America
Derived terms: taxonomic: Sorex palustris
word: American water shrew
english: Chimarrogale
translation: Chimarrogale
word: Asiatic water shrew
word: Bendire's water shrew
word: black water shrew (Crossopus ciliatus
word: Bornean water shrew (Chimarrogale phaeura
word: Chinese water shrew (Chimarrogale styani
taxonomic: Nectogale elegans
word: elegant water shrew)
word: Eurasian water shrew
taxonomic: Neomys fodiens
word: European water shrew
word: giant water shrew (Potamogale velox
taxonomic: Sorex alaskanus
word: Glacier Bay water shrew
taxonomic: Neomys anomalus
word: Mediterranean water shrew
taxonomic: Sorex palustris
word: northern water shrew
taxonomic: Sorex bendini
word: Pacific water shrew
taxonomic: Neomys teres
word: Transcaucasian water shrew
inequities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
ref: 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson):
glosses: plural of inequity
affettuoso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more affettuoso
form: most affettuoso
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian affettuoso. Doublet of affectuous.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: With feeling; in a loving, tender way.
inequity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɛk.wɨ.ti/
ipa: /ɪnˈɛkwɪti/
Forms: form: inequities
Etymology: From in- + equity. Piecewise doublet of iniquity.
Senses: glosses: A lack of equity (justice).
glosses: An unjust act; a disservice.
Synonyms: bias
injustice
partiality
unfairness
Derived terms: microinequity
Related terms: inequitable
inhumane
unethical
blissfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɪsfəli/
ipa: /ˈblɪsfli/
ipa: /ˈblɪsfəli/
ipa: /ˈblɪsfli/
Forms: form: more blissfully
form: most blissfully
Etymology: From Middle English blisfully, blisfulliche, blisvolliche, equivalent to blissful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: What changes will be wrought in the character and condition of mankind, as the millennium advances and rolls blissfully away.
ref: 1834, Heman Humphrey, Miscellaneous Discourses and Reviews:
text: I walked the blissfully painful path of human love with intoxication and tears, always knowing that love's essence was elsewhere, hidden and yet addictively present.
ref: 2000, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Love Is a Fire: A Sufi's Mystical Journey Home:
glosses: In a blissful, happy or joyful manner.
carby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)bi
Forms: form: carbies
Etymology: Clipping plus diminutive -y.
Senses: examples: text: We replaced the old carby with an aftermarket throttle-body fuel injection unit.
text: The X2 option continued up until June 1967 when it became the 186S. The two engines had the same output, however the 186S had a single two-barrel carby as opposed to two single barrels. The 186S was also fitted with Holden's first automatic choke. For $85 you could have this dynamic power plant hooked up to an Opel all-synchro four-speed floor shift. This was about the same time that Holden started fitting seatbelts and reversing lights as standard equipment.
ref: 2024, Steve Bedwell, “Holden HR”, in Holden Vs Ford Commemorative Edition, Rockpool, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of carb (“carburetor or carburettor”).
synonyms: word: carb
extra: carburetor or carburettor
carby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)bi
Forms: form: more carby
form: most carby
Etymology: Clipping plus adjectival -y.
Senses: examples: text: We'd better lay off the carby foods. It'll help protect our vascular health.
text: I began to experiment with testing my blood sugar after eating certain carby foods […]
ref: 2018, Cristina Curp, Made Whole:
coordinate_terms: fatty#Adjective
glosses: Rich in carbohydrates.
Related terms: carbo-load
carboloading
syphilophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syphilophobias
form: syphiliphobia
Etymology: From syphilo- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Sexual fear with regard to the woman may assume various modalities which disguise it from the instinct itself; the most frequent are syphilophobia and gonophobia, and also the suspicion of being deceived, of being made a cuckold,...
ref: 1932, Gregorio Marañón, The evolution of sex and intersexual conditions, page 190:
text: Similarly, testing groups that are already socially marginal can further exacerbate syphilophobia as well as the existing prejudices against these groups.
ref: 1995, Suzanne Poirier, Chicago's War on Syphilis, 1937-40, →ISBN:
text: Part of the answer lies in the wave of “syphilophobia” that engulfed the country during the 1930s and 1940s.
ref: 2011, Vanessa H. May, Unprotected Labor, →ISBN:
glosses: A morbid fear of syphilis.
mesochronous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mesochronous
form: most mesochronous
Senses: glosses: Having the same bit rate.
raw_tags: of bit streams
glosses: Having the same frequency.
raw_tags: of a clock or signal
Related terms: synchronous
heart-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heart-shaped
form: most heart-shaped
Senses: examples: text: […] Passing, I leave thee lilac with heart-shaped leaves, / I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming, returning with spring.
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
related: word: heartshaped
synonyms: cordate
cordiform
hypernyms: shaped
formed
glosses: Having the traditional, notional shape of a heart (♥), that is pointed at one end and indented at the opposite side.
broadminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broadminded
form: most broadminded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of broad-minded.
Derived terms: broadmindedly
broadmindedness
communicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuː.nɪ.kə.tɪv/
ipa: /kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪ.t̬ɪv/
ipa: /kəˈmjuː.nə.kə.t̬ɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəˈmjunɪkeʈɪv/
Forms: form: more communicative
form: most communicative
Etymology: From Middle French communicatif.
Senses: examples: text: One of his attendants had found no little favour in the eyes of Alice, who expressed her suspicions that her mistress had some secret correspondence, for two reasons; first, to satisfy a naturally communicative temper—all common people are communicative: and secondly, in hopes of gaining such assistance as might ultimately gratify her own curiosity, now most uncomfortably excited.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 328:
glosses: Eager to communicate; talkative.
Derived terms: chemocommunicative
communicative competence
communicatively
communicativeness
incommunicative
intercommunicative
metacommunicative
miscommunicative
noncommunicative
sociocommunicative
telecommunicative
uncommunicative
boogieman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbuːɡiˌmæn/
Forms: form: boogiemen
Etymology: From boogie + -man.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bogeyman.
Moosehead Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Maps of the lake are supposed to resemble an antlered moose.
Senses: glosses: A large lake in northern Maine.
brown-bag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brown-bags
form: brown-bagging
form: brown-bagged
form: brown-bagged
Senses: examples: text: John brown-bagged it today.
glosses: Alternative form of brown bag.
brown-bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown-bags
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brown bag.
induces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of induce
postage stamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postage stamp
gappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæpi/
Forms: form: gappier
form: gappiest
Etymology: From gap + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a gappy row of teeth
glosses: Having many gaps.
Derived terms: gappiness
Nagano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 長(なが)野(の) (Nagano).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
Wakkanai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 稚内 (Wakkanai), ultimately from Ainu ヤㇺ ワッカ ナイ (yam wakka nay, “cold water river”).
Senses: glosses: A city in Sōya subprefecture, on the north coast of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.
Kagoshima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 鹿(か)児(ご)島(しま) (Kagoshima).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture in southwestern Japan, on the south coast of the island of Kyushu.
glosses: The capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: Minor planet 4703 Kagoshima (1988 BL).
Kumamoto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kumamotos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 熊本(くまもと) (Kumamoto).
Senses: examples: text: In particular, Kumamoto prefecture in southwestern Japan is quickly becoming a hotbed for tech investment from companies including TSMC and Fujifilm Holdings Corp (FUJIF).
ref: 2023 May 18, Reuters, “Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A prefecture in southwestern Japan, on the island of Kyushu.
glosses: The capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Agrinio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Agrinion
Senses: glosses: A city in Greece located in the Aitolia-Akarnania prefecture.
Agrinion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Agrinio.
Amfilochia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌæmfɪlə(ʊ)ˈkiːə/
/-ˈxiːə/
Forms: form: Amfilohia
form: Amfilokhia
Senses: glosses: Romanisation of Katharevousa Αμφιλοχία, a town in Greece located in the Aitolia-Akarnania prefecture.
Amfilohia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /æmfɪləʊˈhaɪə/
Forms: form: Amfilochia
form: Amfilokhia
Etymology: * Romanization of Katharevousa Αμφιλοχία.
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece located in the Aitolia-Akarnania prefecture.
Amfilokhia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /æmfɪləʊˈkaɪə/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Amfilohia.
Vonitsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece located in the Aitolia-Akarnania prefecture.
Lefkas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛfˈkæs/
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: Leucas
form: Lefkada
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece located in the Lefkada prefecture.
glosses: An island in the western part of Greece, part of the Ionian Islands chain.
Lefkada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /lɛfˈkɑːdə/
Forms: form: Leucas
Senses: coordinate_terms: Cephalonia
Corfu
Ithaca
Kythira
Paxos
Zakynthos
glosses: An island of the Ionian Islands, Greece.
glosses: A prefecture of Greece.
glosses: The largest town on the Greek island of the same name.
Nafpaktos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Naupactus.
Naupactus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Naupactos
form: Naupaktos
form: Naupaktus
form: Nafpactos
form: Nafpaktos
form: Návpaktos
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece located in the southeastern part of the Aitolia-Akarnania prefecture.
Synonyms: Lepanto
Antirrio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ænˈtɪɹiːoʊ/
Forms: form: Antirio
form: Antirion
form: Antirrion
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece located in the Aitolia-Akarnania prefecture.
Antirion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ænˈtɪɹiːɒn/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Antirio.
Antirrion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ænˈtɪɹiːɒn/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Antirio.
striped beakfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: striped beakfishes
form: striped beakfish
Senses: glosses: A tropical fish of species Oplegnathus fasciatus, found primarily in waters around Japan, with young distinguished by alternating stripes or bars of light and dark grey, whence the names; Adults, which grow up to 15 inches, tend to be charcoal grey.
Synonyms: barred knifejaw
striped beakperch
detoxifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detoxification
taxonomic inflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An increase in the number of species that is not caused by new discoveries, but by changes in the classification of existing organisms.
hao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hao
Etymology: From Vietnamese hào.
Senses: glosses: A former currency unit of Vietnam, worth one tenth of a dong.
naze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: nazes
Etymology: From Old English næs; cognate with Icelandic nes, Swedish näs, Danish næs. Related to ness.
Senses: synonyms: ness
glosses: A promontory or headland.
elaborated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elaborated
form: most elaborated
Senses: glosses: expanded
elaborated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of elaborate
unkindly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkaɪndli/
Forms: form: more unkindly
form: most unkindly
Etymology: From Middle English unkyndely; equivalent to un- + kindly (adjective). Compare Old English unġecyndelīċ.
Senses: examples: text: Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 2, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: […] she had seen a not unkindly wink pass between the two.
ref: 1906, E. Nesbit, chapter 4, in The Railway Children:
glosses: Not kindly.
Not kind, lacking in friendliness, warm-heartedness or sympathy.
examples: text: From this superfluous pulp in unkindely, and wet years, may arise that multiplicity of little insects, which infest the Roots and Sprouts of tender Graines and pulses.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 130:
text: Unkindly cold and tempest shrill / In life’s morn oft the traveller chill,
ref: 1789, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Anthem for the Children of Christ’s Hospital”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume 1, London: William Pickering, published 1834, page 5:
glosses: Not kindly.
Rough, unfavourable, bad.
examples: text: That detestable sight him much amazde, / To see th’vnkindly Impes of heauen accurst, / Deuoure their dam;
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 10:
text: 1678, Robert Sanderson, Nine Cases of Conscience Occasionally Determined, London: H. Brome et al., p. 128,
[…] the want of mercy in a Father, is more unkindly, more unseemly, more unnatural than in another man […]
glosses: Not kindly.
Unnatural, contrary to the natural or proper order of things.
Derived terms: unkindliness
unkindly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkaɪndli/
Forms: form: more unkindly
form: most unkindly
Etymology: From Middle English unkyndely; equivalent to un- + kindly (adverb) or unkind + -ly. Compare Old English unġecyndelīċe.
Senses: examples: text: Good master, take it not unkindly, pray, / That I have been thus pleasant [i.e. joking] with you both.
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 i]:
text: […] I had over-heard them ſeveral times talking very Unkindly about me; […]
ref: 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 34:
text: If she and John love one another, they can wait, and test the love by doing so. She is conscientious, and I have no fear of her treating him unkindly.
ref: 1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
text: Chester and Prideaux were dragged firmly but not unkindly down the stairs and out through the door.
ref: 1918, Rose Macaulay, chapter 11, in What Not, London: Constable, page 222:
glosses: In an unkind manner.
examples: text: All th’ unaccomplisht works of Natures hand, / Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixt, / Dissolvd on earth, fleet hither, and in vain, / Till final dissolution, wander here,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 455-458:
glosses: In an unnatural manner.
journeying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English journeyinge; equivalent to journey + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of journey
journeying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: journeyings
Etymology: From Middle English journeyinge; equivalent to journey + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] it has been marching forward in a career as pause-less as the sun in his journeyings through the sky[…]
ref: 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:
glosses: travel, travelling
watershrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watershrews
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of water shrew.
blinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blink
blinked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Affected with blinking.
glosses: Sour.
loftiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lofty: most lofty
pleasanter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of pleasant: more pleasant
snarled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snarl
scribbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scribble
Ayush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit आयुष (āyuṣa).
Senses: glosses: Ayurveda, yoga, naturopathy, Unani, siddha, Sowa, Rigpa, and homeopathy, collectively.
Ayush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Sanskrit phrase आयुष्मान्भव (āyuṣmānbhava) in the Mahabharata, meaning "live long".
Senses: glosses: A male given name from India, of Indian usage.
creamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiː.mə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɹiː.mɚ/
rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: creamers
Etymology: From cream + -er.
Senses: glosses: A jug for holding cream.
glosses: A separator for removing cream from milk to leave skimmed milk.
examples: text: nondairy creamer
synonyms: lightener
whitener
glosses: A nondairy product that adds a creamy texture to coffee.
glosses: A small thimble-sized or stick-shaped container of milk or cream, used as a standard individual "cream" or "milk" portion, typically provided by restaurants for cups of tea or coffee. In recent decades usually a disposable plastic container; in the mid-20th century often a tiny porcelain pitcher.
Derived terms: cow creamer
bigmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aʊθ
Forms: form: bigmouths
form: big mouth
form: big-mouth
Etymology: From big + mouth.
Senses: examples: text: Bigmouth strikes again / And I've got no right to take my place / With the human race
ref: 1986, “Bigmouth Strikes Again”, in The Queen Is Dead, performed by The Smiths:
coordinate_terms: loudmouth
motormouth
glosses: One who talks too much or says things which should not be said.
bigmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aʊθ
Forms: form: big mouth
form: big-mouth
Etymology: From big + mouth.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Applied to various creatures that have a large mouth.
Derived terms: bigmouth buffalo
bigmouth goby
bigmouth rocksnail
bigmouth shiner
bigmouth skate
in glass
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Based upon the custom in modern offices of having senior management in glass-walled offices or cubicles, unlike lesser members of the company.
Senses: glosses: Belonging to a management level, as in a contemporary office hierarchy.
planitia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pləˈnɪʃə/
Forms: form: planitias
form: planitiae
Etymology: From translingual planitia, from Latin plānitia.
Senses: glosses: A low plain.
pledget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈplɛ.d͡ʒət/
Forms: form: pledgets
Etymology: English dialect word for a small plug, using -et (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A small flat absorbent pad of cotton or wool, used to medicate, drain, or protect a wound or sore.
glosses: A string of oakum used in calking.
pledget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈplɛ.d͡ʒət/
Forms: form: pledgets
form: pledgeting
form: pledgetting
form: pledgeted
form: pledgeted
form: pledgetted
form: pledgetted
Etymology: English dialect word for a small plug, using -et (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To apply a pledget to.
worst case scenario
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worst case scenarios
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of worst-case scenario.
Wu-Tanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwuːtæŋ(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æŋə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Wu-Tangers
Etymology: Named after American hip-hop group Wu-Tang + -er; the group was named in reference to the 1983 martial-arts film Shaolin and Wu Tang.
Senses: examples: text: We expect a lot from our heroes, though, and last year's much hyped, quadruple-platinum-selling double set Wu-Tang Forever (Loud) fell short of the mark in the eyes of some opinionated Wu-Tangers.
ref: 1998 September, “Beat You Down”, in Vibe, volume 6, number 7, page 147:
text: While some of his fellow Clansmen have relied on the Wu team of platinum superstars to make their offshoot platters potent, Deck avoids most of the big names, providing, instead, lesser-known Wu-Tangers the opportunity for some much-needed exposure.
ref: 1999, Vibe, volume 6, number 10, page 174:
text: Wu-Tanger Ghostface's new ensemble reps NYC's outer boroughs on 718, with guest shots by Method Man, Raekwon and more.
ref: 2004. Kory Grow, CMJ New Music Report, page 15 https://books.google.pl/books?id=USj2hR4RQlQC&pg=PA15&dq=%22Wu-Tanger%22&hl=pl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj276CI14_kAhXBIlAKHeC5DysQ6AEIRDAE#v=onepage&q=%22Wu-Tanger%22&f=false
text: Between his first and second solo albums, Raekwon had appeared with fellow Wu-Tangers in the film Black and White and worked with the rest of the group on the second Wu-Tang Clan album, Wu-Tang Forever.
ref: 2007, Mickey Hess, Icons of Hip Hop, page 377:
text: Lately, the club has also proved a viable space for extreme metal bands (Napalm Death, Obituary, Hate Eternal) and neosoul and hip hop acts (Angie Stone, Method Man, Ghostface, and assorted other Wu-Tangers).
ref: 2008, Time Out, New York 2009, page 119:
glosses: A member of, fan of, or someone closely affiliated with, the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
dialling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dialing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dial
dialling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diallings
form: dialing
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dialing.
Derived terms: subscriber trunk dialling
frontman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌnt.mæn/
rhymes: -ʌntmæn
Forms: form: frontmen
Etymology: From front + man.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Mostaque, 39, is an odd frontman for the generative A.I. industry.
ref: 2022 October 21, Kevin Roose, “A Coming-Out Party for Generative A.I., Silicon Valley’s New Craze”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of front man: a person acting as the public face of an organization.
examples: text: “Baby, I was a loser / Several years on the dole / An Englishman with a very high voice / Doing rock ’n’ roll,” sings falsetto-happy frontman Justin Hawkins at the start of “Every Inch Of You,” Hot Cakes’ opener.
ref: 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: In the rock world, the “Bono talk” is a moment in a young band’s career when the U2 frontman sits up-and-comers down to impart brotherly wisdom.
ref: 2025 June 2, Lizzy Goodman, “Shirley Manson, the Unexpected Godmother of Rock”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of front man: the lead male singer in a band.
cesspit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛspɪt/
rhymes: -ɛspɪt
Forms: form: cesspits
Etymology: Uncertain. The first part, cess-, is undoubtedly the same as for cesspool, whose origin is likewise uncertain. The second part is pit, a hole in the ground.
Senses: glosses: A cesspool; a pit or covered cistern used to collect sewage and waste water.
examples: text: Politics devolved into a cesspit of lies and deceit.
glosses: A place or situation characterised by corruption, filth or immoral activities.
Synonyms: cesspool
gongpit
Coordinate terms: septic tank
Related terms: midden
venereal diseases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venereal disease
motor neuron diseases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motor neuron disease
delph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlf
Forms: form: delphs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of delf (“mine, quarry, ditch”).
delph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlf
Etymology: After the Dutch city of Delft.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Delft (“style of earthenware”).
claimable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From claim + -able.
Senses: examples: text: 1845 The New Statistical Account of Scotland
The existence of a legally claimable provision will, it is to be feared, tend everywhere more or less to produce its usual pernicious effects on the natural benevolence and moral independence of the people.
text: If the insured party undertakes repair work himself or does it by independent sources this is not claimable from the insurance company.
ref: 2005 United Arab Emirates Court of Cassation Judgments 1998 - 2003
glosses: Able to be claimed.
Derived terms: nonclaimable
unclaimable
claimable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claimables
Etymology: From claim + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The A.D.A. figures utilized in this study include the claimables for state aid plus the nonclaimables.
ref: 1963, Leo Cohen, Comparative Fiscal Capacity and Tax Effort of Units of Government in Madison and St. Claire Counties, Illinois, 1950-1960:
text: So, for example, if the conditional and negation introduced in terms of pragmatic incompatibility really are a conditional and negation — letting us say that two claimables are inferentially related as premise and conclusion, or that they are incompatible — then what those locutions work on must be genuine propositional contents — what appears embedded as the antecedent of the conditional, or is negated.
ref: 2008, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit, →ISBN, page 221:
text: But it does not follow that there were no true claimables.
ref: 2009, Hent de Vries, Religion: Beyond a Concept, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: Something that can be claimed.
claimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claimers
Etymology: From claim + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes a claim; a claimant.
glosses: A pretender to a royal title.
glosses: A racehorse offered for sale before a race and delivered to the buyer afterwards.
examples: text: He did not have a proper claiming authorization on file, and contended that the trainer had not asked his permission to enter the horse in a claimer.
ref: 2002, Paul D. Siegel, How to Own Winning Standardbred Racehorses, page 61:
glosses: A claiming race.
Derived terms: counterclaimer
clamberer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clamberers
Etymology: From clamber + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The brave clamberer among the rocky cliffs of the North Sea hears, with a thrill of pleasure at his own daring, the echoes of the gun which has brought to his feet the wild bird whose downy plumage is to minister to the luxury of a distant clime
ref: 1850, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, The Optimist:
text: Up above however, and at close quarters, they afford the clamberer a surprising number of secret joys.
ref: 2001, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea:
glosses: A person who clambers
clampdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clampdowns
form: clamp-down
Etymology: Deverbal from clamp down.
Senses: examples: text: The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is merely one step towards the imposition of martial law, toward a total clampdown on all forms of peaceful struggle for meaningful change.
ref: 1945, Earl Browder, Political Affairs:
text: There is already in the EU a clamour for barriers against competing products from Eastern Europe and Asia, and for a Europe-wide clampdown on 'aliens'.
ref: 1994, Vincent Cable, The World's New Fissures: Identities in Crisis:
text: Will there be any further restrictions on travel?
Only if the Government imposes them, although it seems unlikely that any further clampdowns will be made on domestic rail travel in case it risks the movement of key workers and essential goods at this critical time. [...]
ref: 2020 April 8, “Network News: COVID-19: Questions and Answers”, in Rail, page 11:
coordinate_terms: crackdown
glosses: A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control.
onychophagist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒnɪˈkɒfəd͡ʒɪst/
ipa: /ɑnəˈkɑfəd͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: onychophagists
Etymology: From onychophagy + -ist = onycho- + -phag(y) + -ist, from Ancient Greek ὀνυχο- (onuch), combining form of ὄνυξ (ónux, “claw, nail”) + -φαγος (-phagos, “eater”), from ἐφαγόν (ephagón, “I ate”).
Senses: glosses: A person who bites his or her fingernails.
Related terms: onychophagia
philodox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪlədɒks/
Forms: form: philodoxes
Etymology: From Middle French philodoxe, from Ancient Greek φιλόδοξος (philódoxos, “opinion-loving”), compound of φίλο- (phílo-, “beloved”) + δόξα (dóxa, “glory; opinion”).
Senses: examples: text: And no people are lesse Philosophers and more foolish, than Platoes Philodoxes, or lovers of their owne opinions.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: This, however, is a difficult task that only a true philosopher, and not a mere philodox, will be willing to tackle.
ref: 2003, Heiner Bielefeldt, Symbolic Representation in Kant’s Practical Philosophy:
text: Consider that without realizing it you may have engaged in acokoinonia (sex without passion or desire), been bored to tears by the company of a philodox (someone in love with their opinions), or suffered from recurrent matutolypea (getting up on the wrong side of the bed).
ref: 2005, Charles Harrington Elster, There’s a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life, p.UNKNOWN (perhaps blurb)
glosses: A person with an excessive interest in his/her own opinions.
Synonyms: sense: Synonym
word: glory-hound
Related terms: sense: Related terms
word: -dox
sense: Related terms
word: heterodox
sense: Related terms
word: orthodox
sense: Related terms
word: philodoxer
sense: Related terms
word: philodoxical
sense: See also
word: cynic
sense: See also
word: epicurean
sense: See also
word: sophist
sense: See also
word: stoic
awkwardnessful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more awkwardnessful
form: most awkwardnessful
Etymology: From awkwardness + -ful, possibly coined as an example of a word that is self-descriptive.
Senses: examples: text: Divide the adjectives in English into two categories: those which are self-descriptive, such as “pentasyllabic”, “awkwardnessful”, and “recherché”, and those which are not, such as “edible”, “incomplete”, and “bisyllabic”.
ref: [1979, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Vintage Books, published 1980, →ISBN, pages 20–21:
text: Please have some consideration for non-natives' awkwardnessful sentences.
ref: 1992 November 7, “The Democrats and Me”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet):
text: I think it's very awkwardnessful.
ref: 2001 February 2, “CHAT: Restructuring vs. Restructuralization”, in Czechlist (Usenet):
text: Right now we have an awkward situation, because the [array startsearch/anymore/nextelement/donesearch] commands are not only awkwardnessful, but also SLOW -- until [foreach x [array names y] {...}] starts thrashing.
ref: 2001 May 15, “Arrays and databases”, in comp.lang.tcl (Usenet):
glosses: Full of awkwardness.
repressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more repressive
form: most repressive
Etymology: From repress + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Human law is indeed repressive, but repressive on moral principles comprehensively applied to the whole community, and commanding the approval of the moral sense of the governed
ref: 1846, Allan Freer, The North British Review:
text: First, the classical rule forbids any unilateral right to use force to overthrow a regime on the sole grounds that it is repressive in character.
ref: 1989, Louis Henkin, Right V. Might:
glosses: Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
clarinetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌklæɹɪˈnɛtɪst/
Forms: form: clarinetists
form: clarinettist
Etymology: From clarinet + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: “Benny Goodman was the King of Swing,” he used to tell Benny. “Best jazz clarinetist in the world.”
ref: 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 56:
glosses: Someone who plays the clarinet.
Synonyms: clarinet-player
clarinettist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clarinettists
Etymology: From clarinet + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clarinetist.
class-action
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a class action.
class-conscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more class-conscious
form: most class-conscious
form: class conscious
Senses: glosses: Aware of the socioeconomic class of oneself and others.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Stratified into such classes.
raw_tags: of a community
Related terms: class consciousness
class conscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of class-conscious.
saving grace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saving graces
Senses: examples: text: For all his treachery and deception, he had one saving grace: good manners.
text: With Gambier Bay and Hoel sinking and Roberts not much longer for this world, the Johnston is now set upon by four cruisers and a number of destroyers. The ship's crew patch holes as fast as they can, but the ship is literally gradually being taken apart by repeated salvos. The fact that this particular set of Japanese ships is STILL using armor-piercing instead of high explosive is the only saving grace.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 31:46 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: A redeeming quality or factor.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: God's grace or blessing, enabling sinners to attain salvation.
outspokenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outspokennesses
Etymology: From outspoken + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “I have learned the hard way,” she crybabied this week, “that we have to be fearless and loud in order to be heard, and to prepare for the backlash that occasionally comes with that outspokenness.”
ref: 2023 October 27, John Nolte, “Nolte: 'Hunger Games' Actress Rachel Zeigler Plays the Victim over 'Snow White' Backlash”, in Breitbart:
synonyms: bluntness
frankness
candour
glosses: The quality of being outspoken.
oilman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilmen
Etymology: From oil + -man.
Senses: glosses: Somebody involved in the production, refinement or delivery of oil; such as an oil field worker or executive, or the owner of an oil well.
examples: text: If the wife buys fish or vegetables in the street, as is generally done, she will, at the same time, buy her piece of bacon or cheese at the cheesemonger’s, her small quantity of tea and sugar at the grocer’s, her fire-wood at the oilman’s, or her pound of beef or liver at the butcher’s.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: A retailer who sells vegetable oils, and food preserved in oil
snogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snog