cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tradeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trade + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In even the unimproved, and tradeless condition of that island, under the Portuguese government, its revenue was, upon a tolerably just estimate, computed at near five lacks of rupees, or sixty thousand pounds sterling per annum...
ref: 1757, John H. Grose, A voyage to the East-Indies: with observations on various parts there:
synonyms: commerceless
nontrading
glosses: Without trade.
examples: text: Idle and tradeless youth and men, who are without an honest occupation, or any visible means of support, must be regarded as another, and not an inconsiderable class of our criminal population.
ref: 1855, Pennsylvania Prison Society, The Journal of prison discipline and philanthropy, Volume 10:
glosses: Without a trade (occupation or line of work).
twenty-minute egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twenty-minute eggs
Senses: examples: text: He was a twenty-minute egg, according to your grandfather, and such men are not soon forgotten.
ref: 1932, Peter B. Kyne, Lord of Lonely Valley:
text: The delegates to a national convention are, as the politicians say, "twenty-minute eggs," and such a convention is the super-market place for political deals and bargains, trades and treachery.
ref: 1938, Frank Richardson Kent, The great game of politics, page 246:
text: 'A stinker?'
No, he said, it wasn't a stinker.
'A tough baby?'
'No.'
'A twenty-minute egg?'
'That was it, sir. Mr Runkle is a twenty-minute egg.'
ref: 1971, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Much obliged, Jeeves:
glosses: A very hard-boiled person; one who is tough and unsentimental
blindingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blinding + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being blinding.
Fontenay-aux-Roses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Fontenay-aux-Roses.
Senses: glosses: A town and commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department, France.
forfices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forfex
behaveth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: behave + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of behave
behavest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: behave + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of behave
compy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compies
Etymology: Diminutive of computer with -y.
Senses: examples: text: I have NT 4.0 setup^([sic]) on my compy and would also like to have win95.
ref: 1998, Eric Packwood, “Installing Win95 when having NT 4.0”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc (Usenet):
glosses: A computer.
Synonyms: comp
'puter
puter
Coordinate terms: english: laptop
translation: laptop
word: lappy
compy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compies
Etymology: As used in the novel (and subsequent motion picture) Jurassic Park; shortened from Compsognathus, with -y.
Senses: examples: text: We picked up another compy.
ref: 1990, Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park:
glosses: A member of the genus Compsognathus or Procompsognathus.
Coordinate terms: english: triceratops
translation: triceratops
word: trike
compies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compy
sigher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sighers
Etymology: From sigh + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who sighs.
sighers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigher
Coney Island hot dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coney Island hot dogs
Etymology: After Coney Island, birthplace of the original hot dog (but not associated with this specific style of preparation).
Senses: synonyms: coney
hypernyms: chili dog
glosses: A hot dog made from beef with casing, topped with chili, diced onion, and mustard.
Derived terms: cheese coney
unlonely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlonely
form: most unlonely
Etymology: From un- + lonely.
Senses: examples: text: What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
ref: a. 1983, Ellen Burstyn (attributed)
glosses: Not lonely.
Derived terms: unloneliness
medscanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medscanners
Etymology: Blend of medical + scanner
Senses: examples: text: He knelt beside Crusher and watched, briefly useless, as she passed her medscanner over the body. Except that it wasn't a body.
ref: 1997, Diane Duane, Intellivore, page 102:
text: Deep wounds in his chest were seeping blood, and the medscanner Tacitus had pressed against his neck showed his vital signs on the wane.
ref: 2009, Neal Asher, Cowl, page 380:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
qualifier: chiefly Star Trek
glosses: A portable device capable of scanning a patient to diagnose sickness or injury.
medscanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medscanner
nonethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ethylated.
Senses: glosses: Not ethylated.
nonethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ethylene.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to ethylene.
nonsalutary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + salutary.
Senses: glosses: Not salutary.
nonbroadband
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + broadband.
Senses: glosses: Not broadband.
jackhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackholes
Etymology: From jack + hole.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the machine is well under way, the runner determines about where the next rear jack-hole will come, and has the cut made and ready for receiving the jack by the time the machine has finished its cut.
ref: 1907, Rock Boring, Rock Drilling, Explosives and Blasting, Coal-Cutting Machinery, Timbering, Timber trees, Trackwork, page 48:
text: Trout glided into the shadows, feeding upon grey moths, while in the jackhole beneath the red clay hollows big pike stirred lazily.
ref: 1911, The Nation - Volume 9, page 906:
text: It was therefore decided to drive one jackhole through to the surface, and after passing through the inferior coal, the alluvium was met with, and found to be so light and loose in character that it ran through at this point to the surface. The jackhole had therefore to be abandoned, and no further attempts were made to pierce the strata.
ref: 1913, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), The Mining Engineer, page 379:
text: The particular work he was doing when the accident occurred was digging with pick and shovel a jackhole under one of the track rails to prepare a foundation for a track-lifting implement.
ref: 1927, Reports of cases determined in the district courts - Volume 74, page 22:
text: Finally, Spindrick came to a jackhole with the cover off and protected by a circular barrier.
ref: 2011, Garry Kilworth, Gaslight Geezers:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A hole that is created using a jack or wedge.
jackhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackholes
Etymology: Blend of jackass + asshole; possibly originated as a euphemism.
Senses: examples: text: Now I hear some of you jackholes want to sue Nancy...HA! good luck!
ref: 2003, Nickolas, “Planet X Bull”, in sci.astro (Usenet):
text: Your competitive moon is eclipsing my happy place sun, jackhole.
ref: 2017, Christina Lauren, Dating You, Hating You:
text: We came all this way, and the least you can do is stop being a jackhole for five seconds and listen.
ref: 2019, Kim Chance, Seeker:
glosses: An obnoxious or contemptible person.
jackholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackhole
lovee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovees
Etymology: From love + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: What is a lovee without a confidant?
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: One might even describe a monitored feedback loop that permits one to sense when insufficient loving is returning from the lovee, causing a lessening of the lover's efforts.
ref: 1999, James R. Ozinga, Altruism, page 11:
text: It's just that one is the lover, while the other is the lovee. Together, they make love. One has an obligation to nurture, and the other has a duty of care.
ref: 2009, Jonar Nader, How to Lose Friends and Infuriate Lovers, page 92:
glosses: One who is loved; a recipient of love.
lovees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovee
underemphasize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underemphasizes
form: underemphasizing
form: underemphasized
form: underemphasized
Etymology: From under- + emphasize.
Senses: glosses: To place insufficient emphasis on.
Related terms: underemphasis
underemphasizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underemphasize
underemphasizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underemphasize
triploblasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition of the blastula in which there are three primary germ layers: the ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm.
Related terms: triploblast
triploblastic
triploblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From triplo- + -blastic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting triploblasty.
pneumatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌnjuː.məˈtɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
/ˌnuː.məˈtɔ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: pneumatologies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneûma, “breath”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of spiritual beings and phenomena, especially the interactions between humans and God.
examples: text: These divine qualities migrated to Mary because of deficiencies in the theology of God, in Christology and in pneumatology. It makes no lasting sense to retain this as a permanent status quo, using Mary as a cover-up for defective notions of the divine.
ref: 2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The study of the Holy Spirit as revealed in Scripture.
glosses: The science dealing with air or gases, their physical and chemical properties, therapeutic applications, etc.
Related terms: pneumatological
pneumatologist
pneumatologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumatology
superspecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superspecies
Etymology: From super- + species.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of at least two more or less distinct species with approximately parapatric distributions.
Related terms: allospecies
subspectra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subspectrum
leathercloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leathercloths
Etymology: From leather + cloth.
Senses: glosses: A kind of artificial leather; an oilcloth.
leathercloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leathercloth
Smiggy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Traditional nickname for a person with the surname Smith.
reconcilingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reconcilingly
form: most reconcilingly
Etymology: From reconciling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that causes reconciliation.
Coney Island hot dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Coney Island hot dog
universal joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of universal joint
underlooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underlook
underlooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underlook
underlooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underlook
underlooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underlook
hutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hut
hutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huttings
Senses: glosses: A hovel or slum building in parts of Asia.
whoops, there go my trousers
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍʊps ðɛː ˈɡəʊ maɪ ˈtɹaʊzəz/
ipa: /ˈʍuːps-/
ipa: /ˈwʊps-/
ipa: /ˈwʊps ðɛɚ ˈɡoʊ maɪ ˈtɹaʊzɚz/
ipa: /ˈʍʊps-/
Etymology: A reference to a gag in slapstick comedy theatre plays where a character’s trousers fall to the ground, exposing his underwear, to elicit laughs from the audience.
Senses: examples: text: Four Rooms is the latest attempt to combine multiple directors' skits into one film. It is also an attempt to mix "whoops!-there-go-my-trousers" farce with the slick kitsch pop-art comedy.
ref: 1995 December 29, Chris Wright, “Four Rooms [TV review]”, in The Boston Phoenix, Boston, Mass.: Boston Phoenix, →OCLC, section 3, page 19:
text: But what's this? A play about a Carry On film by Terry "Whoops, There Go My Trousers" Johnson, the man responsible for the National's revival of The London Cuckolds, an 18th-century version of Run For Your Wife?
ref: 1998 June 13, “Carry on up the National”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, weekend edition, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 1:
text: The bolts have to be opened and closed in the right combination to avoid scenes worthy of a French farce. But I feel less a character in ‘Whoops! There go my trousers’, and more like something miserable by [Samuel] Beckett or [Franz] Kafka about the meaningless of life, and the fatuity of communication.
ref: 2002, Simon Calder, No Frills: The Truth Behind the Low-cost Revolution in the Skies, London: Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Instead this relies on the supposedly comical misunderstandings that have been a feature of sitcoms since the 1950s. [...] The children are smart arses, the laughter is canned, the parents befuddled and every line delivered as if they're on stage starring in "Whoops, There Go My Trousers".
ref: 2009 January 9, Andrea Mullaney, “TV Review: The Life of Riley, The Green Green Grass, Dexter”, in The Scotsman, Edinburgh: Scotsman Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2009:
topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Used to describe a genre of farcical theatre plays.
copiloting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copilot
copiloted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copilot
superspecialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superspecialized
form: most superspecialized
Etymology: From super- + specialized.
Senses: glosses: Very highly specialized.
Synonyms: hyperspecialized
Related terms: superspecialization
shellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shell + -able.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: For which a shelling is possible.
unshellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shellable.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Not shellable.
Maxwellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maxwellian
form: most Maxwellian
Etymology: From Maxwell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish theoretical physicist and mathematician who made important contributions to electromagnetic theory.
examples: text: a Maxwellian distribution
glosses: Obeying Maxwell statistics.
Maxwellian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maxwellians
Etymology: From Maxwell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of James Clerk Maxwell.
Maxwellians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maxwellian
scenegraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scenegraphs
form: scene graph
Etymology: From scene + graph.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A data structure representing a graphical scene.
scenegraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scenegraph
piccies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piccy
prismless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prism + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a prism.
prismatoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prismatoid
prismatoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prismatoidal
form: most prismatoidal
Etymology: From prismatoid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a prismatoid.
grayhaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gray-haired.
greyhaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grey-haired.
bluehair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluehairs
form: blue hair
form: blue-hair
Etymology: From blue + hair. The "elderly person" sense, first documented in the 1980s, refers to the blue rinse once used by older women to conceal grey hair. The second sense emerged from the stereotypical association of dyed blue hair with social-justice activists.
Senses: examples: text: I have memories from a young age in which my father is yelling about "blue hairs" and their inability to drive. And everyone remembers that scene in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" in which the old lady cannot see over the steering wheel and is swerving down the road.
ref: 1997, Karin Vonesh, "Who are the worst drivers of all?", Southwords (Maine South High School, Park Ridge, IL), Volume 34, Issue 7, 19 December 1997, page 3
text: He'd recently swiped the little orange bottle of OxyContin from the old hag he often watched on Tuesday nights when her cold, indifferent middle-aged daughter played bingo with the other bluehairs from the strip-mall salon she frequented.
ref: 2011, Lola Newmar, Devlin's Beast, page 33:
text: “Anyone can join,” O'Neill says. “We have age ranges from children to blue hairs.”
ref: 2019, Chris O'Neill, quoted in Jordan Bradley, "Do Something Different: Try These Alternative Recreation Options", Encore (Michigan), June 2019, page 25
synonyms: fogey
fossil
fuddy-duddy
geezer
old-timer
glosses: An elderly person, especially a woman or one viewed as senile, old-fashioned, or out of touch.
examples: text: Trump is demolishing America's institutions - including the media FAKE, FAKE, FAKE - and this chucklehead is worried about offending a bluehair.
ref: 2019 September 29, Pitt Griffin (@pittgriffin), Twitter:
text: Americans thinking it was based to worship capitalism to own the bluehairs while bitching about big tech silencing them was so embarrassing.
ref: 2021 January 18, hassiktirbok (@UQSKnotme), Twitter:
text: There's a sizeable cohort of gullible bluehairs who'd protest outside a lake if someone told them carp were an anti-trans hate group.
ref: 2022 March 24, TAFKAMacM (@TAFKAMacM), Twitter:
synonyms: social justice warrior
wokester
glosses: A young or naive supporter of social-justice causes.
Related terms: bluenette
bluehairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluehair
bluegrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluegrass
bluefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluefish
Noone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nuːn/
homophone: noon
Senses: glosses: A surname.
autoboxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + boxed.
Senses: examples: text: The error indicates that we cannot typecast and modify data of an autoboxed variable.
ref: 2006, Christian Gross, How to code .NET, page 38:
text: In the second statement the value 85.1 is autoboxed in order to conform to the type of Double.
ref: 2006, David D. Riley, The object of Java, page 484:
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Automatically boxed (mapped from a primitive type to a complex object).
Related terms: autoboxing
glueless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glue + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without (the use of) glue.
Derived terms: gluelessly
gluelessness
telepathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɛlə.pəˈθɛtɪk/
Forms: form: more telepathetic
form: most telepathetic
Etymology: Blend of telepathy + pathetic
Senses: examples: text: Besides, after two minutes of stretching and beaming my eyes in his direction, all I got was a dizzy spell—telepathetic, really.
ref: 2005, Ian Souter, Pocket Tales Year 6 Twenty Pounds and All That Nonsense, page 19:
text: And one minor nit: consultants are not telepathic, they're telepathetic.
ref: 1995 September 20, Matt Clonfero, “SC-21 class?”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet):
text: And yes, my medium gives a good massage but when it comes to clairvoyance she's telepathetic.
ref: 2000 May 24, Eskimo Joe, “Who's quote? Who's book?”, in alt.writing (Usenet):
text: Weren't you on this newsgroup a few years back trying to impress us with your psychic investigation, channeling, remote viewing BS. That was pretty telepathetic.
ref: 2000 September 26, Village Idiot, “Blood Brothers MC”, in alt.military.police (Usenet):
glosses: Bad at telepathy.
telepathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɛlə.pəˈθɛtɪk/
Forms: form: more telepathetic
form: most telepathetic
Etymology: From telepathy + -etic.
Senses: examples: text: An interesting angle brought out by the author is the telepathetic bond of affinity that, according to Stehr, exists between true friends.
ref: 1946, Erich Hofacker, “Review of The Concept of Love in the Works of Hermann Stehr by Karl Siegfried Weimar”, in Monatshefte, volume 38, number 1, page 56:
text: Storm Over Warlock and its sequel, Ordeal in Otherwhere, feature two important themes in Norton's fiction: sentient, benevolent, and telepathetic animals and the profound value of empathy and cooperation.
ref: 1981, Roger Schlobin, “Book Reviews: Andre Norton Reprinted”, in Science Fiction Studies, volume 8, number 2, page 220:
text: Feluda stared, as though he had seen a ghost, and exclaimed, 'My word, what a coincidence! I was just dialling your number.' 'Really? Now, that must mean I have got a telepathetic link with you, after all,' Lalmohan Babu laughed, looking pleased. Neither of us had the heart to tell him the correct word was 'telepathic'.
ref: 1997, Satyajit Ray, Gopa Majumdar, The royal Bengal mystery and other Feluda stories, Puffin, →ISBN, page 53:
text: A post-World War I book by A. Linckewicz, a professor at the University of Vienna, averred that once there had existed a telepathetic human species, higher than today's human beings.
ref: 2002, Lung-Kee Sun, The Chinese National Character: From Nationhood to Individuality, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 107:
text: Suddenly an idea I had. I clozd my eyes and using my vampire powers I sent a telepathetic massage to Drako and Vampire so they would destruct Snape.
ref: 2006, Tara Gilesbie, chapter 30, in My Immortal:
text: “[…] Now that I can be there and pretend to care about my orders by escorting him, what he wants can be done,” I said with a big smirk. Then over our telepathetic net I said, “Andreya, please make sure to hide all our newly acquired things before I board with him.” “Will do,” she replied. “Captain, I think we are ready,” I said.
ref: 2010, Vincent Trigili, The Enemy of an Enemy, Vydorian Realms Publishing, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: Alternative form of telepathic.
autoblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoblocks
form: auto-block
Etymology: From auto- + block.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A technique used in rappelling and ascending, with a friction hitch around the climbing rope.
examples: text: From the online vendor documentation, we determined that this version of the WatchGuard Firebox enabled an autoblock feature by default.
ref: 2004, TechRepublic, IT security survival guide:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: (An) automatic blocking (inhibition of a feature etc.).
autoblock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoblocks
form: autoblocking
form: autoblocked
form: autoblocked
form: auto-block
Etymology: From auto- + block.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To use the autoblock technique.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To automatically block.
RIA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RIAs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of rich Internet application.
qualifier: nuclear industry
glosses: Initialism of radioimmunoassay.
qualifier: nuclear industry
glosses: Initialism of Reactivity-Initiated Accident.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of registered investment adviser.
glosses: Initialism of Regulatory Impact Assessment.
Coordinate terms: LOCA
Related terms: ATWS
LOFT
hinnying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hinny
hinnied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hinny
handselled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of handsel
handselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handsel
hanselled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hansel
hanselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hansel
comicalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comicality
bandsawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bandsaw
bandsawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bandsaw
bandsawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bandsaw
muscularness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muscular + -ness.
Senses: glosses: muscularity
licensable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: licenceable
Etymology: From license + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being licensed.
Related terms: sublicensable
licensability
padless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpædləs/
Etymology: From pad + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a pad or pads (in various senses).
recan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹi.kæn/
Forms: form: recans
form: recanning
form: recanned
form: recanned
Etymology: From re- + can.
Senses: glosses: To can (package in a can) again or anew.
recans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recan
recanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recan
recanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recan
repackager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repackagers
Etymology: From repackage + -er.
Senses: glosses: An individual or company that repackages a product.
repackagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repackager
nonconceptually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonconceptual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonconceptual manner.
wordmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordmongers
Etymology: From word + monger.
Senses: glosses: A writer, speechmaker, etc. who uses superficial, strange, or empty language for show, pretentiously, or carelessly, often to the point of disregard for the meaning of words.
wordmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wordmonger
fashionmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fashionmongers
Etymology: From fashion + monger.
Senses: glosses: One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
fashionmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fashionmonger
chainplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chainplate
Jaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jas
form: Jazz
Senses: examples: text: In January 2024, in a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother Jasper was killed, finally facing how it had shaped the rest of his life. Seventy-two hours later he stopped. Dark, raw and revealing, My Brother Jaz is how it feels to lose someone, and yourself, even as the rest of the world turns, and you struggle to keep up.
ref: 2024, Gideon Haigh, My Brother Jaz, Melbourne University Publishing, published 2024, →ISBN, page Back Cover:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine or any of its variant spellings.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name James.
examples: text: I know, from picking up the post from the hall in the mornings, that Jaz has a mother in Northumbria who thinks her daughter's name is Janette. That jaunty z is but a wedge of lemon stuck into a bottle of beer.
ref: 1995, Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire, Heinemann, published 1996, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Janet or Janette.
Synonyms: sense: diminutive of James
word: Jamie
sense: diminutive of James
word: Jaime
sense: diminutive of James
word: Jem
sense: diminutive of James
word: Jemmy
cunningham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunninghams
Etymology: Named after its inventor, Briggs Cunningham.
Senses: examples: text: First route the cunningham through the fairlead, then the cam cleat. Tie a figure 8 knot seated close to the cam cleat.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Laser Rigging Instructions”, in California State University, Sacramento, page 1:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A downhaul located at the tack of a sail, used for tightening the luff.
cunninghams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunningham
chickdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chick + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: It's simple; she has reached a higher level of chickdom. She possesses secrets, knowledge her younger sisters do not have.
ref: 1998, Julie Tilsner, 29 and counting: a chick's guide to turning 30, page 172:
text: If one chick takes another chick's boyfriend, or calls her fat behind her back, or does any of the million or so things that violate the laws of chickdom, then vicious, eye-gouging revenge is her only recourse.
ref: 2005, Mack MacGuyson, Chick Fu, page 30:
text: Just find the right time to get your head back into the game and you will be able to get back on the road to skinny chickdom — when you are ready.
ref: 2006, Karen Bridson, The secrets of skinny chicks, page 153:
glosses: The world or sphere of chicks (young women).
nonsorted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sorted.
Senses: glosses: Not having been sorted.
nonalphanumeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒnˌæl.fə.n(j)uːˈmɛ.ɹɪk/
other: [nɒnˌæl.fə.njuːˈmɛ.ɹɪk]
other: [nɑnˌæl.fə.nuˈmɛɚ̯.ɪk]
rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
Etymology: From non- + alphanumeric.
Senses: glosses: Not alphanumeric.
nonalphanumeric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒnˌæl.fə.n(j)uːˈmɛ.ɹɪk/
other: [nɒnˌæl.fə.njuːˈmɛ.ɹɪk]
other: [nɑnˌæl.fə.nuˈmɛɚ̯.ɪk]
rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
Forms: form: nonalphanumerics
Etymology: From non- + alphanumeric.
Senses: synonyms: special character
glosses: Any text character that is not alphanumeric.
Related terms: logogram
screen time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skrēn′ tīm′
ipa: /ˈskɹiːn ˌtaɪ̯m/
ipa: /ˈskɹin ˌtaɪ̯m/
ipa: /ˈskɹin ˌtʌɪ̯m/
ipa: /ˈskɹin ˌtʌi̯m/
ipa: /ˈskɹin ˌtəi̯m/
ipa: /ˈskɹiːn ˌtɑe̯m/
ipa: /ˈskɾiːn ˌʈajm/
Forms: form: screen times
form: screentime
Senses: examples: text: The wise old monk had little screen time compared with his buxom young disciple.
glosses: The duration for which something is visible in film or television.
examples: text: The editorial advised parents of small children to limit their kids' screen time.
text: In many families, children are getting more screen time than the parents think is good for them, although it's probably less than the children want.
ref: 2016, Noël Janis-Norton, Calmer Easier Happier Screen Time, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: Every single parent I know frets about “screen time”, and most are engaged in a struggle with a toddler over how much iPad is allowed.
ref: 2018 March 4, Jamie Bartlett, “Will 2018 be the year of the neo-luddite?”, in The Guardian:
text: And then there is the radical impact that screen time and social media have had on the younger generation, something that previous generations have never experienced.
ref: 2023 June 13, Bernie Sanders, “America is facing a mental health crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: When [Jean] Twenge started speaking out about screen time and social media, she was wary of recommending specific age restrictions to parents — something many experts, aside from her and [Jonathan] Haidt — remain loath to do.
ref: 2025 September 6, Catherine Pearson, “She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2025:
glosses: The amount of time a person spends using screen-accessed technology (such as a television, a computer, a smartphone, etc.).
screentime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screentimes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of screen time.
insectdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insect + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps nowhere else in insectdom is such an extravagantly flamboyant display of systemized pattern on parade.
ref: 2008, Christopher Marley, Pheromone: the Insect Artwork of Christopher Marley, page 242:
glosses: The condition of being an insect; insects in general.
Synonyms: bugdom
Hyponyms: grasshopperdom
USCGC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States Coast Guard Cutter.
Butterworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtə(ɹ)ˌwɜː(ɹ)θ/
ipa: /ˈbatəwɔt/
Forms: form: Butterworths
Etymology: Habitational surname from a place in Lancashire, from Old English butere (“butter”) + worþ (“enclosure”).
The city in Malaysia is named after William John Butterworth, Governor of the Straits Settlements from 1843 to 1855.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
glosses: A ghost town in Warren County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A city in Penang, Malaysia.
Derived terms: Butterworth filter
Unity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Majuscule letter version of unity.
Senses: examples: text: Hitler, it seemed, had two engagements in Munich that day; one was a visit with Unity Mitford, a Nazi sympathizer belonging to the well-known British Mitford family, who was recovering in a Munich hospital from an attempted suicide.
ref: 1996, John H. Waller, The Unseen War in Europe:
glosses: A female given name from English.
glosses: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Georgia.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Alexander County, Illinois, also known as Hodges Park Station.
glosses: A small unincorporated community in Boyd County, Kentucky.
glosses: A town and census-designated place in Waldo County, Maine.
glosses: An unorganized territory in Kennebec County, Maine.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Scotland County, Missouri.
glosses: A town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Adams County, Ohio.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Columbiana County, Ohio.
glosses: A tiny city in Baker County, Oregon.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
glosses: A small town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A village in Clark County and Marathon County, Wisconsin, located partly within the town of Unity.
glosses: A small town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A state of South Sudan.
menat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menats
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian mnjt in the form of the 19th-century Lepsius-style transcription menȧt.
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Egypt, a heavy beaded necklace and musical instrument with a crescent-shaped plate in the front and a keyhole-shaped amuletic counterweight in the rear, considered sacred to Hathor.
glosses: The keyhole-shaped counterweight of such a necklace, considered an amulet to secure divine protection and to ensure fertility.
stinkbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stinkbags
Etymology: From stink + bag.
Senses: glosses: An objectionable person.
stinkbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stinkbag
break one's arm patting oneself on the back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks one's arm patting oneself on the back
form: breaking one's arm patting oneself on the back
form: broke one's arm patting oneself on the back
form: broken one's arm patting oneself on the back
form: dislocate one's shoulder patting oneself on the back
form: hurt one's arm patting oneself on the back
form: hurt one's shoulder patting oneself on the back
form: hurt one's hand patting oneself on the back
Etymology: From pat on the back, and the uncomfortable position one would have to assume while patting their own back.
Senses: examples: text: — We're the best football team in the state!
— Careful, dude, don't break your arm patting yourself on the back.
glosses: To be very full of oneself. Often used as a sarcastic caution: "don't break your arm patting yourself on the back".
Synonyms: sense: be very proud
word: toot one's own horn
suscipient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suscipient
form: most suscipient
Etymology: From Latin suscipiens.
Senses: glosses: Receiving; admitting.
suscipient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suscipients
Etymology: From Latin suscipiens.
Senses: topics: business
examples: text: But if the sacrament does not do - its work alone , but per modum - recipientis, according to the predispositions of the suscipient , then because infants can neither hinder it nor do any thing to further it , it does them no benefit at all
ref: 1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying:
glosses: One who takes or admits; one who receives.
stewardii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From steward(ess) + -ii, facetiously after the Latin second-declension plural of words in -ius.
Senses: examples: text: "He's flying all over, all the time. He must have met two thousand stewardesses." "Stewardii," Einstein corrected me.
ref: 1982, William Edmund Butterworth, Moose, the Thing, and Me, page 117:
text: Doc still had to edge his way past a line of "B₁₂"-deficient customers which already stretched back to the parking lot, beachtown housewives of a certain melancholy index, actors with casting calls to show up at, deeply tanned geezers looking ahead to an active day of schmoozing in the sun, stewardii just in off some high-stress red-eye [...].
ref: 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 13:
text: 'Attendant' sounds like something a horse would have. Or a bathroom. We were stewardesses. Or stewardii, as I preferred.
ref: 2010 August 15, Shreveport Times:
glosses: plural of stewardess
dzud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(d)zuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: dzuds
form: zud
Etymology: Borrowed from Mongolian зуд (zud)/ᠵᠤᠳ (ǰud).
Senses: examples: text: But the country [Mongolia] is currently experiencing a "dzud" – when a summer drought followed by a severe winter decimates the grazing areas.
ref: 2010 April 7, Linda Pressly, “Mongolia on verge of mineral boom”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2015:
text: Because migration distances are increasingly limited, people are increasingly vulnerable to various kinds of harsh winter or zud […] that can devastate herd populations and herder livelihoods.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 3:
glosses: An ecological crisis in the steppe-land of Mongolia and Central Asia causing loss of livestock, typically a summer drought followed by a severe winter.
zud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zuds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dzud.
dzuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dzud
zuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zud
percalles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of Oriental cloth.
explete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more explete
form: most explete
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin expletus (“completed”).
Senses: glosses: Complete, perfect
tribulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tribulates
form: tribulating
form: tribulated
form: tribulated
Etymology: Back-formation from tribulation.
Senses: glosses: To trouble greatly; to afflict with tribulation.
praepositus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praeposituses
form: praepositi
Etymology: From Latin praepositus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prepositus.
sesquicentenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛs.kwɪˌsɛn.təˈnɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɛs.kwɪˌsɛn.təˈnɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: sesquicentenarians
Etymology: From sesqui- + centenarian.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something of 150 years of age, or between 150 and 159 (in its sixteenth decade of life or existence)
Related terms: sesquicentennial
sesquicentenary
nitrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪtɹəm/
Etymology: From Latin nitrum. Doublet of nitre and natron.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: niter
Derived terms: nitrum flammans
nullos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nullo
nullas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nulla
totas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tota
great northern loons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great northern loon
common loons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common loon
great northern divers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great northern diver
phosphori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphorus
riantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more riantly
form: most riantly
Etymology: From riant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a riant manner.
psychs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of psych out
psyching out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of psych out
psyched out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of psych out
simplicia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪmˈplɪ.si.ə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin simplicia, a neuter plural form of simplex.
Senses: topics: algebraic-topology
geometry
mathematics
sciences
topology
synonyms: simplexes
simplices
glosses: plural of simplex
bicipites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is indicated by the fact that the majority of replicas are broken at the knees and at the top of the arms (just below the bicipites).
ref: 1979, Journal - Worcester Art Museum, page 39:
glosses: plural of biceps
felicia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: felicias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Felicia of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
teretes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛɹˈɛtiz/
rhymes: -ɛtiz
Senses: glosses: plural of teres
palmipedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmipede
tasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τάσις (tásis, “stretching, tension, intensity”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: Extending the sound of an utterance for the pleasure of saying or hearing it.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A stretching.
Derived terms: iridotasis
myotasis
sapientes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sapiens
explanantia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of explanans
iridotasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iridotases
Etymology: From irido- + tasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A stretching of the iris in the treatment of glaucoma.
myotasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myo- + tasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A stretching of muscle.
Derived terms: myotatic
irid-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: irido-
form: iri-
form: iris-
Etymology: From stem of Ancient Greek of ἶρις (îris, “the rainbow; colored circle, colored portion of the eye, something bent or curved”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the iris.
Related terms: iridescence
irido-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of irid-.
iri-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of irid-.
iris-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of irid-.
explicantia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of explicans
wolframium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The chemical element wolfram or tungsten.
library catalogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of library catalog
library catalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: library catalogues
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of library catalog.
library catalogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of library catalogue
quantions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quantion
unearned incomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unearned income
apotheose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apotheoses
form: apotheosing
form: apotheosed
form: apotheosed
Senses: glosses: Synonym of apotheosize.
synonyms: word: apotheosize
prognose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prognoses
form: prognosing
form: prognosed
form: prognosed
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To make a prognosis.
Related terms: prognosticate
ibes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ibis