cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
forescribed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fore- + scribed.
Senses: examples: text: He was accordingly, after the forescribed order and examination of that “confession," received by the Dayton presbytery and enrolled as a broth'er minister and member of that body, and has ever since served it in the function of examiner […]
ref: 1897, Frank Conover, Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of the City of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio:
text: A hybrid element method is developed for effective computation. In this project the structural response is investigated when the ground motion at the base of the structure is forescribed.
ref: 1980, Pauline H. Gurewitz, Hydraulic Research in the United States and Canada, 1978:
text: It's forescribed in the ancient scrolls, you see. Armageddon. June the Fifteenth 1995.
ref: 2013, Harry Pearson, The Far Corner:
glosses: Described, prescribed, or written (about) beforehand.
pintano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pintanos
Senses: glosses: Abudefduf saxatilis, a species of damselfish.
Synonyms: sergeant major
pintanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pintano
pipiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pipy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pipy.
piseog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɪʃəʊɡ/
Forms: form: piseogs
form: pisheog
form: pishoge
form: pishogue
Etymology: From Irish. Doublet of box, pyx, and pyxis.
Senses: glosses: An evil spell; a curse.
pishoge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pishoges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piseog.
piseogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piseog
pishoges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pishoge
plagiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plagium
platemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plate + making.
Senses: glosses: The production of plates (printing surfaces).
plebify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plebifies
form: plebifying
form: plebified
form: plebified
Senses: glosses: To make plebeian; to vulgarize.
Related terms: plebification
plebified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plebify
plebifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plebify
plebifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plebify
rearended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rearend
rearends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rearend
freakoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freako
freakos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freako
pledgeor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pledgeors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pledger.
pledgeors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pledgeor
Macgregor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Macgregors
Senses: glosses: A surname, alternative letter-case form of MacGregor.
glosses: A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after William MacGregor.
pleinairism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From en plein air + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Some Americans may have concluded that such passionate pleinairism was unsustainable; it may have seemed too chaotic, insubstantial, repetitious, or ugly.
ref: 2017, Kathleen A. Foster, American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, page 214:
topics: art
arts
glosses: The practice of painting outdoors, in the open.
Related terms: pleinairist
pleinairist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleinairists
Etymology: From en plein air + -ist.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An artist who paints outdoors, in the open.
Related terms: pleinairism
pleinairists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleinairist
plical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plica + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a plica or fold.
Derived terms: circumplicial
plinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plinkers
Etymology: From plink + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Game wardens anywhere know about "plinkers" — those gun-toting folks, mostly urban, young, and male, who will shoot at anything that moves. In the deserts, urban centers are growing. Plinkers are legion.
ref: 1994, Diana Kappel-Smith, Desert Time: A Journey Through the American Southwest, page 98:
text: Plinkers, also called gallery shooters, don't need a formal shooting range for their sport. They shoot at things that respond. Many plinkers pick out a can or piece of charcoal to set on a spot with a safe background, then try to knock it down […]
ref: 1991, Missouri Conservationist, volume 52:
glosses: A person who shoots at makeshift targets.
examples: text: […] the plinking gun should be more of a target arm than a defense or hunting gun, and ideally it should be one stage more sophisticated than the basic $35 to $45 revolver which many think of as a plinker.
ref: 1969, Field & Stream, volume 74, number 5, page 88:
glosses: A firearm used to shoot at makeshift targets.
examples: text: The consumption rate of piano plinkers was terrific.
ref: 1958, The MATS Flyer, volume 5, page 10:
glosses: One who makes a plinking sound.
plinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plinker
Accomack County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Accawmack Indians who inhabited the area.
Senses: glosses: One of 95 counties in Virginia, United States. County seat: Accomac. It is situated on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
if it's yellow, let it mellow; if it's brown, flush it down
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Initially coined during one of the California droughts.
Senses: examples: text: [Robyn] Griggs [Lawrence] tells them [the audience] they can make a difference without spending thousands of dollars: Line-dry clothes, vacuum refrigerator coils, and reuse greywater—water that’s been used once but is clean enough to use again—to irrigate the lawn or fill up the toilet tank. She recites her own family’s mantra regarding toilet-flushing: “If it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down.”
ref: 2002 October 7, Liz Stevens, “Green day”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 97th year, number 165, Fort Worth, Tex., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11D, column 2:
text: The motto for our bathroom is “If it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down.” Yeah, that is the bathroom—a small commode that flushes with help of a bucket of water.
ref: 2004 July 22, Sarah Elizabeth Baker, “Their needs are so great—it breaks your heart”, in The Commercial Appeal, 165th year, Memphis, Tenn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page EM7, column 1:
text: Never mind 'If it's yellow, let it mellow – if it's brown, flush it down.' My motto is: 'If it's brown, spread it on the ground – if it's yellow, recycle it like a good fellow.'
ref: 2008, Ethan Greenhart, Can I Recycle My Granny?: And Other Eco-dilemmas, →ISBN:
text: The first obvious difference you can make is simply to choose not to flush every time. If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.
ref: 2009, Melissa Seligman, David Seligman, Simply Green, →ISBN, page 99:
text: Here is what I will say about the “If it's yellow, let it mellow; if it's brown, flush it down” rule: this is fine, providing you drink a lot of water.
ref: [2014, Vanessa Farquharson, Sleeping Naked Is Green, →ISBN:
text: He [Jimmy Goodson] also passed along some water-saving tips to customers from residents Ingrid and Doug Scott. “If it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down. Urine is a sterile liquid and the toilet is not there for the purpose of Fido getting a drink or Junior floating his rubber ducky,” the couple said.
ref: 2015 September 3, Dawn Gagnon, “Castine suffers water shortage: Town buying from Bucksport”, in Bangor Daily News, state edition, Bangor, Me.: Bangor Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B2, column 2:
glosses: In order to save water, only flush the toilet after defecation, not after urination.
poakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poaka
if it's yellow let it mellow
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A short version of "if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down".
Senses: examples: text: It's a tad gross that I haven't been able to flush, but if it's yellow, let it mellow ... and run like hell-o.
ref: 2011, Kirsty McKay, Undead, →ISBN:
text: He went on to explain: I'm not gonna waste like a gallon and a half of water that we're stealing from the Colorado River just cuz I took a pee, you know like, 'if it's yellow let it mellow,' you know, don't flush it.
ref: 2013, Laura Portwood-Stacer, Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Explanation: No! I did not have to follow the, “if it's yellow, let it mellow” rule—in fact, if I did follow that rule I would probably still be single.
ref: 2016, Bo Bennett, Logically Fallacious, →ISBN:
glosses: In order to save water, do not flush the toilet every time you urinate.
poetizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poetizers
Etymology: From poetize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is true that authorlings and poetizers are apt to affect eccentricity. Real authors, and even real poets, (by real we mean good ones,) have generally a large portion of common sense to balance their genius […]
ref: 1839, Eliza Leslie, The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies, page 263:
text: Browning and Tennyson cannot be set aside as poetasters, but surely they are often only poetizers. They have got some wretched philosophy they want to express, and we feel them straining after it.
ref: A. B. Douglas, The Spirit Lamp (page 22)
glosses: An inferior poet.
poetizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poetizer
frampold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæm.pəld/
Forms: form: more frampold
form: most frampold
Senses: glosses: Bad-tempered, angry, disagreeable.
batheable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more batheable
form: most batheable
Etymology: From bathe + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be bathed.
glosses: Of a body of water: suitable for bathing in.
polyhistoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyhistoric
form: most polyhistoric
Etymology: From poly- + historic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polyhistorical.
synonyms: word: polyhistorical
polyhistorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyhistorical
form: most polyhistorical
Etymology: From poly- + historical.
Senses: glosses: Dealing with many histories or historical periods.
BRK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Brooks.
pondoks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pondok
pontianak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pontianaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay pontianak.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most fearsome creatures of Malay folklore is the pontianak.
ref: 2009, Andrew Hock-Soon Ng, “"Death and the Maide": The Pontianak as Excess in Malay Popular Culture”, in John Edgar Browning, Caroline Joan Picart, editors, Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race and Culture:
glosses: A female vampiric ghost in Malaysian and Indonesian mythology, said to be the spirit of a woman who died while pregnant.
glosses: Alternative form of pontianac (“fossil resin”).
Related terms: pontianac
pontianaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pontianak
pontooner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pontooners
form: pontoneer
form: pontonier
form: pontonnier
form: pontooneer
Etymology: From pontoon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: More shells and splinters came the pontooner's way than anyone else's.
ref: 2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 232:
glosses: One who constructs a pontoon.
pontooners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pontooner
pontonier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pontoniers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pontooner.
pontoneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pontoneers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pontooner.
pontoneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pontoneer
pontoniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pontonier
possessedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From possessed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being possessed.
Augusta County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
Senses: glosses: One of 95 counties in Virginia, United States. County seat: Staunton.
wikipedia: Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
primrosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of primrose
primrosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a primrosed meadow
glosses: Covered in primroses.
primrosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of primrose
primrosing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A defect in improperly packaged butter, leading to discoloration and impaired flavour.
proctologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proctology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to proctology.
projectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more projectional
form: most projectional
Etymology: From projection + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to projection.
prolapsuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolapsus
prosify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prosifies
form: prosifying
form: prosified
form: prosified
Etymology: From prose + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To convert or translate into prose.
glosses: To make prosaic or commonplace.
Related terms: prosification
prosifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prosify
prosifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prosify
prosified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prosify
prosification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosifications
Etymology: From prose + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The process of prosifying.
pulicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulicide
pulicicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulicicide
punkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punkeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of punkie (“small two-winged fly or midge”).
punkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punkey
pursily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pursily
form: most pursily
Etymology: From pursy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As the General straightened his tall, slight form, his tobacco-lighting accomplished, Duff Green, breathing pursily from a dash of trepidation, could not forbear comment.
ref: 1903, Alfred Henry Lewis, chapter 2, in Peggy O’Neal, Philadelphia: Drexel Biddle, page 52:
text: Mr Kernan hurried forward, blowing pursily.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, London: Egoist Press, page 231:
glosses: In a pursy manner:
Out of breath, breathlessly.
examples: text: She was dressed in a light morning “wrapper,” or robe de chambre, drawn pursily about her waist by a fillet or band, tied in imitation of a rosette in front.
ref: 1867, Daniel Crowberry, chapter 12, in North of the Tweed, volume 1, London: T. Cautley Newby, page 153:
text: 1939, Ellery Queen, “Long Shot” in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, No. 75, April 1959, British Edition, p. 28,
And, the serious business of her Hollywood gossip column concluded, Miss Paris hung up and turned her lips pursily toward Mr. Queen.
text: Robert, who had drunk very little, eyed him pursily across the table.
ref: 2000, James Fleming, chapter 19, in The Temple of Optimism, New York: Hyperion, page 202:
glosses: In a pursy manner:
In a puckered manner.
Accomac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * (Virginia): From the Accawmack, an Amerind tribe originally resident in Accomac Shire, Colony of Virginia, Colonial America, British North America.
Senses: glosses: A community in York County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Accomack County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: Ellipsis of Accomac County; dated form of Accomack County.
glosses: Ellipsis of Accomac Shire.
glosses: Alternative form of Accomack.
glosses: Alternative form of Accawmack.
Maguindanao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɐˌɡin.dɐˈnaʊ̯/
Etymology: From Spanish Maguindánao, from Maguindanao Magindanaw, from a blend of maginged (“resident”) + danaw (“lake”). Compare Ilocano danaw, Cebuano danaw, Maguindanao lanaw, Maranao ranaw, Malay danau, English Lanao, English Maranao, English Iranun. Generally translated to "people of the flood" or "people of the lake".
Senses: glosses: A former province of Mindanao, Philippines, split into the provinces of Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur.
glosses: Maguindanao language
glosses: Sultanate of Maguindanao
Derived terms: Maguindanao del Norte
Maguindanao del Sur
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Maguindanao terms
putelis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puteli
pygmyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pygmyish
form: most pygmyish
Etymology: From pygmy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a pygmy; dwarfish.
pyxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pyx
pyxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyx + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of pyx: the act of depositing (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) the process of testing such coins for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public.
pyxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pyx + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pyx
outwrit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of outwrite
tetriodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetriodides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tetraiodide.
tetriodides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetriodide
unimpairedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unimpairedly
form: most unimpairedly
Etymology: From unimpaired + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without being impaired.
orthoclasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orthoclasic
form: most orthoclasic
Etymology: From orthoclase + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to orthoclase.
unobsessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more unobsessive
form: most unobsessive
Etymology: From un- + obsessive.
Senses: examples: text: They are quite unobsessive on the subject of filth of any sort, lifting a micturating child away from their own bodies if possible, and expressing open and unabashed disgust at faeces on the path.
ref: 1938, Margaret Mead, The Mountain Arapesh, volume 1, page 214:
text: We can then allow whatever the results of our work are to flow out of this in a natural, unobsessive way.
ref: 2007, Jack Kornfield, Modern Buddhist Masters, page 129:
glosses: Not obsessive.
Derived terms: unobsessively
ducaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ducatons
form: ducatone
form: ducatoon
Senses: glosses: A crown-sized silver coin of the 16th-18th centuries.
ducatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ducaton
Longueuil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Longueuil.
Senses: glosses: A city in the region of Montérégie, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: An extant barony based in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada, in the French Peerage and British Peerage.
Related terms: english: a placename of several locations in France
translation: a placename of several locations in France
word: Longueil
word: Longueuillois
Burnaby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜɹnəbi/
Senses: glosses: A city in British Columbia, Canada.
anothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ano- (“upwards”) + -thermal.
Senses: glosses: Having a decreasing temperature with increasing water depth.
katothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kato- (“downwards”) + -thermal.
Senses: glosses: Having an increasing temperature with increasing water depth.
louse-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more louse-ridden
form: most louse-ridden
Etymology: From louse + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: During the first few days this disease does not affect the appetite, nor does it affect the general appearance of the bird, it simply appears weak on its legs, but as time goes on it becomes weaker and, not able to get about, it is trampled on and pecked by its mates, and soon becomes thin and louse ridden.
ref: 1914, Robert Joos, chapter 37, in Success with Hens, Chicago: Forbes & Co, published 1919, page 181:
text: From the filthy, louse-ridden cells of Russia’s overcrowded prisons has emerged a serial killer that is as devious as it is dangerous. Its name is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and it sallies forth on spumes of sputum each time an infected inmate coughs or sneezes.
ref: 2001 January 15, David Bjerklie et al., “Your A to Z Guide to the Year in Medicine”, in Time:
glosses: Full of or infested with lice.
jiggle television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Paul Klein in the 1970s to criticize the strategy of the ABC television network under Fred Silverman; three successful series on ABC at the time - Charlie's Angels, Wonder Woman, and Three's Company - were described as having spearheaded this term.
Senses: examples: text: It's hard to believe that in these days of X-rated motels, jiggle television, and sexual relief through vending machines . . . that some women can be sexually deprived, but it's true.
ref: 1981, Phyllis Diller, The joys of aging--and how to avoid them: can sex keep you young?, →ISBN:
text: For Paul Klein, as astute an observer as there was inside television, the defining programming trend of the time was sex, particularly in the form of "jiggle television."
ref: 2003, Josh Ozersky, Archie Bunker's America: TV in an Era of Change, 1968-1978, →ISBN:
text: "Classic jiggle television," he explained as he cupped his hands to create a platform for her foot.
ref: 2004, Kelsey Roberts, Bedside Manner: The Landry Brothers, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Alexander worries about unisex bathrooms and jiggle television.
ref: 2013, Robert B. Parker, The Widening Gyre, →ISBN:
synonyms: jiggle TV
glosses: The gratuitous use of scantily clad women to appeal to television audiences.
wikipedia: American Broadcasting Company
Charlie's Angels
Fred Silverman
Three's Company
Wonder Woman (TV series)
Related terms: sexploitation
jiggle TV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although Anderson brought her intelligence and sophistication to the role, given the climate of jiggle TV, critics found themselves equating Anderson with the other jiggling, giggling females.
ref: 1993, Michael B. Kassel, Ray Broadus Browne, America's Favorite Radio Station: WKRP in Cincinnati, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Hence the rise of jiggle TV in the late 1970s. As a reaction to the social consciousness that dominated television in the early-to-mid-1970s, jiggle TV emerged as an escapist alternative, with uncomplicated plots and amped-up sex appeal.
ref: 2014, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Gender & Pop Culture: A Text-Reader, →ISBN, page 110:
text: A jiggle TV programme consists of the following essential elements: (1) leading roles played by glamorous and improbably pneumatic young women (some of whom were surgically enhanced for the purpose); (2) scanty costumes, which allow the jiggling to be appreciated to its greatest advantage; and (3) a plot which necessitates jiggling, and may be far-fetched but not so complicated as to distract the audience from (1) or (2).
ref: 2015, Stuart Hylton, The Little Book of the 1970s, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of jiggle television.
synonyms: word: jiggle television
Klickitat County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪ.kɪ.tæt ˈkaʊnti/
rhymes: -aʊnti
Etymology: Named after the Klickitat tribe.
Senses: glosses: One of 39 counties in Washington, United States. County seat: Goldendale.
Goldendale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Klickitat County, Washington, United States.
Imperial County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Imperial Valley.
Senses: glosses: One of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: El Centro.
wikipedia: Imperial Valley
El Centro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish el centro.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Imperial County, California, United States. It is the largest city in the United States that is below sea level.
Sitges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Barcelona province, Catalonia, Spain.
Solsona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
glosses: A municipality of Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Oakland County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Pontiac.
milk toasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk toast
libertarian Marxism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Marxism which rejects state authority as a method for abolishing capitalism.
incompatibilistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From incompatibilist + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Relating to incompatibilism.
lumpenbourgeoisie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumpenbourgeoisies
Senses: glosses: A middle or upper class that supports colonial masters and has little collective self-awareness or economic base.
glosses: The lowest stratum of the bourgeoisie, sometimes associated with illegal businesses.
Related terms: lumpenproletariat
Makhnovism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Makhnoism
Etymology: From Makhno + -v- + -ism.
Senses: topics: anarchism
communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: The theory and strategy of Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary.
Related terms: Makhnovia
Makhnovist
Makhnovite
Makhnovist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Makhnovist
form: most Makhnovist
form: Makhnoist
Senses: topics: anarchism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to Makhnovism.
Makhnovist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Makhnovists
form: Makhnoist
Senses: topics: anarchism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: An advocate of Makhnovism.
Atikaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अतिकाय (atikāya, “gigantic”); ultimately from अति (ati, “extraordinary in size”) + काय (kāya, “body”).
Senses: glosses: Name of one of the sons of Ravana in the Ramayana.
intracaste
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + caste.
Senses: examples: an intracaste marriage
glosses: Within a single caste.
biometrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + metrology.
Senses: glosses: Measurement and data activities that provide quantitative characterization of biology.
nonbrewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + brewed.
Senses: glosses: Not brewed.
cantillational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cantillation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Associated with cantillation.
punctal plug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punctal plugs
Senses: examples: text: The punctal plug has been found useful in treating keratoconjunctivitis sicca (dry eye) and is believed to be suitable for treating other ophthalmic ailments where retention of lacrimal fluid on the surface of the eye and in the lacrimal lake is desired or where sustained release of an ophthalmic medication to the eye by using the plug as a medication carrier is desired.
ref: 1976 April 13, Jerre M. Freeman, Punctum plug and method for treating keratoconjunctivitis sicca (dry eye) and other ophthalmic aliments using same, US Patent 3949750 (PDF version):
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: A small device that is inserted into the tear duct of an eye to block the duct, preventing the drainage of liquid from the eye.
Synonyms: tear duct plug
lacrimal plug
Related terms: punctum
punctal plugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punctal plug
punctal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a punctum.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a point.
Derived terms: bipunctal
punctal plug
PFM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of porcelain fused to metal.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
sports
glosses: Initialism of pelvic floor muscle.
pork chop islands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pork chop island
Pontiac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Most places are named after Pontiac, a war chief, whose name is a borrowing of Ottawa Bwandiag.
Senses: glosses: A municipality in western Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A regional county municipality in Quebec, not to be confused with the municipality above.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Livingston County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Clay County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Oakland County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A historical village in Rhode Island, United States, located in both Warwick, Kent County, and Cranston, Providence County.
examples: text: Pontiac was still offering a 455 V-8 as late as 1976.
coordinate_terms: Chevrolet
Chevy
Saturn#Proper noun
Oldsmobile
Olds
Buick#Proper noun
Cadillac#Proper noun
glosses: A former brand of car by GM (1926–2010).
Derived terms: Pontiac fever
Pontiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pontiacs
Etymology: Most places are named after Pontiac, a war chief, whose name is a borrowing of Ottawa Bwandiag.
Senses: examples: text: She pulled up in a big old Pontiac with a lumpy idle.
hypernyms: car#Noun
auto#Noun
automobile#Noun
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vehicle#Noun
coordinate_terms: Chevrolet#Noun
Chevy#Noun
Saturn#Noun
Oldsmobile#Noun
Olds#Noun
Buick#Noun
Cadillac#Noun
Caddy#Noun
glosses: A car of this make.
Pontiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pontiac
good words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of good word
house arrests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house arrest
Farber's lipogranulomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Farber disease.
synonyms: word: Farber disease
Haywood County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Waynesville. Named after John Haywood (politician).
glosses: One of 95 counties in Tennessee, United States. County seat: Brownsville. Named after John Haywood (historian).
dubbined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He also wore a felt hat, or even took an umbrella for swank (but soon forgot about it, and strode along waving his arms about as if he were back home on the steppe and had just jumped down from his droshky in his cape and his dubbined boots).
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: simple past and past participle of dubbin
nodulize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nodulizes
form: nodulizing
form: nodulized
form: nodulized
Etymology: From nodule + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To form into nodules.
glosses: To form nodules.
nodulizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nodulize
nodulized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nodulize
nodulization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nodule + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The formation of nodules.
exocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + cortical.
Senses: glosses: Outside the cortex.
glosses: Relating to an exocortex.
dubbining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dubbin
veg-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veg-heads
Etymology: From veg + -head.
Senses: glosses: A vegetarian or vegan.
veg-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veg-head
Waynesville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wayne + -ville, most places are named after Anthony Wayne.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Brantley County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A village in DeWitt County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Pulaski County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Haywood County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A village in Warren County, Ohio, United States.
Spanish browns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spanish brown
plague-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plague-ridden
form: most plague-ridden
Etymology: From plague + ridden.
Senses: examples: text: 1930, Henry Handel Richardson (pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson), The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Book I, Australia Felix, Proem,
That was in the days of the first great stampede to the goldfields, when the embryo seaports were as empty as though they were plague-ridden, and every man who had the use of his legs was on the wide bush-track, bound for the north.
text: In the plague-ridden England of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, according to the historian Keith Thomas, it was widely believed that “the happy man would not get plague.”
ref: 1978, Susan Sontag, chapter 7, in Illness as Metaphor, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 55:
glosses: Experiencing an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of a place or community)
examples: text: The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) chronicles gay life through the liberated 1960s; if White lives long enough, he hopes to complete the series with novels about the frenzied bathhouse ’70s and the plague-ridden ’80s.
ref: 1990 April 30, Leonard Schulman, “Imagining Other Lives”, in Time, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2013:
text: 2011, Neil Howe and Richard Jackson, “Global Aging and the Crisis of the 2020’s,” investorsinsight.com, 12 January, 2011,
Russia will be in the midst of the steepest and most protracted population implosion of any major power since the plague-ridden Middle Ages.
glosses: During which there is an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of a time)
examples: text: There was a saintly minorite, one Fra Cristofero, who came to tend the plague-ridden, and who himself was miraculously preserved from the contagion.
ref: 1915, Rafael Sabatini, “The Perugian”, in The Banner of the Bull: Three Episodes in the Career of Cesare Borgia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, III, p. 125:
text: In the Middle Ages war parties sometimes dropped plague-ridden corpses into their enemies’ village wells.
ref: 1951 August 13, “Biological Warfare: It is a grim threat, but new microbe detectors offer hope”, in Life:
text: She picked up a letter from the table, handling it like a plague-ridden rag, and passed it to Hartley.
ref: 2001, John Waddington-Feather, chapter 7, in The Marcham Mystery, Shrewsbury: Feather Books, published 2006, page 50:
text: Left in peace […] Europe’s cats might have pounced upon the plague-ridden rodents, saving the lives of tens of millions of people.
ref: 2016 October 31, Abigail Tucker, “The spooky history of how cats bewitched us”, in Washington Post:
glosses: Infected with or suffering from bubonic plague or another epidemic illness. (of a person, animal, body or object)
Your Excellency
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: Your Excellencies
Senses: glosses: A title of respect used when addressing heads of state other than monarchs, heads of government, governors, ambassadors, certain ecclesiastics, royalty, and others holding equivalent rank.
Related terms: Her Britannic Majesty
His Britannic Majesty
Your Britannic Majesty
Their Britannic Majesties
Her Excellency
His Excellency
Their Excellencies
Her Highness
His Highness
Your Highness
Their Highnesses
Her Holiness
His Holiness
Your Holiness
Their Holinesses
Her Imperial Highness
His Imperial Highness
Your Imperial Highness
Their Imperial Highnesses
Her Imperial Majesty
His Imperial Majesty
Your Imperial Majesty
Their Imperial Majesties
Her Maj
His Maj
Your Maj
Her Majesty
His Majesty
Your Majesty
Their Majesties
Her Royal Highness
His Royal Highness
Your Royal Highness
Their Royal Highnesses
Her Royal Majesty
His Royal Majesty
Your Royal Majesty
Their Royal Majesties
Her Serene Highness
His Serene Highness
Your Serene Highness
Their Serene Highnesses
Ken doll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ken dolls
Etymology: The name of the male doll in the Barbie range.
Senses: examples: text: Tanned, fit, and ridiculously handsome. A Ken doll, dressed in ironed khakis and his usual affectation: a brown felt Indiana Jones fedora.
ref: 2013, Cherry Adair, Relentless:
text: Enter Cave Maverick. He was beyond head-smashingly beautiful. Naturally tanned, muscles, clean sharp jawline. You know, basically a Ken doll. The kind of untouchable hot guy at every high school without fail.
ref: 2014, Erika Kathryn, Blogs of a Cheater Eater:
glosses: A flawlessly handsome, but possibly shallow, young man.
Ken dolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ken doll
pinnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pinna + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to a pinna
meadow barleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meadow barley
AFMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AFM
SPMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SPM
Makhnoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Makhnoist
lumpenbourgeoisies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumpenbourgeoisie
central chimpanzee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: central chimpanzees
Senses: glosses: Pan troglodytes troglodytes, a subspecies of the common chimpanzee, found mainly in Gabon, Cameroon, and the Republic of the Congo.
Synonyms: tschego
central chimpanzees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of central chimpanzee
Amissa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Of Hebrew origin, meaning "friend" or "companion".
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
anthecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænθəˈkɑləd͡ʒi/
Etymology: From antho- + ecology.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The study of the relationships between flowers and pollinators
wikipedia: anthecology
Related terms: anthecological
Darlington County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Darlington in England.
Senses: glosses: One of 46 counties in South Carolina, United States. County seat: Darlington.
dayumn
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dayum.
Callahan County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after James Hughes Callahan, a soldier.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Baird.
requirability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From require + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being requirable.
Cloud County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after William F. Cloud.
Senses: glosses: One of 105 counties in Kansas, United States. County seat: Concordia.
wikipedia: William F. Cloud
dismembres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dismembre
maimeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: maim + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of maim
dismembereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dismember + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dismember
conjureth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: conjure + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conjure
postorgasmic illness syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A syndrome in which men have severe cognitive and physical symptoms (such as fatigue, muscular weakness, perspiration, and mood disturbances) immediately following ejaculation, and in the absence of a local genital reaction.
Synonyms: POIS
Masvingo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Former name: Fort Victoria (until 1982)
glosses: A town in Zimbabwe, and the capital of the province of the same name.
examples: Former name: Victoria Province (until 1982)
glosses: A province in southeastern Zimbabwe.
mixed reality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed realities
Senses: examples: text: Mixed reality, as an approach in human-computer interaction, is often implicitly tied to particular implementation techniques (e.g., see-through device) and modalities (e.g., visual, graphical displays).
ref: 2011, Xiangyu Wang, editor, Mixed Reality and Human-Robot Interaction, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 1:
text: And I suppose one should not forget “mixed reality” (MR), the term applied to Microsoft’s goggles (but which doesn’t seem that different from the others), or “spatial computing” (the term preferred by Apple during its presentation).
ref: 2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects coexist and interact.
Synonyms: hybrid reality
MR
Hypernyms: reality
Related terms: extended reality
spatial computing
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kick up dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks up dust
form: kicking up dust
form: kicked up dust
form: kicked up dust
Senses: examples: text: Schneider maintains that water-assisted sweeping equipment helps keep dust down, except in new construction areas where it seems to kick up dust, but he'll compensate by turning up the water.
ref: 2003, Stormwater: The Journal for Surface Water Quality Professionals:
text: The new lane was flat and smooth, allowing cars and trucks to go faster and kick up dust.
ref: 2007, Jim Sterba, Frankie's Place: A Love Story, →ISBN:
text: Anyway, they would step up to the firing line, carefully take aim, and kick up dust all around the target but seldom come close to the bull's eye.
ref: 2012, Jerry McKee Bullock, Life’s Like That: An Old Texan Looks at Life, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: To cause the air to become filled with dust from a surface.
examples: text: Shanghai Kelly has been kicking up dust about the war on the crimps and boardinghouse keepers.
ref: 1930, James Dalessandro, 1906 - a Novel:
text: He kicked up dust about how we really didn't have our facts straight regarding his allegedly loaded gloves.
ref: 2011, Gary Andrew Poole, PacMan, →ISBN:
text: She was certain she was about to kick up dust about her mother just as Setsuka had done about Mitsu's death eighteen years ago.
ref: 2011, Falling Rain, Ouroboros: Road of Legend, →ISBN, page 318:
text: On he went to the international accounts, where he vapored over the balance of payments accounts, kicked up dust about foreign investment in the United States and US investment abroad, and gasconaded over the US international debt position.
ref: 2015, Larry Moran, Laughing through Life, →ISBN:
info_templates: extra_data: words: about
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noncontroversial’
expansion: [with about or over ‘something trivial or noncontroversial’]
glosses: To make a fuss.
Sioux County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: All counties are named after the Sioux people.
Senses: glosses: One of 99 counties in Iowa, United States. County seat: Orange City.
glosses: One of 93 counties in Nebraska, United States. County seat: Harrison.
glosses: One of 53 counties in North Dakota, United States. County seat: Fort Yates.
sex-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sex-ridden
form: most sex-ridden
Etymology: From sex + ridden.
Senses: examples: text: When the Gem and Magnet were started it is probable that there was a deliberate intention to get away from the guilty sex-ridden atmosphere that pervaded so much of the earlier literature for boys.
ref: 1940, George Orwell, “Boys’ Weeklies”, in Inside the Whale, London: Victor Gollancz, page 96:
text: […] higher education has failed to keep the flame of true learning or guide today’s students, many of whom appear to Bloom to be sex-ridden moneygrubbers marching to the beat of rock music […]
ref: 1987 August 17, Ezra Bowen, “Are Student Heads Full of Emptiness?”, in Time, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2013:
text: In Philip Roth’s “Zuckerman Unbound,” Zuckerman, rocketed to fame and fortune by a book that looks a lot like “Portnoy’s Complaint,” is set upon by anyone and everyone in New York—on the bus, in a coffee shop, in front of a funeral parlor. They come to ogle him, or to complain about his scandalous, sex-ridden novel, or to tell him what to do with his money.
ref: 2014 June 2, Alexandra Schwartz, “The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Excessively concerned with or driven by sex.
Orange City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Volusia County, Florida, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Sioux County, Iowa, United States. Named after William of Orange.
blue fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue fires
Senses: glosses: Sensational romanticism.
glosses: A fire that burns a blue color.
bilirubinemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilirubinemia
LOAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LOA
Malwai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਮਲਵਈ (malvaī). Equivalent to Malwa + -i.
Senses: glosses: A Punjabi dialect spoken in the Malwa region of Punjab.
milses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of milse
bemercied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bemercy
bemercies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bemercy
bemercying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bemercy
Fort Yates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the fort, which was named after George Yates.
Senses: glosses: A small town, the county seat of Sioux County, North Dakota, United States.
wikipedia: George Yates
expendeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: expend + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expend
shutness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shut + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being shut.