cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
inburn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inburns
form: inburning
form: inburned
form: inburned
Etymology: From Middle English *inbernen, *inbrennen, from Old English *inbiernan, *inbærnan, suggested by Old English inbryne (“fire, burning”) and inbærnednes (“burning, incense”), equivalent to in- + burn. Compare Old English onbiernan (“to be burning”). Cognate with Dutch inbranden (“to burn”), German einbrennen (“to burn”).
Senses: examples: text: Nicias has written upon this picture that he 'inburned' it, [...]
ref: 1879, John Henry Parker, The Archaeology of Rome:
text: The habits of their fathers and their own early years have been so deeply inburned that they have not yet come to appreciate the value and convenience of modern toilets.
ref: 1902, American Institute of Homeopathy, American Institute of Homeopathy, Transactions of the fifty-seventh session of the American Institute:
glosses: To burn in; burn or affect as to make a permanent or lasting impression or mark.
examples: text: Of life complete — the outer rays / That show what fire of love inburns, [...]
ref: 1888, William James McClure, Poems: religious and miscellaneous:
glosses: To burn within.
Derived terms: inburning
Windows key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Windows keys
Etymology: First appeared on a Microsoft keyboard in 1994.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A key on a computer keyboard bearing the Microsoft Windows logo, used to open the Start menu and as a modifier key for various other functions.
Synonyms: start key
Winkey
Win
Window
Windows
Windows keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Windows key
faa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faas
Senses: glosses: The letter ف in the Arabic script.
plum trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plum tree
unshape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshapes
form: unshaping
form: unshaped
form: unshaped
form: unshapen
Etymology: From un- + shape.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of shape; throw out of form or into disorder.
glosses: To confound; derange.
Synonyms: word: unshapen
Related terms: unshapen
unshapen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unshapen
form: most unshapen
Etymology: Past participle of unshape.
Senses: glosses: Shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.
unshapen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Past participle of unshape.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unshape
unshapen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshapens
form: unshapening
form: unshapened
form: unshapened
Etymology: From un- + shapen.
Senses: examples: text: In determining this matter by instantaneous photography, the artist took the photograph of an omnibus wheel en route, and in this photograph, while the lower ends of the spokes immediately adjacent to the ground are not perceptibly unshapened by the motion, the tops of the upper spokes show an angular motion, corresponding to about ten degrees.
ref: 1887 December 17, “Use of Instantaneous Photography”, in The Indianapolis News, volume XIX, number 10 (whole 5,613), Indianapolis, Ind., page [4], column 6:
text: In the gap of twenty years between girl and woman, what devastating life forces might have been at work, wiping bloom from cheek, dulling gleam from eves, distorting lips, smiting haggard lines on face, hardening or unshapening sweet and beloved contours, hardening, too, the mind, drying up the heart, arresting the development of the soul?
ref: 1919 September, William J[ohn] Locke, “The House of Baltazar”, in Good Housekeeping, page 64, column 1:
text: His knife dripped with the white, just red-flecked life-blood of the stark-eyed beauty—the mullet must have turned four pounds—he’d slit open with a quick slice of his accustomed fingers—coarse, work-rough fingers, horned as well as torn by sixty years of endless labor, blunted, unshapened by coarse, relentless toil of coarse, relentless existence never shirked, never deplored; skillful, certain fingers—for in such butchery as this of his the hand of constant usage hath, as it happens, the surer sense.
ref: 1925, Louise Jordan Miln, “Weeping Willow”, in The Soul of China: Glimpsed in Tales of Today and Yesterday, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A. Stokes Company, page 100:
glosses: Synonym of unshape.
synonyms: word: unshape
unsightable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsightable
form: most unsightable
Etymology: From un- + sight + -able.
Senses: glosses: Invisible.
glue gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glue guns
Senses: glosses: Any gun-shaped device used to apply glue.
glosses: A hot glue gun
unright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unrights
Etymology: From Middle English unright, unriȝt, unriht, from Old English unriht (“wrong, sin, vice, wickedness, evil, injustice, oppression, a wrong act”), equivalent to un- (“absence of”) + right. Cognate with Scots unricht (“wrongdoing, injustice”), Dutch onrecht (“injustice, inequity, wrong”), German Unrecht (“injustice”), Swedish orätt (“injustice, wrong, sin”).
Senses: glosses: That which is not right; wrong; injustice.
unright
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrights
form: unrighting
form: unrighted
form: unrighted
Etymology: From Middle English unrighten, from unright (“unright”, adj.).
Senses: glosses: To make wrong.
unright
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unright
form: most unright
Etymology: From Middle English unright, unrighte, from Old English unrihte (“wrongly, crookedly, unjustly”), equivalent to un- + right.
Senses: glosses: Wrongly.
half blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half bloods
form: half-blood
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person who shares one parent with another; a half-sibling.
glosses: Someone whose parents are of different races; a half-breed.
half bloods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half blood
half-blood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half- + blood.
Senses: glosses: Related by sharing descent from one parent.
half-blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-bloods
Etymology: From half- + blood.
Senses: examples: text: It was just at sundown when we cast anchor in a most beautiful land-locked gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half-bloods selling fruits and vegetables and offering to dive for bits of money.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
glosses: Alternative form of half blood.
step-sibling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-siblings
Senses: examples: text: Northern Wintun (16a) utilizes a term, also applied to co-wife or co-husband, which signifies parallel cousin of like sex and step-sibling of like sex; the four usual sibling terms are also employed.
ref: 1922, Edward Winslow Gifford, Californian Kinship Terminologies, volume 18, page 191:
glosses: Alternative form of stepsibling.
step-siblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step-sibling
unrespect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + respect.
Senses: examples: text: Passionate with rains and sunshine, and, unheard, Have audience of your voices, but as one Who in a temple passes unrespect Between the kneeling suppliant and the saint, Meeting the uplifted face and the rapt eyes That look beyond?
ref: 1875, Sydney Dobell, Balder. Later Miscellaneous Poems. Sonnets and other Short Poems:
text: Didyou not but yesterday prostrate upon the ground the young man for that he speak with unrespect of your Vashintone?
ref: 1877, Clara Florida Guernsey, The Shawnee Prisoner:
text: Again the undocumented African is saying that he goes to start doing the opposite of before, about to be unrespect with the government people, and from now he only going to be abusing me, trying to rape me, staying inside of me.
ref: 2013, Beatriz Griffin, 2009 and USA - the Undocumented African:
text: [...] a gate on which they both leant, was temporarily latched with unrespect.
ref: 2014, Jillian Becker, The Keep:
glosses: A lack or absence of respect, reverence, or courteous behaviour; disrespect; disesteem.
unrepair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + repair.
Senses: glosses: An unsound state, as that of a building; dilapidation.
Related terms: disrepair
fundoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fundoshis
form: fundoshi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 褌 (fundoshi).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Japanese men's and women's undergarment made from a length of cotton.
M16
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M16s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of M-16.
upsend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upsends
form: upsending
form: upsent
form: upsent
Etymology: From Middle English upsenden, equivalent to up- + send. Cognate with Scots upsend (“to ascend”), Dutch opzenden (“to redirect, forward”), Low German upsenden (“to send up, deliver (mail)”), Swedish uppsända (“to offer up”).
Senses: examples: text: And now upsend afar a deaf'ning shout [...]
ref: 1808, John Fitchett, Alfred, a poem:
text: Hermes and Earth and Thou, Monarch of Hades, do ye now His spirit to the light upsend; [...]
ref: 1873, Aeschylus, The Dramas of Aeschylus:
text: Down and down, but the corky sea upsends me to the light again, and there under my hand is rock, a port in the storm, a little peaking black rock that no main mariner has struck before me, nor map ever charted, just a single black basalt rock, [...]
ref: 1981, Doris May Lessing, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell:
glosses: To send, cast, or throw up; deliver; submit.
examples: text: But when the sun of the fifth day had risen, The Keepers of the Faith, upon a pyre Built near the council-house, with solemn rites Burnt the White Dog, upsending with the smoke The message of their loyalty and thanks.
ref: 1919, Harry Lyman Koopman, Hesperia: an American national poem:
glosses: To ascend; climb up.
upsend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English upsenden, equivalent to up- + send. Cognate with Scots upsend (“to ascend”), Dutch opzenden (“to redirect, forward”), Low German upsenden (“to send up, deliver (mail)”), Swedish uppsända (“to offer up”).
Senses: examples: text: The Trans-Vista 2000 offers Mosler options like upsend capability, automatic carrier return and fast, accurate customer identification.
ref: 1982, American Bankers Association, ABA banking journal:
text: For example, with a variety of upsend and downsend customer units, and upsend and downsend teller units, we can mix-and-match standard components to create the custom configuration designed to best meet your unique operational […]
ref: 2008, Independent banker, Independent Bankers Association of America:
coordinate_terms: downsend
glosses: The ability to send up, or transmit.
upseek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upseeks
form: upseeking
form: upsought
form: upsought
Etymology: From up- + seek. Cognate with Dutch opzoeken (“to visit, search, seek out”), German aufsuchen (“to visit, go to, see”).
Senses: glosses: To seek or strain upward.
FN-FAL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FN-FALs
form: FN FAL
Etymology: Initialism of Fabrique Nationale - Fusil Automatique Léger
Senses: glosses: The NATO standard assault rifle.
Synonyms: word: FAL
word: FN
english: nickname
translation: nickname
word: The Right Arm of the Free World
Related terms: english: the primary competitor of the FN-FAL within NATO
translation: the primary competitor of the FN-FAL within NATO
word: M-16
english: the primary competitor of the FN-FAL in the Communist bloc
translation: the primary competitor of the FN-FAL in the Communist bloc
word: AK-47
FN FAL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FN FALs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of FN-FAL.
FAL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FALs
Etymology: Initialism of Fusil Automatique Léger.
Senses: glosses: FN-FAL (the NATO standard rifle)
Synonyms: FN-FAL
FN
footbinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footbindings
form: foot binding
form: foot-binding
Etymology: From foot + binding.
Senses: examples: text: More recent studies have shown that foot-binding was likely practiced not purely for the sake of marriage, but also to keep girls at home and engaged in handicrafts, such as spinning cotton, in order to contribute to their family’s income.
ref: 2020 February 14, Antonia Malchik, “The Neglected Consequences of Foot-Binding”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age.
glosses: The material used to bind feet for this reason.
Related terms: lotus foot
cocite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cocites
form: cociting
form: cocited
form: cocited
Etymology: From co- + cite.
Senses: glosses: To cite along with another
Fn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fn (“function”).
a good deed is its own reward
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: One should not expect a reward for good deeds, but should perform them merely for the satisfaction of doing so.
creative energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creative energies
Senses: glosses: creativity
insalivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insalivates
form: insalivating
form: insalivated
form: insalivated
Senses: examples: text: The results of insalivating milk are very suggestive that saliva has a bactericidal or anti-putrefactive function.
ref: 1913, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, volume 6, page 281:
glosses: To mix with saliva, as when eating.
Related terms: insalivation
bromelain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromelains
Etymology: From translingual Bromelia + -in with simplification.
Senses: examples: text: I let her in and left her sitting on the sofa while I microwaved some Chinese rice and poured pineapple juice into a glass. It was her comfort meal – grease and bromelain. She had often lectured me on pineapple’s anti-inflammatory properties, how it helped prevent cataracts and heart disease.
ref: 2019, Julia Armfield, “Cassandra After”, in Salt Slow, Picador, page 148:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two proteolytic enzymes, found in pineapples, that are used as meat tenderizers.
duopsony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duopsonies
form: dyopsony
Etymology: By analogy with monopsony based on Ancient Greek δύο (dúo, “two”) + ὀψωνία (opsōnía, “purchase”).
Senses: examples: text: In this paper we will utilise a simple Hotelling-style duopsony model of the labour market to analyse the link between gender differences in mobility patterns, the gender pay gap, and Robinsonian discrimination.
ref: 2009 October 1, Boris Hirsch, “THE GENDER PAY GAP UNDER DUOPSONY: JOAN ROBINSON MEETS HAROLD HOTELLING”, in Scottish Journal of Political Economy, volume 56, number 5, →DOI, pages 543-558:
glosses: An economic condition in which two buyers exert control over the market price of a commodity.
Derived terms: duopsonist
duopsonistic
duopsonistically
bunches of fives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunch of fives
uprun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upruns
form: uprunning
form: upran
form: uprun
Etymology: From up- + run.
Senses: glosses: To run up; ascend.
uprouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uprouses
form: uprousing
form: uproused
form: uproused
Etymology: From up- + rouse.
Senses: glosses: To rouse up; rouse from sleep; awake; arouse.
uprootal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uprootals
Etymology: From uproot + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Surely even the most uncompromising of those marching under the banner of civilisation must hesitate before they condemn this deep-rooted system to instant uprootal.
ref: 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, page 268:
glosses: The act or process of uprooting; the state of being uprooted.
Related terms: uproot
uproll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uprolls
form: uprolling
form: uprolled
form: uprolled
Etymology: From up- + roll. Compare Dutch oprollen (“to roll up”), German aufrollen (“to roll up”).
Senses: glosses: To roll up.
uprist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uprists
Etymology: From Middle English uprist, opriste, from Old English *ūprist (“uprising”), from *upp (“up”) + *ristiz (“ascension, rise”); equivalent to up- + rist (“a rising”). Compare Old English ǣrist (“rising, rising up, resurrection, awakening”), Old High German urrist (“resurrection”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (urrists, “resurrection”).
Senses: glosses: Uprising.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Resurrection.
Related terms: uprise
suplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suplex
kidney vetch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidney vetches
Senses: glosses: A medicinal plant, of species Anthyllis vulneraria, in the pea family.
Synonyms: word: woundwort
raw_tags: used for not closely related flowers in the mint family
robinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robinias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: The remarkable feature of the woody planting at Buttes-Chaumont is the ‘profuse use’ of silver-leafed cedars, yellow-leafed robinias and copper-leafed beech trees.
ref: 2001, Alan Tate, “Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris”, in Great City Parks, London; New York, N.Y.: Spon Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 54, columns 1–2:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the genus Robinia.
quick on the draw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quicker on the draw
form: quickest on the draw
Senses: examples: text: Wal, if a man can stand the loneliness, an' if he's quick on the draw, mebbe lone-wolfin' it is the best.
ref: 1915, Zane Grey, The Lone Star Ranger:
text: Quick on the draw with a slogan, Mr. Mandelson said he would create a project deserving cheers, not jeers, and promptly changed the sinister-sounding name of the publicly owned managing company, Millennium Central.
ref: 1997 July 28, Warren Hoge, “Where Time Begins, a Millennium Pleasure Dome”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2011:
text: Some advisers and financial institutions are a little too quick on the draw with Individual Retirement Account rollovers.
ref: 2007 January 24, Ed Slott, “Five Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make”, in forbes.com, retrieved 29 May 2011:
glosses: Characterized by rapid response, as to a verbal remark or to a new situation; quick to act.
Synonyms: quick-witted
Related terms: quick on the uptake
rache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rach.
raches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rach
bromelains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromelain
leptins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptin
loose lip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loose lips
Senses: examples: text: Loose lips might sink ships.
ref: c. 1940, Slogan used by US government during World War II
text: In the classic dramas of private investigation, the cheeky quip is the tough guy's challenge to toughness. In Fletch the quick, smartly paced gags somehow read as signs of vulnerability. . . . Every minute you expect the hero's loose lip to be turned into a fat one.
ref: 1985 June 3, Richard Schickel, “Cinema: Gliberated in Dreamland Fletch”, in Time:
text: Poor fellow, he had "cemented my reputation forever as a guy who tells too much truth." . . . But his loose lip has ultimately worked out for him.
ref: 1996 August 25, Donald E. Westlake, “Tough Guys Don't Shut Up”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2011:
qualifier: often pluralized
glosses: The practice or characteristic of being overly talkative, especially with respect to inadvertently revealing information which is private or confidential.
Synonyms: big mouth
loquaciousness
Derived terms: loose-lipped
loose lips sink ships
Related terms: silence is golden
talk out of turn
integraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ˈɪn.təˌɡɹæf/
Forms: form: integraphs
Etymology: Blend of integral + graph
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A device that determines the value of an integral by measuring the area under a curve (and drawing the curve of its integral)
put lipstick on a pig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts lipstick on a pig
form: putting lipstick on a pig
form: put lipstick on a pig
form: put lipstick on a pig
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: polish a turd, sugarcoat the pill
text: That new box is like putting lipstick on a pig. It's still the same buggy program inside.
text: Fran Healy, Mets announcer and former Giants catcher (about the possibility of putting a dome on Candlestick): "It would be like putting lipstick on a pig."
ref: 1987, Warner Fusselle, Baseball...a Laughing Matter!, page 183:
glosses: To superficially alter something in the hope of making it seem more appealing than it is in actuality.
Related terms: mutton dressed as lamb
old wine in a new bottle
you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear
you can't polish a turd
cast pearls before swine
chesterfield rugby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chesterfield, a generic term for "sofa" in Canadian English, and rugby, a contact sport, alluding to the physical nature of sex.
Senses: examples: text: As to necking and petting, as a kind of part time recreation, frankly, it's a failure. You'll do better to dance together or play tennis than to use up all that ebulience in what we used to call chesterfield rugby.
ref: 1973 August 25, Doris Clark, “Successful Living”, in The Leader-Post:
text: "There are so many adults with fitness problems today because, other than a little chesterfield rugby, they never exercise," said Allan Little, Edmonton YMCA supervisor.
ref: 1975 November 13, “Lazy Muscles: Fitness Scares Them”, in The Montreal Gazette:
glosses: Sexual activity.
lese majeste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lese majesty.
knock boots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks boots
form: knocking boots
form: knocked boots
form: knocked boots
Etymology: Perhaps from the notion that boots placed beneath one's bed knock one another due to the shaking of the bed during sex.
Senses: examples: text: You ain't knocking boots/ You ain't treating me like no prostitute
ref: 1986, “Tramp”, in Hot, Cool & Vicious, performed by Salt-n-Pepa:
text: Of course they fall madly and deeply in love, as Biker Dude learns to respect a girl who won't knock boots on the first date.
ref: 1994, Marshall Crenshaw, Hollywood Rock, HarperPerennial, published 1994, →ISBN, page 250:
text: After we done, bill a spliff and cotch / Pour me a glass of the Henny on the rocks / And get ready for round two / Cause any time we knock boots you know we knock twice
ref: 2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega, “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know:
glosses: To have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually.
Synonyms: do it
get some
hook up
Netflix and chill
bump nasties
slap bellies
copulate
bump nasties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bumps nasties
form: bumping nasties
form: bumped nasties
form: bumped nasties
Senses: examples: text: I told her it better not be those losers Felipe or Marco or even Chupo, because he had kind of a temper when he got drunk, but that she had my blessing to go and bump nasties with Pedro anytime she liked […]
ref: 1999, Yxta Maya Murray, What It Takes to Get to Vegas, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: Synonym of bump uglies.
synonyms: word: bump uglies
samlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsamlət/
Forms: form: samlets
Etymology: Either a contraction of salmon + -let or a modification of earlier salmonet either on that basis or with dissimilation of /mn/ (as in chimley, a common dialectal form of chimney).
Senses: examples: text: Demon popped into his mouth a last morsel of black bread with elastic samlet, gulped down a last pony of vodka and took his place at the table with Marina facing him across its oblong length.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 193:
glosses: A young salmon.
samlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samlet
gemel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛməl/
rhymes: -ɛməl
Forms: form: gemels
form: gemmel
Etymology: From Middle English gemow, from Old French gemel, from Latin gemellus, diminutive of geminus (“twin”). The modern form is influenced by the Latin etymon.
Senses: examples: text: half a million which Demon considered henceforth as a loan his cousin should certainly refund him if sanity counted for something on this gemel planet.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 197:
glosses: A twin (also attributively).
examples: text: two gemells silver between two griffins passant
ref: 1698, John Strype, Life of the learned Sir Thomas Smith:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: One of a pair of small bars placed together.
glosses: A finger ring which splits into two horizontally.
glosses: A pair of trees that fuse together, or are contained in the same trunk.
gemel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛməl/
rhymes: -ɛməl
Forms: form: gemmel
Etymology: From Middle English gemow, from Old French gemel, from Latin gemellus, diminutive of geminus (“twin”). The modern form is influenced by the Latin etymon.
Senses: examples: text: A bar gemel / Two bars gemels, or two barrulets placed near and parallel to each other.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Coupled; paired.
Related terms: jumelle
gemels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gemel
lunel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːˈnɛl/
Etymology: From Lunel, a town in southern France.
Senses: examples: text: Van looked through his raised lunel at the honeyed sun.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 209:
glosses: A type of sweet muscat wine.
lunel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːˈnɛl/
Forms: form: lunels
Etymology: From French lunel, a heraldic term based on lune (“moon”). Compare Spanish lunel, Italian lunello.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A charge formed by four crescents in cross with their horns pointing inwards.
proofs by contradiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proof by contradiction
uphelm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛlm
Forms: form: uphelms
form: uphelming
form: uphelmed
form: uphelmed
Etymology: From up- + helm.
Senses: glosses: To put the helm to windward.
roboroach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roboroaches
Etymology: From robo- + roach.
Senses: glosses: A cockroach that is part organic and part machine; a cyborg cockroach.
roboroaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roboroach
turrible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turrible
form: most turrible
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of terrible.
turrible
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more turrible
form: most turrible
Senses: examples: text: "It's turrible purty," observed Jim; and so it was.
ref: 1885, Fred C. Green, A-go-gé-bic:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of terrible.
interfoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + Latin folium (“leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: Another interesting feature in the species before us is the presence of interfoliate scars similar to those of other species of Sigillaria, especially the Tessellata and Facularia groups.
ref: 1899, David White, Fossil Flora of the Lower Coal Measures of Missouri, page 235:
text: The layers are separated by gaps, the interfoliate spaces. The ensemble consituted by a layer and an interfoliate space constitutes the structural unit of clay.
ref: 2004, Pierre Davet, Microbial Ecology of Soil and Plant Growth, page 6:
text: The primary fissure (arrow) and other interfoliate fissures are closed. Mild vermian volume loss and progressive chiasmatic atrophy (open arrow) are seen (B) on follow-up. The interfoliate fissures of the anterior vermian lobule, above the primary fissure (arrow), are open, whereas those below are closed.
ref: 2016, Thierry A. G. M. Huisman, Andrea Poretti, The Pediatric Cerebellum, page 380:
glosses: Between leaves or leaf-like structures.
interfoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interfoliates
form: interfoliating
form: interfoliated
form: interfoliated
Etymology: From inter- + Latin folium (“leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: August 7 1696, John Evelyn, letter to Mr. Place
I will take care to send you with my interfoliated copy
text: interfoliating her narratives with descriptions of her troubles with her dress, chafed feet, sweating,
ref: 2016, André Jansson, Amanda Lagerkvist, Strange Spaces:
glosses: To interleave.
ritsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 律 (ritsu).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: ryo
glosses: An anhemitonic pentatonic scale used in a Japanese Buddhist chant, and built up by intervals of major second, minor third, major second, major second, minor third.
Buridan's Ass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Buridan is best-known to philosophers for the example of "Buridan's Ass," starving to death between two equidistant and equally tempting bales of hay, [...]
ref: 1985, Jean Buridan, Peter King, Jean Buridan's Logic, Springer, →ISBN, page 3:
text: They remain like Buridan's Ass, in a kind of frozen indecisiveness, between total freedom and total regulation.
ref: 2003 August 31, Tony Dermody <tdermody@iol.NODAMNJUNK.ie>, “Re: A Few Questions”, in alt.atheism.moderated (Usenet), message-ID <2lpcvpdh3zwc$.1mk81eq1qmfo3$.dlg@40tude.net>:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Buridan's ass (“the hypothetical donkey who is the subject of a philosophical paradox concerning choices of equal value”).
runestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹunˌstoʊn/
Forms: form: runestones
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From rune + stone.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: An ancient monument consisting of a typically raised stone with a runic inscription.
head_nr: 1
glosses: A small tile-shaped stone or tablet with a single rune inscribed on it, used for divinatory and esoteric purposes.
runestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runestone
antispatter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + spatter.
Senses: examples: text: Some cleaners also will spray or dip the nozzle into antispatter material to reduce the frequency of cleaning required.
ref: 2005, Howard B. Cary, Scott C. Helzer, Modern welding technology:
glosses: Preventing spattering.
dacryostenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dacryo- + stenosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Obstruction of the nasolacrimal duct.
hetsex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛtsɛks/
Etymology: Clipping of heterosexual.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly in the Fleet, with its emphasis on tolerance and so on, with its prohibition of any kind of xenophobe, I like to think that same-sex pairings, as long as they didn't violate, say, the officer/enlisted rule, or the rule against harrassment^([sic])/stalking, would be tolerated as much as het-sex pairings.
ref: 1997 December 16, ASCEM, quoting Greywolf the Wanderer, “An Interesting Question, re Slash vs. Gay Fiction”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: Heterosexual.
hetsex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛtsɛks/
Etymology: Clipping of heterosexual.
Senses: examples: text: Specifically, when you tell a gay man he just hasn't met the right woman, and should try hetsex to see what it's like, or when you imply that it's inferior not to like both sexes, you're starting from an assumption that everybody likes hetsex since it's such a wonderful thing, etc., etc.
ref: 1998, schnopia, “Biguy”, in soc.bi (Usenet):
text: The problem with an overly broad definition of rape is that it creates a slippery slope. If you can really convince a young man that any act of hetsex is rape, you blur the line and increase the probability that he will consider the question of consent irrelevant.
ref: 2004, Vulgar Argot, “{ASSD} Re: "Short skirts invite rape, say principals"”, in alt.sex.stories.d (Usenet):
glosses: Heterosexual sexual intercourse.
windblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windblasts
Etymology: From wind + blast.
Senses: synonyms: airblast#Noun
hypernyms: blast#Noun
glosses: A sudden rush of air or gas; often, such a blast due to the collapse of a void, especially in mining.
windblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windblast
romset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romsets
Etymology: From ROM + set.
Senses: examples: text: I am looking for a rom dump of a Swedish or Finnish C64. They seem to have an alternate romset than the ones used elsewhere (probably because of the characters used in those countries).
ref: 2000, Ben Castricum, “Searching for a Swedish/Finnish C64 romset”, in comp.sys.cbm (Usenet):
text: You are right re the romsets, MAME uses different sets for a lot of games, you can't intermix Neorage and MAME sets.
ref: 2001, Paul Irvine, “NeoGeo”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):
topics: video-games
hyponyms: fullset
goodset
glosses: A group of related ROM images required to emulate a particular game.
romsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of romset
aguinaldo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɑːɡɪˈnɑːldoʊ/
Forms: form: aguinaldos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish aguinaldo.
Senses: glosses: A gift given at Christmas or at the Feast of the Epiphany.
glosses: A gift given on any other holiday or occasion.
glosses: Christmas pay bonus; Christmas box.
glosses: A Christmas carol.
examples: text: And he bracketed the concert with joyfully Latin pop: opening the show with towering drums onstage and kinetic Afro-Caribbean rhythms and beginning the final song, “Tu Recuerdo” (“Your Memory”), as a Puerto Rican aguinaldo, gently plucked on the rural miniguitar called a cuatro.
ref: 2007 October 16, Jon Pareles, “Planting a Love Seed at the Garden”, in New York Times:
glosses: A song performed in this style.
glosses: A wild tropical plant of the Convolvulaceae family, very common in Cuba and which flowers at Easter and Christmas.
aguinaldos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aguinaldo
brookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brookies
Etymology: From brook + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The brookie Bill dismissed as “another small one” was 16 inches long, thick and weighed about two pounds.
ref: 2007 October 16, Adam Clymer, “The Size of the Brook Trout Is in the Eye of the Fishing-Rod Holder”, in New York Times:
glosses: A brook trout.
brookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brookies
Etymology: Blend of brownie + cookie.
Senses: examples: text: We now have crookies, brookies, duffins, and cruffins, all mash-ups of familiar treats (cookies, tarts, brownies, doughnuts, croissants and muffins respectively).
ref: 2016, Alysa Levene, Cake: A Slice of History, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:
text: They were not only combining doughnuts and muffins, but just about any other kind of food you could think of. There were piecakens (a pie baked inside a cake), brookies (brownie and cookie) and cherpumples (cherry, pumpkin and apple pie).
ref: 2016 October 27, Tracy Beckerman, “Pass me a cronut or maybe a duffin!”, in The Gazette, page 10:
text: When you can’t decide between a cookie and a brownie, why not make both—in the same pan—for what we fondly refer to as the “brookie.”
ref: 2019, Martha Stewart’s Cookie Perfection, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: A dessert with one layer being a cookie and the other being a brownie.
brookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brookies
Etymology: From Afrikaans broekie, diminutive of broek (“pants”), from Dutch broek (“pants”). Cognate with Dutch broekje (“shorts”). Doublet of breeches and britches.
Senses: examples: text: And the few skirts which are past remaking are carefully cut down into small brookies for the young hopeful, who will get the last ounce of wear out of them.
ref: 1920, The Homestead - Issues 228-243, page 19:
text: […] you cannot do a poopy in your brookie, […]
ref: 1973, Elseviers Magazine - Volume 29, Issues 35-43, page 137:
text: I notice, too, that the child is wearing red brookies [shorts].
ref: 2023, Martin Brunt, No One Got Cracked Over the Head for No Reason:
glosses: Short pants; shorts.
brookies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brookie
squaretail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squaretails
Etymology: From square + tail.
Senses: glosses: A perciform fish of the genus Tetragonurus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans.
glosses: The brook trout, a fish of the species Salvelinus fontinalis, found in North America.
Synonyms: tetragonurid
squaretails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squaretail
hutongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hutungs
Senses: glosses: plural of hutong
midstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + storm.
Senses: glosses: During a storm.
midstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + storm.
Senses: glosses: During a storm.
midstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + storm.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes we had to stop in midstream and midstorm because the sheets of rain made the passages between rocks invisible.
ref: 2007 October 16, Adam Clymer, “The Size of the Brook Trout Is in the Eye of the Fishing-Rod Holder”, in New York Times:
text: These gusts are responsible for the many recorded incidents of wind-measuring devices disappearing from weather bureau roofs in midstorm.
ref: 1983, Orrin H. Pilkey, Coastal design: a guide for builders, planners, and home owners:
glosses: A point in time during a storm.
Orrin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Orin
Senses: examples: text: During the press conference, Orrin Hatch and the others spoke very graciously about our extraordinary efforts in getting this bill passed […]
ref: 2008, Diana DeGette, Daniel Paisner, Sex, science, and stem cells: inside the right wing assault on reason, page 110:
text: On June 3, 1931, she married Orrin Frink, Jr., who had joined the mathematics faculty at Penn State in 1928 as an assistant professor.
ref: 2009, Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke, Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's:
glosses: A male given name from Irish of obscure origin, possibly a variant of Oren or Oran.
outgrossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outgross
outgrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outgross
outgrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outgross
squeeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squee
squeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squee
spaceling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spacelings
Etymology: From space + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to the latest graphics technology, almost all of those spacelings will be ready for their close-ups.
ref: 2007 October 16, Seth Schiesel, “Elves Are Out, Aliens In”, in New York Times:
glosses: A creature from outer space.
Related terms: Earthling
spacelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spaceling
unmatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmat
unmatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmatted
form: most unmatted
Etymology: From un- + matted.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of spending hours untangling hair, they could bond with friendly conversation (“Your hair looks so unmatted today!”) or by picking apart someone else’s behavior (“Yeah, he was supposed to share the wildebeest, but I heard he kept both haunches”).
ref: 2007 October 16, John Tierney, “Facts Prove No Match for Gossip, It Seems”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not matted.
cedary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cedary
form: most cedary
Etymology: From cedar + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the 25 the wine panel tasted also exhibited vegetal, cedary, herbaceous, roasted and crushed-fruit flavors.
ref: 2007 October 17, Florence Fabricant, “A Full-Flavored Companion Suits a Grape Feared Lost”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of cedar.
Cyprus cedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cyprus cedars
Senses: glosses: Cedrus brevifolia, a conifer native to central Cyprus.
cypselae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cypsela
cypselas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cypsela
synantherologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synantherologists
Etymology: From synantherology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies or practises synantherology.
synantherologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synantherologist
kashkaval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish قاشقوال (kaşkaval), from Sicilian cascavaḍḍu. Doublet of caciocavallo.
Senses: examples: text: Serve plain, or with a tangy cheese such as kashkaval, kasseri or Manchego.
ref: 2007 October 17, “Recipe: Nonno’s Olives”, in New York Times:
glosses: A group of various traditional yellow cheeses from Turkey and the Balkans.
Related terms: caciocavallo
oversauce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversauces
form: oversaucing
form: oversauced
form: oversauced
Etymology: From over- + sauce.
Senses: examples: text: I am not suggesting that we return to oversauced baked ziti with sausages, mozzarella-laden lasagna or spaghetti under three handball-size meatballs.
ref: 2007 October 17, Mark Bittman, “Serving Pasta? Forget What You Learned”, in New York Times:
glosses: To cover (food) with too much sauce.
oversauces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversauce
oversaucing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversauce
oversauced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversauce
datacaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datacasters
Senses: examples: text: However, a datacaster can transmit a category A or B program, provided it is no longer than ten minutes in duration and is not combined with another category A or B program, respectively, which would constitute a program longer than ten minutes.
ref: 2007, Andrew T. Kenyon, TV futures: digital television policy in Australia, page 340:
glosses: A broadcaster of datacasts.
datacasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of datacaster
oversaturations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oversaturation
advancedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From advanced + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being advanced.
pictorialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pictorialists
Etymology: From pictorial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An artist working in the style of pictorialism.
glosses: One who subscribes to the theory of pictorialism regarding mental imagery.
pictorialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pictorialist
form: most pictorialist
Etymology: From pictorial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Steichen’s pictorialist period ended in 1917, when he joined the United States Army and created an aerial photography unit in northern France to gather intelligence about artillery positions and troop movements behind enemy lines.
ref: 2007 October 17, Alan Riding, “Steichen Reconsidered in All His Exposures”, in New York Times:
glosses: In the style of pictorialism.
Related terms: pictorialistic
pictorialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pictorialist
sawdusty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sawdusty
form: most sawdusty
Etymology: From sawdust + -y.
Senses: examples: text: SWEE PHUAH, the contractor for the new Momofuku Noodle Bar in the East Village that David Chang expects to open next week, pointed at the speakers in what was still a sawdusty construction site a few weeks ago.
ref: 2007 October 17, Oliver Schwaner-Albright, “On Time, on Budget: This Is New York?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling, or covered in, sawdust.
semiconfessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + confessional.
Senses: examples: text: These semiconfessional jags are riveting theater because they come with a built-in mystery.
ref: 2007 October 17, Alessandra Stanley, “Humiliation, if Not Candor, From Senator on the Defensive”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat confessional.
tilefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tilefish
undersalt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undersalts
form: undersalting
form: undersalted
form: undersalted
Etymology: From under- + salt.
Senses: examples: text: We also learned we overcooked it, undersalted the water and often used the wrong shape.
ref: 2007 October 17, Mark Bittman, “Serving Pasta? Forget What You Learned”, in New York Times:
glosses: To season (food) with too little salt.
undersalted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undersalt
undersalting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undersalt
unbarbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + barbed.
Senses: examples: text: But now there is tuna from small, family-run companies that ply the Pacific, mostly off northern California, Oregon and Washington, and catch the fish using rods with unbarbed hooks, not vast nets, so there is no unwanted “by-catch.”
ref: 2007 October 17, Florence Fabricant, “Food Stuff”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not barbed.
unbarbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbarb
bloodedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blooded + -ness.
Senses: examples: warm-bloodedness; full-bloodedness
glosses: The quality of having blood of a particular kind.
Derived terms: cold-bloodedness
red-bloodedness
same-bloodedness
warm-bloodedness
earnout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earnouts
Etymology: From earn + out.
Senses: examples: text: The earnout was definitely getting in the way of running Skype the way we wanted to run it.
ref: 2007 October 18, Brad Stone, “EBay Reports 3rd-Quarter Growth, With Some Blemishes”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A formula by which the management of a company earns a share of the company's share capital by achieving results above pre-determined levels.
earnouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earnout