cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
opinionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɪnjəneɪt/
Forms: form: opinionates
form: opinionating
form: opinionated
form: opinionated
Etymology: From opinion + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French opinionner.
Senses: examples: text: notwithstanding being (as he saith) counselled by a friend of his, at that instant, to kill himselfe, it fell out well for him to opinionate himselfe [translating s'opiniatrer] yet in hope[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: He doesn't editorialize and he doesn't try to opinionate. It is just the facts.
ref: 2002 April 15, Mike Thomas, Chicago Sun-Times:
glosses: To have or express as an opinion; to opine.
glosses: To have a given opinion.
Related terms: opinionize
opinionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɪnjəneɪt/
Forms: form: more opinionate
form: most opinionate
Etymology: From opinion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix, with perfect meaning).
Senses: examples: text: May humility henceforth conduct me; for conceit of knowledge, through an opinionate arrogance, hath made me many times glory in my own ignorance.
ref: 1815, Richard Brathwaite, Essays Upon the Five Senses: Revived by A New Supplement:
glosses: Opinionated.
Derived terms: opinionately
opinionates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of opinionate
opinionating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of opinionate
uvala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uvalas
Senses: examples: text: Uvalas are a particular type of karst closed depression. While other types of closed depression—dolines and poljes—are regularly listed and relatively well-defined in overviews of karst surface morphology, uvalas are either excluded or their vague identification is stressed
ref: 2011 November, Jelena Ćalić, “Karstic uvala revisited: Toward a redefinition of the term”, in Geomorphology, volume 134, numbers 1–2, Elsevier BV, →DOI, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2023, pages 32–42:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A closed karst depression, a landform usually of elongated or compound structure and of larger size than a sinkhole.
caliver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkalɪvə/
Forms: form: calivers
Etymology: Variant of calibre.
Senses: examples: text: 0, giue me the ſpare men, and ſpare me the great ones. Put me a Calyuer into VVarts hand, Bardolph.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 88, column 1:
text: That done, running out into the streets, with a crosse-bow in one hand, and a caliver [translating harquebouze] in the other, at two shoots, slew the two first Turks that came next to his gates[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A type of light musket.
calivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caliver
crematorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cremation or a crematory.
pillar of the community
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillars of the community
Senses: glosses: A prominent member or supporter of a particular community.
overhold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overholds
form: overholding
form: overheld
form: overheld
form: overholden
Etymology: From Middle English overholden, from Old English oferhealdan (“to overcome, overtake, hold over, delay to do, neglect”), from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”) + *haldaną (“to hold”), equivalent to over- + hold. Cognate with Dutch overhouden (“to hang on, hold over, save”), German überhalten (“to hold on to, keep”), Danish overholde (“to observe”).
Senses: examples: text: if he overhold his price so much
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: That is your opinion: you state here that you were induced to overhold the land […]
ref: 1854, REPORTS FROM SELECT COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND EVIDENCE:
glosses: To overvalue; overestimate; hold or estimate at too dear a rate.
glosses: To hold over; keep.
Derived terms: overholding
overhold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overholds
Etymology: From Middle English overholden, from Old English oferhealdan (“to overcome, overtake, hold over, delay to do, neglect”), from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”) + *haldaną (“to hold”), equivalent to over- + hold. Cognate with Dutch overhouden (“to hang on, hold over, save”), German überhalten (“to hold on to, keep”), Danish overholde (“to observe”).
Senses: examples: text: Overholding clauses serve the purpose of contractually regulating the terms and conditions of an overhold.
ref: 2002, Walter H. Posner, The Leasing Process: A Guide for the Commercial Tenant:
glosses: The act or process of holding over.
acatalepsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acatalepsy.
plantar fasciitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plantar fascia + -itis.
Senses: glosses: A painful inflammation of the plantar fascia.
plantar fascia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The thick connective tissue which supports the arch of the foot.
Derived terms: plantar fasciitis
overhip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overhips
form: overhipping
form: overhipped
form: overhipped
Etymology: From Middle English overhippen, equivalent to over- + hip (“to hop”).
Senses: glosses: To leap over; skip over; omit.
Related terms: hip
hop
overheave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overheaves
form: overheaving
form: overhove
form: overheaved
form: overhoven
form: overheaved
Etymology: From Middle English overhebben, from Old English oferhebban (“to pass by, pass over, omit, neglect”), from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”) + *habjaną (“to lift, heave”), equivalent to over- + heave.
Senses: glosses: To overcast.
overgild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overgilds
form: overgilding
form: overgilded
form: overgilded
form: overgilt
form: overgilt
Etymology: From Middle English overgilden, from Old English ofergyldan (“to encase, overlay, or adorn with gold”), from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”) + *gulþijaną (“to deck with gold”), equivalent to over- + gild. Cognate with German übergülden, übergolden (“to overgild”).
Senses: glosses: To cover with gilding.
Vasconic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Vascon + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A language family spoken in the northern Pyrenees.
Hamito-Semitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Chamito-Semitic
form: Semito-Hamitic
Etymology: From Hamite + -o- + Semitic or Hamito- + Semitic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Afroasiatic.
Hamito-Semitic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chamito-Semitic
form: Semito-Hamitic
Etymology: From Hamite + -o- + Semitic or Hamito- + Semitic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Afroasiatic.
thugz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thug
offensive backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offensive back
perpetual beta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: A marketing strategy in which a maker of computer software or hardware repeatedly launches early versions of new products as a product development feedback method.
asteroseismologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asteroseismologists
Etymology: From asteroseismology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies asteroseismology.
epithelial dysplasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epithelial dysplasias
Senses: glosses: the sum of various disturbances of epithelial proliferation and differentiation as seen microscopically
epithelial plug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epithelial plugs
Senses: glosses: a bed of cells that form the normal corneal epithelium.
happy birthdays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of happy birthday
happy birthdaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of happy birthday
happy birthdayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of happy birthday
Perses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Titan in Greek mythology, son of Crius and Eurybia.
planned obsolescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Bernard London in 1932 and popularized in the 1960 book The Waste Makers by Vance Packard.
Senses: examples: text: An equally important advantage of a system of planned obsolescence would be its function in providing a new reservoir from which to draw income for the operation of the Government.
ref: 1932, Bernard London, “Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence”, in The New Prosperity, published 1933, →OCLC:
text: And Brooks Stevens, a leading industrial designer, explained obsolescence planning in these terms: “Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and everybody who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. We make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then next year we deliberately introduce something that will make those products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.[…]”
ref: 1960, Vance Packard, quoting Brooks Stevens, The Waste Makers, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 46:
text: To the general public planned obsolescence first came to notoriety through the highly popular writings of Vance Packard (1963), who slammed Stevens in his bestselling book The Waste Makers.
ref: 2010, Tim Cooper, Longer Lasting Products, Gower Publishing, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A policy of deliberately planning or designing a product with a limited useful life, so it will become obsolete or nonfunctional after a certain period.
wikipedia: The Waste Makers
Vance Packard
Synonyms: built-in obsolescence
programmed obsolescence
molotov cocktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molotov cocktails
Senses: examples: text: FBI Director Kash Patel’s home is also listed on the map, which uses a molotov cocktail as its cursor. […] On Tuesday, a masked man used molotov cocktails to firebomb a Tesla dealership in Las Vegas before firing rounds into the burning vehicles.
ref: 2025 March 19, Tom Sanders, “Anti-Musk Hackers Share Names and Addresses of Tesla Owners”, in The Daily Beast:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Molotov cocktail.
tattoo gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tattoo guns
Senses: glosses: A tattoo machine.
tattoo guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tattoo gun
tattoo machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tattoo machines
Senses: glosses: A small hand-held device used for applying tattoos.
Synonyms: tattoo gun
tattoo machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tattoo machine
anarchisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anarchism
grid plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grid plans
Senses: synonyms: grid street plan
gridiron plan
glosses: A type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid.
Question Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: question time
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: word: Question Period
glosses: A time during a sitting of parliament wherein Members of Parliament pose questions to government ministers (including the Prime Minister) which they are obliged to answer.
hardcode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hardcodes
form: hardcoding
form: hardcoded
form: hardcoded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hard code.
relegator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relegators
Etymology: From relegate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who relegates.
European Portuguese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Portuguese language as spoken and written in Portugal, particularly when it differs from other regional varieties of that language.
suck arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks arse
form: sucking arse
form: sucked arse
form: sucked arse
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suck ass.
camises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camis
glosses: plural of camise
diseasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disease
geodæsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This he effected by a combination of geodæsy with astronomy, namely, by comparing the distance from Alexandria to Syene with the corresponding arc of the meridian.
ref: 1858, John William Donaldson, Karl Otfried Müller, chapter XLVI, in A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, volume I, J. W. Parker and Son, page 348:
text: Geography is the description of the earth’s superficies; geodesy, or, as it might be written without affectation, geodæsy, (Γεωδαισια, from γεα, earth, and δαιω, I divide, assign, distribute), is the knowledge of the earth’s solid form and shape, the distribution of the portions which make up the terrestrial map, their depressions and elevations, their ins and outs, their regularities and irregularities.
ref: 1876, "Geodesy", Charles_Dickens, Jr. (editor), All the Year Round, Messrs. Chapman & Hall, volume XVI, page #137
glosses: Archaic spelling of geodesy.
laticlave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlatɪkleɪv/
Forms: form: laticlaves
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin lāticlāvium, lāticlāvus, from lātus (“broad”) + clāvus (“purple stripe”).
Senses: glosses: A badge of two wide purple stripes, worn by senators and certain other high-ranking people in ancient Rome.
laticlaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laticlave
fœderalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fœderalists
Senses: examples: text: Even the election of his successor, Adams, a fœderalist, like himself, proved the magic of the name and measures of Washington.
ref: 1839, Jared Sparks, Life of Washington, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, C. Roworth and Sons, volume XXVI, article VIII, page 189
glosses: Archaic spelling of federalist.
adventitias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adventitia
aerugine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerugines
Senses: glosses: A phenol found in Pseudomonas fluorescens.
radfem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radfems
Etymology: Shortening of radical feminist.
Senses: examples: text: "How come a radfem like you didn't keep your last name after you got married?" Mosko asked.
ref: 1999, Michael Jahn, Dorian Yeager, & Barbara Paul, A New York State of Crime, Worldwide, →ISBN, page 39:
text: In their philosophical pursuit of answers to ultimate questions, the radfems get mired in the multi-syllabic muck of over-intellectualization, lacing their ideas with obscure cross-references and mind-numbing bombast […]
ref: 2003, Kenneth Lasson, Trembling in the Ivory Tower: Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Dr. Brimacombe firmly believed that just because she was a radfem, there was no need to dress in drab. She was frilly and feminine in the peachy-pinky, frou-frou frock and matching heels recommended by her fashion consultant.
ref: 2008, Peter Innes, The Man with the Grasshopper Mind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 91:
text: It was passionate trans women activists online whose strong advocacy of their right to exist as women in the world showed me just how dehumanising the trans-hostile rhetoric is from some radfems about them.
ref: 2018 November 28, Viv Smythe, “I'm credited with having coined the word 'Terf'. Here's how it happened”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A radical feminist.
Hyponyms: TERF
Œnophyta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oenophyta
form: Oinofyta
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Οἰνόφυτα (Oinóphuta).
Senses: examples: text: On the ſixty‐ſecond day after the unfortunate action of Tanagra, he met the Bœotian army, much more numerous than his own, at Œnophyta, and gained a complete victory.
ref: 1795, William Mitford, The History of Greece, third edition, chapter XII, § III, page 410-411:
glosses: Grecian village located in the eastern region of Boeotia.
Bœotian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bœotian
form: most Bœotian
Etymology: From Bœotia + -n.
Senses: examples: text: On the ſixty‐ſecond day after the unfortunate action of Tanagra, he met the Bœotian army, much more numerous than his own, at Œnophyta, and gained a complete victory.
ref: 1795, William Mitford, The History of Greece, third edition, chapter XII, § III, page 410-411:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Boeotian.
Bœotian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bœotians
Etymology: From Bœotia + -n.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Boeotian.
kirk-town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirk-towns
form: kirkton
Senses: glosses: The settlement in which the parish church is. A church town.
glosses: A glebe.
kirkton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirktons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kirk-town.
kirk-towns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirktons
Senses: glosses: plural of kirk-town
kirktons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirkton
microfoam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌɪkɹə(ʊ)fəʊm/
Forms: form: microfoams
Etymology: From micro- + foam.
Senses: examples: text: When a barista steams the milk for a cappuccino, microfoam is created by introducing very tiny bubbles of air into the milk, giving the milk a velvety texture and sweetness.
ref: 2009, Roseane Santos, An Unashamed Defence of Coffee, page 188:
coordinate_terms: macrofoam
glosses: Foam consisting of very small bubbles, specifically as an element in the steamed milk used to make certain types of latte coffee.
Æolick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Æolick Mood was that which was of a more Ayery and ſoft pleaſing ſounds […]
ref: 1655, John Playford, chapter VIII, in An Introduction to the Skill of Musick, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2011, page 33:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Æolic.
Italianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Italianize
Italianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Italianize
embetter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɛtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: embetters
form: embettering
form: embettered
form: embettered
Etymology: From em- + better.
Senses: examples: text: For cruelty doth not embetter men,
But them more wary make than they have been.
ref: 1605, Samuel Daniel, Certaine small poems lately printed with the tragedie of Philotas:
text: But they're allowed to use the money to change hearts and souls, to help save lives, to embetter the world we live in.
ref: 2004, George W. Bush:
text: In order to embetter participation in global cultural dialogue, China has promoted dialogue at home, and has greatly adjusted the relationship between religion and Chinese society.
ref: 2015, Paulos Z. Huang, Yearbook of Chinese Theology 2015, page 11:
glosses: To make better; improve.
Synonyms: sense: to make something better
word: ameliorate
word: enhance
Derived terms: embetterment
Related terms: embitter
embillow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embillows
form: embillowing
form: embillowed
form: embillowed
Etymology: From em- + billow.
Senses: glosses: To heave, as the waves of the sea; swell.
animalcula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animalculum
animatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animato
Italianise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Italianises
form: Italianising
form: Italianised
form: Italianised
Etymology: From Italian + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Italianize.
Italianised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Italianise
Italianises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Italianise
Italianising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Italianise
antiperistasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiperistases
Etymology: From anti- + peristasis.
Senses: examples: text: The poore people in Corinth did ſee, and ſmell, vvhat the rich men taſted, Tantalizing all the vvhile, and having their penury doubled by the Antiperiſtaſis of others plenty; yea, ryot and exceſſe, for ſome of them vvere drunken.
ref: 1640, Thomas Fuller, “A Comment on 1 Cor. II. 20. 21.”, in Ioseph’s Partie-coloured Coat: Containing, a Comment on Part of the II. Chapter of the I. Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians. […], London: […] Iohn Dawson, for Iohn Williams, […], →OCLC, page 24:
text: [T]here are in the moſt depraved and venemous diſpoſitions, certain pieces that remaine untoucht, vvhich by an Antiperiſtaſis become more excellent, or by the excellency of their antipathies are able to preſerve themſelves from the contagion of their enemies vices, and perſiſt intire beyond the generall corruption.
ref: 1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “The Second Part”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC, section 10, page 159:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The heightening of the force of an opposing process.
antiperistases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiperistasis
feather-brain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feather-brains
Senses: glosses: a feather-brained or stupid person, especially a woman
Australian magpie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australian magpies
Senses: glosses: A magpie-like black-and-white passerine bird of species Gymnorhina tibicen, native to Australia and southern New Guinea, and introduced to New Zealand, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands.
cassican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cassicans
Etymology: From Latin cassis (“helmet”).
Senses: synonyms: crested oropendola
cornbird
glosses: An American bird (Psarocolius decumanus, syn. Cassicus cristatus), allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest.
glosses: A piping crow.
Corvus typicus of Indonesia and Australia.
glosses: A piping crow.
Cracticus tibicen (syn. Gymnorhina tibicen), Australian magpie.
synonyms: piping crow-shrike
Related terms: english: hooded butcherbird
translation: hooded butcherbird
word: Cracticus cassicus
antitypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: reaction (to an applied force)
aphorismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphorismi
Etymology: From Latin aphorismus, though the meaning is closer to Ancient Greek ᾰ̓φορῐσμός (ăphorĭsmós).
Senses: glosses: A figure of speech that questions whether a word is properly used, as in "How can you call yourself a man?".
wikipedia: Ancient Greek
Related terms: aphorismos
aphorismi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphorismus
aphorismos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Synonym of excommunication.
synonyms: word: excommunication
embloom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emblooms
form: emblooming
form: embloomed
form: embloomed
Etymology: From em- + bloom.
Senses: glosses: To deck or enrich with bloom.
beardling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beardlings
Etymology: From beard + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: bicause at your departing you had no berd at al, now you become a handsome beardling.
ref: 1568, Desiderius Erasmus, trans by Nicholas Leigh, Of the yong man and the euill disposed woman, page 1
glosses: One who wears a beard.
emblossom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emblossoms
form: emblossoming
form: emblossomed
form: emblossomed
Etymology: From em- + blossom.
Senses: glosses: To cover with blossoms.
beardlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beardling
embrothel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embrothels
form: embrotheling
form: embrothelling
form: embrotheled
form: embrotheled
form: embrothelled
form: embrothelled
Etymology: From em- + brothel.
Senses: examples: text: Men, which chuse Law practice for mere gain, boldly repute, Worse than imbrothel'd strumpets prostitute.
ref: a. 1631, John Donne, Satyre II:
glosses: To inclose or harbour in a brothel.
embusy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embusies
form: embusying
form: embusied
form: embusied
form: embesy
form: enbesy
Etymology: From em- + busy.
Senses: glosses: To employ; keep busy.
eams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eam.
ean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eans
form: eaning
form: eaned
form: eaned
Etymology: From Middle English enen, from Old English ēanian (“to yean, bring forth young, bring forth lambs”), from Proto-West Germanic *aunōn, from Proto-Germanic *aunōną (“to bring forth lambs”).
An alternate etymology derives the Old English word from a corruption of Old English ēacnian (“to add, increase, be enlarged, be augmented, become pregnant, conceive, bring forth, produce”), from ēacen (“increased, augmented”), from ēaca (“an addition, increase, eeking”), from Proto-Germanic *aukô (“increase”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to increase”). More at eke.
Senses: examples: text: That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember,
Even on my eaning time; but whether there
Deliver'd, by the holy gods,
I cannot rightly say.
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: To bring forth young; to yean.
Related terms: yean
Shriners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shriner
cupcakeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cupcakerie
glosses: plural of cupcakery
fœderalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fœderalist
œconomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: œconomizes
form: œconomizing
form: œconomized
form: œconomized
Etymology: From œconomy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: If therefore we aim at regulating this household, the question will be, whether we ought to œconomize by detail, or by principle ? The example we have had of the success of an attempt to œconomize by detail, and under establishments adverse to the attempt, may tend to decide this question.
ref: 1780, Edmund Burke, Mr. Burke’s Speech, in The Works of Edmund Burke, G. Dearborn, volume I, page 289
glosses: Obsolete spelling of economize.
minchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minchens
form: mynchen
form: mincheon
form: minchun
Etymology: From Middle English minchen, monchen, from Old English myneċen (“a female monk, nun”), from Proto-Germanic *munikinnō (“female monk”), from *munikaz (“monk”), from Late Latin monachus (“monk”), from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “hermit”, noun), from μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”, adjective), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *menw-, *manw- (“small, little, isolated”). Cognate with German Mönchin (“female monk”). Related also to minnow. More at monk.
Senses: glosses: A nun.
Related terms: minch
monk
minchery
minch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minches
Etymology: From Middle English mynche, a reduced form of minchen, monchen, from Old English myneċen (“a female monk, nun”), from Proto-Germanic *munikinnō (“female monk”), from *munikaz (“monk”), from Late Latin monachus (“monk”), from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “hermit”, noun), from μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”, adjective), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *menw-, *manw- (“small, little, isolated”). Cognate with German Mönchin (“female monk”). Related also to minnow. More at monk.
Senses: glosses: A nun.
Derived terms: mynchery
Related terms: minchen
monk
minch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: minches
form: minching
form: minched
form: minched
Etymology: From Middle English menchen, a variant of mincen. More at mince.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mince.
minch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: minches
form: minching
form: minched
form: minched
Senses: examples: text: William Henry opened the gates for them along the return journey, and at the lodge accepted shamefacedly a penny and a promise of the bad end little boys came to who minched from school.
ref: 1961, Daphne du Maurier, Castle Dor:
glosses: Alternative form of mitch (“play truant from school”).
œconomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of œconomize
authourship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From authour + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of authorship.
Kazuko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese かずこ (Kazuko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
œconomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of œconomize
alterator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alterators
Senses: examples: text: To avoid such feelings by using mood alterators is a normal coping mechanism for our times.
ref: 1996, Cherie Carter-Scott, Negaholics: How to Overcome Negativity and Turn Your Life Around, page 75:
text: I carry a few different alterators in my field kit. Most just allow telescopic sight.
ref: 2011, Spectacular Moment of Wonder with Dr. Monocle:
glosses: One who or that which alters something; a changer.
cack up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: text: Audio (AU)
Forms: form: cacks up
form: cacking up
form: cacked up
form: cacked up
Senses: examples: text: My cat is always cacking up hairballs.
glosses: To vomit or hack up.
examples: text: OmniCorp has really cacked up this problem.
glosses: To mess up; to get seriously wrong.
examples: text: The pipe has cacked up again, so I'm calling a plumber.
qualifier: filter; or pipe; filter; or pipe
glosses: To become plugged up.
raw_tags: of a plug
Related terms: becack
becocked
caca
cack
community service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: community services
Senses: examples: text: Within El Alberto, belonging is premised on the completion of between one and three years of unpaid community service, which all Hñähñu men and unmarried Hñähñu women are required to contribute every eight years. To default on this service is to lose citizenship within the pueblo. This means no longer being able to cultivate the land, build a home there, participate in the decision-making processes that affect the community, or receive the protections it provides.
ref: 2019, Michaela Django Walsh, “Partiendo la madre: Borders, Thresholds, and Transnational Sites of Belonging”, in Chiricú Journal, volume 3, number 2, →DOI, pages 47 of 41–58:
glosses: Service or activity performed for the benefit of the community at large, such as cleaning, fundraising, pro bono professional services, etc.
topics: law
synonyms: community payback
glosses: Such work performed as an alternative for a criminal penalty.
Related terms: voluntary work
community spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Willingness to do deeds which benefit the community at large, such as community service.
a-building
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: abuilding
Etymology: From a- (“in, on”) + building (“the act or process of building”).
Senses: examples: text: This talk brought us up to the house that was a-building, not a large one, which stood at the end of a beautiful orchard surrounded by an old stone wall.
ref: 1890, William Morris, chapter XXVI, in News from Nowhere:
text: "Of these nineteen ships a-building no more than two can take the water before a month be past, and but seven more ere six months' time, push we never so mightily the work."
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 141, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
glosses: Being built or under construction, as a structure or a vessel.
done thing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: done things
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to be called Linda but Aunt Angela said that was a common name, you know, not the done thing, so I have to be Bella...
ref: 1985, Susan Howatch, Wheel of Fortune:
text: "I was only 18 and was having back problems so I got regular cortisone injections. It was the done thing in those days, all the players were having them."
ref: 2000 August 12, Vivek Chaudhary, The Guardian:
glosses: Something done habitually or according to social norms, expectations, etc.
Related terms: do the decent thing
Tolkienite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tolkienites
Etymology: From Tolkien + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A person who has an extended knowledge and is also a fan of the works and fantasy world (Middle-Earth) of J. R. R. Tolkien; used especially when referring to a fan of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Synonyms: Tolkiendil
Tolkienist
Hyponyms: Ringer
Ringnut
evoker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evokers
Etymology: From evoke + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of evoke: someone or something that evokes.
glosses: A person who practices evocation.
egoïsm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of egoism.
ponticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ponticulus
ponticulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ponticuli
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: a ridge of cartilage on the eminentia conchae of the ear
astrictive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrictives
Senses: glosses: An astringent.
Related terms: astrictively
spondulicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɒnˈdjuː.lɪks/
ipa: /spɑnˈd(j)u.lɪks/
rhymes: -uːlɪks
Forms: form: spondulics
form: spondulix
form: spondoolics
form: spondoolicks
form: spondoolix
form: spondoolick
form: spondulick
Etymology: Originally a US slang term of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: With just a few clicks / save your spondulicks / and you'll thank your stars that you went to GoCompare!
ref: 2009, Chris Wilkins, "Tenor" advert, for GoCompare:
glosses: Money.
English Opening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: English + opening, from its use by English world champion Howard Staunton.
Senses: glosses: A chess opening in which white begins by playing 1.c4, moving his queen bishop's pawn to the fourth rank.
wikipedia: Howard Staunton
præpare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præpares
form: præparing
form: præpared
form: præpared
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of prepare.
minsitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minsitive
form: most minsitive
Etymology: From minse (“to mince”) + -itive.
Senses: glosses: Mincing; affected; servile.
beant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: be + -n’t
Senses: examples: text: Why, sir, there beant an o in the office, neither a big un nor a little un!
ref: 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, X-ing a Paragrab:
glosses: variant of bean't.
bracteola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bracteolae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bracteole.
bracteolae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bracteola
Old Scratch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably an alteration of scrat, from Middle English scrat, skratt, scratte, ultimately from Old Norse skratti (“a type of demon”).
Senses: examples: text: “Lisieux is a little town in Normandy,” she said. “I was there a few days with your father, one summer, long ago. It’s a country full of old stories, folklore, and traditions; and the people still believe in the Old Scratch pretty literally. […]”
ref: 1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: Old Nick
word: Old Serpent
word: Aduwallah
word: Adversary
word: Al-Shaytaan
word: Antichrist
word: archfiend
word: Ash-Shaytan
word: Azazel
word: Beast
word: Beelzebub
word: bogey
word: cosmocrat
word: deceiver
word: deuce
word: Devil
word: diablo
word: Diabolus
word: dickens
word: Dragon
word: Enemy
word: Evil One
word: Father of Lies
word: Gog
word: Iblis
word: Jack Ketch
word: leviathan
word: lord of the flies
word: Lucifer
word: Mephistopheles
word: Old Gentleman
word: Old Hairy
word: Old Harry
word: Old Nick
word: Old One
word: Old Scratch
word: Old Serpent
word: Prince of Darkness
word: Prince of Demons
word: Prince of Evil
word: Sam Scratch
word: Satan
word: Serpent
word: shaitan
word: Son of the Dawn
qualifier: chiefly Midland US
glosses: The Devil.
calefactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calefactive
form: most calefactive
Senses: glosses: calefactory
calesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɛs/
ipa: /kəˈlɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: calesces
form: calescing
form: calesced
form: calesced
Etymology: From Latin calescere.
Senses: examples: text: Now [warming it over the spirit lamp] here it is becoming yellow again, and that is all because its attraction of cohesion is changed. And what will you say to me when I tell you that this piece of common charcoal is just the same thing, only differently calesced, as the diamonds which you wear?
ref: 1874, Michael Faraday, “Lecture II: Gravitation-Cohesion”, in On the Various Forces of Nature, London: Chatto and Windus, page 58:
text: 23. Drops of Water. — In answer to E. J. Pond's query in Science for Jan. 20, it seems to me that the phenomenon is explainable in the same way as the related phenomenon of drops of water on a hot stove; […] The small drops that fall from the oar-blade will float a short time before calescing, even when no wind is blowing; […]
ref: 1888 February 3, C. M. Wirick, Science, volume XI, number 261, page 62, column 2:
glosses: To undergo calescence; to become or grow warm; to heat up; to warm; to glow with heat.
Related terms: calescence
calescent
calorie
calorific
recalesce
recalescence
fluoresce
psychalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychalgias
Etymology: From psych- + -algia.
Senses: glosses: psychogenic pain, physical pain of psychological origin
glosses: psychological pain, any non-physical pain
Synonyms: phrenalgia
phrenalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phren- + -algia.
Senses: examples: text: ...compelled me to seek a talisman against homesickness and the nervous troubles which learned men call Phrenalgia and Autophobia.
ref: 1880, Luís de Camões, translated by Richard Francis Burton, The Lusiads, page xv:
glosses: psychalgia; non-physical pain
glosses: pain in the diaphragm
Old Serpent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Old Nick
word: Old Scratch
word: Great Red Dragon
word: Aduwallah
word: Adversary
word: Al-Shaytaan
word: Antichrist
word: archfiend
word: Ash-Shaytan
word: Azazel
word: Beast
word: Beelzebub
word: bogey
word: cosmocrat
word: deceiver
word: deuce
word: Devil
word: diablo
word: Diabolus
word: dickens
word: Dragon
word: Enemy
word: Evil One
word: Father of Lies
word: Gog
word: Iblis
word: Jack Ketch
word: leviathan
word: lord of the flies
word: Lucifer
word: Mephistopheles
word: Old Gentleman
word: Old Hairy
word: Old Harry
word: Old Nick
word: Old One
word: Old Scratch
word: Old Serpent
word: Prince of Darkness
word: Prince of Demons
word: Prince of Evil
word: Sam Scratch
word: Satan
word: Serpent
word: shaitan
word: Son of the Dawn
glosses: The Devil.
interruptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interruptor
up and leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of up and leave
up and left
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of up and leave
fraist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fraists
form: fraisting
form: fraisted
form: fraisted
Etymology: From Middle English fraisten, freisten, frasten, from Old Norse freista (“to try, tempt, make trial of”), from Proto-Germanic *fraistōną (“to try”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to try, risk”). Cognate with Icelandic freista (“to tempt”), Swedish fresta (“to try, tempt, tantalise”), Danish friste (“to try, tempt”), Old English frāsian (“to ask, inquire, tempt, try”). More at fraise.
Senses: examples: text: Þen found he no frekes to fraist on his strenght.
ref: 1540, Destruction of Troy:
glosses: To try; test; prove; put to the proof; make trial (of).
glosses: To learn by trial; experience.
glosses: To seek to learn; ask; inquire.
glosses: To seek; be eager for; desire.
glosses: To go forth on an expedition; sally forth.
Related terms: fraise
manipeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maniped
Mischling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪʃlɪŋ/
Forms: form: Mischlings
form: Mischlinge
form: mischling
Etymology: From German Mischling.
Senses: examples: text: Dodo had been married to a drunken and adulterous wife-beater, Lionel Hickman by name, who had continued our mischling tradition by converting to Judaism in order to marry her, given her an all-around vile time, and then been run over by a tram during the blackout that accompanied the Nazi blitzkrieg.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 355:
glosses: In certain (especially Nazi) racial theories, someone of mixed race; especially one who is partly of Jewish descent.
Synonyms: mixling
campanulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campanula
chrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chrystalline
form: most chrystalline
Senses: examples: text: Becauſe in the Conſpection of Objects remote, the Pupil of the Eye is expanded circularly, for the admiſſion of more Rays, and the Chryſtalline Humour ſomewhat retracted toward the Retina Tunica, for the Determination of the Point of Concurſe in the ſame, which otherwiſe would be ſomewhat too remote: and on the contrary, in the Conſpection of Objects vicine, the Pupil is contracted circularly, and the Chryſtalline Lens protruded ſomewhat outwardly, for the contrary reſpects.
ref: 1707, John Dunton, Athenian Sport:
text: Hence Goëthe has ingeniously compared Shakspeare’s characters to watches with chrystalline plates and cases, which, while they point out the hours as correctly as other watches, enable us at the same time to perceive the inward springs whereby all this is accomplished.
ref: 1819, “A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature. By Augustus William Schlegel. […]”, in The Literary Panorama, and National Register: […], volume the eighth, London: […] Simpkin and Marshall, […], and C. Taylor, […]; […] Plummer and Brewis, […], column 1281:
text: And lifting up to the chrystalline skies / Her eyes in tear o’erflowing sorrows drown’d, / All that she had to lift to heaven (her eyes) / Her hands by cruel Alguizils were bound.
ref: 1821, Thomas Medwin, Sketches in Hindoostan with Other Poems, London: […] C and J Ollier […] and Simpkin and Marshall […], page 123:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of crystalline.
gamma bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamma bombs
Senses: glosses: A bomb designed to spread radioactive material for harmful purposes.
gamma bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamma bomb
countercounterargument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercounterarguments
Etymology: From counter- + counterargument.
Senses: glosses: A counterargument to another counterargument.
Hypernyms: counterargument
countercounterarguments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercounterargument
layed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of laid up.
clavicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləˈvɪk.jəl.ə/
ipa: /klæˈvɪk.jəl.ə/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə
Forms: form: claviculae
form: claviculæ
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from New Latin clāvicula (“the collarbone”), diminutive of clāvis (“a key”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of clavicle.
Related terms: clavicular
claviculate
claviculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləˈvɪk.jəˌli/
Senses: glosses: plural of clavicula
swineflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swine flesh
form: swine-flesh
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English swinflesch, equivalent to swine + flesh. Compare German Schweinefleisch (“pork”), Danish svineflæsk.
Senses: examples: text: If Malaga fell, then the Alhambra must also pass into the hands of the "eaters of swineflesh."
ref: 1886, Stanley Lane-Poole, The story of the Moors in Spain:
text: Eumaeus carved the swineflesh, giving the best portion to Odysseus whom he treated as the guest of honor.
ref: 1918, Padraic Colum, Homer, The children's Homer:
text: "Don't you know, you giaour dog, the thing e'en more repellent than swineflesh to a virtuous daughter of Islam?
ref: 1943, Edison Marshall, Great Smith: Issue 689:
text: “Abstain from swineflesh, blood, things offered to idols, and carrion”
ref: 2007, James D. Tabor, The Jesus Dynasty:
text: He hath forbidden you only carrion, and blood, and swineflesh, and that which hath been immolated to (the name of) any other than Allah.
ref: 2010, Kai Borrmann, Jews in the Quran:
synonyms: swinemeat
pigflesh
pigmeat
glosses: The flesh or meat of a pig; pork.
layed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Therefore proceeding upon our grounds before layed; to wit, that no body can be moved of it self; we may determine those motions to be naturall unto bodies which have constant causes, or percutients to make them alwayes in such bodies: […]
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
glosses: simple past and past participle of lay
Synonyms: word: laid
swine flesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of swineflesh.
swine-flesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of swineflesh.
shipping company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipping companies
Senses: examples: text: Steamship arrivals, however, are less predictable and the best arrangements of shipping companies and the railway operating department may be upset by weather and tide.
ref: 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 264:
topics: business
economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: A company whose main line of business is ownership and operation of ships.
glosses: A line (the body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry).
national airline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national airlines
Senses: glosses: A flag carrier (an airline company that is registered in a given country).
et ceteræ
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of et cetera.
love slave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love slaves
Senses: glosses: A slave whose duties include love and/or being available for sex.
love slaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love slave