cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
poge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poges
Senses: examples: text: Most of the zoomies in the audience are clean-shaven office poges who never go into the field. The poges wear spit-shined boots and starched utilities and Air Force sunglasses. The poges stare at the grunts as though the grunts were Hell's Angels at the ballet.
ref: 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of pogue (“soldier who is assigned administrative rather than combat duties”).
examples: text: Me and the other one went by ourselves; he was very tricky (clever) at getting a poge or a toy, but he would not touch toys because we was afraid of being turned over (searched).
ref: 1879 October, “Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves' Language”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 40, number 240, page 505, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of pogue (“a purse”).
haphephobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhæfɪˈfəʊbiə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἁφή (haphḗ, “touch”) from ἅπτω (háptō, “I touch”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: It is necessary to distinguish haphephobia from the syndrome described under the name of délire de toucher, the emotional disturbance produced especially after contact.
ref: 1894, Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, volume 2, unnumbered page:
text: […] He realizes that his goal is a loving relationship with you. It's that simple, and that's what we're working on now. Of course there are obstacles—his haphephobia, for one."
His what? I gasp.
“I'm sorry. I mean his fear of being touched," Dr. Flynn says, shaking his head as if scolding himself. […]
ref: 2011, E. L. James, Fifty Shades Darker, Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 412:
text: My hair stood on end all over my body and my haphephobia, the fear of being touched, kicked into full gear.
ref: 2013, Leesia Lindsay, “Paranormal Encounters”, in From Every Corner, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: The fear of being touched.
Related terms: haphephobic
nonrepellent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + repellent.
Senses: glosses: Not repellent.
noncontracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + contracted.
Senses: glosses: Not contracted.
nonsolicited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + solicited.
Senses: glosses: Not solicited; synonym of unsolicited (as used in the full name of the en:CAN-SPAM Act to make the backronym work)
nonsoliciting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + soliciting.
Senses: glosses: Not soliciting.
Jojo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Reduplication of Jo.
Senses: glosses: An affectionate short form of the female given names Joanne, Joanna, etc.
glosses: A male given name.
nonostentatious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ostentatious.
Senses: glosses: Not ostentatious.
playlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playland
playette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playettes
Etymology: From play + -ette.
Senses: synonyms: playlet
glosses: A short play (dramatic work).
playette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playettes
Etymology: From player + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: You know what / I like the playettes / No diggity, no doubt / Play on playette, play on playette
ref: 1996, “No Diggity”, performed by Blackstreet ft. Dr. Dre:
text: No man wants a woman who is looking for a wife, no woman wants a man who is looking for a mother, no woman wants a man who wants to be her father; I guess it is truly hard out here for a pimp, player and playette as those qualities can be attractive.
ref: 2012, Dr. Robert A. Benson, The Book of Dad Too: More Quotes and Antidotes for a Lifetime of Wisdom, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 62:
synonyms: playerette
coordinate_terms: player
glosses: A female player (person who plays the field).
playettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playette
playlisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of playlist
playlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of playlist
nonvarsity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + varsity.
Senses: examples: a nonvarsity sports team
glosses: Not of or pertaining to varsity.
bull-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bull-like
form: most bull-like
Etymology: From bull + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He had a bull-like neck.
text: An hideous bull-like roar I rais'd, / […]
ref: 1778, John Fellows, The history of the Holy Bible, volume 4, page 26:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bulllike Earlier and more common.
bull-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bull-like
form: most bull-like
Etymology: From bull + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He was breathing bull-like from anger.
text: [Entry for the Greek word "Taurêdon"] Ταυρηδόν, adv. (i.) bull-like. B. 816.
ref: 1754, James Sanxay, Lexicon Aristophanicum, Græco-Anglicum, p. 348:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bulllike Earlier and more common.
agreeeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: agreeth
Etymology: agree + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agree
brewhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brewhouse
fashionedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fashioned + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: old-fashionedness
glosses: The state or condition of having a specified fashion or style.
fashionest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: fashion + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of fashion
fashionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fashioning
nontransparently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nontransparent + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: untransparently
intransparently
antonyms: transparently
glosses: Done in a nontransparent fashion or manner.
firewalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of firewall
firewalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of firewall
hollylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hollylike
form: most hollylike
Etymology: From holly + -like.
Senses: examples: a hollylike shrub
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of holly.
trolleylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trolleylike
form: most trolleylike
Etymology: From trolley + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a trolley.
trolleybusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trolleybus
bottom sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottom sheets
Senses: glosses: A bed sheet used to cover a mattress, i.e., the sheet on which one typically lies.
Related terms: fitted sheet
top sheet
breathable
mattress
thermoadaptable
waterproof
don't ask, don't tell, don't harass, don't pursue
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Full name of the U.S. Military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy concerning the service of homosexuals in the military as defined in 10 USC § 654.
epicycloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epicycloid
hypocycloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypocycloid
nonmoderate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + moderate.
Senses: glosses: Not moderate.
nonmoderate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmoderates
Etymology: From non- + moderate.
Senses: glosses: One whose views are not moderate; a radical.
nontemperate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + temperate.
Senses: glosses: Not temperate.
carrion crows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrion crow
bounty hunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bounty hunter
mainsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainsheet
round angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of round angle
nonquarterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quarterly.
Senses: glosses: Not quarterly.
soldier flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soldier fly
well-built
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-built
form: more well-built
form: best-built
form: most well-built
form: well built
Etymology: From well + built.
Senses: examples: text: The basics of a well-built garden
ref: 1978, Ogden Tanner, Garden Construction, page 7:
text: It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521 (one of a class of locomotive well-known for being well-built enough to destroy anything that got in its way).
ref: 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 39:
glosses: Constructed in a pleasing or sound manner.
examples: text: James Lassiter was forty years old, a well-built, ruggedly handsome man in the prime of his life, in the best of health.
ref: 1998, Nora Roberts, The Reef, page 3:
text: A well-built teenage boy in a soiled black leather studded vest and black jeans was crouched in the far corner of the cellar, waiting for us.
ref: 2002, James Patterson, Violets Are Blue, page 180:
glosses: Muscular and lean, having a body resembling that of an athlete.
better-built
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of well-built: more well-built
best-built
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of well-built: most well-built
tarais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarai
syllogise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: syllogises
form: syllogising
form: syllogised
form: syllogised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of syllogize.
syllogises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of syllogise
cradle-to-grave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Unsustainable human activities are creating an open loop “cradle-to-grave” system that cannot continue and has one day to reach a conclusion. Closing the loop for renewable resources is the role of changing the “cradle-to-grave” concept to a “cradle-to-cradle” concept as discussed in chapter 1.
ref: 2010, Salah El Haggar, Sustainable Industrial Design and Waste Management, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 125:
text: Politics should be a cradle-to-grave calling: anything else is mere distraction.
ref: 2010, Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 28
text: The 'cradle-to-grave' approach that the company takes to rolling stock, which typically has an asset lifecycle of up to 35 years, has made the sector attractive to investors - […].
ref: 2023 June 14, “Engineering a brighter future for UK rail”, in RAIL, number 985, page 52:
glosses: Spanning an entire lifetime, from birth to death.
Coordinate terms: cradle-to-cradle
never-would-be
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: never-would-bes
Senses: examples: text: State politicians were still generally despised as second-raters, has-beens and never-would-bes more interested in lining their own pockets than in delivering services to those whom they were supposed to represent.
ref: 2010, Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 28
glosses: One who will never achieve a great amount of success.
blowie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowies
Etymology: From blow + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: "I said," my friend says on the phone, "I can call the cops and have you arrested or you can give me a blowie."
ref: 2008, Shane Lindemoen, Empire Dirt, Fallen Publishing, page 91
text: ‘I didn′t mind being groped by him,’ Crystal replied. ‘He was cute. In fact I′m looking forward to later; don′t I have to pretend to give him a blowie?’
ref: 2009, Katie Price, Crystal, page 312:
text: 2010, Zoe Foster, Playing the Field, Round 23: The Enchantress vs The Press, unnumbered page,
‘A brothel. Anyway, they got kicked out ′cos one of them – not Josh – took photos on his mobile of some bird giving him a blowie, and she flipped out.’
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: A blow job.
examples: text: I woke just in time to hear the first blowie of the day buzzing around. You know the night's over when you hear the first blowie.
ref: 1997, John Marsden, Burning for Revenge, page 22:
text: The blowie was still hoverin around making random swoops on Boris who by now was well beyond caring.
ref: 2007, Gayle Kennedy, Me, Antman & Fleabag, page 80:
text: Mouths are clamped shut to keep out blowies, with a slit at the corner prised open in case speech - preferably laconic - is necessary; miseries are borne with a stoical shrug.
ref: 2010, Peter Conrad, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 50
glosses: A blowfly, Lucilia cuprina.
examples: text: There was always a mob fishing from the jetty, although nobody ever caught much — just trumpeters and gobblies and blowies, and sometimes the pretty little yellow-tail with their golden scales and blue spots.
ref: 1983, T. A. G. Hungerford, Stories from Suburban Road, page 74:
text: Nat was puffing and heaving like a blowie on a jetty.
ref: 2000, Wendy Jenkins, Gunna Burn, page 152:
text: Cervantes was where I caught my first fish, a blowie, and copped my first bad sunburn — much to my father′s dismay, because my mother had stressed the importance of sun protection and how could he have gotten me so burnt?
ref: 2007, Glyn Parry, Ocean Road, page 102:
glosses: The common toadfish, Tetractenos hamiltoni.
Afro-Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afro-Indians
form: Afrindian
Etymology: From Afro- + Indian.
Senses: examples: text: In a recent account of the last of the unconquered Seminoles, who are still living in the Everglades of Florida, I noticed reference to an Afro-Indian who apparently holds a position among these people corresponding to that of a sheriff, since he is described as executioner of the tribe.
ref: 1909, Booker T. Washington, The story of the Negro: the rise of the race from slavery, volume 1, Doubleday, Page & Co., page 133:
glosses: A person described by both African and indigenous American ancestry or culture.
examples: text: Ngema used his song to initiate what he called a "constructive discussion" about conflicts separating Zulus and Afro-Indians.
ref: 2008, Patrick Lynn Rivers, Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: A person described by both African and South Asian or East Indian (especially from India) ancestry or culture.
Afro-Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Afro-Indian
form: most Afro-Indian
form: Afrindian
Etymology: From Afro- + Indian.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the decline of Indian slavery, throughout the eighteenth century South Carolina newspapers frequently advertised for runaway Indian and Afro-Indian slaves.
ref: 2003, Jayme A. Sokolow, The Great Encounter: Native Peoples and European Settlers in the Americas, 1492-1800, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: Having both African and indigenous American ancestry or other attributes, whether of people, cultures, cuisine, language, and so on.
examples: text: Afro-Indian settlements were established at least since the early 16th century onwards. Through migration of ex-slaves and free Africans within India, new settlements arose, such as that in the hilly district of Uttara Kannada[...]
ref: 2008, Carole Boyce Davies, Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture, volume 1, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 563:
glosses: Having both African and South Asian or East Indian (especially from India) ancestry or other attributes, whether of people, cultures, cuisine, language, and so on.
examples: text: Another evidence of early Afro-Indian trade relations is to be found in the work of the Greco-Egyptian monk Cosmos Indicopleustes who wrote, as cited by Pankhurst (1972:10), in the early sixth century that Barbaria, probably Somalia, had substantial trade with India and Ceylon.
ref: 2004, Ababu Minda Yimene, An African Indian Community in Hyderabad: Siddi Identity, its Maintenance and Change, Cuvillier Verlag, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: Pertaining to both Africa and India.
Synonyms: Zambo
Siddi
Indo-African
Afrindian
legers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leger
Upper Canada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpɚ ˈkænədə/
Etymology: From its position on the Saint Lawrence River. See Canada.
Senses: glosses: A former British colony located in what is now southern Ontario.
wikipedia: Saint Lawrence River
Related terms: Canada
Lower Canada
Lower Canada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊɚ ˈkænədə/
Etymology: From French Bas-Canada, from its position on the Saint Lawrence River. See Canada.
Senses: glosses: A former British colony located in what is now Labrador (part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador) and southern Québec.
wikipedia: Saint Lawrence River
Related terms: Canada
Upper Canada
salty dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salty dogs
Etymology: From the salt of the sea. Compare old salt and seadog.
Sexual sense may be due to association of sailors with sexual promiscuity, or may be separate development, salty (“spicy”) and dog both suggesting promiscuity.
Senses: synonyms: old salt
sea dog
qualifier: Marines
glosses: An experienced sailor.
synonyms: word: benedick
word: cad
word: drabber
word: fuck boy
word: fuck-boy
word: fuckboy
word: gallant
word: goat
word: he-bitch
word: himbo
word: homme fatal
word: horndog
word: loverboy
word: loverman
word: man ho
word: man whore
word: man-whore
word: manslut
word: manwhore
word: muttonmonger
word: philanderer
word: pimp
word: playboy
word: player
word: rakehell
word: rake
word: rip
word: rolling stone
word: salty dog
word: satyriasist
word: satyromaniac
word: satyr
word: shag bandit
word: sleaze
word: smell-smock
word: striker
word: stringer
word: stud
word: swordsman
word: tart
word: tomcat
word: whoremonger
word: bedfellow
word: bedmate
word: fuck
word: hookup
word: lover
word: paramour
word: mate
word: root
word: sex partner
word: sexual partner
glosses: A sexually promiscuous man; a male sexual partner.
Related terms: word: old salt
english: experienced
translation: experienced
word: salty
word: sea dog
salty dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salty dogs
Etymology: From a greyhound (“gin and grapefruit juice cocktail”), plus salt, influenced by existing term.
Senses: examples: text: But I felt frustrated after all that running around in traffic. What I had to show for it: a well-grilled salmon steak, a salty dog mixed stronger than riot punch, and a plane trip that never happened.
ref: 2025 March 25, Sam Wiebe, The Last Exile: A Wakeland Novel, Harbour Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A cocktail consisting of gin or vodka, grapefruit juice, and a salt rim.
doctorishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doctorish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: They clung passionately to his doctorishness, believing it to be safe. It wasn't safe at all.
ref: 1955, Sylvia Cooper, Thunder Stone, page 16:
text: A child can make up the truth about the doctor just as well as, or better than, he can observe and retell the truth about the doctor. Indeed the process of retailing in so far as it is unselective, in so far as it fails to eliminate the inessentials that clutter up the concept of doctorishness is liable to be less penetratingly true.
ref: 1994, Susan Rusinko, The Plays of Benn Levy: Between Shaw and Coward, page 201:
glosses: The state or quality of being like a doctor.
Related terms: doctor
doctorish
doctorish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doctorish
form: most doctorish
Etymology: From doctor + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He doesn't wear doctorish clothes, just his jeans and a khaki shirt with the sleeves rolled up, with some T-shirt on underneath.
ref: 2007, Deb Caletti, The Nature of Jade, page 41:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the qualities of a doctor.
Derived terms: doctorishness
Related terms: doctor
turn-around
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turn-arounds
Etymology: Deverbal from turn around.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turnaround.
good-naturedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From good-natured + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being good-natured.
express train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: express trains
Senses: examples: text: 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,
All sorts of dreadful thoughts came to her all together in one horrible flash. There were such things as express trains that went on, she supposed, for hundreds of miles without stopping. Suppose this should be one of them? How would she get home again? She had no money to pay for the return journey.
text: King's Messenger, 1918-1940: Memoirs of a Silver Greyhound. By George P. Antrobus, O.B.E., King's Foreign Service Messenger 1918-1940. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. Price 10s. 6d. net. [...] "The great European express trains have an air of mystery and romance about them. Truth to tell, this is but ill-deserved. Except over the French portion of their journey they have no right to the title of express"—he was writing of conditions before the great speed-up of the last decade— [...].
ref: 1941 October, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
text: For all the attention on express trains, it's often local trains that tip the railway into congestion.
ref: 2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 53:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A train (either the service or the train itself) making limited stops.
Synonyms: word: crack train
word: fast train
word: limited
response time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: response times
Senses: examples: text: Professor G. Fano (Florence), after accurately determining the "latent period," or "response time," following faradic stimulation of a given motor area
ref: 1896, The medical chronicle, page 136:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The period of time between the application of a stimulus and the associated response from a cell or tissue.
examples: text: the average response time on a call was 3.1 minutes
ref: 1931 September 2, “Police Praise Radio as Best Crime Weapon”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: The time taken for a person (or human-controlled system) to respond to a request.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The time taken for the display of an instrument to move to a new value following a step change.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The period of time between a request for a service and the associated response; typically the request is caused by a user at a terminal hitting the return key, and the response is displayed on a screen.
Derived terms: fractal response time
cheap-arse Tuesday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheap-arse Tuesdays
Senses: glosses: The day of the week (Tuesday) when establishments such as cinemas, restaurants, etc, offer some of their goods and services at discounted prices.
Synonyms: cheap-ass Tuesday
crack train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crack trains
Etymology: From crack (“best, first-rate”).
Senses: examples: 1988 Lawrence Davis, Pullman porter in the 1940s, quoted on Different Trains, by Steve Reich.
The crack train from New York.
glosses: Fastest express train between two stops.
Synonyms: express train
fast train
springless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spring + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] Nos. 6166 and 6168 were fitted with Caprotti valves in 1929, and 6167 with a new springless type in 1938; […]
ref: 1939 July, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 27:
text: All the movements of the man and the woman were slow and steady; their springless feet padded flatly; their backs and shoulders were straight.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 11, in Klee Wyck:
text: All the old pattern rolling stock was withdrawn in 1888 as it had wheels which ran loose on the axles and was, for the most part, springless.
ref: 1947 May and June, “Notes and News: The Wenford Bridge and Ruthern Bridge Branches, Southern Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 182:
glosses: Without a spring or springs (bouncing motion, engineering component, etc).
examples: text: a springless year
glosses: Without the season of spring.
Western Africa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: West Africa: A geographic region comprising the western portion of Africa, spanning 16 countries.
crack trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crack train
express trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of express train
Minorcans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Minorcan
Messines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Messine
Messines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.
messins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of messin
Romaines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Romaine
Romaines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romaine
varsovienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varsoviennes
form: varsouvienne
form: varsoviana
Etymology: From French, literally "from Warsaw".
Senses: glosses: A polka-like Polish dance.
glosses: A piece of music for such a dance, or having its slow triple time characteristic strong accent beginning every second measure.
varsoviennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varsovienne
Warsovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Varsovian.
Warsovian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Warsovians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Varsovian.
sales assistants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sales assistant
driver reviver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driver revivers
Senses: examples: text: The implication was that the driver reviver was a conspiracy designed to marginalise Catholics and that the organisers could expect a final reckoning. Indeed, there was a final reckoning. By the end of the Easter break, volunteers had made 18,000 cups of tea and coffee, all offered as a gesture of friendship to strangers, but evidently the work of Satan.
ref: 2007, Michael McGirr, Bypass: The Story of a Road, page 109:
text: The Wilcannia CTC^([Community Technology Centre]) planned to establish a small local museum in the same building and a driver reviver centre to encourage passing tourists into the building.
ref: 2007, Laurel Evelyn Dyson, Max A. N. Hendriks, Stephen Grant, Information Technology and Indigenous People, page 279:
text: In some states, “driver reviver” stations operate on major roads during holiday periods. They serve free tea, coffee, and cookies, and are often at roadside picnic areas that have restrooms.
ref: 2010, Lee Mylne, Marc Llewellyn, Ron Crittall, Lee Atkinson, Frommer's Australia 2011, unnumbered page:
glosses: a temporary roadside rest stop, often sponsored by local businesses, used to allow drivers a rest on long road trips in order to improve road safety.
driver revivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driver reviver
stratifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stratifiers
Etymology: From stratify + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that stratifies; the agent or cause of stratification.
stellifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stellify
wah-wahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wah-wah
wah-wahs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wah-wah
spath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæθ/
Forms: form: spaths
Etymology: From New Latin, shortening of the genus name Spathiphyllum, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”) + φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: Besides the aforementioned field study, in vitro uptake of triclosan, hydrocinnamic acid, tonalide, ibuprofen, naproxen and clofibric acid by lettuce (Lactuca sativa L) and spath (Spathiphyllum spp.) was investigated by the same research group [139] in order to evaluate the reuse of treated wastewater for irrigation of agricultural crops.
ref: 2016, Ana Agüera, Dimitra Lambropoulou, “New Challenges for the Analytical Evaluation of Reclaimed Water and Reuse Applications”, in Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Klaus Kümmerer, editors, Wastewater Reuse and Current Challenges (The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry; 44), Springer, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: Any plant of the genus Spathiphyllum of peace lilies.
spath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæθ/
Forms: form: spaths
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of spathe.
sorgho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French sorgho. Doublet of sorghum and sorgo.
Senses: examples: text: It is by manuring the land, with the dung of their cattle, that the Negroes raise pretty good crops of sorgho.
ref: 1818, J. B. Henry Savigny, Alexander Correard, Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816:
glosses: sorghum
serpentes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of serpents, plural of serpent.
sanctuarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sanctuarises
form: sanctuarising
form: sanctuarised
form: sanctuarised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sanctuarize.
crup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: crups
Senses: examples: text: The part immediately above the tail (i.e., the haunches) is the crup, and about 4 to 5 inches above the crup the butt is separated from the hide.
ref: 1904, The Leather Manufacturer - Volumes 15-16, page 105:
glosses: Alternative form of croup (the rump of a horse)
crup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: more crup
form: most crup
Etymology: Compare Old High German grop, German grob (“coarse”).
Senses: examples: text: You'll have a nice walk, as the snow is very crup.
text: Why now so angry, trow ye? What's the matter, That our Sir James is grown so crup and tatter?
ref: 1664, Thomas St Nicholas, Upon Mr. Benchkin, The Curate of Ash, His Presentment of Me to the Consistory Court at Canterbury For Helping to Lay my Poor Old Nurse, the Widow Solly, In her Grave As Soon as she was Brouth Thither and The Coverings, Without Noise or Disturbance, Taken Off:
text: […] and care must be had to rost him so leasurely, that he neither burn, nor continue raw: for when the skin seems crup, it is a sign all is rosted, and the Polenta is taken away.
ref: 1669, John Baptista Porta, Natural Magick, page 322:
text: He was tedious crup with me.
ref: 1790, Francis Grose, Letters:
glosses: Short; brittle (both literally and figuratively).
salifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of salify
response times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of response time
diazoethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diazo + ethane.
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
Diazomethane reacts rapidly with Smith’s diene to produce pyrazoline (R = H) by exclusive reaction at the cyclobutene π-bond); diazoethane and 2-diazopropane produce analogous products
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The diazo compound CH₃-CH=N⁺=N⁻
diazopropane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
Diazomethane reacts rapidly with Smith’s diene to produce pyrazoline (R = H) by exclusive reaction at the cyclobutene π-bond); diazoethane and 2-diazopropane produce analogous products
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric diazo compounds, CH₃-CH₂-CH=N⁺=N⁻ and (CH₃)₂-C=N⁺=N⁻
build-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: build-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from build up.
Senses: examples: text: Steve Gohouri was guilty of losing possession deep inside his own half, allowing Davies to find Ngog for Bolton's second, before Antolin Alcaraz was dispossessed in the build-up to their third.
ref: 2011 October 15, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 1-3 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:
text: Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
ref: 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
text: The rest were undergoing special underbody cleaning safety checks at TfW depots, after speculation that the cause of the incidents may have been a build-up of engine oil and combustible material such as fallen leaves and general detritus.
ref: 2023 March 22, “Network News: Class 175s withdrawn for safety checks after fires”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of buildup.
build-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of build-up
winnow the wheat from the chaff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: winnows the wheat from the chaff
form: winnowing the wheat from the chaff
form: winnowed the wheat from the chaff
form: winnowed the wheat from the chaff
Senses: glosses: Synonym of separate the wheat from the chaff.
synonyms: word: separate the wheat from the chaff
oppilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oppilates
form: oppilating
form: oppilated
form: oppilated
Etymology: From Latin oppīlāre.
Senses: glosses: to block, to stop up, to obstruct
Derived terms: deoppilate
slenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slenters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shlenter.
oppilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oppilate
oppilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oppilate
oppilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oppilate
stolle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stolles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of stole (“garment consisting of a decorated band worn on the back of the neck, each end hanging over the chest”).
sudder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Arabic صَدْر (ṣadr, “chief, commander”).
Senses: examples: the Sudder Courts
1862, Bombay (Presidency). Sadr Faujdārī ʻAdālat, Cases Disposed of by the Sudder Foujdaree Adawlut of Bombay
(see title)
glosses: supreme; chief
Derived terms: sudder ameen
suist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suists
Etymology: Latin suus (“belonging to himself or oneself”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: […] rather than alter his pace, or path (that Conscience or Reason boundeth him in) he will bee poor, undone; any thing but the Ratio formalis, essentiall of a Suist, or selfe-polititian, that is changeable.
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
synonyms: selfist
glosses: A selfish person
Related terms: suicism
teel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: teal
form: til
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi तिल (til, “sesame”).
Senses: examples: teel oil
glosses: sesame
book-keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book-keepers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bookkeeper.
book-keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book-keeper
CPU time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CPU times
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: process time
processing time
processor time
glosses: The length of time that a central processing unit takes to process instructions for a particular program or task.
absolute space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut speɪs/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut speɪs/
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The Newtonian concept of an unchanging and unchangeable reference system of spatial (and temporal) coordinates that is the same for all observers
Synonyms: absolute space-time
Related terms: equivalence principle
antiforeigner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiforeigner
form: most antiforeigner
Etymology: From anti- + foreigner.
Senses: examples: text: There are some minor extremist movements that are antiforeigner.
ref: 2006, Terttu Leney, Culture Smart! Finland: A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette:
glosses: Opposed to foreigners.
verdun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verduns
Etymology: Named after the French town of Verdun.
Senses: glosses: A 16th-century form of rapier.
nonfleet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fleet.
Senses: examples: nonfleet automobile insurance
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a fleet of vehicles.
transcreate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transcreates
form: transcreating
form: transcreated
form: transcreated
form: trans-create
Etymology: From trans- + create or Back-formation from transcreation. (Etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: At a guess, this is a later and more successful development from the earlier attempts to transcreate abstract Indian imagery into English
ref: 1961, Writers Workshop (Calcutta, India), Writers Workshop, page 29:
text: "We need someone to trans-create, rather than translate our advertising for the Hispanic market, especially in Dade," said Sandy Tapper, NCNB advertising
ref: 1986 October 20, “Agency Mulls Economic Question”, in South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
text: Even Raja Rao's, Serpent and the Rope, is much less successful in its attempt to transcreate a Sanskrit structure into English.
ref: 1988, World Englishes: WE., volumes 7-8, page 331:
text: ... saying under my breath as it were: Let him transcreate as much as he likes but allow me merely to translate.
ref: 2004, Sujit Mukherjee with Meenakshi Mukherjee, Translation as recovery, page 140:
text: Decker explained that no two languages will transcreate the same. While some lyrics may be changed for linguistic and cultural clarity, the spiritual essence of the hymn will always remain the same. The language of the Spirit is universal.
ref: 2025, Fifteen New Hymns Available to Use in Church and at Home:
glosses: To transfer the creative elements of a work into another culture or language.
Derived terms: transcreation
transcreates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transcreate
transcreating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transcreate
nonallergen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonallergens
Etymology: From non- + allergen.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that is not an allergen.
nonbald
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bald.
Senses: glosses: Not bald.
nonallergens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonallergen
transcreated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transcreate
competitionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From competition + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without competition.
Related terms: monopoly
oligopoly
peerless
price fixing
price gouging
take it or leave it
competitionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more competitionlike
form: most competitionlike
Etymology: From competition + -like.
Senses: examples: a competitionlike immune response
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of competition; apparently competitive.
J'ouvert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: French jour ouvert, "open day".
Senses: glosses: A large street party held during Carnival in the eastern Caribbean region.
metacircular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metacircular
form: most metacircular
Etymology: From meta- + circular.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting metacircularity.
gougère
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gougères
Etymology: From French gougère.
Senses: glosses: In French cuisine, a savoury choux pastry made with cheese, usually Gruyère.
gougères
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gougère
transcreation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcreations
form: trans-creation
Etymology: Blend of translation + creation
Senses: examples: 2025: "Fifteen New Hymns Available to Use in Church and at Home": Creating a global hymnbook requires an extensive process called transcreation. Transcreation teams include professional linguists, poets, musicians and talented Church members. Decker said there is more to the process than simply translating words from one language to another.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: An adaptation of a creative work into another language or culture.
transcreation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans-creation
Etymology: From transcreate + -ion, trans- + creation or from French transcreation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
glosses: A type of creation by a deity or primal force.
transcreations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transcreation
Maryknollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maryknoller
Zumba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzum.bə/
Etymology: From trademark Zumba created by the Colombian Beto Pérez. He wanted to call it "rumba", but this name was already taken for the Cuban musical genre and could create confusion. So he and his partner began to try initial letters until they liked "sumba", but Beto Pérez decided to write it with "z" because he liked the fictional character Zorro when he was a child.
Senses: glosses: A fitness program that combines Latin and international music with dance.
nonautomation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + automation.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to automation.
nonspiked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + spiked.
Senses: glosses: Not spiked.
geoastrophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + astrophysical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to geoastrophysics.
geoarchaeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + archaeological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to geoarchaeology
Derived terms: biogeoarchaeological
Related terms: geoarchaeologically
housewifey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more housewifey
form: most housewifey
Etymology: From housewife + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It's Laura's idea to put a housewifey kind of woman in the Primm ads.
ref: 1991, Alexandra Lyle, Keepsakes:
synonyms: housewifely
housewifish
hypernyms: wifey#Adjective
wifely#Adjective
wifish#Adjective
uxorial#Adjective
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a housewife.
Related terms: word: housewifery
word: wifey
nosebleeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosebleeders
Etymology: From nose + bleeder.
Senses: glosses: One who experiences nosebleeds.
nosebleeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosebleeder
hippopotamuslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hippopotamuslike
form: most hippopotamuslike
Etymology: From hippopotamus + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hippopotamus.
Synonyms: hippolike
wene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Now if ye felt your belly in ſuche caſe, that ye muſt be fayne al daye to tende it with warme clothes, oꝛ els ye were not able to abide the payne, would ye recken your belly ſicke oꝛ whole? I wene ye would recken your belly not in good quart.
ref: c. 1522 (date written), Thomas More, “A Treatyce (Vnfynyshed) vppon These Wordes of Holye Scrypture, Memorare Nouissima, & Ineternum non Peccabis, Remember the Last Thynges, and Thou shalt Neuer Synne. […]”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, book I, page 80, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of ween.
nonhabitual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + habitual.
Senses: glosses: Not habitual.
nonaspectual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aspectual.
Senses: glosses: Not aspectual.
proform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proforms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pro-form.
proforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proform
knifegrinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knifegrinders
form: knife-grinder
Etymology: From knife + grinder.
Senses: glosses: One whose trade is the sharpening of knives on a grindstone.
knifegrinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knifegrinder
gourmandism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gourmand + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: When gourmandism turns into gluttony, voracity, or perversion, it loses its name, its attributes, and all of its meaning, and becomes fit subject for the moralist who can preach upon it or the doctor who can cure it with his prescriptions.
ref: 1825, Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste:
synonyms: epicurism
gourmanderie
gourmandery
gourmandry
gourmetism
glosses: A passion for and deep interest in good food.
glosses: Gluttony.
nonglottal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + glottal.
Senses: glosses: Not glottal.
triphthongize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: triphthongizes
form: triphthongizing
form: triphthongized
form: triphthongized
Etymology: From triphthong + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert to a triphthong.
Derived terms: triphthongization
triphthongizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of triphthongize
triphthongizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of triphthongize
triphthongized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of triphthongize
nondiphthongal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + diphthongal.
Senses: glosses: Not diphthongal.
centerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centering
noncentered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + centered.
Senses: glosses: Not centered.