cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nappie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nappies
Senses: examples: text: Depositing Susie in the bathinette, I removed the soiled nappie.
ref: 1954, Ernest Cady, We Adopted Three, page 65:
glosses: Alternative form of nappy:
A diaper.
examples: text: For family service, the 4-inch nappie is more practical than the sherbet glass.
ref: 1941, Beth Bailey McLean, The Table Graces, page 19:
text: The solid colored pieces sold with this line were the nappie, fruit bowl, creamer, sugar bowl with lid, and cup.
ref: 2003, Bob Page, Dale Frederiksen, Dean Six, Homer Laughlin: Decades of Dinnerware, page 219:
text: Numerous Eastern and Midwestern glasshouses produced the nappie in several sizes.
ref: 2009, Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in South Boston, page 114:
glosses: Alternative form of nappy:
A shallow bowl.
examples: a. 1846, Robert Burns, Comforts of the Poor, 1846, Henry Corbould, The Book of the Poets, page 448,
An' whyles twalpennie-worth o′ nappie / Can mak the bodies unco happy ;
glosses: Alternative form of nappy:
A type of strong ale.
National Convention
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A constitutional and legislative assembly holding executive power during the French Revolution.
nerd out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nerds out
form: nerding out
form: nerded out
form: nerded out
Senses: examples: text: There appears to be something essential about that. I search my memory for every reference to decapitation found in a lifetime of nerding out at the library
ref: 2012 January 10, Michael Muhammad Knight, William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an, Berkeley: Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, →OL:
glosses: To study intensely, swot
examples: text: Even when he’s nerding out, he’s nerding out to the 10th power.
ref: 2009 August 25, Dave Itzkoff, “Successful Comic and Rodent Tries Unfamiliar Role: Sports Fan”, in New York Times:
glosses: To do nerdy things; to geek out.
provostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more provostal
form: most provostal
Etymology: From provost + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a provost.
provostorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more provostorial
form: most provostorial
Etymology: From provost + -orial.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a provost.
IJDB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /aɪ d͡ʒeɪ diː biː/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Journal of Developmental Biology.
nature strips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nature strip
IAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IATs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Implicit Association Test.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of import address table.
Implicit Association Test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Implicit Association Tests
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: a measure within social psychology designed to detect the strength of a person's automatic association between mental representations of objects (concepts) in memory
Implicit Association Tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Implicit Association Test
IATs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IAT
queue-jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queue-jumpers
Senses: examples: text: Instead, travellers are directed to the respective assembly points; this facilitates any last-minute changes in platform arrangements and also frustrates any would-be queue-jumpers.
ref: 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 263:
glosses: One who jumps the queue.
Synonyms: cutter
modificatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modificative
guild-halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guild-hall
onychophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From onycho- + -phagia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Nail biting.
La Toya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly a combination of the prefix La- + Toya, a Spanish pet form of Victoria.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th-century African-American usage.
Alora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Botswana, it means "my dream" in the Bantu languages.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Bantu languages of African origin.
dandelion clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandelion clock
forspan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forspans
form: forspanning
form: forspanned
form: forspanned
Etymology: From Middle English forspannen, forspanen, from Old English forspanan (“to mislead, lead astray, seduce, entice”), from Proto-Germanic *farspananą, *fraspananą (“to allure”), equivalent to for- + span. Cognate with Middle High German verspanen (“to tempt, entice”).
Senses: glosses: To entice; seduce.
forspan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fore- + span.
Senses: examples: text: In a remote age and country we find Njal, the hero of the Njal's saga, credited with forspan, or the gift of beholding such shadowy apparitions of future events — a power carefully distinguished from ordinary clear-sighted wisdom.
ref: 1902, Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith, The Encyclopaedia Britannica:
glosses: Foresight; the ability to see, predict, or perceive future events.
forsweal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forsweals
form: forswealing
form: forswealed
form: forswealed
Etymology: From Middle English forswelen, forswælen, from Old English forswǣlan (“to burn, burn up, inflame, consume”), equivalent to for- + sweal.
Senses: glosses: To burn up.
forloppin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: forloppen
Etymology: From for- + loppin, past participle of loup (“to run, leap”).
Senses: glosses: Being a runaway, vagabond, or renegade.
molleton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molletons
Etymology: French molleton.
Senses: glosses: A kind of thick woollen material, once important in the Canada trade.
forlong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forlongs
form: forlonging
form: forlonged
form: forlonged
Etymology: From Middle English forlangen, equivalent to for- + long. Cognate with Middle High German verlangen.
Senses: examples: text: Now certain shadows followed me. Forlonged memories move round From visions inside my head I see [...]
ref: 2005, Swede Hastings, Creeping Shadows:
text: And then after, forlonged, forlonging, longing without end. I looked at his hands, his fingers long, elegant, the hands of a conductor.
ref: 2009, Carol Gilligan, Kyra:
glosses: To fill with longing.
Derived terms: forlonging
forlong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forlongs
Senses: examples: text: Again, Oh read ouer D. John Bridges, for it is a worthy work, is: Printed oner sea, in Europe, within two forlongs of a Bouncing Priest, at the Cost and Charges of Martin Marprelate, Gent, 1589.
ref: 1857, Robert Conger Pell, Milledulcia:
text: Besides, he divided all the road into miles, of near eight forlongs each, and set up pillars of stone to mark the divisions.
ref: 1881, Plutarchus, Plutarch's Lives, tr., with notes and a mem. by J. and W. Langhorne:
text: A parcel of land in 'Wodeforlonge' containing 1 acre lying in the upper forlong of that field between land of the prioress called 'Candalescroftes' sometime of Robert Adelm* and land sometime of William Barnevyle and extending lengthwise from land called the 'Menecroft' to land of said William towards Lyddynges water.
ref: 1971, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of the Close Rolls ...: Preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume 44, page 295:
glosses: Alternative form of furlong.
molletons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molleton.
box jelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box jellies
Senses: glosses: box jellyfish
scrub bull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrub bulls
Senses: examples: text: ‘These ridges are full of old scrub bulls.’
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 137:
glosses: A bull living in (or bred in) the wild; a feral bull in the outback.
drill ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drill grounds
form: drillground
Senses: glosses: An open area where military drills are practised.
drill grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drill ground
drillground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drillgrounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drill ground.
law suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: law suits
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of lawsuit.
Rhaeto-Romance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːtəʊɹə(ʊ)ˈmans/
Forms: form: Raeto-Romance
form: Rheto-Romance
Etymology: From Latin Rhaetus + -o- + Romance, after German Rhätoromanisch.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: Rhaeto-Romanic
Rhaetian
glosses: A group of related Romance languages spoken in north and north-eastern Italy and southeastern Switzerland, or any of these languages individually.
Meronyms: word: Friulian
word: Ladin
word: Romansch
SCJD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SCJDs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Sun Certified Java Developer.
SCEA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SCEAs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Sun Certified Enterprise Architect.
think aloud protocols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of think aloud protocol
think-aloud protocols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of think-aloud protocol
monoparental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + parental.
Senses: synonyms: uniparental
glosses: Having or involving only one parent.
talk aloud protocol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talk aloud protocols
form: talk-aloud protocol
Senses: glosses: Synonym of think aloud protocol.
synonyms: word: think aloud protocol
talk aloud protocols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talk aloud protocol
talk-aloud protocol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talk-aloud protocols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of talk aloud protocol.
talk-aloud protocols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talk-aloud protocol
ESPN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛn
Senses: examples: text: Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.
ref: 2010, Douglas Holt, Douglas Cameron, Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345:
text: The NFL and ESPN announced a deal Tuesday that will see the league’s NFL Network and other media assets headed to the cable television giant in exchange for a 10% equity stake in the Disney-owned company.
ref: 2025 August 5, Kevin Dotson, “NFL to take 10% stake in ESPN in new media rights deal”, in CNN:
topics: media
glosses: Initialism of Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.
monoplace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + place.
Senses: glosses: Of a hyperbaric chamber: suitable for use by one person at a time.
monoski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoskis
Etymology: From mono- + ski.
Senses: glosses: A variant of a downhill skiing/alpine skiing ski, that is very wide, allowing for both right and left ski boots to the attached to the same ski, with a doubled-up set of bindings, placed side-by-side. It has the appearance of an extremely wide ski or narrow alpine snowboard, though with binding mounting locations similar to that of a regular ski.
glosses: A type of sitski with a single ski, used by wheelchair-bound skiers in downhill skiing and para-alpine. It is paired with outriggers, ski poles that have skis attached to the bottom, instead of the pick/spike, to function as outrigger runners for the skier sitting in the monoski.
Synonyms: uniski
Coordinate terms: biski
Related terms: monoskiing
monoskier
monoski
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monoskis
form: monoskiing
form: monoskied
form: monoskied
Etymology: From mono- + ski.
Senses: glosses: To use a monoski; to participate in monoskiing.
continued fractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continued fraction
pseudonymize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pseudonymizes
form: pseudonymizing
form: pseudonymized
form: pseudonymized
form: pseudonymise
Etymology: From pseudonym + -ize.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To depersonalize or anonymize (data); a procedure by which the most identifying fields within a data record are replaced by one or more artificial identifiers, or pseudonyms.
Derived terms: pseudonymizer
OO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of oo.
OO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of object-oriented.
indigo blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The synthetic dye indigotin used to replace natural indigo
rag day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rag days
Senses: glosses: A day on which university students do silly things for charity; often the culmination of rag week.
common columbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common columbines
Etymology: From the Latin adjective columbīna "of [a] pigeon[s], dove[s]" (which was used as a modifier, qualifier (i.e. pigeon-like, pigeonish, dove-like, dovish) before the noun herba "plant"), which comes from the noun columba "pigeon, dove". The adjective columbina was later nominalized, with the noun herba "plant" understood. (columbine/dove [plant] < columbina [herba]).
Senses: glosses: Aquilegia vulgaris, native to most of Europe, excepting Scandinavia.
Synonyms: sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: aquilegia
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: capon's-feather
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: capon's feather
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: capon's-tail
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: capon's tail
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
english: cultivar
translation: cultivar
word: clematis-flowered columbine
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: European columbine
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: European crowfoot
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: crowsfoot
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: dove plant
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: granny's bonnet
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: granny's nightcap
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: variegated columbine
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: variegated European columbine
sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
word: woodside variegated columbine
Hyponyms: sense: Aquilegia vulgaris
english: cultivar
translation: cultivar
word: black barlow
Related terms: taxonomic: Aquilegia alpina
word: Alpine columbine
taxonomic: Aquilegia atrata
word: dark columbine
word: columbarium
word: columbula
word: columbulus
english: Columbus
translation: Columbus
word: columbus
Dongola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The original form was Tungul, possibly from Old Nubian ⲧⲟⲩⳟ (touŋ, “to be secure”), hence fortress.
Senses: glosses: The capital of the state of Northern Sudan.
Derived terms: Dongola kid
Dongola leather
Dongola process
Dongola race
Dongola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dongolas
Etymology: The original form was Tungul, possibly from Old Nubian ⲧⲟⲩⳟ (touŋ, “to be secure”), hence fortress.
Senses: synonyms: Dongolawi
glosses: A horse of a large Middle Eastern breed.
Khandwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Nimaad, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Muskoka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ojibwe: the region is named for the Ojibwe chief who resided there, Mesqua Ukie / Mesqua Ukee (whose name is said to mean "not easily turned back in the day of battle").
Senses: glosses: A regional municipality of Central Ontario, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Muskoka chair
Muskoka Lakes
cream cracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɹiːm ˈkɹækə(r)/
Forms: form: cream crackers
Etymology: Named from the creaming process that mixes the ingredients together; they do not contain cream.
Senses: glosses: A type of light, plain, savoury biscuit made with yeast.
Derived terms: cream crackered
toaster oven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toaster ovens
Senses: glosses: A type of small countertop electric oven with a rack, used to make toast.
Hypernyms: countertop oven
morcellement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of morcellation.
synonyms: word: morcellation
monoskis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoski
monoskis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present of monoski
neddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neddy
seizin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seizins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seisin.
mismake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mismakes
form: mismaking
form: mismade
form: mismade
Etymology: From Middle English mismaken, equivalent to mis- + make. Cognate with Dutch mismaken (“to defeature, deform”), German missmachen (“to fail to make”).
Senses: glosses: To unmake; depose.
glosses: To shape or form improperly; make badly or amiss; spoil in making.
glosses: To disturb (oneself); put (oneself) out.
Derived terms: mismade
mismaking
moucharabieh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moucharabiehs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mashrabiyya.
mashrabiyya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʃɹəˈbi.ə/
Forms: form: mashrabiyyas
form: mashrabiyya
form: mashrabiya
form: moucharabieh
form: moucharaby
form: mouchrabieh
form: mushrebiyeh
Etymology: From French moucharaby, later reborrowed from its source, Arabic مَشْرَبِيَّة (mašrabiyya), from مِشْرَبَة (mišraba, “small jug”), from the water jars placed in it to provide evaporative cooling.
Senses: examples: text: The upper floors of the buildings bordering the street leading to the mosque feature mashrabiyya, intricate wooden lattice window screens. […] In contrast to the modest mashrabiyya overlooking the alley, on the side facing the main street, the buildings feature inviting open balconies accessed by louvered doors.
ref: 2009, Deborah Starr, Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1:
topics: architecture
glosses: A balcony in North Africa enclosed with carved wooden latticework.
examples: text: And who is it who contemplates those thickly studded doors and windows covered with closely worked mashrabiyya and seriously thinks that some sort of enchantment lies beyond them?
ref: 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus, published 1993, page 123:
glosses: The latticework itself, also used to craft certain objects.
mislook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈlʊk/
Forms: form: mislooks
form: mislooking
form: mislooked
form: mislooked
Etymology: From Middle English misloken, equivalent to mis- + look.
Senses: glosses: To sin by looking.
glosses: To look unfavorably on.
examples: text: “We shared that with the FBI,” said Robert Delfin, Chief of Intelligence command for the Philippine National Police. “They may have mislooked and didn't appreciate the info coming from the Philippine police.
ref: 2005, James Bamford, A Pretext For War:
glosses: To miss in searching; mislay or lose temporarily; neglectively overlook.
examples: text: To look for "organic form" or for active conflict ultimately resolved, "all passion spent," is to mislook.
ref: 1977, Israeli Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Makhon ha-Yiśreʼeli le-poʼeṭiḳah ṿe-semyoṭiḳah ʻal-shem Porṭer, PTL.:
glosses: To look incorrectly or amiss.
mislook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈlʊk/
Etymology: From Middle English mislok, mysloke, equivalent to mis- + look.
Senses: examples: text: The story of Perseus and Medusa contains a suggestion of how to overcome the evils of "Mislook" in that Perseus is victorious through his use of the shield of Pallas and the sword of Mercury.
ref: 1975, Patrick J. Gallacher, Love, the word, and Mercury: A Reading of John Gower's Confessio Amantis'
glosses: Sinful looking.
moulinette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːlɪˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: moulinettes
Etymology: From French moulinette.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A food mill.
glosses: The ostentatious twirling of a sword when facing multiple opponents, suggesting the turning sails of a windmill.
mislore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English mislore, from Old English mislār (“ill teaching, evil suggestion”), equivalent to mis- + lore.
Senses: examples: text: Then if both we and such as we will Rome-shape Our own mislore, the whole great world of Christians In oneness with the headship of Rome's Pontiff, May, with a crushing force against outsiders, Await with him in joy Christ's second coming.
ref: 1898, William Marshall, Aarbert:
text: Sometimes, drowning away from his own eyes all glory in his achievement, must have come memory of his mistreatment of the Pinzons, knowledge that though he had found new lands by the chances of luck and mislore he had still no notion what lands they were.
ref: 2010, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Smeddum: A Lewis Grassic Gibbon Anthology
glosses: Evil teaching or counsel; wrong or false teaching; misinformation.
Related terms: misteaching
minstrelry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minstrelries
Etymology: From minstrel + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The art of minstrels.
examples: text: Possibly it was a tune of West African origin or, equally likely, a piece of mock-Ethiopian minstrelry composed by a white American.
ref: 1998, Neil Parsons, King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain Through African Eyes, page 162:
text: Minstrelry (making oneself up as “the other” to take the other over, to evacuate difference, to control representation) is indeed a dangerous and unethical practice.
ref: 2007, Judith Miller, Ariane Mnouchkine, page 58:
text: Spearheaded by Charlie Parker, bebop, or just bop, had evolved in the 1940s, partly as an antidote to the crowd-pleasing showmanship (demeaning minstrelry, as they saw it) that was demanded in popular big band swing.
ref: 2009, Travis Elborough, The Long-Player Goodbye:
glosses: A simplified depiction of another culture, especially black African, for entertainment purposes, generally seen as offensive.
Synonyms: sense: art of minstrels
word: minstrelsy
mouvementé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːv(ə)ˈmɒnteɪ/
ipa: /muːv(ə)ˈmɑ̃teɪ/
ipa: /ˌmuv(ə)ˌmɑnˈteɪ/
Forms: form: more mouvementé
form: most mouvementé
Etymology: Borrowed from French mouvementé.
Senses: glosses: Animated, agitated, bustling, full of variety.
glosses: lively
raw_tags: of music
moucharabiehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moucharabieh
moulinettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moulinette
laudits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɔːdɪts/
Etymology: From Latin laudite, second-person plural imperative of laudere (“to praise”).
Senses: glosses: praise
examples: ref: 1997 July 6, Kathleen Parrish, “Award-winning Teacher Generous With Laudits”, in The Morning Call, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2013:
ref: 2008 December 20, “Obama takes a break after cabinet laudits”, in Bangladesh News, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016:
glosses: thanks, particularly when publicly given
Synonyms: plaudits
praise
thanks
Related terms: laudable
laud
sinfoniettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinfonietta
mailstore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mailstores
Etymology: From mail + store.
Senses: examples: text: Not too long ago, most mailstores consisted of a single text file per user containing the user's messages concatenated together within that file.
ref: 2000, Dianna Mullet, Kevin Mullet, Managing IMAP, page 6:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A structure in a file system that stores electronic mail.
mailstores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mailstore
newsstore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsstores
Etymology: From news + store.
Senses: glosses: A newsagent's shop.
newsstores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newsstore
seigneury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seigneuries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seigneurie.
outside centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outside centre
saltweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltweeds
Etymology: From salt + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants of the genus Atriplex.
saltweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltweed
rhythm guitars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhythm guitar
lead guitars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lead guitar
leather cheerios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leather cheerio
aforenoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + noted.
Senses: glosses: Noted earlier in a document.
iconologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iconology
dustmat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustmats
Etymology: From dust + mat.
Senses: glosses: A mat intended to collect dust and dirt, usually at the entrance to a building.
floormat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floormats
form: floor mat
Etymology: From floor + mat.
Senses: glosses: A mat that is laid on the floor.
dustmats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dustmat
floormats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floormat
taskboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taskboards
Etymology: From task + board.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: In Agile software development, a kind of notice board listing outstanding development tasks and who is responsible for them.
taskboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taskboard
postcart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postcarts
Etymology: From post + cart.
Senses: glosses: A cart used to deliver the post.
postcarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postcart
Bechuana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bechuanas
form: Bechwana
Etymology: See Botswana.
Senses: examples: text: He was a Bechuana by birth, a good hunter, and, for a native, a very clever man.
ref: 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines:
glosses: A member of the Tswana people.
Bechuanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bechuana
loquot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loquots
Senses: examples: text: ... [T]here is a good garden with the best loquot trees in it that I know, and some nice young mangoes, of which I hope great things.
ref: 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, Cassel and Company, published 1907, page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of loquat.
loquots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loquot
Africander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Africanders
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Afrikaner.
glosses: Alternative form of Afrikander (“breed of cattle”).
glosses: An African born to a white father and black mother.
Africanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Africander
voorlooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voorloopers
Senses: examples: text: Yet there are the 'lands,' S lands, most of them, along which the oxen must have walked and their drivers and voorloopers trudged, since none can dispute the actual evidence that their appearance affords.
ref: 1902, Henry Rider Haggard, Rural England: Being an Account of Agricultural and Social Researches Carried Out in the Years 1901 & 1902:
text: I made up two of the smouldering fires, the light of which the voorlooper had seen upon the sky.
ref: 1921, H. Rider Haggard, She and Alan:
glosses: One who goes ahead to reconnoitre; a scout.
voorloopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voorlooper
disselboom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disselbooms
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans disselboom, from Dutch disselboom, a compound of dissel (“support pole”) and boom (“tree; beam”).
Senses: examples: text: That morning on which Mr. Neville was starting I saw Jim standing by my wagon and cutting up tobacco on the disselboom.
ref: 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines:
glosses: One of the poles supporting a wagon.
disselbooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disselboom
Griqua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Griquas
form: Griqua
Etymology: From Afrikaans Griekwa.
Senses: glosses: Any of a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial black people, originally populating the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony, living as seminomadic commandos of mounted gunmen.
Related terms: Griqualand
Griquas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Griqua
spoorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoorers
Etymology: From spoor + -er.
Senses: glosses: A hunter who tracks game by its spoor.
spoorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoorer
inkfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkfish
inkoosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkoosis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inkosi.
inkoosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkoosi
tambouki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
[…] they [elephants] had left a trail like a carriage road behind them, crushing down the thick bush in their furious flight as though it were tambouki grass.
glosses: Alternative form of tambuki.
veldtschoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veldtschoons
form: veldtschoon
form: veldtschoen
Etymology: From Afrikaans.
Senses: glosses: A shoe of untanned leather.
veldtschoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veldtschoon
veldskoens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veldskoen
veldskoene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veldskoen
daccha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Related to dagga?
Senses: examples: text: […] the Kafirs a few yards off sucking their intoxicating daccha from a pipe of which the mouthpiece was made of the horn of an eland […]
ref: H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, Chapter 4
glosses: cannabis
evictable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evictable
form: most evictable
Etymology: From evict + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being evicted.
moocha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moochas
Etymology: From Zulu unmutsha.
Senses: examples: text: Umbopa did so, at the same time slipping off the long military great coat which he wore, and revealing himself naked except for the moocha round his centre and a necklace of lions' claws.
ref: 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, Cassel and Company, published 1907, page 48:
text: Bacheta took from his moocha a thick wooden peg that was a pin holding the moocha round his loins.
ref: 1908, Douglas Blackburn, Leaven: A Black and White Story:
glosses: A loincloth made from animals' tails or strips of skin; part of the traditional dress of Zulu males.
moochas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moocha
mouseable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mousable
Etymology: From mouse + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being navigated, clicked, etc. using a mouse.
Related terms: keyboardable
mousable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mouseable.
urbanitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From urban + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: The greatest hindrance to the development of a rural patriotism is that very prevalent and quite contagious disease, urbanitis.
ref: 1916, Ernest Irving Antrim, Fifty million strong: or, Our rural reserve:
text: There are those who return time and time again to sample the rich wilderness offerings of this granite-ribbed island in the sky. And nothing will cure an aggravated case of urbanitis quicker or more thoroughly than a weekend dose of the San Jacintos.
ref: 2006, John Robinson, David Money Harris, San Bernardino Mountain Trails: 100 Hikes in Southern California, page 147:
glosses: A notional disease associated with urban living or habits.
ceramically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ceramic + -ally.
Senses: examples: ceramically bonded silicon carbide
glosses: By means of ceramics.
e-marketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + marketing or e-market + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The problem for e-marketing is that the use of DRM in its most restrictive manner limits the value and use of purchased goods (maximum numbers of reinstalls, limited numbers of redownloads of the software).
ref: 2011, Stephen Dann, Susan Dann, E-Marketing: Theory and Application:
glosses: marketing by electronic means, especially the Internet
abelisaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abelisaurids
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any of the Abelisauridae, a family of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaurs.
abelisaurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abelisaurid
ceratosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ceratosauria + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the dinosaur infraorder Ceratosauria.
ceratosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceratosaurians
Etymology: Ceratosauria + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the dinosaur infraorder Ceratosauria.
ceratosaurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceratosaurian
lung sick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lung-sick.
lung sick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As for “lung sick,” which is a dreadful form of pneumonia, very prevalent in this country, they [the oxen] had all been inoculated against it. This is done by cutting a slit in the tail of an ox, and binding in a piece of the diseased lung of an animal which had died of the sickness.
ref: 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, Bernhard Tauchnitz (publisher, 1886), page 42
text: […] a contagious disease broke out among my cattle; […] . Having shot one, the disease proved to be a contagious pleuro-pneumonia, similar to the ‘lung sick’ so prevalent in this neighborhood, affecting hips and shoulder-blades, causing lameness. […] we were surrounded by ‘lung-sick’ cattle dying near our encampment.
ref: 1886, Emil Holub, letter, quoted in Philip J. Butler, letter to the editor, in Norman Lockyer (editor), Nature, Volume 35, Number 890 (1886 November 18), Macmillan and Co., page 54
text: Lung sickness appeared at Toise River about this time. […] I certainly think that if affected animals with lung sick cannot be slaughtered on recovery they should be branded.
ref: 1899, J. H. Shepherd, report, in Report of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and the Assistant Veterinary Surgeons, for the Year 1898, W. A. Richards & Sons, page 84
glosses: Alternative form of lungsickness.
scherms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scherm
e-marketer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-marketers
Etymology: From e- + marketer.
Senses: glosses: one who engages in e-marketing
e-marketers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-marketer
thoughtsick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thoughtsick
form: most thoughtsick
Etymology: From thought + sick.
Senses: glosses: Sick with worry.
brainsickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being brainsick; mental confusion or giddiness
gallsickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gall + sickness.
Senses: glosses: An acute or subacute non-contagious, infectious disease of cattle.
Synonyms: word: anaplasmosis
word: galsiekte
anaplasmoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anaplasmosis
soulsick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soulsick
form: most soulsick
form: soul-sick
form: soul sick
Etymology: From soul + sick.
Senses: glosses: Having a spiritual problem, especially one affecting one's mood.
glosses: Having fallen into an immoral state of sin.
cockahoop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cockahoop
form: most cockahoop
Senses: examples: text: She'd only think it was a trap; or she'd think I'd caved in and be so cockahoop we should never get any forrarder.
ref: 1912, Pearson's magazine: Volume 27:
text: Then, when Fernandes’s cross landed expertly on Paul Pogba’s head the Frenchman delivered a cool finish before Mason Greenwood’s late strike had them cockahoop.
ref: 2021 April 29, Jamie Jackson, “Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of cock-a-hoop.
Prufrockian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Prufrockian
form: most Prufrockian
Etymology: From Prufrock + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, a poem by T. S. Eliot, published 1915, marked by weariness, regret, embarrassment, and longing.
weather pains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: osseous pain claimed to be caused by changes in barometric pressure
crown moldings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crown molding
nonlateralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lateralized.
Senses: glosses: Not lateralized.
nonspatialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + spatialized.
Senses: glosses: Not spatialized.
ranchburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranchburgers
Etymology: From ranch + -burger.
Senses: examples: text: Judy Drive was a short gravel-mixed road flanked by a dozen aluminum-sided "ranchburgers" with wading pools or pick-up trucks parked on the front lawns.
ref: 1991, Ellen Harris, Dying to Get Married: The Courtship and Murder of Julie Miller Bulloch, HarperPaperbacks, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: A cookie-cutter ranch house, typically found in a suburban subdivision.
examples: text: Make ranchburgers by dividing the meat for each hamburger into two patties. Place a spoonful of chili sauce and chopped onion on one patty and cover it with the other, sealing it well at the edges.
ref: 1966 April 7, “Ground Beef Extra Spicy”, in The Baltimore Sun:
glosses: A hamburger featuring elements of the cuisine of the Southwestern United States.
ranchburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranchburger
Redfella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Redfellas
form: redfella
Etymology: Blend of Red (“a Communist”) + goodfella.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe posted photos on the Internet so everyone would remember the Redfellas were a force to be reckoned with.
ref: 2007, Linda Castillo, Overkill, Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: A member of the Russian mafia.
Redfellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Redfella
redfella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redfellas
Senses: examples: text: "He's known to go a little overboard with the redfellas. To be fair, from what I understand, it's the only way to deal with those guys. The Russian mob got a big head start when they came over here in the seventies. […]
ref: 2008, Charlie Stella, Mafiya, Pegasus Books, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Redfella.
redfellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redfella
SFG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SFGs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of signal-flow graph.
qualifier: spectroscopy
glosses: Initialism of sum frequency generation.
rejuvenile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejuveniles
Etymology: From re- + juvenile. Compare rejuvenate.
Senses: examples: text: At $15 to $30 for each action figure, re-staffing the Cobra Command center (home to G.I. Joe's arch-nemesis, Cobra Commander) isn't cheap. So what's driving this rejuvenile movement? Marketing, mostly.
ref: 2007 December 15, Tony Dokoupil, “Forty-Year-Old Virgins”, in Newsweek:
glosses: An adult whose interests and activities are characteristic of those of children.
Synonyms: adultescent
kidult
rejuveniles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rejuvenile
soccer fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soccer field
TTS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TTSs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of tarsal tunnel syndrome
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of T-Tauri star.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of text-to-speech.
glosses: Initialism of temporary threshold shift.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
synonyms: ASC
glosses: Initialism of time to surface.
Related terms: sense: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome
word: TTP
sense: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome
word: VIPIT
sense: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome
word: VITT
TTS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Technology Transformation Services.
farnesane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The branched aliphatic hydrocarbon 2,6,10-trimethyldodecane, derived from farnesene, used as a biodiesel
fernane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fernanes
Etymology: From fern + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A specific triterpene hydrocarbon; any of many naturally-occurring derivatives of this compound.
Related terms: fernene
filicane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filicanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A specific triterpene hydrocarbon; any of many naturally-occurring derivatives of this compound
friedelane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friedelanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A specific triterpene hydrocarbon; any of many naturally-occurring derivatives of this compound
fukinane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fukinanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpene hydrocarbon 2,7,7a-trimethyl-2-propan-2-yl-3,3a,4,5,6,7-hexahydro-1H-indene; any of many naturally-occurring derivatives of this compound
furodysinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furodysinins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A specific sesquiterpenoid; any of many naturally-occurring derivatives of this compound, some of which are antiparasitic
fusidane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusidanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of antibiotics, produced by dermatophytes, that have a cyclopentanoperhydrophenanthrene structure
galacturonosyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galacturonosyltransferases
Etymology: From galacturonosyl + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase that catalyzes the transfer of a galacturonic acid residue
globotriaosylceramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globotriaosylceramides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycolipid that accumulates in the walls of blood vessels in people with a galactosidase deficiency
Derived terms: lysoglobotriaosylceramide
glucocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glucocentric
form: most glucocentric
Etymology: From gluco- + -centric.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a focus on glucose as the cause of a condition (to the exclusion of other factors)
Related terms: lipocentric
OOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: measurement
glosses: Initialism of object-oriented scanning.
OOS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of out of specification.
topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: Initialism of out of stock.
glosses: Initialism of out of scope.
glosses: Initialism of out of sample.
glosses: Initialism of out of service.
multiprogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + programme.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multiprogram.
cook-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cook-ups
Senses: glosses: A get-together for the purposes of cooking, especially one that produces large quantities of food.
Related terms: cook-up rice
Dauphiné
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dəʊfɪˈneɪ/
Forms: form: Dauphiny
Etymology: Borrowed from French Dauphiné, from Latin Delphinatus.
Senses: examples: text: At length this sect having spread from Dauphiny into several other provinces, became very numerous in Provence.
ref: 1563, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments:
text: Linen textile production was well-developed in the north-west and in the Dauphiné, and the manufacturing of silk cloths around Lyon and Nîmes.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 161:
glosses: A former province in southeastern France, centred on Grenoble.
Related terms: Dauphinois
Dauphinoise
dauphin
dauphine
delphinal
Dauphiny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dauphiné.
buckies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucky
British West Indies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: former name
glosses: The British colonies in around the Caribbean.
British Guiana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former British colony in northern South America, existing from 1831 to 1966; modern Guyana.
British Somaliland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a former British protectorate in the area of present-day Somalia, which (along with Jubaland) constituted the British dominions of modern Somalia.