cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
aryballos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aryballoses
form: aryballoi
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀρύβαλλος (arúballos).
Senses: glosses: A small Ancient Greek flask used to hold perfume or oil.
glosses: An Incan ceramic vessel with long neck, bulbous body, two handles, and pointed bottom.
aryballoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aryballos
all Sir Garnet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːl sɜː(ɹ)ˈɡɑː(ɹ)nət/
Etymology: From Sir Garnet Wolseley (1833–1913), a popular and successful general in the British Army during the second half of the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Righto; that’s all Sir Garnet. I like to see you civvies act up to your name.
ref: 1905, Longman's Magazine, volume 46, page 152:
text: Yes, Harry was all Sir Garnet on handles: butt-end loaded with lead, inlaid in all sorts of fancy-work — hearts, shamrocks, monograms and that sort of thing.
ref: 1907, The Lone Hand, volume 2, page 554:
text: “That’s all Sir Garnet, and don’t you make no mistake. Don’t you — make no mistake.” Here Mrs. Frith gave a very loud hiccup and waved her arms and did not even say “beg pardon” for the offensive noise.
ref: 1913, Compton Mackenzie, Youth's Encounter, Bell & Cockburn:
glosses: In order; perfect.
wikipedia: British Army
Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
Synonyms: A-okay
shipshape and Bristol fashion
armilustrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The nine days' sacred rite was then performed again, because a shower of stones had been seen to fall in the armilustrum.
ref: 1828, The History of Rome, volume 2, Talboys and Vincent:
text: In the times of the kings and of the republic it was covered with sumptuous edifices, the armilustrum, the temples of Diana, Juno Regina, Dea bona, Minerva, the atrium of Liberty, the palaces of Sura, of Trajan and the thermæ of Decius.
ref: 1849, Antonio Nibby, New Guide of Rome and the Environs:
text: S. Alessio, on the Aventine, supposed to mark the site of the Armilustrum, where Plutarch tells us that Tatius was interred.
ref: 1869, A Handbook of Rome and its Environs:
text: Beyond, on the left, is the CHURCH OF S. ALEXIUS, on the site of the Armilustrum, where the Sabine king, Titus Tatius, was buried.
ref: 1892, S. Russell Forbes, Rambles in Rome:
glosses: A festival, in Ancient Rome, in honour of Mars, the god of war.
bloaty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbloʊti/
Forms: form: bloatier
form: bloatiest
Etymology: From bloat + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by bloat or bloating.
catch on fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches on fire
form: catching on fire
form: caught on fire
form: caught on fire
Senses: glosses: Synonym of catch fire.
synonyms: word: catch fire
surf clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surf clams
Senses: glosses: Spisula solida, is a medium-sized marine clam found around the British and Irish coasts.
glosses: Spisula sachalinense or Mactromeris polynyma, clams commonly used in sushi.
Derived terms: Atlantic surf clam
surf clams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surf clam
van Stockum dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for Willem Jacob van Stockum, who rediscovered it in 1937, independently of an earlier discovery by Cornelius Lanczos in 1924.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In general relativity, an exact solution of the Einstein field equation in which the gravitational field is generated by dust rotating about an axis of cylindrical symmetry.
firmographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to firmographics.
firmographics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of firm + demographics
Senses: synonyms: emporographics
glosses: The use of sets of characteristics to segment commercial organizations, analogous to demographics for people.
Chineses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On the eighteenth of September, they encountred a great Juncke which they supposed to be Portugals, and after a hot fight forced her, found them Chineses, and were sorrie that they had ignorantly hurt their friends […]
ref: 1625, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus posthumus:
text: He squinted at the idol. "Ain't it funny," he observed, "how them Chineses take God to be an old man with long whiskers! But if that suits 'em, why, I reckon it's all right."
ref: 1937, Avocations, volumes 1-2, page 54:
text: Them Chineses is always squabbling amongst theirselves.
ref: 1934, Robert E. Howard, General Ironfist:
glosses: plural of Chinese
after a fashion
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: On gray mornings when the jests of the night before had shrunk to ribaldries without wit or dignity, they could, after a fashion, bring out this batch of common hopes and count them over, then smile at each other and repeat, by way of clinching the matter, the terse yet sincere Nietzscheanism of Gloria's defiant "I don't care!"
ref: 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 2:
text: [Henri] Soulé had decided to keep the Pavillon open, after a fashion, by closing down the salle and serving meals only in the bar and the nouvelle salle, with the help of the non-striking members of his staff—two maîtres d’hôtel, twenty-two chefs and cooks, the cashier, the hat-check girl, and a pantryman.
ref: 1953 March 28, Joseph Wechsberg, “Profiles: The Ambassador in the Sanctuary”, in The New Yorker, volume XXIX, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40:
text: These three islands therefore exemplify, after a fashion, the Rein-Murray theory of oceanic banks, upbuilt by pelagic deposits, as atoll foundations.
ref: 1976, William Morris Davis, The coral reef problem:
synonyms: in a sense
in a way
coordinate_terms: as it were
glosses: In some way; somehow; to an extent.
cyclecar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclecars
Etymology: From cycle + car, since considered to fill a market gap between the motorcycle and the car.
Senses: glosses: A small, lightweight, inexpensive car manufactured in the early twentieth century, characterised by the use of basic materials and sometimes fragile engineering.
cyclecars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclecar
jambool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jambools
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jambul.
jambools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jambool
dance the hempen jig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dances the hempen jig
form: dancing the hempen jig
form: danced the hempen jig
form: danced the hempen jig
Senses: synonyms: word: hang
word: swing
word: dance on a rope
word: dance on nothing
word: dance the hempen jig
word: dance the Tyburn jig
word: dance upon nothing
word: dangle
word: hang
word: ride a horse foaled by an acorn
word: stretch hemp
word: string up
word: swing
word: take a ride to Tyburn
word: trine
word: truss
word: wag hemp
glosses: To be executed by hanging.
Joule's cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: The cycle for the air engine proposed by Joule. In it air is taken by a pump from a cold chamber and compressed adiabatically until its pressure is equal to that of the air in a hot chamber, into which it is then delivered, thereby displacing an equal amount of hot air into the engine cylinder. Here it expands adiabatically to the temperature of the cold chamber into which it is finally exhausted. This cycle, reversed, is used in refrigeration.
judge-made
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The law of the 13th century was judge-made law in a fuller and more literal sense than the law of any succeeding century has been.
ref: 1904, Frederick Pollock, The Expansion of the Common Law:
glosses: Created by judges or judicial decision; used especially of law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as to extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc.
jubbeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jubbehs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jubbah.
jubbehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jubbeh
jubbah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jubbahs
form: djibba
form: djibbah
form: jibba
form: jibbah
form: jubba
form: jubbeh
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic جُبَّة (jubba). Doublet of jupe.
Senses: glosses: A long outer garment worn by Muslims.
jubbahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jubbah
jumping disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: jumping Frenchmen of Maine syndrome
pandeist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pænˈdiːɪst/
Forms: form: more pandeist
form: most pandeist
form: pan-deist
form: Pan-Deist
Etymology: From pandeism + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: [Y]ou're drifting somewhere in the Pandeist or Deist dogma, where god is either the Universe itself or is a part of each person.
ref: 1999, Brian R. West, Where is my God.:
text: Indeed, most of the staff is either Hindu or Moslem, but they are full of these pan-deist ideas, and even Zahir deliberately used the Christian word "God" rather than "Allah" when talking with me.
ref: 2003, Paul La Porte, Social Work and Other Experiences in India:
text: [S]ome pragmatists (such as William James) took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the World.
ref: 2007, John Lachs, Robert Talisse, American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, page 310:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: of or relating to pandeism.
pandeist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pænˈdiːɪst/
Forms: form: pandeists
form: pan-deist
form: Pan-Deist
Etymology: From pandeism + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Is Gordon a pan-deist, or a monotheist?
ref: 1975, American Jewish Congress, Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, page 41:
text: Does that mean that it holds a majority of Christians as its subjects? That it was founded by Christians? That it must hold only to what Christians say, ignoring Jews, Muslims, non-deists, pandeists, and all other non-Christians?
ref: 2003, Clay Colwell, BC Court rules FOR same sex marriage!!! YEAH!/CBC:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: One who believes in pandeism, a blend of pantheism and deism.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: one who believes in the truth of all religions
Related terms: deist
pantheist
pandeistic
pandeistical
pandeistically
reflectability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflectibility
Etymology: From reflect + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Night time results, for example, in an increase in reflectability, which is why a distant AM commercial broadcast station can often be heard at night but not by day.
ref: 1987, Neil D. Van Sickle, John F. Welch, Van Sickle's Modern Airmanship, page 225:
text: Such questions as his attitude to garlic and crosses, and his reflectability in mirrors, simply never arise — but he does eventually acquire the power to manifest himself by day.
ref: 1997, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture, page 81:
text: Second, ultrasonic data obtained with the high frequency SAM can be used for assessing reflectability or texture in clinical echographic imaging.
ref: 2013, Tribikram Kundu, Advanced Ultrasonic Methods for Material and Structure Inspection, Section 3.1:
glosses: The quality of being reflectable; able to be reflected.
durka durka
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Imitative; introduced in 2001 by the American cartoon South Park in the episode "Osama bin Laden has Farty Pants".
Senses: glosses: Mimicking Middle Eastern or Punjabi speech.
wikipedia: South Park
Related terms: ching chong
ooga booga
Wahalal
reflectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reflectable
form: most reflectable
Etymology: From reflect + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being reflected or thrown back; reflexible.
rewritability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rewrite + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: This is different from the rewritability of DVD-RW and is closer in function to a "removable hard drive" than to an optical disc.
ref: 2004, Bruce C. Nazarian, DVD Studio Pro 2: The Complete Guide to DVD Authoring, page xlix:
text: The apparent challenges in these methods are the durability of the writings, the toxicity of the inks and the rewritability of the papers.
ref: 2011, Peidong Yang, The Chemistry of Nanostructured Materials, page 28:
text: RFID architecture and the capacity and rewritability of memory, which can range from a few bits up to hundreds of kilobytes and can be either Read Only, Write Once & Read Only and Read & Write.
ref: 2014, Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio, Embedded Systems Design for High-Speed Data Acquisition and Control, page 88:
glosses: The state or condition of being rewritable.
Tom and Jerryism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A reference to Pierce Egan's 1821 book Life in London, or The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn Esq. and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, or the subsequent stage play.
Senses: examples: text: […] we have no wish to seduce sundry steady bachelors into the charmed circle of Tom and Jerryism, to the astonishment of their smug landlords and prim landladies […]
ref: 1823, Mammon in London; or, The spy of the day, page iv:
text: The nuisance of Tom and Jerryism could not have gained even its ephemeral popularity but for this reason. That England at the close of the reign of George III. had much to learn in the philosophy of social intercourse […]
ref: 1844, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England, volume 8, page 723:
text: I tried driving a hansom cab once. That has always been regarded as the acme of modern Tom and Jerryism. I stole it late one night from outside a public-house in Dean Street […]
ref: 1900, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel:
glosses: roistering; noisy drunken behaviour
quadrigram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrigrams
Etymology: From quadri- + -gram.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: fourgram
quadrigrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrigram
life hack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life hacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lifehack.
life hacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life hack
traceroutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traceroute
traceroutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of traceroute
jagweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jagweeds
Senses: examples: text: And who was the country club jagweed with her?
ref: 2012, Adrienne Giordano, Relentless Pursuit, Carina Press, →ISBN, page 65:
text: Granted, getting hooted at by a bunch of mysogynistic jagweeds in a car is different than getting sexually assaulted.
ref: 2013, Clara Richter, "It's not feminism, it's humanism", The Carroll News (John Carroll University), Volume 90, Number 5,10 October 2013, page 19
text: Stu started to see the leaders as the lazy jagweeds they were.
ref: 2014, Neryl Joyce, Mercenary Mum: My Journey from Young Mother to Baghdad Bodyguard, Nero, →ISBN:
glosses: A rude or obnoxious person; a jerk.
jagweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jagweed
living statue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: living statues
Senses: glosses: A street performer who poses like a statue, usually with realistic statue-like makeup, sometimes for hours at a time.
Synonyms: human statue
living statues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of living statue
stonebrood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stone + brood.
Senses: examples: text: Stonebrood disease of honey bees is rare and is considered to be of minor importance to beekeepers. Both brood and adult bees are susceptible to attack by several species of fungi belonging to the genus Aspergillus.
ref: 1978, Roger A. Morse, Honey Bee Pests, Predators, and Diseases, page 93:
glosses: A disease of honey bees caused by Aspergillus fungi that cover the larvae with a hard layer of powdery spores.
chalkbrood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chalk + brood.
Senses: glosses: A fungal disease of honey bees that gives the bodies of affected larvae a white and chalky appearance.
spirochaetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spirochetal.
brucellotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to brucellosis.
cloudy wing virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CWV
Senses: glosses: An icosahedral virus commonly found in honey bees, especially in collapsing colonies infested with Varroa destructor.
deformed wing virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An RNA virus affecting the honey bee, causing shrunken and deformed wings in the pupa.
Synonyms: DWV
Kakugo virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese かくご (kakugo, “ready to attack”) + virus.
Senses: glosses: An iflavirus that infects bees.
iflavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iflaviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Iflavirus of RNA viruses that infect various insects.
iflaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iflavirus
wackadoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wackadoodle
form: most wackadoodle
form: whackadoodle
Senses: examples: text: Within an hour, forty people were stuffed into his apartment, all carrying gifts, dressed for a party, and it quickly became obvious he'd prearranged a party for himself and not told me. Okay. That's a bit wackadoodle.
ref: 2006, Kirsten Lobe, Paris Hangover, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 45:
text: You will discover this soon, if you haven't already: Exposure to pregnancy and moms with newborns often causes otherwise rational people to say and do inexplicably inane things (and don't even get us started on the people who started out not-so-rational; they turn completely wackadoodle).
ref: 2009, Claire Mysko, Magali Amadeï, Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat?: The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby, Health Communications, Inc., →ISBN, page 175:
text: I thought that was totally wackadoodle. How could they possibly love someone they've never met?
ref: 2010, Robyn Okrant, Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk, Center Street, →ISBN:
glosses: Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
wackadoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wackadoodles
form: whackadoodle
Senses: examples: text: "It's not funny, Mom! I use that mitt all the time. What kind of wackadoodle poops in her sister's baseball glove, for crying out loud?"
ref: 2013, Meg Tilly, A Taste of Heaven, Puffin, →ISBN:
text: Once I was in the program, I was assigned a psychologist for psych testing to determine whether I was a true wackadoodle.
ref: 2014, Caren S. Dillman, I Lost My Marbles: A Personal Story of Childhood Betrayal, Secrecy, Shame & Restoration, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 85:
text: I've had some bad neighbors, real wackadoodles, but I can't imagine wanting to actually off any of them.
ref: 2015, Suzan Saxman, Perdita Finn, The Reluctant Psychic, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
glosses: A crazy, irrational, or eccentric person.
Related terms: wackadoo
whackadoo
wackadoodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wackadoodle
repudiatest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: repudiate + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of repudiate
repudiateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: repudiate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repudiate
broodest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: brood + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of brood
broodeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: brood + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brood
manographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manograph
PV diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PV diagrams
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pressure volume diagram.
indicator diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indicator diagrams
Senses: glosses: pressure volume diagram
indicator diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indicator diagram
PV diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PV diagram
pressure volume diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressure volume diagrams
Senses: glosses: A diagram used to describe corresponding changes in volume and pressure in a system, commonly used in thermodynamics and physiology.
Synonyms: word: indicator diagram
word: PV diagram
pressure volume diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressure volume diagram
manograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manographs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “thin, rare”) + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the ordinary type of indicator, the Author describes the Hospitalier and the Schultze manographs, in which the diagram is produced photographically by reflecting a beam of light from a mirror attached to a diaphragm […]
ref: 1909, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers:
glosses: An optical device for making pressure volume diagrams for high-speed engines, involving a light-tight box or camera having at one end a small convex mirror reflecting a beam of light onto the ground glass or photographic plate at the other end. The mirror is pivoted so that it can be moved so as to copy the motion of the engine piston on a smaller scale.
manteletta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantelettas
Etymology: From Italian mantelletta.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A long silk or woollen vestment, fastened in front, with a low collar and no sleeves, worn by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and the prelates of the Roman court.
Related terms: mantelet
mantelettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manteletta
electronicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more electronicky
form: most electronicky
Etymology: From electronic + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Those visiting British A&R men realized that it would be hard to package the Detroit music they were hearing as house: it was colder and more electronicky, its lineage was not disco, and it was more obviously conceptualized […]
ref: 1999, Mireille Silcott, Rave America: New School Dancescapes, page 27:
glosses: Somewhat electronic.
master vibrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master vibrators
Senses: glosses: In an internal combustion engine with two or more cylinders, an induction coil and vibrator placed in the circuit between the battery or magneto and the coils for the different cylinders, which are used without vibrators of their own.
master vibrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of master vibrator
matajuelo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matajuelos
Senses: glosses: A large squirrelfish of Florida and the West Indies, of species Holocentrus adscensionis.
Related terms: matajuelo blanco
matajuelos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matajuelo
matajuelo blanco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: sand tilefish
glosses: A West Indian food fish (Malacanthus plumieri), a type of tilefish.
well-formedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wellformedness
Etymology: From well-formed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being well-formed.
Derived terms: well-formedness rules
ill-formedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ill-formed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being ill-formed.
mavournin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mavournins
Senses: examples: text: Gayly-dressed mavournins and blaring bands stepped lively along Fifth Avenue.
ref: 1958, Printers' Ink, volume 262, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of mavourneen.
mavournins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mavournin
ill-formed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-formed
form: most ill-formed
Senses: glosses: Poorly formed.
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not well-formed.
Derived terms: ill-formedness
Klaroline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Klaus + Caroline
Senses: examples: text: The flirtatious energy was fun, and we made a very conscious effort to evoke some of the "Klaroline" energy from previous seasons.
ref: 2014, Crissy Calhoun, Heather Vee, Love You to Death - Season 5: The Unofficial Companion to The Vampire Diaries, ECW Press, →ISBN:
text: We caught up with Candice Accola to get some information about just how bad Markos is, and what she thinks about Steroline, Klaroline, and more: […]
ref: 2014, Samantha Highfill, "'The Vampire Diaries': Candice Accola on Steroline's 'raw' moment, Markos' arrival, and her road trip with Enzo", Entertainment Weekly, 17 January 2015
text: Morgan also addresses the passionate fans of one massively shipped couple (hint: Klaroline) whose supporters may be the most vocal and opinionated in the Vampire Diaries universe.
ref: 2015 April 2, Amanda Michelle Steiner, “The Originals' Joseph Morgan on Klaus's 'Crazy and Irrational' Return and Why He's 'Proud' of the Show's Passionate Fandom”, in People:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The romantic pairing of the characters Niklaus Mikaelson and Caroline Forbes from the American television series The Vampire Diaries.
microbarograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbarographs
Etymology: From micro- + barograph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.
microbarographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbarograph
microbarographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + barographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microbarography.
microbarography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: measurement with a microbarograph
semifixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + fixed.
Senses: examples: text: Fixed and semifixed fire protection systems are used extensively in industry to protect critical equipment and processes and to mitigate damage from fires should they occur.
ref: 2007, Craig H. Shelley, Industrial Firefighting for Municipal Firefighters, page 63:
glosses: Somewhat or partly fixed; having limited mobility.
microtomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the microtome or microtomy.
microtomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From microtome + -ic or microtomy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the microtome or microtomy.
Derived terms: ultramicrotomic
Montessorianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Montessorian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The Montessorian style of education.
turdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turdy
form: most turdy
Etymology: From turd + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He gave the dog a treat — a dried up skinny, turdy looking, pepperoni sausage.
ref: 2006, George Galjan, Cops, Donuts, and Murder, page 107:
glosses: Resembling a piece of excrement.
Derived terms: turdily
turdiness
MFN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MFNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of most favored nation.
most favored nation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: most favored nations
form: most favoured nation
Senses: topics: business
diplomacy
finance
government
politics
trading
glosses: A nation accorded a certain level of treatment in international trade. When a nation A is a most favored nation of another nation, B, then B undertakes not to treat A any less favorably (in terms of taxes, exports, etc.) than any of B's other most favored nations.
Synonyms: MFN
Coordinate terms: permanent normalised trade relations
permanent normalized trade relations
permanent normal trade relations
PNTR
Related terms: normalised trade relations
normalized trade relations
normal trade relations
trade
trade relations
most favored nations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of most favored nation
MFNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MFN
motographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From motograph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the motograph.
muscle reading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mentalist's technique to determine the thoughts or knowledge of a subject by observing subtle, involuntary movements in response to speech or other stimuli.
Synonyms: Cumberlandism
Hellstromism
Hellstromism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hellstrom + -ism, after Axel Hellstrom.
Senses: glosses: muscle reading
wikipedia: Axel Hellstrom
Cumberlandism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cumberland + -ism, after Stuart Cumberland.
Senses: glosses: muscle reading
wikipedia: Stuart Cumberland
myxedemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: myxoedemic
Etymology: From myxedema + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to myxedema.
myxoedemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of myxedemic.
myxoedemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myxoedema
mutessarifat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutessarifats
Senses: glosses: In Turkey, a sanjak whose head is a mutessarif.
mutessarifats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutessarifat
mousquetaire cuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mousquetaire cuffs
Senses: glosses: A deep flaring cuff on clothing.
mousquetaire glove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mousquetaire gloves
Senses: glosses: A woman's glove with a long, loose-fitting wrist section.
mousquetaire gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mousquetaire glove
mousquetaire cuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mousquetaire cuff
motiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motile
mucoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mucoid
mucinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mucinlike
form: most mucinlike
Etymology: From mucin + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling mucin.
googly moogly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: I found the website and found people mingling scholarship with faith – great googly moogly!
ref: 2010, Michael T. Cooper, Contemporary Druidry: A Historical and Ethnographic Study, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of googly-moogly.
Wiganer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wiganers
Etymology: From Wigan + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from Wigan in northern England.
Synonyms: word: pie-eater
Wiganers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wiganer
northern soul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Northern Soul
Senses: examples: text: The overwhelmingly young population involved in northern soul needed to find a way out of the depression slowly taking over the UK in the seventies. Speed gave them the edge they needed to rise above all the pain and frustration of a country losing its way.
ref: 2000, Julian Durlacher, Miriam Joseph, Speed: Its History and Lore, Carlton Books, →ISBN, page 48:
text: Meanwhile more people were either leaving behind the Northern Soul scene and enjoying the jazz-funk scene, or combining the two.
ref: 2012, David Nowell, The Story of Northern Soul, Portico, →ISBN:
text: For many young people throughout Britain in the 1970s, Northern Soul became a truly alternative lifestyle with the rites and values of the scene replacing many of the traditional strictures of society.
ref: 2013, Elaine Constantine, Gareth Sweeney, Northern Soul: An Illustrated History, Random House, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: A music and dance movement of northern England in the late 1960s, mainly based around black American soul music.
Related terms: soulboy
aspersor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspersors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of asperser.
fairy butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: nun's butter
glosses: A food made from butter and egg yolks mixed with sugar and orange flower water.
synonyms: fairies' butter
glosses: Certain gelatinous fungi, the tremellas.
fanchonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanchonettes
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: A French cake made with puff pastry and a cream filling.
fanchonettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanchonette
bindaloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of vindaloo.
chittack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chittacks
form: chittak
Senses: glosses: An old Indian unit of weight, equal to five siccas or one sixteenth of a seer.
chetak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chetaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chittack.
chittacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chittack
chetaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chetak
Sally Lunns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sally Lunn
dredgerman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dredgermen
Etymology: From dredger + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who fishes with a dredge.
dredgermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dredgerman
Lady Curzon soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Lady Curzon (1870-1906), wife of Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, the viceroy of India.
Senses: glosses: A soup made with sea turtle meat (or now sometimes mussels), cream, curry powder, and sherry.
fig-sue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It may not be amiss to notice that this fig-sue is a perfect cure for colds and coughs, if taken at bedtime.
ref: a. 1824, Westmorland as it was, John Briggs:
glosses: An old English dish of ale boiled with bread and figs.
plague water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drink made with various herbs, supposed to ward off the plague.
stepony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cooling drink made with raisins and sugar.
bee wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The lumps of yeast in the fermenting mixture were supposed to resemble bees.
Senses: glosses: A home-made wine made by fermenting sugar with yeast.
stitchback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stitch-back
Etymology: From stitch + back.
Senses: glosses: strong ale
steponey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of stepony.
old ale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old ales
Senses: glosses: Any dark, malty, relatively strong beer.
glosses: Any dark ale.
old ales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old ale
egg of Columbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggs of Columbus
Etymology: Referring to an apocryphal story in which Christopher Columbus, having been told that discovering the Americas was inevitable and no great accomplishment, challenges his critics to make an egg stand on its tip. When they give up, he does it himself by tapping the egg on the table to flatten its tip.
Senses: glosses: A brilliant idea or discovery that seems simple after the fact.
wikipedia: Christopher Columbus
Related terms: Columbus egg
eggs of Columbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egg of Columbus
Columbus egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Columbus eggs
Etymology: Presumably in reference to the apocryphal story behind the egg of Columbus, since the eggs in this dish would have their ends crushed to allow them to stand upright like bowls.
Senses: glosses: A hard-boiled egg cut in half and filled with a mixture of its yolk with ham, cream, and nutmeg.
Related terms: egg of Columbus
Columbus eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Columbus egg
blanks and prizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional English stew with pieces of meat (the "prizes") and peas or beans (the "blanks").
busbayne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A seasoned stew of chicken and pork with egg yolks.
ben-joltram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional ploughboy's breakfast of brown bread in milk.
tatie pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatie pots
Senses: glosses: A traditional hotpot made with lamb, black pudding, sliced potatoes, onions, etc.
tatie pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tatie pot
taties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tatie
shearer's stew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A stew of lamb and vegetables.
poor man's goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of various traditional dishes of baked meat and vegetables, cheaper than genuine goose.
poacher's pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A game stew or hotpot.
panackelty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pan haggerty.
pan haggerty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panackelty
Senses: glosses: A casserole dish of northern England, containing meat, vegetables, and sometimes cheese.
Exeter stew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A stew of beef and vegetables.
unconcise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconcise
form: most unconcise
Etymology: From un- + concise.
Senses: glosses: Not concise.
unverbose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unverbose
form: most unverbose
Etymology: From un- + verbose.
Senses: glosses: Not verbose.
Devonshire stew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A stew of meat, onion, cabbage, etc.
rumbled eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: scrambled eggs
pamperdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French pain perdu.
Senses: examples: text: […] pies of divers kinds, as warden-pie, olive-pie, pippin-pie, mince-pie, and baked chewets; hog-liver puddings, veal-toasts, carponadoes, pamperdy, links, fritters, tansies, and quelques-choses; jumbals, leach-lombards, custards, or dowsets; suckets, wet and dry; March-pane, sugar-bread; jellies of all colours, marmalades, and florentines; as well as juncates, and dainty confections, spiced and richly sweetened, of quinces, pomegranates, oranges, and other fruits, with cream of sugar.
ref: 1879, Mary Cowden Clarke, “Meg and Alice; the Merry Maids of Windsor”, in The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: A Series of Fifteen Tales:
glosses: A form of eggy bread or French toast, the egg mixture being poured onto the bread during cooking.
friar's omelette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friars' omelettes
form: friar's omelettes
Senses: glosses: A dish of beaten eggs fried with apples and breadcrumbs.
herbelade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herbelades
Senses: glosses: A dish of meat broth with egg and herbs, sometimes in pastry.
herbelades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbelade
harico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haricos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of haricot.
Derived terms: haricoed
haricos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harico
key-fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key-fruits
Senses: examples: text: From February 23 to April 30 a flock of about one hundred visited the University campus daily, feeding principally upon the samara or key-fruits of the box-elder trees, also the seeds of sugar-maples, and leaf buds.
ref: 1910, Proceedings, volumes 11-12, Davenport Academy of Sciences, page 308:
glosses: A samara.
key-fruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key-fruit
keta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketas
Etymology: From Evenki [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: The rivers in June, July, and August, abound with ketas, and hump-backed salmon.
ref: 1810, John Smith, A System of Modern Geography:
glosses: A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of North America.
ketas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keta
kinetophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinetophones
Etymology: From kineto- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: Shortly thereafter, many parlors installed kinetophones, in which patrons, after putting a coin in the slot, could peer through an eyepiece at moving pictures and, at the same time, by means of ear-tubes somewhat similar to the physician's stethoscope, listen to a sound accompaniment.
ref: 1941, Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers:
synonyms: kinetophonograph
glosses: A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds.
kinetophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinetophone
kineto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: See kinetic
Senses: glosses: motion; movement
Derived terms: kinetocardiography
kinetodesma
kinetoplasm
kinetoplastida
paperchain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperchains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paper chain.
paperchains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paperchain
paper chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper chains
form: paperchain
Senses: glosses: A chain made from interlinked loops of coloured paper, used as a hanging decoration.
paper chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper chain
Kneippism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kneipp + -ism, after Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897), German priest.
Senses: glosses: The treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, such as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.
kolinski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kolinskis
Senses: examples: text: The more important fur-bearing Carnivora are bears, cats, ermines, fishes, fitch, foxes, fur seals, hair seals, kolinskis, leopards, lions, lynxes, martens, minks, ocelots, otters, raccoons, sables, skunks, tigers, weasels, wolverines and wolves.
ref: 1956, The Wealth of India: Raw materials.v.1.A-B, page 94:
glosses: Alternative form of kolinsky.
kolinskis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kolinski
konseal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: konseals
Etymology: Old trade name, presumably from conceal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A capsule for enclosing a dose of medicine.
konseals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of konseal
Tlinkit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tlinkits
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Tlingit.
Tlinkit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Tlingit.
Tlinkit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Tlingit.
Koluschan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koluschans
Senses: glosses: Tlingit
Koluschan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Tlingit
Koluschan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Tlingit
Kolushan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kolushans
Senses: glosses: Tlingit
Kolushan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Tlingit
Kolushan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Tlingit
Tlinkits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tlinkit
Koluschans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koluschan
Kolushans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kolushan
kinit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinits
Etymology: Compare kinetic. Proposed by J. D. Everett, an English physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of force equal to the force which, acting for one second, will give a pound a velocity of one foot per second.
kinits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinit
kops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kop
kruppize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kruppizes
form: kruppizing
form: kruppized
form: kruppized
Etymology: From Krupp + -ize.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To treat by, or subject to, the Krupp process.
Coordinate terms: harveyize
kruppizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kruppize
kruppizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kruppize
kruppized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kruppize
fasiqun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fasiq
Krupp process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after its originator Friedrich Krupp, from Essen, Germany.
Senses: glosses: A process for washing pig iron, differing from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace.
glosses: A process for the manufacture of steel armor plates, involving the addition of chromium and nickel to the metal, and a treatment resembling the Harvey process but using a carbon-rich gas rather than solid fuel.
Synonyms: sense: process for washing pig iron
word: Bell-Krupp process
Related terms: kruppize
twelvish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtwɛlvɪʃ/
Forms: form: twelveish
Etymology: From twelve + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: His twelvish son is introduced as a pyromaniacal, foul-mouthed shifty operator. His fourteenish daughter dresses in a manner that would be deemed inappropriately suggestive for a twenty-year-old, and has no worthy interests or social graces.
ref: 2003, Elliot Gertel, Over the Top Judaism, page 62:
text: The young men were in their shirtsleeves, with their collars open, and Miss Tillie was wilting in her chair, fanned by a twelvish black girl who looked unutterably bored.
ref: 2005, Marie Jakober, Sons of Liberty, page 58:
text: “I didn't believe it to be mere coincidence that nine years later I should happen upon a twelvish looking Carole Wood multitasking about the Monobrain Realm, tantalizingly close to a dimensional connector. […]”
ref: 2010, David Tysdale, The Lost Witch:
glosses: Of about twelve years of age.
twelvish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtwɛlvɪʃ/
Forms: form: twelveish
Etymology: From twelve + -ish.
Senses: hyponyms: midnightish
noonish
glosses: Any time close to 12 o'clock.
knife switches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knife switch