cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dulcitone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dulcitones
Etymology: Coined by Thomas Machell, the instrument’s inventor, in 1888, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”) + tonus (“tone”).
Senses: examples: text: It would be pleasing could I record the acquirement of dulcitones for these or the regular classes, especially the kindergartens—the dulcitone being the new instrument mentioned in my report of last year—but perhaps they will come in the near future.
ref: 1908, Eleventh Annual Report of the City Superintendent of Schools, page 521:
text: A dulcitone had just arrived there on which I played, but I am very glad I didn’t close with our Colonel’s offer to buy one—the tone is so wretchedly thin, especially the bass, which has none at all.
ref: 1917 August 3, Artillery and Trench Mortar Memories: 32nd Division, published 1932:
text: There was a dulcitone in the camp belonging to one of the prisoners, and it sounded very pretty accompanying the songs at the end of ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’.
ref: 1920, F. W. Harvey, Comrades in Captivity: A Record of Life in Seven German Prison Camps:
text: Wood, the M.O., had a dulcitone, upon which he could perform in no mean fashion, when he felt sufficiently inspired to leave his long chair.
ref: 1922, Langa Langa [pseudonym; Harry Baldwin Hermon-Hodge], Up Against It in Nigeria, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton and Company, page 202:
text: He preferred, he said, bells, glockenspiels, dulcitones, and marimbas—anything that would whoop, tinkle, and glide with abandon.
ref: 1969, 100 Famous Australian Lives, page 299:
text: Young people love such colourful, easy-to-play instruments as staff-bells, marimbas, dulcitones, etc.
ref: 1981, Australian Journal of Music Education, page 5:
glosses: A keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by a range of tuning forks, which vibrate when struck by felt-covered hammers activated by the keyboard.
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dulcitones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dulcitone
DeSarios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of DeSario
private message
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private messages
Senses: examples: text: By then I was receiving dozens of private messages in the game every hour from players I had never met who could see that my guildmate and I were out front: “OMG how did you level so fast?,” “Hey you must have a lot of gold, can I have some?” and of course “You guys are huge nerds.”
ref: 2007 January 19, Seth Schiesel, “O Brave New World That Has Such Gamers in It”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: word: PM
word: direct message
word: personal message
word: whisper
glosses: A message sent to another user of a social media or chat platform through a private channel as opposed to a publicly accessible area or chatroom.
private message
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: private messages
form: private messaging
form: private messaged
form: private messaged
Senses: related: word: private-message
synonyms: word: PM
word: direct message
word: personal message
glosses: To send a private message.
Joulwans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Joulwan
mountain biker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain bikers
form: mountainbiker
Etymology: From mountain bike + -er.
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A mountain bike rider.
Elworthys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Elworthy
babymom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babymoms
Etymology: Compound of baby + mom.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baby mama.
flushy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flushier
form: flushiest
Etymology: flush + -y
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flushed (“red in the face”).
synonyms: word: flushed
extra: red in the face
examples: text: Other possibilities include winding up with a straight, two pair with a low, or even a "flushy-low," if you're lucky enough to make both a flush and a low hand.
ref: 2003, Lou Krieger, Kathleen Keller Watterson, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games (page 64)
text: That happens one time out of nine, so it's unlikely, but not water-into-wine unlikely. If we don't include implied odds, for you to break even on the flushy flop at your 10-handed table, you need nine people playing with you.
ref: 2011, Annie Duke, John Vorhaus, Decide to Play Great Poker (page 28)
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Constituting a flush.
patwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patwas
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Cichlasoma of fishes.
Ruhlmanns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ruhlmann
Nebbs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nebb
gentleman's club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentleman's clubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gentlemen's club.
Baimaclia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Baimaclia.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Cantemir Raion, Romania.
glosses: A village and commune of Căușeni Raion, Romania.
debâcles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debâcle
débacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of débacle
Selway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Selways
form: Selvey
form: Selvy
Etymology: From the Middle English personal name Salewi, probably from an unattested Old English personal name *Sǣlwīġ, composed of the elements sǣl (“happiness, prosperity, opportunity”) and wīġ (“war, battle”).
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
war correspondent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war correspondents
Senses: glosses: A journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war zone.
temporarily embarrassed millionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporarily embarrassed millionaire
dulcid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dulcid
form: most dulcid
Etymology: A modification of dulcet, dulced, after words like rapid.
Senses: examples: text: Tis Musicke rare / To heare this little, pretty, dulcid, dainty Philomel / how she makes the Woods for to ring, / Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, / Iug, jug, jug, jug, sweet, jug, jug, jug, jug, / the Nightingale doth sing.
ref: 1633, The Nightingale Whose Curious Notes Are Here Explain’d, in a Dainty Ditty Sweetly Fain’d. To a New and Much Affected Court Tune., London: […] E. Coules:
text: More dulcid milke to gaine; / And nothing brings the babe to rest, / Untill he sleepe upon her brest.
ref: 1641, Thomas Beedome, Poems, Divine and Humane, […] E.P. for Iohn Sweeting:
text: All dulcid things are agreeable and pleaſant to the Lungs;
ref: 1657, Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, “Of Simple Medicaments, Which by a Specificall Property Have Respect to Certain Peculiar Parts”, in A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […], London: […] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel, book I ([…]), page 19:
text: The Fruit the Engliſh call a Pine-Apple (the Moors, Ananas) becauſe the reſemblance, cuts within as firm as a Pippin; Seedy, if not fully ripe; the Taſte inclinable to Tartneſs, though moſt excellently qualified by a dulcid Sapor that impoſes upon the Imagination and Guſtative Faculty a Fancy that it reliſhes of any Fruit a Man likes, and ſome will ſwear it:[…]
ref: 1698, John Fryer, “Shews the Pleasure and the Product of the Woods: The People Bewitched to Idolatry; the Sottishness of the Atheist. I am Sent for to Bombaim; after Some Endeavours to Go Thither, and Some Time Spent at Goa, Am Forced to Winter at Carwar, and then I return to Surat.”, in A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. […], London: […] R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri[chard] Chiswell, letter IV (A Relation of the Canatick-Country), page 182:
glosses: Dulcet, sweet.
jiangjun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jiangjuns
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 將軍 /将军 (jiāngjūn). Doublet of shogun.
Senses: glosses: A Chinese general.
shodo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 書道 (shodō).
Senses: glosses: Japanese calligraphy
front wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front wings
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The section in the front of a Formula One vehicle which deflects the turbulent air that is generated on the sides of the wheels so that it does not disturb the rest of the vehicle.
Maddex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maddexes
Etymology: Variant of Maddox.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
telephone sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phone sex.
synonyms: word: phone sex
Kurutz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kurutzes
Etymology: From a Germanized form of Hungarian Kurucz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
Ettenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ettenbergs
Etymology: Ultimately from German.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hollender
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hollenders
Etymology: Variant of Hollander.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
funniment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funniments
Etymology: From funny + -ment, on model of merriment.
Senses: examples: text: For the funniments of the fair, I confess I have little relish. Springing a rattle, I always deemed something too serious for a joke; and no nautical gentleman ever yet laughed at having his back scratched.
ref: 1825, Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography and Histrionic Anecdotes, volume III, London: George Virtue, page 33:
text: […]; and at some of Barry’s funniments the Prince of Wales and his royal sister laughed[…]
ref: 1846, The Pictorial Times, page 205:
text: His disguise as the Baron Mugwump also lent itself to much funniment.
ref: 1930, Harry Randall, Harry Randall, Old Time Comedian, page 136:
text: Therefore he has Berowne leave the stage first, lets Costard lag behind for a little solitary funniment, and then bolt after Berowne. If the funniment raises a laugh, that breaks contact, as it were, and continuity.
ref: 1930, Harley Granville-Barker, “Love’s Labour’s Lost”, in Prefaces to Shakespeare:
text: Mrs. Levine, mother of former Councilman Arnold Levine, totes around an array of jokes and general funniments.
ref: 1990 September 11, Wally Trabing, “With humor there is life”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel, 134th year, number 219, Santa Cruz, Calif., page A-2:
glosses: Drollery, jesting, a funny saying or action.
funniments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funniment
well-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: well-rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of well room.
well-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of well-room
chips and cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He says he hasn't. Then he orders two tacos and a side of chips and cheese.
ref: 2016, K. A. Barson, Charlotte Cuts it Out, Viking, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: A snack consisting of a bed of tortilla chips topped with melted cheese.
Related terms: nachos
dulceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dulceous
form: most dulceous
Etymology: From dulce or Latin dulcis + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: A Gustation is the Sence of tasting, which proceeds from the Instrument of the Tongue, and Pallate; now there are several sorts of tasts: as, / The Sapious, or Sapitious, or Savoury taste; is when the Sense is pleased and delighted therewith: as in eating ripe fruit. / The Dulceous, Luscious, or sweet tast; as in Hony.
ref: 1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, or, a Storehouse of Armory and Blazon Containing the Several Variety of Created Beings, and How Born in Coats of Arms, Both Foreign and Domestick: […], Chester: […] for the Author, page 387:
text: Fruits are divided, in respect of their taſte, into the acid-dulceous, the aqueo-dulceous, the aſtringent, and the oily.
ref: 1793, William Rowley, The Rational Practice of Physic, volume IV, London: […] for the Author, page 481:
text: Fenc’d by her naval hoſts, that ride / Triumphant o’er the circling tide, / Britannia jocund pours the feſtive lay, / And hails with dulceous voice her George’s natal day.
ref: 1800 June 16, Henry James Pye, “Ode for His Majesty’s Birth-Day, June 4, 1800”, in The Weekly Entertainer, volume XXXV, page 478:
text: Tagore’s voice was deep, resonant, vibrant over a long range, and dulceous like the tingling of silver bells.
ref: 1961, Mankind, page 43:
text: drink THAT dulceous devotion / from THE DEVotion incarnate / oozing from the name-form / healing the dullness of tasting love
ref: 2015, Ajarn Wu Hsih, Fascinating Panoptic Septon: The September-Born Poem, Partridge Singapore, →ISBN:
glosses: Sweet.
lamesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamester
freakjob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freakjobs
Etymology: From freak + job(bie).
Senses: examples: text: Not while there's a possibility that that busted-up freakjob is still out there, looking for me.
ref: 2010, Alex Van Tol, Knifepoint, page 83:
text: Thirty freaking minutes after we land, we blow up that Hellion freakjob, blow up the Sharkship, and Zero is half dead.”
ref: 2011, R. Handley B. Price, Manuitius Covenant: The Life and Death of Planet Earth, page 78:
text: Man, you are a freakjob, you know that?
ref: 2017, Jonathan Maberry, Vault of Shadows, page 253:
glosses: A crazy, possibly dangerous, person.
freakjobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freakjob
phanero-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φανερός (phanerós, “visible, manifest”).
Senses: glosses: Visible
carbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbrain
mountain bikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain biker
crazy golfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crazy golfers
Senses: glosses: One who plays crazy golf.
crazy golfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crazy golfer
uncrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + crammed.
Senses: glosses: Not crammed.
uncrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncram
unsheathings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unsheathing
skin fade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin fades
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fade (“hairstyle”).
synonyms: word: fade
extra: hairstyle
skin fades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skin fade
angel maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angel makers
Senses: glosses: An illicit abortionist.
examples: text: But the angel maker usually mistreated the child, giving it almost no food […]
ref: 1994, Bill Rolston, Anna Eggert, Abortion in the New Europe: A Comparative Handbook, page 237:
text: When her mother left to the angel maker, she said goodbye as if she would never return.
ref: 2020, Ana Cravid, What If You Had Been Aborted?, page 15:
glosses: A person who took in unwanted children and usually mistreated them.
angel makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angel maker
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: in like a lion, out like a lamb
qualifier: simile
glosses: The weather in the Northern Hemisphere tends to be unpleasant at the start of March but pleasant at the end.
in like a lion, out like a lamb
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
synonyms: word: March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
alwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more alwise
form: most alwise
Etymology: From all + wise (“way, manner, method”).
Senses: examples: text: “By these Treaties we became Brethren; we have alwise lived as such, and hope alwise to continue so.”
ref: 1735-1745, Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, volume 4, published 1851, page 704:
glosses: In every way; always.
Related terms: -wise
nowise
reportive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reportives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of reportative.
synonyms: word: reportative
reportive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of reportative.
synonyms: word: reportative
reportives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reportive
washing one's mouth out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wash one's mouth out
washed one's mouth out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wash one's mouth out
washes one's mouth out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wash one's mouth out
Montoyas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Montoya
clamshelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clamshell
clamshelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clamshell
goolail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A stonebow (crossbow for shooting stones).
given someone a bloody nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give someone a bloody nose
gave someone a bloody nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give someone a bloody nose
gives someone a bloody nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give someone a bloody nose
giving someone a bloody nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give someone a bloody nose
lambadar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambadars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lumberdar.
lambadars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lambadar
lumberdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumberdars
form: lambadar
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?], partially from English number (since each such person had a registration number).
Senses: glosses: The registered representative of a coparcenary community, who is responsible for government revenue.
lumberdars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumberdar
back up the truck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backs up the truck
form: backing up the truck
form: backed up the truck
form: backed up the truck
Etymology: From the idea of bringing a truck to a location to be loaded with goods.
Senses: examples: text: When spreads are very low and contracting, back up the truck and buy equities. When they are high and rising, it's time to hide.
ref: 2011, David M. Smith, Hany A. Shawky, Institutional Money Management, page 82:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To take advantage of favourable pricing by purchasing a large amount.
mainato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainatos
Senses: glosses: A washerman or dhobi.
mainatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainato
Malabar Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An upmarket residential neighborhood in South Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
benthon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benthons
Etymology: From bentho- + -on.
Senses: examples: text: The simple trophic relations in the plankton do not demand such a wide variety of adaptations as do the complex relations in the benthon where, in addition to microphagous herbivores, there are also macrophagous ones and an^([sic]) unique of detritus feeders which build up animal protoplasm on the sea floor.
ref: 1961, Challenger Society for the Promotion of the Study of Oceanography, Annual Report and Proceedings of the Challenger Society, volumes 13-20, The Society, →OCLC, page 28:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The habitat at the bottom of a body of water.
Related terms: benthos
benthic
benthons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benthon
Zill's tilapia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The fish Tilapia zilli.
gotten to the fireworks factory
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get to the fireworks factory
misree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of misri.
misri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misree
Senses: glosses: Rock sugar.
rock sugars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock sugar
morchals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morchal
DOOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Doom.
DOOM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doom (“didn't organize, only moved”).
dowra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dowras
form: dowrah
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A guide (person who leads others).
dowrah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dowrahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dowra.
dowras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dowra
dowrahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dowrah
climate catastrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climate catastrophes
Senses: examples: text: This same narrative is parroted by the government. But there is nothing natural about it. This is climate change in action, and pretending we aren’t experiencing a climate catastrophe right now is dangerously irresponsible. Remember, we are only at the beginning of the hockey stick curve. Things are going to get much worse.
ref: 2022 March 4, Eddie Lloyd, “The PM calls this a natural disaster – it’s not natural, it’s climate change smashing down our doors”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The severe negative effects of climate change on both the natural world and humanity as a result of extreme weather events, sea level rise, biodiversity loss, etc.
climate catastrophes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climate catastrophe
Selways
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Selway
flowered silver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the appearance of stars and radiating lines on the surface of the alloy as it cools in the crucible.
Senses: glosses: The standard alloy of silver with copper and lead used in the ingot currency of Burma.
Walthams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Waltham
hockey stick curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hockey stick curves
Senses: examples: text: This same narrative is parroted by the government. But there is nothing natural about it. This is climate change in action, and pretending we aren’t experiencing a climate catastrophe right now is dangerously irresponsible. Remember, we are only at the beginning of the hockey stick curve. Things are going to get much worse.
ref: 2022 March 4, Eddie Lloyd, “The PM calls this a natural disaster – it’s not natural, it’s climate change smashing down our doors”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A curve on a graph depicting a statistical or numerical trend with a long gradual rise followed by a steep increase over the short term.
hockey stick curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hockey stick curve
chatna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of chutney (Indian condiment).
ressaidar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ressaidars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ressaldar.
ressaidars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ressaidar
Maddexes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maddex
Maddoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maddox
Madduxes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maddux
cabayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabaya
botcinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botcinins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of botcinolides
botcinins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botcinin
Kurutzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kurutz
wassap
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wassup.
tehr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tehrs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of tahr (Asian ungulate).
tehrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tehr
tairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tair
Ettenbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ettenberg
homokaryotization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Conversion to homokaryotic form
Tanasary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Tenasserim.
Tanasery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Tenasserim.
antipalindromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: x²-1 is an antipalindromic polynomial.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being equivalent to the object whose constituents or parameters are reversed in order and mapped by some involution, particularly the inversion operator of a quasigroup.
Of a polynomial, being equivalent to the polynomial with reversed and additively inverted coefficients: ∑ᵢ₌₀ⁿa_ixⁱ is antipalindromic iff ∑ᵢ₌₀ⁿa_ixⁱ=∑ᵢ₌₀ⁿ-a_n-ixⁱ⟺a_i=-a_n-i.
examples: text: 1728#95;#123;10#125; is an antipalindromic number with respect to base 10.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being equivalent to the object whose constituents or parameters are reversed in order and mapped by some involution, particularly the inversion operator of a quasigroup.
Of a natural number, with respect to base b, being equivalent to the natural number whose digits are reversed and subtracted from b-1: ∑ᵢ₌₀ⁿa_ibⁱ is antipalindromic iff ∑ᵢ₌₀ⁿa_ibⁱ=∑ᵢ₌₀ⁿ(b-1-a_n-i)bⁱ⟺a_i=b-1-a_n-i.
Related terms: antipalindrome
antisymmetric
visceralising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of visceralise
visceralising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of visceralizing.
Brazil cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brazil cherries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Cape gooseberry (“Physalis peruviana”).
synonyms: word: Cape gooseberry
extra: Physalis peruviana
glosses: Synonym of Brazilian cherry (“Eugenia brasiliensis”).
synonyms: word: Brazilian cherry
extra: Eugenia brasiliensis
glosses: Synonym of Brazilian cherry (“Eugenia uniflora”).
synonyms: word: Brazilian cherry
extra: Eugenia uniflora
Related terms: taxonomic: Capsicum baccatum
word: Brazil cherry pepper
Brazil cherries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brazil cherry
toomongong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toomongongs
Senses: glosses: A Malay title, especially known as borne by one of the chiefs of Johor, from whom the island of Singapore was purchased.
toomongongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toomongong
Hollenders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hollender
serribaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serribaffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shirinbaf.
shirinbaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serribaff
Etymology: From Persian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A kind of fine white muslin.
serribaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serribaff
cuirbouly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On their backs they wear armour of cuirbouly prepared from buffalo and other hides, which is very strong.
ref: 1871, “Concerning the Tartar Customs of War”, in Henry Yule, transl., The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, volume I, London: John Murray, page 228:
text: The fourth horse was covered with cuirbouly (leather), and over it a rich cloth of gold.
ref: 1883, E[mma] L[ouisa] S[eeley], Belt and Spur: Stories of the Knights of the Middle Ages from the Old Chronicles, New York, N.Y.: Scribner and Welford, page 293:
text: Note in (A) the curious leather gauntlets, the plate (or cuirbouly) knee guards and the tall open helmet (bascinet).
ref: 1931, Dorothy Hartley, Mediæval Costume and Life: A Review of Their Social Aspects Arranged Under Various Classes and Workers with Instructions for Making Numerous Types of Dress, page 52:
text: Although the sleeved Haubergeon persisted in use, there are indications that independent pieces of mail attached to the acketon and hose were beginning to be used, instead of the complete coat of mail, wherever the cuirbouly or “white” harness left the joints exposed:[…]
ref: 1931, Francis M[ichael] Kelly, Randolph Schwabe, “ii. “Mixed” Armour (Late Period, 1350–1400)”, in A Short History of Costume & Armour, Chiefly in England, volumes I (1066–1485), Benjamin Blom, Inc., published 1968, →LCCN, part II (Armour), page 66:
text: ‘[…] I’ll have you each fitted with a cuirbouly.’ So we were each fitted with a cuirbouly. A yak was killed, the leather boiled till soft then fitted to our chests and left to harden in the sun.
ref: 2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, Picador, page 87:
glosses: Alternative form of cuir bouilli.
Baloneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Baloney
Craco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Craco, from Latin Cracum, from Renaissance Latin Graclum, from Medieval Latin Graculum.
Senses: glosses: An abandoned hill town in Monte d'Oro, Craco Peschiera, Craco, Matera, Basilicata, Italian Peninsula, Italy.
glosses: Ellipsis of Craco Peschiera: a frazione in Craco, Matera, Basilicata, Italian Peninsula, Italy.
glosses: A commune of Matera, Basilicata, Italian Peninsula, Italy.
McGeoch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGeoches
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Eochadha. Compare McGough, which derives from Irish.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
tech house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛk ˌhaʊs/
Etymology: From tech + house.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of house music that combines stylistic features of techno with house.
Goldthorp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goldthorps
Etymology: Variant of Goldthorpe.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
samalamig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tagalog samalamig.
Senses: synonyms: cooler
palamig
glosses: Any of the various kinds of sweet chilled Filipino beverages, such as chilled fruit juice or other flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweet corn, etc., usually mixed with shredded jelly and/or sago pearls or tapioca pearls
Related terms: jelly cooler
pearl cooler
Belgian Gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belgian Gates
Senses: examples: text: Omaha Beach was shielded by about 3,700 obstacles, including 450 ramps, 2,000 stakes, 1,050 Czech hedgehogs, and 200 Belgian Gates. These followed a standard pattern.
ref: 2013, Steven Zaloga, The Devil's Garden: Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 123:
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: cointet-element
coordinate_terms: Czech hedgehog
glosses: A heavy steel fence, typically mounted on concrete rollers, used as a mobile antitank obstacle during World War II.
Belgian Gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Belgian Gate
climate anxiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Therapy can help people struggling with climate anxiety and depression; but since climate emotions are driven by real, intensifying, physical processes on Earth, therapy only treats the symptom.
ref: 2021 November 4, Peter Kalmus, “Climate depression is real. And it is spreading fast among our youth”, in The Guardian:
text: Alina Black, a mother of two in Portland, Ore., sought a therapist who specialized in climate anxiety to address her mounting panics. “I feel like I have developed a phobia to my way of life,” she said.
ref: 2022 February 6, Ellen Barry, “Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: ecoanxiety
glosses: Anxiety about climate change.
eco-anxiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For the first time ever, eco-anxiety has entered the psychiatric lexicon to describe the anxiety that we feel about the future of the planet.
ref: 2020, Anita Vandyke, A Zero Waste Family: In thirty days, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of ecoanxiety.
McGeoches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGeoch
76ers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A basketball team from Philadelphia.
Goldthorps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goldthorp
Goldthorpes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goldthorpe
Sheeks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sheekses
Etymology: Variant of Sheek.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Traficante
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Traficantes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Traficante.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Traficantes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Traficante
Sheekses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sheeks
refresh rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refresh rates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of frame rate.
synonyms: word: frame rate
refresh rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refresh rate
Skalsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Skalskys
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Skalský.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Staver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stavers
Etymology: Occupational surname for a stave maker, from stave + -er.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Stavers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Staver
Skalskys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Skalsky
Stevener
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Steveners
Etymology: Borrowed from North German Stevener.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Stikeleather
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stikeleathers
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Steigleder.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
brain-rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These quibbles make some sense in the brain-rot context of social media, where people have been conditioned to think it’s normal to have interactions with millions of strangers at the same time, but this is not really tenable or healthy.
ref: 2025 May 23, Charlie Warzel, “What Are People Still Doing on X?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Alternative form of brain rot.
brainrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brain + rot.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brain rot.
Derived terms: Italian brainrot
Philbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Philberts
Etymology: Variant of French Philibert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Philberts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Philbert
Stikeleathers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stikeleather
Plaskett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Plasketts
Etymology: Topographic surname from Old French plasquet, a diminutive of plascq (“damp meadow”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Monterey County, California, United States.
Plasketts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Plaskett
Proppses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Propps
Neighbor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neighbors
Etymology: From Middle English neyghebour (“neighbour”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Laba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Laba Festival, a partial calque of the Mandarin form of Chinese 臘八節 /腊八节 (Làbājié), q.v.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Laba Festival.
Derived terms: Laba congee
Laba porridge
Laba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Labas
Etymology: From Polish Łaba.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Kitchings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kitching
Neighbors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neighborses
Etymology: Patronymic from Neighbor.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Neighbors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Neighbor
Labas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Laba
Louallen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Louallens
Etymology: Anglicized form of Welsh Llewelyn.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
Hiley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hileys
Etymology: Probably a variant of Highley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hileys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hiley
Louallens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Louallen
pencil cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A game played with hexagonal pencils marked by hand on each side so they can be tossed like dice — or sometimes with conventional dice — in which players generate scores and attribute them to imaginary cricket players and teams by compiling a scorecard.
Posobiec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Posobiecs
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Posobiec.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
pub cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A game played to pass the time while travelling in a vehicle, involving spotting pub signs and generating cricket scores based on the number of legs described by each sign (e.g. four for The Red Lion, or two for The King George).
sottocopies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sottocopy
sottocopying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sottocopy
sottocopied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sottocopy
midposition
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + position.
Senses: glosses: In a middle position.
examples: text: midposition pupils
text: pupils are midposition
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: In a middle position.
Opened to a medium degree, in between constriction and dilation.
synonyms: midsize
raw_tags: of pupils
Related terms: PERRLA
dampproofer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dampproofers
Etymology: From dampproof + -er.
Senses: glosses: A material used for dampproofing.
dampproofers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dampproofer
damselhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From damsel + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The condition or status of a damsel.
Danagla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dongolawi
Dongolawis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dongolawi
dandiacally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dandiacally
form: most dandiacally
Etymology: From dandiacal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like a dandy; foppishly.
Kessell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kessells
Etymology: Variant of Kessel.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kessells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kessell
Maretts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Marett
Steveners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stevener
Posobiecs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Posobiec
honest Johns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honest John
Dantonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dantonian
form: most Dantonian
Etymology: From Danton + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Georges Danton (1759–1794). French lawyer and a leading figure in the French Revolution.
Dantonesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dantonesque
form: most Dantonesque
Etymology: From Danton + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of Georges Danton (1759–1794). French lawyer and a leading figure in the French Revolution.
Enochic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Enoch + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the biblical Enoch.
Danielic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Daniel + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the biblical Daniel.
McReynolds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McReynoldses
Etymology: Anglicized form of Northern Irish Mac Raghnaill (“son of Reynold”), with the redundant patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
espesh
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: My life no longer revolves around boys, espesh the wrong-uns I used to go for, […]
ref: 2019, Hannah Doyle, Just My Type:
glosses: especially
Crites
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Criteses
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Kreutz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States.
-ham
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: note: always unstressed
ipa: /əm/
ipa: /həm/
note: with secondary stress
ipa: /ˌhæm/
ipa: /həm/
ipa: /əm/
other: /h/
Etymology: From the convergence of two elements:
* Middle English -ham, -hame, from Old English hām (“home, farm, estate”), from Proto-West Germanic *haim. Cognate with German -heim and Dutch -hem, and doublet of home.
* Middle English -hamme, from Old English hamm (“enclosure”, often specifically “land enclosed by a river”), from the root of Proto-West Germanic *hammjan (“to pinch, to hem, to enclose”).
Senses: glosses: Place-name suffix, variously indicating a settlement, farm or enclosure.
Related terms: word: -hampton
word: -hamsted
word: -hamstead
english: compare also homestead
translation: compare also homestead
word: -hampstead
Dahoman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dahoman
form: most Dahoman
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dahomeyan.
Dahoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dahomans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dahomeyan.
Dahomans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dahoman
Obispo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɪspoʊ/
Forms: form: Obispos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Obispo. This surname is predominantly found in the Philippines and Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Obispos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Obispo
McReynoldses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McReynolds
Criteses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Crites
Daitya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daityas
Senses: coordinate_terms: Deva
glosses: Any of a clan or race of Asuras, the children of Diti and the sage Kashyapa.
Daityas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Daitya
daleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dalemen
Etymology: From dale + -man.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dalesman.
synonyms: word: dalesman
dalemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daleman
dallyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dallyingly
form: most dallyingly
Etymology: From dallying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: While dallying.
inline sled hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of inline sledge hockey.
synonyms: word: inline sledge hockey
damenization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the first syllables da, me, ni + -ization.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A singing system resembling solfeggio, developed by German composer and tenor Carl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759), and using the syllables da, me, ni, po, tu, la, be, to.
Surprise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Maricopa County, Arizona, the largest place with this name.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Butler County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A populated place in Greene County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Surprise Station, California.
damoiseaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damoiseau
Damnii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Damnonii.
synonyms: word: Damnonii
Damnonii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Damnii
glosses: A Brittonic people of the late 2nd century who lived in what became the Kingdom of Strathclyde by the Early Middle Ages, and is now southern Scotland.
Pictishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Pictish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Pictishness had been discovered, adopted and re-shaped by the Picts, and was a foreign notion no longer.
ref: 2010 November 11, Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Middle Ages, BRILL, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: The quality or state of being Pictish.
competitive tenderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of competitive tendering
d-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: d-men
form: dman
form: d man
form: d.man
form: d. man
form: d.-man
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of defenceman/defenseman.
CFAA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
private messages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of private message
private messages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of private message
private messaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of private message
private messaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of private message
Damnonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Damnonians
Senses: glosses: A member of the Damnonii.
Damnonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Damnonian
form: most Damnonian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Damnonii.
Damnonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Damnonian
morning grouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning grouches
Etymology: Compound of morning + grouch.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever the case, being a morning grouch is a real thing. For some this might be a more occasional occurrence but for others, night owls in particular, it’s simply easier to function much later in the day.
ref: 2020 September 24, “How to stop being a morning grouch”, in Milestone.net:
glosses: A person who tends to be bad-tempered in the morning.
Related terms: morning grouchiness
morning grouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morning grouch
Dantology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of the literary works of Dante Alighieri.