cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Mascoutin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mascouten.
nonassent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + assent.
Senses: glosses: Absence of assent; failure to agree to something.
rose-acacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose-acacias
Etymology: Named from its rose-coloured flowers.
Senses: glosses: A shrub of species Robinia hispida, in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to the southeastern United States.
rose noble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose nobles
Senses: examples: text: He opened the discussion, by telling the council a parable of a rich merchant, who would needs go to play at dice with a common hazarder, or sharper, and stake a rose-noble of gold against a crooked halfpenny
ref: 1828–1831, Walter Scott, Tales of a Grandfather; being Stories Taken from Scottish History. […] , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] ; Dublin: John Cumming:
glosses: An ancient English gold coin, stamped with the figure of a rose, first struck in the reign of Edward III.
clanmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clanmates
form: clan mate
Etymology: From clan + -mate.
Senses: glosses: A member of the same clan.
clanmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clanmate
fox squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox squirrels
Senses: glosses: Sciurus niger, the largest tree squirrel native to North America.
unacquisitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unacquisitive
form: most unacquisitive
Etymology: From un- + acquisitive.
Senses: glosses: Not acquisitive.
uninquisitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uninquisitive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being uninquisitive; lack of curiosity.
uninquisitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uninquisitively
form: most uninquisitively
Etymology: From uninquisitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uninquisitive manner; without curiosity.
Damascenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Damascene
matha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mathas
form: math
form: mutt
Etymology: From Sanskrit मठ (maṭha).
Senses: glosses: A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram.
matha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mathas
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali মাথা (matha).
Senses: glosses: head
damask plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damask plums
Senses: glosses: damson (the fruit)
reboundingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reboundingly
form: most reboundingly
Etymology: From rebounding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that rebounds.
basketflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basketflowers
Etymology: From basket + flower.
Senses: glosses: Any of the thistle-like flowering plants in the genus Plectocephalus.
basketflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basketflower
space rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: space rules
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter.
space line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: space lines
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A thin piece of metal used to open the lines of type to a regular distance from each other, and for other purposes; a lead.
heart of palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearts of palm
Senses: glosses: A vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees, especially the peach palm (Bactris gasipaes), which is often grown for the purpose.
pejibaye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pejibayes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pejibaye.
Senses: glosses: The edible fruit of the tropical peach palm (Bactris gasipaes), a single-seeded drupe; a peewah.
pejibayes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pejibaye
hedge mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sisymbrium officinale, a brassicaceous plant with edible leaves and seeds.
grapes of wrath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Derived from a passage in the Biblical book of Revelation.
Senses: glosses: A symbol of impending vengeance, especially in reference to the Last Judgment.
privational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From privation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to privation.
sardiney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sardiney
form: most sardiney
Etymology: From sardine + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Many a satisfactory jammy, sardiney orgy left its distended celebrants poorer in pocket certainly, but richer in cherished memories.
ref: 1936, George Charles Beresford, Schooldays with Kipling, page 98:
text: The sandwich toaster. It makes toasted sandwiches. Hot, buttery, cheesy, sardiney, tomatoey, anything-you-likey sandwiches.
ref: 2012, Lucy Mangan, My Family and Other Disasters:
glosses: Resembling or containing sardines.
pocket-sheriff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket-sheriffs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A sheriff appointed by the sole authority of the Crown, without a nomination by the judges in the exchequer.
Voltron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Voltrons
Etymology: Name of a combining giant robot in the US animated television series Voltron: Defender of the Universe.
Senses: examples: text: Gee whiz, did [Scott Adams] use every single strategy we've mentioned, like a grifter Voltron: He combined semantics, diversion, and just batshit fantasy into an entire day of tweets.
ref: 2020, Cody Johnston, Some More News: That Time Everyone Tried To Defend Injecting Bleach:
glosses: A group of things that are more powerful when combined.
qualifier: collectible card games
glosses: A deck with a strategy of casting a single, powerful card.
planeswalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planeswalker
scrike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪk
Forms: form: scrikes
form: scriking
form: scriked
form: scriked
Etymology: From Middle English skriken, shrichen, scrichen, from the fusion of Old English scriccettan (“to screech”) and Old Norse skríkja (“to shriek”); both from Proto-Germanic *skrik- (“to cry; shriek”). Cognate with Icelandic skríkja (“to chirp; twitter”), Danish skrige (“to shriek”). Related to shriek.
Senses: glosses: To shriek; to screech.
qualifier: Manchester
glosses: To cry (shed tears)
scriking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrike
scriked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrike
scrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scrike
undecoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + decoyed.
Senses: glosses: Not decoyed.
decoyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From decoy + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being decoyed.
contraflowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: In a state of contraflow; flowing in the opposite direction to normal.
coflowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + flowing.
Senses: glosses: Flowing in the same direction.
meadow saffron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meadow saffrons
Senses: glosses: Colchicum autumnale, a fall-blooming colchicum.
Synonyms: autumn crocus
naked lady
in the last analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of in the final analysis.
chrissake
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaɪsˈseɪk/
Etymology: Corruption of Christ's sake.
Senses: glosses: used to express annoyance or frustration
chrissakes
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Corruption of Christ's sake.
Senses: glosses: used to express annoyance or frustration
redrimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From red + rimmed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red-rimmed.
red-rimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a red colour around the edge, especially said of eyes after crying.
upmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Only used in one-upmanship
hidingplace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hidingplaces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hiding place.
emptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emptive
form: most emptive
Etymology: Back-formation from preemptive.
Senses: examples: text: Mike Malone recalls how the shaving of his fiancée's head was more of an “emptive” strike, since her hair was already on its way out.
ref: 2004, Marc Silver, Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) During Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond, Rodale, →ISBN, page 227:
text: Emptive priority: The service to non-priority customer is stopped as soon as a priority customer arrives.
ref: 2006, A. M. Natarajan, P. Balasubramani, Operations Research, Dorling Kindersley, published 2009, →ISBN, page 498:
text: This situation can be dealt with either in an emptive or pre-emptive fashion. In an emptive system the new entry waits for the other to be completed before beginning. In a pre-emptive system the queue can stop the current entry half way through its execution to start the new one.
ref: 2010, N. K. Singh, Simulation of Network Traffic Based on Queing Theory Using OPNET, page 12:
glosses: Responding to or acting to counteract something when it happens (rather than beforehand).
Synonyms: reactive
widout
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of without.
menobranchus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menobranchi
Etymology: From the superseded genus name Menobranchus (Harlan, 1824), from Ancient Greek μένω (ménō, “to remain”) + βρᾰ́γχῐον (brắnkhĭon, “gill, branchia”), because the external branchiae are permanent, unlike those of some other amphibians.
Senses: glosses: mudpuppy
wikipedia: Richard Harlan
menobranchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menobranchus
garroted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of garrote
muttonchop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muttonchops
form: mutton chop
form: mutton-chop
Etymology: From mutton + chop. The hairstyle is named after the typical shape of these cuts.
Senses: glosses: A cut of sheep's meat, often containing a section of a rib.
examples: text: He had a fresh complexion, eyes of that common uncertain shade of gray, and was closely shaven except for the incipient muttonchops on his ruddy cheeks.
ref: 1905, Willa Cather, “The Marriage of Phaedra”, in Troll Garden:
synonyms: mutton-chop whiskers
glosses: A facial hairstyle consisting of long, usually shaped sideburns extending well below the earlobes without a beard.
Derived terms: friendly muttonchop
crawlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From creepy-crawlies.
Senses: examples: text: Street light? Was I coming up in somebody's basement? Whatever it was, I was all for light. Trapped is bad. Trapped and blind gives me the crawlies.
ref: 2012, Nathan Long, Jane Carver of Waar:
glosses: Fear, anxiety.
crawlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Antarctica
glosses: Snow that is blown along the ground in a snake-like fashion.
heavylidded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heavylidded
form: most heavylidded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heavy-lidded.
afteryears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after-years
Etymology: From after- + years.
Senses: examples: text: I sang that song in summer, […] I sang it when in afteryears / The shades stretched out, / And paths were faint […]
ref: 1922, Thomas Hardy, Her Song:
glosses: subsequent years
heavy-lidded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heavy-lidded
form: most heavy-lidded
Senses: examples: text: The wide mouth was folded tight together, the heavy-lidded eyes were firmly shut as though she defied the world to disturb her rest.
ref: 2007, John Stephen Strange, The Chinese Jar Mystery:
glosses: Having almost closed eyes
afterhaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From after- + haps.
Senses: examples: text: But in my triumph I lost sight
ref: 1898, Thomas Hardy, 'The Ivy-Wife' in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Harper & Brothers (1899), page 139
roman: Of afterhaps.
glosses: subsequent happenings.
archmoulds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archmould
descript
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin dēscrīptus, past participle of dēscrībō.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of described.
Derived terms: nondescript
undescript
adrowse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈdɹaʊz/
Etymology: From a- + drowse.
Senses: synonyms: word: sleepbound
word: somnolent
word: adrowse
word: bedroomy
word: dozy
word: dopey
word: dragging one's tail
word: drowsy
word: eyelids at half-mast
word: nodding off
word: oscitant
word: out of steam
word: sleepbound
word: sleepish
word: sleepy
word: slombry
word: snoozy
word: slumberful
word: slumberous
word: slumbersome
word: slumbery
word: somniculous
word: somnolent
word: somnolescent
word: tired
glosses: drowsy
topsyturvy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more topsyturvy
form: most topsyturvy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of topsy-turvy.
topsyturvy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more topsyturvy
form: most topsyturvy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of topsy-turvy.
batteried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From battery + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In Bamako, the cops had one flat-batteried flat-twin Beemer, fat rider getting a sweaty running bump start at every call-out […]
ref: 2009, Dan Walsh, Endless Horizon, page 52:
text: I backtracked into the bedroom and got a weak-batteried Boy Scout flashlight. The yellowish, puny-beamed shaft oflight revealed the proud new tiles of our living room floor being covered with an expanding pool of water.
ref: 2012, Walter Block, Devils River Country, page 126:
glosses: Having a (specified kind of) battery.
cottonwool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottonwools
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cotton wool.
bewebbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bewebbed
form: most bewebbed
Etymology: From be- + webbed.
Senses: examples: text: This had been a fine house once; traces of dignity still hung about the width of the doorframes, the bewebbed cornices, the curl of the banister under her hand as she reached the ground floor.
ref: 2011, Louise Allen, The Lord and The Wayward Lady:
glosses: Covered in webs.
pockethandkerchief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pockethandkerchiefs
form: pockethandkerchieves
Senses: examples: text: I had all he required made here, he ondly [sic] needed some pockethandkerchieves.
ref: 1844 May 22, Floride Calhoun, “From Floride [Colhoun] Calhoun”, in Clyde N[orman] Wilson, editor, The Papers of John C. Calhoun, volume XVIII (1844), University of South Carolina Press, published 1989, →ISBN, page 580:
glosses: Alternative form of pocket handkerchief.
bepatched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bepatched
form: most bepatched
Etymology: From be- + patched.
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore, at times, as if in ancient mould / He looms, bepatched with paint […]
ref: 1901, Thomas Hardy, The Sick Battle-God:
text: 'Don't trouble' said the parson distantly, unmoved by the bepatched swagsman's splendid offer.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 193:
glosses: Covered in patches.
acrosswise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From across + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: The bottom part of every yoke is to be as long as the swine (standing upon his fore feet) is high from the ground to the top of his shoulder; and sticks that are placed up and down through the yoke are to be six inches higher than the neck and three inches lower than the bottom of the yoke that is usually placed acrosswise under his throat (for all swine of a year old and upward, and so proportionably for all swine that are younger) ; only the fine on abovesaid penalty [6d.] shall not be required or paid above once in one day.
ref: 1876, Bi-centennial Celebration at Sudbury, Mass., April 18, 1876, page 8:
text: It may be a tree, bride, that rubs his arms acrosswise […]
ref: 1898, Thomas Hardy, A Sound in the Night:
text: At the altar she was kneeling With her arms acrosswise folded.
ref: 1969, Paul Carus, History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil from the Earliest Times to the Present Day:
text: First, that certain materials claiming to be “stretchy”, weren't designed to stretch to their ultimate limit both lengthwise and acrosswise.
ref: 2011, Maree Anderson, Ruby's Dream:
glosses: In a way that goes across; crosswise.
bewrapt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + wrapt.
Senses: glosses: wrapped
betossed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /bɪˈtɒsɪd/
/bɪˈtɒst/
Forms: form: more betossed
form: most betossed
Etymology: From be- + tossed.
Senses: examples: text: What ſaid my man, when my betoſſed ſoule / Did not attend him as we rode?
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: Once done, his soul was so betossed,
 It found no more the force it lost.
ref: 1898, Thomas Hardy, The Two Men:
glosses: tossed around; turbulent
blazonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blazoning
brinily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more brinily
form: most brinily
Etymology: From briny + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: O they were speechful faces, gazing insistent, / Some as with smiles, / Some as with slow-born tears that brinily trundled / Over the wrecked Cheeks that were fair in their flush-time, ash now with anguish.
ref: 1914, Thomas Hardy, In Front of the Landscape:
glosses: In a briny or salty way.
speechfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From speechful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being speechful.
bypast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Hospital […] for these two bypast years has contained not less than 150 beds, generally occupied by a full amount of patients.
ref: 1840, Minutes of the Senate, University of London:
glosses: past
brightlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: But brightlier on the Rock it play'd
ref: 1912, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Circassian's Love-Chaunt' in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Clarendon Press, page 1051
text: Clement, Augustin, Origen,
Burnt brightlier towards their setting-day
ref: 1922, Thomas Hardy, 'An Ancient to Ancients' in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, Macmillan, page 284
glosses: comparative form of brightly: more brightly
armipotents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armipotent
boundenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more boundenly
form: most boundenly
Etymology: From bounden + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I divorced that man because of you — It seemed I must do it, boundenly […]
ref: 1914, Thomas Hardy, Over the Coffin:
glosses: In a bounden manner.
hemibranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemibranchs
Etymology: From hemi- + branch.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: In fishes, either of the two rows of gill filaments that form a gill arch.
hemibranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemibranch
holobranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holobranchs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A pair of hemibranchs on the same gill arch.
holobranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holobranch
durophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durophages
Senses: glosses: Any durophagous organism.
durophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of durophage
bedrenching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedrench
bedrenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedrench
bedrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedrench
unglimmering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + glimmering.
Senses: glosses: Not glimmering.
bylining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of byline
softlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Admonished that she should “keep the woman's virtue and be more silent,” she countered “that she was 'born in a mill, begot in a kill, she must have her will,' she could speak no softlier.”
ref: 2015, Kirilka Stavreva, Words Like Daggers, page 77:
glosses: comparative form of softly: more softly
softliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of softly: most softly
derisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derision
comrading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of comrade
comraded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more comraded
form: most comraded
Senses: glosses: Having comrades
Derived terms: uncomraded
comraded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of comrade
counterchords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterchord
anharmonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anharmonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anharmonic manner.
compassionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compassioning
chancings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chancing
chancewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chance + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Both good and ill appear'd, without design, / To mingle, chancewise, in the scheme divine.
ref: 1848, Humphry William Freeland, Poems, page 159:
glosses: By chance; at random.
deckward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From deck + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward the deck of a ship.
dispossest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of dispossessed.
dismantler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dismantlers
Etymology: From dismantle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Condemned to fall
Were cornice, quoin, and cove,
And all that art had wove in antique style.
Among the hired dismantlers entered there
One till the moment of his task untold.
When charged therewith he gazed, and answered bold:
"Be needy I or no,
I will not help lay low a house so fair!
ref: 1901, Thomas Hardy, A Man (In Memory Of H. Of M.):
glosses: One who dismantles.
dismantleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dismantle + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dismantle
disquieteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: disquiet + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disquiet
dismantlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dismantler
disquietings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disquieting
couchness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From couch + -ness.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The essence of what it means to be a couch; the qualities that make a couch what it is.
Related terms: chairness
disparagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disparaging
legitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From legit + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Property of being legit:
Legitimacy.
glosses: Property of being legit:
Coolness.
douchebagness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From douchebag + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being a douchebag.
Synonyms: douchebaggery
doucheness
douchery
Javert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Javerts
Etymology: From Javert, a police inspector in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.
Senses: examples: text: Whether by instinct, as in Boston, or by psychological testing, as in St. Louis, some police departments are waking up to the characterological hazards of the police profession. But unfortunately there are still a good many Javerts around.
ref: 1951, Howard Whitman, Terror in the streets, page 351:
text: The Javerts in today's society are supported not with index cards and filing clerks, but with the latest electronic databases […]
ref: 2007, John Pugsley, The Chairman's Corner, page 34:
text: Ted and I have Javerts in our lives, those who will not accept the fact that God the Father has welcomed his prodigal son home.
ref: 2010, Gayle Haggard, Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made in My Darkest Hour, page 334:
glosses: One who remorselessly pursues a perceived wrongdoer.
wikipedia: Javert
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Related terms: Javertian
Javerts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Javert
make a book
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a book
form: making a book
form: made a book
form: made a book
Senses: examples: text: it must be acknowledged that it is impossible to make a book on any important race without the security of Play or Pay
ref: 1866, Henry John Rous, On the Laws and Practice of Horse Racing:
topics: hobbies
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To lay bets (recorded in a pocketbook) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses.
Related terms: bookmaker
pulviplume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulviplumes
Senses: glosses: A feather yielding powder down.
Related terms: pulverise
plume
powder down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All parrots have powder down.
glosses: A special type of down that occurs in a few groups of apparently unrelated birds. In some species, the tips of the barbules on the feathers disintegrate, forming fine particles of keratin; in others, powder grains come from cells that surround the barbules of growing feathers.
Related terms: pulviplume
pulviplumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulviplume
towel gourd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towel gourds
Senses: glosses: loofah plant
dishcloth gourd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishcloth gourds
Senses: glosses: Any of several gourds used to scrub dirty dishes; a loofah plant.
underfeatured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underfeatured
form: most underfeatured
Etymology: From under- + featured.
Senses: examples: text: Why are so many client/server projects late, over budget, and underfeatured? It must be the technology.
ref: 1996 May 20, InfoWorld, volume 18, number 21, page 73:
text: […] companies tend to lose their leadership positions to companies that enter the market with a disruptive technology or market change. These new companies introduce products that are initially underfeatured […]
ref: 2005, Karl D. Schubert, CIO Survival Guide, page 222:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Lacking in features.
disruptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disrupt + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of disruptable.
formicophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin formica (“ant”) + -philia
Senses: glosses: A paraphilia in which sexual stimulation occurs by being crawled upon or nibbled by small insects, such as ants.
dispossesseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dispossess + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispossess
witchgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witchgrass
couchgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of couchgrass
do to death
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does to death
form: doing to death
form: did to death
form: done to death
Senses: examples: text: It's hard to find novel screenplays. All the usual stories have been done to death.
text: If you're interested in the process we're using for redecking the ship, we've absolutely done that to death. There's links to several different videos in the description below.
ref: 2023 January 27, Battleship New Jersey, 4:07 from the start, in Maintaining Your Battleship: Jan 2023 Update:
glosses: Of a trope, joke, topic, idea, etc, to use so often that it becomes trite.
examples: text: So will I not […] Behold ſo many of my country men,
All done to death and ſtrangled in one day, […]
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act IV:
glosses: To put to death.
Hill-Robertson effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hill-Robertson effects
Etymology: First identified by Bill Hill and Alan Robertson in 1966.
Senses: glosses: The phenomenon whereby genetic recombination allows evolution to progress more quickly.
Gaskellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gaskellian
form: most Gaskellian
Etymology: From Gaskell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865), British novelist and writer of short stories.
turret ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turret ships
Senses: glosses: A warship of the 19th century, having the guns mounted in a revolving turret, instead of a broadside arrangement.
sweep the deck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweeps the deck
form: sweeping the deck
form: swept the deck
form: swept the deck
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: To clear off all the stakes on the table by winning them.
mamlukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamluke
mamluks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamluk
garden balsam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Impatiens balsamina, an annual flowering plant native to southern Asia.
garden net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden nets
Senses: glosses: A net for covering fruit trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds.
bottle gourd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle gourds
Etymology: From its shape, round with a narrow neck.
Senses: glosses: Calabash (Crescentia cujete or Lagenaria siceraria)
opo squash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opo squashes
Etymology: From Tagalog.
Senses: glosses: calabash, Lagenaria spp., especially Lagenaria siceraria.
witch's broom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witch's brooms
form: witches' broom
Senses: topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
synonyms: witches' besom
glosses: A disease or deformity in a woody plant, typically a tree, such that the natural structure of the plant is changed so that a dense mass of shoots grows from a single point.
Related terms: broomstick
pocket mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket mice
Senses: glosses: A mouse of the subfamily Perognathinae
Perognathus species
glosses: A mouse of the subfamily Perognathinae
Chaetodipus species
Derived terms: spiny pocket mouse
pocket borough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌɹə
Forms: form: pocket boroughs
Senses: glosses: A borough which could effectively be controlled by a single person who owned at least half of the "burgage tenements" (whose occupants had the right to vote in the borough's parliamentary elections), since he could populate these tenements with his own supporters.
Synonyms: close borough
Related terms: rotten borough
about one's ears
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: to bring something about one’s ears
text: The house collapsed about our ears.
glosses: In close proximity to one; near at hand.
around one's ears
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of about one's ears.
murketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of murk + marketing.
Senses: glosses: An advertising strategy that avoids direct mentions of a product or service, focusing instead on creating vague "buzz" and publicity.
flying squid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying squid
form: flying squids
Senses: examples: text: The Flying Fish or Cuttle Fish (Loligo Sp.)—Many different kinds of Loligo are called by sailors Flying Squid, from a habit they have of leaping from the water, and proceeding through the air to some distance in a horizontal direction, like flying fish.
ref: 1840, The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 22, page 194:
text: Among the five different gillnet mesh sizes used by the Korean gillnet fishery, the 86 and 105 mm mesh were most commonly used for targeting on neon flying squid, Ommastrephes bartrami (Lesueur), in the North Pacific.
ref: 1993, Bulletin - International North Pacific Fisheries Commission, Volume 53, Issues 1-3, International North Pacific Fisheries Commission, page 45:
text: For flying squid, designated observers will measure the mantle lengths of 30 flying squid randomly sampled from a single observed section each day.
ref: 1994, Richard L. Wallace, editor, The Marine Mammal Commission Compendium of Selected Treaties... on Marine Resources, Wildlife, and the Environment, Volume III, page 3184:
glosses: Any of various species of the family Ommastrephidae with the ability to glide in air above the water.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Todarodes angolensis
word: Angola flying squid
taxonomic: Todarodes filippovae
word: Antarctic flying squid
taxonomic: Todarodes sagittatus
word: European flying squid
alt: Hyaloteuthis pelagica
word: glassy flying squid
alt: Nototodarus gouldi
word: Gould's flying squid
alt: Nototodarus hawaiiensis
word: Hawaiian flying squid
taxonomic: Todarodes pacificus
word: Japanese flying squid
alt: Dosidicus gigas
word: jumbo flying squid
alt: Todaropsis eblanae
word: lesser flying squid
taxonomic: Todarodes pusillus
word: little flying squid
alt: Eucleoteuthis luminosa
word: luminous flying squid
alt: Ommastrephes bartramii
word: neon flying squid
alt: Sthenoteuthis pteropus
word: orangeback flying squid
alt: Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis
word: purpleback flying squid
alt: Ommastrephes bartramii
word: red flying squid
alt: Martialia hyadesii
word: sevenstar flying squid
alt: Nototodarus sloanii
word: Wellington flying squid
Related terms: word: arrow squid
alt: Ornithoteuthis
word: bird squid
word: volplane
haplochromines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haplochromine
karolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karolins
form: karoliner
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carolin.
spot lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spot lenses
Senses: qualifier: microscopy
glosses: A condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pencil by means of a small, round diaphragm (the "spot"), and used in darkfield illumination.
Synonyms: spotted lens
darkfield
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dark + field.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a method of microscopy that excludes the unscattered beam from the image, so that the field around the specimen (i.e. where there is no specimen to scatter the beam) is generally dark.
hair bracket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair brackets
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: A moulding which comes in at the back of, or runs aft from, the figurehead.
corn oyster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn oysters
Senses: glosses: A fritter containing grated green Indian corn and butter, supposed to taste like oysters.
corn marigold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn marigolds
Etymology: It often grows among crops such as corn.
Senses: glosses: Glebionis segetum (syn. Chrysanthemum segetum), a herbaceous perennial plant with bright yellow flowers.
side tool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side tools
Senses: glosses: A cutting tool, used in a lathe or planer, having the cutting edge at the side instead of at the point.
bolt to the bran
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bolts to the bran
form: bolting to the bran
form: bolted to the bran
form: bolted to the bran
Etymology: See bolt (“sieve”).
Senses: examples: text: This boults the matter fairly to the bran.
ref: 1735, Walter Harte, An Essay on Reason:
text: The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran.
ref: 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:
glosses: To examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important.
exradius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exradii
Etymology: From ex- + radius.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The radius of an excircle.
exradii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exradius
lucets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucet
tree sorrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant bilimbi, Averrhoa bilimbi.
hang upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs upon
form: hanging upon
form: hung upon
form: hung upon
Senses: glosses: To regard with passionate affection.
examples: text: They hung upon his every word.
glosses: To pay overt attention to, as from sycophancy or intense interest.
examples: text: to hang upon the flanks of a retreating enemy
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To hover around.
examples: text: Everything hangs upon whether the boss agrees.
synonyms: hang on
glosses: To depend upon.
Related terms: hang on
deathlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From death + lore.
Senses: examples: text: Enough has been said to show the interest which lies in the study of Bushman folklore in general and the deathlore of the veld in particular.
ref: 1903, The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 1, page 554:
ref: 1975, William Lynwood Montell, Ghosts Along the Cumberland: Deathlore in the Kentucky Foothills:
text: A few examples of material objects included in deathlore are: tombstones, roadside memorials, coffins, and cemeteries.
ref: 2011, Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art, page 363:
glosses: The beliefs and practices related to death, including the associated grief and ritual.
giant daikon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant daikons
form: giant daikon
Senses: topics: cuisine
food
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of Sakurajima radish.
synonyms: word: Sakurajima radish
giant daikons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant daikon
jumbo daikon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumbo daikons
form: jumbo daikon
Senses: topics: cuisine
food
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of Sakurajima radish.
synonyms: word: Sakurajima radish
jumbo daikons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumbo daikon
catslaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cat + slaughter. Compare manslaughter.
Senses: examples: text: After a long and patient investigation of facts, the Coroner returned a verdict of wilful catslaughter against a party or parties unknown.
ref: 1862, Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Aunt Judy's Letters, page 93:
text: Bill intends to file a charge of "catslaughter" against the villian when caught.
ref: 1929, Southern Pacific Bulletin:
text: '... And then he committed — catslaughter.'
Caleb, although sensible that his leg had been pulled, roared with laughter.
ref: 1934, Horace Annesley Vachell, Nether Applewhite: A Story of Strange Lives in an English Village:
text: Had Barkley done in the Topeka cat, it may have been manslaughter, or catslaughter, I guess, but not murder.
ref: 2006, Al Martinez, Barkley: A Dog's Journey, →ISBN:
text: The woman was suing the fire service for catslaughter.
ref: 2010, Michael Lawrence, Jiggy McCue: Kid Swap, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: The killing of a cat, the slaughter of cats.
Synonyms: ailurocide
felicide
deerslaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deer + slaughter. Compare manslaughter.
Senses: examples: text: Some centuries ago, in the royal forests of England the penalty was higher for deerslaughter than for manslaughter; but that was unreasonable, and the present arrangement shows the progress of law-reform.
ref: 1883, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature:
text: They have behaved badly: charges against them now stand at murder of one kitten, chickenslaughter in the second degree, deerslaughter in the first degree, conspiracy to kill more deer, attempted murder of a goat (two overt acts), ...
ref: 1971, Ramparts:
text: ... until I noticed a mangled carcass splayed across the breakdown lane, decided to stop and inspect it and took notes on the anatomy of victims of vehicular deerslaughter.
ref: 2009, Nate Jordon, Various, Monkey Puzzle #6, Monkey Puzzle Press, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: The killing of a deer, the slaughter of deer; cervicide.
cherry blossoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherry blossom
undestructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undestructive
form: most undestructive
Etymology: From un- + destructive.
Senses: glosses: Not destructive; helpful.
Synonyms: nondestructive
Derived terms: undestructively
undestructively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undestructively
form: most undestructively
Etymology: From un- + destructively.
Senses: glosses: In a helpful manner; in an undestructive manner.
freedom of the seas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [T]he time of hostile rivalry between the two countries had passed away. There now only remained emulation in doing everything that could advance the cause of civilization and liberty. "The freedom of the seas, pacific contests in labor, and the beneficent conquests of commerce" were meant by the union of the flags of England and France.
ref: 1865 September 3, “The Naval Fetes at Cherbourg”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Jun 2014:
text: Blenkiron said that Germany was right in wanting the freedom of the seas, and that America would back her up, and that the British Navy was a bigger menace to the peace of the world than the Kaiser's army.
ref: 1916, John Buchan, chapter 3, in Greenmantle:
text: In the 17th century Hugo Grotius developed the doctrine of the "freedom of the seas", in the face of Portuguese and Spanish claims to sovereignty over vast areas of ocean.
ref: 2011 June 21, Jason Hall-Spencer, “A steward for our oceans”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 22 Jun 2014:
topics: law
glosses: The doctrine, widely recognized in international law, that, outside of narrow territorial limits, the oceans are open to unhindered navigation by vessels of all countries.
Related terms: law of the sea
mare liberum
hypovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + vascular.
Senses: glosses: Lacking sufficient vascularity; deficient in blood vessels
Related terms: hypovascularity
Arya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aryas
form: Ārya
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit आर्य (ā́rya, “noble, respectable”).
Senses: examples: text: The Aryas gradually spread themselves over the plain of the Ganges. After a time, the whole country between the Himalayas and the Vindhya Mountains was called Aryavarta, the abode of the Aryas.
ref: 1868, Mrs. L. Handyside, The History of India, page 5:
glosses: An Indo-Iranian, an Aryan.
examples: text: The Brahmos are chiefly in Bengal, the Aryas in the North-West and the Punjab.
ref: 1892, The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record, page 470:
text: Above all, he would not tolerate the abominable injustice of the existence of untouchables, and nobody has been a more ardent champion of their outraged rights. They were admitted to the Arya Samaj on a basis of equality; for the Aryas are not a caste. ‘The Aryas are all men of superior principles; and the Dasyus are they who lead a life of wickedness and sin.’
ref: 1984, Ganga Ram Garg, World Perspectives on Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Concept Publishing Company, page 165:
glosses: A follower of Arya Samaj.
Arya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ārya
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit आर्य (ā́rya, “noble, respectable”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
glosses: A surname.
Arya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit आर्या (āryā), feminine of आर्य (ā́rya, “noble, respectable”).
Senses: examples: text: Arya Nielsen, a senior clinical faculty member at our Institute, has also demonstrated this in her excellent work on surface stimulation […]
ref: 1999, Mark Seem, Acupuncture Physical Medicine, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Arya.
glosses: A surname.
dorkyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dorky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dorkiness.
Margaery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Attested since at least the 1770s as a variant of Margery, from Margaret. Popularized in the modern era by the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Brienne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Brienne.
Senses: examples: text: Napoleon was nearly captured by the Cossacks after the Battle of Brienne, but was saved by one of his generals.
text: Napoleon arrived in Brienne on 15 May 1779.
ref: 2011, Frank McLynn, Napoleon: A Biography, →ISBN:
glosses: A placename
The town of Brienne-le-Château in France.
glosses: A placename
The commune of Brienne in Saône-et-Loire, France.
glosses: A surname from French. Ellipsis of de Brienne; obsolete spelling of Bryan (“de Bryan”).
examples: text: 2009, Brienne J. Meyer, Adirondack Mycorrhizal and Saprobic Macromycetes
text: "You will call me Brienne. Not wench."
ref: 2000, George R. R. Martin, Song of Ice and Fire, Bk. 3, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: A female given name, in occasional modern use.
party popper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party poppers
Senses: examples: text: When Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) first kisses Maria, they let loose a hail of party poppers.
ref: 2000, Thomas Vinciguerra, Do You Really Call That Sound Music?, The New York Times
text: She said she had smelled "something like party poppers" and had seen neighbours shouting at them to get out as their roof was on fire.
ref: 2011, Lightning strike damages roof of Bayston Hill home, BBC News
text: Police believe a party popper may be behind a bomb scare west of Brisbane.
ref: 2013, Bridie Jabour, Bomb squad destroys "party popper", The Sydney Morning Herald
glosses: A novelty item containing confetti or streamers and a small explosive charge, used at parties.
Related terms: Not to be confused with party pooper
slans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slan