cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coöperator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coöperators
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of cooperator.
shelfmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelfmarks
Etymology: From shelf + mark.
Senses: glosses: The mark that shows the location or call number of a book or manuscript within a library; (loosely) synonym of call number.
classmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classmarks
Etymology: From class + mark.
Senses: glosses: A shelfmark of the type that indicates the class of book that the so-marked book belongs to, in a library cataloguing system that has classes; (loosely) synonym of shelfmark.
shelfmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shelfmark
classmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of classmark
printshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪnt.ʃɒp/
Forms: form: printshops
form: print shop
form: print-shop
Etymology: From print + shop.
Senses: examples: text: He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A shop that sells prints.
glosses: A shop providing commercial copying and printing services.
examples: text: As we have seen, government regulated the number of printshops throughout the realm [...] and enforced censorship throughout the land.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 263:
glosses: Synonym of printing house, an institutional or commercial mass publisher.
synonyms: word: printing house
extra: an institutional or commercial mass publisher
Synonyms: sense: shop that sells prints
word: printseller
sense: shop that sells prints
word: printseller's
sense: shop that makes prints to order
word: copy shop
printshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of printshop
deathcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From death + care.
Senses: glosses: The provision of products and services for the burial or cremation of the dead.
Related terms: cemetery
crematorium
funeral director
funeral home
mortuary
mortuary science
zoöphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoö- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: […] and the stronger mentality is naturally the more deeply influenced — until continued experience of superior faculty awakens consciousness of superior power, stirs the sleeping giant of self‐confidence, and rends the shackles of zoöphobia forever.
ref: 1901, W. J. McGee, American Anthropologist, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Volume III, №. I, page #12:
glosses: Alternative spelling of zoophobia.
inanimated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + animated.
Senses: glosses: Inanimate; not alive.
slottable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slot + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being slotted.
metaconflict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaconflicts
Etymology: From meta- + conflict.
Senses: examples: text: You face this choice repeatedly throughout a conflict; it is so fundamental that parties often get stuck in cycles of metaconflict — conflicting over whether they will engage one another in the conflict.
ref: 1985, Joyce L. Hocker, William W. Wilmot, Interpersonal conflict:
text: First, the metaconflict places severe constraints on political discourse. Second, it contracts the range of acceptable innovations and future arrangements.
ref: 1992, Donald L. Horowitz, A Democratic South Africa?, page 27:
glosses: Conflict over whether or how to engage in a conflict.
metaconflicts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaconflict
metacrawlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metacrawler
Horowitzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Horowitzian
form: most Horowitzian
Etymology: From Horowitz + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: This is exciting, high-strung, Horowitzian pianism that is tempered by unfailing good taste, tonal subtlety, and a true sense of Lisztian style.
ref: 1991, The American record guide, volume 54, numbers 1-3:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989), Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist.
examples: text: Empirically, there are very few cases where Horowitzian electoral schemes have been tried, and hardly any where it has achieved the desired results.
ref: 2003, Colin Elman, Miriam Fendius Elman, Progress in international relations theory, page 362:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Donald L. Horowitz, professor of law and political science.
Lisztian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lisztian
form: most Lisztian
Etymology: From Liszt + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: This is exciting, high-strung, Horowitzian pianism that is tempered by unfailing good taste, tonal subtlety, and a true sense of Lisztian style.
ref: 1991, The American record guide, volume 54, numbers 1-3:
text: The famous Lisztian octave passages bring up an important point: the performance of music is not only an art, but a form of sport, rather like tennis or fencing.
ref: 2002, Charles Rosen, chapter 1, in Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist, Free Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Hungarian composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist.
destimulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destimulates
form: destimulating
form: destimulated
form: destimulated
Etymology: From de- + stimulate.
Senses: examples: text: Stimulate and destimulate the boy's brain with Nerf balls and other objects he can squeeze. Use music for the same purpose. You can use these tools when the boy needs calming or when he needs to rev his brain to refocus.
ref: 2007, Michael Gurian, Kathy Stevens, The Minds of Boys, page 237:
glosses: To bring out of a state of stimulation.
Derived terms: destimulator
Related terms: destimulation
aëroplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aëroplane
destimulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destimulate
destimulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of destimulate
destimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of destimulate
Americunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɛɹ.ɪˌkʌnt/
Forms: form: Americunts
Etymology: Blend of American + cunt.
Senses: examples: text: Huh? Even I have seen thousands of Imams condemning terrorists acts and I am not even Muslim. Just search Yahoo. However, I have never seen an Americunt admitting that the biggest terrorist country in history is America.
ref: 2004, AK, “Jazeera's Iraq coverage hits U.S. raw nerve”, in soc.culture.arabic (Usenet):
text: So you've been there for 4 years fighting everybody and everything, two are^([sic]) three times over. Why don't you admit it phuktards, You haven't got a clue and you've set yourself up for NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION. You are going to teach yourself a real big lesson aren't you PHUKTARDS?
ref: 2007, J0HN H0WARD, “Phuktard Americunts now Killing The People They Liberated”, in alt.politics.org.cia (Usenet):
glosses: An American, particularly one that is perceived as annoying.
Related terms: AmeriKKKunt
Americunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Americunt
playathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪəθɒn/
Forms: form: playathons
Etymology: From play + -athon.
Senses: examples: text: Before long, the other youngster came up the aisle with crayons and paper in hand. "Wanna color?" she asked. In moments, the two were launched on a four-hour playathon.
ref: 1984, Joanne Oppenheim, Kids and play:
text: Our orchestra is going to have a playathon in the mall where we will play music for about 5 hours or so.
ref: 1993, Alison Hsieh, “Now?????!!!!!”, in k12.chat.senior (Usenet):
glosses: An extended period of playing.
playathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪəθɒnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of playathon
swirlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swirlingly
form: most swirlingly
Etymology: From swirling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The water rushed swirlingly down the plughole.
glosses: With a swirling motion.
intertwiningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intertwiningly
form: most intertwiningly
Etymology: From intertwining + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to intertwine.
interferingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more interferingly
form: most interferingly
Etymology: From interfering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But we are still almost as worried and as interferingly officious about his mind and his faculties as we were formerly about his body and limbs. We insist upon startling him or waving objects before his eyes to see if he will "take notice."
ref: 1911, Woods Hutchinson, We and our children:
glosses: So as to interfere.
degradingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more degradingly
form: most degradingly
Etymology: From degrading + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is an offence to the dignity of workers to pay them degradingly low wages. What constitutes a degradingly low wage will, of course, be affected by the standards of the time; it is a relative as much as an absolute idea.
ref: 1999, Sue Richardson, Reshaping the labour market, page 28:
glosses: In a degrading manner.
film noirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of film noir
films noirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of film noir
endpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endpins
Etymology: From end + pin.
Senses: examples: text: Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance.
ref: 2007 July 8, Jesse Green, “Let Her Entertain You. Please!”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020:
topics: arts
crafts
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
music
glosses: The spike of a cello or double bass that makes contact with the floor and supports the weight of the instrument.
topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
glosses: Synonym of endbutton.
synonyms: word: endbutton
endpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endpin
kunsthalle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kunsthalles
form: Kunsthalle
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kunsthalle (literally “art hall”).
Senses: examples: text: But in terms of contemporary art, the Hammer was operating more like a kunsthalle, a temporary home for a constantly changing roster of exhibitions.
ref: 2007 July 8, Jori Finkel, “A Museum That Lives Within Its Means”, in New York Times:
text: Some—following the Kunsthalle model—do not have the collection on show and hold exhibitions of loaned works, but often mixed with works from the founder's collection.
ref: 2021, Georgina Adam, The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum (Hot Topics in the Art World), Chicago: Lund Humphries, →ISBN:
glosses: A facility that holds temporary art exhibitions, typically with loaned works.
kunsthalles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kunsthalle
legitimist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legitimists
Senses: examples: text: Nor does he beat around the bush: Tocqueville’s cousin and confidant Louis de Kergorlay is “a young idiot” and the legitimist insurrectionist the Duchesse de Berry “one of the silliest princesses in all European history.”
ref: 2007 July 8, Christopher Caldwell, “Even God Quotes Tocqueville”, in New York Times:
glosses: A French royalist who believes that the King of France and Navarre must be chosen according to the simple application of the Salic law.
glosses: A Carlist
glosses: Any proponent for the rule of a legitimate sovereign.
Coordinate terms: Orléanist
legitimist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more legitimist
form: most legitimist
Senses: glosses: related to the principles of legitimism
c'mere
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɪɹ/
ipa: /kəˈmɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: c'm'ere
Senses: examples: text: Gearmo: 'Hey! C'mere!'
ref: 2010 May 23, Nintendo EAD Tokyo, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Nintendo, Wii, level/area: C'mere, Goomba:
glosses: Come here.
Related terms: c'min
c'mon
legitimists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legitimist
mapinguary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mapinguari
Senses: examples: text: Tales of mapinguary encounters are common in Rio Branco.
ref: 2007 July 8, Larry Rohter, “A Huge Amazon Monster Is Only a Myth. Or Is It?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.
microcaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcap
microcap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcaps
Etymology: From micro- + cap (short for capitalization).
Senses: examples: text: But they are not looking for the extremely small stocks known as microcaps.
ref: 2007 July 8, J. Alex Tarquinio, “Loving What Nobody Wants”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The stock of a public company with a market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
Coordinate terms: megacap
microfine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more microfine
form: most microfine
Etymology: From micro- + fine.
Senses: examples: text: microfine cement
text: Gil knows Prada from Florsheim and cheap wine from Dom, but not the microfine distinctions of which class voyeurism — and Vanity Fair — are made.
ref: 2007 July 8, John Leland, “The Devil Wears Florsheim”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely fine.
nonmelodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + melodic.
Senses: examples: text: We are turned off by repetitive lyrics and nonmelodic music.
ref: 2007 July 8, “Entrance Applause; Chamber Music’s Future”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not melodic.
nonretirement
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + retirement.
Senses: examples: text: The minimum investment for nonretirement accounts is $10,000; the minimum drops to $1,000 for Individual Retirement Accounts.
ref: 2007 July 8, J. Alex Tarquinio, “Loving What Nobody Wants”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to retirement.
nonretirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + retirement.
Senses: glosses: The state of not having retired.
placeblog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placeblogs
Etymology: From place + blog.
Senses: examples: text: In the past year, the word Bloglyn has been cropping up a lot, a reflection of the fact that Brooklyn, particularly brownstone Brooklyn, has emerged as possibly the center of the placeblog world.
ref: 2007 July 8, Gregory Beyer, “Cracker-Barrel 2.0”, in New York Times:
glosses: A blog dealing with the news and daily life of a community, written by its inhabitants.
placeblogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placeblog
polychromed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Past participle of polychrome (verb).
Senses: examples: text: He designed several remarkable buildings in and around Vienna, like the factory for the Zacherl family’s insecticide business, a striking polychromed brick building with pointed arches, minarets and a dome, explicitly Islamic in style.
ref: 2007 July 8, Christopher Gray, “Beyond Decay, a Fantastical Three-Story Concoction”, in New York Times:
glosses: Strikingly multicolored, as if by polychromy.
Synonyms: motley
multicolored
polychromatic
postheroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + heroic.
Senses: examples: text: They like to convey the spirit of the underdog — that of Israel’s heroic beginnings — as if discomfited by the adornments of an increasingly moneyed, Americanized and postheroic society.
ref: 2007 July 8, Roger Cohen, “Her Jewish State”, in New York Times:
glosses: After the decline of classical heroes.
postherpes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + herpes.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Following infection with herpes.
Synonyms: postherpetic
priapically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more priapically
form: most priapically
Etymology: From priapic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: “Watching movies simply is a promiscuous experience,” she writes, fawning over Antonio Banderas ’s rear end (“a priapically preening ... baboon backside”), Gene Hackman ’s “peculiar crinkled hair” and Steve Buscemi ’s mouth, a kiss from which she’d pay “at least, let’s say, a hundred — no, no, no, let’s say, two hundred and twenty quid.”
ref: 2007 July 8, Alexandra Jacobs, “Movie Love”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a priapic manner.
pantsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæn.tsu/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)
Ancient Greek ἔλεος (éleos)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek ἐλεέω (eleéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn)
Ancient Greek ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn)
Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)bor.
Spanish Pantaleónder.
Italian Pantaloneder.
French pantalonbor.
English pantaloon
English pantaloons
English pantsbor.
Japanese パンツbor.
English pantsu
Borrowed from Japanese パンツ (pantsu), from English pants.
Senses: topics: ACG
video-games
glosses: panties (short underpants for women or girls); underpants
priapisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priapism
slothlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slothlike
form: most slothlike
Etymology: From sloth + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But the mere mention of the mapinguary, the giant slothlike monster of the Amazon, is enough to send shivers down the spines of almost all who dwell in the world’s largest rain forest.
ref: 2007 July 8, Larry Rohter, “A Huge Amazon Monster Is Only a Myth. Or Is It?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sloth, especially in being slow and sluggish.
spatialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spatializes
form: spatializing
form: spatialized
form: spatialized
Etymology: From spatial + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: On things that change as they move, Mr. Lelong writes, “when the composer spatializes a sound object — whether it is a chord, a motif or a rhythm — the sound object that is set in motion evolves, or to put it another way, the motion stimulated by the compositional process transforms the object, whereas previously works of spatial music merely give an impression of the same object moving unchanged through space.”
ref: 2007 July 8, Bernard Holland, “Don’t Let Words Get in the Way”, in New York Times:
topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To localize sounds in physical space.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To place into a physical or geographical context.
Related terms: spatialization
spatializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spatialize
spatialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spatialize
spatializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spatialize
spatialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spatializations
Etymology: From spatial + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of spatializing.
spatializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spatialization
spatializable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spatializable
form: most spatializable
Etymology: From spatialize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being spatialized.
knobless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From knob + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I rapped on the panels of the knobless door.
text: a knobless chromosome
glosses: Without a knob.
Derived terms: knoblessness
stepkid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepkids
Etymology: From step- + kid.
Senses: examples: text: I already had two boys who were putting gray in my hair, and I added two stepkids when I married the man who would become Jane’s father.
ref: 2007 July 8, Marion Winik, “A Mother of a Certain Age”, in New York Times:
glosses: stepchild
stepkids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepkid
subworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subworlds
Etymology: From sub- + world.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe the best part of Quirke’s opus is her conjuring of this curiously sterile subworld: the climate-controlled screening rooms where her veteran colleagues gather (“always in macs, always carrying little briefcases as blazons of busyness, gray and indeterminate as pigeons and vigilant over their rations of the free chocolate digestives”); the mind-numbing public-relations packet about the cast and crew’s inevitable high mutual regard; the mixture of horror and pleasure at having one’s reviews radically condensed for marketing materials (“those suspiciously decontextualized ‘Amazing’s”).
ref: 2007 July 8, Alexandra Jacobs, “Movie Love”, in New York Times:
glosses: A world that makes up part of a larger world.
crashless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crash + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a crash (sound, collision, computer failure, etc.).
subworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subworld
minimajor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: minimajors
form: mini-major
Etymology: From mini- + major.
Senses: glosses: A film studio of a size between a major studio and a smaller independent studio.
minimajors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimajor
nonrecession
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + recession.
Senses: examples: text: A report on the industry published last week by Goldman Sachs said that in light of the expanding economy, “the magnitude of the recent declines is extraordinary,” and that May was “the worst month we’ve ever seen in a nonrecession period.”
ref: 2007 July 9, Richard PéRez-PeñA, “Job Cuts Averted as Bid for Journal Stays Open”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to economic recession.
nontourism
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tourism.
Senses: examples: text: In a letter to Mr. Butzel in late May, Connie Fishman, the president of the trust, wrote that the site of the “new nontourism/nonrecreational heliport” would be where Pier 72 jutted into the river near 32nd Street.
ref: 2007 July 9, Patrick Mcgeehan, “West Side Heliport Must Go, Park Advocacy Group Says”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to tourism.
corncrib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corncribs
Senses: examples: text: It is the picture of a farmer and his son standing against the backdrop of an empty wooden corncrib.
ref: 2007 July 10, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “John Szarkowski”, in New York Times:
text: Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
ref: 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of corn crib.
corncribs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corncrib
salad dodgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salad dodger
foreside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foresides
Etymology: From Middle English forside, equivalent to fore- + side. Cognate with Dutch voorzijde, German Vorseite, Danish forside.
Senses: examples: text: An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch.
ref: 1879, William Bailes, Student's Guide to the Principles of Coal & Metal Mining, page 17:
text: Because of water’s atomic architecture, the tendency of its comparatively forceful oxygen centerpiece to cling greedily to electrons as it consorts with its two meeker hydrogen mates, the entire molecule ends up polarized, with slight electromagnetic charges on its foreside and aft.
ref: 2007 July 10, Natalie Angier, “Small, Yes, but Mighty: The Molecule Called Water”, in New York Times:
glosses: The front or fore part of anything; front face of a thing; front side.
examples: text: Now when these Counterfeits were thus uncased
Out of the foreside of their forgerie
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The outside or external covering.
Related terms: forepart
forebody
foreship
foresides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreside
greedfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greedfests
Etymology: From greed + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: As part of American television’s campaign to revive the corniest elements of its so-called golden age, another ultra-hokey game show has made its way to NBC, where it can keep company with the glittering greedfest “Deal or No Deal.”
ref: 2007 July 10, Virginia Heffernan, “Tapping Our Musical Muscle Memory”, in New York Times:
glosses: An event characterized by greed.
greedfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greedfest
microdiscectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mīˌkrō-dĭskĕkˈ-tə-mē
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊ.dɪskˈɛk.tə.mi/
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊ.dɪskˈɛk.tə.mi/
Forms: form: microdiscectomies
Etymology: From micro- + discectomy.
Senses: examples: text: Richardson had a microdiscectomy to repair a herniated disk, which bothered him for most of last season.
ref: 2007 July 10, Howard Beck, “Knicks Fulfill Two Needs Without Making One Move”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: microdecompression
microdiscectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmaɪkɹəʊdɪskˈɛktəmiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of microdiscectomy
mysticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mysticists
Etymology: From mystic + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Directed by the Midwestern mysticist Michael Polish (“Twin Falls, Idaho”).
ref: 2007 July 10, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is involved in mysticism.
mysticist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mystic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to mysticism
mysticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mysticist
hæmatophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of haematophobia.
haematophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hematophobia
form: hæmatophobia
Etymology: From haemato- + -phobia.
Senses: synonyms: hemophobia
glosses: Fear of blood.
hematophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some sufferers of hematophobia experience a typical phobic reaction characterized by an increase in blood pressure and heart rate.
ref: 2021 March 6, Jay W. Marks, MD, “Definition of Hematophobia”, in RxList:
text: Hemophobia (also called hematophobia) is the fear of blood, wounds, and injuries.
ref: 2023 August 5, Lisa Fritscher, “Understanding and Overcoming the Fear of Blood”, in Verywell Mind:
glosses: Alternative spelling of haematophobia.
hæmatophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hæmat- + -o- + -phagous.
Senses: examples: text: In these hæmatophagous females the nectar of flowers may be considered as a supplementary food which prevents starvation when blood is not available.
ref: 1912, Frederick Knab, Harrison Gray Dyar, Leland Ossian Howard, The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies, Carnegie Institution of Washington, page 113:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hematophagous.
⠐⠱
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The logogram prefix ⠐ and the letter ⠱ wh
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: where
⠐⠳
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: The logogram prefix ⠐ and the letter ⠳ ou
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: ought
⠐⠹
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The logogram prefix ⠐ and the letter ⠹ th
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: through
⠐⠺
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The logogram prefix ⠐ and the letter ⠺ w
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: work
hemicube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemicubes
Etymology: From hemi- + cube.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An abstract regular polyhedron containing half the faces of a cube.
unplayful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unplayful
form: most unplayful
Etymology: From un- + playful.
Senses: glosses: Not playful.
Derived terms: unplayfully
unplayfulness
hemicubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemicube
hemicraniectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemicraniectomy
healsfang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: healsfangs
form: healsfang
form: halsfang
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English healsfang (“fine prescribed in substitution for capital and other punishments”, literally “neck-taking", or "taking by the neck”), equivalent to halse + fang. Cognate with Icelandic hálsfang (“embracing”).
Senses: glosses: In Anglo-Saxon law, a fine or mulct of uncertain character.
healsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more healsome
form: most healsome
Etymology: Anglicised variant of Scots hailsome, equivalent to heal + -some.
Senses: glosses: Wholesome; healthful.
jolly-hockey-sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jolly-hockey-sticks
form: most jolly-hockey-sticks
Etymology: From a catchphrase introduced in a BBC radio comedy programme, Educating Archie (1950)http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-jol1.htm.
Senses: examples: text: Polly couldn't abide Pat Walsh's bossy, jolly hockey-sticks manner and her curious predilection for calling absolutely everyone "babe."
ref: 2003, Caroline Upcher, Falling for Mr. Wrong:
text: We had to march along behind one of our mistresses — they were all very jolly hockey-sticks. March to church and then a lockstep turn about the park, everyone staring at us, knowing where we were from.
ref: 2005, Jim Christy, The redemption of Anna Dupree, page 122:
text: There was a brigade of horsy women with enormous arses, moustaches and jolly-hockey-sticks ideas about everything walloping about in all directions, whose skins had weathered like leather and whose breath and hands always smelled of horse saliva and dung.
ref: 2006, Richard E. Grant, The Wah-Wah diaries: the making of a film:
text: Boarding-school life was a lot like Mallory Towers or St Clare's, the fictional jolly-hockey-sticks schools created by Enid Blyton. 'We would have midnight feasts, and I suppose it was a bit like the Blyton books,' recalls Susan Lawrence.
ref: 2008, Alison Bowyer, Dawn French: The Unauthorized Biography, page 19:
glosses: Wholesomely athletic and enthusiastic, in a manner stereotypically associated with traditional British public schools for girls.
locksteps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockstep
jollyboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jollyboats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jolly boat.
jolly boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jolly boats
form: jollyboat
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: Boats for Ships. A Jolly-boat. A Long-boat. A Skiffe. A Pinnace. A Water-boat. A Yaul.
ref: 1696, John Houghton, Collection for Improvement of Husbandry and Trade, London, Issue 187
text: [H]e went down the ship's side […] and, seating himself in the stern sheets of the jolly-boat, took the helm, pushed off, and four young lads rowed him ashore.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 346
text: When they reached the brig, they found that the jolly-boat had been lowered and laid alongside.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 139:
synonyms: jolly
glosses: A type of ship's boat of the 17th to 19th centuries, used mainly to ferry personnel to and from the ship.
jollyboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jollyboat
jolly boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jolly boat
jolly along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jollies along
form: jollying along
form: jollied along
form: jollied along
Senses: examples: text: When there was a shipping delay, the salesman jollied the purchasing agent along to keep him from canceling the order.
glosses: To keep (someone) happy or compliant, as by encouragement or flattery.
unplayfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unplayfully
form: most unplayfully
Etymology: From unplayful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unplayful manner.
unplayfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unplayful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unplayful.
Pollyannaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pollyannism
Etymology: From Pollyanna + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] some good guys at the Secretariat decided that 1975 should be International Women’s Year. ¶ It is typical of the special brand of United Nations Pollyannaism that they did so regardless of the fact that Secretariat hiring policies are grossly discriminatory.
ref: 1975 May 9, Germaine Greer, “At the U.N., Women’s Year ‘of Disgrace’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2025:
text: I realize one self-evaluation is as true as another and that my mother’s relentless Pollyannism was a less melancholy and more efficient way of muddling through than my gloom or my sister’s saturnine honesty.
ref: 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
synonyms: Panglossianism
antonyms: cynicalness
cynicism
pessimism
realisticness
realism
hypernyms: naivete
naïveté
unrealisticness
glosses: Persistent irrational optimism.
Related terms: Mark Tapleyism
Micawberism
FDICIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991.
keys of the kingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven."
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 16:19:
text: The malcontents intrigued with Holland in 1666, and schemed to capture the three Keys of the Kingdom—the castles of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Edinburgh.
ref: 1911, Andrew Lang, chapter 26, in A Short History of Scotland:
glosses: Alternative form of keys to the kingdom.
keyservers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyserver
muraled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: muralled
Etymology: From mural + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Decorated with a mural.
muraled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: muralled
Etymology: From mural + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mural
muralled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: muraled
Senses: glosses: Decorated with a mural.
muralled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: muraled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mural
those who will not when they may, when they will they shall have nay
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Apparently originated in a song.
Senses: glosses: One should take immediate advantage of an opportunity that may not be available later.
craniodental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From cranio- + dental.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the cranium and teeth.
Derived terms: craniodentally
prædictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thus in a book ascribed to Justin Martyr, containing a number of Quæstions with answers to them, for the use of the Orthodox, one of the questions is this; “if all the arts of delusion are abolished by the coming of Christ, how comes it to pass, that Dæmons still speak by those who are called Ventriloquists, and that they do not make Christianity ridiculous and contemptible, by shewing forth the works of imposture and uttering oracular prædictions in the bodies of Christians?”
ref: 1844, Conyers Middleton, A New Edition of A Free Inquiry into The Miraculous Powers, J. and W. Boone, page 71:
glosses: plural of prædiction
prædiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prædictions
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of prediction.
cyberelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberelites
Etymology: From cyber- + elite.
Senses: examples: text: The cyberelite made up of individuals such as Bill Gates, Mitch Kapor, and Esther Dyson emerged from a computer culture in the 1970s and 1980s that denigrated the government's role in the information age as that of an Orwellian big brother.
ref: 2001, Gregory J. Rattray, Strategic warfare in cyberspace, page 352:
text: We are often reminded that while members of a largely Western, male, and affluent cyberelite "amuse themselves in cyberspace, half the human race has never made a telephone call" (Tele-Haves and Have-Nots 1996).
ref: 2001, Bosah Louis Ebo, Cyberimperialism?: global relations in the new electronic frontier, page 31:
glosses: An elite in the world of computers or in cyberspace.
cyberelites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberelite
portside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From port + -side.
Senses: examples: text: All was quiet for several minutes until the fog broke and a large oak tree passed outside my portside window.
ref: 2007 July 10, James Hickey, “Airline War Stories, Expert Division”, in New York Times:
text: The portside lounge in shades of tan and yellow seated sixty-six passengers while a TV Lounge on the starboard side could accommodate forty-eight passengers in a predominantly blue space.
ref: 2010, Justin Merrigan, Ian Collard, Holyhead to Ireland: Stena and Its Welsh Heritage, →ISBN:
glosses: On the port (left) side of a ship.
portside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portsides
Etymology: From port + -side.
Senses: glosses: An area alongside a port.
examples: text: The net is taken in by repeatedly strapping off lengths of the net that are hauled forward alternately from the portside and starboardside; the pile of netting in the foreground is made from successive bights of the net resulting from this procedure.
ref: 1967, Ernest D. McRae, The West German research vessel W̲a̲l̲t̲h̲e̲r̲ H̲e̲r̲w̲i̲g̲:
text: It is obvious that the reasonable principles do not require a merchant ship to bear a green light at her starboardside and a red light at her portside, but if each State were to regulate the colour and the place of the lights with unlimited sovereignty, and without regard for the uniformity, the regulation would be a danger instead of a measure of precaution.
ref: 2012, D. Josephus Jitta, The Renovation of International Law, →ISBN:
glosses: The port (left) side of a boat.
portside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more portside
form: most portside
Etymology: From port + -side.
Senses: examples: text: Ship was to dock portside to at pier 1 but ended up starboardside as docking became seriously complicated
ref: 1959, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, Civil functions, Department of the Army, page 2614:
glosses: Toward or on the port side.
Derived terms: portsider
portsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portside
sarod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarods
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi सरोद (sarod).
Senses: examples: text: More surprising are segments showing Mr. Bream and friends starting an evening at a pub and then repairing to his home to play jazz, and a 1962 improvisation with the sarod player Ali Akbar Khan in which Mr. Bream picks up Mr. Khan’s themes with an effortlessness and a fluency that say a lot about his musicianship.
ref: 2007 July 10, Allan Kozinn, “Capturing a Master of the Guitar in the Act of Playing and Musing”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A fretless string instrument used mainly in Indian classical music.
Derived terms: sarodiya
sarodist
sarods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarod
centerman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centermen
Etymology: From center + -man.
Senses: examples: text: “I think everyone hoped Mikey Nylander’s situation would work itself out, but when it didn’t, we needed two centermen and we got the two guys everyone else wanted.”
ref: 2007 July 11, Lynn Zinser, “Shanahan Keeps His Word and Stays”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of centreman.
centermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centerman
counterinvestigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterinvestigations
Etymology: From counter- + investigation.
Senses: examples: text: But Mr. Spitzer continued to be pressed on questions related to Mr. Bruno’s travels with state troopers, which the governor’s aides last week asked the state attorney general and Albany district attorney to investigate. Mr. Bruno has accused the governor of having the state police monitor his travel schedule in an effort to uncover politically damaging information, and has called for a counterinvestigation of the Spitzer administration.
ref: 2007 July 11, Nicholas Confessore, “A Mellower Spitzer Emerges, Playing Down Bruno Feud”, in New York Times:
glosses: An investigation launched in response to another investigation.
magrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magret
counterinvestigations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterinvestigation
megilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megillas
Senses: examples: text: “There are a lot of investors who aren’t willing to go for the whole megilla who could go in for a slice,” Mr. Yount said.
ref: 2007 July 11, Richard PéRez-PeñA, “2 Investors Discuss Partial Purchase With Dow Jones Board”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of megillah.
megillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megilla
proplaintiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + plaintiff.
Senses: examples: text: We are hoping for a proplaintiff verdict.
glosses: In favour of the plaintiff in a legal case.
prodefendant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + defendant.
Senses: examples: text: We are hoping for a prodefendant verdict.
glosses: In favour of the defendant in a legal case.
nonverdict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonverdicts
Etymology: From non- + verdict.
Senses: examples: text: Ronald Safer, a lawyer for Mr. Kipnis, argued that the jury should be allowed to return whatever verdict it had reached, even if, in this case, it was a nonverdict.
ref: 2007 July 11, Eric Ferkenhoff, “Jury Says It Is at Standstill in the Trial of Conrad Black”, in New York Times:
glosses: Failure to reach a verdict in a legal case.
nonverdicts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonverdict
nonveridically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonveridical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not veridical.
nonvertically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonvertical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an orientation that is not vertical.
nonhorizontally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonhorizontal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an orientation that is not horizontal.
plumcot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌm.kɒt/
ipa: /ˈplʌm.kɑt/
Forms: form: plumcots
Etymology: Blend of plum + apricot
Senses: examples: text: These fruits are in season now, along with the plumcot, 50 percent plum and 50 percent apricot, which has been sold on a limited basis until now.
ref: 2007 July 11, Florence Fabricant, “Food Stuff”, in New York Times:
text: He also sent us specimens of what he calls the "plumcot" — a cross between the plum and the apricot.
ref: 1898, Report/Maryland State Horticultural Society:
glosses: A hybrid fruit of plum and apricot.
Synonyms: pluot
aprium
plumcots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumcot
muralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muralisms
Etymology: From mural + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: With its pumped-up colors, a focus on everyday lives made heroic and its status as an essentially public artwork, “Departures” strongly suggests a new twist on the Los Angeles muralism of the 1970s, a movement born from the Chicano civil rights movement when Mexican-American artists like Judy Baca, David Rivas Botello and Willie Herrón adapted the Mexican muralist tradition for their own time.
ref: 2007 August 12, Carol Kino, “Cybermural: The Web as the Wall”, in New York Times:
glosses: An art movement involving murals.
muralistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muralistic
form: most muralistic
Etymology: From mural + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or suggesting muralism.
peacetimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peacetime
reinstruct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinstructs
form: reinstructing
form: reinstructed
form: reinstructed
Etymology: From re- + instruct.
Senses: examples: text: The judge told the lawyers that the jury had been attentive in the trial, and added: “I do think there is some benefit to bringing the jury back into the courtroom and reinstructing them.”
ref: 2007 July 11, Eric Ferkenhoff, “Jury Says It Is at Standstill in the Trial of Conrad Black”, in New York Times:
glosses: To instruct again or anew.
Related terms: reinstruction
reinstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinstruct
reinstructs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinstruct
reinstructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinstruct
geodimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geodimeters
Etymology: Originally a brand name, from geodetic distance meter.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: An instrument measuring the distance between two points by means of a laser.
Related terms: geodimetric
geodimetry
antivice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antivice
form: most antivice
Etymology: From anti- + vice.
Senses: examples: text: The Red Mosque enjoyed decades of government backing but lately had become a source of embarrassment for General Musharraf as its leaders used their students to carry out Taliban-style antivice campaigns. Mr. Haq told the privately owned Geo television network on Tuesday night that it had become a sanctuary for militants from other parts of the country.
ref: 2007 July 12, Somini Sengupta, “After Mosque Battle, Musharraf’s Troubles Persist”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing or countering vice (sinful behaviour).