cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
heterosexually
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heterosexual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Because gay people are finding more affirmation in our culture for their sexuality, those who are heterosexually married are tending to question their need to stay in that kind of relationship or their need to repress their homosexual activity.
ref: 1976 December 11, J. D. Sitler, David Griffiths, “Marriage: Straight Or On The Rocks?”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 9:
text: Interrupting this perfect storm requires a clear understanding of its origins, and we still cannot fully explain why heterosexually transmitted H.I.V. exploded in Africa while remaining confined to very specific communities in the West.
ref: 2007 July 3, Abigail Zuger, M.D., “AIDS in Africa: Rising Above the Partisan Babble”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a heterosexual way.
Related terms: heterosocially
absolute advantages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute advantage
homosexually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From homosexual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a homosexual way.
overzealously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overzealously
form: most overzealously
Etymology: From overzealous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Critics say a law designed to keep medical information confidential is being overzealously applied.
ref: 2007 July 3, Siobhan Roberts, “It Will Take More Than a Wolf to Blow One House Down”, in The New York Times:
text: Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who shoot up shuls.
ref: 2019 September 6, Jordan Weissman, “How Not to Fight Anti-Semitism”, in Slate:
glosses: In an overzealous way; with excessive zeal.
sizewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From size + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: “As we workshop, they’ll decide whether it’s a piece that sizewise will work better for the Met or Lincoln Center Theater,” he said.
ref: 2007 July 3, Daniel J. Wakin, “Met Opera’s Commissions Show Signs of Progress”, in New York Times:
glosses: In terms of size.
sweatshirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sweatshirt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Fans can choose their cover: a pinstriped T. I. or a sweatshirted T. I. P. But the music is the same, and so is the face, plus or minus a scowl.
ref: 2007 July 3, Kelefa Sanneh, “In Rap, Inner War Can Be a Trap”, in New York Times:
glosses: Dressed in a sweatshirt.
antimarijuana
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimarijuana
form: most antimarijuana
form: anti-marijuana
Etymology: From anti- + marijuana.
Senses: examples: text: As to the reference to “Reefer Madness,” a torrid antimarijuana propaganda film later revived as a countercultural favorite, the 56-year-old Mr. Rove pleaded forgetfulness.
ref: 2007 July 14, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Rove Strategy Paper Found in Nixon Archive”, in New York Times:
antonyms: promarijuana
glosses: Opposed to, or countering, the use of marijuana.
entwinement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnmənt
Forms: form: entwinements
Etymology: From entwine + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: But in the modern era of political money, where the race for cash has effectively become a campaign unto itself, Mr. Gupta’s entwinements with the Democrats, and his abrupt step back, illustrate the pitfalls of such relationships, both for the candidates and for the wealthy contributors who hunger for the access and the attention their largess can bring.
ref: 2007 July 14, Mike Mcintire, “Clinton Backer’s Ties to Powerful Cut Both Ways”, in New York Times:
glosses: A situation of being entwined; an entanglement.
entwinements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entwinement
jumpstarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumpstart
jumpstarts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jumpstart
jumpstarting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jumpstart
jumpstarted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jumpstart
pranksterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pranksterish
form: most pranksterish
Etymology: From prankster + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Hassan, a heavyset, pranksterish 23-year-old, loved the new world of cellphones, online computers and downloadable videos ushered in by the American occupation of Iraq, so much so that he spent a quarter of his monthly salary recently on another new phone.
ref: 2007 July 14, John F. Burns, “In a Baghdad Killing, Questions That Haunt Iraq”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a prankster; inclined to play pranks.
45's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 45
biguine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biguines
Senses: examples: text: The band had three contrasting lead singers: Mr. Desvarieux, who was gruff and smoky; Mr. Marthely, a buoyant tenor; and Ms. Beroard, whose voice can be bright and poppy or sweetly affectionate. Mr. Naimro’s keyboards could sound like zinging dance-club synthesizers, an accordion, a steel drum or the clarinet used in old Martinican biguine music. Mr. Desvarieux’s guitar sometimes hinted at blues-rock or the intertwining lines of African rock before slipping back into the rhythm section.
ref: 2007 August 2, Jon Pareles, “A Wide Range of Sounds, From Antillean to Zouk”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of music that originated in Martinique in the 19th century, combining the traditional bélé music with the polka.
glosses: A musical composition in this style.
glosses: A dance performed to this music.
fetishizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fetishizable
form: most fetishizable
Etymology: From fetishize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: WHY YOU GO THERE Huge fetishizable handbags, subtle jokes, hypnotic jacquard and luscious natural fibers perversely tricked out to look like cheap petroleum knockoffs.
ref: 2007 August 2, Cintra Wilson, “Prada’s Sassy Sister Knows How to Party”, in New York Times:
text: Furthermore, it should be recalled from the previous chapter that criminological discourse of the 1930s deemed every woman a potential criminal, implicitly including the domestic woman. In this way every woman was a potentially fetishizable object and delinquent citizen.
ref: 2007, Christine L. Marran, Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture, page 137:
glosses: That can be fetishized.
flyball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyballs
Etymology: From fly + ball.
Senses: examples: text: Pérez, a flyball pitcher, recorded only two fly outs, and one of the two balls hit Anderson’s way — Fielder’s three-run homer in the first — traveled an estimated 447 feet and dented a strip above the Miller Lite sign on the center-field scoreboard.
ref: 2007 August 2, Ben Shpigel, “Shaky at the Start, Pérez Settles in to Strike Out 11”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fly ball.
glosses: A type of dog-race where dogs jump over hurdles to get to and return from a tennis-ball dispensing box.
flyballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyball
megamusical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megamusicals
Etymology: From mega- + musical.
Senses: examples: text: Save the C-notes for eye-filling megamusicals or, maybe, a good-for-you drama of intellectual aspirations, preferably with a script from England and a star from Hollywood.
ref: 2007 August 2, Ben Brantley, “Titters, Snickers and Guffaws, With a British Accent”, in New York Times:
text: Jukeboxes have frequently been compared to the megamusicals and are considered a direct offshoot.
ref: 2022, Kevin Byrne, Emily Fuchs, The Jukebox Musical: An Interpretive History, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A particularly elaborate or successful musical.
megamusicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megamusical
memoirish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more memoirish
form: most memoirish
Etymology: From memoir + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: This year you can soak up its pre-Woodstock, pre-civil-rights-age vibe from the pages of a new memoirish coffee-table book peppered with photographs of family groups on Newport lawns called “A Privileged Life: Celebrating WASP Style,” by Susanna Salk, and also from the movie “Evening” — another WASP-y “remembrance of things past,” like the Susan Minot novel on which it is based.
ref: 2007 August 2, Penelope Green, “Updating Newport, Ever So Gently”, in New York Times:
glosses: In the style of a memoir.
pacemakerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pacemakerlike
form: most pacemakerlike
Etymology: From pacemaker + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The wires were connected to a pacemakerlike unit, implanted under the man’s collarbone.
ref: 2007 August 2, Benedict Carey, “Man Regains Speech After Brain Stimulation”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a pacemaker.
ringless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ring + -less.
Senses: examples: text: After we were married, a jeweler told us that it would take about five weeks to etch our names into our bands, and we thought that seemed too long to be ringless.
ref: 2007 August 2, Erwin R. Tiongson, “And the Band Stayed On”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a ring.
shamanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shamanesque
form: most shamanesque
Etymology: From shaman + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: His shamanesque installers are two brothers who live in tepees on a squat in the Ibizan forest, and who cleanse new tepees with sage burning and song.
ref: 2007 August 2, Julia Chaplin, “A New Tribe of Tepee Dwellers”, in New York Times:
glosses: In the manner of a shaman.
Related terms: shamanic
supercross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + -cross.
Senses: examples: text: In a 10-year career, he has won more A.M.A. supercross and motocross races than any rider in history.
ref: 2007 August 2, Matt Higgins, “Once Shunned, Freestylers to Meet Rivals”, in New York Times:
glosses: A sport in which high-performance off-road motorcycles are raced on an artificially made dirt track consisting of steep jumps and obstacles.
Synonyms: word: SX
Derived terms: word: SX
Related terms: motocross
sidecarcross
ticklingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ticklingly
form: most ticklingly
Etymology: From tickling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Adjust the volume, tweak the contours, refine the timing and, if need be, fiddle with the setting, and the hoariest yuck-fest can seem as dewy as a morning in May. Examples of tales told ticklingly are in unusual abundance here, with comedies for every taste within the mainstream of London theater.
ref: 2007 August 2, Ben Brantley, “Titters, Snickers and Guffaws, With a British Accent”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a tickling way.
undereye
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: under-eye
Etymology: From under + eye.
Senses: examples: text: Lips that have thinned over time may cause a person to appear irritable or tense, a naturally elevated brow may suggest judgment or skepticism, and undereye shadows can make a person appear weary and burdened.
ref: 2007 August 2, Laurel Naversen Geraghty, “I Am Not a Crab: When Wrinkles Lie”, in New York Times:
glosses: Under the eye.
undereye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undereyes
form: under-eye
Etymology: From under + eye.
Senses: examples: text: In some vague corner of his mind, he remembered her forgetfulness, the weary smudges of blue that bruised her undereyes when the sky was still pale with white light from the sun […]
ref: 2013, Lindsay Evelyn Hamilton, Lily Whites of Steel, page 374:
glosses: The area of skin immediately under the eye.
Derived terms: undereye bag
roundarm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From round + arm.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An obsolete style of bowling where the bowler's arm is at right angles to the body at the point of delivery.
Related terms: underarm
overarm
unevolved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌn.ɪˈvɑlvd/
ipa: /ʌn.ɪˈvɒlvd/
rhymes: -ɑlvd
rhymes: -ɒlvd
Etymology: From un- + evolved.
Senses: examples: text: This year, while Mr. Giuliani’s online presence is regarded as relatively unevolved, he is leading other Republicans in national polls. Mr. Romney is leading in polls in Iowa and New Hampshire.
ref: 2007 August 2, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Allies Urge Republicans to Join YouTube Debate”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not evolved; yet to evolve.
unmoor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmoors
form: unmooring
form: unmoored
form: unmoored
Etymology: From un- + moor.
Senses: examples: text: “It would’ve taken him a half-hour to unmoor the boat.”
ref: 2007 August 2, Ellen Barry, “U.S. Halts Heating Oil Deliveries by Two Companies Accused of Swindling”, in New York Times:
glosses: To unfix or unsecure (a moored boat).
examples: text: When oblivion finally unmoors us.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 93:
glosses: To set free or loose.
glosses: To weigh anchor.
Coordinate terms: unberth
undock
unmoors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmoor
unmooring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmoor
bodysnatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodysnatchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of body snatcher.
bodysnatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The head of a ring of bodysnatchers who stole the bones of broadcaster Alistair Cooke pleaded guilty yesterday.
ref: 2008 March 19, Daily Rec. (Glasgow), 9
glosses: plural of bodysnatcher
midchest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + chest.
Senses: examples: text: Today, Mrs. Khan shares a room in a dreary nursing home on the fringes of Houston, paralyzed from midchest down and tormented by a fateful choice to try to remake her life.
ref: 2007 July 17, John M. Broder, “Filling Gaps in Iraq, Then Finding a Void at Home”, in New York Times:
glosses: The middle of the chest.
postsurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + surgery.
Senses: examples: text: ReAble Therapeutics, the orthopedic-device maker controlled by the private equity company Blackstone Group, agreed to purchase DJO for $1.6 billion to add leg braces and postsurgery pain therapies.
ref: 2007 July 17, Bloomberg News, “Orthopedics Maker Buys DJO to Expand”, in New York Times:
glosses: After surgery.
Synonyms: postsurgical
postsurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From post- + surgery.
Senses: glosses: After surgery.
Synonyms: postsurgically
valganciclovir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From val(ine) + ganciclovir.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiviral medication used to treat cytomegalovirus infections, converted to ganciclovir inside the body by intestinal and hepatic esterases.
CMV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CMVs
Senses: examples: text: DHPG […] is effective in fighting Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus which, for PWAs, can cause CMV retinitis — a condition which can lead to blindness within weeks.
ref: 1989 February 5, Judy Harris, “Untitled image caption”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 3:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of cytomegalovirus.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of cucumber mosaic virus.
CMV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Sara Gilbert, research director of the Citizens and Technology Lab at Cornell University, claimed the study has harmed CMV itself.
ref: 2025 April 28, Kate Travis, “Experiment using AI-generated posts on Reddit draws fire for ethics concerns”, in Retraction Watch:
qualifier: Reddit slang
glosses: Abbreviation of r/changemyview.
CMV
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of change my view.
ganciclovir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡanˈsʌɪ.klə(ʊ)ˌvɪə/
ipa: /ɡænˈsaɪ.kloʊˌvɪɹ/
Forms: form: gancyclovir
Etymology: From g(u)an(osine) + -ciclovir (“bicyclic heterocycle compound”).
Senses: examples: text: A significant number of AIDS patients are unable to tolerate ganciclovir treatments because of adverse effects it can have on production of critical blood cells.
ref: 1991 December 22, Jacob Smith Yang, “Activists Fight Drug Profiteering”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 23, page 3:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antiviral medication C₉H₁₃N₅O₄ related to acyclovir and used especially to treat or prevent cytomegalovirus retinitis in immunocompromised individuals.
Derived terms: valganciclovir
darlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more darlingly
form: most darlingly
Etymology: From darling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a darling way.
Synonyms: cutely
cytomegaloviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytomegalovirus
authorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From author + -less.
Senses: examples: text: An authorless national author tour “doesn’t seem to me to have been done before,” said Constance Sayre, a principal in the Manhattan publishing consulting firm Market Partners International.
ref: 2007 August 28, Celia Mcgee, “Famous Friends on Tour for a Halberstam Book”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without an author.
Derived terms: authorlessness
bioidentical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + identical.
Senses: examples: text: Many women seeking natural remedies have turned to compounding pharmacies, druggists who promise so-called bioidentical hormones that are chemically synthesized but have the same molecular structure as hormones produced by a woman’s body.
ref: 2007 August 28, Roni Caryn Rabin, “For a Low-Dose Hormone, Take Your Pick”, in New York Times:
glosses: Identical to that which is naturally produced by the body.
raw_tags: of a synthetic hormone
bioidentical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioidenticals
Etymology: From bio- + identical.
Senses: glosses: A bioidentical form of something.
bioidenticals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioidentical
captopril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæp.təˌpɹɪl/
Forms: form: captoprils
Etymology: From (mer)capto + pr(oline) + -yl or (mer)capto + pr(opion)yl.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An ACE inhibitor used to treat hypertension and some types of congestive heart failure.
Derived terms: -pril
sermonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛt
Forms: form: sermonettes
Etymology: From sermon + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: One, “Thoughts and Prayers,” was for the drummer Jo Jones; it included a sermonette for the high-hat cymbal. Mr. Hamilton dedicated another, “Just Play the Melody,” to Mr. Roach.
ref: 2007 August 28, Ben Ratliff, “Headliner Can’t Make It? Here’s a First-Class Fill-In”, in New York Times:
glosses: A short sermon.
sermonettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sermonette
Ponton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pontons
Etymology: Three main origins:
* English and Scottish habitational surname, from the villages of Great and Little Ponton, named probably with an obscure Old English word pamp (“hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
* Borrowed from French Ponton.
* Borrowed from Spanish Pontón.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Great Ponton
Little Ponton
grogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grog.
Senses: glosses: A Cape Verdean alcoholic drink made from sugar cane.
umeshu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 梅酒.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese liqueur made by steeping unripe ume fruits in alcohol (or saké) and sugar.
Synonyms: plum wine
premixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premix
supermouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermice
Etymology: From super- + mouse.
Senses: glosses: A genetically modified mouse with remarkable stamina and longevity.
supermice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermouse
oncomouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncomice
Etymology: From onco- + mouse, from a trademark.
Senses: glosses: A type of laboratory mouse that has been genetically modified to carry an activated oncogene, increasing its susceptibility to cancer.
oncomice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncomouse
marchpanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marchpane
notator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notators
Etymology: From notate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: “Dance is not an ephemeral art form,” said Sandra Aberkalns, the senior staff notator at the bureau.
ref: 2007 August 30, Roslyn Sulcas, “All the Right Moves”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who notates; a writer of notation.
qualifier: musics software
glosses: A software program that writes musical notation based on the computer representation of music, or the sound.
notators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notator
balladlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more balladlike
form: most balladlike
Etymology: From ballad + -like.
Senses: examples: text: This veteran jazz pianist’s new album, “Solo in Mondsee” (ECM), is a solo-piano record of improvisations, most of them balladlike and quite beautiful, even in their most sprawling phases.
ref: 2007 August 19, Ben Ratliff, “Jazz as It Is and Was, and Flamenco as It Can Be”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a ballad.
chocolatelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chocolatelike
form: most chocolatelike
Etymology: From chocolate + -like.
Senses: examples: text: And, for something completely different, there is “Incarnat,” a brutal and heartbreaking dance show from Brazil that features miniportraits of self-abasement involving nudity, gobs of chocolatelike liquid and a variety of beastly physical violence.
ref: 2007 August 19, Jason Zinoman, “High-Energy Behemoth Devours Edinburgh”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling chocolate.
Synonyms: chocolately
chocolatish
chocolaty
State of Mexico
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the State of Mexico
form: Mexico State
Etymology: Calque of Spanish Estado de México.
Senses: synonyms: Mexico
Edomex
glosses: A state of Mexico. Capital: Toluca. The most populous of the 32 federal entities of the country of Mexico, and surrounding Mexico City.
disguiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: disguisers
Etymology: From disguise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A voice disguiser alters a person’s voice to protect their anonymity.
text: Incense can be used as an odour disguiser.
text: O, death’s a great disguiser; and you may add to it. Shave the head, and tie the beard; and say it was the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his death
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: But night it self that great disguiser,
Wants power to conceal the least of crimes
From any troubled breast […]
ref: 1696, Robert Howard, The Blind Lady Act V, Scene 3, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Francis Saunders, p. 124, […] I should be friends With this disguise, could it but hide my crimes
text: If there were no alcohol or cigars, would not those who now use either to excess have recourse to some other form of stimulant or fatigue and pain disguiser instead?
ref: 1899, Robert Grant, “To A Young Man or Woman in Search of the Ideal”, in Search-Light Letters, New York: Scribner, Letter II, pp. 29-30:
text: Benedict was once a scholar and now claims to be infallible in matters of faith or morals. But on the clearest facts of history he is a dissembler and disguiser.
ref: 2010 September 16, Garry Wills, “Stealing Newman”, in The New York Review:
glosses: A person or thing that disguises.
examples: text: 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke (also known as Hall’s Chronicle), London: Richard Grafton, “The triumphaunt reigne of Kyng Henry the VIII,”
[…] out of a caue in the said Rock came .x. knightes, armed at all poyntes, & faughte together a fayre tournay. And when they were seuered & departed the disguysers dissended from the rock & daunced a great space: & sodeynly the rocke moued & receaued the disguysers, & ymediatly closed agayn.
text: Browning’s poems of the love of man and woman are seldom a simple lyrical cry, but they are not on this account the less true in their presentment of that curious masquer and disguiser—Love. When love takes possession of a nature which is complex, affluents and tributaries from many and various faculties run into the main stream.
ref: 1904, Edward Dowden, chapter 4, in Robert Browning, London: J.M. Dent, page 76:
text: A kind of witty complicity emerges occasionally from Jonson’s treatment of his disguisers, to suggest that he was taken with their arts in spite of himself.
ref: 1987, Thomas M. Greene, “Ben Jonson and the Centered Self”, in Harold Bloom, editor, Modern Critical Views: Ben Jonson, New York: Chelsea House Publishers, page 100:
glosses: A person who wears a disguise; an actor in a masque or masquerade; a masker.
disguisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disguiser
equilibrioception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: equilibri(um) + -o- + -ception
Senses: glosses: The sense of balance.
Related terms: equilibrium
perception
proprioception
kinesthesia
emphasizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emphasizers
form: emphasiser
Etymology: From emphasize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Counterintuitively, the authors are down on the use of please as an emphasizer: “ ‘Would you please remember to include me on the email whenever you respond to a customer?’ conveys a sense of exasperation.
ref: 2007 August 19, William Safire, “Gifts of Gab”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, emphasizes.
emphasizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emphasizer
emphasiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emphasisers
Etymology: From emphasise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of emphasizer.
emphasisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emphasiser
ineloquence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + eloquence.
Senses: examples: text: Specimens of the genre share a low-key naturalism, low-fi production values and a stream of low-volume chatter often perceived as ineloquence.
ref: 2007 August 19, Dennis Lim, “A Generation Finds Its Mumble”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being ineloquent.
pommade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pommades
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pomade.
shtreimel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shtreimels
form: shtreimlech
Etymology: Yiddish שטרײַמל (shtrayml).
Senses: examples: text: My idea of a walk, influenced by Kazin and honed over these last nine years that I’ve lived in New York, involves a freewheeling thoughtfulness powered by the legs but fed by observation, a physical and mental stream of consciousness nudged this way and that by an infinite number of human variables: an old man doing his esoteric exercises, a lone glove dropped in the middle of a snowy sidewalk, an Orthodox Jew in a shtreimel.
ref: 2007 August 19, Nicole Krauss, “The Walker and the Walk”, in New York Times:
glosses: A fur hat, usually worn by some married Haredi Jewish men on Shabbat and during Jewish holidays and other festive occasions.
Related terms: kolpik
spodik
shtreimels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shtreimel
unfamilial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfamilial
form: most unfamilial
Etymology: From un- + familial.
Senses: examples: text: Their film version of the best-selling roman à clef about the distinctly unfamilial lives of Manhattan’s elite has an anthropological perspective, complete with museum-style dioramas of that strange society known as the Upper East Side.
ref: 2007 August 19, Melena Ryzik, “In the Land of Nannies and Poodles”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not familial.
yurta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yurtas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of yurt.
synonyms: word: yurt
Antoni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan and Polish Antoni, from Latin Antōnius.
Senses: examples: text: Let’s not forget EJ Antoni, whom Trump just nominated to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics after firing former chief Erika McEntarfer for presiding over a disappointing jobs report earlier this month.
Antoni is that rarity who has drawn harsh criticism from economists on the right as well as the mainstream for being ignorant, unprincipled and incompetent.
ref: 2025 August 25, Robert Reich, “Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025:
glosses: A surname from Catalan, Polish, or Slovene.
synodal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synodals
Etymology: From Middle English synodal, synodall, from Latin synodālis. By surface analysis, synod + -al.
Senses: examples: text: synodals, paid to the Bishop of Carlisle every year
ref: 1887, Thomas Gibson, Legends and Historical Notes on Places of North Westmoreland:
glosses: A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.
examples: text: Or els is thys Goddis law,
Decrees or decretals,
Or holy sinodals,
Or els provincyals,
Thus within the wals
Of holy church to deale […]?
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 130–135:
glosses: A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.
synodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English synodal, synodall, from Latin synodālis. By surface analysis, synod + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Your juſtification is but a miſerable ſhifting off thoſe teſtimonies of the ancienteſt Fathers alledg’d againſt you, and the authority of ſome Synodal Canons, which are no warrant to us.
ref: 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: synodic; relating to a synod
Great Leap Forward
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Leap Forward
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 大躍進／大跃进 (Dàyuèjìn). Coined by a People's Daily commentator in 1957.
Senses: examples: text: Louti, in Hunan Province, Central China, is one of the numerous small industrial cities that have grown up since liberation, particularly since the big leap forward.
ref: [1960, Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 2308-2328, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:
text: In the early 1960s, following the collapse of Mao's Great Leap Forward, Liu and Chang, as party officials in the city of I-pin (120 miles south of Szechwan's capital, Chengtu), vigorously prosecuted those cadres under their jurisdiction who had shown less than wholehearted devotion to that campaign.
ref: 1971, Thomas Jay Matthews, “The Cultural Revolution in Szechwan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:
glosses: A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the Communist China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization, but failed disastrously (resulting in massive famine and the deaths of many millions of people).
glosses: A theoretical point in human evolution at which point complex tools, weapons, sculptures, etc. began to appear, supplanting previous primitive behaviour.
vivandière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vivandières
form: vivandiere
Etymology: From French vivandière.
Senses: glosses: A female vivandier.
vivandier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vivandiers
Etymology: From French vivandier.
Senses: glosses: A sutler accompanying a continental European army, especially the French army.
bangies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bangy
Napster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Napsters
Etymology: Named after Napster, a file-sharing system (not itself a website) that facilitated the copying of copyrighted MP3 audio files, itself named after a nickname of its creator Shawn Fanning, referring to his nappy-textured hair; hence nap + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: Some in the used-book industry are questioning whether Amazon.com is becoming the Napster of the book business.
ref: 2004 July 12, “Yukos Offers $8 Billion To Cover Its Tax Bill”, in New York Times:
text: It would be easy to call the venture-backed, San Mateo-based YouTube the Napster of video, an outlaw startup rocketing onto dotcom radar screens on the backs of rights-holders. But that's a designation that the year-old company desperately wants to avoid.
ref: 2007 October 15, “Video Napster?”, in Newsweek:
text: In many fields, we now have the equivalent of Spotify for research: vast databases that help scholars search millions of articles and connect them—often through highly restrictive and increasingly unsustainable subscriptions, but that is another story—instantly to digital copies. (There is also a Napster for research articles, of which we shall not speak.)
ref: 2019 May 26, Dan Cohen, “The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Any website that facilitates free distribution of data.
Napster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Napsters
form: Napstering
form: Napstered
form: Napstered
Etymology: Named after Napster, a file-sharing system (not itself a website) that facilitated the copying of copyrighted MP3 audio files, itself named after a nickname of its creator Shawn Fanning, referring to his nappy-textured hair; hence nap + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: I have done my part this year by buying fewer albums than in any year since, um, 1982 I think it was. No, I haven't been Napstering them, either. I'm catching up to my backlog of listening, listening to the radio, and most-of-all spending a lot of time with demos of friends' bands, and with the tapes I make of my live show every week.
ref: 2001 February 27, grady, “slashdot does the math for the RIAA”, in alt.music.chapel-hill (Usenet):
text: I've got the first four albums on vinyl. Nothing on CD, other than a few "napstered" songs.
ref: 2006 November 22, Greg Goss, “The grand parade of lifeless packaging”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):
glosses: To download from Napster.
examples: text: Anyway, I noticed recently that somebody had Napstered the song, and I presume that tapes of the single were floating around long before the internet.
ref: 2001 April 20, Ttuerff, “How Can You Kiss Me/Just A Little Love”, in alt.music.monkees (Usenet):
text: Google does the "Napstering"-sharing of public and copyrighted materials they take possession of, online. They are pigs, fascists, as that's what fascists do: take all books in the world, for free, and add sponsor links to the public materials.
ref: 2005 December 22, 19th century nuthouses, “Odd Google Logo Today???”, in 24hoursupport.helpdesk (Usenet):
glosses: To upload to or as if to Napster.
examples: text: Don't get me wrong. I am not interested in making that case myself with regard to Debian. On the contrary; I don't want to see Debian get Napstered. Putting obviously infringing stuff onto the mirror network is just begging for trouble. It's not like it's that hard for people to set up their own repositories; let them gamble with their own assets.
ref: 2005 May 21, Michael K. Edwards, “Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe"”, in linux.debian.legal (Usenet):
text: If you find Youtube as fascinating as I do you may want to step up the searches & viewing since it seems they may be "napstered" in the future.
ref: 2006 September 14, James McGrath, “YouTube”, in bit.listserv.blues-l (Usenet):
glosses: To shut down, especially for copyright infringement, as Napster was.
kbd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kbds
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of thousand barrels per day.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of keyboard.
bbls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See bbl § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: plural of bbl
vivandières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vivandière
fenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: fennies
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: Alternative form of fennie (“fenestration”).
endogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endogenes
Etymology: From endo- + gene.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An endogenous gene
enunciative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enunciative
form: most enunciative
form: enunciatiue
Etymology: From Latin enuntiativus, enunciativus.
Senses: examples: text: only proceeds and obtains in respect of the dispositive Words of an Instrument , and not in regard of the enunciative Terms thereof
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
text: It is important to realize that pregivenness or prefixing is a kind of anteriority that does its work in the present; subjects and meanings in part emerge in enuciative co-constitutive moments.
ref: 2002, Thomas R. West, Signs of Struggle, page 23:
glosses: Relating to, or containing, enunciation; declarative.
Related terms: enunciatively
R/P
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of reserves-to-production.
elephant polo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A variety of polo played while riding elephants rather than horses.
fritanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fritangas
Senses: glosses: A restaurant that serves Nicaraguan food.
glosses: Nicaraguan (fried) food generally.
fritangas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fritanga
government take
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: government takes
Senses: glosses: A government's revenue through taxes, royalties and government participation
silver firs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver fir
lividness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lividnesses
Etymology: From livid + -ness, originally after Medieval Latin līviditās.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being livid (dark or pallid).
Synonyms: lividity
Related terms: livid
lividly
Wellsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wellsian
form: most Wellsian
form: Wellsean
Etymology: From Wells + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The real problem is that a true Wellsian time machine would run into itself. The time machine on its pastward journey just after you flip the switch and the time machine sitting there just before you flip the switch will run into each other […]
ref: 1982, Nicholas D. Smith, Philosophers look at science fiction, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Of or pertaining to H. G. Wells (1866–1946), English writer regarded as a progenitor of science fiction, or his writings or politics.
Wellsian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wellsians
form: Wellsean
Etymology: From Wells + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: X. is one of those incorrigible Wellsians who reads all the works of the great H. G. as fast as they appear and converts himself with the most protean readiness from one thing to another—student of modern married love—devotee of war-torn England—observer of the invisible king-god—revolutionist in education—friend of Bolshevist Russia—philosophic internationalist—world historian.
ref: 1922 January 25, Bruce Bliven, “Mr. X. of the Movies”, in The New Republic, volume XXIX, number 373, New York, N.Y.: The Republic Publishing Company, Inc., pages 246–247:
text: Most Wellsians of course will be familiar with the majority of these stories.
ref: 1998, The H.G. Wells Newsletter:
text: Even though Leon Stover’s views were shared by few Wellsians and were not expressed in a way conducing to their wider acceptance, he did make a considerable contribution to Wells studies.
ref: 2008, Science Fiction Studies, page 125:
text: I would also like to mention Wellsians who have particularly inspired me over the years whose memories are treasured: […]
ref: 2016, Emelyne Godfrey, “Acknowledgements”, in Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris: Landscape and Space, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page ix:
glosses: An admirer of H. G. Wells (1866–1946), English writer regarded as a progenitor of science fiction, or his writings or politics.
keylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more keylike
form: most keylike
Etymology: From key + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a key.
hepatorenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + renal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the liver and the kidneys
Derived terms: cerebrohepatorenal
hepatorenal syndrome
baffed out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baffed out
form: most baffed out
form: baffed-out
Senses: examples: text: My feet are wet. The Velcro gives when I walk and I have to bend over, with Pete in my arms, in the mall or near the parking meter outside the supermarket, to secure the flap, and it gives again. The boots are baffed out.
ref: 2005, Lisa Lynne Moore, Open, Canada: Anansi, →ISBN, pages 94-95:
text: A baffed-out old schooner called The Michigan was being sent over the cataract.
ref: 2008, Hans Werner, "From sublime icon to camp spectacle" (review of Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power and Lies by Ginger Strand), Toronto Star (Canada), 29 June (retrieved 3 May 2009)
text: [H]e had spent all day in the tavern, with the boys. By the time he got home and ready for work, he was pretty baffed out.
ref: 2009, William Weatherstone, “How I Got Started”, in TheDieselGypsy.com, Canada:
glosses: Worn out, exhausted, in dilapidated condition.
baffed-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baffed-out
form: most baffed-out
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baffed out.
epiphrasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epiphrases
Senses: glosses: epexegesis
Nieves
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nieveses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Nieves.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Caridad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Culasi, Antique, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Jamindan, Capiz, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Quezon, Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Tuburan, Cebu, Philippines.
brown bastard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown bastards
Senses: examples: text: All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […]
ref: , New York, 2001, p.223
glosses: A type of sweet wine.
lividity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lividities
Etymology: From Middle English lividite, lyvydite, from Middle French lividité and its etymon Medieval Latin līviditās, from Latin līvidus (“livid”) + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns). By surface analysis, livid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being livid.
glosses: A livid area of skin, such as a bruise, or as is often found on cadavers.
glosses: Livor mortis, suggillation.
Synonyms: lividness
Related terms: livid
lividly
Jacinta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Jacinta. Variant of Jacinda and Jacintha.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
ACMI lease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ACMI leases
Etymology: ACMI is an initialism of aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of wet lease.
synonyms: word: wet lease
distemperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɛmpəɹətj(ʊ)ə/
Forms: form: distemperatures
Etymology: From dis- + temperature.
Senses: glosses: A state of adverse or unhealthy atmospheric conditions.
examples: text: Standing waters, thick and ill-coloured, […] cause foul distemperatures in the body and mind of man […]
ref: , New York, 2001, p.224
glosses: Unhealthy imbalance of bodily humours; a disorder.
distemperatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distemperature
mbd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of barrels per day.
addictionology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From addiction + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study and treatment of addiction.
Derived terms: addictionologist
boyf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boyfs
Senses: glosses: Clipping of boyfriend
boyfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boyf
canoeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canoeable
form: most canoeable
Etymology: From canoe + -able.
Senses: glosses: navigable by canoe.
boconcini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bocconcini.
cowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cowier
form: cowiest
Etymology: From cow + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a cow, cowlike
zlotych
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Polish złotych.
Senses: glosses: plural of zloty
worryguts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worryguts
Etymology: From worry + guts.
Senses: glosses: worrywart, someone who worries excessively.
Synonyms: jitterbug
nervous wreck
worrywart
worrier
yrivd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of rive
outflew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of outfly
outfly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /aʊtˈflaɪ/
Forms: form: outflies
form: outflying
form: outflew
form: outflown
Etymology: From out- + fly.
Senses: examples: text: She gave thee beauty — shaft of eyes, / That every shaft of war outflies!
ref: 1800, Thomas Moore, Odes of Anacreon:
text: It shows the peahens that the peacock is strong. And it shows other males that this peacock can outstrut, outfly, outcourt, and generally outcompete them.
ref: 2014, Bill Nye, Corey S. Powell, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation:
glosses: To fly better, faster, or further than.