cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
saccharoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsækəˌɹɔɪd/
Forms: form: saccharoids
Etymology: From saccharo- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: A sweet taste is possessed by nearly all sugars, to a greater or less extent, though in some of the rarer saccharoids the character is very feebly marked.
ref: 1898, Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann, Joseph Merritt Matthews, Commercial Organic Analysis:
text: While the errors of the indirect procedure are chiefly manifested at high blood sugar levels, still we feel that in any critical study of the saccharoids the direct yeast procedure is the method of choice.
ref: 1938, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, volume 125, page 467:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polysaccharide that resembles a sugar, often insoluble and not sweet.
fluorescents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflʊəˈɹɛsənts/
ipa: /flɔˈɹɛsənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of fluorescent
cultish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cultish
form: most cultish
Etymology: From cult + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: a cultish movement
text: As anyone who lived through those times will recall, a lot of pointless farting around was unleashed in the name of electronic music, particularly once the likes of Leer, Robert Rental, and Daniel Miller scored a degree of cultish fandom with their earliest releases, and provoked their own surge of imitators.
ref: 2021, Dave Thompson, I Feel Love, page 194:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cult.
Synonyms: cultlike
cultic
Derived terms: cultishly
cultishness
saccharoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more saccharoidal
form: most saccharoidal
form: saccharoid
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a texture like granulated sugar.
armyworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armyworms
form: army worm
form: army-worm
Etymology: From army + worm.
Senses: glosses: The larva of any of the genera Spodoptera and Mythimna of noctuid moths, which typically feed in large, destructive groups on food crops and grasses.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Spodoptera exempta
word: African armyworm
taxonomic: Spodoptera exigua
word: beet armyworm
taxonomic: Spodoptera pulchella
word: Caribbean armyworm
taxonomic: Mythimna unipuncta
word: common armyworm
taxonomic: Mythimna separata
alt: syn. Leucania loreyi
word: cosmopolitan armyworm
taxonomic: Spodoptera frugiperda
word: fall armyworm
taxonomic: Mythimna separata
alt: syn. Leucania loreyi
word: false armyworm
taxonomic: Spodoptera cilium
word: grasslawn armyworm
taxonomic: Spodoptera mauritia
word: lawn armyworm
taxonomic: Mythimna separata
alt: syn, Persectania ewingii
word: northern armyworm
taxonomic: Mythimna separata
word: Oriental armyworm
taxonomic: Spodoptera eridania
word: southern armyworm
taxonomic: Spodoptera dolichos
word: sweet potato armyworm
taxonomic: Mythimna unipuncta
word: true armyworm
taxonomic: Spodoptera latifascia
word: velvet armyworm
taxonomic: Spodoptera praefica
word: western yellowstriped armyworm
taxonomic: Spodoptera ornithogalli
word: yellow-striped armyworm
armyworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armyworm
VSIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of very high-speed integrated circuit.
Talyrond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Talyronds
Senses: glosses: A sphericity-measuring device, originally a trade name from Taylor Hobson.
tendency writing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendency writings
Etymology: The name is borrowed from German forms such as Tendenzschrift, Tendenzroman ("tendency novel"), and Tendenzdrama.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Literature produced in order to promote a cause or serve a rhetorical purpose that the writing itself never makes explicit. These purposes are typically social, political, or moral.
Related terms: tendency film
toe pleats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pleats in the sheets that allows a patient in bed to be able to move feet, to prevent pressure ulcers from developing on patients' heels and toes.
Turkish towel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkish towels
Senses: glosses: A thick towel with a nap of uncut pile.
glosses: A bath towel with rough loose pile.
glosses: A condition of birds in which the mucosa of the crop and proventriculus resembles white towelling due to moniliasis.
uterine isthmus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An elongated, narrow part of the uterus at the junction of the body of the uterus and the cervix.
venistasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From veni- + -stasis.
Senses: examples: text: A patient with venistasis might be more vulnerable to the formation of blood clots due to long periods of immobility such as when driving for long distances.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition of slow blood supply, usually to the limbs.
WRICEF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of workflows, reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and forms; commonly used in ERP/MRP and other business software implementation projects egSAP.
war daddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war daddies
Etymology: The phrase may have originated with Harold T. White, a coach at Mississippi's Perkinston Junior College in the 1950s.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player with extraordinary ability and exceptional toughness.
woolly back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolly backs
form: wooley back
form: woollyback
form: woolyback
Etymology: The Liverpool Echo suggests two possible origins for the term, both dating back to the early 1900s:
* It may be a term for scab workers brought into the city from surrounding towns to manually load and unload ships in the Liverpool docks; unloading ships, the dockers would carry the woollen bales on their backs, leaving wool on their clothes.
* It may be a term for men who delivered coal into Liverpool from mines surrounding the city, who wore sheep fleece to protect their backs.
Another suggestion is that it could have originated in the Middle Ages from non-resident Welsh and English people trying to avoid the entry fee at the Chester city walls on market day by sneaking in the livestock entrance with a sheep on their back.
Senses: qualifier: Liverpool slang
glosses: A non-Liverpudlian person who travels to Liverpool, especially to work at the docks.
qualifier: Liverpool slang
glosses: A person from the Merseyside area surrounding Liverpool such as Skelmersdale, Southport, Halton, and the Wirral.
glosses: Any unsophisticated person from the countryside.
glosses: A Welsh person.
glosses: A New Zealander.
Synonyms: woolly
plazzy
Coordinate terms: Liverpudlian
Scouse
Scouser
wool
sheepshagger
goatfucker
Related terms: scouse
taffy
Yonner
similar term from Manchester
Zolten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name derivative of the common Hungarian name Zoltán.
glosses: A family surname.
PLAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
coordinate_terms: PLA
PLAAF
glosses: Abbreviation of People's Liberation Army Navy The national navy of the People's Republic of China.
glosses: A particular standardized examination taken by high-school students.
People's Liberation Army
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 人民解放軍 /人民解放军 (rénmín jiěfàngjūn).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: People's Liberation Army Ground Force, the army branch of the military arm of the People's Republic of China.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The military arm of the People's Republic of China.
Synonyms: word: PLA
Derived terms: People's Liberation Army Navy
People's Liberation Army Air Force
People's Liberation Army Ground Force
Related terms: liberation army
People's Army
Greek People's Liberation Army
BND
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Bundesnachrichtendienst.
glosses: Acronym of Bank of North Dakota.
glosses: Acronym of Buy Nothing Day.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Bhandup railway station in India.
mouse print
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mouseprint.
barnlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barnlike
form: most barnlike
Etymology: From barn + -like.
Senses: examples: text: They live in a big, barnlike house.
glosses: Resembling a barn
beetworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beetworms
Etymology: From beet + worm.
Senses: glosses: A larva of a moth of species Spodoptera exigua, an armyworm which is a destructive agricultural pest
Synonyms: beet armyworm
asparagus fern caterpillar
beetworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beetworm
metastasizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metastasize
metastasizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metastasize
knishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knish
miriest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of miry: most miry
mellophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mellophones
Etymology: Apparently from mellow + -phone, although compare melo-.
Senses: examples: text: On the issue of the mellophone being used as an introductory instrument for a beginning French horn student you must consider the fact that although they look similar, the instruments are entirely different.
ref: 2016, Michael J. Pagliaro, “How Brass Instruments Compare to Each Other” (chapter 9), in The Brass Instrument Owner's Handbook, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 158:
text: A pupil wishing to study the French horn will make more rapid progress by having at least a year's experience on the mellophone.
ref: 1920, Glenn Howard Woods, “Introduction in the Elementary Schools” (chapter V), in Public School Orchestras and Bands, Oliver Ditson and Company, page 46:
text: […] yet for concert work I much prefer the mellophone (where French horns are not available) played in a creditable manner to the upright alto as played by some of the alto players I have heard who pose musicians.
ref: 1916, “Letters”, in The Musical Messenger, volume XII, number 2, page 23:
glosses: A brass instrument frequently used in place of the French horn in marching bands and similar performance groups.
Derived terms: mellophonist
mello
mellophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mellophone
homestand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homestands
Etymology: From home + stand.
Senses: examples: text: Two Sarasota pitchers proved easy picking for the St. Petersburg Saints at Waterfront park this afternoon and the locals walked off with the first game of their homestand, 8 to 1.
ref: 1926 June 4, “Locals Score Five Runs in One Inning, While Hewitt Holds Invaders Safe”, in Evening Independent, page 8:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A series of games played at a team's home field
Synonyms: homestanding
homestands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homestand
burstable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more burstable
form: most burstable
Etymology: From burst + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be burst.
examples: text: Our Internet service includes a burstable connection.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: network analysis
glosses: Having the ability to exceed the normal maximum bandwidth for short periods.
Derived terms: burstability
unburstable
songlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From song + -like.
Senses: examples: a songlike adagio
glosses: Resembling a song
-mane
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from French -mane, from Ancient Greek -μανής (-manḗs).
Senses: synonyms: -maniac
glosses: Forming compound nouns with the sense of person who has a mania for.
overtreat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtreats
form: overtreating
form: overtreated
form: overtreated
Etymology: From over- + treat.
Senses: examples: text: The traditional physician in Astoria who overtreated me for a case of syphilis six and a half years ago to the tune of twelve penicillin shots plus three weeks' worth of penicillin pills.
ref: 1977 February 12, Bruce Michael Gelbert, “Some New York Alternatives”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 33, page 5:
text: Also, overtreated patients become more insulin-resistant, and this gradually reverses as insulin doses are reduced.
ref: 2002, Anthony L. McCall, “Insulin Therapy and Hypoglycemia”, in Insulin Therapy, →ISBN, page 217:
topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: undertreat
glosses: To subject to excessive medical treatment, often to such an extent as to cause adverse effects.
Derived terms: overtreatment
Related terms: overkill
overtest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtests
form: overtesting
form: overtested
form: overtested
Etymology: From over- + test.
Senses: examples: text: A blown fuse should not be overtested.
ref: 2007, Yann Martel, Life of Pi, page 174:
glosses: To subject to excessive testing
Related terms: undertest
overtreated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtreat
overtreating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtreat
overtreats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtreat
news magazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: news magazines
form: newsmagazine
Etymology: From news + magazine.
Senses: examples: text: Very recently newsmagazines tell us that "the pendulum is swinging back."
ref: 1994, Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, →ISBN, page 407:
glosses: A magazine that specializes in delivering news.
examples: text: Their newsmagazine airs twice weekly.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A news show presenting feature-length stories on current events, rather than immediate reports.
overtests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtest
overtesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtest
overtested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtest
newsmagazines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newsmagazine
osteosclerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + sclerotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting osteosclerosis; thus, showing an abnormal increase in bone density
melodicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From melodic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: No sense of aloofness or distance diluted his warm melodicism.
ref: 2000, Ted Gioia, “Cool Jazz and West Coast Jazz”, in Bill Kirchner, editor, Oxford Companion to Jazz, →ISBN, page 340:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A focus on the development of melody
Related terms: melodicist
cocainomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cocaine + -o- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Freud, of Vienna, denies the danger of chronic cocainomania, except in cases of previous morphine or alcohol inebriety, or in cases predisposed to the various forms of inebriety.
ref: 1888, Henry M. Lyman, “Inebriety, Morphinism and Kindred Diseases”, in Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences: A Yearly Report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences Throughout the World, volume III, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: F. A. Davis, page 432:
text: But, in order that the campaign against cocainomania may be effective, it is desirable that some form of international understanding on the subject should be reached.
ref: 1922 October 5, “France Making Fight on Cocaine”, in Hilo Daily Tribune, volume 26, number 236, Hilo, Haw., page five:
text: Naturally, some of the drugs are sold in the country and are the reason for the increase of “cocainomania” here.
ref: 1929 February 10, “Cocainomania Latest Vice Giving Belgium Prohibition Agents Worry”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 118, number 118, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 4:
glosses: Cocaine addiction.
Synonyms: cocainism
Related terms: cocainomaniac
Svalbardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Svalbardian
form: most Svalbardian
Etymology: From Svalbard + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Svalbard.
overtreatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overtreatments
Etymology: From over- + treatment or overtreat + -ment.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Excessive treatment, often specifically medical treatment
qualifier: interior decoration
glosses: A window treatment added above an existing treatment
Related terms: undertreatment
placeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more placeless
form: most placeless
form: place-less
Etymology: From Middle English placeles, placelees, equivalent to place + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a placeless person
text: I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: Lacking a proper place.
examples: a placeless society
glosses: Lacking places for people, things, etc.; lacking a geographic orientation.
Derived terms: placelessly
placelessness
chutneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chutney
nectars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nectar
demonomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dæmonomania
Etymology: From Latin daemonomania; equivalent to demono- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: An unnatural fear of devils and Hell.
glosses: A delusion that one is possessed by devils.
Related terms: demonomaniac
rejectionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rejection + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The political position of reflexively rejecting a policy or proposal.
glosses: The political position of reflexively rejecting a policy or proposal.
The refusal by Arabs to recognize the legitimacy of the national rights of the Jewish people.
Related terms: rejectionist
pupusas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupusa
dromomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dromo- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: An irrational impulse to wander or travel without purpose.
reconjure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconjures
form: reconjuring
form: reconjured
form: reconjured
Etymology: From re- + conjure.
Senses: examples: text: With careful attention to detail, he reconjured the atmosphere of a 19th-century ball.
glosses: To conjure back; to bring something back as if by magic
instaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of installing.
Related terms: word: instal
word: install
word: instaled
instaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of installed.
Related terms: word: instal
word: install
word: instaling
Sekgalagadi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Sekgalagadi has noun classes like those of the other Bantu languages.
ref: 1997, Lars-Gunnar Andersson, Tore Janson, Languages in Botswana: Language Ecology in Southern Africa:
glosses: A language spoken in the Kgalagadi region of Botswana.
marplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːplɒt/
Forms: form: marplots
Etymology: From mar + plot. In earliest use as a character name in The Busy Body, by Susanna Centlivre, in 1709.
Senses: examples: text: “The old marplot has discovered the baby,” Monica whispered. “I suppose it cried and woke him up, and now he thinks he's witness to a miracle.”
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XI, in The Understanding Heart:
text: Unthinking Anglo-Saxons regard him as a Gallic marplot, rather than the great twentieth-century statesman he was – certainly the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon.
ref: 2012, Michael Burleigh, “Keeping the Flame Alive”, in Literary Review, section 402:
glosses: A meddlesome person whose activity interferes with the plans of others.
Derived terms: marplotry
Related terms: backseat driver
busybody
buttinski
buttinsky
encroacher
gatecrasher
interloper
intruder
kibitzer
meddler
nosy parker
peeping tom
persona non grata
stickybeak
yenta
yente
marplot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːplɒt/
Forms: form: more marplot
form: most marplot
Etymology: From mar + plot. In earliest use as a character name in The Busy Body, by Susanna Centlivre, in 1709.
Senses: examples: text: Let us argue the point with this pert, unruly, marplot conscience of mine…
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. V, letter 83:
glosses: That foils a plot; interfering.
parvoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parvovirus
parvo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Inoculating a dog against parvo costs about $7 to $15 for the shot, depending on your area and choice of veterinarian.
ref: 1980, Business Week:
text: He will probably be next to a street cur that has parvo or rabies or distemper.
ref: 1995, Mike Harlowe, K-9 Bodyguards: Ill:
glosses: The parvovirus.
Related terms: multum in parvo
Gaza Strip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɑːzə ˈstɹɪp/
Forms: form: the Gaza Strip
Senses: examples: text: The creator of the viral “Trump Gaza” AI-generated video depicting the Gaza Strip as a Dubai-style paradise has said it was intended as a political satire of Trump’s “megalomaniac idea”.
ref: 2025 March 6, Rachel Hall, “‘Trump Gaza’ AI video intended as political satire, says creator”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: Gaza
word: the Strip
glosses: A region in Palestine between Egypt and Israel.
Coordinate terms: Gaza City
Wadi Gaza
nerdbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerdbrains
Etymology: From nerd + brain.
Senses: examples: text: ...talking on the phone for three hours to her friends about some nerdbrain boy.
ref: 1993, Terence Blacker, Homebird:
text: "What happened? Was I kicked by Demon?" "You were kicked by the table in the hall, you clumsy nerdbrain!" Brad replied.
ref: 1996, M D. Spenser, The Animal Rebellion:
text: Who cares, nerdbrain? I'd rather flip burgers than be as uncool as you.
ref: 2005, Jeanne DuPrau, Car Trouble:
glosses: A nerd; a socially awkward brainy person.
Synonyms: geek
propeller head
weenie
dork
nerdbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerdbrain
zahir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic ظَاهِر (ẓāhir).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The external or apparent meaning of the Qur'an
Related terms: batin
batin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic بَاطِن (bāṭin)
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The internal or hidden meaning of the Qur'an
reconjures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconjure
reconjuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconjure
reconjured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconjure
cow-orkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow-orker
oinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oinker
arse bandits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arse bandit
ass bandits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ass bandit
ass clowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ass clown
illegal aliens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illegal alien
sarong party girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarong party girl
mouth breathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouth breather
unrumpled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rumpled.
Senses: examples: text: His clothes were still fresh and unrumpled.
glosses: Not rumpled; free of rumpling
unrebellious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rebellious.
Senses: examples: text: She was a quiet, unrebellious child.
glosses: Not rebellious; free of rebellion
Derived terms: unrebelliously
unrebelliousness
undertreatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undertreatments
Etymology: From under- + treatment or undertreat + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Insufficient treatment, often specifically medical treatment
qualifier: interior decoration
glosses: A window treatment applied underneath an existing treatment
deadbeat dads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadbeat dad
single mothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of single mother
mental institutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mental institution
gasconaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gasconade
supernetwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supernetworks
Etymology: From super- + network.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, in a supernetwork, nodes represent networks.
ref: 2005, Frank H. Page, Jr.; Samir Kamat, “Farsighted Stability in Network Formation”, in Group Formation in Economics, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: A network of networks
Related terms: subnetwork
subclan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subclans
form: sub-clan
Etymology: From sub- + clan.
Senses: glosses: A branch of a larger clan.
undertreatments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undertreatment
try-hards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of try-hard
weak sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weak sister
earned run average
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earned run averages
Senses: examples: text: We can give you passing yardage if you want to talk quarterbacks, or earned-run average if you want to talk pitchers, or goals and assists if you want to talk hockey players, but, alas, professional football linemen, especially on the offensive side of the table, are not easily statisticized.
ref: 1992 October, Steve Buckley, “Boss Hog: Jim Lachey is the best offensive lineman in football playing on the best team in football”, in Sport, volume 83, number 10, →ISSN, page 63:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A statistic in baseball which equals the number of earned runs allowed per nine innings pitched.
Synonyms: word: ERA
Related terms: earned run
earned runs
subclans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subclan
supernetworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supernetwork
not much cop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 'Cause I'm not much cop at punching other people's Dads
ref: 1971, David Bowie, Kooks:
text: This one-dimensionality makes Germinal a formidable national monument, but not much cop as a film.
ref: 1997, Jonathan Romney, Short Orders: Film Writing:
text: "Not much cop, this place, but I have to keep an eye out for my train. Now, what can I get you, miss?"
ref: 2003, Anna Jacobs, Our Lizzie:
text: "I'm not much cop at the decorating lark, am I, Floss?" "Never mind, Dad."
ref: 2007, Jacqueline Wilson, Candyfloss:
glosses: Not very good; unimpressive.
Related terms: not much chop
run batted in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runs batted in
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A run that a given player has caused to be scored by a hit, walk, or sacrifice.
Synonyms: word: RBI
renationalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renationalizations
form: renationalisation
Etymology: From re- + nationalization or renationalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: A nationalization of something which had previously been nationalized and then privatized.
Related terms: reprivatization
cop it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cops it
form: copping it
form: copped it
form: copped it
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, you'll cop it," said the recruit. "The sergeant has been here twice looking for you."
ref: 1915, Lyman Abbott, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Francis Rufus Bellamy, The Outlook:
text: He shook his black, dishevelled hair ominously and said: "You'll cop it for this!"
ref: 1966, Maxim Gorky, Ronald Wilks, My Childhood:
text: I suppose he must have been all right, because you don't half cop it for killing a soldier.
ref: 1970, Alfred Edgar Coppard, Ninepenny Flute:
glosses: To get into trouble; to be punished.
Synonyms: catch it
catch hell
get it
RBIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RBI
ERAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ERA
bedtop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedtops
Etymology: From bed + top.
Senses: examples: text: Down and down, without pausing and without sounding, came the bedtop, and still my panic terror seemed to bind me faster and faster to the mattress […]
ref: 1858, Wilkie Collins, A Terribly Strange Bed:
text: The bedtop hitting his neck had been worked into the dream as his execution (Webb and Bonnet, 1979) of the dream that we remember when we wake up.
ref: 1981, Zick Rubin, Elton B McNeil, The Psychology of Being Human:
glosses: The top section of a four-poster bed.
bedtops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedtop
DHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DH
four-poster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The furnishing of this Blue Room was solid and Victorian, it having been the GHQ of my Uncle Tom's late father, who liked things substantial. There was a four-poster bed, [...]
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
glosses: Having four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, so that curtains can be hung to exclude draughts from the sleeper.
raw_tags: of a bed
four-poster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-posters
Senses: examples: text: Wooden beds were made as replicas of large ones, some carved in walnut, others in mahogany and with elaborate head-pieces. There were four-posters draped with curtains to pull and bedspreads to match, much beautiful hand-sewing and embroidery going to their manufacture.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 214:
synonyms: four-poster bed
glosses: A four-poster bed, which has four high posts, one at each corner, supporting a canopy.
Related terms: canopy bed
four-posters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-poster
chokehold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃəʊkhəʊld/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃoʊkˌ(h)oʊld/
Forms: form: chokeholds
form: choke-hold
form: choke hold
Etymology: The noun is derived from choke (verb) + hold (noun). The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: He put his opponent in a chokehold.
text: Within five to ten seconds, one officer began to apply a choke hold by pressing his forearm into [Adolph] Lyons' throat. As Lyons was struggling for air, the officer handcuffed him and continued to apply the choke hold until Lyons blacked out. He was almost choked to death. […] Between 1975 and 1982, sixteen people died from the LAPD [Los Angeles Police Department]'s use of choke holds.
ref: 2001, Lisa A. Kloppenberg, “The Court Uses Standing to Discourage Redress for Racial Wrongs”, in Playing it Safe: How the Supreme Court Sidesteps Hard Cases and Stunts the Development of Law (Critical America), New York, N.Y.; London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 67:
text: In competition, judo matches typically have a standing phase (opponents attempt to throw each other) and a ground phase (once an opponent is on the ground, then both opponents can use a hold down, literally holding an opponent down for 15 to 25 seconds, or using a choke hold or similar controlling technique to force an opponent to submit).
ref: 2012, Scott McNeely, “Combat Sports”, in Ultimate Book of Sports: The Essential Collection of Rules, Stats, and Trivia for over 250 Sports, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 118:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
synonyms: neckhold
hyponyms: sleeper hold
coordinate_terms: headlock
stranglehold
throttlehold
glosses: A grappling hold around a person's neck, especially one in which the neck is grasped tightly from behind with an arm, cutting off the flow of blood to the brain and restricting breathing.
examples: text: One country has a chokehold on another country's economy.
text: With the music industry releasing their chokehold on these television talent shows, it too is looking to other sources like social media – [Rob] Wade calls TikTok "one giant talent show" – to find new talent rather than primetime TV.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How Talent Shows Became TV’s Most Bizarre Programmes”, in BBC Online, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023:
text: Fellow fashionistas know the hype of GAP athleisure wear. The nostalgic look mixed with its soft design have the girlies in a chokehold!
ref: 2024 October 8, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “65+ Fall Prime Day Fashion Deals Your Closet Is Begging You to Shop”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2024:
synonyms: stranglehold
throttlehold
glosses: A powerful and restrictive control or influence over something.
chokehold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃəʊkhəʊld/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃoʊkˌ(h)oʊld/
Forms: form: chokeholds
form: chokeholding
form: chokeheld
form: chokeheld
Etymology: The noun is derived from choke (verb) + hold (noun). The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To put a hold around the neck of (someone), especially one in which the neck is grasped tightly from behind with an arm.
minidrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minidramas
Etymology: From mini- + drama.
Senses: examples: text: The students presented a brief minidrama about the invention of the cotton gin.
glosses: A short drama, such as a brief theatrical or cinematic piece
minidramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minidrama
midsong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mid-song
Etymology: From mid- + song.
Senses: examples: text: The horn section delivered a powerful midsong blast.
glosses: Occurring in the middle of, or during, a song
midsong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-song
Etymology: From mid- + song.
Senses: examples: text: The band changed drummers in midsong.
glosses: The middle of a song; or more generally, the period during a song
midranking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mid-ranking
Etymology: From mid- + ranking.
Senses: examples: a midranking official
glosses: Having a rank or status that is not particularly high or low
midfrequency
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + frequency.
Senses: examples: text: You are experiencing some midfrequency hearing loss.
glosses: At, or having, a frequency that is not particularly high or low.
midfrequency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midfrequencies
Etymology: From mid- + frequency.
Senses: glosses: A middle frequency, one that is not particularly high or low.
chokeholds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chokehold
chokeholds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chokehold
cyberchorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberchoruses
Etymology: From cyber- + chorus.
Senses: examples: text: The world's first cyberchorus performs Handel's Messiah with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra
ref: 1997 December 1, “Classical Music”, in New York Magazine, page 165:
text: “A Cappella (Something’s Missing)” is the album’s nutty showpiece, with a computer-tuned Brandy becoming a polyphonic cyberchorus […]
ref: 2008 December 29, Jon Pareles, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: An Internet or computerized chorus
hydroboracite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroboracites
Etymology: From hydro- + boracite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrated borate mineral with the chemical formula CaMgB₆O₈(OH)₆·3(H₂O).
hydroboracites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroboracite
fire retardants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire retardant
hydromagnesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydromagnesites
Etymology: From hydro- + magnesite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrated magnesium carbonate mineral with the chemical formula Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂.4H₂O, used as a fire retardant.
hydromagnesites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydromagnesite
incompletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incompletions
Etymology: From in- + completion or incomplete + -ion
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of not being complete.
glosses: Something which is not completed.
examples: text: Their strong defense forced three incompletions from the other team.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A forward pass which is not caught inbounds by the intended receiver.
Synonyms: sense: state of being not complete
word: incompleteness
word: incompletion
word: noncompleteness
word: noncompletion
word: uncompletedness
word: uncompletion
word: unfinish
word: unfinishedness
Hyponyms: word: semicompletion
Related terms: word: uncompletion
word: abandonment
word: failure
word: unfulfillment
word: end
word: finish
word: partially
hydrophilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrophilites
Etymology: From hydro- + -philite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft white mineral formed from anhydrous calcium chloride.
hydrophilites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrophilite
hydroxylapatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxylapatites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
hydroxylapatites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxylapatite
hydroxyapatites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxyapatite
hydrozincite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrozincites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white carbonate mineral with the chemical formula Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆.
hydrozincites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrozincite
freibergite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freibergites
Etymology: Freiberg, Saxony, where it was found in silver mines, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex cubic sulfosalt mineral of silver, copper, iron, antimony, and arsenic.
freibergites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freibergite
sulphosalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphosalts
Etymology: From sulpho- + salt.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfosalt.
sulfosalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfosalts
Etymology: From sulfo- + salt.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex sulfide mineral with certain proportions of a metal, a semi-metal, and sulfur (or, rarely, selenium).
semi-metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-metals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of semimetal.
semi-metals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-metal
attackable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attackable
form: most attackable
Etymology: From attack + -able.
Senses: antonyms: unattackable
nonattackable
glosses: Which may be attacked.
Derived terms: attackability
unattackable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unattackable
form: most unattackable
Etymology: From un- + attack + -able.
Senses: antonyms: attackable
glosses: Which may not be attacked.
Derived terms: unattackability
infrastructuralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infrastructuralists
Etymology: From infrastructural + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: As an infrastructuralist, I believe that investment in roads and bridges is critical.
text: Zoning laws may infringe on the rights of infrastructuralists.
glosses: Someone who emphasizes the importance of infrastructure, or who seeks to construct infrastructure
Related terms: infrastructuralism
incompletions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incompletion
infrastructuralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infrastructuralist
chromatopsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromatopsias
Etymology: From chromato- + -opsia.
Senses: glosses: A visual aberration in which objects appear abnormally coloured, such as xanthopsia or cyanopia.
Derived terms: parachromatopsia
Related terms: dyschromatopsia
achromatopsia
chromatopsias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromatopsia
I'ven't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: I've + -n't.
Senses: examples: text: Try to circumvent me, and I'm a ugly customer. I'll show you I have not or I haven't any-mosity. Your father pays—you 'pologize.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son, page 174:
glosses: I have not
remuddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remuddle
you'ven't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: From you + -'ve + -n't or you've + -n't.
Senses: glosses: you have not
he'sn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈhiːzənt/
Etymology: he's + -n't
Senses: examples: text: You see he'sn't actually going to hurt only body, but it's as bad, since, af the case wor elseway than it happins, he'd hurt sum, and sorely too' an'. as it is, there is much hurt to be.
ref: 1854, J. G. MacWalter, Tales of Ireland and the Irish, page 222:
text: So, nope, he'sn't about to play the Naga sadhu for his harassed womenfolk.
ref: 2001 December 21, Hidden Agenda, “an news: Naked Sadhus taking care of college girls”, in soc.culture.indian (Usenet):
text: All of this is good, except it's so easy to resent that he'sn't sobbing right along with me.
ref: 2005, Courtney Jane Kendrick, Enjoy It!, page 161:
glosses: he is not
remuddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remuddles
form: remuddling
form: remuddled
form: remuddled
Etymology: From re- + muddle.
Senses: examples: text: I'm afraid your efforts have only remuddled the issue.
glosses: To muddle something which had previously been made clear.
examples: text: Many survivors were badly remuddled, but several have been restored.
ref: 2004, Alice Sinkevitch et al., AIA Guide to Chicago, →ISBN, page 176:
topics: architecture
glosses: To remodel a building or room in a way that obscures or destroys key aspects of the original design.
retoucher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retouchers
Etymology: From retouch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I used to work as a photo retoucher.
glosses: One who retouches
retouchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retoucher
Saterland Frisian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Frisian language spoken mostly in the municipality of Saterland in the district of Cloppenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany
Synonyms: Sater Frisian
Saterfrisian
Saterlandic
Saterlandish
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Saterland Frisian terms
remuddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remuddle
remuddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remuddle
we'ven't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: we've + -n't
Senses: examples: text: He _is_ somehow above them because he isn't a homo sapien and we'ven't a way to stop him short of kryptonite.
ref: 1994 October 28, Tanya 'The Crazy Chick' Goins, “Does Superman need to manhandle suspects?”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):
text: We'ven't heard it yet, but we have spent several hours staring at the shiny black vinyl!
ref: 1999 August 30, Dauber, “A couple of Pet Sounds questions”, in rec.music.artists.beach-boys (Usenet):
text: Ah. We'ven't exchanged even a couple of arguments yet and you're already into your "you-are-a-bigot-and-your-uncle-is-a-hate-monger" routine.
ref: 2000 August 4, ergo_co...@my-deja.com, “Why Paki militants are cowards”, in soc.culture.indian (Usenet):
glosses: we have not
schlumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: schlumpier
form: schlumpiest
Etymology: From schlump + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I smiled at them with the slight mix of condescension and thanks I thought befitted a beautiful woman as she passed schlumpier mortals on the street.
ref: 2006, Kamy Wicoff, I Do But I Don't, →ISBN, page 222:
text: The country is going to have to get used to seeing a vice president in a schlumpy T-shirt and cargo pants. ... And they’re going to have to get used to seeing a vice president who can fix a car or go hunting.
ref: 2024, R.T. Rybak, quoted in: Cameron Joseph, What Tim Walz brings to the table as Kamala Harris’ VP pick, in: The Christian Science Monitor, August 6 2024
glosses: Looking like a schlump; slovenly or unbecoming
Derived terms: schlumpily
schlumpiness
servicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servicers
Etymology: From service + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The servicer is responsible for the collection of interest and principal, which is passed along to the trustee.
ref: 2002, Frank J. Fabozzi, The Handbook of Financial Instruments, page 373:
topics: business
finance
law
glosses: One who services a loan or other obligation, by collecting receivables and carrying out related actions such as enforcement
schlumpier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of schlumpy: more schlumpy
schlumpiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of schlumpy: most schlumpy
servicers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servicer
skyscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skyscapes
Etymology: From sky + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: Its exotic lobby was decorated with lush carpeting; in the auditorium itself, a skyscape was transformed to sunrise, sunset, or starry night skies as the occasion demanded, […]
ref: 2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's The Carolinas and Georgia, →ISBN, page 376:
glosses: The view of the sky, often including the skyline
Related terms: landscape
seascape
recrossings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recrossing