cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
penis sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penis sleeves
Senses: glosses: A pocketpussy.
Synonyms: word: cocksleeve
platinum jubilees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platinum jubilee
diamond jubilees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diamond jubilee
golden jubilees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden jubilee
shortgevity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃɔːtˈd͡ʒɛ.vɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌʃɔɹtˈd͡ʒɛ.vɪ.ti/
Forms: form: short-gevity
Etymology: Blend of short + longevity. Or more precisely, from short + -gevity, a back-formation from longevity, specifically in the spoken form /lɒŋˈdʒɛvɪti/.
Senses: examples: text: I did not discuss the prognosis with Dr. Glass, nor did I ask him any questions about my probable longevity — or shortgevity.
ref: 1993, Garrett Oppenheim, Gwen Oppenheim, The Golden Handicap:
text: Not all nations are in a position to benefit from longevity, and in fact, a significant number suffer from its opposite—shortgevity.
ref: 2010, Howard M. Fillit, Kenneth Rockwood, Kenneth Woodhouse, Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology:
text: They'd have had him if he changed his ways, but Foster's conversions were famous for their short-gevity. Keith was proud of that word. He had made it up himself. Short-gevity was his opposite for longevity. It was an original Sylvester antonym.
ref: 2015, Leo Brett, Patricia Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe, Supernatural Stories featuring The Frozen Tomb:
glosses: The state or condition of lasting for only a short period of time, in contrast to longevity.
I mean
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Senses: glosses: Used to correct an error or slip of the tongue.
examples: text: They were filth, utter filth. I mean, and this tops it. She even bought the video of her sister dying, or at least the sex act that killed her.
ref: 2011, Jeremy Robert Hall, Summer Days:
text: Q. … To rush for 306 yards against that group, how did you accomplish that?
BRIAN KELLY: Well, look, I mean, I could stand up here and BS you guys all day and tell you we're the second coming of the Green Bay Packers rushing attack.
ref: 2019 October 13, Jack Freeman (interviewer), “Everything Brian Kelly said after Notre Dame's win over USC”, 247Sports, IrishIllustrated.com
glosses: A delaying filler.
examples: text: I must say the title puts me off as well. I mean, come on. Is this supposed to be original or creative?
glosses: A mild intensifier.
examples: text: I mean, it very well could be.
glosses: An indication of approximation or uncertainty.
Synonyms: sense: delaying filler
word: like
sense: delaying filler
word: well
sense: delaying filler
word: you know
sense: mild intensifier
word: like
sense: mild intensifier
word: well
sense: mild intensifier
word: you know
sense: indicating approximation or uncertainty
word: like
sense: indicating approximation or uncertainty
word: well
sense: indicating approximation or uncertainty
word: you know
jade egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jade eggs
Senses: glosses: An egg-shaped device inserted into the vagina in order to strengthen the pelvic muscles.
posetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Antisymmetric.
monsterful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monsterful
form: most monsterful
Etymology: From Middle English monstreful, equivalent to monster + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Topics discussed include truth, subjectivity, transcendence, and the future of religion, secularity and political hope in the light of a monsterful event — God becoming human.
ref: 2009, New Left Review, page 89:
text: First of all I would like to thank my head supervisor Tamsin Meaney for all the time and effort. You are absolutely monsterful.
ref: 2014, Jonas Dahl, The problem-solving citizen:
text: In memory of three masterful, monsterful, inspirational teachers: Geraldine Murphy (1920–1990) Alan Dundes (1934–2005) Miyata Noboru (1936–2000)
ref: 2015, MD Foster, The book of yokai: Mysterious creatures of Japanese folklore:
glosses: Rare; extraordinary; marvelous
examples: text: Like the flights and flights of the foam Thro' wild nights of the monsterful main Thundering nights of the monsterful main, The mad white flights thro' the mad black nights Before the hurricane;
ref: 1878, Sydney Dobell, Emily Jolly, The Life and Letters of Sydney Dobell, page 413:
text: ... glens hard, full of reptiles; bogs rough, thorny ; woods dark, fiery; roads foul, monsterful; seas thickened surface-stinking; nails huge, iron; waters dark, unsweet; places (i) abundant, various; an assembly foul, ever-gloomy; winds bitter, wintry; snow frozen, ever-dropping;
ref: 1890, Whitley Stokes, Lives of Saints, from the Book of Lismore, page 255:
text: Behold ye to the northeast the glorious monsterful sea!
ref: 1915 -, Kuno Meyer, Miscellanea Hibernica - Volumes 1-2, page 592:
text: They are called ruiseda and destroy trees. This is why the mountain is called Sliab bledach Bledma, 'monsterful Sliab Bledma' (Stokes, 1894, p. 301).
ref: 1996, Jacqueline Borsje, From Chaos to Enemy: Encounters with Monsters in Early Irish Texts:
text: Epic was invoked in this connection less frequently than the more monsterful genres of fairytale, romance, legend and myth.
ref: 2010, Ralph O'Connor, “From the epic of Earth history to the evolutionary epic in nineteenth-century Britain”, in Journal of Victorian Culture, volume 14, number 2:
text: This is a monsterful world. Monsterful.
ref: 2011, Red Jordan Arobateau, Days Before The Yoke, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: Characterised by or similar to monsters.
Spanishy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Spanishy
form: most Spanishy
Etymology: From Spanish + -y.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat Spanish; seemingly Spanish.
cholesterolosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cholesterol + -osis.
Senses: glosses: A pathological condition resulting from excess cholesterol in the body.
whaz
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Informal form of what’s.
reexplorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reexploration
trioctiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trioctile
Moraga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈɹɑɡə/
Senses: glosses: A town in Contra Costa County, California, United States, known as a college town.
Derived terms: Boraga
Lamorinda
Moragan
synnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synne
street harassment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From street + harassment.
Senses: glosses: Sexual harassment and sexualised intimidation happening in public areas, such as catcalling.
Related terms: eve teasing
read the room
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reads the room
form: reading the room
form: read the room
form: read the room
Senses: examples: text: The ad rubbed some creatives the wrong way. Hugh Grant called it a “destruction of human experience,” while Handmaid’s Tale director Reed Morano told Apple CEO Tim Cook to “read the room” in a post on X.
ref: 2024 May 9, Emma Roth, quoting Reed Morano, “Apple apologizes for iPad ‘Crush’ ad that ‘missed the mark’”, in The Verge:
text: Long story short: Bumble did not read the room.
ref: 2024 May 21, Arwa Mahdawi, “Sex-positive feminism had its moment – and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “Mr. President- Yes, we still care about Epstein,” the actress Roseanne Barr recently posted on X […]. “Is there a time to not care about child sex trafficking? Read the damn room.”
ref: 2025 July 25, Jia Lynn Yang, quoting Roseanne Barr, “The Conservative Crusade That’s About So Much More Than Epstein”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: read the table
glosses: To understand the emotions and thoughts of the people present, especially to determine the kind of speech or actions that would be appropriate or inappropriate.
Related terms: mood
pick up what someone is putting down
social proof
vibe
work the room
work the crowd
GPSing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of GPS
GPSed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of GPS
Italian peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Italian Peninsula.
barometric pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barometric pressures
Senses: glosses: The atmospheric pressure denoted on a barometer.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The downward force of the atmosphere onto the Earth; at sea level a unit of air pressure is one atmosphere, air pressure decreases as the altitude increases and is measured in millibars or pascals.
Synonyms: air pressure
atmospheric pressure
barometric pressures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barometric pressure
null result
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: null results
Senses: glosses: A result without the expected content; a result that does not support the hypothesis.
side-wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side-wives
form: side wife
form: sidewife
Etymology: From side + wife. Compare Dutch bijwijf (“concubine”).
Senses: examples: text: If, however, his wife gave him a handmaiden and he had children by her, he was then barred from taking a side-wife (as a concubine was called).
ref: 1903, Sydney Russell Wrightington, Horace Williams Fuller, Arthur Weightman Spencer, The Green Bag - Volume 15:
text: She was also a 'sidewife'. Nobody talks about it because she is a rich entrepreneur.
ref: 1998, Yūko Nishimura, Gender, Kinship And Property Rights:
text: A gilly (or sheevin) is a side-wife taken by a man who already has a legal wife.
ref: 2012, Robin Furth, Stephen King's The Dark Tower Concordance:
text: For one who has no husband, as well as for one who acts as a side-wife for a person, who has formed a household, or who lives elsewhere and is not enumerated together [with a husband or children on a population register], […]
ref: 2015, Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China (2 vols)
glosses: A woman who (among others) has the potential to become one's wife, or who is fulfilling the role of one's wife in addition to one's actual wife; a concubine
naporitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: napolitan
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ナポリタン (naporitan), from French napolitain (“Neapolitan”), from Latin neāpolītānus, from Neāpolis (“Naples”), from Ancient Greek Νεᾱ́πολῐς (Neā́polĭs). Doublet of Neapolitan.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese dish styled on Neapolitan food; spaghetti topped with ketchup or tomato sauce, onion, button mushrooms, green peppers, bacon and Tabasco sauce.
Madagascan fish eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madagascan fish eagles
Senses: glosses: Haliaeetus vociferoides, a species of eagle native to the coastal strip in the northwest of Madagascar.
Synonyms: Madagascar fish eagle
Madagascar sea-eagle
Madagascan fish eagles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madagascan fish eagle
Madagascar fish eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madagascar fish eagles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Madagascan fish eagle.
synonyms: word: Madagascan fish eagle
Madagascar sea-eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madagascar sea-eagles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Madagascan fish eagle.
synonyms: word: Madagascan fish eagle
Madagascar fish eagles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madagascar fish eagle
Madagascar sea-eagles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madagascar sea-eagle
time streams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time stream
artificial turfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artificial turf
councilpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of councilperson
bottomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottome
time and motion studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time and motion study
Addisonianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Addisonian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Addison's disease
loose socks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A style of baggy socks worn by Japanese schoolgirls as part of kogal culture.
memory pages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memory page
oversighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversight
oversighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversight
insuavities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insuavity
plum brandies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plum brandy
thriambi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thriambus
Charpy impact tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charpy impact test
stepsises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepsis
aksakals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aksakal
aqsaqals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aqsaqal
regionalects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regionalect
belettered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beletter
beletters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beletter
belettering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beletter
Pasifikas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pasifika
federal cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of federal case
Vovk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vovks
Etymology: From Ukrainian вовк (vovk, “wolf”), from Proto-Slavic *vьlkъ.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Вовк (Vovk).
root cellaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of root cellar
root cellaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: gerund of root cellar
Gauss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Gauß, which was then spelt as Gauſs or Gauss in Antiqua.
Senses: glosses: A surname, most commonly referring to German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855).
Derived terms: degauss
gauss
gaussage
Gaussberg
Gauss-Bonnet theorem
Gauss-Codazzi equation
Gauss curvature
Gauss gun
Gaussian
Gaussianity
Gauss-Jordan elimination
Gauss-Lucas theorem
Gauss map
Gauss's area formula
Gauss's constant
Gauss-Seidel method
Gauss's law
Gauss sum
ophiophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophiophiles
Etymology: From ophio- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: One does not have to be an ophiophile to understand why the chapter on snake bites is placed in this section.
ref: 1992, Leon Jacobs, Parasitic zoonoses, page 213:
glosses: A person who loves snakes.
ophiophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophiophile
devvelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devvel
devvelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devvel
perspectivisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perspectivism
alotta
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Contraction of a lot of.
Related terms: a lot
alot
lotta
deuteromycete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deuteromycetes
Senses: glosses: A member of the Deuteromycota, one of the fungi imperfecti.
fungi imperfecti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Etymology: From Latin fungi imperfecti (literally “imperfect fungus”).
Senses: glosses: Fungi which do not fit into traditional taxonomic classifications, because their reproduction has not been observed.
Synonyms: deuteromycete
imperfect fungi
imperfect fungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fungi imperfecti.
synonyms: word: fungi imperfecti
menseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more menseful
form: most menseful
Etymology: From Middle English menskful, equivalent to mense + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Decorous; mannerly; respectful and worth of respect.
jaum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaums
Senses: examples: text: 1703, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises, London: D. Midwinter & T. Leigh, 3rd edition, p. 143,
But if the Window-Frame stands on a Timber-house, the Head and Ground-sell are sometimes Tennanted into Posts of the Carcass; and then the Posts do the Office of the outer Jaums of the Window-Frame […]
text: The nineteenth Figure represents the inward and outward Edges of a twisting Schofeet of a Semicircular Door, or Window, whose Jaums, from the Beginning to the Springing Arch, splays more or less, according to the Humour of the Builder, and whose Crown lies level without splaying […]
ref: 1725, William Halfpenny: The Art of Sound Building, London, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of jamb.
extrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrances
Etymology: From exit, modelled after entrance.
Senses: examples: text: Many mystery stories, about men murdered behind locked doors and windows, and murderers escaping without means of extrance and exit, have come true in the course of the extraordinary events at Cranston on the coast of Yorkshire, where Colonel Druce was found stabbed from behind by a dagger that has entirely disappeared from the scene, and apparently even from the neighbourhood.
ref: 1926, [[w:G. K. Chesterton|Gilbert Keith Chesterton]], “The Oracle of the Dog”, in The Incredulity of Father Brown, London; Toronto; Melbourne; Sydney: Cassell and Company Ltd, page 72:
text: The wire is threaded on a long suitably curved needle, extrance is made through the vestibule of the mouth medially to the zygoma and out on the face at an appropriate point.
ref: 1939, Texas Dental Journal, volume 57, page 47:
glosses: exit
Earthboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Earthboys
Etymology: From Earth + boy.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A young male inhabitant of Earth.
Hypernyms: Earther
Earthling
for more see Thesaurus:Earthling
Coordinate terms: Earthgirl
Earthman
Earthwoman
Earthboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Earthboy
Earth day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Earth days
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A day in Earth time; the period it takes planet Earth to revolve once; a period of 24 hours.
Earth days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Earth day
leave it all out there
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves it all out there
form: leaving it all out there
form: left it all out there
form: left it all out there
Etymology: The pronoun it refers to the player's capacity for effort and physical endurance; out there refers to the sports field.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To strive to the limits of one's capacity; to give one's all when playing a game.
Related terms: leave it all on the field
burninate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burninates
form: burninating
form: burninated
form: burninated
Etymology: Back-formation from Burninator, from the original character Trogdor the Burninator from the Homestar Runner series of web cartoons.
Senses: examples: text: Burninating the countryside! / Burninating the peasants! / Burninating all the people! / In their thatched-roof COTTAGES!!
ref: 2003 January 13, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #58: dragon”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):
text: Although the language may not be going to hell in a handbasket — what is a handbasket, anyway? — some of its speakers appear ready to burninate a noob.
ref: 2008, Mark Abley, The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 24:
text: These wars were often fought by mercenaries' armies who—while going about busily pillaging and “burninating the countryside”—were often more concerned with (a) not dying and (b) looting and carrying off maidens than any particular religious ideals.
ref: 2016, Christopher Ben Simpson, Modern Christian Theology, T&T Clark, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: To destroy by fire; to burn.
Derived terms: burnination
toing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toings
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: We became accustomed to the loud toing! of the breaking spring upstairs followed by the ping! of the broken spring hitting the wall.
ref: 2003, Robert Hughes, Running with Walker: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 171:
text: I'd then found a cavernous restaurant where, beneath a ceiling of lanterns and birdcages, an elderly man plucked at a traditional instrument—toing, toing—while a woman dressed in silk sang old-school Chinese songs.
ref: 2008, J. Maarten Troost, Lost on Planet China, →ISBN:
text: Each time someone pulls a staple out, there's a toing sound that echoes down the wire, followed by a vibration, toing, toing, toing.
ref: 2013, Melissa Haynes, Learning to Play With a Lion's Testicles: Unexpected Gifts From the Animals of Africa, →ISBN:
glosses: The sound of a metallic vibration; twang.
Related terms: toing and froing
Colonel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Colonels
Senses: examples: text: Consequently the necessity for the reorganization of the Guard, during the ten months’ absence of yourself and Colonels Smith and Banks, could not have been averted under our present Military Code.
ref: 1899 March 31, Geo[rge] W[esley] Atkinson, “Status of Members of National Guard, Who were Volunteers In the Spanish War.—Correspondence Between Governor Atkinson and General [Baldwin Day] Spilman.”, in Public Addresses, Etc., of Geo. W. Atkinson, LL. D., D. C. L., Governor of West Virginia, During His Term of Office. […], [Charleston, W.Va.]: […] Public Printer, published 1901, →OCLC, page 291:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The military officer title.
Duvall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Duval
Devall
Laval
disto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: distal.
Coordinate terms: proximo-
red-footed falcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-footed falcons
Senses: glosses: Falco vespertinus, a Eurasian bird of prey in the family Falconidae
slutwaffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slutwaffles
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of slut + waffle.
Senses: examples: text: Ow bitch! Slutwaffle!
ref: 2008 April 25, “SLUT WAFFLE”, in YouTube, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2017:
text: @charleshooper this is a hard drive. now i'm going to spit in your eye because you are a dirty slutwaffle.
ref: 2008 November 1, Brittany Turcotte, “Brittany Turcotte on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2017:
glosses: A contemptible person.
opmonoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a natural family of distributive morphisms and an identity morphism that are coherent.
timelore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-lore
form: time lore
Etymology: From time + lore.
Senses: examples: text: That's a minimum of 2,592,000 years ago, assuming we are almost at the end of the Kaliyuga (the worst of four yugas and an age of darkness), and we calculate only up to the end of the Satyayuga, which itself lasted 1,728,000 years, according to Vedic timelore.
ref: 2006, Richard Leviton, The Geomantic Year:
text: Alchemic Yin-Yang Five Phase cosmology came into mainland Japan in the sixth century and, along with the lunar calendar, this complex of time lore has structured the temporal aspects of Shinto ritual practice ever since.
ref: 2007, E. Leslie Williams, Spirit Tree: Origins of Cosmology in Shintô Ritual at Hakozaki:
text: This is the part of the course which I teach. It is the most complex of all the manipulation skills we teach and the one most students fail to complete. These three elements will combine to form your study of Timelore during the three years you spend with us.
ref: 2009, James Roberts, Samuel Deksis and the Castle of the Kings:
glosses: the knowledge or study of time; chronology
chancel repair liability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chancel repair liabilities
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal requirement for certain homeowners to pay for repairs to their local church.
dubbese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dub + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Dubbese is the register of dubbing, and as such it can be described using the four traditional language levels: particular features of dubbese are found at phonetic, morphological, syntactical and lexical levels.
ref: 2019, Roberto A. Valdeón, The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Translation Studies, page 1999:
glosses: The use of unnatural language in dubbing.
permiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of permitting.
hangworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hangworthy
form: most hangworthy
form: hang-worthy
Etymology: From hang + -worthy.
Senses: examples: a hangworthy thief
glosses: deserving of being hanged
examples: a hangworthy picture
glosses: worthy of being hung
Synonyms: sense: deserving of being hanged
word: rope-ripe
word: rope-worthy
word: gallows-ripe
word: hangworthy
word: hempie
word: rigwoodie
word: widdiful
Related terms: word: die by hanging
word: gallows
word: gallows bird
word: kill by hanging
lead name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead names
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: the first named person on an invoice, typically the person having control over the contract.
lead names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lead name
weal-public
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weal-publics
form: wealpublic
form: weal public
Etymology: From weal + public.
Senses: examples: text: A few years later Sir Thomas More staged a fictional debate in his Utopia between the author, Cardinal Morton, the explorer Raphael, and a lawyer, in which all applied the concept of the weal public to assess English society.
ref: 2011, Michael Hicks, Richard III:
text: “For whereas your Plato judgeth that weal publics shall by this means attain perfect felicity,” More explained in his extended dialogue, "either if philosophers be kings, or else if kings give themselves to the study of philosophy […]”
ref: 2012, Mark R. Levin, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America:
glosses: the state; commonwealth; the body politic; the public weal
weal-publics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weal-public
KOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KO
KOs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of KO
unaccordance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unaccordances
Etymology: From Middle English unaccordaunce, equivalent to un- + accordance.
Senses: glosses: lack of accordance
glosses: an inconsistency
anti-cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-caps
Senses: glosses: Clipping of anticapitalist.
Chironic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chironic
form: most Chironic
Etymology: From Chiron + -ic.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to Chiron, an asteroid-comet Centaur
Related terms: Chironean
Chironian
Chironean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Chironian.
Chironian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kaɪˈroʊniən/
Forms: form: Chironean
Etymology: From Chiron + -ian.
Senses: topics: astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to Chiron.
Related terms: Chironic
girly mag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girly mags
Senses: glosses: Clipping of girlie magazine.
girly magazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girly magazines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of girlie magazine.
Danic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Danic
form: most Danic
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin dānicus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Danish.
synonyms: word: Danish
Derived terms: Danicism
Danicize
prehorse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-horse
Etymology: From pre- + horse.
Senses: glosses: Of relating to the epoch before horses were domesticated.
fucc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fuccs
form: fuccing
form: fucced
form: fucced
Etymology: From fuck + -cc.
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of fuck.
Related terms: fuccboi
thicc
Robinsonade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Robinsonades
Senses: examples: text: The individual and isolated hunter and fisherman, with whom Smith and Ricardo begin, belongs among the unimaginative conceits of the eighteenth-century Robinsonades, which in no way express merely a reaction against over-sophistication and a return to a misunderstood natural life, as cultural historians imagine.
ref: 1973, Karl Marx, translated by Martin Nicolaus, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 83:
text: The reader has so far followed Mr. Lecky, the novella’s single reflector, on a Robinsonade through a deserted department store.
ref: 1996 summer, Manfred Jahn, “Windows of Focalization: Deconstructing and Reconstructing a Narratological Concept”, in Style, volume 30, number 2, →ISSN, page 257:
text: If it touches on isolation, tabulae rasae, or close encounters of a new kind, or if it has a character commenting on society from the outside—it’s a Robinsonade.
ref: 2013 September 16, Kent Russell, “The Lost Boy of Restoration Island”, in The New Republic, volume 244, number 15:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of robinsonade.
Robinsonades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Robinsonade
unquarantine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unquarantines
form: unquarantining
form: unquarantined
form: unquarantined
Etymology: From un- + quarantine.
Senses: glosses: To free or release from quarantine.
unquarantines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unquarantine
unquarantining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unquarantine
tin-glazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Renaissance tin-glazed Italian maiolica earthenware was made in Urbino and other centres.
glosses: Glazed white with a lead glaze containing tin oxide.
lead-glazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Glazed with a coating containing lead oxide appearing transparent; or opaque white (tin-glazed) by the addition of tin oxide; or coloured by the addition of other metal oxides.
path losses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of path loss
pathlosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathloss
icosagrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icosagrid
groupcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groupcast
anti-caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-cap
unaccordances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unaccordance
slutwaffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slutwaffle
red-footed falcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-footed falcon
extrances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extrance
jaums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaum
niobocenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niobocene
girly magazines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girly magazine
girlie magazines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girlie magazine
pollums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollum
non-barbaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-barbaric
form: most non-barbaric
form: nonbarbaric
Etymology: From non- + barbaric.
Senses: glosses: not barbaric
reality pornography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: A genre of pornography with staged scenes, usually shot in cinéma vérité fashion, that set up sexual encounters.
barquette moulds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barquette mould
barquette mold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barquette molds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barquette mould.
barquette molds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barquette mold
prairie skirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prairie skirts
Etymology: Named for its resemblance to the home-sewn skirts worn by pioneer women in the mid-19th century.
Senses: glosses: A traditional American flared skirt with flounces.
prairie skirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prairie skirt
precracked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + cracked.
Senses: glosses: cracked in advance; used of materials undergoing the Charpy impact test or similar
Blanksville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From blank + -s- + -ville.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Blankville.
affixings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affixing
fairy kei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy-kei
Etymology: From Japanese フェアリー系 (fearī-kei, literally “fairy style”), from フェアリー (fearī, “fairy”) (itself from English fairy) + 系 (kei, “style”).
Senses: examples: text: Followers of fairy-kei — a light and fluffy '80s throwback look — stock up on candy-coloured accessories at 6% Doki Doki […]
ref: 2012, Timothy Hornyak, Lonely Planet: Tokyo, page 123:
text: “I'm into the fairy kei/decora vibe, which is kawaii [Japanese for “cute”] and very pastel,” he says.
ref: 2015 November 19, Isa Giallorenzo, quoting Jimmy Hassett, “Kawaii as a button”, in Chicago Reader, volume 10, number 44, page 4:
text: Most fairy-kei has a colour scheme of pastel colours adding to the childlike wonder of the style, as well as including chunky jewelry, oversized t-shirts and long socks, paired to large light-up trainers or similar.
ref: 2021, Holly Swinyard, A Guide to Film and TV Cosplay:
qualifier: aesthetic
glosses: A Japanese fashion style influenced by pop culture of the 1980s, characterized by pastel colours and whimsical, childlike elements such as toys, candy, or unicorns.
burninates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burninate
cantonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantonists
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian кантонист (kantonist).
Senses: glosses: A young boy in the Russian Empire who was taken to a special school to be trained for future compulsory military service.
UCOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UCO
poshlost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poshlost'
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian по́шлость (póšlostʹ).
Senses: glosses: In Russian culture, a negative human character trait, variously defined as petty evil, self-satisfied vulgarity, or obscenity and bad taste.
nondispersal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + dispersal.
Senses: glosses: Absence of dispersal; failure to disperse.
nondisperser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondispersers
Etymology: From non- + disperser.
Senses: examples: text: Nesting data from dispersers and nondispersers came from the same set of colonies and were thus directly comparable.
ref: 1996, Charles R. Brown, Mary Bomberger Brown, Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that is not a disperser.
nondispersers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondisperser
gussying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gussy
cantonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantonist
gussies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gussy
gussies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gussy
postcardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postcardy
form: most postcardy
Etymology: From postcard + -y.
Senses: examples: text: By three next afternoon I was waiting under Coggeshall's clock tower. The postcardy little place still has a free car park.
ref: 1989, Jonathan Gash, The Very Last Gambado, Hachette, →ISBN:
text: “He protested vigorously,” Brower recalled, arguing that the photograph was “too postcardy.” According to Brower, Porter felt that “everyone knows [the sky]^([sic]) is blue, so we might as well take it for granted and omit it, concentrating instead upon its indirect effect.”
ref: 2016, Finis Dunaway, Natural Visions […] , University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 175:
glosses: Tweely picturesque.
examples: text: Lots of these sites have postcardy country names: Bog Creek Farm, Reich Farm, Burnt Fly Bog.
ref: 2001, Susanne Antonetta, Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir, Counterpoint LLC:
text: If I saw a cool, postcardy subject, like the partially burned-out neon Chow Mein sign on Second Avenue and Twelfth Street, I'd make Herve or a visiting Ron or Jack pose under it.
ref: 2013, Marc Spitz, Poseur […] , Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: Suggestive of a postcard.
Synonyms: postcardish
postcardish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postcardish
form: most postcardish
Etymology: From postcard + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Tweely picturesque.
Synonyms: postcardy
dhoorra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹə
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of durra.
dhourra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹə
Senses: examples: text: “Khoja,” said the pasha, slowly, removing the chibouque from his mouth, and looking towards the secretary; “write that Yacob the Jew shall, before sunset, pay an avania to the pasha of one hundred piastres, for selling dhourra within the walls of the city, without authority—now Hebrew, once more we listen.”
ref: 1846, Julia Pardoe, Miss Pardoe's Complete Works, page 55:
glosses: Alternative form of durra.
dhurra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹə
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of durra.
stage-stricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stage-stricken
form: most stage-stricken
Etymology: From stage + stricken.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey entertained themselves […] with a recitation by plump little stage-stricken Ensign Puddock, who, in "thpite of hith lithp," gave rather spirited imitations of some of the players—[…]
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Mr. Mervyn in His Inn”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 36:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Synonym of stagestruck.
synonyms: word: stagestruck
radiation impedances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiation impedance
reads the room
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of read the room
reading the room
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of read the room
undrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undrowns
form: undrowning
form: undrowned
form: undrowned
Etymology: From un- + drown.
Senses: examples: text: All available pumps were put into action to undrown the fifty-acre working area behind it.
ref: 1956, Helen Marie Newell, The Hardhats, page 210:
text: Recent uplift of the Maine and Oregon coasts has not been enough to "undrown" the larger valleys; the shorelines are still submergent.
ref: 1971, George Finiel Adams, Jerome Wyckoff, Landforms, page 143:
glosses: To remove the water from (something drowned or flooded); to unflood.
undrowns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undrown
undrowning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undrown
burninating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burninate
exersizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exersize
warfarinising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of warfarinise
warfarinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of warfarinize
missing the boat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miss the boat
cutting one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cut one
living in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of live in
churning up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of churn up
winding off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wind off
birthdayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of birthday
birthdaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of birthday
splayings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splaying
pharmacoeconomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharmaco- + economical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to pharmacoeconomics.
neutrophilias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutrophilia
MRHDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MRHD
debaptisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debaptism
FTDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FTD
putty powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of putty powder
dispatchments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispatchment
triploidies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triploidy
feto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: -iːtəʊ
Forms: form: foeto-
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: fetus
climacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climacteria
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλιμακτήρ (klimaktḗr).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: climacteric
glosses: The bodily and mental changes linked to the reproductive and endocrine function in men and women occurring during the latter part of middle age.
Related terms: climacterial
andropause
menopause
intrusionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intrusion + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The favouring of the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners.
Related terms: intrusionist
starrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more starrified
form: most starrified
Etymology: From starrify.
Senses: examples: text: Accept this surcoat, starrified with pearls, / And diamonds, such as our own shores breed.
ref: 1733, Robert Allott, Fuimus Troes, the True Trojans:
text: Of chesnut hair, his forehead starrified
ref: 1849, Robert Southey, The Doctor, Etc, page 360:
text: […] green buskins starrified with gold, and laced with silver and gold ribon.
ref: 1854, John Benjamin Heath, Some account of the Worshipful company of grocers of the city of London:
glosses: Decorated with stars, covered with stars.
examples: text: America needed a new starrified couple to focus their hopes and dreams on.
ref: 2011, Warren G. Harris, Natalie and R.J.: The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner:
glosses: Turned into a celebrity star.
starrified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From starrify.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of starrify
zoo break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoo breaks
Senses: examples: text: The Herald published a fictitious story of a zoo break, accompanied by pictures of elephants, donkeys, lions and other brothers of the menagerie.
ref: 1936, Today: An Independent National Weekly, volume 6, →OCLC, page iv:
text: One night there was a zoo break, and one of the elephants wound up in the young lady's vegetable garden.
ref: 1950, The Virginia Spectator, →OCLC, page 8:
text: In one of these scenes, Siggy must run for his life, and goes back to Vienna to plan the zoo break.
ref: 1998, Josie P. Campbell, John Irving: A Critical Companion, Greenwood Press, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: A breakout by animals from a zoo.
cibariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cibarium
favorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of favorize
engineering strains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engineering strain
haradaites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haradaite
bewasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bewaste
bewastes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bewaste
bewasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bewaste
stalkerhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stalker + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a stalker.
anarchistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anarchistical
form: most anarchistical
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anarchistic.
synonyms: word: anarchistic
scientistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scientistical
form: most scientistical
Senses: glosses: Synonym of scientistic.
synonyms: word: scientistic
metamystical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metamystical
form: most metamystical
Senses: glosses: Synonym of metamystic.
synonyms: word: metamystic
variosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variosities
Senses: glosses: Synonym of variety.
synonyms: word: variety
ball-bust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ball-busts
form: ball-busting
form: ball-busted
form: ball-busted
form: ballbust
Senses: glosses: To attack or harm the testicles of; to engage in ballbusting.
examples: text: Besides if you died I wouldn't have anyone to ball-bust for being a retard.” Kevin laughs and punches his brother in the shoulder.
ref: 2014, Patricia K McCarthy, The Crimson Dream, →ISBN:
text: If she'd managed to ball-bust him, she must've done all right.
ref: 2014, Mark Rosendorf, chapter 37, in The Rasner Effect, →ISBN:
text: And I shall ball-bust for her and enjoy every moment of twisting those suckers in my hands.
ref: 2015, Ketley Allison, SUSPECT: Part 5:
glosses: To tease or torment.
setfast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛtfɑːst/
Forms: form: setfasts
Etymology: From set + fast.
Senses: examples: text: Her brother Clint had bought a horse and saddle off that pastor and there had been a setfast under the blanket nearly the size of a griddle cake.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 8:
glosses: A tumour on a horse's back.