cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
attendedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From attended + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being attended.
attiguousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From attiguous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being attiguous.
attiguous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attiguous
form: most attiguous
Senses: examples: text: Honorius III., in 1220, built or rebuilt a monastery attiguous to the church, of which no trace now remains.
ref: 1900, Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker, The Christian monuments of Rome:
glosses: Touching or having the same border; contiguous.
Derived terms: attiguousness
attributiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From attributive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being attributive.
attriteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From attrite + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being attrite.
central angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: central angles
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An angle positioned with its vertex at the center of a circle.
Related terms: inscribed angle
central angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of central angle
full-scale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The museum has a full-scale replica of a Viking ship.
glosses: Of the same size, scale, or proportions as an original object.
raw_tags: of a model or replica
examples: text: The business consultants performed a full-scale analysis of current market conditions.
text: Sunday, November 6, was spent in a second full-scale dress rehearsal of the complete weekday electric timetable, […] during which the public were invited to make their first trial of the trains—and 15,000 did so.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 712:
text: Most ship-to-ship engagements are skirmishes between patrol vessels of cruiser weight and below, with dreadnoughts and carriers only deployed in full-scale fleet actions. Battles in open space are short and often inconclusive, as the weaker opponent generally disengages.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Space Combat Codex entry:
text: Perhaps Mr Putin is planning a full-scale invasion, with Russian forces thrusting deep into Ukraine to seize the capital, Kyiv, and overthrow the government.
ref: 2022 January 29, “A war in Ukraine could have global consequences”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
glosses: Thorough; complete; not lacking in any detail.
Central Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I've been walkin' Central Park, singing after dark / People think I'm crazy
ref: 1978, Jagger/Richards, “Miss You”, performed by The Rolling Stones:
text: I was in Paris, shut down l'Arc / New York, shut down Central Park
ref: 2015, “Shutdown”, performed by Skepta:
glosses: A large public, urban park in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
smallscale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smallscale
form: most smallscale
Senses: glosses: On a small scale; rudimentary; lacking many details or components.
Related terms: Klamath smallscale sucker
Central Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: In California, the large valley in the center of the state between the Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada.
century plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: century plants
Etymology: So named because the plant may live for several decades before producing flowers. Once a plant flowers and produces seeds, it dies.
Senses: synonyms: American aloe
maguey
glosses: An agave (Agave americana) originally from Mexico but cultivated worldwide.
glosses: Other plants in the genus Agave
century plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of century plant
Neo-Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neo Latin
Etymology: From neo- + Latin.
Senses: glosses: New Latin
Neo-Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Neo Latin
Etymology: From neo- + Latin.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Romance languages.
broadscale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broadscale
form: most broadscale
Etymology: From broad + scale.
Senses: glosses: On a broad scale; which is spread over a broad area
Newfie joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Newfie jokes
Senses: examples: text: Gerald Thomas, one of the finest folklore scholars in Canada today, contributed a Newfie joke collection.
ref: 1979, R. S. Tallman, "Canadian Folklore" (review of Folklore of Canada by Edith Fowke, McClelland & Stewart, 1976), The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 92, no. 364, p. 231
glosses: A brief, humorous, often ridiculous story, the tone of which may range from playful to deeply offensive, which depicts Newfoundlanders as rustic, unsophisticated, or lacking in intelligence.
caper-cutting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That frolics.
Related terms: caper cutting
cut a caper
cut capers
ceratopsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Ceratops + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Triceratops is a ceratopsian dinosaur.
text: One common ceratopsian feature is a frill extending from the back of the skull.
glosses: Of or belonging to the Ceratopsia suborder of dinosaurs.
ceratopsian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceratopsians
Etymology: From translingual Ceratops + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: You know, seeing as you bring up so many groups that people claim "all look alike except for maybe x" but really aren't once you actuall look at them (passerines, hadrosaurs, ceratopsians, etc.), maybe you need to write a book on the subject. It would be a rather interesting read.
ref: 2011 February 2, anonymous author, article comment:
text: Bipedal hadrosaurs, great hulking lambeosaurs, certain rhino-like ceratopsians and relatives of the velociraptors - all large and probably able swimmers - had the greatest success.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 31:
glosses: Any member of this suborder
Newfie jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Newfie joke
caper cutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: frolicking behaviour
Related terms: caper-cutting
cut a caper
cut capers
cut capers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts capers
form: cutting capers
form: cut capers
form: cut capers
Senses: examples: text: I was smoking my pipe quietly by my dismantled steamer, and saw them all cutting capers in the light, with their arms lifted high.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
glosses: To engage in brief frolics, romps, or frantic, ridiculous dances.
Related terms: caper-cutting
caper cutting
cut a caper
Cerberus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝbəɹəs/
Etymology: From Latin Cerberus, from Ancient Greek Κέρβερος (Kérberos), of unknown origin.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A former constellation of the northern sky, near Hercules.
Derived terms: sop to Cerberus
alabandite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alabandites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral form of manganese sulfide, MnS, sometimes found in meteorites
Synonyms: manganblende
ammonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.məˌnaɪt/
Forms: form: ammonites
Etymology: From French ammonite, from Latin Ammōnis (cornū) (“horn of Ammon”), as it was called by Pliny the Elder in reference to coiling ram horns used to symbolise the Egyptian god Amun. Equivalent to Ammon + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Ammonites floated through the world's shallow oceans for more than three hundred million years, and their fossilized shells turn up all around the world.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 83:
text: Visit the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in the UK, and ammonite road signs greet you at every town and city and even the lampposts on the seafront feature a familiar coiled shell.
ref: 2017 June 14, Mark Carnall, “The ancient mystery of St Hilda's 'snake stones': what do ammonites really look like?”, in The Guardian:
text: There are a few well known shelled giant cephalopods from the fossil record. Some of the largest recorded ammonites are in the genus Parapuzosia, fossils of which reach up to 2m in diameter.
ref: 2017 October 31, Mark Carnall, “Searching for the Old Ones: Lovecraftian giant cephalopods and the fossil record”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
synonyms: ammonid
ammonoid
glosses: Any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subclass Ammonoidea; a fossil shell of such an animal.
Derived terms: ammonitic
ammonitiferous
ammonitoid
ammonitologist
ammonitology
neoammonite
ammonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.məˌnaɪt/
Etymology: From ammonium nitrate.
Senses: glosses: An explosive prepared from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate; a form of amatol, popular in Eastern Europe and China.
Related terms: amatol
ammonitrate
arum lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arum lilies
Senses: glosses: Any of several flowering plants, of the family Araceae, but especially Zantedeschia aethiopica, the calla lily that has a showy white spathe.
Related terms: arum frog
balancelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bælənˈsɛl/
Forms: form: balancelles
Etymology: Borrowed from French balancelle.
Senses: glosses: A garden seat in the form of a swing.
examples: text: ... sailing boat Tremolino, owned partly by Korzeniowski himself. He described her alternately as a balancelle, tartane, or felucca, but furnished her with two masts; boats of these types are single-masted.
ref: 2007, Zdzisław Najder, Joseph Conrad: A Life, Camden House, →ISBN, page 60:
text: ... (balancelle, felucca, or aviso in service at Elba in 1806 and commissioned on 1.1.1807, 26-53 men, carried 1 x 10pdr, 2 x 3pdr, 2 swivels). Put at the disposition of Napoleon at Elba […]
ref: 2015 September 16, Rif Winfield, Stephen S Roberts, French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1786–1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN, page 1599:
glosses: A small boat, typically with a single lateen sail, used in the Mediterranean.
blowlamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowlamps
Etymology: From blow + lamp.
Senses: examples: text: […] the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1:
glosses: A burner that burns a fuel in air to produce a hot flame; a blowtorch
jippa jappa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jippa jappas
form: jippa-jappa
Senses: examples: text: There were only two other passengers in the “lounge,” Cubans perhaps, with jippa-jappa luggage.
ref: 1965, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in The Man with the Golden Gun:
text: The plan calls for site-specific reproductions to be sold in the retail areas: African coil-built pots, head-carrying baskets, and woven “jippa jappa” hats will be produced in Sparrishtown.
ref: 2006, Anita M. Waters, Planning the Past: Heritage Tourism and Post-Colonial Politics at Port Royal, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: Alternative form of jipijapa.
inviso
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: invisible
inviso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: invisibility
financiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of financier
shemozzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈmɒzəl/
ipa: /ʃəˈmɑzəl/
rhymes: -ɒzəl
Forms: form: shemozzles
form: chemozzle
form: chermozzle
form: chimozzle
form: schemozzle
form: schimozzle
form: schlemozzle
form: schmozzle
form: shamozzle
form: shimozzel
form: shimozzle
form: shlemozel
form: shlemozzle
Etymology: UK late-19th century. Borrowed from Yiddish שלימזל (shlimazl, “misfortune”), from Middle High German slim (“crooked”) and Hebrew מַזָּל (mazzāl, “luck”). Cognate with US English schlimazel (“unlucky person”). Compare German Schlamassel.
Senses: examples: text: "No end of a shemozzle there’s been there lately," he said. "Marina Gregg's been having hysterics most days. Said some coffee she was given was poisoned."
ref: 1962, Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side:
text: I always found it helpful that we retained one elderly member of staff who could offer a different perspective. “Well,” he would begin, “the last time we had one of these shemozzles…”. The mere fact that he could remember past disasters – and had lived to tell the tale – was reassuring.
ref: 2017 June 23, Charles Moore, “This country has come through many a crisis, but this one is a true shemozzle”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: A state of chaos or confusion.
examples: text: If Will comes out of this shemozzle.
ref: 1901, James Maclaren Cobban, The Golden Tooth:
text: […] but tarned long and then a nation louder, while engaged in swallowing from a large ampullar, that his pawdry's purgatory was more than nigger bloke could bear, hemiparalysed by the tong warfare and all the shemozzle, (Daily Maily, fullup Lace! Holy Maly, Mothelup Joss!) his cheeks and trousers changing colour every time a gat croaked.
ref: 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:
text: When does a melee actually become a melee? And what differentiates a melee from a shemozzle and a free-for-all? Or indeed minor physical interference? Hardly the most pressing of national matters, but probably the most interesting question going before Congress later this month.
ref: 2018 February 8, Ian O'Riordan, “GAA Congress to separate a melee and a shemozzle”, in The Irish Times:
glosses: A quarrel or rumpus.
Synonyms: topics: state
word: mess
raw_tags: of chaos
word: muddle
word: disorder
sense: quarrel
word: ruckus
word: turmoil
word: commotion
Related terms: english: loser; fool
translation: loser; fool
word: schlemiel
shemozzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈmɒzəl/
ipa: /ʃəˈmɑzəl/
rhymes: -ɒzəl
Forms: form: shemozzles
form: shemozzling
form: shemozzled
form: shemozzled
form: chemozzle
form: chermozzle
form: chimozzle
form: schemozzle
form: schimozzle
form: schlemozzle
form: schmozzle
form: shamozzle
form: shimozzel
form: shimozzle
form: shlemozel
form: shlemozzle
Etymology: UK late-19th century. Borrowed from Yiddish שלימזל (shlimazl, “misfortune”), from Middle High German slim (“crooked”) and Hebrew מַזָּל (mazzāl, “luck”). Cognate with US English schlimazel (“unlucky person”). Compare German Schlamassel.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:shemozzle.
glosses: To scarper; to run away; to flee.
Synonyms: flee
hyperpartisan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperpartisan
form: most hyperpartisan
Etymology: From hyper- + partisan.
Senses: glosses: Extremely partisan; extremely biased in favor of a political party.
glosses: Sharply polarized by political parties in fierce disagreement with each other.
hyperpartisan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperpartisans
Etymology: From hyper- + partisan.
Senses: glosses: An extreme political partisan.
human trafficking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hyponyms: child trafficking
glosses: A criminal activity in which people are recruited, harbored, transported, bought, or kidnapped to serve an exploitative purpose, such as sexual slavery, forced labor, or child soldiery.
Related terms: human trafficker
people smuggling
sexual slavery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: A criminal activity that involves forced sexual acts upon a person who is usually held hostage as a slave.
Related terms: human trafficking
TANJ
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: tanj
Etymology: Used (in lower-case form) in Larry Niven's "known space" fiction.
Senses: glosses: Acronym of there ain't no justice.
mixtures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixture
audibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From audible + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: audibility
glosses: The state or quality of being audible.
Australianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Australian + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He believed that the people he looked at around the room were had it. Did not have what the policy required of them. Did not share the dream of Australianness.
ref: 2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 138:
glosses: The state or quality of being Australian.
avariciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From avaricious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But yet, with the persistent avariciousness of the white man, the Arabs clung to their loot, and when morning came forced the demoralized Manyuema to take up their burdens of death and stagger on into the jungle.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 146:
glosses: The state or quality of being avaricious.
averageness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From average + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Sometimes I feel like itʼs our mediocrity that saved us. Our averageness made us hold on to a centre, in a way that brilliant people canʼt.ʼ
ref: 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 374:
glosses: The state or quality of being average.
avowableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From avowable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being avowable.
avowedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From avowed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being avowed.
awakedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From awaked + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being awaked.
awakenedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From awakened + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being awakened.
awedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From awed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being awed.
awelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aweless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being aweless.
babishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From babish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being babish.
babyishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From babyish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being babyish.
baddishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baddish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being baddish.
balkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From balky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] he was mildly annoyed to find that the chair shifted itself—remote control over objects was a labor-saver and probably a money-saver […] and obviously to be preferred to the blind balkiness of mechanical gadgets. Nevertheless Jubal was not used to telecontrol done without wires or waves […]
ref: 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 36, in Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 391:
glosses: The state or quality of being balky or uncooperative.
bandiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bandy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being bandy.
banefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baneful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being baneful.
barbariousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From barbarious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being barbarious.
barbarousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbarousnesses
Etymology: From barbarous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being barbarous.
barefacedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From barefaced + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being barefaced.
baselessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baseless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being baseless.
bashedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bashed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being bashed.
bashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bash
bastardliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bastardly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being bastardly.
bastardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bastardly
form: most bastardly
Etymology: From bastard + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Having been born out of marriage.
glosses: Of no use or purpose; useless; worthless.
Derived terms: bastardliness
bastardly gullion
bastardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bastardly
form: most bastardly
Etymology: From bastard + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bastardly manner.
beadiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beady + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being beady.
beaminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beamy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being beamy.
beamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːmi/
Forms: form: beamier
form: beamiest
Etymology: From Middle English beami, bemi, equivalent to beam + -y.
Senses: examples: a beamy spear
glosses: Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.
examples: beamy stags
glosses: Having horns or antlers.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having much beam or breadth; wide.
glosses: Showing or emitting rays of light; beaming; radiant; shining.
glosses: Radiant; beamsome; joyous; gladsome.
Derived terms: beamily
beaminess
beardedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bearded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being bearded.
beardlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beardless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being beardless.
beauteousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beauteous + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: beauteosity
glosses: The state or quality of being beauteous.
becomingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From becoming (“suitable, fit”) + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Crawford smiled her perfect approbation; and hastened to complete the gift by putting the necklace round her, and making her see how well it looked. Fanny had not a word to say against its becomingness, and, excepting what remained of her scruples, was exceedingly pleased with an acquisition so very apropos.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XXVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: There would have been little becomingness in his hastening after her and his Lordship of Dunstanwolde; his court to her must be paid with grace and considerateness.
ref: 1897, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 17, in His Grace of Osmonde, New York: Scribner, page 231:
text: 1924, O. Douglas (pseudonym of Anna Masterton Buchan), Pink Sugar, London: Hodder & Stoughton, Chapter 22,
The becomingness of Kirsty’s clothes did nothing to soften Rebecca’s feelings towards her.
glosses: The state or quality of being becoming (pleasingly suitable).
Derived terms: unbecomingness
bedriddenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bedridden + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being bedridden.
befittingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From befitting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being befitting.
beforeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From before + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being before.
beggingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From begging + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Also the Holy Ghost taught Solomon to pray these two things of God: God make vanity and leasing words far from me, and give not to me begging or beggingness; but give only things that beene needfull for my livelode; […]
ref: 1845, “The Lawfulness of Begging Maintained by Friars”, in Robert Vaughan, editor, Tracts and treatises of John de Wycliffe, D.D. : with selections and translations from his manuscripts, and Latin works, Blackburn and Pardon, →OCLC:
text: And may we not remember that the poverty of spirit of this Beatitude is, if we pursue the Greek word exactly, rather a beseechingness, a beggingness, if I may coin such a term, of spirit?
ref: 1860, George Moberly, “Sermon I”, in Sermons on the Beatitudes, J.H. and Jas. Parker:
text: But for appreciation of the sheer question beggingness of Moore's arguments, there is no substitute for reading "External and Internal Relations" and "The Refutation of Idealism" themselves.
ref: 1980, Idealistic Studies - Volumes 10-11, page 252:
text: He had no problem with the team moving. And do you remember his willingness, almost beggingness, to sell the team?
ref: 2007 March 14, Michael Ventolo, “NHL MOTW: Week of 03/07/2007!”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.nj-devils (Usenet), retrieved 21 Nov 2018:
text: He remained nameless and he would not speak
but motioned in a slumberous dance
a beggingness that penetrated
and united all around him
ref: 2018, “Visions”, in Brodric Wellington, Joseph Pap (lyrics), Memory, performed by Ivan:
glosses: The state or quality of being begging.
beholdenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beholden + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: No word this time about beholdenness as Ma’s spine bends over the pot.
ref: 2016, C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, Virago, page 118:
glosses: The state or quality of being beholden.
beholdingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beholding + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being beholden.
beingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beingnesses
Etymology: Calque of German Seiendheit, equivalent to English being + -ness. Occasionally also used to translate German Sein (“being”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus, from every example, we may see that Quantity always concerns a Beingness, which is indifferent to the very determinateness which it now, or at any time, has.
ref: 1865, James Hutchison Stirling, The Secret of Hegel, page 263:
text: In the good painting the stone is no longer a stone, i.e., something which we could not possibly be: in the good painting the stone has become visible in its beingness; only in the work of art is the stone truly.
ref: 1988, Leo Strauss, What is Political Philosophy?, →ISBN, page 253:
text: The two approaches remain distinct ways of knowing: mystics are interested in the changeless beingness outside of time, while scientists are only interested in understanding the causes of the changes within the world of time.
ref: 2004, Richard H. Jones, Mysticism and Morality: A New Look at Old Questions, →ISBN, page 391:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Existence; the condition of a thing that is.
Derived terms: state of beingness
Related terms: beingdom
beinghood
doingness
nothingness
belatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belatednesses
Etymology: From belated + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being belated or of being too late.
glosses: Slowness; backwardness.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being belated
word: lateness
word: tardity
word: lateness
sense: slowness
word: lentitude
sense: slowness
word: lentor
sense: slowness
word: retardation
sense: slowness
word: sloth
believableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From believable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being believable; believability.
belongingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belongingnesses
Etymology: From belonging + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of belonging.
beneficialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beneficial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being beneficial.
benevolentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From benevolent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being benevolent.
benignness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From benign + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being benign.
benumbedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From benumbed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being benumbed.
beseechingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beseeching + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being beseeching.
beseemingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beseeming + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: meetness
becomingness
glosses: The state or quality of being beseeming.
besottedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From besotted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ... but she is so pure, so delicate, that when I approach her, in spite of my besottedness, my love grows lambent.
ref: 1862, Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons:
text: However he had marveled at the besottedness of a woman's devotion to a man so unworthy of any devotion at all, ...
ref: 1972, John Williams, Augustus:
glosses: The state or quality of being besotted, infatuation, intellectual or moral blindness.
bewilderedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bewildered + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being bewildered.
bewitchedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bewitched + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being bewitched.
bewitchingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bewitching + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being bewitching.
beyondness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beyond + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being beyond.
ophicleide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒfɪklaɪd/
ipa: /ˈɔfɪklaɪd/
Forms: form: ophicleides
Etymology: From ophi- (variant of ophio-) + Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A keyed brass baritone bugle, now replaced by the tuba in orchestral music
Derived terms: ophicleidist
Related terms: serpentcleide
biggerness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bigger + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being bigger.
billowiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From billowy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being billowy.
betweenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betweennesses
Etymology: From between + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: betweenhood
betwixtness
glosses: The state or quality of being between.
examples: text: This is done by computing all the betweennesses of all edges and then looking for the ones with the highest values.
ref: 2010, David Easley, Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World:
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A measure of the number of geodesic paths through a node or edge.
Derived terms: nonbetweenness
pachydermatousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pachydermatous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being thick-skinned and insensitive.
bindingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From binding + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The philosophers of the first group, who believe that they have discovered the determining ground of moral bindingness in the drive for pleasure, quarrel with each other about the manner in which this ground is present in that drive[…]
ref: 2006, Karl Ameriks, Reinhold: Letters on the Kantian Philosophy, page 164:
text: The contract drafter can mask the bindingness of the contract and manipulate consumer behavior through design.
ref: 2013, Larry A. DiMatteo, Qi Zhou, Severine Saintier, Commercial Contract Law: Transatlantic Perspectives, page 9:
glosses: The state or quality of being binding.
bitingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of biting or being biting.
palaeobiogeographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeobiogeographers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleobiogeographer.
palaeobiogeographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeobiogeographer
blaeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blae + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being blae.
paleobiogeographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: palaeobiogeographic
Etymology: From paleo- + biogeographic.
Senses: examples: text: An understanding of these paleobiographic divisions is necessary for the interpretation of dynamic paleobiogeographic changes in the Western Interior.
ref: 1984, Ralph Willard Imlay, Jurjiz Alexander Jeletzky, Gerd Ernst Gerold Westermann, Jurassic-Cretaceous biochronology and paleogeography of North America, page 287:
glosses: Of or pertaining to paleobiogeography.
paleobiogeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeobiogeography
Etymology: From paleo- + biogeography.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of the prehistoric distribution of plants and animals.
Derived terms: paleobiogeographer
paleobiogeographic
palaeobiogeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + biogeographical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to palaeobiogeography.
Synonyms: palaeobiogeographic
Derived terms: palaeobiogeographically
blaseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blase + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blaséness.
blasphemousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blasphemous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being blasphemous.
blearedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bleared + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being bleared, dimness of the eyes.
palaeobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleobiology
Etymology: From palaeo- + biology.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of prehistoric life, especially of those aspects pertaining to living systems.
palaeobiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + biologic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to palaeobiology.
Synonyms: palaeobiological
palaeobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + biological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to palaeobiology.
Synonyms: palaeobiologic
blears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blear
blearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blear
palaeobiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeobiologists
Etymology: From palaeo- + biologist.
Senses: glosses: A scientist who studies palaeobiology.
bleared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bleared
form: most bleared
Senses: glosses: bleary
Derived terms: blearedness
bleared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blear
palaeobiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeobiologist
blindfoldedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blindfolded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being blindfolded.
palaeoclimatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleoclimatology
form: palæoclimatology
Etymology: From palaeo- + climatology.
Senses: examples: text: […]the conference will host an international lineup of climate scientists and researchers who will focus on four broad areas: climatology, paleoclimatology, the impact of climate change, and climate-change politics and economics.
ref: 2008 December 9, Jeff Jacoby, “Skepticism on climate change”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
text: Paleoclimatology -- the study of ice cores and ocean sediment cores -- indicates that the planet is warming 10 times fast than the average warming following an ice age, she added.
ref: 2024 December 11, Julia Jacobo, “Why the sun is not solely responsible for the rapid global warming occurring right now”, in ABC News:
glosses: The scientific study of prehistoric climate of the Earth.
Related terms: paleoclimatologist
bloatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bloated + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being bloated.
palaeoclimatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleoclimatic.
Derived terms: palaeoclimatically
blockishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blockish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being blockish.
palaeoclimatologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + climatologic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to palaeoclimatology.
Synonyms: palaeoclimatological
palaeoclimatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + climatological.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to palaeoclimatology.
Synonyms: palaeoclimatologic
palaeoclimatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoclimatologists
Senses: glosses: A scientist who studies palaeoclimatology
palaeoclimatologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeoclimatologist
palaeoentomology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + entomology.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of prehistoric insects.
palaeoentomologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoentomologists
Etymology: From palaeo- + entomologist.
Senses: glosses: A scientist who specializes in palaeoentomology
blockish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blockish
form: most blockish
Etymology: From block + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a block in shape or nature; coming across as a block.
glosses: Lacking understanding; stupid; obtuse; dull.
glosses: Rude; clumsy; rough.
Derived terms: blockishness
palaeoentomologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeoentomologist
palaeoentomological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + entomological.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to palaeoentomology
bloody-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bloody-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It's always annoyed me that the West Somerset Railway (Britain's longest heritage line) was prevented by what seemed like bloody-mindedness (a trade union was involved, and BR wasn't as helpful as NR is today) from connecting with the system at Taunton - particularly when there was a link used (if I recall rightly) by cider trains.
ref: 2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, pages 52–53:
glosses: The state or quality of being bloody-minded.
palaeoichthyology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + ichthyology.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of prehistoric fish.
palaeoichthyologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoichthyologists
Etymology: From palaeo- + ichthyologist.
Senses: glosses: A scientist who studies prehistoric fish.
Related terms: palaeoichthyology
palaeoichthyologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeoichthyologist
palaeoichthyological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + ichthyological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to scientific study of prehistoric fish.
Related terms: palaeoichthyology
Nay Pyi Taw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative and official spelling of Naypyidaw
Palaeophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the period of Earth's geologic history when the flora was dominated by seedless plants.
Palaeophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geologic period of time when Earth's flora was dominated by seedless plants; ending during the Permian period.
Related terms: Mesophytic
Paleozoic
Eurasian lynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurasian lynxes
Senses: glosses: Lynx lynx, one of the species of lynx.
Synonyms: European lynx
common lynx
bloody-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bloody-minded
form: most bloody-minded
Senses: glosses: Eager for or wanting blood.
examples: text: She felt like learning a few things more, and she felt just bloody-minded enough to go for it. "Are you seeing anyone?"
ref: 2023 September 24, HarryBlank, “Working Wonders”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
synonyms: word: adamant
word: ardent
word: bent on
word: bloody-minded
word: bullheaded
word: certain
word: chronic
word: confirmed
word: determined
word: diehard
word: dogged
word: hard-hearted
word: hard-nosed
word: hardheaded
word: headstrong
word: immovable
word: incalcitrant
word: inflexible
word: irrefragable
word: insistent
word: intractable
word: intransigent
word: intrepid
word: inveterate
word: mulish
word: obdurate
word: obstinate
word: obstreperous
word: peevish
word: peremptory
word: persistent
word: pertinacious
word: pigheaded
word: recalcitrant
word: refractory
word: resolute
word: resolved
word: rigid
word: self-willed
word: stalwart
word: staunch
word: steadfast
word: steady
word: stubborn
word: stubborn as a mule
word: sullen
word: tenacious
word: terminal
word: thran
word: thwart
word: tough
word: truculent
word: unbending
word: uncompromising
word: unyielding
word: vehement
word: wilful
word: willful
glosses: Obstinate; stubborn.
Derived terms: bloody-mindedly
bloody-mindedness
CHIBOR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Acronym of China Interbank Offer Rate, the floating rate of China interbank credit market.
Related terms: LIBOR
uniqueness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uniquenesses
Etymology: From unique + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, the rebel flag is so prolific in the revival some musicians intentionally avoid using it not because of racially charged meanings but to affirm their own uniqueness and individuality as southern rockers.
ref: 2017, Jason Eastman, The Southern Rock Revival: The Old South in a New World, page 190:
synonyms: distinctiveness
unicity
uniquity
glosses: The state or quality of being unique or one of a kind.
Synonyms: word: distinctiveness
word: onlyhood
word: onliness
word: unicity
word: uniqueness
word: uniquity
Hypernyms: word: oneness
word: rareness
Related terms: word: incomparableness
word: matchlessness
word: peerlessness
word: singularness
word: unequalness
word: unparalleledness
word: unmatchedness
word: unique
word: solitude
Machead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Macheads
Etymology: From Mac + -head.
Senses: examples: text: If you're a Machead, sorry. Now that the Windows platform has begun to solidify and DirectX software plug-ins are a reality, there is little contest between a Mac and a PC […]
ref: 2003. Ben Milstead, Home Recording Power!, Thomson Course Technology, p. 160
text: A Machead, through and through […]
ref: 2005. Andy Lester, Chuck Toporek, Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell, O'Reilly, page 499
glosses: A fan of the Apple Macintosh computer.
Synonyms: Macolyte
pyknon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyknons
form: pykna
form: pycnon
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πυκνόν (puknón), form of Ancient Greek πυκνός (puknós, “dense, compressed”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The lower part of a tetrachord in Ancient Greek music, consisting of a composite interval (two successive intervals) that is less than the remaining (incomposite) interval.
glosses: Condensation, density.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A nonrandom pattern of repeated elements, which are found more frequently in the 3′ untranslated regions of genes than in other regions of the human genome. Although it is unclear how pyknons might have arisen, it is possible that they may be involved in a new form of gene regulation.
Related terms: word: pyknic
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: chromatic
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: diatonic
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: enharmonic
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: genus
get the wind up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the wind up
form: getting the wind up
form: got the wind up
form: got the wind up
form: gotten the wind up
Senses: glosses: To become frightened or disturbed.
Related terms: have the wind up
put the wind up
itshay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Pig Latin version of shit.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately I typed the key sequence to put all my scrolls IN my BoH. I went through this too fast, didn't catch it, and because I didn't have any scrolls in my inventory, the game starts putting everything I own into the BoH. When it hits the wand of cancellation... BOOM! *itshay itshay itshay!!!* Say goodbye to 3 magic markers, gems galore, spellbooks, 15 potions of holy water, 15 scrolls of enchant stuff and identify, another 10 blank scrolls destined to be enchant armor. *WAH!*
ref: 1996, Greg Rogers, “Help! My Bag of Holding keeps exploding on me! *Damn*”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):
text: Itshay, dude, I thought you were over her.
ref: 2003 August 25, Patrick Null, “(story)Eamdray Irlgay-1959 wrds-Inspired by Andrea”, in alt.fiction.original (Usenet):
text: Wake up Saturday morning, and look at a map. The gig's halfway down to Brighton. Itshay. But I've given my word, so I leave early, make the gig, they love me.
ref: 2005 March 1, Max Leggett, “Re: TURN $6.00 INTO $60,000...READ THIS TO FIND OUT HOW!!!”, in rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of shit.
itshay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Pig Latin version of shit.
Senses: examples: text: My physics teacher is the sysop for this system (Bob Shayler), so he excitingly encourgages^([sic]) us to do this itshay.
ref: 1992, Brady R. Ferguson, “Life”, in k12.chat.senior (Usenet):
text: Well, can you BELIEVE that itshay?
ref: 1998, "Jerome L. Nelson" (username), "Surely not me!, in alt.recovery.aa, Usenet
text: I generally never wait more than about 15 seconds - all this fancy itshay that web developers stick in just because they can: I fail to see how it advances the content. In fact it's downright detrimental, 'cause I won't wait around for it.
ref: 2003, Max Leggett, “Re: HELP- What's your download time?”, in rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of shit.
BSP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BSPs
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
plumbing
glosses: Initialism of British Standard Pipe.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of bank settlement plan, a reporting system used by travel companies to pay airlines.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of binary space partitioning.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of board support package (“device driver”).
glosses: Initialism of blatant self-promotion.
BSP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: Initialism of Bahujan Samaj Party, a political party.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Bulgarian Socialist Party, a political party.
glosses: Initialism of British Socialist Party.
qualifier: scouting
glosses: Initialism of Boy Scouts of the Philippines.
burn-baited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burn-beat