cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
livity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From live + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Harmony in a natural world and living faith.
bransle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bransles
Etymology: From Middle French bransle, variant form of branle.
Senses: examples: text: Now making layes of loue and louers paine, / Bransles, Ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of branle.
bransles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bransle
dispurveyance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + purveyance.
Senses: examples: text: No fort so fensible, no wals so strong, / But that continuall battery will riue, / Or daily siege through dispuruayance long, / And lacke of reskewes will to parley driue […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Lack of provisions.
junts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junt
forpass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forpasses
form: forpassing
form: forpassed
form: forpassed
Etymology: From for- + pass.
Senses: examples: text: One day, as he forpassed by the plaine / With weary pace, he farre away espide / A couple […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto x:
glosses: To go by; pass, go past; pass unnoticed; cross.
glosses: To go beyond, exceed; surpass.
Synonyms: sense: pass unnoticed
word: slip by
word: pass by
sense: go beyond
word: outstep
word: transgress
word: transcend
antibottom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antibottoms
Etymology: From anti- + bottom.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the bottom antiquark
bottom antiquark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottom antiquarks
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of the bottom quark
Synonyms: antibottom
bouget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbuːdʒɪt/
/ˈbuːdʒɛt/
/ˈbuːɡɛt/
Forms: form: bougets
form: bowget
Etymology: The heraldic sense derives from an older spelling and meaning of budget, "small bag" (compare Middle English bouget, bowgett (“a leather bag or wallet”)), from Middle French bougette (“little pouch”).
Senses: examples: text: With that, out of his bouget forth he drew
Great ſtore of treaſure, therewith him to tempt;
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 550:
glosses: Obsolete form of budget (“purse, bag; etc”).
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: water-bouget
glosses: A charge resembling a yoke and a pair of the water bags that were formerly used to supply an army in battle.
astroinformatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + informatics.
Senses: topics: astronomy
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The processing of large amounts of astronomical data
astrostatistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + statistics.
Senses: topics: astronomy
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The application of statistics to the study and analysis of astronomical data.
bottonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottoniums
form: bottonia
Etymology: From bottom + -onium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of bottomonium.
synonyms: word: bottomonium
Related terms: quarkonium
chub up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chubs up
form: chubbing up
form: chubbed up
form: chubbed up
Senses: glosses: To become chubby; to grow fat.
Synonyms: plump up
first contact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first contacts
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The first meeting between people of two previously unknown cultures.
examples: text: He had piloted the Adastra to its first contact with the civilization of another solar system. His lifework was done and he was wholly prepared to rest.
ref: 1935 March, Murray Leinster, “Proxima Centauri”, in Astounding Stories, volume 15, number 1, New York: Street & Smith Publications, page 21:
text: Tam is a telepath of extraordinary talent, even for a Betazoid. He's a specialist in first contact with new life forms.
ref: 1990 April 23, Dennis Putman Bailey, David Bischoff, “Tin Man”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 3, episode 20, spoken by Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis):
text: Humanity’s first contact with an alien race occurred in 2157. At that time, the Alliance allowed survey fleets to activate any dormant mass relays discovered, a practice considered dangerous and irresponsible by Council-aligned races. When a turian patrol discovered a human fleet attempting to activate a relay, they attacked. One human vessel survived, retreating to the colony of Shanxi.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: First Contact War Codex entry:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The first meeting between humans and extraterrestrials.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: second contact
third contact
fourth contact
glosses: The moment, during an eclipse or transit, when the apparent positions of the two bodies first touch.
circumprimary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + primary.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: That surrounds the primary star of a binary star system
Related terms: circumsecondary
circumsecondary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + secondary.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: That surrounds the secondary star of a binary star system
Related terms: circumprimary
sportfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sport fishing
Etymology: From sport + fishing.
Senses: glosses: fishing for pleasure or competition, as opposed to commercial fishing
sportfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sport fishing
Etymology: See sportfish
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sportfish
diffusometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the study or measurement of diffusion
Related terms: diffusometer
sportful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sportful
form: most sportful
Etymology: From sport + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Then from his lofty stand on that high tree Down he alights among the sportful herd Of those four-footed kinds, himself now one, Now other, as their shape served best his end Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what of their state he more might learn, By word or action marked.
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
text: A young fool, bent on sportful pursuits instead of serious; more and more shuddering at Law. To the surprise and indignation of M. Arouet Senior.
ref: 1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. X. (of XXI.):
glosses: playful, merry
examples: text: Is it like cudgel-playing or other sportful forms of bloodshed?
ref: 1912, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native:
glosses: related to sport
sportfull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sportfull
form: most sportfull
Senses: examples: text: But when I again remembred the jesting and sportfull matter of the booke, unfit to be offered to any man of gravity and wisdome, I was wholly determined to make no Epistle Dedicatory at all; till as now of late perswaded thereunto by my friends, I have boldly enterprised to offer the same to your Lordship, who as I trust wil accept the same, than if it did entreat of some serious and lofty matter, light and merry, yet the effect thereof tendeth to a good and vertuous moral, as in the following Epistle to the reader may be declared.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sportful.
fuzzball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuzzballs
form: fuzzy-ball
Etymology: From fuzz + ball.
Senses: examples: text: I sit in my bedroom picking the pilly fuzzballs off my lambswool sweaters and the phone will ring.
ref: 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:
glosses: A ball of fuzzy material.
examples: text: Ferrets can be very entertaining little fuzzballs, but keeping a ferret as a pet is also a big responsibility.
ref: 2009, Johannah Haney, Ferrets, page 7:
glosses: Any soft, fuzzy creature.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A quantum description of a black hole in superstring theory.
glosses: A puffball.
glosses: An informal American street game resembling baseball.
glosses: Synonym of pill (“ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing”).
synonyms: word: pill
extra: ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing
fuzzballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuzzball
sportfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sportfully
form: most sportfully
Etymology: From sportful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: All took the word, to the gay band they hied, The queen, besure, was close to Lanval's side, Sprightly she seem'd, and sportfully did toy, And caught his hand to dance, and led the general joy, Lanval alone was dull where all was gay, His thoughts were fixed on his lovely fay: Soon as he deftly might, he fled the throng; And her dear name nigh trembled on his tongue, When the fond queen, who well had trac'd his flight, Stepp'd forth, and cross'd his disappointed sight.
ref: 1816, Matilda Betham, The Lay of Marie:
text: My stature gives no inch I throw away; My supple joints play free and sportfully; I'm every atom what a man should be.
ref: 1887, James Sheridan Knowles, The Love-Chase:
text: In a play, "The Rovers," he sportfully satirized the romantic drama of Schiller, "The Robbers."
ref: 1911, John Holland Rose, William Pitt and the Great War:
glosses: playfully
sportfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sportful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In long winter nights it was hard to tell who enjoyed sportfulness the better, the children who romped the floor, or the parents who, with lighted countenance, looked at them.
ref: 1894, Rev. John Gerardus Fagg, Forty Years in South China:
text: 'Sometimes,' he writes, in a characteristic letter, 'when I find myself transported with jollity and love of company, I hang lead to my heels, and reduce to my thoughts my fortunes, my years, the duties of a man, of a friend, of a husband, of a father, and all the incumbencies of a family; when sadness dejects me, either I countermine it with another sadness, or I kindle squibs about me again, and fly into sportfulness and company.'
ref: 1917, Arthur Symons, Figures of Several Centuries:
glosses: playfulness
hypersound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersounds
Etymology: From hyper- + sound.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: sound with a frequency greater than approximately 100 megahertz
Related terms: ultrasound
come aloft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes aloft
form: coming aloft
form: came aloft
form: come aloft
Senses: examples: text: his louely wife emongst them lay, / Embraced of a Satyre rough and rude, / Who all the night did minde his ioyous play: / Nine times he heard him come aloft ere day, / That all his hart with gealosie did swell; / But yet that nights ensample did bewray, / That not for nought his wife them loued so well, / When one so oft a night did ring his matins bell.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Fowler: I must kiss her:–(kisses her) – thou hast a down lip, and dost twang it handsomely; now to the business.
Penelope: This is not all I look for.
Fowler (aside): She will not tempt me to come aloft, will she?
ref: 1633, James Shirley, The Witty Fair One, IV.iv:
glosses: To mount sexually; to have an erection.
misdetection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misdetections
Etymology: From mis- + detection.
Senses: glosses: An incorrect or faulty detection
sportiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportivenesses
Etymology: From sportive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: You will see the tame horse in the paddock gallop about for his pleasure, and the wild horse on the prairie will start and run for miles in mere sportiveness.
ref: 1890, Theo. Stephenson Browne, In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda:
text: Then he would play with his vixen, she encouraging him with her pretty sportiveness.
ref: 1922, David Garnett, Lady Into Fox:
text: OMAR KHAYYAM, astronomer-poet of Persia, born at Naishapur, in Khorassan; lived in the later half of the 11th century, and died in the first quarter of the 12th; wrote a collection of poems which breathe an Epicurean spirit, and while they occupy themselves with serious problems of life, do so with careless sportiveness, intent he on the enjoyment of the sensuous pleasures of life, like an easy-going Epicurean.
ref: 1907, Edited by Rev. James Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia:
glosses: the state of being sportive
sportless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sportless
form: most sportless
Etymology: From sport + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There is, of course, something to be said for sportless exercise.
ref: 1914, Robert Haven Schauffler, The Joyful Heart:
glosses: Without sport.
glosses: Without mirth; joyless.
arterwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Soon arterwards, a day or two as it might be, Mrs. Rummles 'ad 'er mar a-stayin' with her, and the old lady slep in that very room, and was laid up weeks!
ref: 1892, F. Anstey, The Talking Horse:
text: P'raps you might like a streak o' mutton arterwards!
ref: 1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,:
text: Only t'other day he up an' took me because Job Jagway ('e works for Squire Cassilis, you'll understand sir) because Job Jagway sez as our wheat, (meanin' Miss Anthea's wheat, you'll understand sir) was mouldy; well, the 'Old Adam' up an' took me to that extent, sir, that they 'ad to carry Job Jagway home, arterwards.
ref: 1911, Jeffery Farnol, The Money Moon:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of afterwards.
monochromatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monochromatizations
Etymology: From mono- + chromatization.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The production of a beam of radiation, containing a narrow band of frequencies, as the result of monochromatizing or by passing through a monochromator
Related terms: monochromatizating
counthry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counthries
Senses: examples: text: If ye've no relish for a fortification, in a time of war, ye've only to shoulther yer knapsack, and go out into the open counthry, where ye'll have all to yer own satisfaction.
ref: 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte:
text: Ye have raiched the goold counthry, which, being the same, I rispictfully asks ye all to jine mesilf in letting out a hurrah which will make the town trimble and the payple open their eyes so wide that they won't git them shet agin for a wake to come.
ref: 1898, E. S. Ellis, Klondike Nuggets:
text: One crone raised herself sufficiently to remark that it was a fine thing for the counthry, glory be to God! which patriotic sentiment won a smile from Sister Louise, but failed to awaken much enthusiasm in any one else.
ref: 1902, M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell), North, South and Over the Sea:
text: I wish St. Pathrick had made a trip to India and dhriven the sarpints out av the counthry the same as he did in Ireland."
ref: 1922, Gordon Casserly, The Jungle Girl:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of country.
nanocapacitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanocapacitor
nanocapacitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocapacitors
Etymology: From nano- + capacitor.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale capacitor
cousinship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌzənˌʃɪp/
Forms: form: cousinships
Etymology: From cousin + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: “How long did you reside with him and his sisters after the cousinship was discovered?”
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
text: His creed of determinism was such that it almost amounted to a vice, and quite amounted, on its negative side, to a renunciative philosophy which had cousinship with that of Schopenhauer and Leopardi.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
text: What he repudiated was cousinship with the ape, and the implied suspicion of a rudimentary tail, because it was offensive to his sense of his own dignity, and because he thought that apes were ridiculous, and tails diabolical when associated with the erect posture.
ref: 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah:
text: He describes a beautiful thought experiment to demonstrate a rabbit’s cousinship to a leopard.
ref: 2009 October 11, Nicholas Wade, “Evolution All Around”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: cousinhood
hypernyms: kinship
glosses: The state of being cousins, or the relationship that exists among cousins.
nanoresistors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoresistor
coronal plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronal planes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any vertical plane that divides the body into anterior and posterior (belly and back) sections.
Synonyms: frontal plane
Related terms: sagittal plane
transverse plane
nanoresistor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoresistors
Etymology: From nano- + resistor.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale resistor
sparsifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparsifier
cousinships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cousinship
needst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: need'st
form: needest
Senses: examples: text: If that be all, then cheare thy drooping lookes, For I will furnish thee with such supplies: Let some of those thy followers goe with me, And they shall haue what thing so ere thou needst.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage:
text: "Thou needst na run," he called; "I've not the time to catch thee now.
ref: 1897, John Bennett, Master Skylark:
text: Thou needst not love me any more; I care not for thy love.
ref: 1900, George MacDonald, Paul Faber, Surgeon:
text: Through the faintness and the leaden horror that weighed her down she heard Ferne's voice, at first yet monotonous and low, at the last an irrepressible cry of passion: "Now there is no longer troth between us, and all thy days, by summer and by winter, thou mayst listen unabashed to tales of such as I. If I am named to thee, thou needst not blush, for now I have seared away that eve above the river, that morn at Penshurst.
ref: 1904, Mary Johnston, Sir Mortimer:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of need
transverse plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transverse planes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any plane that divides the body into superior and inferior parts, roughly perpendicular to spine.
Synonyms: horizontal plane
axial plane
transaxial plane
Related terms: coronal plane
sagittal plane
transitionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transition + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The intimacy between us seemed as sudden and transitionless as in a dream.
ref: 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
text: Significantly, Asian theater was also an important source of Eisenstein’s theory of expressive movement: the instantaneous shift from action to pose is akin to the “transitionless acting” he found in kabuki.
ref: 2001, David Bordwell, “Aesthetics in Action: Kungfu, Gunplay, and Cinematic Expressivity”, in Esther C. M. Yau, editor, At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World, University of Minneapolis Press, page 82:
glosses: Lacking a transition.
unassured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unassured, unassuryd, equivalent to un- + assured.
Senses: glosses: Not assured.
glosses: Uninsured.
Derived terms: unassuredly
axial plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axial planes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any plane that divides the body into superior and inferior parts, roughly perpendicular to spine.
Synonyms: horizontal plane
transverse plane
transaxial plane
Related terms: coronal plane
sagittal plane
publick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publicks
Senses: examples: text: [I]t is not only requiſite that the Prince knovv hovv to command vvell, but that the Subjects obey vvell; and that even vveak Counſels, faithfully aſſiſted, and as much as may be rectified or repaired by thoſe that are to Execute them, may leſs prejudice the publick, than the frovvard and jarring endeavours of Men, that perhaps vvould be vviſer Rulers if they had a right to be so.
ref: 1665, Robert Boyle, “Occasional Reflections. Discourse XI. Upon a Danger Springing from an Unseasonable Contest with the Steersman.”, in Occasional Reflections upon Several Subiects. Whereto is Premis’d a Discourse about Such Kind of Thoughts, London: […] W. Wilson for Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, section IV (Which Treats of Angling Improv’d to Spiritual Uses), page 78:
text: [T]hese inconsiderate lads will be out of the house, and away to the publicks, wasting their precious time, and, it may be, missing the morning tide.
ref: 1824 June, [Walter Scott], “Narrative of Alan Fairford, Continued”, in Redgauntlet, […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 291:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of public.
ricketty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rickettier
form: more ricketty
form: rickettiest
form: most ricketty
Senses: examples: text: Below appears a ricketty old step-ladder leading into darkness.
ref: 1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 19, August 6, 1870:
text: Some had a couple of stunted donkeys yoked to a ricketty cart,--others had mules with pack-saddles--but the many loaded their own heads, instead of the donkeys and mules.
ref: 1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4:
glosses: Alternative spelling of rickety.
stiffish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈstɪfɪʃ/
Etymology: From stiff + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Even the shabbiest of shore-boats, hired for the shortest time, exacts a stiffish fare.
ref: 1849, Mayne Reid, The Flag of Distress:
text: Th' main sewer will have to be brought clean across i' this direction, an' it'll be a stiffish job.
ref: 1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine:
text: Ahead of us to-night is a stiffish incline and it looks as though there might be pressure behind it.
ref: 1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I:
text: Beyond the latter station—reached after traversing the only level mile of track between East Suffolk Junction and Beccles—a stiffish climb leads across heathland to Wickham Market Station, which is actually at Campsea Ashe, 1½ miles from the town of Wickham Market.
ref: 1954 December, D. S. Barrie and B. D. J. Walsh, “Railways of East Suffolk”, in Railway Magazine, page 816:
glosses: Somewhat stiff (all senses).
sagittal suture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sagittal sutures
Senses: glosses: A dense, fibrous connective tissue joint between the two parietal bones of the skull.
Duracell bunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Duracell bunnies
Etymology: From the Duracell Bunny, a pink rabbit toy character from the advertising campaign of Duracell, used to demonstrate the longevity of the batteries.
Senses: examples: 2010 April 4, Jonathan Northcroft in The Timesonline, Manchester United player ratings
Patrice Evra — 7. France’s own Duracell bunny was the only United player who never seemed tired. Defended well and was a valuable attacking outlet.
2010 April 25, Julian Glover in The Guardian Online, David Cameron Profile
Conservative leader is a stress-tested Duracell bunny with the capacity to make any crisis seem reasonable, or so his friends say.
glosses: A person who seems to have limitless energy and endurance.
verbaliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbalisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of verbalizer.
cohostess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cohostesses
Etymology: From co- + hostess.
Senses: examples: text: Julia Meade assisted Ed as cohostess and chief product seller during and for a while after his Toast of the Town years.
ref: 1971, Ronald W Lackmann, Remember television:
glosses: A female cohost.
cohostess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cohostesses
form: cohostessing
form: cohostessed
form: cohostessed
Etymology: From co- + hostess.
Senses: examples: text: Erna had dragooned a reluctant Frau Ostlinger into cohostessing a lavish party at the consulate for the children of all the more prominent German-American families in New York.
ref: 1979, Robert H. Pilpel, To the honor of the fleet, page 241:
glosses: Of a woman: To act as a joint host.
cohostesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohostess
shot to nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shots to nothing
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: An attempted pot that is intended not to leave a possible pot for the opponent if missed.
Related terms: hiding to nothing
shots to nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shot to nothing
desquamative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desquamative
form: most desquamative
Etymology: By surface analysis, desquamate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: desquamative gingivitis
glosses: Of, relating to, or attended with, desquamation.
Synonyms: desquamatory
Derived terms: nondesquamative
voiceband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From voice + band.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The range of frequencies typically audible to humans, from about 20 Hz to 20 kHz.
voiceboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voicebox
shtchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shchi.
noncompilable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + compilable.
Senses: glosses: Not compilable.
fireworklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fireworklike
form: most fireworklike
Etymology: From firework + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a firework.
lesionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lesionlike
form: most lesionlike
Etymology: From lesion + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lesion.
fusionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fusionlike
form: most fusionlike
Etymology: From fusion + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of fusion.
fissionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fissionlike
form: most fissionlike
Etymology: From fission + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of fission.
ahool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ahools
Etymology: Named for its distinctive call.
Senses: glosses: A flying cryptid first reported in the 1920s, supposedly a giant bat or pterosaur.
Related terms: Batsquatch
ahools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ahool
canoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of canoeing.
canoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of canoeing.
first-person singulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first-person singular
first-person plurals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first-person plural
second-person singulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second-person singular
multicart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multicarts
Etymology: From multi- + cart.
Senses: examples: text: I have a Vectrex in great working shape along with a multicart that contains every game for the Vectrex except a couple of the lightpen games.
ref: 2001, Spud, “FS/FT: Vectrex & Multicart!”, in van.forsale (Usenet):
text: […] many of my friends also had their first on-hand experience of the game with this version, or via one of the numerous Famicom multicarts that inundated the black market […]
ref: 2014, Rob Strangman, Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman, page 221:
topics: video-games
glosses: A cartridge containing several separate games.
third-person singulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third-person singular
multicarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multicart
third-person plurals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third-person plural
multiconsole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + console.
Senses: examples: text: With a multiconsole system computer failure means all graphics work is stopped...
ref: 1970, Richard Elliot Green, R. D. Parslow, Computer graphics in management: case studies of industrial applications:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one console.
nonimperative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + imperative.
Senses: examples: a nonimperative programming language
a nonimperative grammatical mood
glosses: Not imperative.
local anaesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: local anaesthetics
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of local anesthetic.
local anaesthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of local anaesthetic
geologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geologize
geologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of geologize
geologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of geologize
glass cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass cutters
form: glasscutter
Senses: glosses: One who cuts glass to make objects from it.
glosses: A hand tool used for scoring a piece of glass so that it can be snapped cleanly in two.
Synonyms: glazier's diamond
kathak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kathaks
Etymology: From Sanskrit कथा (kathā, “story”).
Senses: examples: text: But the differences go beyond this: as the narrator explained, kathak grew up in the royal courts while bharatanatyam emerged from the temples.
ref: 2001 September 28, Kelly Kleiman, “Fight From the Inside”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: One of the eight classical dance forms of India.
keelless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From keel + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Every vessel had several keelless whale-boats, pointed at both bow and stern, so that they could be rowed forwards or backwards.
ref: 1914, Sven Anders Hedin, From Pole to Pole:
qualifier: Of a water craft
glosses: having no keel.
qualifier: Of a bird
glosses: having no keel on the sternum; acarinate.
easy money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: fast buck
fast money
quick buck
glosses: Money that is easily acquired.
examples: text: Easy money / Rain it down on the wife and the kids / Rain it down on the house where we live / Rain until you got nothing left to give
ref: 2004, Nick Cave, “Easy Money”, in Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
topics: economics
sciences
antonyms: tight money
glosses: A monetary policy that makes money, credit, or both readily available to many borrowers and at relatively low interest rates.
tight money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
antonyms: easy money
glosses: A monetary policy that makes it difficult to obtain money or credit for many borrowers, and only at relatively high interest rates.
Shimerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈmɛɹi.ən/
Forms: form: more Shimerian
form: most Shimerian
Etymology: From Shimer + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Students approach athletics at the College in a typically unusual, but very "Shimerian" way. When the school's basketball team finally won a game this spring after a national record of 62 consecutive losses students didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
ref: 1966 September 7, “Shimer College”, in Diocesan Press Service:
text: A reward for the plant is being offered, in true "Shimerian fashion," said Buchanan.
ref: 1998 June 22, Frank Abderholden, “"Hibiscus Heist" Leaves College Stumped, Without Mascot”, in News-Sun:
text: Carol’s path to Shimer and then Parsons is quintessentially Shimerian.
ref: 2007 Spring, “Shimer: From Great Books to Great Careers”, in Symposium, Shimer College, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2010, Carol J. Overby '72, College Professor, page 15:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Shimer College
Shimerian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈmɛɹi.ən/
Forms: form: Shimerians
Etymology: From Shimer + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: But for Palmer and 396 other Shimerians, there are no such simple answers, no values in face values, and few thoughts, deeds, or situations undeserving of analysis and explanation.
ref: 1965 July 25, “Shimer”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2012, page H36:
text: Such a suggestion is scoffed at by Shimerians who maintain that they have the will to stave off institutional death.
ref: 1976 May 3, Gene I. Maeroff, “Illinois College Defies Premature Reports and Clings to Life”, in New York Times:
text: For the last six years a group of Shimer alums together with some honorary Shimerians have been meeting once a month in Evanston.
ref: 2008 Fall, “Life After Shimer Discussion Group”, in Symposium, Shimer College, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2010, page 14:
glosses: A person who is associated with Shimer College
Related terms: coinquiry
vajazzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [vəˈd͡ʒæzl̩]
Forms: form: vajazzles
Etymology: Blend of vagina + bedazzle, also influenced by jazz up.
Senses: examples: text: YOU have to feel for OLLY MURS – ladies keep trying to show him their vajazzles.
ref: 2010 November 2, “Olly is dazzled by girl fans”, in The Sun, UK:
text: TELLY beauty Billie Faiers has suggested Victoria Beckham get a vajazzle to perk up her sex life.
ref: 2011 September 27, Dan Menhinnet, “Billie Faiers: Posh Spice should get vajazzled”, in The Sun, UK:
text: A vajazzle from a beautician can cost anywhere between £20 and £100, but pound stores started stocking the accessory earlier this month.
ref: 2011 December 22, “The TOWIE effect hits pound stores as sales of £1 vajazzles soar”, in The Sun, UK:
glosses: A cosmetic treatment in which jewels are placed on a woman's vulva and/or pubic area.
vajazzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [vəˈd͡ʒæzl̩]
Forms: form: vajazzles
form: vajazzling
form: vajazzled
form: vajazzled
Etymology: Blend of vagina + bedazzle, also influenced by jazz up.
Senses: examples: text: Discussing her new memoir "The Day I Shot Cupid," debut author [Jennifer Love] Hewitt said that after a painful breakup, "A friend of mine Swarovski-crystalled my precious lady and it shined like a disco ball," adding the imperative that "women should vajazzle their vajayjays."
ref: 2010 January 15, Mary Elizabeth Williams, “The secrets of 'vajazzling'”, in Salon:
text: 'My biggest dream cameo would be fellow Essex girl Victoria Beckham. I'd love to vajazzle her,' she admitted.
ref: 2011 April 27, Amy Childs, “Victoria Beckham is my next vajazzle target”, in Metro, UK:
text: Sally Bercow 41, told fellow Celebrity Big Brother housemate Amy Childs she had no plans to get vejazzled, then teased: "My life is spicy enough."
ref: 2011 August 20, “Celebrity Big Brother 2011: 'Spicy' Sally Bercow's Sex Life Slip-Up”, in Daily Star, UK:
glosses: To decorate a woman's vulva and/or pubic area with jewels.
Related terms: vajayjay
tettigoniid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛtɪˈɡəʊniɪd/
Forms: form: tettigoniids
Senses: examples: text: Representatives of the Mermithidae are the most common nematode parasites of tettigoniids, however spirurids and more rarely, subulurids and thelastomatids, also occur in some members of this family.
ref: 1975, George O. Poinar, Entomogenous Nematodes: A Manual and Host List of Insect-nematode Associations:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family Tettigoniidae, the katydids or bush-crickets.
tettigoniids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tettigoniid
tettixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tettix
crossculturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crossculturally
form: most crossculturally
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross-culturally.
pacis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paci
keepership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːpəʃɪp/
Forms: form: keeperships
Etymology: From keeper + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: I wish he [Austen Henry Layard] had had the keepership of the National Gallery, for I don't think his Government will hold together through many weeks.
ref: 1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, “Charles Dickens”, in What I Remember […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son […], →OCLC, page 123:
text: Camby was given the keepership of one of the two Counter prisons, in Poultry Yard off Cheapside, traditionally run by London's sheriffs, where many convicted of offences in the city courts were held […]
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 269:
glosses: The position of a keeper; guardianship, ownership.
pannable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The EM Submixer has four stereo inputs, two pannable mono inputs, and one stereo output.
ref: 1994, Electronic musician, Volume 10, Issues 7-12:
text: The final launch version of the Application Desktop will include a Universal Instant Messaging System, a fully zoomable and pannable map of the photorealistic Earth […]
ref: 2004, Richard Bliss, Alien$: We're Only Here for the Money:
glosses: Capable of being panned (moved as if across a panorama).
examples: text: Contains fine pannable gold. The most common ore type, sometimes as large boulders.
ref: 1990, F. E. Hughes, Geology of the mineral deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Volume 2:
glosses: Capable of being panned (sifted, as of gold or gravel).
keeperships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keepership
charks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chark
charks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chark
charking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chark
charked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chark
charlatanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charlatanism
pregap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregaps
Etymology: From pre- + gap.
Senses: examples: text: The CD-I player reads the pregap where the CD-I data is stored and displays this information to the consumer.
ref: 1994, Chris Sherman, The CD-ROM handbook:
text: One company claimed to have the rights to putting hidden tracks in that position, but it's not permitted by the Red Book standard, and many plants will not press CDs with a hidden track in the pregap.
ref: 2013, Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, editor, From Demo to Delivery, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
glosses: A portion of a compact disc preceding the start of a track.
pregaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pregap
mincemeats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mincemeat
rag pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rag puddings
Senses: glosses: An old-fashioned English savoury dish of minced meat and onions wrapped in suet pastry and boiled or steamed.
spotlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spotlike
form: most spotlike
Etymology: From spot + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a spot.
sportlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sportlike
form: most sportlike
Etymology: From sport + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Evidence of sportlike activities suggests that Africans did not set aside time for sport or play as we often do today.
ref: 1995, Richard Albin Swanson, Betty Mary Spears, History of sport and physical education in the United States:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of sport.
coltishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more coltishly
form: most coltishly
Etymology: From coltish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a coltish manner.
nonsuppletive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + suppletive.
Senses: glosses: Not suppletive.
nonrisky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + risky.
Senses: glosses: Not risky.
nonpostpartum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + postpartum.
Senses: glosses: Not postpartum.
nonrelaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + relaxed.
Senses: examples: nonrelaxed muscle
glosses: Not relaxed.
Og
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Senses: examples: text: And the Lord shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 31:4:
qualifier: outside the Bible
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: Popular supposed name for a caveman or other prehistoric man.
Related terms: Ug
Ug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Popular supposed name for a caveman or other prehistoric man.
Related terms: Og
Villa Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: the home stadium of Aston Villa Football Club.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Aston Villa Football Club itself.
glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
cherry-pop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cherry-pops
form: cherry-popping
form: cherry-popped
form: cherry-popped
Senses: synonyms: deflower
deflorate
glosses: To take the virginity of (someone).
turkey slap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey slaps
Etymology: From the resemblance of a turkey's head and neck to a flaccid penis.
Senses: glosses: The act of hitting someone in the face with one's flaccid penis.
symboliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symbolisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of symbolizer.
White Hart Lane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The former home stadium of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Tottenham Hotspur Football Club itself.
glosses: A road between High Road, Wood Green N22, and Tottenham High Road, N17, and a railway station in this road at the Tottenham end. The stadium (which was in the High Road) could have been named after either or both.
Molineux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒlɪnjuː/
Senses: glosses: A surname
examples: text: Another surprise is that Newcastle have the meanest defence in all four leagues and they did their utmost to preserve the tag at Molineux.
ref: 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The home stadium of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club itself.
Derived terms: Molineux hearing
Related terms: Molyneux
von Neumann machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: von Neumann machines
Etymology: For John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer that implements the von Neumann architecture.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Any machine that is capable of self-replication.
Hyponyms: sense: machine capable of self-replication
word: von Neumann probe
vulg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of vulgar.
raw_tags: as a word gloss in dictionaries
Spidey-sense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spidey-senses
Senses: examples: text: Having known the man for most of his life he had a certain Spidey-sense when it came to Tim’s problems.
ref: 2003, Matthew F. Winn, chapter 1, in The Sandman, College Station, Tex.: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Abby, let me ask you this: Is your spidey sense sure Alison was killed by a man? Your other clues were that 'he' was short, wore oversized clothing, and had dark hair. What if Alison was killed by a butch-looking female?
ref: 2004 December, Victoria Laurie, Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye (A Psychic Eye Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Signet, New American Library, →ISBN:
text: But the sports media elite, eating free press box sushi while the rest of us are paying $9.00 for a hot dog, could never understand what set our collective spidey senses tingling.
ref: 2005, Dave Zirin, “Stir of Echoes: A New Sporting Resistance?”, in What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States, Chicago, Ill.: Haymarket Books, →ISBN, page 259:
text: Don't settle for taking the world at face value. Too many people see a logo or a uniform and make bad assumptions. If your Spidey-sense tells you something's wrong, it probably is. If you don't have Spidey-sense, walk loudly and carry a big stick.
ref: 2009, “Top Ten Ways to Shut Down Hackers”, in Securing Intellectual Property: Protecting Trade Secrets and Other Information Assets, Burlington, Mass.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Butterworth-Heinemann; Syngress, →ISBN, page 153:
text: A sense of foreboding, almost like a Spidey-sense, tingled at the back of my neck.
ref: 2010, Tate Hallaway [pseudonym; Lyda Morehouse], Honeymoon of the Dead, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN:
text: As I turn to the right to get to the Registration Desk, my spidey senses are starting to warn me. There's nothing I can see that is cause for immediate concern, but I know I've got to keep paying attention to those spidey senses. I know they've saved me in the past.
ref: 2018 March 10, Brad Bagwell, chapter 1, in The Hunter: Southeast Asia, Ishpeming, Mich.: BookVenture Publishing, →ISBN, page 3:
text: While we are all enticed by the roller-coaster ride that will come with owning a 21-year-old Ronald Acuna, most of our spidey-senses tell us that a safe player in the first round allows us to survive six months of injuries and ineffectiveness from some of our subsequent picks.
ref: 2019 February 27, Fred Zinkie, “Ranking the Safest First-round Picks in Fantasy Baseball Drafts”, in Yahoo! Sports, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2019:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Spidey sense.
loved ones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loved one
cherry-poppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherry-popper
snatched the pebble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snatch the pebble