cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cherried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cherry + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Dinner can be barbecued beef ribs eaten on the patio of the Main Street Grill or cherried duck at the Black Cat, a cozy fireplace-lit bistro.
ref: 2008 April 4, Barbara E. Hernandez, “Surf and Quiet Amid the Pines of the Central Coast”, in New York Times:
text: Before we got underway, I prepared our traditional Easter dinner, a honey baked ham. I placed our properly scored, cloved, overly maraschino cherried and pineappled porker in a slow cooking oven.
ref: 2010, Susan Kessen, Dear Mom and Dad:
glosses: Prepared with cherries.
examples: text: "I don't need a lighter to hit this; the bowl's cherried."
ref: 2023 April 22 (last accessed), “Cherried”, in Cannabis Glossary, Leafly:
text: He puffed three perfect rings and passed the bowl to me. "It's cherried."
ref: 2020, B.R. Yeager, “Two”, in Negative Space, Philadelphia: Apocalypse Party, →ISBN:
glosses: Continually burning and ready to be smoked, without needing to be reignited before inhalation.
raw_tags: of cannabis or other smokable substance
cherried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cherry + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cherry
counteroperation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counteroperations
Etymology: From counter- + operation.
Senses: examples: text: In recent months, those tactics have come to include defensive maneuvers aimed at defusing the media counteroperations of the United States and its allies.
ref: 2008 April 4, Michael Moss, “Rising Leader for Next Phase of Al Qaeda’s War”, in New York Times:
glosses: A military operation in response to another operation.
counteroperations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counteroperation
leucothoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucothoes
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: For those customers she recommends shrubs, especially broad-leaved evergreens like skimmia, aucuba, and variegated leucothoe.
ref: 2008 April 4, Stephen Orr, “When a Garden Is a Weekend Affair”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Leucothoe of flowering plants.
leucothoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucothoe
skimmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skimmias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: For those customers she recommends shrubs, especially broad-leaved evergreens like skimmia, aucuba, and variegated leucothoe.
ref: 2008 April 4, Stephen Orr, “When a Garden Is a Weekend Affair”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Skimmia of evergreen shrubs and trees.
skimmias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skimmia
laughtre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughtres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of laughter.
underpromise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underpromises
form: underpromising
form: underpromised
form: underpromised
Etymology: From under- + promise.
Senses: examples: text: “He’s wise not to overpromise, but to underpromise and overdeliver,” said Dave Checketts, a former president of the Knicks and then Madison Square Garden who left in 2001 after a power struggle with James L. Dolan, the chairman of the Garden.
ref: 2008 April 4, Richard Sandomir, “Fixing a Broken Dream One Night at a Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: To promise less than one expects to do.
Derived terms: underpromise and overdeliver
underpromised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underpromise
underpromises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underpromise
underpromising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underpromise
suturelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suturelike
form: most suturelike
Etymology: From suture + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The evidence of material richness continues where crafts traditions and modernist abstraction meet: in moss-green yarn reliefs by the Ethiopian artist Elias Sime; in Nicholas Hlobo’s suturelike stitched pieces based on Zulu needlework; and in enigmatic collages by Moshekwa Langa, one of several artists in the show who were also in “Africa Remix,” the grand contemporary survey in 2005 that never made it from Europe to the United States.
ref: 2008 April 4, Holland Cotter, “Out of Africa, Whatever Africa May Be”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a suture.
houngan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈ(h)uŋ.ɡən/
/-ɡæn/
Forms: form: houngans
form: oungan
Etymology: From Haitian Creole oungan, apparently from Fon houn (“spirit”) + Kongo nganga (“high priest”).
Senses: examples: text: The shadow of the houngan, projected from within the tent by the flickering of the candle, dances and glides over the folds of the cloth as he completes his final preparations.
ref: 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 48:
text: By then, estimates of the number of oungans killed in 1986-87 had reached as high as 400.
ref: 1995, Sidney Mintz & Michel-Rolph Trouillot, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, page 147
text: From 1751 to 1758, Makandal, a one-armed former slave and houngan, staged a rebellion that claimed some six thousand lives.
ref: 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 16:
text: Most voodoo priests, known as houngans, operate semi-independently, catering to their followers without much structure.
ref: 2008 April 5, Marc Lacey, “A U.S.-Trained Entrepreneur Becomes Voodoo’s Pope”, in New York Times:
glosses: A (male) voodoo priest.
Related terms: english: the female equivalent
translation: the female equivalent
word: mambo
houngans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houngan
equality sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equality signs
Senses: glosses: The symbol =, composed of two parallel horizontal lines.
Synonyms: equal sign
equals sign
equality signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equality sign
nondailies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondaily
nonroyalty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + royalty.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to royalty.
nonroyalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + royalty.
Senses: examples: text: It’s not hard to understand why Americans, living the most comfortable lives this earth has ever afforded to nonroyalty, might fetishize danger and risk.
ref: 2008 April 5, Mike Hale, “At the Port, Peril Is Around Every Corner”, in New York Times:
glosses: Those who are not royalty.
boychick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boychicks
Senses: examples: text: To those on one side of the museum’s new glass-walled addition, Mr. Ratner is a deep-pocketed patron and, as the museum’s director, Arnold Lehman, said, “a nice boychick from Cleveland, Ohio.”
ref: 2008 April 6, Guy Trebay, “This Is Not a Sidewalk Bag”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of boychik.
boychicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boychick
laughe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laughes
form: laughing
form: laughed
form: laughed
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of laugh.
boychiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boychik
steak fries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Thick-cut French fries without the skin, typically served with a steak.
equals signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equals sign
plus signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plus sign
catastrophization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catastrophizations
Etymology: From catastrophize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Paul tries to lead us out of the catastrophization of childhood but too often plays right into it.
ref: 2008 April 6, Kate Zernike, “Pamperers”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of catastrophizing.
catastrophizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catastrophization
feudalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feudalism
epænetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epænetick
form: most epænetick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of epænetic.
fibbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibberies
Etymology: From fib + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, lenders appear to be complicit in the rampant fibbery that is one of the root causes of our continuing mortgage nightmare.
ref: 2008 April 6, Gretchen Morgenson, “A Road Not Taken by Lenders”, in New York Times:
glosses: The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
fibberies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibbery
maintopmasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maintopmast
goldeny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goldeny
form: most goldeny
Etymology: From golden + -y.
Senses: examples: text: goldeny goodness
text: It seemed so pure and goldeny.
ref: 2008 April 6, Henry Alford, “Eau God”, in New York Times:
text: It's probably a good thing no one can see me since I'm hovering half on, half off the ledge, nine stories above Sixth Street, glowing all goldeny.
ref: 2012, Lauren Wynn, Providence: On Angels' Wings, page 179:
text: On windy days it danced, demented, waving wild arms, or in the silence of evening drowsed and dreamed, swaying in the blue, the goldeny air.
ref: 2023, Doug Battersby, Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form, page 148:
glosses: Somewhat golden in colour.
Synonyms: goldish § Synonyms
Related terms: golden brown
malaprops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malaprop
malaprops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of malaprop
outmanage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outmanages
form: outmanaging
form: outmanaged
form: outmanaged
Etymology: From out- + manage.
Senses: examples: text: ROBERT L. RODRIGUEZ runs the FPA Capital fund, and by most measures he has outmanaged his peers.
ref: 2008 April 6, Norm Alster, “It Wasn’t the Time to Be ‘Fully Invested’”, in New York Times:
glosses: To surpass in management; to manage better than.
outmanages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outmanage
outmanaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outmanage
outmanaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outmanage
presliced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪst
Etymology: From pre- + sliced.
Senses: examples: text: The steak is presliced, and the waiters quickly distribute the meat, spooning the juices over the slices.
ref: 2008 April 6, “Tuna Taco? Duck Confit?”, in New York Times:
glosses: sliced in advance
superplague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superplagues
Etymology: From super- + plague.
Senses: examples: text: She depicts the mixture of terror and sang-froid as people stay riveted to the TV, watching superplague mark its serpentine course across the map even as they go about their own business.
ref: 2008 April 6, Joshua Henkin, “Bad Habit”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very dangerous and infectious plague.
superplagues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superplague
surrealness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From surreal + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The candidates were undoubtedly prepped about Butte’s economic history (raucous copper-mining town in its heyday, union town, company town, Democratic stronghold), its demographics (white, blue-collar, Catholic, lots of Irish), its decline (drastic population loss, abandoned mines, Superfund site, the Power debacle), the faint sparks of economic hope (a windmill turbine plant, an influx of artists and environmental cleanup folks), its surrealness (that 90-foot statue of the Virgin Mary, looking down from a mountaintop at a denuded landscape dotted with mine mainframes and an abandoned open-pit mine the size of a small county!)
ref: 2008 April 6, Deirdre Mcnamer, “How Big Sky Went Dark”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being surreal.
surrebuttals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrebuttal
spellwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spell work
form: spell-work
Etymology: From spell + work.
Senses: examples: text: All spellwork with faeries should be done within the safe confines of your circle, with the faeries just outside its perimeter.
ref: 1994, Edain McCoy, A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk, →ISBN, page 116:
text: I did have a passing interest in Wicca, but once I realized that spell work was involved, I stopped.
ref: 2009, Louie Jerome, Peter and the Black Dog, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Any magical practice involving creating or casting spells, especially new enchantments or spells which are intricate or complex.
examples: text: There is also an in-depth discussion of Celtic deities and the Celtic way of life and worship, so that an intermediate practitioner can expand upon the spellwork to build a series of magical rituals.
ref: 1993, "Celtic Magic by D. J. Conway" (advertisement) in Ted Andrews, Enchantment of the Faerie Realm, p. 224
text: The spellwork she had utilized to quicker get her to her destination had taken too much from the dark mage.
ref: 2001, Richard A. Knaak, Legacy of Blood, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: The formula or formulation of one or more spells or enchantments; the individual parts constituting such a formulation; the inner workings or structure of a spell.
Hyponyms: sense: magical practice
word: charmwork
sense: magical practice
word: wandwork
Related terms: cantrip
spellbook
spellcaster
spellcasting
spellcraft
spellfire
taxables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxable
underpatronized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underpatronized
form: most underpatronized
Etymology: From under- + patronized.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, the new $52 million, 1.3-mile streetcar line, a pet project of the mayor, which runs from downtown to the giant construction site of South Lake Union, and whose shiny red, orange and purple cars are cute, quaint and eerily underpatronized.
ref: 2008 April 6, Jonathan Raban, “Down and Out in America’s Last Boomtown”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not receiving enough clients or customers.
hypercaffeinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypercaffeinated
form: most hypercaffeinated
Etymology: From hyper- + caffeinated.
Senses: examples: text: And not surprisingly, “America’s Election HQ” comes with Fox News topspin: the tone is hypercaffeinated and fervid, and Ms. Kelly, who is the alpha host, has a gleam of zeal in her eyes that last week drove even Karl Rove, a Fox News contributor, to defend Mrs. Clinton.
ref: 2008 April 7, Alessandra Stanley, “A New Star as Campaign Programs Shuffle: The News”, in New York Times:
glosses: Intensely peppy and energetic, as after consuming large amounts of caffeine.
inseminators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inseminator
pedanticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedanticisms
Etymology: From pedantic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Yet her dance-and-music spectacle, ending with the phrase “You need to rebel against negativity,” teems with pedanticism.
ref: 2008 April 7, Gia Kourlas, “E-Moting, E-Volving and Tipping Toward Tap”, in New York Times:
glosses: pedantry
severings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of severing
severeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: sever + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sever
unairconditioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + airconditioned.
Senses: examples: text: To sit in the woefully un-air-conditioned New Ehrlich Theatre on a blisteringly hot August night watching an overlong and uninspired production of Terrence McNally's unfunny comedy of dropped names and theatrical in-jokes is to be propelled into Theater-Goer Hell.
ref: 1987 August 22, Christopher Wittke, “It's Only A Play (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 6, page 15:
text: It’s also refreshing — the shift from Lou Dobbs talking about himself on CNN to Ms. Brown impersonally reciting the latest Pennsylvania poll results is a little like entering a cool forest glade after an hour on an unairconditioned subway car at rush hour.
ref: 2008 April 7, Alessandra Stanley, “A New Star as Campaign Programs Shuffle: The News”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not air-conditioned.
unplucked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + plucked.
Senses: examples: text: The show includes several works from the Cuba-Mexico trip, including the slightly strange “Desert Cook,” who has an unplucked chicken in one hand and a plate in the other.
ref: 2008 April 7, Roberta Smith, “Offering a Painter for History’s Reconsideration”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having been plucked.
compulsivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compulsivities
Etymology: From compulsive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: “ ‘Bolero’ is an exercise in compulsivity, structure and perseveration,” Dr. Miller said.
ref: 2008 April 8, Sandra Blakeslee, “A Disease That Allowed Torrents of Creativity”, in New York Times:
glosses: compulsion
Related terms: obsessive-compulsivity
compulsivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compulsivity
houseboater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houseboaters
Etymology: From houseboat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A similar situation unfolded two decades ago in Sausalito, Calif., when houseboaters were inundated with toadfish calls.
ref: 2008 April 8, Nonny De La Pe, “What’s Making That Awful Racket? Surprisingly, It May Be Fish”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who lives in a houseboat.
houseboaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houseboater
hyperlocalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperlocalized
form: most hyperlocalized
Etymology: From hyper- + localized.
Senses: examples: text: Iraqi politics have become hyperlocalized, Colin Kahl, a Georgetown professor and Obama adviser, has observed.
ref: 2008 April 8, David Brooks, “A Network of Truces”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely localized.
regraft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regrafts
form: regrafting
form: regrafted
form: regrafted
Etymology: From re- + graft.
Senses: glosses: To graft again or anew.
regraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regrafts
Etymology: From re- + graft.
Senses: examples: text: Five-year graft survival rates — defined as needing a regraft or having a cloudy cornea that compromised vision — was 86 percent for the group of donors under 65 and exactly the same for the group older than 65.
ref: 2008 April 8, Nicholas Bakalar, “Vision: Study Sees Value in Older Cornea Donors”, in New York Times:
glosses: A second or subsequent graft.
regrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regraft
regrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regraft
regrafting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regraft
regrafted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regraft
graftable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more graftable
form: most graftable
Etymology: From graft + -able.
Senses: examples: graftable seedlings of walnut
glosses: Able to be grafted.
superresistant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superresistant
form: most superresistant
Etymology: From super- + resistant.
Senses: examples: text: The researchers, who reported their findings in Science, say these microbes could be considered superresistant, since they can tolerate antibiotic concentrations that are 50 times the levels used to define bacteria as resistant.
ref: 2008 April 8, Henry Fountain, “Researchers Find Bacteria That Devour Antibiotics”, in New York Times:
glosses: Highly resistant.
beddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests.
ref: 2008 April 9, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, “Harnessing Biology, and Avoiding Oil, for Chemical Goods”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of bedding
bioderived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + derived.
Senses: examples: text: Soon DuPont scientists realized that bioderived propanediol could also be used as an ingredient in cosmetics and products for de-icing aircraft.
ref: 2008 April 9, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, “Harnessing Biology, and Avoiding Oil, for Chemical Goods”, in New York Times:
glosses: Derived from biological sources.
fogbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fogbanks
form: fog bank
Etymology: From fog + bank.
Senses: examples: text: I realize that I’ve spent most of my life happily sailing into fogbanks of specialized language.
ref: 2008 April 9, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Ving, Vang, Vong. Or, the Pleasures of a New Vocabulary.”, in New York Times:
glosses: A bank of fog.
fogbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fogbank
sippable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sippable
form: most sippable
Etymology: From sip + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Antônio Rocha hopes those casks, when added to the 17 full ones in another cellar, will help satisfy the growing taste in the United States for wood-aged cachaça, a smoother, sippable version of the spirit his family has been making for four generations on the farm.
ref: 2008 April 9, Seth Kugel, “Allure of Cachaça Spreads to U.S. From Brazil”, in New York Times:
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being sipped.
unpoked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + poked.
Senses: examples: text: At home, I heeded Ms. Madison and sliced the chorizo as the tofu crisped, unpoked, in the pan.
ref: 2008 April 9, Melissa Clark, “Tofu Meets Its Match in a Dish Fit for Carnivores”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not poked.
chairback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chairbacks
Etymology: From chair + back.
Senses: examples: text: Podson said nothing to that, but he undressed to examine his shirt and collar, and assure himself that they were still in presentable condition. He hung his coat over a chair-back and folded the crease in his pants for pressure under his mattress.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 191:
text: Hair-brushes were arranged carefully on wither side of a clean comb, and a pair of recently pressed trousers lay over a chair-back.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 176:
text: A new playing surface, a renovated seating bowl with 800 chairback seats, and enhanced ticketing and lobby areas are among the changes expected for the 2008-9 season.
ref: 2008 April 10, The Associated Press, “St. John’s to Renovate Arena”, in New York Times:
glosses: The rear part of a chair that supports the sitter's back.
chairbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chairback
hangtags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hangtag
croissantlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more croissantlike
form: most croissantlike
Etymology: From croissant + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The eye comes from the croissantlike truncation of a woman’s head in Picasso’s 1936 “Straw Hat With Blue Leaves,” a form Mr. Johns has worked with for years.
ref: 2008 April 10, Roberta Smith, “Consummate Recycler Meets a Pointillist”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a croissant.
heparinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heparinlike
form: most heparinlike
Etymology: From heparin + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The F.D.A. is still investigating whether those deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions were caused by a heparinlike contaminant made in China that was added to the drug somewhere during the manufacturing process.
ref: 2008 April 10, Walt Bogdanich, “Heparin Is Now Suspected in 62 Fatalities Across U.S.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of heparin.
oddsmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From odds + making.
Senses: examples: text: He said he knew nothing about oddsmaking.
ref: 2008 April 10, Larry Dorman, “As Woods Chases History, History Appears”, in New York Times:
glosses: The setting of odds for gambling.
prepurchase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + purchase.
Senses: examples: text: To environmentally conscious consumers, the prepurchase itinerary of clothes has become as important a consideration as the organic nature of the materials used to make them.
ref: 2008 April 10, Eric Wilson, “Where That Suit Has Been”, in New York Times:
glosses: Prior to purchase.
prepurchase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prepurchases
form: prepurchasing
form: prepurchased
form: prepurchased
Etymology: From pre- + purchase.
Senses: glosses: To purchase in advance.
prepurchase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepurchases
Etymology: From pre- + purchase.
Senses: glosses: A purchase made in advance.
unjolly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unjolly
form: most unjolly
Etymology: From un- + jolly.
Senses: examples: text: The unjolly green giant, born from a botched gamma bomb experiment in a 1962 comic book, belongs to an elite class of superhero.
ref: 2008 April 10, Brooks Barnes, “What’s Big and Green, and Desperate to Be a Hit All Over?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not jolly; glum.
vellumlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vellumlike
form: most vellumlike
Etymology: From vellum + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The materials are almost as various: different combinations of ink, graphite, graphite pencil, graphite wash, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, oil stick, colored pencil and collage on paper or vellumlike plastic.
ref: 2008 April 10, Roberta Smith, “Consummate Recycler Meets a Pointillist”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of vellum.
underenthused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underenthused
form: most underenthused
Etymology: From under- + enthused.
Senses: examples: text: Even Stan Lee, a creator of the Hulk and Iron Man characters, seems underenthused about the prospects of his green baby.
ref: 2008 April 10, Brooks Barnes, “What’s Big and Green, and Desperate to Be a Hit All Over?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Insufficiently enthused.
klezmerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more klezmerish
form: most klezmerish
Etymology: From klezmer + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The program also included “Quickstep,” a new dance for the children, which began with an oddly meandering solo for the charismatic Jeremy Summerville and included a precision-running romp for 15 other boys, to delicious klezmerish music by Steve Martland.
ref: 2008 April 11, Jennifer Dunning, “Challenging Dancers, Young and Older”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling klezmer (Jewish folk music).
minicollection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicollections
Etymology: From mini- + collection.
Senses: examples: text: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is paying to pack and ship the works; it will also sponsor a Web site — www.vogel50x50.org — about the minicollections.
ref: 2008 April 11, Carol Vogel, “2 Plucky Collectors, 50 Lucky Museums”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small collection.
minicollections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minicollection
prefestival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + festival.
Senses: examples: text: Bonnaroo, held on several hundred acres of Tennessee farmland, where fans camp for the weekend (June 12 to 15), is marketing V.I.P. passes, which include access to a private prefestival party and special restroom and shower facilities, for $1,169.50 per pair.
ref: 2008 April 11, Jeff Leeds, “Concert Industry Is Banking on a Festive Summer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a festival.
reorchestration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reorchestrations
Etymology: From re- + orchestration.
Senses: examples: text: And given the work’s history of revisions, reorchestrations, cuts, restorations and additions, the possibilities are numerous.
ref: 2008 April 11, The New York Times, “Classical Music/Opera Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Second or subsequent orchestration.
reorchestrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reorchestration
scripturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From scriptural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: According to scripture.
skinsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skinsuit
skinsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪnˌsuːt/
ipa: /ˈskɪnˌsut/
rhymes: -ɪnsuːt
Forms: form: skinsuits
Etymology: From skin + suit.
Senses: examples: text: Furniss pointed out that in 1972, a year before Lycra skinsuits replaced nylon-skirted suits to spark the first swimwear revolution of the modern era, there were 53 world records set.
ref: 2008 April 11, Karen Crouse, “Scrutiny of Suit Rises as World Records Fall”, in New York Times:
glosses: A skin-tight garment.
paranœac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranœacs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of paranoiac.
spatulæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In order to obtain a view of the interior of the bladder it is customary to pass into its cavity spatulæ with solid blades or wire retractors to hold the sides of the wound apart and to distend the bladder. These spatulæ or retractors, usually three in number, one on each side and one above, require to be held by assistants, and, being thus out of the immediate control of the operator’s own hands, are liable to become displaced and to interfere with his manipulations. Solid‐bladed spatulæ, moreover, should not be used, because they cover up a considerable surface of the bladder.
ref: 1892, Francis Sedgwick Watson, International Clinics, volume I, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 269:
glosses: plural of spatula
Kolmogorov
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Named after Russian mathematician Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров (Andréj Nikolájevič Kolmogórov) (1903–1987)
Senses: glosses: Such that any two distinct points are topologically distinguishable, i.e., there is an open set containing one of the points which does not contain the other point.
raw_tags: of a topological space
Synonyms: T₀
Derived terms: Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem
Kolmogorov complexity
Kolmogorovian
Kolmogorov randomness
Kolmogorov space
non-Kolmogorov
Wiener-Kolmogorov prediction
Kolmogorov space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kolmogorov spaces
Etymology: Named in honor of Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987), a Soviet mathematician.
Senses: examples: The Kolmogorov quotient of any topological space is a Kolmogorov space.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A topological space for which any pair of distinct points are also topologically distinct, i.e., there is an open set which contains one of the points but not the other one.
wikipedia: Andrey Kolmogorov
Hyponyms: normal space
Tychonoff space
regular space
Hausdorff space
Fréchet space
fistulæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Small fistulæ are to be closed bilaterally in an antero-posterior line […]
ref: 1903, William Rice Pryor, Gynæcology, page 113:
glosses: plural of fistula
critick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criticks
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of critic.
mechanicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanick
criticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of critick
nonconsideration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + consideration.
Senses: examples: text: In Putnam's opinion, nonconsideration of her for the position because of her sex would be unfair and not in the best interests of the library.
ref: 1998, Barbara Stuhler, Gretchen V. Kreuter, Women of Minnesota: selected biographical essays, page 178:
glosses: Absence of consideration; failure to consider.
broad-shouldered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broad-shouldered
form: most broad-shouldered
Senses: examples: text: Standing in her entrance, two men in white silk suits and butterfly-looking lace bow ties, black instrument cases by their side and black-brimmed white hats in their hands–my father, Nestor Castillo, thin and broad-shouldered, and Uncle Cesar, thickset and immense.
ref: 1989, Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Having broad shoulders.
glosses: Having a sturdy construction or constitution.
Synonyms: big-shouldered
big-shouldered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more big-shouldered
form: most big-shouldered
Senses: glosses: Having particularly big or broad shoulders.
Synonyms: broad-shouldered
what the eff
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: what the ef
Etymology: See eff (“fuck”).
Senses: examples: text: “Don't take this the wrong way, Archie,” Arla begins, “but what the ef are you talking about?”
ref: 2014, Michael Griffo, Starfall (The Darkborn Legacy), New York, NY: Kensington Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: Euphemistic form of what the fuck.
recompost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recomposts
form: recomposting
form: recomposted
form: recomposted
Etymology: From re- + compost.
Senses: glosses: To compost again.
priar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priars
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of prayer.
examples: a priar in at the chinks
glosses: Obsolete form of pryer.
long vowels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long vowel
short vowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short vowels
Senses: glosses: In languages that distinguish vowel length, a vowel which is normally pronounced shorter than a long vowel.
Related terms: long vowel
half-long vowel
overlong vowel
overlong vowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overlong vowels
Senses: glosses: In languages that distinguish vowel length, a vowel which is normally pronounced longer than a long vowel generally at least twice as long as a short vowel. Often consists of two syllables or moras.
Related terms: half-long vowel
long vowel
short vowel
half-long vowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-long vowels
Senses: glosses: In languages that distinguish vowel length, a vowel whose length is between a short vowel and a long vowel.
Related terms: short vowel
long vowel
overlong vowel
erhua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mandarin 兒化 /儿化 (érhuà).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: erization
glosses: A phonological process that adds rhotic sounds to syllables in some lects of Chinese.
dialings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dialing
diallings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dialling
haroset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harosets
Senses: examples: text: Both texts, included here in Hebrew and English, featured the four cups of wine; the matzoh, or unleavened bread; the bitter herbs; haroset, a sweet paste of fruit and spices; engaging children in the ritual; and many of the prayers found in Seders today.
ref: 2008 April 12, Peter Steinfels, “Guidebook to Understanding Liberation of the Jews”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of haroseth.
superwhite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superwhite
form: most superwhite
Etymology: From super- + white.
Senses: examples: text: This new detergent really washes clothes superwhite.
text: Bill Mankin, thin as Death in a Bergman film, his superwhite skin emphasized by his black suit, called the press conference to order.
ref: 1995, Elaine Dewar, Cloak of green, page 32:
text: But other than the superwhite teeth, gone are many of the trademarks of Silvio Berlusconi in the heat of an election.
ref: 2008 April 12, Ian Fisher, “Berlusconi, Running Again, Is No Longer Promising ‘Italian Miracle’”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of a bright, intense white.
bristlecone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bristlecones
Etymology: From bristle + cone.
Senses: glosses: A bristlecone pine, of subsection Pinus subsect. Balfourianae.
Derived terms: bristlecone fir
bristlecones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bristlecone
boobird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boobirds
Senses: examples: text: Because of his disappearance over the final two months last season, Reyes has been the target of Shea boobirds, which, as Wright remarked, is almost a “rite of passage.”
ref: 2008 April 13, Ben Shpigel, “Santana Struggles in Defeat, and the Fans Let Him Hear It”, in New York Times:
glosses: A spectator at a sporting event who boos the home team.
wikipedia: Toronto Blue Jays
boobirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boobird
dishwatery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dishwatery
form: most dishwatery
Etymology: From dishwater + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Measure precisely; fresh tea makes mass-market bags taste dishwatery.
ref: 2009 March 13, S.S. Fair, “Take Tea and See”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling dishwater.
distancings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distancing
hippiefied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hippiefied
form: most hippiefied
Senses: examples: text: By comparison a hippiefied Bobby Darin, tame Diahann Carroll and pre-”Cabaret” Liza Minnelli, all on the “Legendary Performers” set, come up short.
ref: 2008 April 13, Greg Evans, “A Hip Shaker in His Prime, Among Hip Friends”, in New York Times:
glosses: Converted or translated into a hippy style.
miniwagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniwagons
Etymology: From mini- + wagon.
Senses: examples: text: The latest variation of the Mini Cooper is the Clubman miniwagon, which evokes the Mini Traveller and Countryman of the 1960s.
ref: 2008 April 13, Lawrence Ulrich, “Half a Loaf, for a Mini Appetite”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small station wagon, having a shorter extended rear section than a full-size station wagon and back seats that fold down to extend the space in the rear section.
miniwagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniwagon
multishade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + shade.
Senses: examples: text: For blush, Neutrogena’s multishade Healthy Skin Blends in Vibrant.
ref: 2009 March 13, Alex Kuczynski, “Extreme Makeover”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to multiple shades of colour.
pheromonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pheromone + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps this molecular banner was meant to represent the pheromonic chemical science behind sex research.
ref: 2008 April 13, “Sexual Chemistry”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to pheromones.
razored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of razor
razoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of razor
pedalboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedalboard
roundedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundednesses
Etymology: From rounded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He has lots of girl trouble, too, and he hungers for status and sits around at Harvard worrying about “the roundedness of his character.”
ref: 2008 April 13, Andrew O’Hagan, “N + 2”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being rounded.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
coordinate_terms: word: height
english: vertical dimension
translation: vertical dimension
word: backness
english: horizontal dimension
translation: horizontal dimension
word: length
word: nasalization
word: reduction
glosses: The quality of a sound, especially a vowel, of being rounded or unrounded.
Related terms: labialization
rollerboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollerboards
Etymology: By phonetic confusion with roller + board
Senses: examples: text: To maximize my chances of finding overhead bin space, I have a 21-inch-long rollerboard.
ref: 2008 April 13, “Letters: Carrying Your Stuff”, in New York Times:
text: She began walking toward Seventh Avenue, carrying her valise, which now felt like it weighed about fifty pounds, and pulling the bedraggled rollerboard suitcase behind her.
ref: 2008, Candace Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle TV Tie-In:
glosses: Misspelling of rollaboard.
rollerboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollerboard
skeeved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skeeved
form: most skeeved
Etymology: Formed of skeeve + -ed, from Italian schifo (“disgust, nausea”), schifare (“to disgust, to loathe”), and schifoso (“disgusting, loathsome”).
Senses: examples: text: It took him days to get over how skeeved he was.
ref: 2002, JJ Christopher, The Hill Witch:
text: But like other "red flag" finds — undies, lingerie, bikini bottoms — you might be a little too skeeved to actually let one touch your naked body.
ref: 2006, Bust - Issues 37-42, page 42:
text: We're so embarrassed about our bodies, so "skeeved" about our periods and smells and hair, we can't even bring ourselves to touch ourselves.
ref: 2009, Wendy Shanker, The Fat Girl's Guide to Life, →ISBN:
text: “He's like in his thirties,” I protested, skeeved at the idea of being attracted to him.
“Yeah, that's bit young, but young ones like that need a mature woman.”
“Grandma!” Now I was even more skeeved by the notion that she was attracted to him.
ref: 2016, S. A. Hunter, My Demon, volume 2:
glosses: Disgusted; repulsed; creeped out.
Derived terms: skeeved out
skeeved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Formed of skeeve + -ed, from Italian schifo (“disgust, nausea”), schifare (“to disgust, to loathe”), and schifoso (“disgusting, loathsome”).
Senses: examples: text: Because while it may not seem like such a big deal if guys want to get all revved up about faux lesbians and skeeved by gay men, the consequences of this kind of prejudice can be more than just a few jokes.
ref: 2008, Jessica Valenti, He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know, page 96:
text: Though both are virgins, Violet develops a crush on a dapper, eerily suave student at N.Y.U. who moonlights as a club promoter and appears regularly on Page Six. Whereas Cheryl, devoted to her work, is skeeved by the sleazeballs twice her age who hit on her in clubs and on the street.
ref: 2009 March 13, Holly Brubach, “America’s Next Top Author”, in New York Times:
text: “He's like in his thirties,” I protested, skeeved at the idea of being attracted to him.
“Yeah, that's bit young, but young ones like that need a mature woman.”
“Grandma!” Now I was even more skeeved by the notion that she was attracted to him.
ref: 2016, S. A. Hunter, My Demon, volume 2:
glosses: simple past and past participle of skeeve
glosses: simple past and past participle of skeev
Related terms: skeevy
skeeve
stayover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stayovers
Etymology: From stay + over.
Senses: examples: text: To make sure they don’t cannibalize their lucrative business clients, these fares come with certain requirements like Saturday-night stayovers.
ref: 2008 April 13, Michelle Higgins, “Early-Bird Discounts for Business Class”, in New York Times:
glosses: A stopover.
stayovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stayover
unchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchic
form: most unchic
Etymology: From un- + chic.
Senses: examples: text: By 1936, Coward’s unchic loathing of appeasement and Neville Chamberlain (“that bloody conceited old sod”) was turning him into something of a Churchill bore.
ref: 2008 April 13, Stephen Koch, “The Playboy Was a Spy”, in New York Times:
glosses: unfashionable
Synonyms: sense: not fashionable
word: démodé
word: passé
word: unhip
word: unfashionable
unpronounceables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unpronounceable
goonishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goonish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.
ref: 2008 April 14, George Vecsey, “Flora and Fauna of Spring Hockey”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being goonish.
abattoirlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abattoirlike
form: most abattoirlike
Etymology: From abattoir + -like.
Senses: examples: text: His “Macbeth,” which was such a hit at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that it recently transferred to Broadway, is set in a vaguely Stalinist era and staged in a tiled abattoirlike space that was partly inspired by the horror movie “Saw.”
ref: 2008 April 14, Charles Mcgrath, “Dramatic Power Couple: Theater Is Their Castle”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an abattoir.
postassessment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + assessment.
Senses: glosses: After an assessment.
preassessment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + assessment.
Senses: glosses: Before an assessment.
untailored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tailored.
Senses: examples: text: Golf is a casual outing for the weekend player, with an untailored budget.
ref: 2008 April 14, “On Course: Ooh, Ah, Fashion”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not tailored.
dismalnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dismalness
untalentedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From untalented + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being untalented; lack of talent.
untalkativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From untalkative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being untalkative.
biosource
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biosources
Etymology: From bio- + source.
Senses: examples: text: There is growing interest in alternative adsorbentia, eg, from biosources such as rice-hull ash (silica) (Proctor etal.. 1995) or soy hull carbon (Proctor and Harris, 1996).
ref: 2001, M. B. Springett, Raw ingredient quality in processed foods, page 44:
text: The reason petroleum so often serves as the foundation for plastics production is that it offers an ultraconcentrated source of carbon, but carbon is carbon and with the right manipulations other handier biosources like lawn litter will do.
ref: 2008 April 15, Natalie Angier, “Adored, Deplored and Ubiquitous”, in New York Times:
glosses: A biological source of some material.
biosources
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biosource
biosorptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biosorption
biosocially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biosocial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a biosocial context.