cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
netherthought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netherthoughts
form: nether-thought
form: nether thought
Etymology: From nether- + thought.
Senses: examples: text: She had looked at him with sad intensity in the eyes, as if trying to fathom any nether thought that he might have.
ref: 1881, William Dean Howells, A modern instance: a novel:
text: […]he had superficially forgotten that the readers' opinions of his story were in, while his nether thought writhed in anguish around the question of what their opinions were.
ref: 1882, Harper's magazine:
text: All this, however, was the nether thought. What he saw, and what he thought he was thinking about, was the pretty picture Kate made as she sat on the railing of the porch, with her face turned a little toward the flaming western sky.
ref: 1895, McBride's magazine
glosses: An internal or subconscious thought; a hidden, underlying, secretive, or furtive thought.
examples: text: He has souped himself up with a couple of mighty croutons, this low-slung prince of the netherthought, and will bring furious ancient knowledge ringing around our inner ears.
ref: 2006, Group Hug, Haps with the Chaps:
glosses: A low, base, or vile thought.
netherthoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netherthought
nether thought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nether thoughts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of netherthought.
nether thoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nether thought
Kaingang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kaingangs
form: Kaingang
form: Caingang
form: Kaingáng
Senses: synonyms: Coroado
glosses: A member of the Kaingang people, an Indigenous Brazilian ethnic group.
Kaingang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Caingang
form: Kaingáng
Senses: glosses: An Indigenous Brazilian language of the Gê family.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Kaingang terms
netherhair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netherhairs
form: nether-hair
form: nether hair
Etymology: From nether- + hair.
Senses: examples: text: On the smooth white flesh of the most beautiful of women they saw the black curls of her nether hair, coiling and glistening, covering and revealing.
ref: 2000, Shifra Horn, Dalya Bilu, Four Mothers: A Novel:
text: Aside from the need to scrape the occasional strand out of his way—both his head-hair and her nether-hair—Koranen let her play with his mane.
ref: 2008, Jean Johnson, The Flame:
text: My uh, netherhair is naturally minimalist, as they all are now. As everyone is now. Is that evolution too? Like men stopping having beards?
ref: 2010, Martin Amis, Yellow Dog:
text: She couldn't quite bring herself to look at him—not with her face so red—but she asked, “Are your natural netherhairs this soft?” He choked again, coughed, cleared his throat, […]
ref: 2012, Jean Johnson, The Shifter:
glosses: Hair on or around the lower parts of the body, specifically around the genital areas; pubic hair.
nether hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nether hairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of netherhair.
nether-hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nether-hairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of netherhair.
nether-hairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nether-hair
nether-shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nether-shirts
form: nether shirt
Etymology: From nether- + shirt.
Senses: examples: text: And not content with imparting this valuable information to the public, the editor of the great daily publishes the results of his investigations into the probable cost of a nether-shirt of such fine material, [...]
ref: 1892, The Illustrated American:
text: Because the men did not have uniforms, they presented a crazy quilt array of dress. "Many were shirtless, except the nether shirt, shoeless, hatless, and pantless — in fact, were quite 'less' in every way," Charles Hopkins noted.
ref: 2005, Bradley M. Gottfried, Kearny's own:
glosses: An undershirt.
netherhairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netherhair
BASE jumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BASE jumper
Japanophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Japanophone
form: most Japanophone
form: japanophone
Etymology: From Japano- + -phone.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Japanophone.
glosses: Japanese-speaking
Japanophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanophones
form: japanophone
Etymology: From Japano- + -phone.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Japanophone.
glosses: A (usually native) speaker of the Japanese language.
Japanophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanophone
Hispanophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hispanophone
netherregion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netherregions
Senses: examples: text: As rain falls and shells explode, Paul struggles through mud and corpses, only to find he has crossed over into some netherregion, stranger even than his castle dream—a flat, misty emptiness.
ref: 2002, Tad Williams, Sea of Silver Light:
text: A sharp, gleaming knife appears within the hand of the now distressed upper-half, and with vigorous strokes, she cuts and slashes at the point where her body transforms into the netherregion beast.
ref: 2011, M. J. Hewitt, Tales from Beneath the Dulippa Tree:
text: The whole “broke my heart” thing caused me to guffaw. Not laugh, but guffaw, which is defined as loud, raucous laughter. Raucous laughter is not conducive to someone sporting an inflamed netherregion.
ref: 2012, Jeni Decker, I Wish I Were Engulfed in Flames:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nether region.
netherregions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netherregion
netherdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nether + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: It is a spectacle that ought to make the imps of netherdom tremble for their laurels — man.
ref: 1901, Louis Freeland Post, Alice Thatcher Post, Stoughton Cooley, The Public: A journal of democracy:
text: A great gathering of the lost, the waste, " the drift of both banks," as my Officer-guide aptly puts it. It is, surely, a sight more for tears than wonder. Actual Netherdom.
ref: 1906, Annie S. (Swan) Smith, The outsiders
text: But Olympian Homer keeps them submerged in his sunless Netherdom, from which however, he lets them peep forth once in a while with a dreadful eye-shot at his startled reader.
ref: 1922, Denton Jaques Snider, A biographic outline of Homer as he reveals himself in his works:
text: Still this lower world of the folk finds its due counterpart in the upper world of royalty and nobility, who are making a Pandemonium of mutual carnage out of Britain, and like fiends broken loose from Satan's Netherdom are hugely charactered with blood-guilt and blood-revenge.
ref: 1922, Denton Jaques Snider, A biography of William Shakespeare:
text: A flash of lightning was swiftly followed by uproarious celestial laughter as I took leave of my parents solemnly as if I was leaving them forever, longer; as if I was embarking on some journey into the pitiless expanses of netherdom.
ref: 2009, R. A. Jones, Cassandra: Wren of Black Crag:
glosses: The condition, realm, or sphere of things below; a lower kingdom or domain; netherregion; the netherworld; Hell.
Nola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Nola.
Senses: glosses: A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy.
glosses: Its bishopric.
Related terms: nola
Nola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Finola, from Irish Fionnghuala. In the US, also under the influence of the male name Nolan (which see).
Senses: examples: text: "What kind of name is Nola?"
"My grandmother's," she said and sighed. "The kind of name no one ever just picks out."
"Excuse me?"
"You get named a name like Nola," she said. "Because of someone else. That someone else was my grandmother."
ref: 2011, Bebe Wilde, The Weaker Sex, page 33
glosses: A female given name from Irish.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.
Nola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nolas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Nola.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Nola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊ.lə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana).
netherness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English nethernesse, from Old English niþernes (“deepness, the bottom, lowness, a low position”), from Proto-West Germanic *niþernassī, equivalent to nether + -ness. Cognate with Old High German nidarnassi, nidarnessi (“damnation”).
Senses: examples: text: Riley's sardony preserves the duplicity, the netherness, the not-me of the narcissistic identification.
ref: 2003, Romana Huk, Assembling alternatives:
glosses: The state or quality of being nether or beneath; lowness; inferiority.
examples: text: It was as if the vines and roots of those withered giants would imminently wrap themselves around the old fraternity and drag it into the dark netherness that secret old, places have always held.
ref: 2007, Eric Arvin, Slight Details & Random Events:
text: The memory of the swirling netherness sent a chill down her spine. She shook her head. “But—” The waterfire had been both more and less than she had expected.
ref: 2007, Eilis Flynn, The Sleeper Awakes:
glosses: Deepness; depth; abyss.
Related terms: netherdom
stariest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of starey: most starey
glosses: superlative form of stary: most stary
starier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of starey: more starey
glosses: comparative form of stary: more stary
theft by finding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The crime of failing to take reasonable steps to find the owner of property that has been found.
Synonyms: larceny by finding
exocervix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exocervixes
form: exocervices
Etymology: From exo- + cervix.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The protective mucous membrane on the exterior of the cervix.
Coordinate terms: ectocervix
endocervix
Derived terms: exocervical
ordoliberalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːdəʊˈlɪbɹəlɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /-bəɹəl/
ipa: /ˌɔɹdoʊˈlɪbəɹəlɪzəm/
ipa: /-də-/
ipa: /-bɹəl/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ordoliberalismus (coined in 1950 by the German economist Hero Moeller (1892–1974)), from ORDO (the name of a journal, the full title of which is ORDO — Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (ORDO – Yearbook of Economic and Social Order) + Liberalismus (“liberalism”). ORDO is derived from Latin ōrdō (“methodical arrangement, order, or series”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix”); while Liberalismus is from French libéralisme (ultimately from Latin līber (“free, independent, unchecked, unrestricted”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; people”)) + -ismus (“suffix forming the names of schools of thought, systems, or theories”).
Senses: topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: A political philosophy that emphasizes the desirability of the government establishing rules to maximize the potential of the free market to produce results.
wikipedia: Handelsblatt
Derived terms: ordoliberal
ordoliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːdəʊˈlɪbɹəl/
ipa: /-bəɹəl/
ipa: /ˌɔɹdoʊˈlɪbəɹəl/
ipa: /-də-/
ipa: /-bɹəl/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɪbɹəl
Forms: form: ordoliberals
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from ordoliberalism, borrowed from German Ordoliberalismus (coined in 1950 by the German economist Hero Moeller (1892–1974)), from ORDO (the name of a journal, the full title of which is ORDO — Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (ORDO – Yearbook of Economic and Social Order)) + Liberalismus (“liberalism”). ORDO is derived from Latin ōrdō (“methodical arrangement, order, or series”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix”).
Senses: examples: text: [W]hile ordoliberals share strong policy preferences (in some cases "elevated to the status of a religion"), they rest their case on rigorous micro analysis and stress the pertinence of a long-term orientation.
ref: 2017 November, Thorsten Beck, Hans-Helmut Kotz, “Introduction”, in Thorsten Beck, Hans-Helmut Kotz, editors, Ordoliberalism: A German Oddity? (A VoxEU.org eBook), London: CEPR Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 31 May 2020, page 15:
topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: A proponent of the theories and ideals of ordoliberalism (“a political philosophy that emphasizes the desirability of the government establishing rules to maximize the potential of the free market to produce results”).
ordoliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːdəʊˈlɪbɹəl/
ipa: /-bəɹəl/
ipa: /ˌɔɹdoʊˈlɪbəɹəl/
ipa: /-də-/
ipa: /-bɹəl/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɪbɹəl
Forms: form: more ordoliberal
form: most ordoliberal
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from ordoliberalism, borrowed from German Ordoliberalismus (coined in 1950 by the German economist Hero Moeller (1892–1974)), from ORDO (the name of a journal, the full title of which is ORDO — Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (ORDO – Yearbook of Economic and Social Order)) + Liberalismus (“liberalism”). ORDO is derived from Latin ōrdō (“methodical arrangement, order, or series”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix”).
Senses: examples: text: The institutional design of EZ [the Eurozone], being influenced by the rules versus discretion debate, has some ordoliberal touches (not the least since some German architects were imbued with ordoliberal ideas), but, of course, in reality, in particular in the wake of the crisis, they were not upheld.
ref: 2017 November, Thorsten Beck, Hans-Helmut Kotz, “Introduction”, in Thorsten Beck, Hans-Helmut Kotz, editors, Ordoliberalism: A German Oddity? (A VoxEU.org eBook), London: CEPR Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 31 May 2020, page 14:
topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to ordoliberalism.
Derived terms: ordoliberally
dispose of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disposes of
form: disposing of
form: disposed of
form: disposed of
Senses: examples: text: They disposed of the stolen property.
text: The national power committee has trouble disposing of nuclear waste.
text: ‘Yes,’ answered the manager; ‘he sent his assistant down the river with a note to me in these terms: “Clear this poor devil out of the country, and don’t bother sending more of that sort. I had rather be alone than have the kind of men you can dispose of with me.”
ref: 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II:
text: But it's not against any religion / To want to dispose of a pigeon
ref: 1959, Tom Lehrer, “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”:
synonyms: consign
lose
glosses: To get rid of; to dispense with.
glosses: To transfer to another's control.
glosses: To deal with conclusively with a threat or a difficult situation.
glosses: To arrange in an orderly way.
glosses: To settle or conclusively deal with, e.g. a dispute; to dispose.
examples: text: The Commission may not be able to assess the reliability of the data provided by Member States and may not dispose of independent information sources.
glosses: To have available, or at one's disposal.
quinquennially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪŋˈkwɛnɪəli/
Etymology: From quinquennial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The clergy's affairs, for example, were regulated by an Assembly of the Clergy, meeting quinquennially to deal with matters of common concern.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 9:
glosses: Every five years.
Eastie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Easties
Etymology: From east + -ie.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the eastern suburbs of Sydney.
Related terms: westie
Eastie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From east + -ie.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
synonyms: Enders
glosses: EastEnders, a long-running British soap opera set in the East End of London.
eastie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: easties
Etymology: From east + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Even if people pay out the Easties, they still aspire to live among them.
ref: 2012 May 11, Judith Ireland, “Poor on the north shore ... or six degrees of separation”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
glosses: An inhabitant of the eastern suburbs of Sydney.
Coordinate terms: westie
mazarinade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazarinades
Etymology: From French mazarinade, from Jules Mazarin, the chief minister and a popular target of such pamphlets.
Senses: examples: text: More important for our purposes, the mazarinade confirms the tenacious image of the captal as an uncivilized tyrant whose visible presence at the heart of the city in Puy-Paulin was an offense to the city's dignity.
ref: 1998, Alain Boureau, translated by Lydia G Cochrane, The Lord's First Night, Chicago, page 98:
text: In one of the most infamous of the scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlets known an mazarinades which appeared at this time, the Contrat de mariage, the constitution was figured not as a marriage between king and nation but as a union between Parlement and the people of Paris […]
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 11–12:
text: One mazarinade argued incessantly that Mazarin had interfered with France's economy.
ref: 2002, Todd P. Olson, Poussin and France, page 83:
glosses: A scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France.
wikipedia: Jules Mazarin
mazarinades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mazarinade
Louis Quatorzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Louis Quatorzian
form: most Louis Quatorzian
Etymology: From Louis Quatorze + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Huddle was unable to decide in her mind whether the action savoured of Louis Quatorzian courtliness or the reprehensible Roman attitude towards the Sabine women.
ref: 1911, Saki, ‘The Unrest-cure’, The Chronicles of Clovis:
text: Well before 1700, the surface glamour of court life on which the Louis-Quatorzian myth had been founded had begun to pall.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 18:
text: It was a plan of Louis Quatorzian presumption, and we all know what happens to people who push their luck.
ref: 2009, Paul Sonnino, “Plus royaliste que le pape”, in War and Religion after Westphalia, page 21:
glosses: Pertaining to Louis XIV of France, or the perceived opulence of his court.
lettres de cachet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lettre de cachet
position papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of position paper
budtenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budtender
homotaxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homotaxis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting homotaxis.
Derived terms: homotaxically
despose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desposes
form: desposing
form: desposed
form: desposed
Senses: examples: text: if god should so order it that my wife should remaine my widdou & mary no othr man then I leue the land to my wife & hir desposing: the tow cows which we cal mouse & spek to be att my mother hows desposing I mene shee shall haue them to hir self & all so so much of the march as shall find them hay if it be Required vntell my mother be be desesed || for hir vse || allso that those which uses the land shall yerly let …
ref: 1650 February 10, Joseph How of Lynn, in 1916, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts: 1635-1664, page 131
glosses: Obsolete spelling of dispose.
desposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of despose
palagonitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palagonitic
form: most palagonitic
Etymology: From palagonite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or containing, palagonite.
palagonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpæləɡənaɪt/
Forms: form: palagonites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A material similar to basalt formed by the action of water on volcanic ash
Derived terms: palagonitic
head starts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head start
Pallottine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Society of the Catholic Apostolate
Pallottine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pallottines
Senses: glosses: A member of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate
Pantelleria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌpæntəˈlɛəɹiə/
/ˌpʌntəˈlɛəɹiə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Pantelleria, from Sicilian Pantiddirìa, from Arabic بِنْتُ الرِّياح (bintu ar-riyāḥ, “daugther of the winds”), perhaps through a dialectal Arabic form with a genitive particle (equivalent to a theoretical Maltese *bint tar-rjieħ, *bint tal-irjieħ).
Senses: glosses: An inhabited volcanic island belonging to the province of Trapani, Sicily, between Italy and Tunisia.
Derived terms: pantellerite
pantoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Designed to focus on both near and distant objects at the same time, typically by means of a tilt in the lens
Related terms: bifocal
nimbate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: nimbed, haloed
Dadibi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of Papua New Guinea, of the Trans-New Guinea family.
Synonyms: Daribi
Karimui
siheyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsə.həˈjɛn/
/ˌsə.hoʊˈjɛn/
Forms: form: siheyuans
form: siheyuan
form: ssu-ho-yuan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 四合院 (sìhéyuàn).
Senses: examples: text: Traditional ssu ho yuan, the former homes of courtiers, both mission dwellings consisted of clusters of single-storied, gray-tiled pavilions built around shady courtyards adorned with rock gardens, lotus pools, and ancient fruit trees.
ref: [1988, Anthony Grey, Peking: A Novel of China's Revolution, 1921-1978, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:
glosses: A traditional type of Chinese residence consisting of four houses with a courtyard in the middle; a Chinese quadrangle.
sentence connective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentence connectives
Senses: examples: text: Standard ("classical") propositional logic deals with sentence connectives having a special property: they are truth functional. The terminology derives from the mathematical notion of a function, and one can use this to give a mathematically precise definition of truth functionality.
ref: 2001, Mark Sainsbury, chapter 2, in Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, §2, page 60:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: logical connective
poietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔɪˈɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more poietic
form: most poietic
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ποιητικός (poiētikós). Doublet of poetic.
Senses: glosses: creative, formative
Related terms: poiesis
esthesic
Vò
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vəʊ/
/vɔː/
Forms: form: Vo'
Senses: examples: text: The small town of Vò, in northern Italy, where the first coronavirus death occurred in the country, has become a case study that demonstrates how scientists might neutralise the spread of Covid-19. […] When the study began, on 6 March, there were at least 90 infected in Vò.
ref: 2020 March 18, Lorenzo Tondo, “Scientists say mass tests in Italian town have halted Covid-19 there”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A town in Padua, Veneto, Italy.
wikipedia: Vò
posttonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + tonic.
Senses: glosses: That immediately follows a stressed syllable
pretonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + tonic.
Senses: examples: text: The pretonic -u in krukkúri, krukkúri̯u is likely due to assimilation to the following stressed vowel.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 110:
glosses: That immediately precedes a stressed syllable
nither
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪð.ə/
ipa: /ˈnɪð.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nithermore
form: nithermost
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nether.
nither
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪð.ə/
ipa: /ˈnɪð.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more nither
form: most nither
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nether.
nither
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪð.ə/
ipa: /ˈnɪð.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nithers
form: nithering
form: nithered
form: nithered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nether.
nither
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪð.ə/
ipa: /ˈnɪð.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nithers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nether.
industrial punk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A musical genre that is a fusion of punk rock with industrial music.
prosopographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prosopography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to prosopography
poplitei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popliteus
orpedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more orpedly
form: most orpedly
Etymology: From Middle English orpedliche, orpedly, from Old English orpedlīċe (“boldly, clearly, definitely”), equivalent to orped + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Boldly; bravely; stoutly.
orl flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orl fly
disgorgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disgorger
watchpocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchpockets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of watch pocket.
nomenclations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomenclation
canopying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The activity of going through the canopy of a forest on a zipline
canopying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of canopy
philo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From phil- + -o- (interconsonantal).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phil-.
personal god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal gods
form: personal God
Senses: examples: text: Albert Einstein was not an atheist, but did not believe in a personal god.
coordinate_terms: personal goddess
glosses: A deity who can be related to or thought of as a person, through an anthropomorphized persona, rather than an impersonal, and faceless, force of nature.
Related terms: agnosticism
atheism
deism
deity
God
god
panentheism
pantheism
polytheism
theism
happy trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: happy trails
Senses: examples: text: His shirt has come dislodged from his pants, revealing a hint of his happy trail.
ref: 2011, E. L. James, Fifty Shades Freed, Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN, pages 424–425:
synonyms: snail trail
treasure trail
glosses: A vertical line of hair that extends up along the middle of a person's abdomen from pubic hair to navel.
Related terms: happy trails
happy trails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of happy trail
happy trails
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: happy trails !
Senses: examples: text: Happy trails, Hans.
ref: 1988, Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza, Die Hard, spoken by John McClane (Bruce Willis):
text: Well, happy trails. Give me a call when you get back.
ref: 2012, David Lyons, Ice Fire, page 291:
text: An' if it's a choice between my life an' yours, or the lives of everybody that happens to be wherever you're plannin' on crashin' this thing, then...well, happy trails to ya!
ref: 2012, Christopher Poole, Hero Town, page 234:
glosses: An expression of good wishes for somebody departing for a voyage or for an indefinite period of time: best wishes, good luck.
personal gods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal god
grade on a curve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grades on a curve
form: grading on a curve
form: graded on a curve
form: graded on a curve
Etymology: Referring to the bell curve of a normal distribution.
Senses: examples: text: He asked the teacher to grade (the test) on a curve.
glosses: To use a grading system based on the scale of performance of a group to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject; to curve a grade.
glosses: To compare the members of a set or group by using a relative scale, based on performance relative to other members.
BEREC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications.
treasure trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treasure trails
Senses: examples: text: As he says good-bye, he puts both arms over his head and stretches big, causing his shirt to lift up a few inches, exposing the sexiest abs and treasure trail I've ever seen.
ref: 2006, Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady, Harper, →ISBN, page 73:
synonyms: happy trail
glosses: A vertical line of hair that extends up along the middle of a person's (usually a man's) abdomen from pubic hair to navel.
treasure trails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treasure trail
very-large-scale integration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of very large scale integration.
map of Tasmania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maps of Tasmania
Etymology: From the perceived similarity between the roughly triangular shapes of a woman's pubic hair and the Australian island state of Tasmania.
Senses: examples: text: Walking down the street I'm the lady - ah / Showing off my map of Tasmania
ref: 2011, Amanda Palmer (feat. The Young Punx), "Map of Tasmania", Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under
glosses: The female pubic hair.
Synonyms: map of Tassie
pubic hair
heliocentricism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heliocentric + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: And as to Copernicus, he declared most expressly in his preface that he spoke of Heliocentricism as a pure hypothesis; the imagination of which was useful for the calculation of planetary orbits, but which “need not be true or even probable,” i.e., resting on any solid ground whatever.
ref: 1869, William Howard Ward, editor, Review of “l’Abbé D. Bouix, La Condamnation de Galilée” in “Notices of Books” in The Dublin Review Volume 64, 224
text: I do not say for example that Heliocentricism is no truer than Geocentricism, but is only a simpler hypothesis.
ref: 1907, Gerald Cator, “The Structure of Reality” in Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy Volume 16, ed. G. F. Stout, 58
glosses: Alternative form of heliocentrism.
frontal wedgie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontal wedgies
Senses: examples: text: She walked right by / The poor woman didn't know / She had a frontal wedgie / A cameltoe
ref: 2003, FannyPack, “Cameltoe”, in So Stylistic:
glosses: A crease in the crotch of a woman's pants, shorts, bikini bottom, etc. caused by the tight-fitting garment clinging to her labia.
Synonyms: cameltoe
moose knuckle
grontie
frontal wedgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontal wedgie
shutter shades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the trademarked name of a brand of sunglasses created by Shutter Shades, Inc., in 2007. Similar louvered/slatted sunglasses which existed as early as the 1950s and were popular in the 1980s were known by other names, such as "Venetian blinders".
Senses: examples: text: "Never trust anything you read online," Tanya said, pushing up her shutter shades.
ref: 2012, Alec Nevala-Lee, The Icon Thief, Signet, →ISBN:
glosses: A style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.
Synonyms: Kanye glasses
dance attendance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dances attendance
form: dancing attendance
form: danced attendance
form: danced attendance
Senses: examples: text: A man of his place, and so near our favour, / To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: Astonishingly, the king's health rallied, causing Orléans's antechamber to become deserted again as courtiers rushed back to dance attendance at the royal bedside.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 33:
glosses: To wait obsequiously (on or upon someone).
linea nigra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin linea + nigra, "black line".
Senses: glosses: A dark vertical line, running up the abdomen from the pubis to the navel (though it sometimes runs further, to the top of the abdomen) that forms during pregnancy.
meat trays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meat tray
rudraksha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rudrakshas
Etymology: From Sanskrit रुद्राक्ष (rudrākṣa, “Rudra's eyes”), from रुद्र (Rudra, “Rudra, a Rigvedic deity of wind and storm”), and अक्ष (ákṣa, “eye”), variant form of अक्षि (ákṣi).
Senses: examples: text: But the room […]contained many tokens of her family and forebears—among them such relics as her dead father's wooden clogs, a necklace of rudraksha beads left to her by her mother, and faded imprints of her grandparents' feet, taken on their funeral pyres.
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 9:
text: One of my favorite photographs shows a Hindu sadhu right out of central casting – naked body, long matted hair and beard, ash-smeared forehead, rudraksha-mala around his neck, the works – chatting away on a mobile phone.
ref: 2012, Shashi Tharoor, Connecting to the Future:
glosses: The dried seed of a large evergreen broad-leaved tree, Elaeocarpus ganitrus, which is traditionally used as prayer beads in Hinduism.
Schio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy.
Gish gallop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gish gallops
Etymology: Named after American creationist Duane Gish; coined by Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education.
Senses: glosses: A rhetorical technique in which a dishonest speaker lists a string of falsehoods or misleading items so that their opponent will be unable to counter each one and still be able to make their own counterpoints.
wikipedia: Duane Gish
Eugenie Scott
half cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half cell
half-cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-cell
in the open
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I find I can breathe more easily when I'm out in the open.
glosses: Outdoors.
examples: text: I got a clear photo of them when they finally came out in the open.
antonyms: under cover
undercover
glosses: Easily visible; out of shelter or concealment.
examples: text: Now that everyone knows, I'm glad it's finally out in the open.
glosses: Known to various people.
Coordinate terms: sense: easily visible
word: in broad daylight
Related terms: open air
open-air
open field
openly
open season
open secret
open space
wide open
message sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of message stick
sulfonitric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sulphonitric
Etymology: From sulfo- + nitric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a mixture of sulfuric acid and nitric acid
sulphonitric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sulpho- + nitric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of sulfonitric.
great grey shrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great grey shrike
graphitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of graphitize
face cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of face card
sakoku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鎖国, literally "closed country".
Senses: glosses: The foreign policy of Japan between the 1630s and 1866, during which entry to and exit from Japan were severely restricted.
Related terms: Bakumatsu
orgiast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ)d͡ʒiˌæst/
Forms: form: orgiasts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀργιαστής (orgiastḗs, “attender or celebrator of an orgy”), from Ancient Greek ὀργιάζειν (orgiázein, “to celebrate orgies”).
Senses: examples: text: The cult of Cybele, which for the first time formally organized as a mystic society in Rome, but the orgiast frenzy clung to it at all times.
ref: 1895, Joseph Fitzgerald, transl., Mysteria: History of the Secret Doctrines and Mystic Rites of Ancient Religions and Medieval and Modern Secret Orders, Stockham, translation of original by Otto Henne am Rhyn, page 67:
text: Rasputin became instrumental in the naming of ministers, men whose qualifications were that they were not going to interfere with the cushy double life he led — as sainted adviser to the royal family and as accomplished orgiast.
ref: 1967 October 6, Gerald Weales, “Intimate History of a Royal Miscalculation”, in Life, volume 63, number 14, page 10:
text: The Sadean orgiast is intellectual and contortionist, a Laocoön entwined by his proliferating desires.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, New York: Vintage, →ISBN, →OL:
synonyms: orgy-goer
glosses: One who attends an orgy.
glosses: One who is prone to excessive indulgence.
Derived terms: orgiastic
Related terms: orgy
absides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absis
punctation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punctations
Etymology: From German Punktation, from Medieval Latin punctatio.
Senses: examples: the Punctation of Olmütz
glosses: A preliminary treaty or contract.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Markings of minute spots, holes, or depressions.
glosses: The practice of writing with dots, as in Hebrew.
Related terms: punctate
punctated
punctator
genetic memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genetic memories
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The state of a biological system encoded in its genetic material.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A memory present at birth that exists in the absence of sensory experience.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An artificial neural network combination of genetic algorithm and the mathematical model of sparse distributed memory.
Synonyms: race memory
charmwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charm work
form: charm-work
Etymology: From charm + work.
Senses: glosses: Any magical practice involving creating or casting magical charms.
glosses: The formula or formulation of one or more charms or enchantments; the individual parts constituting such a formulation; the inner workings or structure of a (magical) charm.
Synonyms: sense: magical practice
word: spellwork
sense: magical practice
word: wandwork
infuriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infuriable
form: most infuriable
Etymology: From infuriate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Tending to fury; capable of being infuriated.
race memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: race memories
Senses: examples: text: Even in my short life I had learned as much as that - or had inherited it in that race memory which we call instinct.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: genetic memory
racial memory
glosses: A supposed memory, present at birth, and that exists in the absence of sensory experience, that arises from the common experience of one's ancestors.
role conflicts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of role conflict
shave and a haircut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A seven-note riff played at the end of a song for comic effect.
trench mentality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trench mentalities
Etymology: From the use of trench warfare in the first great war.
Senses: glosses: an attitude towards differences of opinion, where oppositional stand-off or conflict is preferred over debate and compromise.
Related terms: siege mentality
trench mentalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trench mentality
improductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more improductive
form: most improductive
Etymology: From im- + productive.
Senses: examples: text: But, as the principal of the loan, or, if you will, the capital lent, is generally consumed in consequence of this transfer, public loans produce an improductive consumption, a destruction of capital.
ref: 1816, The Monthly Magazine:
qualifier: chiefly non-native speakers' English
glosses: Misconstruction of unproductive.
Derived terms: improductively
yesh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yes.
Kontor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kontors
form: Kontore
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of kontor.
carpet snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpet snakes
Senses: glosses: A harmless snake found in New Guinea and Australia, the carpet python (Morelia spilota) and its six to eight subspecies.
glosses: A harmless colubrid species of snake found in North America, a pine snake (Pituophis melanoleucus).
Hyponyms: sense: Morelia spilota
word: hyponyms under carpet python
carpet python
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpet pythons
Senses: glosses: A carpet snake (snake of the species Morelia spilota).
Hyponyms: jungle carpet python
Morelia spilota cheynei
southwestern carpet python
Morelia spilota imbricata
coastal carpet python
Morelia spilota mcdowelli
inland carpet python
Morelia spilota metcalfei
diamond python
Morelia spilota spilota
northwestern carpet python
Morelia spilota variegata
troid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troids
Etymology: Clipping of Metroid.
Senses: examples: text: Games I look forward to next year:
[...]
Metroid Prime 4 (I’ve never played one of the 3D troids but I wanna)
ref: 2018 April 15, Andrew! (@Drewiker_), Twitter:
text: It kinda ruined parts of Metroid 2 and it's definitely one of the weaker 2D troids, but it has solid moment to moment gameplay and Samus "feels" great to control.
ref: 2020 May 3, D3 (@Professor_D3), Twitter:
text: really hope MercurySteam gets to keep cranking out some more 2D troids
ref: 2021 October 27, Brandon Classic Movies (@Thatoneguy64), Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Any of the video games in the Metroid franchise.
examples: text: The much derided linearity is merely a reappearance of the linearity of Metroid 2, with it's coincidental earthquakes when you killed troids
ref: 2016 May 29, Horrible Checkers Lad Appreciator (@clockwork353), Twitter:
text: the metroid fights, meanwhile, their counter tells are SO LONG i always miss them by hitting the button early. like, it can't possibly be that long. except it is. i have no success trying to do it on reaction either..
also, the troids spend too long being invuln for w/e reason
ref: 2020 April 30, Antiquity Row (@vorpalll), Twitter:
text: I love to draw samus and metroids... metroids are cute... I want to draw more of the other critters too (space pirates? ridley? non-larval troids????)
ref: 2021 July 15, Lorian (@grackling), Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: An individual member of the fictional alien Metroid species in this franchise.
troid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troids
Etymology: From tranny + -oid, probably as an abbreviation of earlier slur trannoid.
Senses: examples: text: at least we both concede that troids are hard on the eyes
ref: 2020 July 10, MKULTRA (@mkultraism), Twitter:
text: Ever wonder why the majority of troids are trans "woman"?
ref: 2020 November 30, CoolAndGood (@HowDareYouSir_), Twitter:
text: thats an awful lot of words to say you dont like troids
ref: 2022 January 6, Evan (@EvanPlatinum), Twitter:
glosses: A transgender person.
Coordinate terms: word: moid
word: foid
word: femoid
protest too much
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: protests too much
form: protesting too much
form: protested too much
form: protested too much
Etymology: Shortened from the lady doth protest too much.
Senses: glosses: To insist so passionately about something that people suspect the opposite of what one is saying.
dhindo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali ढिँडो (ḍhĩḍo).
Senses: glosses: A Nepalese staple, similar to polenta, made from maize flour and water.
baresark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baresarks
Etymology: From bare + sark (“shirt”).
Senses: examples: text: Eric gives before him right to the edge of the cliff. Then the Baresark smites at him and Brighteyes catches the blow on his shield, and smites at him in turn so well and truly, that the head of the Baresark flies from his shoulders and spins along the ground, […]
ref: 1891, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “How Eric Went Up Mosfell against Skallagrim the Baresark”, in Eric Brighteyes, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 67:
text: You said that I was a Berserker. And truth you shall speak; for baresark I go to-morrow to the war[.]
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 12, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 185:
glosses: A berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armour.
baresarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baresark
briered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more briered
form: most briered
Etymology: From brier + -ed.
Senses: examples: a., 1770, Thomas Chatterton, Aella
Harke! the ravenne flappes his wynge, / In the briered delle belowe […]
glosses: Synonym of briared.
synonyms: word: briared
gormander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gormanders
Senses: glosses: A gourmand; a greedy person.
gormanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gormander