cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pig dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pig dog
pig dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pig dog
octasulfur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From octa- + sulfur.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: cyclo-octasulfur
octathiocane
glosses: The most common allotrope of sulfur (S₈), containing eight atoms in a ring.
suboxone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Suboxone
Etymology: Marketing name, perhaps a blend of Subutex + naloxone.
Senses: examples: text: Not far behind OxyContin is Suboxone, the brand name for a drug whose primary ingredient is buprenorphine, a semisynthetic opioid.
ref: 2012 August 23, Conor Friedersdorf, quoting Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco, “What OxyContin Addicts in West Virginia Tell Us About the War on Drugs”, in The Atlantic:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
coordinate_terms: Subutex
glosses: A combination drug of buprenorphine and naloxone, used to treat opiate addictions.
Related terms: OxyContin
bebanged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bebanged
form: most bebanged
Senses: examples: text: Price sits down on a weathered tomb strewn with ivy and dead leaves, adjusts his blond bebanged Prince Valiant wig and glances at Ruddigore's Gothic arches heavily encrusted with skulls.
ref: 1982, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (U.S.), Emmy:
glosses: Having or sporting bangs.
bebanged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bebang
oxydase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxydases
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of oxidase.
tweep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: tweeps
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The readers are Star Trek cast members, and the sound is enhanced with authentic, Enterprise-sounding beeps and tweeps.
ref: 1995, John Wynne, The Listener's Guide to Audio Books: Reviews, Recommendations, and Listings for More Than 2,000 Titles, Fireside, →ISBN, page 321:
text: Many of the neighboring birds had already begun their preliminary chirps, sending out those quirky little twits and tweeps that announce their presence […]
ref: 2008, Eric W. Bragg, The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey, Oyster Moon Press, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: A chirp or beep.
tweep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: tweeps
form: tweeping
form: tweeped
form: tweeped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail.
ref: 1996, Lauraine Snelling, A New Day Rising, Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN:
text: No ubiquitous telephones, no fax machines or computers burping and tweeping and chirping their electronic chirps.
ref: 1999, Laura Kalpakian, Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family, Bard, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: To chirp or beep.
tweep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: tweeps
form: tweeping
form: tweeped
form: tweeped
Etymology: From TWEP, acronym of terminate with extreme prejudice, a US military intelligence and CIA euphemism for "kill, assassinate" that was first used in the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro.
ref: 1997, William B. Breuer, Vendetta!: Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers, John Wiley, →ISBN:
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: To kill; to assassinate.
tweep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: tweeps
form: tweeple
Etymology: Blend of Twitter + peep (“person”).
Senses: examples: text: As astute tweeps will observe, I myself only follow one other person, the one thou callest "Justin Bieber"; […]
ref: 2011, David Javerbaum (writing as God), The Last Testament: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 305:
synonyms: tweeter
twitterer
glosses: A user of the Twitter microblogging service.
examples: text: “I recognize this is a crazy moment where Tweeps are losing access and the layoff is in progress,” she wrote on Slack, adding a broken heart emoji and a link to a video conferencing room, according to messages viewed by The Times.
ref: 2022 November 4, Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac, quoting Esther Crawford, “Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter’s Staff”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A Twitter employee.
bewater
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈwɔːtɚ/
Forms: form: bewaters
form: bewatering
form: bewatered
form: bewatered
Etymology: From be- + water.
Senses: examples: text: A piece of brass may as easily melt, or a flint bewater itself, as the heart of man, by any innate power of its own, resolve itself into a penitential humiliation.
ref: 1871, Robert South, Sermons preached upon several occasions:
text: For ten days my wife and I fed this mile, every two hours by day, and three by night, wi'h drops of cow's milk, sugared and bewatered.
ref: 1906, Country life:
text: [...] unto my chamber aloft now will I go And lie on the bed that knoweth the wailing of my woe, With many a tear bewatered since the day Odysseus fared With Atreus' sons to Ilios.
ref: 1912, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris:
glosses: To water about or all over; cover, douse, or fill with water; make wet; water; hydrate.
Synonyms: word: soak
Derived terms: bewatered
anal gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anal glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small paired sebaceous gland found near the anus in many mammals, secreting a liquid that is used for identification of members within the species.
Synonyms: anal sac
bewatered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bewatered
form: most bewatered
Etymology: From bewater + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Watered about or all over; wet; hydrated.
examples: text: [...] boating season is again open, not only in the plentifully bewatered America, but in the sparsely bewatered England, where every river, to the American tourist there, seems but a creek by comparison with his hundred lordly rivers.
ref: 1898, Frank Leslie, Frank Leslie's popular monthly:
glosses: Covered or filled with water; having much water or abounding in water.
Synonyms: word: drenched
word: soaked
bewatered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bewater + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bewater
tweeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tweep
tweeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Star magazine says we have a loveless marriage." I told my tweeps not to believe it.
ref: 2010, Tori Spelling, Uncharted TerriTORI, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: Twitter followers, especially one's own.
tweeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tweep
apprentisage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of apprenticeage.
tweeple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwiːpəl/
rhymes: -iːpəl
Forms: form: tweople
Etymology: Blend of Twitter + people.
Senses: examples: text: The catch to achieving a 100 percent FF ratio is that the tweeple you follow don't necessarily follow you back.
ref: 2011, Joshua Waldman, Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: plural of tweep (“a Twitter user”)
bewelter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈwɛltɚ/
Forms: form: bewelters
form: beweltering
form: beweltered
form: beweltered
Etymology: From be- + welter.
Senses: glosses: To welter all over; besmear by weltering.
Derived terms: beweltered
beweltering
bewaste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewastes
form: bewasting
form: bewasted
form: bewasted
Etymology: From be- + waste.
Senses: glosses: To waste utterly or completely.
Derived terms: bewasted
time-bewasted
cousin-germans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: in the single combate betweene the two Princes, cosin-Germans, in Spaine, the eldest of which[…]overcame easily the dismayed forces of the yonger[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: plural of cousin-german.
cousins-german
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cousin-german
betined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more betined
form: most betined
Senses: glosses: Hedged about.
betined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of betine
beturn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beturns
form: beturning
form: beturned
form: beturned
Etymology: From Middle English biturnen, from Old English *beturnian, betyrnan (“to turn around; bend the knee, prostrate oneself”), equivalent to be- + turn.
Senses: glosses: To turn round or about.
examples: text: To their advises the disdaineful hart / Of this audacious youth beturning plies, […]
ref: 1821, The Retrospective review, and historical and antiquarian magazine:
glosses: To turn around; turn back; return.
Lewandowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lewandowskis
form: Lewandowsky
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Lewandowski.
Senses: examples: text: Kevin Grosskreutz fired over when well-placed in the box, Kagawa did similarly after being put through on goal and then Lewandowski, having rounded Szczesny, was denied by Bacary Sagna's goalline clearance.
ref: 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: A surname from Polish.
Kowalczyk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kowalczyks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Kowalczyk.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Jankowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jankowskis
form: Yankowski
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Jankowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Mazur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mazurs
form: Masur
Etymology: From Polish Mazur.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Kaczmarek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kaczmareks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Kaczmarek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Zając
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zaionc
form: Zaionts
form: Zajac
form: Zając
form: Zajonc
form: Zajontz
form: Zayonc
form: Zayonts
form: Zayontz
Etymology: Ultimately from Polish zając (“hare”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Zalewski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zalewskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Zalewski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
fowl-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fowl-house
jerrybag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jerrybags
Etymology: From Jerry + bag.
Senses: examples: text: I said, ‘Raymond and Horace are killed, and my lovely Liza is a jerry-bag.’
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 263:
text: ‘I saw you smiling at those Jerries. I was in the bloody BEF. We saw girls like you in France. A Jerrybag, are you, is that the story?’
ref: 2008, Stephen Baxter, Weaver:
glosses: A woman who consorted with the Germans during the Second World War.
jerrybags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jerrybag
retrospects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrospect
retrospects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrospect
bat one's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bats one's eyes
form: batting one's eyes
form: batted one's eyes
form: batted one's eyes
form: bat one's eyelashes
Senses: synonyms: make eyes
glosses: To signal or feign by fluttering one's eyelids, as romantic interest.
Related terms: bat an eyelid
make eyes
bat one's eyelashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bats one's eyelashes
form: batting one's eyelashes
form: batted one's eyelashes
form: batted one's eyelashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bat one's eyes.
worksteads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workstead
polythiazyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polythiazyls
Etymology: From poly- + thiazyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polymer of sulfur nitride that is an electrical conductor
Hoddle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Which team beat Glenn Hoddle's Tottenham 2-1 in the 2002 League Cup final?
ref: 2011, Chris Cowlin, The Greatest Football Quiz Book:
glosses: A surname.
combustion engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combustion engines
Senses: glosses: an engine that uses the combustion of fuel to produce work (movement)
Hypernyms: engine
Hyponyms: steam engine
Stirling engine
external combustion engine
internal combustion engine
Related terms: piston engine
alveolar dead space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alveolar dead spaces
Senses: examples: text: Alveolar dead space is herein defined as the difference between the physiologic and anatomic dead spaces.
ref: 1957, J. W. Severinghaus, M. Stupfel, Alveolar dead space as an index of distribution of blood flaw in pulmonary capillaries. J. Appl. Physiol. 10: 335-348:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The volume of air in the alveoli of the lung which does not partake in the exchange of gas.
Synonyms: parallel dead space
stem family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stem families
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A family system in which a couple's firstborn child lives with them in the family home, and that child's spouse moves into the home of said in-laws, so that the younger couple's children are raised in the home of their grandparents. Usually, the younger offspring move out upon marriage. The inheritance, depending on the culture, may or may not be the most favorable to the firstborn.
Related terms: nuclear family
extended family
primogeniture
anatomic dead space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anatomic dead spaces
form: anatomical dead space
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The volume of conducting airways of the lung, as measured by a cast of the airways.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The volume of inspired gas that does not mix with alveolar gas, as measured in vivo by gas dilution, by the method of Fowler.
Synonyms: Fowler dead space
series dead space
paternal grandchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paternal grandchildren
Senses: examples: text: Men who become fathers later in life may pass a mark of longevity down to their paternal grandchildren.
glosses: the child of one's son: a grandchild to whom one is the paternal grandparent
Related terms: maternal grandchild
maternal grandchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maternal grandchildren
Senses: glosses: the child of one's daughter: a grandchild to whom one is the maternal grandparent
Related terms: paternal grandchild
floosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floosie
hipstery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hipstery
form: most hipstery
Etymology: From hipster + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of hipsters.
Synonyms: hipsterish
enemy combatants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enemy combatant
leaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leamans
Senses: examples: text: Hid thee, my leaman; and I will goe plead for our loue, our loue.
ref: a. 1616, “A proper new ballett, intituled Rowland’s god-sonne”, in Andrew Clark, editor, The Shirburn Ballads, 1585-1616, Clarendon Press, published 1907, →OCLC, page 355:
text: Yea in an honest manner, thou mightest sooner have got a tooth from him than money. Thus the Alchymist was provided for, who was in no danger, but that he wanted something to give his leaman.
ref: 1671, Desiderius Erasmus, “The art of alchymy”, in H.M. Gent, transl., The Colloquies, or Familiar Discourses of Desiderius Erasmus of Roterdam, →OCLC, page 263:
text: God’s my judge if I lose the quarry I’ll—I’ll—you and your leaman shan’t enjoy it anyhow—I know—I know ’tis.
ref: 1911, Eden Phillpotts, The Beacon, John Lane Company, →OCLC, page 270:
glosses: Alternative form of leman.
withbear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: withbears
form: withbearing
form: withbore
form: withborne
form: withbere
Etymology: From Middle English withberen, equivalent to with- + bear.
Senses: examples: text: For he knew nat what she was that spak with hym / and neuertheles he ansuerde to her: 'My dere lady, nought of myn owne ye withbere / but only that ye passe & goo thrugh my land / and it is grett shame to me.
ref: c. 1500,, Jean (d'Arras), Melusine
text: Yf she be hable to make any power at home, she shall be withborne and herself keapt from all other comfort than her own nobilitie.
ref: 1866, Alexander M'neel-Caird, Mary Stuart:
glosses: To carry or bear (something) away.
glosses: To bring or gather in, as of crops; bring together.
glosses: To bear with; endure.
have a crow to pull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a crow to pull
form: having a crow to pull
form: had a crow to pull
form: had a crow to pull
form: have a crow to pluck
form: have a crow to pick
Senses: examples: text: Philip, the King of Macedon, who had so many crowes to pul with the Romanes, […] resolved at last to seize upon al their children whom he had caused to be murthered, that so he might day by day one after another rid thw world of them, and so establish his safety.
ref: , II.27
glosses: To have a point of contention (with someone); to have a bone to pick.
forleave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forleaves
form: forleaving
form: forleft
form: forleft
Etymology: From Middle English forleven; equivalent to for- + leave. Compare Old High German firleiban.
Senses: examples: text: In a lityll I forlefte the.
ref: 1475, Hilton
glosses: To depart from (someone); leave (someone) behind; abandon; forsake; desert; give up; relinquish.
Jurie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Jewry.
forlead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forleads
form: forleading
form: forled
form: forled
Etymology: From Middle English forleden, from Old English forlǣdan (“to mislead, seduce; lead off and away”), from Proto-West Germanic *fralaidijan, equivalent to for- + lead. Cognate with Dutch verleiden (“to seduce, tempt, entice”), German verleiten (“entice, mislead”), Old Saxon farlēdian.
Senses: glosses: To mislead; seduce.
forlead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forleads
form: forleading
form: forled
form: forled
Etymology: From for- (“fore-”) + lead.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forelead (“lead forward, lead before”)
tweeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tweep
tweeped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tweep
Congos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Congo
decrepity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle French décrépité, from Latin dēcrepitās.
Senses: examples: text: being demanded what his studies would stead him in his decrepity, [he] answered; that he might the better, and with more ease leave this world.
ref: , II.28
glosses: Decrepitude.
forefeeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forefeel
forefeeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forefeelings
Senses: examples: text: 1551, Thomas More, Utopia, translated by Raphe Robynson, Cambridge University Press, 1922, reprinted from Hearne's edition 1716, pp. 148-9, https://archive.org/details/utopia__00moreuoft
For this they take for a verye evel token, as thoughe the soule beynge in dispaire and vexed in conscience, through some privie and secret forefeiling of the punishement now at hande were aferde to depart.
text: The account of the earthquake in Calabria, in 1783, contains curious particulars of that calamitous event. […] 'Much more remarkable undoubtedly were the presentiments which were seen in living creatures. Man alone remained free from these forefeelings; neither on his body nor on the chearfulness of his mind had it the smallest influence […]'
ref: 1798, The Critical Review, volume 24, London: A. Hamilton, page 397:
text: 1843, James Russell Lowell, "Prometheus" in The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Ten Volumes, Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1890, Vol. VII, p. 114, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZYcRAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
[…] now, now set free / This essence, not to die, but to become / Part of that awful Presence which doth haunt / The palaces of tyrants, to scare off, / With its grim eyes and fearful whisperings / And hideous sense of utter loneliness, / All hope of safety, all desire of peace, / All but the loathed forefeeling of blank death,
glosses: A presentiment.
Derived terms: forefeelingly
vehicularly housed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Guinea Apollos, in the polite terms of San Francisco's homeless advocates, is a "vehicularly housed resident."
ref: 1997 September 27, Mark Curtius, “S. F. Seeks Parking for Homeless' 'Homes'”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Homeless and living in a car, van, or other type of vehicle.
vehicularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From vehicular + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Are you aware that a loaded, vehicularly concealed weapon constitutes a misdemeanor offense in this state?"
ref: 2005, Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish, Viking, →ISBN:
glosses: In or with a vehicle.
Derived terms: vehicularly challenged
vehicularly housed
acs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ac
sulfoselenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfoselenides
Etymology: From sulfo- + selenide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound (or mineral) that is both a sulfide and a selenide.
vehicularly challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vehicularly challenged
form: most vehicularly challenged
Senses: examples: text: I shot off an e-mail to Hunter, saying I had to cancel tomorrow because I would be vehicularly challenged.
ref: 2001, Cate Tiernan, Awakening, Speak, →ISBN:
glosses: Without a vehicle.
bird of passage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɜːd əv ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˌbɝd əv ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: birds of passage
Etymology: Probably a calque of Middle French oiseau de passage: oiseau (“bird”), passage (“part of a journey or route, passage”).
Senses: examples: text: There is a wonderful conformity between the vegetation of ſome plants, and the arrival of certain birds of paſſage. [Carl] Linnaeus obſerves that the wood anemone blows in Sweden on the arrival of the ſwallow; and the marſh mary-gold, Caltha, when the cuckoo ſings.
ref: 1789, [Erasmus Darwin], The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. […], London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1791, →OCLC, part II (The Loves of the Plants; 3rd edition), footnote, page 33:
text: And now the ladies, with their gay plumage, have flown away like foreign birds of passage, and the jolly old priests of Bacchus, in the parlour, make their libations of claret; […]
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Two Young People Understand One Another Better, Perhaps, than Ever They Did Before, without Saying So”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 237:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
synonyms: migrant
glosses: A migratory bird, especially a passage migrant (“a bird that stops somewhere for a short time during a seasonal migration”).
examples: text: The muſick and entertainments of Bath are over for this ſeason; and all our gay birds of paſſage have taken their flight to Briſtol-vvell, Tunbridge, Brighthelmſtone, Scarborough, Harrovvgate, &c.
ref: 1771, [Tobias Smollett], “To Sir Watkin Phillips, Bart. of Jesus College, Oxon.”, in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume I, London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC, page 150:
text: —one of those adventurers who deem their fortune never lies at home, and encounter great risks for the sake, not so much of their gains, as for themselves,—human birds of passage, who make life one perpetual journey in search of wealth, but who never die rich.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 197:
synonyms: word: bird of passage
word: gadabout
word: itinerant
word: peregrinator
word: rambler
word: rover
word: traveller
word: voyager
word: wanderer
word: wayfarer
glosses: Someone passing through a place and only staying for a short time; an itinerant.
passage migrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passage migrants
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A bird that stops somewhere for a short time during a seasonal migration.
Hypernyms: bird of passage
migratory bird
zitcom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zitcoms
Etymology: Blend of zit + sitcom.
Senses: examples: text: Each of these youngsters was given a TV show — the so-called zitcom — followed usually by a recording contract with Disney-owned Hollywood Records, songs in heavy rotation on Radio Disney and on Disney-movie sound tracks, a concert tour with Disney-owned Buena Vista Concerts and tie-in merchandise throughout the Disney stores.
ref: 2009 October 22, Belinda Luscombe, “Making New Mileys: Disney's Teen-Star Factory”, in Time:
glosses: A sitcom aimed at a teen audience or revolving around teen characters.
zitcoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zitcom
fleur-de-lysed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fleur-de-lysed
form: most fleur-de-lysed
form: fleur-de-lised
form: fleur-de-lisée
Etymology: From fleur-de-lys + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Decorated with fleur-de-lys.
thionate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thionates
Etymology: From thionic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of a thionic acid.
thionic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thionic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxyacid of sulfur of the form H₂SₙO₆ (examples are known having n from 2 to 6)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any thiocarboxylic acid
umagite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral selenide of copper Cu₃Se₂
cryoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryoscopy
glycolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycolysis
oxydases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxydase
weddingmoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weddingmoons
Etymology: Blend of wedding + honeymoon.
Senses: examples: text: One day Dean called to ask if we would mind if he married Andrea in Bermuda that May in what is called a "weddingmoon," where marriage ceremony and honeymoon are combined.
ref: 2005, Warren A. Cikins, In Search of Middle Ground: Memoirs of a Washington Insider, Devora Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 283:
glosses: A combined wedding and honeymoon, with the wedding ceremony taking place at the couple's vacation destination.
weddingmoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weddingmoon
churchwarden's pew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchwarden's pews
Senses: glosses: A type of church pew, typically on the west side, originally reserved for the churchwarden, and often decorated or engraved.
yestersol
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From yester- + sol (“Martian day”), by analogy with yesterday.
Senses: examples: text: But yestersol he took Mother into the old middle-pressure greenhouse (the little one they built when they first arrived here) and got her involved in a long discussion.
ref: 2001, Mary Turzillo, “Mars is No Place for Children”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Nebula Awards Showcase 2001: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: On the sol (Martian day) before the present one.
yestersol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yestersols
Etymology: From yester- + sol (“Martian day”), by analogy with yesterday.
Senses: examples: text: "We'll basically be waking up in the Mars morning, which will be 47 minutes later each day, and uploading our commands from 'yestersol,'" he said.
ref: 2003 December 19, Sue Vorenberg, “Mars Central”, in Albuquerque Tribune:
glosses: The sol (Martian day) before the present one.
Related terms: tosol
wheredunit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheredunits
form: wheredunnit
Senses: examples: text: "The Chaser" is less whodunit than wheredunit, perversely withholding the location of Young-min's home from everyone but the viewer, who gets to know Seoul's Mangwon district quite intimately as Jung-ho, his bumbling sidekick Meathead (Koo Bon-woong) and other cops run around it in infuriating circles.
ref: 2008 May 17, Justin Chang, “The Chaser”, in Variety:
glosses: A type of detective story in which significant focus is placed on the location in which the crime was committed.
Related terms: howdunit
whodunit
whydunit
wheredunits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheredunit
fuck-you lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuck-you lizard
leaves of three, let it be
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Don't touch a plant with a cluster of three leaves because it might be poison ivy or poison oak.
mom and apple pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mom and apple pie
form: motherhood and apple pie
Senses: qualifier: symbolically
glosses: Wholesomeness and traditional (American) values.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Something that cannot be questioned because it appeals to universally-held beliefs or values.
Synonyms: alt: semi-synonymous
word: flag, motherhood and apple pie
Related terms: motherhood statement
difluorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: difluorines
Etymology: From di- + fluorine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The normal diatomic form of molecular fluorine, F₂.
Related terms: difluoro
flag, motherhood and apple pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: symbolically
glosses: Patriotism and traditional US values.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Something that cannot be questioned because it appeals to patriotism and widely-held American traditional values.
Synonyms: word: mom and apple pie
alt: semi-synonymous
word: motherhood and apple pie
Related terms: motherhood statement
overleave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overleaves
form: overleaving
form: overleft
form: overleft
Etymology: From Middle English overleven, from Old English oferlǣfan (“to leave over; be left over, remain”), equivalent to over- + leave.
Senses: examples: text: And of such force was this verity, so fresh and recent in men's memory, that amongst so many enemies of his, that lay in wait to overleave him with lies, no one was thenceforth found who could refell [deny] these words of Campion.
ref: 1999, Saint Edmund Campion, James V. Holleran, A Jesuit Challenge:
glosses: To leave (something) over; cause to remain or be left.
glosses: To remain; be left over.
Derived terms: overleft
overleave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + leave (“permission, furlough”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] Absence without leave (including overleave and desertion).
ref: 1949, United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps Manual, 1949:
text: “Didn't you threaten to bobtail one of your sergeants for being drunk and overleave in Shanghai last week?
ref: 2011, L Ron Hubbard, Orders Is Orders:
glosses: A leave which exceeds the approved or prescribed amount of time.
eka-iodine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + iodine: the name given by Dmitri Mendeleev to astatine prior to its discovery, from the fact that it lies below iodine in the periodic table.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: astatine
wikipedia: Dmitri Mendeleev
tazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tazis
form: tazee
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian تازی (tâzi, “dog breed”).
Senses: glosses: An Afghan Hound.
glosses: A favourite variety of horse, usually of Indian breed.
forjudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forjudges
form: forjudging
form: forjudged
form: forjudged
form: forjuge
form: forejudge
Etymology: From Middle English forjugen; in sense 1, from Old French fourjugier (“to judge illegally, dispossess”); in sense 2, from Middle English for- + jugen (“to judge”), equivalent to for- + judge. Compare fordeem.
Senses: examples: text: And it is enacted by the ſtatute 5 Edw. III. c. 9 that no man ſhall be forejudged of life or limb, contrary to the great charter and the law of the land: and again, by ſtatute 28 Ed. III. c. 3, that no man ſhall be put to death, without being brought to anſwer by due proceſs of law.
ref: 1765, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England. Book the First, Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 129–130:
qualifier: obsolete except as a legal term
glosses: To exclude, oust, or dispossess by a judgment; prohibit (from).
glosses: To condemn judicially (to a penalty).
raw_tags: in British
Derived terms: forjudgement
forjudger
fordeem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fordeems
form: fordeeming
form: fordeemed
form: fordeemed
Etymology: From Middle English fordemen, from Old English fordēman (“to condemn, sentence, doom; prejudice; decide”), from Proto-Germanic *fradōmijaną (“to condemn, damn”). By surface analysis, for- + deem. Cognate with Old High German fortuomen,
furtuomen, Icelandic fordæma (“to condemn”), Dutch verdoemen.
Senses: examples: text: Under Islamic canon law, known as sharia, fordeeming a man of rape needs the testimony of at least four muslim men as eyewitnesses to the deed of penetration.
ref: 2015, LT Wolf, The World King - Book I: The Reckoning:
glosses: To condemn.
Synonyms: forjudge
security camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: security cameras
Senses: synonyms: surveillance camera
CCTV camera
glosses: A video camera used to protect a building from intruders and to detect crime and other issues.
ragier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ragey: more ragey
amniotic sacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amniotic sac
churchwarden's pews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchwarden's pew
passage migrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passage migrant
birds of passage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird of passages
Senses: glosses: plural of bird of passage
bucksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bucksome
form: most bucksome
Etymology: From Middle English buxum, buhsum (“flexible, bendsome”). Often analysed, due to confusion with the verb buck (“to spring, buckle, kick violently”) and buck (“he-goat”), as though from buck + -some. Doublet of buxom.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of buxom.
examples: text: Shee now begins to grow bucksome as a lightning before death.
ref: 1608, Robert Armin, Nest of Ninnies:
glosses: Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.
examples: text: "Bucksome," repeated Peace, with the picture of a bucking billy goat uppermost in her mind, and wondering how a maiden could be bucksome.
ref: 2010, Ruth Alberta Brown, Heart of Gold:
glosses: Spirited or lively, like a buck.
Related terms: young buck
poynard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poynards
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of poniard.
withsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: withsaws
form: vedsaw
Etymology: From Middle English withsawe, withsahe, withsau, from Old English *wiþsagu (“renunciation, contradiction”); equivalent to with- + saw (“saying”).
Senses: glosses: A contradiction.
Related terms: withsay
speakworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more speakworthy
form: most speakworthy
Etymology: From speak + -worthy. Compare speechworthy.
Senses: examples: text: Poppy geueth no ſpekeworthy noriſhment vnto the body.
ref: 1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of Diuerse Kindes of Poppy”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 77, verso:
text: Here it is useful to invoke Saussure's principle, remarking that when it is encountered in a book the chief nuance of the non-speakworthy word is to call attention to some special quality — no matter what — […]
ref: 1976, Eliseo Vivas, Henry Regnery, Viva Vivas!: Essays in honor of Eliseo Vivas:
glosses: Worthy of mention; worthy of being spoken; mentionable.
besorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besorrows
form: besorrowing
form: besorrowed
form: besorrowed
Etymology: From Middle English bisorȝen, from Old English besorgian (“to regret; be anxious about, dread, shrink from”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisorgōn, equivalent to be- + sorrow. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bisúurgje (“to obtain, get, take care of”), West Frisian besoargje (“to provide, deliver”), Dutch bezorgen (“to provide, deliver, take care of”), German besorgen (“to procure, acquire, attend to, take care of”), Swedish besörja (“to deal with, attend to”).
Senses: examples: text: Then to the woman, for her offence, God did pronounce this sore sentence: All pleasure that you had'st besorrow Shall changed be in lasting sorrow.
ref: 1776, Sir David Lindsay, The works of ... Sir David Lindsay of the Mount:
text: The land of the West holds a maiden sweet, And the fairest face has she; But, oh! she has also Chicago feet, And that's what besorrows me.
ref: 1884, John Ames Mitchell, Life:
text: Oh, heart of man, when griefs deep scar
Ploughs through thy and sand,
When soul and sense besorrowed are,
Lead, lark of love, 'yond sun and star; […]
ref: 1931, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's journal:
text: Dear Peter, newly was I with the car in the town to besorrow me this and that for the holidays.
ref: 1996, Wolfram Wilss, Knowledge and Skills in Translator Behavior:
synonyms: word: becare
word: becare
word: bother
word: care
word: concern oneself
word: mind
word: reck
word: trouble oneself
word: worry
word: aggrieve
word: besorrow
word: condole
word: engrieve
word: erme
word: gloom
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: bleed
word: lament
word: moan
word: mourn
word: regret
word: rue
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wayment
word: yearn
word: begrieve
word: bemoan
word: bewail
word: beweep
word: condole
word: deplore
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: keen
word: lament
word: mean
word: mourn
word: pine
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wail
word: wayment
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
glosses: To sorrow about or over; care about; fill with care or sorrow; make sad.
tsugas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tsuga
fordim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fordims
form: fordimming
form: fordimmed
form: fordimmed
Etymology: From Middle English fordimmen, from Old English fordimmian (“to obscure, darken”), equivalent to for- + dim.
Senses: glosses: To dim; darken; obscure.
fordrench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fordrenches
form: fordrenching
form: fordrenched
form: fordrenched
Etymology: From Middle English fordrenchen, from Old English fordrenċan (“to make drunk, intoxicate”), equivalent to for- + drench. Cognate with Middle Low German vordrenken.
Senses: glosses: To make drunk; intoxicate.
glosses: To drown.
fordote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fordotes
form: fordoting
form: fordoted
form: fordoted
Etymology: From for- + dote.
Senses: glosses: To make foolish or doting.
forcurse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forcurses
form: forcursing
form: forcursed
form: forcursed
Etymology: From Middle English forcursien, from Old English forcursian (“to curse, curse up”), equivalent to for- + curse.
Senses: examples: text: The bishops were ever cursing them, but they cared nought therefor, for they were all forcursed and forsworn and forlorn [...]
ref: 1894, Henry Duff Traill, Social England:
glosses: To curse utterly or completely; place under a heavy curse.
shrink up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shrinks up
form: shrinking up
form: shrank up
form: shrunk up
form: shrunk up
form: shrunken up
Senses: examples: text: Then, at the blast of his noble heart, the bad angel shrunk up into nothingness; and the good one defined itself clearer and more clear, and came nigher and more nigh to him, smiling sadly but benignantly […]
ref: 1852, Melville, Pierre, Book 3:
glosses: To contract or shrink completely; shrivel up.
forburn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forburns
form: forburning
form: forburned
form: forburned
form: forburnt
form: forburnt
Etymology: From Middle English forburnen, forbrinnen, from Old English forbirnan (intransitive) and forbærnan (transitive), equivalent to for- + burn. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferbaadenje, ferbaanje (“to burn up”), West Frisian ferbarne (“to burn up”), German Low German verbrannen (“to burn up”), German verbrennen (“to burn up, incinerate”).
Senses: examples: text: [He] sent then a host thither and bade slay all the town-ship, and forburn the town.
ref: 1852, Alfred (King of England), The whole works of King Alfred the Great:
synonyms: burn away
burn down
burn up
cinder
incinerate
glosses: To destroy or damage by burning.
synonyms: word: burn
word: combust
word: go up
word: burn
word: combust
word: forburn
word: go up
word: outburn
word: torch
glosses: To burn; to be consumed by fire.
forbuyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forbuyers
Etymology: From Middle English forbier, forbyar, equivalent to forbuy + -er.
Senses: glosses: Redeemer.
forburst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forbursts
form: forbursting
form: forburst
form: forbrast
form: forburst
form: forbrast
form: forbursten
Etymology: From Middle English forbersten, forbresten, from Old English forberstan (“to break, burst asunder, vanish, fail; let go by default”), equivalent to for- + burst.
Senses: glosses: To burst asunder; break; shatter.
black beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black beetles
form: blackbeetle
form: black-beetle
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, beetle.
glosses: A black scarab beetle, later specifically the African black beetle (Heteronychus arator), a serious pest of grasses in New Zealand.
examples: text: ‘I'm not afwaid of anything except black-beetles,’ said the Pussum […].
ref: 1921, DH Lawrence, Women in Love, Vintage, published 2008, page 65:
glosses: The oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis), a large roach from the family Blattidae.
glosses: A similar roach native to New Zealand, of species Maoriblatta novaeseelandiae (syn. Platyzosteria novaeseelandia); the Maori bug.
glosses: Any of various other species of beetle that are black in color, including:
An Asiatic rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros), a pest of palm trees in tropical Asia.
glosses: Any of various other species of beetle that are black in color, including:
A member of the European species Pterostichus nigrita (syn. Feronia nigrita).
Synonyms: sense: Blatta orientalis
word: oriental cockroach
sense: Blatta orientalis
word: Oriental cockroach
sense: Blatta orientalis
word: oriental roach
sense: Blatta orientalis
word: waterbug
sense: Maoriblatta novaeseelandiae
word: Maori bug
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lissopterus quadrinotatus
word: Darwin's black beetle
taxonomic: Heteronychus arator
word: African black beetle
Related terms: word: oriental beetle
alt: syn. Anomala orientalis
word: Blitopertha orientalis
forhush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forhushes
form: forhushing
form: forhushed
form: forhushed
Etymology: From Middle English forhuschen, equivalent to for- + Old English hysċan (“to jeer at, reproach; rail; revile”).
Senses: glosses: To deride.
forhungered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forhungered
form: most forhungered
Etymology: From Middle English forhungred, forhongred, forhyngrede (“famished, lean”), equivalent to for- (“exceedingly, very”) + hungered. Compare Dutch verhongerd (“starving, famished”), German verhungert (“starving, famished”).
Senses: examples: text: They take like lean forhungered hounds,
And for a while their praise resounds […]
ref: 1897, The History of Reynard the Fox:
text: He died forhungered.
ref: 1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John, page 143:
glosses: Very hungry; dying of hunger; starving.
pink snappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pink snapper
black beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black beetle
overboldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈbəʊldnəs/
Etymology: From Middle English overboldnesse, equivalent to over- + boldness, after overbold.
Senses: examples: text: nothing did him so much good toward the people (to whom he appealed) to make him obtain his suite, as the sharpnes and over boldnes which Cæsar had declared in that judgement.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 31, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Contrary to accepted wisdom, the qualities usually thought of as entrepreneurial - risk-taking, breakthrough creativity, foresight, grand ambition, power and administrative abilities - are all secondary. Indeed, over-boldness may be a handicap.
ref: 1999 December 19, Simon Caulkin, The Observer:
glosses: The state or fact of being too bold; audacity.
over-insolently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more over-insolently
form: most over-insolently
Etymology: From over-insolent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Charilus the Lacedemonian, to one Helot who behaved himself over insolently and audaciously towards him: By the Gods (saith he) If I were not now angry, I would presently make thee die.
ref: , II.31
glosses: In an excessively insolent way; too rudely.
white-nosed coati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-nosed coatis
Senses: glosses: A common species of coati (Nasua narica), native to many wooded areas of the Americas.
white-nosed coatis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-nosed coati
rodomontados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rodomontado
earnestest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When I chance to be angry, it is in the earnestest manner that may be, but yet as briefly and as secretly, as is possible.
ref: , II.31
glosses: superlative form of earnest: most earnest