cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sound wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound waves
form: soundwave
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The longitudinal wave of pressure that is transmitted through any plastic material; audible sound.
Plinko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɪŋk.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəʊ
Etymology: From the plink of the chips, + -o.
Senses: glosses: A pricing game played on the game show The Price Is Right
blood bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood banks
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored for use in transfusions
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: the range of such blood products stored
sperm bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sperm banks
Senses: examples: text: Use of sperm banks would avoid mutations induced by radiation, Dr. Muller said.
ref: 1961 August 29, Donald Janson, “Sperm Bank Asked For Armed Forces; Radiation Damage Feared by Nobel Prize Winner”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page 26:
text: Frozen sperm banks make it possible to improve the breed of cattle, goats, chicken, even herring. Why not man?
ref: 1971 January 26, Lucy Kavaler, “Sperm in the Deep‐Freeze”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: cryobank
word: spank bank
glosses: A place where sperm from donors is stored for future use in artificial insemination.
glosses: The vagina.
apartment complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apartment complexes
Senses: glosses: a set of buildings containing many apartments and ancillary functions
speed chess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Synonym of blitz chess.
synonyms: word: blitz chess
slickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slicker
beer bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer bottles
form: beerbottle
form: beer-bottle
Senses: hypernyms: bottle
;
container
coordinate_terms: beer can
;
milk bottle
glosses: A bottle, commonly made of brown or green glass, designed as a container for beer.
Related terms: bottle cap
bottle opener
bottle top
cold one
six-pack
clunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: clunks
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Senses: glosses: A dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact.
glosses: The sound of liquid coming out of a bottle, etc.; a glucking sound.
glosses: dull; foolish; stupid or silly person.
Derived terms: clunky
clunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: clunks
form: clunking
form: clunked
form: clunked
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Senses: examples: text: Her old bicycle was clunking along the road.
glosses: To make such a sound.
Derived terms: clunker
Rios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish. An Anglicisation of a Spanish habitational surname from Riós in Galicia
plateresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plateresque
form: most plateresque
Etymology: From Spanish plateresco (“in the manner of a silversmith”), from platero (“silversmith”), from plata (“silver”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an ornate style of architecture of 16th-century Spain suggestive of silver plate.
scrofulide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrofulides
Etymology: Latin diminutive of scrōfa (“a breeding sow”), because swine were supposed to be subject to the complaint; or by fanciful comparison of the glandular swellings to little pigs.
Senses: examples: 1870: Title American Journal of Syphilography and Dermatology: Publisher F.W. Christern: "After recovery from tinea tonsurans...crusts and epidermic exfoliations form on the scalp. It is a benign scrofulide induced by the trycophyton."
glosses: Any affliction of the skin dependent on scrofula.
intangibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intangibilities
Etymology: Compare French intangibilité.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being intangible; intangibleness.
astrophysicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrophysicists
Etymology: From astro- + physicist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies astrophysics.
diffusion-barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diffusion-barriers
Senses: glosses: A thin layer (usually micrometres thick) of metal usually placed between two other metals. It is done to act as a barrier to protect either one of the metals from corrupting the other.
dirimens copulatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin dirimēns cōpulātiō (“separating connection”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Mentioning a balancing or opposing fact to prevent the argument from being one-sided or unqualified.
DOSRI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DOSRIs
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: Acronym of Directors, Officers, Stakeholders, and other Related Interests.
ringworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪŋˌwɝm/
Forms: form: ringworms
Etymology: From ring + worm, being descriptive of what it looks like.
Senses: examples: text: In superficial mycoses infection is localised to the skin, the hair, and the nails. An example is ringworm or tinea, an infection of the skin by a dermatophyte.
text: Many of these natives, especially the lower classes, and fishermen, have their skins disfigured in a singular manner, by a sort of scurfy disease, similar to the ring-worm, or rather to a person whose skin was peeling off from the effects of the sun.
ref: 1848 December, “Pacific Ocean: The Island of Bornabi”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, volume 17, number 12, page 647:
glosses: A contagious fungal infection of the skin, characterized by ring-shaped discolored patches, covered by vesicles or scales.
Synonyms: dermatophytosis
tinea
Hyponyms: athlete’s foot
barber’s itch
jock itch
Derived terms: beard ringworm
gray patch ringworm
honeycomb ringworm
scalp ringworm
sylvatic ringworm
Related terms: dermatomycosis
dermatophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɚˈmæt.oʊ.faɪt/
ipa: /dɚˈmæt.ə.faɪt/
Forms: form: dermatophytes
Etymology: From dermato- (“skin”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: glosses: Any parasitic fungus (mycosis) that infects the skin (tinea, ringworm, jock itch, athlete's foot).
Microsporum species
glosses: Any parasitic fungus (mycosis) that infects the skin (tinea, ringworm, jock itch, athlete's foot).
Epidermophyton species
glosses: Any parasitic fungus (mycosis) that infects the skin (tinea, ringworm, jock itch, athlete's foot).
Trichophyton species
glosses: Any parasitic fungus (mycosis) that infects the skin (tinea, ringworm, jock itch, athlete's foot).
Arthroderma species
Hyponyms: word: athlete’s foot
word: tinea pedis
word: beard ringworm
word: tinea barbae
word: body ringworm
word: tinea corporis
word: jock itch
word: tinea cruris
word: nail ringworm
word: tinea unguium
word: scalp ringworm
taxonomic: Trichophyton tonsurans
word: tinea capitis
Derived terms: dermatophytic
dermatophytosis
Related terms: dermophyte
doula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːlə/
rhymes: -uːlə
Forms: form: doulas
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek δούλα (doúla, “servant-woman”), from Ancient Greek δούλη (doúlē, “female slave”). Popularized by the American anthropologist Dana Raphael in the book The Tender Gift: Breastfeeding (1973), where the word is credited to Eleni Rassias.
Senses: examples: text: The function of the doula varies in different cultures from a little help here and there to complete succoring, including bathing, cooking, carrying, and feeding. Whatever the doula does, however, is less important than the fact that she is there.
ref: 1973, Dana Raphael, The Tender Gift: Breastfeeding, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Rebekah Rosler, a therapist and doula, decided to leave, even though her family history in New York goes back to the 1870s, she said.
ref: 2020 June 5, Alyson Krueger, “The Agonizing Question: Is New York City Worth It Anymore?”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: midwife
nurse
glosses: A trained support person who provides emotional, physical and practical assistance to a pregnant woman or couple before, during or after childbirth.
glosses: A trained person who provides similar support to someone who is diagnosed with an incurable condition and is receiving end-of-life care.
lusk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌsk/
ipa: /lʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: more lusk
form: most lusk
Etymology: From Middle English *lusk, from Old Norse lǫskr (“weak, idle”), from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“sluggish, dull, lazy”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēyd- (“to let, subside”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lasch (“flabby, loose”), Middle Low German lasch, las (“tired, dull”). Doublet of lush.
Senses: glosses: Lazy or slothful.
glosses: Full; ripe.
lusk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌsk/
ipa: /lʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: lusks
Etymology: From Middle English *lusk, from Old Norse lǫskr (“weak, idle”), from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“sluggish, dull, lazy”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēyd- (“to let, subside”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lasch (“flabby, loose”), Middle Low German lasch, las (“tired, dull”). Doublet of lush.
Senses: examples: text: But whom he sees to labor prest,
theim lets he still alone:
He labor lothes, and loues the luske,
to ease and pleasure prone
ref: 1577, Timothy Kendall, Flowers of Epigrams:
glosses: A lazy or slothful person.
lusk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌsk/
ipa: /lʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: lusks
form: lusking
form: lusked
form: lusked
Etymology: From Middle English *lusk, from Old Norse lǫskr (“weak, idle”), from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“sluggish, dull, lazy”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēyd- (“to let, subside”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lasch (“flabby, loose”), Middle Low German lasch, las (“tired, dull”). Doublet of lush.
Senses: glosses: To be idle or unemployed.
Derived terms: luskish
awkwardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more awkwardly
form: most awkwardly
form: aukwardly
Etymology: From awkward + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A poorly finished trunk has an awkwardly high liftover and no useful handhold on its lid.
ref: 2007 December 23, Lawrence Ulrich, “Same Small-Car Stew, Stirred and Reheated”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In an awkward manner; with discomfort or lack of coordination.
gerrymandering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛriːˌmændəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdʒɛɹɪjˌmandəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdʒɛɹiˌmændəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: gerrymanderings
Etymology: Blend of Gerry + salamander. Elbridge Gerry was the governor of Massachusetts (1812) and associated with a constituency said to be shaped like a salamander with the political boundaries modified for political purposes by Gerry.
Despite Gerry's surname beginning with a hard G (/ɡ/), gerrymandering is typically pronounced with a soft G (/d͡ʒ/), as a spelling pronunciation.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The practice of redrawing electoral districts to gain an electoral advantage for a political party.
gerrymandering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛriːˌmændəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdʒɛɹɪjˌmandəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdʒɛɹiˌmændəɹɪŋ/
Etymology: Blend of Gerry + salamander. Elbridge Gerry was the governor of Massachusetts (1812) and associated with a constituency said to be shaped like a salamander with the political boundaries modified for political purposes by Gerry.
Despite Gerry's surname beginning with a hard G (/ɡ/), gerrymandering is typically pronounced with a soft G (/d͡ʒ/), as a spelling pronunciation.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gerrymander
single transferable vote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single transferable votes
Senses: glosses: A multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked ballot.
technopoly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɛkˈnɒpəli/
Forms: form: technopolies
Etymology: From techno- + -poly, coined by American writer and academic Neil Postman in Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992).
Senses: examples: text: In formulating such questions, Graham builds on an earlier critique of ‘technopoly’ by Neil Postman, who suggested that we should always ask of any new technology the following question: what is the problem to which it is a solution? Postman defined technopoly as ‘a state of culture’.
ref: 2016, Marilyn Deegan, Kathryn Sutherland, Transferred Illusions: Digital Technology and the Forms of Print, Routledge, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: The cultural state of mind that assumes technology is always positive and of value.
cumulative voting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A voting system based on voters awarding their allocation of points to candidates.
state of mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: states of mind
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: headspace
text: I know what I'm needing / And I don't want to waste more time / I'm in a New York state of mind
ref: 1976, Billy Joel, “New York State of Mind”, in Turnstiles:
text: Well, I've committed a funky crime / against a state of mind
ref: 1987, Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Funky Crime”, in The Uplift Mofo Party Plan:
synonyms: frame of mind
glosses: The psychological state of someone's cognitive processes at a certain time; the condition or character of a person's thoughts or feelings.
Derived terms: being poor is a state of mind
poor is a state of mind
poorness is a state of mind
poverty is a state of mind
Related terms: state of being
STV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: STVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of single transferable vote.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of subscription television.
STV
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of straight to video.
STV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Scottish Television.
inhibitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhɪbɪtɚ/
Forms: form: inhibitors
Etymology: From inhibit + -or.
Senses: examples: text: I found daily meditation to be a useful inhibitor of negative thoughts.
glosses: One who, or that which, inhibits.
examples: text: The class of antidepressants most commonly associated with sexual dysfunction is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which treat depression by ultimately increasing levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain. […] A common solution is switching to bupropion, which is a norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitor, or NDRI.
ref: 2024 March 21, Kristen Rogers, “If antidepressants are killing your sex life, here’s what you can do”, in CNN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific biological process.
Derived terms: word: inhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: angioinhibitor
sense: Compound words
word: carbidopa
sense: Compound words
word: cathelin
sense: Compound words
word: coinhibitor
sense: Compound words
word: isoinhibitor
sense: Compound words
word: neuroinhibitor
sense: Compound words
word: noninhibitor
sense: Compound words
word: ovoinhibitor
sense: Compound words
word: proinhibitor
sense: Compound words
word: salirasib
sense: Compound words
word: sympathoinhibitor
sense: Compound words
word: vasoinhibitor
sense: Compound words
word: vigabatrin
sense: Expressions
word: ACE inhibitor
sense: Expressions
word: Bowman-Birk protease inhibitor
sense: Expressions
word: enzyme inhibitor
sense: Expressions
word: protease inhibitor
sense: Expressions
word: proton-pump inhibitor
sense: Expressions
word: proton pump inhibitor
sense: Expressions
word: puberty inhibitor
sense: Expressions
word: selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
sense: Expressions
word: serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor
sense: Expressions
word: TNF inhibitor
Related terms: catalyst
inhibitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From late 15th century (early modern English). Formed as inhibit + -ory or adapted from Medieval Latin inhibitōrius and Middle French inhibitoire.
Senses: examples: text: the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center
text: Numerous experiments show that the brain exercises an inhibitory action over the reflex movements, and that the more active that organ, the more they are under control.
ref: 29 October 1886, Charles Richet, "A Psychological Study of Fear", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 29
glosses: That inhibits.
glosses: Of, or relating to an inhibitor.
Synonyms: inhibitive
Derived terms: sense: Compound words
word: angioinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: autoinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: cardioinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: cilioinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: coinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: disinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: immunoinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: interinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: mitoinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: myoinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: neuroinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: noninhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: osteoinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: photoinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: postinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: subinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: superinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: sympathoinhibitory
sense: Compound words
word: vasoinhibitory
sense: Expressions
word: cross-inhibitory
sense: Expressions
word: inhibitory fibre
sense: Expressions
word: inhibitory-motor
sense: Expressions
word: inhibitory nerve
sense: Expressions
word: inhibitory obsession
sense: Expressions
word: inhibitory postsynaptic current
sense: Expressions
word: inhibitory postsynaptic potential
sense: Expressions
word: inhibitory synapse
sense: Expressions
word: minimum inhibitory concentration
IRV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of instant runoff voting.
culture medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culture media
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A liquid or gel, containing nutrients, that is used to cultivate microorganisms.
Synonyms: growth medium
growth medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: growth media
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A culture medium.
4-H Club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-H Clubs
form: Four-H Club
Etymology: The H's stand for hands, heart, head and health.
Senses: glosses: A youth organization supported and sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture, offering courses and lessons in agriculture and home economics.
give cry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives cry
form: giving cry
form: gave cry
form: given cry
Senses: examples: text: The journalists gave cry after the Prince, like a pack of hounds when they strike the trail of a fox.
ref: 1891 July 25, The Review of Reviews:
text: It is, in my belief, an artificial, man-made development in hounds, since it exists only in rudimentary form in other dogs, foxes, and wolves, which are said sometimes to give cry when hunting their game.
ref: 1937, Joseph Brown Thomas, Hounds and hunting through the ages:
glosses: To cry out.
chi-ike
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: qualifier: costermongers' slang
glosses: Used as a salute or word of praise.
chi-ike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chi-ikes
Senses: examples: text: I lifted my lamps and saw BILLY. We did a good chi-ike, you bet!
“Watcher, BILLY, old buster!” says I,[…]
ref: 2006, Edwin James Milliken, edited by Patricia Marks, The ′Arry Ballads: An Annotated Collection of the Verse Letters by Punch Editor E.J. Milliken, page 95:
glosses: A hearty, often light-heartedly sarcastic, greeting.
glosses: A noisy hubbub
chi-ike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chi-ikes
form: chi-iking
form: chi-iked
form: chi-iked
Senses: examples: text: Uncle Frank wouldn′t have liked it, and I knew how the chaps would laugh and chi-ike me for chumming up with a silly old Chinky.
ref: 1924, “Causeway”, in Neville Braybrooke, editor, The Wind and the Rain, page 21:
text: Round about us windows began to bang upwards; a policeman on the corner looked away, pretending not to hear; a couple of tarts started to chi-ike us and then shut up suddenly.
ref: 1939, Nicholas Monsarrat, This Is the Schoolroom, published 2000, page 8:
glosses: To mock or jeer; to chiack.
brine shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brine shrimp
form: brine shrimps
Senses: glosses: An aquatic crustacean of the taxonomic genus Artemia, one species of which is often marketed under the name Sea-Monkeys as a novelty gift.
Related terms: fairy shrimp
gonopoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gono- + -poietic.
Senses: glosses: Producing germ cells.
gon
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡən/
ipa: /ɡoʊn/
ipa: /ɡɔn/
ipa: [ɡõ(ʊ)]
Etymology: Clipping of gonna. Compare Middle English gon, dialectal gan, Dutch gaan.
Senses: examples: text: I’m gon be there around four.
glosses: Alternative form of gonna.
gon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡən/
ipa: /ɡoʊn/
ipa: /ɡɔn/
ipa: [ɡõ(ʊ)]
Forms: form: gons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “angle”). More in Wikipedia at gradian § History and name.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: One hundredth of a right angle: a gradian.
Related terms: goniometry and other derivatives of gonio-
gon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡən/
ipa: /ɡoʊn/
ipa: /ɡɔn/
ipa: [ɡõ(ʊ)]
Forms: form: gons
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Abbreviation of gondola car.
gonotheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonothecae
Etymology: From gono- + theca.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The protective covering of a gonangium.
Derived terms: gonothecal
good-fellowship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Boys do hate each other: I remember it, and see it again. They can make strong isolated friendships, but of general good-fellowship they haven’t a notion.
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVIII [Uniform ed., p. 192]
glosses: The spirit of goodwill that exists among friends; comradeship.
good-king-henry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Good King Henry.
good-lookingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goodlookingness
Etymology: From good-looking + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: According to the criteria of good-lookingness, Uncle Pete deserved an A.
ref: 2001, James Hutchison, James' Journey: From the Scottish Highlands Via New York and Texas to Mars and Beyond, page 150:
text: Last, in acknowledgment of his even better good-lookingness, I remember that I can't claim the same.
ref: 2016, Liora Blake, First Step Forward, page 61:
glosses: The quality or state of being good-looking; attractiveness, beauty.
good-neighborliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good-neighbourliness
Etymology: From good + neighbor + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being good neighbors
glosses: friendship and cooperation with, and noninterference in the internal affairs of another country
Related terms: word: good-neighbourly
good-time Charlie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good-time Charlies
form: goodtime Charlie
form: good time Charlie
form: good-time Charley
form: goodtime Charley
form: good time Charley
Senses: examples: text: just a good-time Charlie, borrowing two bucks here and five bucks there
ref: a. 1956, Walter Karig, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: I couldn't be a good-time Charlie ... when I was a kid I was taught not to talk or joke or laugh at the table
ref: 1956, A. J. Liebling, The Sweet Science: Boxing and Boxiana:
text: You listen to me, you find yourself a nice, substantial man—a widower maybe—and settle down—instead of nashing all those sleeping pills—for what, for whom? – for some Good Time Charlie?
ref: 1960, Billy Wilder, The Apartment:
antonyms: Alibi Ike
Billy no mates
doubting Thomas
gloomy Gus
nervous Nellie
plain Jane
Silent Sam
hypernyms: good-timer
coordinate_terms: good-time girl
glosses: An affable or happy-go-lucky carefree convivial man.
Related terms: good times
Dapper Dan
Gentleman Jim
Hooray Henry
Goodyear welt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Goodyear welts
Etymology: After Charles Goodyear Jr., who was involved in making shoes of this kind.
Senses: glosses: A welt used in a method of shoe construction in which the insole, upper, and welt are sewn together and the welt is then stitched to the outsole so as to leave the upper surface of the insole free of tacks and stitches.
goofer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: goofers
Etymology: From goof + -er.
Senses: examples: text: had a considerable understanding of goofers because ... he was a little goofy himself
ref: 1954, Esther Forbes, Rainbow on the Road:
glosses: A person who goofs
Derived terms: goofer dust
goofer dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A powder used to cast a spell in hoodoo practices.
goofy-foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the way the Disney character Goofy was first depicted surfing, with right foot forward.
Senses: glosses: A surfer or skateboarder (often left-handed) who surfs or skateboards with the right foot forward.
Related terms: goofy-footed
organoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more organoid
form: most organoid
Etymology: From organ + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling an organ of the body.
organoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organoids
Etymology: From organ + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organelle.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mass of cells, either artificially grown in vitro to simulate an organ or an abnormal mass that resembles an organ in structural appearance or qualities, such as a tumour.
gooney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gooneys
form: goonies
form: goonie
form: goony
Senses: synonyms: gooney bird
glosses: Any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes) and the Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis), that dwell primarily on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
glosses: a foolish, silly or awkward person or thing; a goon.
Derived terms: goon
goral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: gorals
form: ghoral
form: ghooral
form: ghural
form: gooral
form: goorul
form: gural
Etymology: Likely an early borrowing from Nepali घोरल (ghoral, “Himalayan goral”) or a related language.
Senses: examples: text: The goral has a wide distribution, from the Indus Kohistan region in the western Himalaya in Pakistan, across the eastern Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, China and in a few scattered areas in South Korea, North Korea, eastern Russia and the adjoining regions of China.
ref: 2004, A. J. T. Johnsingh, On Jim Corbett's Trail and Other Tales from Tree-tops, page 62:
text: The gorals of Shanxi, sometimes separated as a taxon vidianus, fall into the range of N. griseus.
ref: 2011, Colin Groves, Peter Grubb, Ungulate Taxonomy, page 251:
text: The goral is a ruminant (cud chewer) closely related to the serow, but it is distinguished from the serow by peculiarities in its skull form as well as by its smaller size, shorter horns, and absence of conspicuous preorbital glands.
ref: 2011, John P. Rafferty, Grazers, page 145:
glosses: A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus.
Derived terms: Chinese goral
gray goral
Himalayan goral
long-tailed goral
red goral
gooranut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gooranuts
Etymology: Uncertain. Compare Hausa gōr̃ò, Bambara goro, Mandinka guro (“kola nut”).
Senses: glosses: The kola nut, Cola acuminata
gooseberry rust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: any of several parasitic fungi that grow on gooseberry bushes
Synonyms: blister rust
pelican flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelican flowers
Senses: glosses: Any of several tropical vines of the genus Aristolochia (especially Aristolochia grandiflora) the shape of whose flowers suggests a pelican
goose-rumped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: having a steep, sloping croup, a narrow rump, and a low set to the tail
raw_tags: of a horse or donkey etc
gopher ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gopher balls
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitched ball hit for a home run.
gopher wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gopherwood
Etymology: From גפר, found in Genesis 6:14. Unrelated to the North American animal. Sometimes hypothesized to be ultimately cognate to English cypress, the wood itself being such or related to the tree.
Senses: examples: text: Make thee an ark of gopher wood.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 6:14:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The unidentified wood used in the construction of Noah's Ark.
Synonyms: word: cypress wood
word: gopher-wood
english: terms used in other English versions of the Bible
translation: terms used in other English versions of the Bible
word: timber planks
gopura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gopuras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gopuram.
grody
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊdi/
rhymes: -əʊdi
Forms: form: grodier
form: grodiest
form: groady
Etymology: From groady, apparently a clipping of grotesque + -y (intervocalic /t/ and /d/ are similar in American English). Compare British grotty, of the same origin, and gro.
Popularized by Moon Unit Zappa in song "Valley Girl" (1982) in phrase "grody to the max", as archetypal Southern California Valleyspeak; song also popularized "gag me with a spoon".
Senses: examples: text: I wouldn't set foot in that bar; the floor looks grody.
text: And the lady, like, goes / "Oh, my god, your toenails are, like, so grody" / […] / It’s like grody / Grody to the max / […] / Gross!
ref: 1982, Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa, “Valley Girl”, in Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch:
text: Oh wait. It's just grody and rotten. The Cheat, will you please freaking clean up after yourself?
ref: 2002 October 31, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #48: ghosts”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):
glosses: Nasty, dirty, disgusting, foul, revolting, yucky, grotesque.
wikipedia: Moon Unit Zappa
Valleyspeak
Derived terms: grodiness
Related terms: grotty
gro
exonumia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exonumia
Etymology: From exo- (“out of”) + Latin nummus (“coin”).
Senses: glosses: Coinlike objects.
glosses: Study and/or collection of such.
Synonyms: paranumismatica
Derived terms: exonumist
Deep Throat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Deep Throats
Etymology: First used as the secret identity of W. Mark Felt, who used this alias to supply reporters with valuable information about the Watergate scandal.
Senses: glosses: A secret informant possessing valuable information, especially one who stays secret long after the incident in question is concluded.
numismatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From numismatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of coins or currency.
Related terms: numismatist
gorli oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An oil, produced from the seeds of the gorli shrub, Caloncoba echinata, that has been used in the treatment of leprosy.
Related terms: gorlic acid
X-chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-chairs
Senses: glosses: A folding chair with an X-shaped frame.
Synonyms: Dante chair
Luther chair
Savonarola chair
Related terms: Dantesca chair
xenogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɛnəʊˈd͡ʒɛnəsɪs/
Forms: form: xenogeneses
Etymology: From xeno- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: A foreign origin or source.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The production of an offspring that is unlike either of its parents.
Synonyms: sense: Of both definitions
word: xenogeny
sense: Of the biological definition only
word: heterogenesis
Derived terms: xenogenetic
xenodochium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɛn.əʊˈdəʊ.ki.əm/
ipa: /ˌzɛn.əˈdəʊ.ki.əm/
ipa: /ˌzɛn.oʊˈdoʊ.ki.əm/
ipa: /ˌzɛn.əˈdoʊ.ki.əm/
Forms: form: xenodochia
form: xenodochiums
form: xenodocheion
form: xenodocheum
Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek ξενοδοχεῖον (xenodokheîon, “place for strangers, inn”) from ξένος (xénos, “guest, stranger, foreigner”) + δέχομαι (dékhomai, “receive, accept”).
Senses: examples: text: Gregory the Great orders that the accounts of xenodochia should be audited by the bishop (Epist. iv. 27).
ref: 1892, William Bright, The Canons of the First Four General Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus and Chalcedon, 2nd edition, page 184:
text: There is, first, the xenodochium, to provide lodging for passing strangers, pilgrims, travellers, refugees, exiles of all kinds, like the one founded at Ostia by Pammachius and Fabiola for all who were embarking or landing.
ref: 1961, Michel Riquet, Christian Charity in Action, page 64:
text: His and his uncle Johannes de Curte's principal gift to Monte Cassino was a xenodochium or "hospitale" to house the pilgrims who, in great numbers, visited the famous shrine of the Archangel Michael.
ref: 1986, Herbert Bloch, Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages, page 288:
glosses: A room (or separate guesthouse) in a monastery for the temporary accommodation of guests or pilgrims.
Related terms: xenodochial
xenodochy
affaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affaires
Senses: examples: text: M. Secretarie hath this accustomed maner, though his head be neuer so full of most weightie affaires of the Realme, yet, at diner time he doth seeme to lay them alwaies aside
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, A Preface to the Reader:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of affair.
infidelity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnfɪˈdɛlɪti/
Forms: form: infidelities
Etymology: From Middle English infidelite, from Middle French infidelité (modern French infidélité) and its etymon Latin īnfidēlitās. Equivalent to infidel + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Your friends tell you rumors about your girlfriend's infidelity or you remember being broken up around the time the baby was conceived.
ref: 2013, William G. Staples, Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: Unfaithfulness in a marriage or an intimate (sexual or romantic) relationship: practice or instance of having a sexual or romantic affair with someone other than one's spouse, without the consent of the spouse.
examples: text: It was disastrous that England's infidelity towards Frederick the Great — which no one, not even a German, condemned more strongly than did William Pitt — had to affect one of the most popular heroes of our national history.
ref: 1937, Arnold Oskar Meyer, England in German opinion throughout the centuries, page 6:
glosses: Unfaithfulness in some other moral obligation.
examples: text: The means used to this purpose are partly didactical, and partly protreptical; demonstrating the truth of the gospel, and then urging the professors of those truths to be stedfast^([sic]) in the faith, and to beware of infidelity.
ref: 1674, Seth Ward, Seven Sermons:
glosses: Lack of religious belief.
Synonyms: sense: marital
word: Synonyms: adultery
word: cuckoldry
sense: moral
word: betrayal
sense: religious
word: faithlessness
Related terms: sense: religious
word: infidel
polemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɛmɪkəl/
ipa: /pəˈlemɪkəl/
Forms: form: more polemical
form: most polemical
form: polemicall
Etymology: From polemic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: […] in order to give a comprehensive critical and polemical analysis of the Dictionary in question, a whole book would be needed.
ref: 1996, Igor Diakonoff, Leonid Kogan, “Addenda et Corrigenda to Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary by V. Orel and O. Stolbova”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 146, page 25:
text: Bachelard has given a clear analysis of the "Atlas complex", a polemical complex and schema of verticalising effort or elevation, accompanied by a feeling of monarchical contemplation which diminishes the world so as better to glorify the gigantic, and the ambition inherent in ascensional reveries.
ref: 1999, Gilbert Durand, The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary, page 154:
glosses: Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.
Being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively.
examples: text: And though the annals of the period do not show us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end of a ballad, in their mouths; and people made a sort of morality of straight hair, long faces, and sad-coloured garments.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 190:
text: Not only are all these allegations worded in an unnecessarily polemical style, they are also simply false
ref: 2012, Craig L. Blomberg, Interpreting the Parables, →ISBN, page 48:
text: Remarkable here is the rather polemical choice of words […]
ref: 2013, Johannes Zachhuber, Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany, →ISBN, page 57:
text: If democratic legitimacy is a principle—and not just a polemical weapon wielded by the left in a selective and self-serving way—then we would have to consider not only the democratic legitimacy of a potential reversal of Roe but also the democratic legitimacy (if any) of the constitutional right to abortion itself.
ref: 2021, Carson Holloway, Dobbs and Democratic Legitimacy, in: Law and Liberty, December 21 2021
text: Correct. That was actually my first internet controversy many years ago, with the kinists, white identitarians — I call them skinists. And I’ve been in polemical firefights with antisemites and actual misogynists, not people who are accused of being that way.
ref: 2025 October 9, Ross Douthat, quoting Doug Wilson, “He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2025:
glosses: Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.
Prone to causing disputes; inclined to causing the expression of opposing opinions, disputatious, contentious, edgy.
Derived terms: nonpolemical
overpolemical
philopolemical
polemically
unpolemical
polemical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɛmɪkəl/
ipa: /pəˈlemɪkəl/
Forms: form: polemicals
form: polemicall
Etymology: From polemic + -al.
Senses: glosses: A diatribe or polemic.
think of England
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thinks of England
form: thinking of England
form: thought of England
form: thought of England
Senses: examples: text: He inspected the ridged tips, spotted a piece of dirt, and spat on the instrument, wiping it dry on his sleeve. ‘Right! Hold still, think of England!’ He pushed the forceps into the wound, following the track of the probe, […]
ref: 1982, Bernard Cornwell, chapter 19, in Sharpe's Company, London: HarperCollins, published 1994, →ISBN, pages 187–188:
text: A strange white-faced man with wild eyes, toupee at a rakish tilt, twisted by cramp, armed with a Lee Enfield. I sloped arms stiffly and marched out of his life; shouting as I left, ‘Don't do it, whatever it is! Lie down, and think of England!’
ref: 1987, William Rushton, Spy Thatcher, London: Pavilion, →ISBN, page 119:
text: Do I have to have sex? All right, I'll do it for Britain. I'll think of England.
ref: 2005, A. Housemate, quoting Abi Titmuss, The Wit and Wisdom of Reality TV, London: Orion, →ISBN, page 101:
text: But Robert had been cheeriness itself, had told them to buck up and think of England, reminding them that moaning wasn’t going to beat the Jerries.
ref: 2012, Margaret James, The Penny Bangle, Harpenden: Choc Lit, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Clipping of close one's eyes and think of England, and its variants.
xiphiplastron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xiphiplastrons
form: xiphiplastra
Etymology: Ancient Greek ξίφος (xíphos, “sword”) + plastron
Senses: glosses: The posterior, or fourth lateral plate in the plastron of a turtle.
Derived terms: xiphiplastral
Boötes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bō-ōʹtēz
ipa: /boʊˈoʊtiːz/
Forms: form: Bootes
Etymology: From Latin Boōtēs, the constellation, from Ancient Greek Βοώτης (Boṓtēs).
Senses: examples: text: when my name and honor ſhall be ſpread,
As far as Boreas claps his braſen wings,
Or faire Botëes ſends his cheerefull light.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
text: These fringes of lamplight, struggling up through smoke and thousandfold exhalation, some fathoms into the ancient reign of Night, what thinks Boötes of them, as he leads his Hunting-Dogs over the Zenith in their leash of sidereal fire?
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Reminiscences”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 14:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, called the “bear-guard” or the “herdsman”. It includes the fourth-brightest star in the night sky, Arcturus.
Related terms: Boötid
Boötis
napa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: napas
form: nappa
Etymology: From the regional and colloquial Japanese term 菜っ葉 (nappa, “leaves of any vegetable”).
Senses: glosses: Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage.
Synonyms: celery cabbage
napa cabbage
napa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: napas
form: nappa
Etymology: From Napa, California, where the process of making napa leather was created.
Senses: glosses: napa leather
Ceto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːtoʊ/
rhymes: -iːtoʊ
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κητώ (Kētṓ); see also κῆτος (kêtos, “sea monster”). Compare Cetus.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A primordial sea goddess, wife of Phorcys and mother of numerous monsters including Echidna and the gorgons.
glosses: The trans-Neptunian object 65489 Ceto.
Related terms: Cetus
Mira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1662, from Latin mīrus (“wonderful, surprising”).
Senses: examples: text: The favoured explanation, adopted by Maraldi, was based on the assumption that the star was rotating and composed of two different parts, a bright and a dark region; if so, it might only be visible when the bright region turned towards Earth. Whatever the explanation, Mira had puzzled the astronomers because of its random character and the irregular periods between its observations.
ref: 2008, Helge Kragh, The Moon that Wasn't: The Saga of Venus' Spurious Satellite, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 80:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: Omicron Ceti
hypernyms: binary star
glosses: A binary star in the constellation Cetus, Omicron (ο) Ceti. The system contains a variable red giant and a white dwarf. Its brightness varies from a magnitude 2 at its brightest to a magnitude 10 at its dimmest.
Mira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * Borrowed from Hindi मीरा (mīrā), name of a 16th century Indian poetess, also affectionately called Mirabai.
* As occasionally borne by anglophones in the West, the name may also be borrowed from Slavic, or be a short form of Miranda.
Senses: glosses: Mirabai, a 16th-century Indian poetess.
examples: text: Dorothy's daughters were of exceptional beauty and the sisters could complain only that the Hindi names Dorothy had chosen - Mira, Leela, Lena - were meant to pass as Western ones.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin Books, published 1977, →ISBN, page 366:
glosses: A female given name from India.
Related terms: Sanchez-Mira
PRATT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PRATTs
Etymology: Initialism of point refuted a thousand times.
Senses: glosses: An often-made but previously debunked argument
of a
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: He always used to dine at my father's house of a Sunday.
ref: 1839, John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart:
text: So, next time they come to me of a morning and ask the same question, what do you think my answer might be?
ref: 2008, Kim Patrick, Rewarding Good Behavior in Children:
glosses: on every; in the (followed by a noun indicating a certain time)
Related terms: of an
Cepheus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːfi.əs/
ipa: /ˈsiːfjuːs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κηφεύς (Kēpheús).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Husband of Cassiopeia, king of Eritrea, father of Andromeda. There may be two mythical kings by this name.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, located between Draco and Cassiopeia and representing the king Cepheus from Greek myth. It contains the star Alderamin.
Derived terms: Cephei
cepheid
Cepheid variable
Cassiopeia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæs.i.əˈpiː.ə/
enpr: kăs′ē-ō-pē′yə
Forms: form: Cassiope
Etymology: From Latin Cassiopēia, from Ancient Greek Κασσιόπεια (Kassiópeia) or Κασσιόπη (Kassiópē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Proud wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda, queen of Ethiopia. When she boasted that her beauty was equal to that of the Nereids, she was punished by Poseidon.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky representing Queen Cassiopeia from Greek myth, lying between the constellations Cepheus and Perseus.
Meronyms: sense: constellation
word: Achird
sense: constellation
word: Caph
sense: constellation
word: Fulu
sense: constellation
word: Ruchbah
sense: constellation
word: Schedar
sense: constellation
word: Segin
Derived terms: sense: constellation
english: abbreviated form
translation: abbreviated form
word: Cas
sense: constellation
english: Latin genitive form
translation: Latin genitive form
word: Cassiopeiae
word: Cassiopeia's Chair