cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
copulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copulators
Etymology: From copulate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Someone who has sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: word: baller
word: bedder
word: consummator
word: copulator
word: fucker
word: humper
word: intercourser
word: lovemaker
word: lover
word: shagger
Hypernyms: word: libertine
word: partner
word: person
word: sex partner
Hyponyms: word: prostitute
word: sexbot
word: sexual partner
word: fornicator
word: fornicatrix
word: fornicatress
word: sister humper
Derived terms: copulatress
Related terms: word: copulate
word: copulation
underpainting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpaintings
Etymology: From under- + painting.
Senses: examples: text: He would start with a stenciled acrylic underpainting and finish by making marks with the chalk and charcoal shells.
ref: 2007 May 13, Carol Kino, “Something There Is That Loves a Wall”, in New York Times:
topics: art
arts
glosses: An initial layer of paint, often monochromatic, applied to a ground as a base for subsequent layers.
examples: text: At first they wouldn't believe him, but he gave them proof. X-ray the Adulteress, he told them, and you will find an underpainting. They did and found the underpainting van Meegeren had described.
ref: 2012, Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A painting that the artist later painted over to create the final work.
underpainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From underpaint + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underpaint
underpaintings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpainting
unsusceptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsusceptible
form: most unsusceptible
Etymology: From un- + susceptible.
Senses: examples: text: Imagination, a licentious and vagrant faculty, unsusceptible of limitations, and impatient of restraint, has always endeavored to baffle the logician, to perplex the confines of distinction, and burst the enclosures of regularity.
ref: 1751 May 28, Samuel Johnson, “Samuel Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose”, in Frank Brady, W. K. Wimsatt, editors, The Rambler, Berkeley: University of California Press, page 202:
text: Mortals, rejoice! the very Angels quit
Their mansions unsusceptible of change,
Amid your pleasant bowers to sit,
And through your sweet vicissitudes to range!
ref: 1817, William Wordsworth, Vernal Ode, Stanza III:
text: It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten by their first “conviction of sin.”
ref: 1873, John Stuart Mill, chapter 5, in Autobiography:
text: Of all social phenomena none is perhaps as protean and, consequently, as unsusceptible to binary classification as religion.
ref: 1994, José Casanova, chapter 2, in Public Religions in the Modern World, University of Chicago Press, page 40:
text: For the uninitiated or unsusceptible, it’s a dog thing: you wouldn’t understand.
ref: 2007 May 13, Liesl Schillinger, “The Year of the Dog”, in New York Times:
synonyms: insusceptible
glosses: Not susceptible.
wyfe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wyves
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of wife.
wyves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wyfe
insulationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insulationists
Etymology: From insulation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: WASHINGTON, May 13 (Bloomberg News) — Senator Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican, said Sunday that his party had “been hijacked by a group of single-minded, almost isolationist insulationists, power-projectors.”
ref: 2007 May 14, Bloomberg News, “Hagel ‘Not Happy’ With Republican Party”, in New York Times:
glosses: A supporter of insulationism.
insulationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insulationist
prerock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + rock.
Senses: examples: text: The prerock tradition has acquired so many layers of cultural implication that singers who take it too seriously tend to sound more like curators than entertainers.
ref: 2007 May 14, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before the advent of rock music.
recitativelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recitativelike
form: most recitativelike
Etymology: From recitative + -like.
Senses: examples: text: There is recitativelike declamation, lingering melodiousness and rushes of busy passagework.
ref: 2007 May 14, Bernard Holland, “A Performance Operatic in Its Scope (Opera Not Included)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a recitative.
ungimmicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungimmicky
form: most ungimmicky
Etymology: From un- + gimmicky.
Senses: examples: text: But their differences add to the intensity in a^([sic]) entirely ungimmicky way.
ref: 2007 May 14, Jennifer Dunning, “Dancemakers’ Urgent Visions Echo in a Harlem Landmark”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not gimmicky.
ductlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ductlike
form: most ductlike
Etymology: From duct + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But this cavern almost measureless to the eye, stuffed as it is with an Eiffel Tower’s worth of metal, eight-story wheels of gold fan-shape boxes, thousands of miles of wire and fat ductlike coils, echoes with the shriek of power tools, the whine of pumps and cranes, beeps and clanks from wrenches, hammers, screwdrivers and the occasional falling bolt.
ref: 2007 May 15, Dennis Overbye, “A Giant Takes On Physics’ Biggest Questions”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a duct.
cremor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cremors
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cremor; compare cream.
Senses: glosses: cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum
doughtily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more doughtily
form: most doughtily
Etymology: From doughty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her loyal subjects need her, and so she doughtily broods on.
ref: 2007 May 15, Natalie Angier, “In Hive or Castle, Duty Without Power”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a doughty manner.
doughtiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊtinəs/
Etymology: From Middle English douȝtines; equivalent to doughty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being doughty.
cremator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cremators
Etymology: From cremate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes.
anywhen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From any + when.
Senses: glosses: whenever, at any point in time
Elks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Elk
Elks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
dots the i's and crosses the t's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dot the i's and cross the t's
dotting the i's and crossing the t's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dot the i's and cross the t's
dotted the i's and crossed the t's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dot the i's and cross the t's
boil the ocean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boils the ocean
form: boiling the ocean
form: boiled the ocean
form: boiled the ocean
Senses: examples: text: Whitman said she will not try to "boil the ocean" by taking on too much.
ref: 2010 March 9, “Whitman defines herself as the un-Schwarzenegger”, in ABC News:
glosses: To undertake an overwhelmingly difficult task or approach to a problem.
Louisiana Creole French
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Louisiana Creole.
synonyms: word: Louisiana Creole
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Louisiana Creole terms
lou ⁠
Fraserburgh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: "Burgh of Fraser," from Fraser + burgh.
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in the north of Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ9966).
Related terms: word: Brocher
waiting game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waiting games
Senses: examples: text: to play the waiting game
text: […] inasmuch as nothing was really and rationally to be hoped for but a long continuance of the siege and wearying out of the English, they were naturally a little afraid of Joan's impetuous notions. He said— “You see, we are sure that the waiting game is the best, whereas you would carry everything by storm.”
ref: 1895 November, Louis de Conte, translated by [Jean François Alden] [pseudonyms; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)], “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. […]”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XCI, number DXLVI, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →ISSN, [book I], part II, chapter 20, page 880:
text: With Sam the only menace, I had been prepared to play a purely waiting game, watching proceedings from afar, ready to give my help if necessary.
ref: 1913, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in The Little Nugget:
text: It was a waiting game, and whichever waited the longer was bound to win.
ref: 1914, Jack London, “The Siege of the Lancashire Queen”, in Tales of the Fish Patrol:
text: I hear a voice but it's not yours / I count the score / I can't go on playing the waiting game
ref: 1989, Andy Connell, Corinne Drewery, “Waiting Game”, performed by Swing Out Sister:
text: Arafat and Sharon have both been playing a waiting game since the Israeli leader's election a year ago.
ref: 2002 February 20, Tony Karon, “New Violence Deepens Sharon's Crisis”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2010:
glosses: A strategy or course of action in which one or more parties refrain from direct action until circumstances change in their favor.
filestore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filestores
Etymology: From file + store.
Senses: examples: text: The manipulation of files and related data in an OSI environment is achieved by mapping the real filestores of real systems on to virtual filestores that have standard interfaces to the OSI communications networks.
ref: 1994, Andy Sloane, Computer communications: principles and business applications, page 200:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A conceptual space where files are stored.
filestores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filestore
unconfidently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unconfidently
form: most unconfidently
Etymology: From unconfident + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I guessed, rather unconfidently.
ref: 2009 July 8, Philip Bobbitt, “Calculus and Compassion”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an unconfident manner; without confidence.
Newcastleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /njuˈkasəltən/
Etymology: From new + Castleton, being previously named Castleton.
Senses: glosses: A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, also known as Copshaw Holm, or Copshie in Scots.
Selkirk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛlkɪɹk/
Etymology: From Old English sǣl (“hall”) + cirice (“church”).
Senses: glosses: A town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, and the former county town of Selkirkshire (OS grid ref NT4728).
glosses: A city in Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: A community in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wichita County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in New Madrid County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A hamlet in the town of Bethlehem, Albany County, New York, United States.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Selkirkian
Selkirkshire
Related terms: word: Souter
Denholm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛnəm/
Forms: form: Denholms
form: Denholme
Etymology: From Old English dene (“valley”) + holm (“islet”).
Senses: glosses: A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT568184).
glosses: A municipality in Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
declamator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: declamators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēclāmātor.
Senses: examples: text: a light Declamator
ref: 1609, Francis Walshingham, Search made into matters of religion:
glosses: A declaimer.
distent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtɛnt/
Forms: form: more distent
form: most distent
Etymology: From Latin distentus.
Senses: examples: text: Some others were new driven, and distent
Into great ingowes
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The North-east spends his rage; he now shut up
Within his iron cave, the effusive South
Warms the wide air, and o'er the void of heaven
Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers distent.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: distended
distent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtɛnt/
Forms: form: distents
Etymology: From Latin distentus.
Senses: examples: text: […]shall yet be distended, one fourteenth part longer then the sayd entire Diameter; which addition of distent will conferre much to their Beauty, and detract but little from their Strength
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
glosses: breadth
dister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: disters
form: disterring
form: disterred
form: disterred
Etymology: From Latin dis- + terra (“earth, country”); compare Spanish and Portuguese desterrar.
Senses: examples: March 1 1621, James Howell, letter to Dr. Francis Mansel
many thousands were disterred and banished hence to Barbary
glosses: To banish or drive from a country.
emigrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emigrators
Etymology: From emigrate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Someone who emigrates; an emigrant.
war of nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wars of nerves
Senses: examples: text: Our brave Ottoman soldiers are not easily frightened by noise, owing to their splendid nerves—and this is a war of nerves, a war in which strong nerves mean victory.
ref: 1915, Liman von Sanders Pasha, Field Marshal of Turkish forces at Gallipoli, quoted in "Says Turks Will Soon Expel British," New York Times, 9 Aug., p. 2 (retrieved 24 Aug. 2010)
text: In the future, war will not merely be one of men and machines, it will be a war of wills and a war of nerves.
ref: 1939, Sir John Anderson quoted in "Women's Service if War Comes," Glasgow Herald, 11 May (retrieved 24 Aug. 2010)
synonyms: psychological warfare
hypernyms: psyops[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous>
glosses: Warfare characterized by psychological manipulation, involving tactics intended to demoralize, frighten, and unnerve opponents in order to prompt surrender.
examples: text: A united steel industry appeared to have emerged the victor today in a war of nerves to raise prices on some of its products in the face of White House pressure to hold the price line.
ref: 1966 August 5, “Steel Industry Appears To Be Victor in Battle of Prices”, in The Free Lance-Star, USA, retrieved 24 Aug 2010, page 1:
text: 14 of America's best chess players are wielding kings, queens and their chessboard servants in a silent but brutal war. . . . "It's a mental war, it's a war of nerves, of logic, or reasoning, of being a good fighter," said Walter Browne.
ref: 1983 July 18, “Small Town Host Big Time Chess Tourney”, in Daytona Beach Morning Journal, retrieved 24 Aug 2010, page 8A:
text: "We assume that a dangerous brinkmanship, a war of nerves, is under way, but it will not grow into a hot war," the official told Tass.
ref: 2009 May 27, Oleg Shchedrov, “Russia fears Korea conflict could go nuclear”, in Reuters India, retrieved 24 Aug 2010:
synonyms: psyops
psychological warfare
glosses: A situation in which opposed parties refrain from direct conflict but maintain a tense, contentious relationship in which each uses annoyances or intimidating psychological tactics to attempt to dishearten and unnerve the other.
carsaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carsafs
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چارشف.
Senses: examples: text: A young woman in a traditional black carsaf waited for the call to midday prayer on Friday outside the Mevlana Mosque in central Konya.
ref: 2007 May 15, Sabrina Tavernise, “Turkish City Counters Fear of Islam’s Reach”, in New York Times:
glosses: A large sheet-like wrapper worn over other garments in several Muslim cultures.
carsafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carsaf
overbidder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overbidders
Etymology: From overbid + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When he is hugging grandmothers or quizzing college students or consoling anguished overbidders on the set of “The Price Is Right,” it is hard to imagine that anything as crass as ambition is what motivates Bob Barker.
ref: 2007 May 15, Edward Wyatt, “Bob Barker, 50 (on TV), Is to Be in Two Specials”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who overbids.
anguishedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anguishedly
form: most anguishedly
Etymology: From anguished + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an anguished manner.
overbidders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overbidder
postmarket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + market.
Senses: examples: text: “There’s no health-outcome data collected by anybody other than some voluntary reporting, and there’s no postmarket testing on how these drugs are being used,” said Susan Berke Fogel, co-founder of the Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Research, a project of the Public Health Institute in Oakland, Calif.
ref: 2007 May 15, Roni Caryn Rabin, “As Demand for Donor Eggs Soars, High Prices Stir Ethical Concerns”, in New York Times:
glosses: After the release of a product onto the market.
ratchetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ratchetlike
form: most ratchetlike
Etymology: From ratchet + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Tiny upward-facing hairs on the lower portion of the awns have a ratchetlike function, preventing the awns from backsliding once they’ve moved.
ref: 2007 May 15, Henry Fountain, “How a Vast Ice Sheet Put the Squeeze on Earth (and Its Gravity)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a ratchet.
regalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From regal + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She’s majestic, all right, her regalness clearly born, made and thrust upon her every day of her life.
ref: 2007 May 15, Natalie Angier, “In Hive or Castle, Duty Without Power”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being regal.
unpompous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpompous
form: most unpompous
Etymology: From un- + pompous.
Senses: examples: text: Such sober poise and unpompous stances!
ref: 2007 May 15, Natalie Angier, “In Hive or Castle, Duty Without Power”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not pompous.
Derived terms: unpompously
Dick's hatband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nick's hatband
Etymology: Unknown; theories include reference to some local figure named Dick or Nick; to Satan (cf. Old Nick and dickens); and to Richard Cromwell.
Senses: examples: text: A young Lady, the first or second Day of her Marriage, looks as queer as Dick's Hat-Band.
ref: 1742, James Ayres, Sancho at Court, act III, line 44:
text: I am as queer as Dick's hatband; that is, out of spirits, or don't know what ails me.
ref: 1796, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. "Dick"
text: She's sharp as a tack when she wants to be and still tight as Dick's Hatband about her money.
ref: 2014, C.B. McKenzie, Bad Country, page 108:
qualifier: now principally US
glosses: Used in similes as an intensifier, indicating someone or something is extremely strange, tight, etc.
wikipedia: Richard Cromwell
Derived terms: as fine as Dick's hatband
as queer as Dick's hatband
as tight as Dick's hatband
queer as Dick's hatband
tighter than Dick's hatband
queer as Dick's hatband
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A variant (the earliest attested and formerly most common) of the phrase Dick's hatband
Senses: examples: text: A young Lady, the first or second Day of her Marriage, looks as queer as Dick's Hat-Band.
ref: 1742, James Ayres, Sancho at Court, act III, line 44:
glosses: Very queer: very unusual or strange.
Synonyms: strange
Derived terms: as queer as Dick's hatband
unpompously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpompously
form: most unpompously
Etymology: From unpompous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without pomposity.
intercountry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + country.
Senses: examples: text: While individual states and counties will still control domestic adoption, the State Department will become the federal regulating agency in charge of intercountry adoptions.
ref: 2007 May 16, Lynette Clemetson, “Adoptions From Guatemala Face an Uncertain Future”, in New York Times:
glosses: Between countries.
Related terms: intracountry
waitest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: wait + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of wait
disorientations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disorientation
disorientedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disorientedly
form: most disorientedly
Etymology: From disoriented + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disoriented manner.
frustrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frustrators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin frūstrātor. Doublet of frustrater.
Senses: examples: text: Technology will be the ultimate facilitator or frustrator of international crime. In either case, the United States will be at the center as the principal exporter or victim of criminal activity.
ref: 2003, L. R. Scheman, Greater America, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: Someone who frustrates (hinders, thwarts, disconcerts) the plans or aims of another person.
disorientedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disoriented + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being disoriented.
Synonyms: disorientation
tighter than Dick's hatband
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: now principally US
glosses: Alternative form of as tight as Dick's hatband.
tight as Dick's hatband
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: as tight as Dick's hatband
form: tighter than Dick's hatband
Etymology: A variant of the phrase Dick's hatband.
Senses: qualifier: now principally US
glosses: Very tight, whether:
Very tight-fitting.
examples: text: She's sharp as a tack when she wants to be and still tight as Dick's Hatband about her money.
ref: 2014, C.B. McKenzie, Bad Country, page 108:
qualifier: now principally US
glosses: Very tight, whether:
Very tight with money, very stingy.
Synonyms: sense: very tight-fitting
word: clingy
word: figure-hugging
word: tight-fitting
word: close-fitting
sense: very tight with money
word: miserly
word: niggardly
word: s
word: stingy
hypermilitarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hypermilitarize
hypermilitarized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypermilitarized
form: most hypermilitarized
Senses: examples: text: But the fact of the matter is that Russia does object to the plan, many European allies are nervous, and the whole idea could reinforce the global image of the United States as a hypermilitarized, go-it-alone superpower.
ref: 2007 May 17, Michael O'Hanlon, “A Defense We Just Don’t Need (Yet)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Militarized to an extreme degree.
as fine as Dick's hatband
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A variant of the phrase Dick's hatband
Senses: qualifier: now principally US
glosses: Very fine: very good or well-made.
Synonyms: good
repat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repats
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most important things you can do as a repat is to help in the reunification of the churches, much more so than anything you’re doing in television or business.
ref: 2007 May 17, Sophia Kishkovsky, “2 Russian Churches, Split by War, Reuniting”, in New York Times:
text: Becoming a “repat” felt empowering to Mr. Mahdi as a Black Muslim, he said.
ref: 2024 February 16, Colette Coleman, “Blaxit: Tired of Racism, Black Americans Try Life in Africa”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A repatriate.
repats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repat
semitragic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + tragic.
Senses: examples: text: JONATHAN PRAGER is a 40-something Manhattan comedian and singer whose life experience and worldview, like those of many other comedians, are semitragic.
ref: 2007 May 17, Penelope Green, “The Dream of Absolute Quiet”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having certain elements of tragedy.
unlocatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlocatable
form: most unlocatable
Etymology: From un- + locatable.
Senses: examples: text: In this case it appears to have been randomly applied, like bandages on an unlocatable wound.
ref: 2007 May 17, Holland Cotter, “Leaving Her Mark, Sometimes With Tape”, in New York Times:
text: As work on the assignment progressed, students found that many of the terms they first selected proved unlocatable in English-language contexts, and were only found in Cantonese contexts[.]
ref: 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 148:
glosses: Not locatable; impossible to locate.
unsteeped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + steeped.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Obama has presented himself as a fresh face, unsteeped in Washington and the proverbial “politics as usual.”
ref: 2007 May 17, Mark Leibovich, “For ’08 Résumés, Don’t Ask Them to Fill in Blanks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021:
glosses: Not having been steeped.
germinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germinators
Senses: glosses: A container in which plants may be germinated
caryatidlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caryatidlike
form: most caryatidlike
Etymology: From caryatid + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Adnet asked the artist Maurice Savin to embellish his oak dining table with white ceramic caryatidlike legs.
ref: 2007 May 18, Wendy Moonan, “Wartime Furniture Draws Unusual Attention”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a caryatid.
glacierlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glacierlike
form: most glacierlike
Etymology: From glacier + -like.
Senses: examples: text: This year the installation is made up of two stainless-steel tree sculptures — “Conjoined” and “Defunct” — and a glacierlike boulder, “Erratic,” by Roxy Paine, a conceptual artist who often juxtaposes nature and modern industrialization.
ref: 2007 May 18, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a glacier.
kukui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kuˈku.i/
Forms: form: kukuis
Etymology: From Hawaiian kukui.
Senses: examples: text: Though I'd often eaten sashimi, poke was then completely new to me—delicious rubies of cubed fish dressed in light sesame oil, garnished with minced bits of reddish-brown seaweed and the ground centers of kukui nuts (see recipe, next page).
ref: 2004 October 17, Garrett Hongo, “Poke”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: “We get so wrapped up in the lei thing,” Ms. Shibata said, noting that instead of that perishable adornment, children will create bracelets of nuts from the kukui, the Hawaiian state tree.
ref: 2007 May 18, The New York Times, “Spare Times: For Children”, in New York Times:
text: Passing through a grove of kukui trees, with their silver-gray leaves, and then through a valley, they would have reached sugarcane fields, their stalks as tall as a man and densely clumped together.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 43:
glosses: Aleurites moluccana, the candlenut tree.
kukuis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kukui
kukumakrankas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kukumakranka
noisemonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noisemongers
Etymology: From noise + monger.
Senses: examples: text: Tomorrow’s bill has the most potential, with the veteran Japanese noisemongers Merzbow and Keiji Haino, as well as Demons, Religious Knives, Tom Recchion and Oblivia.
ref: 2007 May 18, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musician who produces noisy music.
noisemongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noisemonger
noodlemania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noodle + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: On the neighbor islands, noodlemania prevails...
ref: 1999, Jeanette Foster, Jocelyn K. Fujii, Michael Shapiro, Frommer's 2000 Hawaii, page 15:
text: He backs that up by recalling the impact he had on his cooking partner at the French Culinary Institute: The partner dropped out. Mr. Chang persisted and it paid off: Craft, Mercer Kitchen, Park Hyatt Tokyo (to refine his noodlemania), and Café Boulud employed him before he opted for independence via a lowly noodle bar.
ref: 2007 May 18, Robin Finn, “Rising Star Knows What, Not Who, Is Cooking”, in New York Times:
glosses: Love of noodles.
gestator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gestators
Senses: glosses: One who gestates.
powerboater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerboaters
Etymology: From powerboat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He marveled that the Waterway could temporarily unite two distinct species, powerboaters and sailboaters, who have historically avoided each other like the plague.
ref: 2007 May 18, C. J. Hughes, “Not Just Any Port for Migrating Snowbirds”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who takes part in powerboating.
powerboaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powerboater
relink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relinks
form: relinking
form: relinked
form: relinked
Etymology: From re- + link.
Senses: examples: text: It took three years to relink the tracks on the west and east ends of the border.
ref: 2007 May 18, Choe Sang-Hun, “North and South Send Trains Across the Korean Frontier”, in New York Times:
glosses: To link again or anew.
relinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relink
relinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relink
relinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relinkings
Senses: glosses: relinkage
relinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relink
sailboater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sailboaters
Etymology: From sailboat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He marveled that the Waterway could temporarily unite two distinct species, powerboaters and sailboaters, who have historically avoided each other like the plague.
ref: 2007 May 18, C. J. Hughes, “Not Just Any Port for Migrating Snowbirds”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who sails a sailboat.
sailboaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sailboater
selectperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selectpersons
form: selectpeople
Etymology: From select + person.
Senses: glosses: A selectman or selectwoman.
selectpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selectperson
nonprofessionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + professionalism.
Senses: examples: text: “Such templates I heard only in the 70s and 80s — extreme nonprofessionalism and surprisingly visible censorship.
ref: 2007 May 19, C. J. Chivers, “Eviction Notice Is Latest Russian Move Against Journalists”, in New York Times:
glosses: unprofessionalism
overcaller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcallers
Etymology: From overcall + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The no-trump overcaller completes the transfer, and his partner will bid again when strong.
ref: 2007 May 19, Phillip Alder, “The Cavendish Wasn’t the Only Game in Town”, in New York Times:
topics: bridge
card-games
games
poker
glosses: One who overcalls.
overcallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcaller
unmighty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmighty
form: most unmighty
Etymology: From Middle English vnmyghty, vnmyȝty, unmihti, from Old English unmihtiġ (“weak, not mighty”), equivalent to un- + mighty.
Senses: examples: text: And how the unmighty have risen: Fox, which after all these years is still not counted among the “big three” networks by some old-timers, now attracts the audiences advertisers desire more.
ref: 2007 May 19, Virginia Heffernan, “A Television Revolution? Not Shown at Upfronts”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not mighty; weak.
Derived terms: unmightiness
beachbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beach + -bound.
Senses: examples: text: The service, which consists of just one beachbound bus on Fridays and one return bus on Sunday evenings, is part of a trial run, operated by Hampton Jitney through the end of the summer.
ref: 2007 May 20, Ben Gibberd, “For the Mugs of Brooklyn, the Bus to Bling”, in New York Times:
glosses: Heading towards a beach.
ceanothus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsiː.əˈnoʊθəs/
Forms: form: ceanothuses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Ceanothus of North American buckthorns.
ceanothuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceanothus
double-crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double-cross
double-crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double-cross
double-crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more double-crossing
form: most double-crossing
Senses: examples: text: That dirty, double-crossing bastard!
glosses: Which double-crosses.
double-crossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double-cross
collectibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collectability
Senses: glosses: The quality of being collectible.
collectability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of collectibility.
electrolyzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrolyzers
Etymology: From electrolyze + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device that carries out electrolysis.
electrolyzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrolyzer
fraulein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɔɪlaɪn/
ipa: /fɹaʊliːn/
rhymes: -aɪn
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: frauleins
form: Fraulein
form: Fräulein
form: fräulein
form: Fraeulein
form: fraeulein
Etymology: Borrowed from German Fräulein.
Senses: examples: text: Waiters are in button-downs, and waitresses wear full-on fraulein garb.
ref: 2007 May 20, “A Coastline Smorgasbord”, in New York Times:
glosses: A young German woman.
frauleins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraulein
greenward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more greenward
form: most greenward
Etymology: From green + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward a green, for example on a golf course.
examples: text: Yet the Bradley administration - moving ever greenward as it bailed itself out from one political corruption crisis to another - continued in theory to commit itself to tougher growth-management and conservationist positions.
ref: 2006, Mike Davis, City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles, page 202:
text: But it was in the immediate numinous aftermath of that predawn visit that I first saw the next, final stage of our haplessly greenward collapse.
ref: 2007 May 20, Charles Siebert, “Falling Down Green”, in New York Times:
glosses: Towards an ecologically friendly situation.
Gott in Himmel
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: Gott in Himmel !
Etymology: Misquotation of German Gott im Himmel.
Senses: glosses: Oh my God.
raw_tags: in German contexts
nonforaging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + foraging.
Senses: examples: text: a nonforaging animal
glosses: That does not forage.
examples: text: nonforaging activities
glosses: Not of or pertaining to foraging.
immunohematologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunohematologists
Etymology: From immuno- + hematologist.
Senses: examples: text: The bridegroom, 75, retired as a consulting immunohematologist in Manhattan, serving as an expert witness in paternity cases.
ref: 2007 May 20, “Christine Szretter, Allen Gelb”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who works in the field of immunohematology.
immunohematologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunohematologist
incentivization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incentivisation
Etymology: From incentivize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: It’s about time that the sleeping giant (the health care industry) wakes up, smells the coffee and learns from other giants (like the manufacturing industry): process improvement, incentivization and healthy competition are drivers of change to control costs in the current health care system.
ref: 2007 May 20, “Quality Control in Health Care (3 Letters)”, in New York Times:
topics: business
economics
sciences
glosses: The act or process of incentivizing.
Derived terms: disincentivization
mayhemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mayhemic
form: most mayhemic
Etymology: From mayhem + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In the United States, Mr. Besson is primarily known as a superior director of stylish, mayhemic, even soulful films like “La Femme Nikita” and “Léon: The Professional.”
ref: 2007 May 20, Jaime Wolf, “Le Cinéma du Blockbuster”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a state of mayhem.
megabudget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megabudgets
Etymology: From mega- + budget.
Senses: examples: text: In subsequent films Mr. Besson realized his ambition to meld visionary, megabudget Hollywood-style spectacle to French sensibility.
ref: 2007 May 20, Jaime Wolf, “Le Cinéma du Blockbuster”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very large budget.
megabudgets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megabudget
microminiature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microminiatures
Etymology: From micro- + miniature.
Senses: examples: text: In descending order, collectors categorize such books as macrominiatures (three to four inches in height), miniatures (one to three inches), microminiatures (one quarter-inch to one inch) and the greatest of the least, the ultramicrominiatures (less than one-quarter inch).
ref: 2007 May 20, William Grimes, “Catching Up on a Little Light Reading”, in New York Times:
glosses: A particularly small miniature.
microminiatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microminiature
multiblock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + block.
Senses: examples: text: For some, the attraction may be the new Yankee Stadium, a billion-dollar multiblock public-private behemoth whose curved bleachers are even now rising across East 161st Street from its older cousin.
ref: 2007 May 20, C. J. Hughes, “Home of the Bronx Roar”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one block (in various senses).
multiblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiblocks
Etymology: From multi- + block.
Senses: examples: text: Hi. I'm creating ideas for a mod of mine (TechExpansion), and I would like to add multiblocks. The mod is for versions 1.10 and soon enough, 1.11. I know how to use TileEntities and NBT, but I am confused on how to do multiblocks.
ref: 2017 November 5, The_Puzzlemaker, Minecraft Forum, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2019:
text: Im not programmer so i dont know how works adding multiblocks in to the game.
ref: 2020 March 2, LarsCars, SpigotMC, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2025:
text: Something I want to avoid is having to have each block in the multiblock be its own tile entity.
ref: 2020 April 20, DARKHAWX, Minecraft Forge Forums, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025:
glosses: A contraption created from a combination of multiple blocks.
pixielike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pixielike
form: most pixielike
Etymology: From pixie + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But when four of the prototype devices are stolen, a wave of madness breaks out among the research crew and slowly spreads into the Japanese population. Dr. Chiba joins a thoroughly rational policeman, Detective Konakawa, to track down the mysterious malefactor who is holding the sanity of Japan in his hands; they are joined in their quest by the title character, a pixielike redhead (drawn in a more traditional, wide-eyed anime style than the rest of the cast) who acts as a dream guide and trip doctor for those undergoing DC therapy.
ref: 2007 May 20, Dave Kehr, “Anime Dreams, Transformed Into Nightmares”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pixie.
Synonyms: pixieish
pixyish
ridable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ridable
form: most ridable
Senses: examples: text: The home-video outfits that control most of the Wayne catalog have been furiously clearing their vaults, repackaging and gift-boxing previously released films, and preparing DVDs of the “special,” “deluxe” and “collector’s” variety, in an effort to catch what might be the last ridable wave of Dukemania in our lifetimes.
ref: 2007 May 20, Terrence Rafferty, “Building the Duke, Film by Film”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of rideable.
semimythological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + mythological.
Senses: examples: text: It’s a perfect setting for a fantastic, semimythological creature like the Duke to cavort in.
ref: 2007 May 20, Terrence Rafferty, “Building the Duke, Film by Film”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having certain elements of mythology.
sloganed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slogan + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Scottie, a precocious 10-year old,^([sic]) wears provocatively sloganed T-shirts and harasses her peers by text message.
ref: 2007 May 20, Joanna Kavenna, “While You Were Out”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Labelled with a slogan.
supergeeky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supergeeky
form: most supergeeky
Etymology: From super- + geeky.
Senses: examples: text: “Being interested in trains seems to be like a supergeeky kind of thing, and kind of a boy’s thing,” said Hadassah Max, 30, laughing.
ref: 2007 May 20, Anthony Ramirez, “Looking at the Subway From Every Angle”, in New York Times:
text: We mark that information with our supergeeky hero so that you know that it's just background information.
ref: 2008, Doug Sahlin, Bill Sanders, Flash CS4 All-in-One For Dummies:
glosses: Extremely geeky.
Synonyms: supernerdy
ubergeeky
ubernerdy
ultrageeky
ultranerdy
thermopane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermopanes
Etymology: From thermo- + pane, originally a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: There was nothing odd, or futuristic, or exotically “eco” about the house — no solar panels to be seen, no giant arrays of thermopane windows passively drinking up light and heat; yet here, I’d been told, in the Sourland Mountains in New Jersey, an hour from Manhattan, was a house that had the potential — not long from now, not 20 years from now, but maybe within 5 to 10 years — to help turn millions of American homes into fully self-sustaining power plants, each one capable of producing hydrogen to fuel cars as well.
ref: 2007 May 20, Mark Svenvold, “The Zero-Energy Solution”, in New York Times:
glosses: An insulated glazing unit.
thermopanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermopane
sideblades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sideblade
untouchably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untouchably
form: most untouchably
Etymology: From untouchable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Parenthood, untouchably sacrosanct in so much of our culture, is on “24” a grotesquely compromised institution.
ref: 2007 May 20, Ginia Bellafante, “In the ‘24’ World, Family Is the Main Casualty”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an untouchable manner.
untouristy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untouristy
form: most untouristy
Etymology: From un- + touristy.
Senses: examples: text: We sought an untouristy restaurant in the back streets of Venice.
glosses: Not touristy.
wheatboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wheat + board.
Senses: examples: text: The wall behind the cubbies is made of wheatboard, an environmentally friendly equivalent of plywood containing processed wheat.
ref: 2007 May 20, Amanda Hesser, “Flour Power”, in New York Times:
glosses: An ecologically friendly type of board made with processed wheat.
noncasein
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + casein.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to casein.
multipattern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + pattern.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one pattern.
multipatterned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multipatterned
form: most multipatterned
Etymology: From multi- + patterned.
Senses: glosses: Decorated with more than one pattern.
glosses: Related to more than one trend or instance.
woolshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolsheds
Etymology: From wool + shed.
Senses: examples: text: The Marie Short House evokes the woolsheds of New South Wales.
ref: 2007 May 20, Jim Lewis, “The Native Builder”, in New York Times:
glosses: A shed where sheep are shorn.
woolsheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolshed
lampblacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lampblack