cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
meralgia paraesthetica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meralgia paresthetica
Etymology: The term "meralgia paraesthetica" combines four Greek roots to mean "thigh pain with anomalous perception".
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: numbness or pain in the lateral thigh caused by lesion to the lateral cutaneous nerve of thigh
hyperglobalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperglobalists
Etymology: From hyper- + global + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of hyperglobalism.
hyperglobalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperglobalist
transformationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transformationalists
Etymology: From transformational + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A linguist who favours transformational grammars.
glosses: An adherent or believer in transformationalism (any sense).
Related terms: transformationalism
transformationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transformationalist
transnationality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transnationalities
Etymology: From trans- + nationality.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being transnational.
transnationalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transnationality
hyperglobalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + globalism.
Senses: glosses: The belief that globalism has led to a situation where individual nation-states are of relatively little power and significance.
Related terms: hyperglobalist
ressala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ressalas
Etymology: From Hindi रिसाला (risālā), from Classical Persian رساله (risāla), from Arabic رِسَالَة (risāla)
Senses: glosses: An Indian cavalry regiment.
Related terms: ressaldar
ressalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ressala
naib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naibs
form: nayab
Etymology: From Urdu نائب (nāib) / Hindi नाइब (nāib), नायब (nāyab), from Arabic نَائِب (nāʔib).
Senses: glosses: A deputy.
Related terms: nabob
naibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naib
roughriding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rough + riding.
Senses: glosses: A rodeo event involving the riding of an untamed horse.
Related terms: roughrider
rout cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rout cakes
Senses: examples: text: twenty-four little rout cakes that were lying neglected in a plate
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: I have visions of roast partridge and rout cakes, but instead we are given a quinoa salad and stone bass. Delicious, albeit not very Austenesque.
ref: 2025 May 10, Jemima Kelly, “My week with Jane Austen”, in FT Weekend, Travel, page 7:
glosses: A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.
rout cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rout cake
snorty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɔː(ɹ)ti/
ipa: /snɔɹti/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: snortier
form: more snorty
form: snortiest
form: most snorty
Etymology: From snort + -y.
Senses: examples: text: So suddenly my nose and lips were emitting all of these horrible fart sounds, snorty fart sounds which only made me laugh louder, because now I was sure that nothing worse could ever happen.
ref: 2011, Suzanne Morrison, Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment:
text: He makes these funny, snorty, slurpy noises all the time. He's a little snorty pig. Every morning he sits at the top of the stairs and waits for me. He needs his hug before he goes downstairs.
ref: 2005, Elise Lufkin, Second Chances: More Tales of Found Dogs:
glosses: making a snorting sound
snortier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snorty: more snorty
snortiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of snorty: most snorty
grinnin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of grinning.
roarin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of roaring.
handin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of handing.
swearin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of swearing.
braggin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of bragging.
trippin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trippin
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of tripping.
searchin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of searching.
rainin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of raining.
believin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of believing.
hoppin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hopping.
bettin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of betting.
climbin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of climbing.
complainin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of complaining.
floatin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of floating.
tradin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of trading.
handlin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of handling.
leanin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of leaning.
trainin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of training.
smellin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of smelling.
thievin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of thieving.
pointin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of pointing.
creepin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of creeping.
servin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of serving.
marchin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of marching.
includin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of including.
guessin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of guessing.
closin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of closing.
enjoyin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of enjoying.
stirrin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of stirring.
uranometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urano- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Related to, or using, uranometry.
uratolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uratolytic
form: most uratolytic
Etymology: From urate + -o- + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: That decomposes, and thus removes, uric acid from the bloodstream and tissues
nutraloaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nutritious (or similar) and loaf.
Senses: synonyms: confinement loaf
disciplinary loaf
foodloaf
grue
glosses: A bland food made from various ingredients mixed together and baked into a loaf, served to prisoners instead of normal meals as a disciplinary measure.
uraturia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From urate + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of uric acid in the urine
narrow-gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
ref: 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge.
examples: text: It seems to the editors that this is somehow curiously reminiscent of Whorf's defense of Native American languages and cultures in the face of narrow-gauge views on language and culture at the time, without going so far as to take a strict Sapir-Whorfian stance that might posit unbridgeable gaps in translation theory and practice from one culture to the next.
ref: 2013, Luc van Doorslaer, Peter Flynn, Eurocentrism in Translation Studies, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Limited or petty.
Barbizonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑː.bɪˈzəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌbɑɹ.bɪˈzoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Barbizonian
form: most Barbizonian
Etymology: From Barbizon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Barbizon school, a 19th-century movement in painting characterised by realism, loose brushwork, and softness of form.
Barbizonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑː.bɪˈzəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌbɑɹ.bɪˈzoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Barbizonians
Etymology: From Barbizon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One who paints in this style.
Barbizonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barbizonian
Brocken spectre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brocken spectres
form: Brocken specter
form: specter of the Brocken
form: spectre of the Brocken
Etymology: Named after the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mountain spectre.
synonyms: word: mountain spectre
Brocken spectres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brocken spectre
Brandenburgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brandenburg
case of the Mondays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cases of the Mondays
Senses: examples: text: A reporter, who has worked his way up to a top-level and high pressured position with a large metropolitan daily, suffers from a chronic case of "the Mondays."
ref: 1975, Black Enterprise:
text: The road ahead for them is full of Syls and Caseys and Coopers and “Cases of the Mondays.” I hope they enjoyed Toy Story because if they thought Tim Allen was frightening then they sure as shit aren't going to be expecting that first Monday morning staff meeting now are they?
ref: 2007, Joe Scartz, Bicentennial Baby, iUniverse, →ISBN:
text: Perhaps you may have played a role in the initiation of this potential fight, or maybe the combatant simply woke up tired, missed his bus, or is having a bad case of "the Mondays."
ref: 2009, Lexi M. Schuh, Jennifer L. Dincola, How to Get the Promotion You Want in 90 Days Or Less: A Step-by-Step Plan for Making It Happen, Atlantic Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 214:
text: Today I'm having a case of the Mondays. For us, the weekend is often busy, but every now and then Mondays are just blah.
ref: 2014, Joni Parsley, Tapestry of Faith: Discovering God's Beautiful Design in the Laughter, Tears, and Struggles of Life, Charisma Media, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: A fictitious disorder associated with the tiredness, irritability, or distractedness that comes from returning to work after the weekend.
bear-trap dam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear-trap dams
Senses: glosses: A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.
bear-trap dams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bear-trap dam
full counts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full count
Biskara boil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Biskara boils
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Aleppo boil.
synonyms: word: Aleppo boil
Biskara boils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Biskara boil
Aleppo boil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aleppo boils
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: Aden ulcer
Biskara boil
Delhi boil
Natal boil
tropical ulcer
glosses: A chronic skin disorder terminating in an ulcer, thought to be caused by the protozoan Leishmania tropica.
Aleppo boils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aleppo boil
Aden ulcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aden ulcers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Aleppo boil.
synonyms: word: Aleppo boil
Aden ulcers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aden ulcer
wait-a-while
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wait-a-whiles
Etymology: Originally after South African Dutch wacht-en-beetje; compare wait-a-bit.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wait-a-bit.
synonyms: word: wait-a-bit
examples: text: In the new clearing by the creek where he had felled most of the big stuff, she attacked the landscape with anger, grubbing out the wait-a-while and bush-sword that was still guzzling round the stumps.
ref: 1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 136:
glosses: Any of several thorny Australian vines or shrubs which impede passage, especially Acacia cuspidifolia of Western Australia, Smilax australis of eastern Australia and the Northern Territory, and lawyer vine.
wait-a-whiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wait-a-while
scaffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaffies
Etymology: From scavenger (“street sweeper”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: The scaffies were out, hosing down the pavement. I liked the aura of early morning – it felt like the end of the world, which suited my mood.
ref: 2009, Tony Black, Gutted, page 135:
glosses: A street sweeper; a dustman, a refuse collector.
meowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meowls
form: meowling
form: meowled
form: meowled
form: miaoul
form: miaowl
Etymology: Alteration of mewl, due to meow. Equivalent to meow + -l.
Senses: glosses: To meow.
Related terms: mewl
miaoul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miaouls
form: miaouling
form: miaouled
form: miaouled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meowl.
meowled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meowl
miaouled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miaoul
meowls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of meowl
meowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meowl
miaouls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miaoul
miaouling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miaoul
counternutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + nutation.
Senses: glosses: nutation in the opposite direction
antimutation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + mutation.
Senses: glosses: Preventing or opposing mutation.
antimutant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimutant
form: most antimutant
Etymology: From anti- + mutant.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Opposing mutants.
Jacobitish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jacobitish
form: most Jacobitish
Etymology: From Jacobite + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.
aerocurve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerocurves
Etymology: From aero- + curve.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of early aeroplane with curved surfaces.
aerocurves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerocurve
Imbolg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Invite, but never command, friendly spirits, faeries, or elementals to join you as you wish. In some traditions it is common to invite ancestors to join you, especially during the dark days from Samhain to Imbolg when it is believed that the portal between our dimensions is at its thinnest.
ref: 1994, Edain McCoy, “Appendix Three: Outline for Ritual Construction”, in A Witch’s Guide to Faery Folk: How to Work with the Elemental World: […], St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn Publishers, published 2004 (13th printing), →ISBN, page 354:
text: In the Celtic world many celebrations were built around the ancient calendar of events or great feasts. The four great feasts of the year were Samhain (1st November), Imbolg (1st February), Bealtaine (1st May) and Lughnasa (1st August). Notice that each of the feasts begins each of the four seasons of the year – winter, spring, summer and autumn.
ref: 2002, Liam Lawton, “How Can I Repay the Lord”, in Song of My People, Dublin: Veritas Publications, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of Imbolc.
unswung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + swung.
Senses: glosses: Not swung.
Whiteheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Whitehead
Whiteheads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Whitehead
suberize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suberizes
form: suberizing
form: suberized
form: suberized
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To effect suberization of.
suberizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suberize
suberizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suberize
suberized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suberize
Sumatra leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A thin, elastic, uniformly light-coloured tobacco leaf, grown in Sumatra and extensively used for cigar wrappers.
sursum corda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sursum cordas
Etymology: Latin, meaning "lift up your hearts".
Senses: holonyms: preface
glosses: The opening dialogue to the Preface of the Eucharistic Prayer or Anaphora in the liturgies of the Christian Church.
Sulu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʊˈlu/
Etymology: From Spanish Sulu/Sulú, from Tausug Sulug (“Sulu”), an older form of Sūg (“Sulu”), possibly from Tausug sulug, an older form of sūg (“current”). Compare Maranao Solog, Malay Suluk, Hokkien 蘇祿 /苏禄 (So͘-lo̍k).
Senses: glosses: A province of Mindanao, Philippines. Capital: Jolo & Patikul.
glosses: Sulu Archipelago (an archipelago of Mindanao, Philippines)
glosses: the Sultanate of Sulu
glosses: Tausug language
Derived terms: Sulu boobook
Sulu Sea
Sulu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʊˈlu/
Forms: form: Sulus
form: Sulu
Etymology: From Spanish Sulu/Sulú, from Tausug Sulug (“Sulu”), an older form of Sūg (“Sulu”), possibly from Tausug sulug, an older form of sūg (“current”). Compare Maranao Solog, Malay Suluk, Hokkien 蘇祿 /苏禄 (So͘-lo̍k).
Senses: examples: text: That is the reason why the Sulu people have the right, and that they came to make the dredge (badja) to get the mother-of-pearl shell from the deep, because they can not see them.
ref: 1908, George Frederick Kunz, Charles Hugh Stevenson, The Book of the Pearl, →ISBN, page 216:
text: At the present time there are but few remains on the Island of Jolo of the past glory and civilization of the Sulu people.
ref: 1921, Ignacio Villamor, Felipe Buencamino, Census of the Philippine Islands - Volume II, page 950:
text: If the Spaniards merely meant to subjugate the Sulu, suppressing piracy and lawlessness on the way and no more, they would have been applauded in many quarters.
ref: 1970, Leigh R. Wright, The Origins of British Borneo, page 34:
glosses: A member of a prominent Moro tribe, occupying the Sulu Archipelago.
Sulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sulu
California Jack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card game similar to all fours.
Related terms: Shasta Sam
cautionary block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cautionary blocks
Senses: topics: railways
transport
glosses: A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, with certain restrictions.
compound control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
Congreve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Congreves
form: Congrove
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in Staffordshire, from Old English cumb (“valley”) + grāf (“grove”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Congrevean
Congreve match
Congreve rocket
Congrevian
Congreve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Congreves
form: Congrove
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in Staffordshire, from Old English cumb (“valley”) + grāf (“grove”).
Senses: glosses: Congreve rocket
glosses: Congreve match
Congreves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Congreve
Congreve match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Congreve matches
Etymology: After its inventor, Sir William Congreve.
Senses: glosses: An early friction match, containing sulphur, potassium chlorate, and antimony sulphide.
continental glacier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continental glaciers
Senses: glosses: A very large glacial body; an ice sheet.
corbeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corbel
corbeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corbelings
Senses: glosses: A series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry.
core loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: core losses
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Energy lost by hysteresis, eddy currents, or other anomalies in the core of an electrical device such as an armature, inductor, transformer, etc.
copalm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copalms
Senses: examples: text: Jean Baptiste Raquiu, of Paris, [was granted a patent] for a method of manufacturing with gluten, small bottles for the reception of copalm.
ref: 1838, The London Journal of Arts and Sciences, volume 12, page 57:
glosses: Archaic form of copal.
champlevé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌʃɒ̃mləˈveɪ/
Etymology: From French champlevé (“engraved”).
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enamelled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are then fired.
champlevé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʃɒ̃mləˈveɪ/
Forms: form: champlevés
Etymology: From French champlevé (“engraved”).
Senses: glosses: A piece of enamel of this kind.
glosses: The process of making enamel of this kind.
champlevés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of champlevé
eugenicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In his place remains Yaweh's best friend, Noah (Dr. Noyes), a cruel patriarch guilty of infanticide, eugenicide, humanitarian abuse, animal cruelty and incest, who rules tyrannically over his wife, their three sons and their sons' wives, one of whom, Hannah, he has impregnated, and upon whom he has begotten a throwback, an ape-child who is immediately put to death.
ref: 2011, Maria Manuel Lisboa, The End of the World: Apocalypse and Its Aftermath in Western Culture, →ISBN, page 173:
text: The most commonly suggested method of eugenicide in America was a "lethal chamber" or public locally operated gas chambers.
ref: 2012, Trent Goodbaudy, The Rebirth of Mankind: Homo Evolutis, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Some doctors practiced passive eugenicide one newborn infant at a time.
ref: 2013, Arthur L. Caplan, Robert Arp, Contemporary Debates in Bioethics, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of eugenocide.
cockyolly bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockyolly birds
form: cockyoly bird
Etymology: Compare cock, yellow.
Senses: qualifier: pet name
glosses: Any small bird.
eugenocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eugenicide
Etymology: Blend of eugenics + genocide.
Senses: examples: text: Practiced on an international scale, eugenocide will do much to prevent lingering, tortuous death by starvation, occasioned so often by overbrowse in underdeveloped nations.
ref: 1971, Intellectual Digest - Volume 2, page 286:
text: It was the "first of the modest schemes for the ecological conservation and harvesting of newborns, which we have come to know as the science of eugenocide."
ref: 1971, The Scriblerian - Volumes 4-5, page 99:
text: Wolfensberger (1981) refers to the particular effort to eliminate people with disabilities as eugenocide.
ref: 1994, Richard Sobsey, Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: The elimination of people considered weak or defective in an attempt to improve the gene pool.
quacketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: quack + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quack
calorizator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calorizators
Etymology: From calorize + -ator.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calorisator.
calorisator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calorisators
form: calorizator
Senses: examples: text: While it is true that with steam the juices are, to a certain extent, diluted, on the other hand, there is considerable space lost in the calorisators filled with juice, which had not during the interval been in contact with beet slices, thus causing a diminished osmosing effect.
ref: 1894, Robert Grimshaw, The Sugar Beet: Devoted to the Cultivation and Utilization of the Sugar Beet:
glosses: An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid diffusion.
calorizators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calorizator
calorisators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calorisator
Clytie knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Clytie knots
Etymology: It resembles the knot on the head of the bust of Clytie by G. F. Watts.
Senses: glosses: A loose, low coil of hair at the back of the head.
both-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From both-handed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It has been claimed by some modern scientists that ambidexterity, or both-handedness, is the natural condition of the race, and that the use of one hand or the other by preference is an acquired habit belonging to the period of development in childhood.
ref: 1893, John Clark Ridpath, Great races of mankind, page 40:
text: Until recently, and even now, both-handedness (ambidextrousness) has been mentioned as a cause of reading difficulties rather than seen as an indicator of immaturity.
ref: 2012, Sally Smith, No Easy Answer: The Learning Disabled Child at Home and at School, →ISBN:
text: The binary nature of the study in effect erases mixed or both-handedness.
ref: 2013, Marjorie Garber, Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, →ISBN, page 291:
glosses: Ambidexterity.
examples: text: Serving God with one hand and the devil with the other is a style of both-handedness from which we may well pray to be saved.
ref: 1867, C.H. Spurgeon, The Sword and the trowel, →ISBN, page 58:
text: The opposite-handednesses of the monolayer domains composed of D- and L-enantiomers, presence of both-handedness in racemic domains, ...
ref: 2011, Nilashis Nandi, Chirality in Biological Nanospaces: Reactions in Active Sites, →ISBN, page 5:
text: They exhibit accordingly that property of amphi-cheirality or both-handedness which was noted in the laterales nerves of the lamprey, betokening a possible affinity with the circular neural ring of the jelly-fish.
ref: 2014, D. Stanley-Jones, K. Stanley-Jones, The Kybernetics of Natural Systems: A Study in Patterns of Control, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: The property of involving two sides, approaches, or orientations.
both-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more both-handedly
form: most both-handedly
form: both-handed
Etymology: From both-handed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A-kneeling, a lad armcrosses his chest as a knight afoot, armed-at-all-points, both-handedly overhelms a sword & swooshes ~ the colée is dealt & felt!
ref: 1993, Pat'rick Neal Pugh, Calif of Fornia, →ISBN, page 95:
glosses: Using both hands.
Hakhel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew הַקְהֵל (hak-hél), imperative of הִקְהִיל (hik-híl, “to assemble”).
Senses: glosses: The mitzvah (commandment) to “assemble” the Jewish people to hear the Torah (Deuteronomy 31:12).
hurricanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hurricane + -ic.
Senses: examples: hurricanic turbulence; a hurricanic temperament
glosses: Of or relating to a hurricane.
ophidiarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌfɪdɪˈɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /əˌfɪdɪˈɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: ophidiariums
form: ophidiaria
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”) + -arium.
Senses: glosses: A place for keeping snakes.
broken-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: brokenhanded
Etymology: From broken + handed.
Senses: examples: text: If one of them is broken-handed or lame or dumb or blind or deaf—he is not declared a son stubborn and rebellious, as it is said 'Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,' which is impossible if they be broken-handed;
ref: 1916, University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register, Volume 65:
text: The priests are gone; the great bell is gone; the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas have vanished, all save one—a broken-handed Jizo of stone, smiling with eyelids closed, under the moon.
ref: 2011, Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Vol 1:
text: The stunned and broken-handed killer struggled to turn, but the big American grabbed the mangled paw and twisted hard.
ref: 2014, Don Pendleton, Cold War Reprise, →ISBN:
glosses: Having a hand that is broken.
examples: text: He paddled hard, doing a broken-handed breaststroke, kicking for his life despite the damage in his knees.
ref: 2011, P. T. Deutermann, Pacific Glory: A Novel, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: Performed using a broken hand.
brokenhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From broken + handed.
Senses: examples: text: For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 21:18-20:
text: Mighty projects countermanded ; Rash ambition, brokenhanded ; Puny man and scentless rose Tormenting Pan to double the dose.
ref: 1883, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems (Alphonso of Castile):
text: I noticed a quarrel between an old brokenhanded baboon and a young dude with fine fur.
ref: 1917, Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, World Outlook - Volume 3, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of broken-handed.
aseismically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From aseismic + -ally.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
seismology
glosses: In an aseismic manner.
keyboard warrior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyboard warriors
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: keyboard cowboy
text: According to these keyboard warriors, the young men and women who survived the shooting are part of a big hoax, are liars, are mere cardboard cutouts – “crisis actors” who roam the country looking for mass shootings from which to promote their anti-gun message – all being pushed forward by the giant liberal machine that is Hillary Clinton’s robot attack army.
ref: 2018 February 21, Jeff Pearlman, “Parkland students, ignore the idiots”, in CNN:
text: Others are newer converts who have only a vague idea how it all connects. There are law-abiding keyboard warriors as well as violent, unhinged radicals.
ref: 2021 January 17, Kevin Roose, “A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2021:
hypernyms: troll
glosses: A person who behaves aggressively or in an inflammatory manner in online textbased discussion media, but does not behave similarly in real life, potentially due to cowardice, introversion or shyness.
Related terms: keyboard army
keyboard warriors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyboard warrior
credobaptism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin credo (“I believe”) + baptism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Practice of the credobaptists; belief that baptism is only to be administered to those who profess their faith.
Synonyms: believer's baptism
believers' baptism
to be fair
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Now, to be fair, most of the games were okay, but they're the same kind of games you might as well be playing on your TV screen.
ref: February 19, 2008, James Rolfe, "Virtual Boy", in Angry Video Game Nerd Season 3
glosses: Synonym of in fairness.
synonyms: word: in fairness
Related terms: to be honest
to be frank
to be sure
minority language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minority languages
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
glosses: A language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory.
Related terms: official language
minority languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minority language
whiskey sours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiskey sour
passion pits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passion pit
statutory authorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statutory authority
running rigging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪɡɪŋ
Forms: form: running riggings
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The ropes used in bracing the yards, making and shortening sail, etc., such as braces, sheets, halyards, clew lines, and the like.
standing rigging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪɡɪŋ
Forms: form: standing riggings
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The shrouds and stays of a sailboat.
clew line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clew lines
Senses: topics: nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: Alternative spelling of clewline.
urobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urobacteria
Etymology: From uro- + bacterium.
Senses: glosses: Any bacterium that hydrolyzes urea to yield ammonia and carbon dioxide
dezinc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dezincs
form: dezincing
form: dezinking
form: dezincking
form: dezinced
form: dezinced
form: dezinked
form: dezinked
form: dezincked
form: dezincked
Etymology: From de- + zinc.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of zinc.
Synonyms: dezincify
dezincing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dezinc
dezinced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dezinc
dezincs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dezinc
turn signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turn signals
Senses: examples: text: The hazard lights turn on all the turn signals.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: word: blinker
word: indicator
word: directional
word: directional signal
word: direction indicator
word: trafficator
word: turn indicator
word: winker
glosses: Each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which is used to indicate the vehicle is moving left or right.
oil spill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil spills
Senses: glosses: An escape or (accidental) discharge of oil, usually into the sea.
Related terms: oilpatch
oil slick
oil spot
oily
epigon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epigons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epigone.
working poor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line.
dayboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪˌbɔɪ/
Forms: form: dayboys
Etymology: From day + boy.
Senses: glosses: A boy who attends a boarding school only during the day.
Related terms: daygirl
daygirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daygirls
Etymology: From day + girl.
Senses: glosses: A girl who attends a boarding school only during the day
Related terms: dayboy
dayboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dayboy
daygirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daygirl
Baranya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An administrative county in southern Hungary.
Csongrád-Csanád
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Hungarian Csongrád-Csanád.
Senses: glosses: An administrative county in southern Hungary.
scaffies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaffy
glosses: plural of scaffie
stonkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stonking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Go to your local superstore, and count the number of really, stonkingly, floor-creakingly fat women wearing horribly tight clothing. You will see lots of them within ten yards of where you stand.
ref: 2007, Robert MacGregor, I Can't Take Any More Crap!, page 71:
text: He turned in a wonderful comic performance in Mr. Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and he enjoyed playing Lord Voldemort, once Martha explained who the “Harry Potter” villain was and told him it was a “stonkingly vast, mega, mega part.”
ref: 2022 October 22, Maureen Dowd, “Ralph Fiennes, Master of Monsters”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To an impressive extent or degree; very.
whistling ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whistling duck
Nri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The medieval West African state of the Nri-Igbo, a subgroup of the Igbo people.
ustrina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ustrinum
ustrinum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ustrina
Etymology: From Latin ustrinum.
Senses: examples: text: The Romans had, even in their smaller municipia, Boards of Health—such, at least, I take to be the meaning of Novemvir and Triumvir Valetudinarius; and it may seem extraordianry that they did not remove the ustrinum to a greater distance.
ref: 1858, John Kenrick, Roman Sepulcral Inscriptions: Their Relation to Archaeology, Language, and Religion:
glosses: The site of a funeral pyre
longevism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin longaevus + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The pursuit of long life.
NCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NCCs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: CNC
glosses: Initialism of nanocrystalline cellulose.
synonyms: noncompete
non-compete
glosses: Initialism of noncompete clause.
NCC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of National Conservative Convention
qualifier: Ghana
glosses: Initialism of National Cadet Corps.
glosses: Initialism of New Clark City.
examples: text: But the NCC has been forced to rethink its approach and has already extended the deadline three times, at short notice.
ref: 2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Nigerian Communications Commission.
Related terms: CNC
cunctations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunctation
quarrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarrians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quarrion.
quarrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarrian
stadholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stadholders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stadtholder.
stadholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stadholder
surrejoins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surrejoin
surrejoined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surrejoin
surrejoining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surrejoin
susso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sus(tenance) + -o.
Senses: examples: text: It was incomprehensible to me: Uncle Will, who had been refused ‘Susso’ in the Depression and told, instead, to go to the Aborigines Department for rations […] wanted to name his father as among the very first to ‘settle’ at Gebalup […]
ref: 1999, Kim Scott, Benang, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 200
glosses: Unemployment relief; welfare; the dole.
buckshees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buckshee
shtetel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shtetels
form: shtetelach
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shtetl.
shtetelach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shtetel
shtetels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shtetel
stadholderates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stadholderate
stadholdership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stadholderships
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stadtholdership.
stadholderships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stadholdership
stadtholderess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stadtholderesses
form: stadholderess
Etymology: From stadtholder + -ess.
Senses: glosses: The wife of a stadtholder.
stadtholderesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stadtholderess
stadtholderian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstad.həʊlˈdɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌstat.həʊlˈdɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌstad.hoʊlˈdɪɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌstat.hoʊlˈdɪɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪən
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: stadholderian
Etymology: From stadtholder + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a stadtholder.
turnip sawfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnip sawflies
Senses: glosses: a typical sawfly, of species Athalia rosae, with dark green or blackish larvae that feed on brassicas.
Synonyms: beet sawfly
cabbage leaf sawfly
turnip sawflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turnip sawfly
battlemage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battlemages
Etymology: From battle + mage.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: A wizard specializing in close magical combat.
qualifier: fantasy roleplaying games
glosses: Someone proficient in fighting with both melee weapons and offensive magic.
battlemages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battlemage
politonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: politonyms
Etymology: From politics + -o- + -nym.
Senses: examples: text: In that case Belgians and French provide us with examples of one's politonyms. His theory becomes more complex when he says: when a group of people move outside the original settlement, both politonyms and toponyms are often not retained by the second and further generations.
ref: 2008, Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi, Linguistic Dynamism in South Asia, page 239:
glosses: A name referring to members of a political entity.
politonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of politonym
mangadom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From manga + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: By all appearances, Conan Edogawa should be the greatest detective in all of mangadom.
ref: 2009, Jason S. Yadao, The Rough Guide to Manga, page 102:
text: They boast, perhaps, the biggest eyes in all of mangadom. Since the eyes take up so much room on the chibi face, the head needs to be stretched and, therefore, usually ends up being oval-shaped to accommodate the oval-shaped eyes.
ref: 2013, Christopher Hart, Manga for the Beginner:
text: Put simply, nosebleed in mangadom is a comical euphemism for an erection.
ref: 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Animation & Cartoons:
glosses: The world or sphere of manga (Japanese comics).
leighs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leigh
linguonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪŋ.ɡwə.nɪm/
Forms: form: linguonyms
Etymology: From linguo- + -onym.
Senses: examples: text: Manx is the linguonym of the Isle of Man's native language.
glosses: The name of a language; a glossonym.
Synonyms: glossonym
glottonym
Related terms: endonym
autonym
exonym
xenonym
autolinguonym
autoglossonym
autoglottonym
linguonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linguonym
interstress
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + stress.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Between stressed syllables.
wajibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wajib
Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic
Senses: synonyms: Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic
glosses: The name for the Republic of Kyrgyzstan while a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1924–1991).
televisional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From television + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to television.
televisionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of televisionary
cockyoly bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockyoly birds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cockyolly bird.
triglossic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trigloss + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to triglossia.
triglossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + -glossia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The coexistence of three closely related native languages or dialects among a certain population.
Related terms: triglossic
triglot
polyglossia
silhouettist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silhouettists
Etymology: From silhouette + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who creates silhouettes.