cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Westcottian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Westcottian
form: most Westcottian
Etymology: From Westcott + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Here is a running comment in the true Westcottian mode on one of the most crucial of St. Paul's Epistles. Here are also various appendices, some less Westcottian, some more so.
ref: 1907, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 2, page 409:
text: He continued to promote the Westcottian vision of a Christian synthesis of East and West […]
ref: 2005, Peter Mandler, Susan Pedersen, After the Victorians, page 71:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), English churchman, theologian, and Bishop of Durham.
angleberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angleberries
Etymology: Probably from anbury influenced by berry.
Senses: glosses: A warty growth of the skin of cattle.
angleberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angleberry
calaverites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calaverite
adrenalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adrenalises
form: adrenalising
form: adrenalised
form: adrenalised
form: adrenalize
Etymology: From adrenalin + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: It was the only thing open. By the time I got there I realised I was so adrenalised by Adrian's call that I wouldn't be able to sleep.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 258:
text: I was so adrenalised I couldn't sleep.
ref: 2009 October 4, David Mitchell, “I don't go to restaurants to tell the truth”, in Guardian:
glosses: To render frightening or thrilling, such as to stimulate the production of adrenalin.
Derived terms: adrenalisation
adrenalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adrenalise
adrenalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adrenalise
adrenalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I was so adrenalised I couldn't sleep.
ref: 2009 October 4, David Mitchell, “I don't go to restaurants to tell the truth”, in Guardian:
glosses: simple past and past participle of adrenalise
tugtupite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tugtupites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare beryllium-aluminium tectosilicate with a structure similar to that of sodalite.
tectosilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tectosilicates
form: tektosilicate
Etymology: From tecto- + silicate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: framework silicate
glosses: Any of various silicate minerals, mostly aluminosilicates, with a three-dimensional framework of silicate tetrahedra with SiO₂ or a 1:2 ratio, making up the greater part of Earth's crust.
Hypernyms: silicate
tectosilicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tectosilicate
cafetite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cafetites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare titanium oxide mineral found in northern Russia.
whitlockite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitlockites
Etymology: From Whitlock + -ite, after Herbert Percy Whitlock (1868-1948), American mineralogist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare form of calcium phosphate.
Derived terms: strontiowhitlockite
whitlockites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitlockite
tugtupites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tugtupite
cafetites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cafetite
good gravy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "[…] When I get the teeniest bit upset I say ..."
Crowell finishes the sentence for her: "Good gravy. Good gravy is what you say.
DiNardo brightens. "Right. Good gravy. That's what I say. I wouldn't even say 'shoot.'"
ref: 1985 May, “The New Nuns”, in Orange Coast Magazine, page 86:
glosses: Used to express surprise or anger without a hint of profanity or blasphemy.
Synonyms: sense: surprise or anger without profanity or blasphemy
word: wow
manganotantalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manganotantalites
Etymology: From mangano- + tantalite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The manganese-rich form of tantalite.
ferrotantalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrotantalites
Etymology: From ferro- + tantalite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The iron-rich form of tantalite.
manganotantalites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manganotantalite
ferrotantalites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferrotantalite
clogginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cloggy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cloggy.
cadginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cadgy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cadgy.
blokeishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blokeish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being blokeish.
cloggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cloggier
form: cloggiest
Etymology: From clog + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] Nature stirres up all young things, Boyes, and Lambs, and Kitlins, to play and run about, by which they disperse the cloggy humours that otherwise would settle in their joynts […]
ref: 1654, Thomas White, A Contemplation of Heaven with an Exercise of Love, Paris: The Ninth Discourse, page 100:
text: […] the land in many parts was naturally heavy, and even when the digging was proceeding, very cloggy.
ref: 1837, Journal of Agriculture:
text: A cloggy sensation of the lukewarm fat of meat is upon me (we dined an hour or two ago), and my head is as heavy as so much lead.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: The snow was very cloggy, making the sledge and our ski run heavily.
ref: 1899, Frederick George Jackson, A thousand days in the Arctic:
glosses: Tending to cause clogging due to its texture; lumpy; sticky.
examples: text: a cloggy throat
glosses: Somewhat clogged or impeded.
Derived terms: word: cloggily
word: clogginess
word: blokema
pitifulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitifulnesses
Etymology: From pitiful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He had definitely shed the pitifulness of his childhood.
ref: 1920, Katharine Newlin Burt, Hidden Creek:
text: The Jugurtha of the same author is in an exactly similar way designed partly to expose the pitifulness of the oligarchic government, partly to glorify the Coryphaeus of the democracy, Gaius Marius.
ref: 1854, Theodor Mommsen, The History of Rome, Book V:
glosses: The state or quality of being pitiful.
plausibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plausible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being plausible.
pockiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pocky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being pocky.
poeticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poetic + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: poeticality
poeticalness
poeticity
antonyms: unpoeticality
unpoeticalness
unpoeticity
unpoeticness
glosses: The state or quality of being poetic.
precipitousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From precipitous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being precipitous.
Synonyms: sense: suddenness
word: abruptness
word: spontaneity
word: suddenness
precipitantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From precipitant + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being precipitant.
Synonyms: abruptness
spontaneity
suddenness
probableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈprɒb.ə.bəl.nəs/
text: Audio (US)
Etymology: Latin probabilis,
From probable + -ness, in existence since the 1600s.
Senses: examples: text: …the probableness of the existence of that fact…
ref: 1872, Batuk Lal, THE LAW OF EVIDENCE (The Indian Evidence Act, 1872)
glosses: The state or quality of being likely to occur; likelihood, probability.
Synonyms: likelihood
probability
plausibility
Related terms: probable
probably
probability
ropishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ropish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being ropish.
reproachfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reproachful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being reproachful.
repairableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From repairable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being repairable.
reflexiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reflexive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being reflexive.
threepeating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of threepeat
threepeated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of threepeat
sapidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sapid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being sapid.
sheepiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sheepy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being sheepy.
shelliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shelly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being shelly.
slatiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slateyness
Etymology: From slaty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being slaty.
slugginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sluggy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being sluggy.
sparkliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspɑː(ɹ)klɪnəs/
Etymology: From sparkly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being sparkly.
examples: text: Sir John [Suckling] threw his repartees about the table with much sparkliness, and gentileness of wit, to the admiration of them all.
ref: a. 1697, John Aubrey, “Sir John Suckling, Knight”, in Brief Lives:
glosses: vivacity
speckiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From specky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being specky.
temporalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From temporal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being temporal.
threadiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thready + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being thready.
uncraftiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncrafty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being uncrafty.
uncreativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncreative + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In the breadth of territory that lies between these two provisos are found all the explanations for uncreativeness in the dance.
ref: 1936, John Joseph Martin, America Dancing: The Background and Personalities of the Modern Dance, page 137:
glosses: The state or quality of being uncreative.
undesignedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undesigned + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being undesigned.
unexclusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unexclusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unexclusive.
unenrichableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unenrichable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unenrichable.
unenrichable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenrichable
form: most unenrichable
Etymology: From un- + enrichable.
Senses: glosses: Not enrichable.
unhardiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unhardy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unhardy.
unhardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhardy
form: most unhardy
Etymology: From un- + hardy.
Senses: glosses: Not hardy.
have one's hand out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's hand out
form: having one's hand out
form: had one's hand out
form: had one's hand out
Etymology: An allusion to the beseeching manner and typical gesture of a beggar.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever there was an appropriations bill, he always had his hand out for his guys.
text: Mr. Lombardo told him Union City “was probably the most graft‐ridden community in New Jersey—everybody had their hand out.”
ref: 1978 March 31, Joseph F. Sullivan, “Witness Says He Heard of Plotting To Tie Senator Musto to Gamblers”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Nov 2016:
text: "Everybody wanted my money. Everybody had their hand out."
ref: 2015 February 14, Selena Maranjian, “Winning Lottery Numbers: What a Curse”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 27 Nov 2016:
text: Chung described Ashe as a predator, seeking money at every turn. “He had his hand out constantly,” she said.
ref: 2016 July 29, Larry Neumeister, “Woman in UN bribery scandal gets 20 months in prison”, in Washington Post, retrieved 27 Nov 2016:
glosses: To request benefits, especially monetary ones and especially if not entitled to them.
Related terms: handout
unhealthfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unhealthful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unhealthful.
unrealness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unreal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unreal.
unreservedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unreserved + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unreserved.
unresolvedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unresolved + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unresolved.
unrevengefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unrevengeful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unrevengeful.
unrightfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unrightful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unrightful.
unsleepiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsleepy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unsleepy.
untrustiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From untrusty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being untrusty.
unweariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unweary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unweary.
visibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From visible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Not only are persons of a holy life made to shine with a more radiant brightness, but common Christians, of no note or visibleness, are changed to a saintly character.
ref: 1843, Henry Edward Manning, Thoughts for those that mourn:
text: The Biblical experience of God in both the Old and the New Testaments is characterized as a whole by the fact that the essentially "invisible" and "unapproachable" God enters the sphere of creaturely visibleness, not by means of intermediary beings, but in himself […]
ref: 2007, John Panteleimon Manoussakis, God After Metaphysics: A Theological Aesthetic, page 28:
text: One of Balázs's central ideas was the unmediated visibleness of the spiritual in the physical, and this was closely connected with the notion of a corresponding visual resensitizing of the individual through the filmic image, through which "we finally see things with our eyes, that would cause us to close our eyes if appearing in reality," as he wrote elsewhere.
ref: 2011, Jörg Schweinitz, Film and Stereotype: A Challenge for Cinema and Theory, page 143:
glosses: The state or quality of being visible.
Synonyms: apparency
seeability
seeableness
visibility
old hag syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of sleep paralysis in which the sleeper sees a figure resembling a witch sitting on them while still in bed.
exciteable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exciteable
form: most exciteable
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of excitable.
Derived terms: exciteableness
displeasantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From displeasant + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being displeasant.
dissolubleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dissoluble + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dissoluble.
Synonyms: dissolubility
dogginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doggy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: What the first dogs had, like the last wolves, was what I call dogginess. Dogginess is the essence of dogdom writ large. Clearly the first dogs had dogginess, or we would not recognize them as related to modern dogs, but they certainly were not dogs as we know them now.
ref: 2021, Pat Shipman, Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs, page 29:
glosses: The state or quality of being doggy.
equableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being equable.
equitableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equitable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being equitable; equitability.
doggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of doggy: more doggy
doggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of doggy: most doggy
exposedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exposed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being exposed.
exquisitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exquisitive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being exquisitive.
fallowness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fallow + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being fallow.
featheriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feathery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being feathery.
flexibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flexible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being flexible.
Synonyms: flexibility
forcedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From forced + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being forced.
frizziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frizzy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being frizzy.
nonwashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + washable.
Senses: glosses: Not washable.
Synonyms: unwashable
nonwashable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonwashables
Etymology: From non- + washable.
Senses: glosses: Something that cannot be washed in the normal way without being damaged.
gruffiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gruffy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being gruffy.
haleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hale + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being hale.
plumpiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plumpy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being plumpy.
logomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From logo- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: Great enthusiasm for words.
glosses: A disorder of the faculty of language in an individual.
Derived terms: logomaniac
Related terms: logophilia
logomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From logo + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Silvarolli, a stylist and designer, was swathed from her chin to her calves in the company’s signature double FF logo. […] Logomania’s checkered past dates from the ’60s and ’70s, buoyed in those decades by an outpouring of licensed wares […]
ref: 2018 November 7, Ruth La Feria, “What Gives the Logo Its Legs: Logomania is an obsession with no end in sight. Here’s why.”, in The New York Times:
text: When the logomania trend hit its peak back in 2016, it felt as if everyone was obsessed with covering themselves in designer brand names from head to toe and making sure people knew it.
ref: 2022 November 2, Christian Allaire, “Logomania Has Gone Subtle This Fall (Yes, Really)”, in Vogue, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2023:
text: Whilst Toteme’s shirt features embroidery of the brand’s signature monogram logo, it’s subtle enough to look like an Art Deco pattern as opposed to anything remotely logomania.
ref: 2023 January 31, Peter Bevan, “Best work clothes for women: What to wear to the office”, in Evening Standard:
glosses: Fashion design in which a brand's logo is conspicuously repeated across an article of clothing.
heartfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heartful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being heartful.
examples: text: In Heartfulness, however, because of the effectiveness of Pranahuti, Samadhi may be experienced by beginners, so the normal sequence does not necessarily apply. In fact, this is one of the important characteristics of Heartfulness.
ref: 2022 May 9, Annelies van’t Westeinde, Kamlesh D. Patelcorresponding, “Heartfulness Meditation: A Yogic and Neuroscientific Perspective”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 13, →DOI:
glosses: A form of meditation practice which features the use of pranahuti or yogic transmission and the cleaning of impressions (called samskaras).
spanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspeɪnd͡ʒɚ/
Forms: form: spangers
Etymology: From spange + -er (“person who does”), root blend of spare + change, from stereotyped phrase “spare change?”, “spare any change?”.
Senses: examples: text: I squatted down on the sidewalk to get eye level with the spanger (someone who asks passerbys for spare change).
ref: 2007, Pam Hogeweide, Spangers and Song on Hawthorne
glosses: beggar, one who uses the phrase “spare change?”
Related terms: spange
spanging
calottes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calotte
uncrafty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncrafty
form: most uncrafty
Etymology: From un- + crafty.
Senses: examples: text: Y' are brave, but the most uncrafty lad that I can think upon!
ref: 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:
text: ...and when he appeared in their midst, the simple, unaffected, uncrafty man that he was, a revulsion of feeling immediately took place.
ref: 2008, Henry J Horn, Strange Visitors:
glosses: Not crafty; unscheming.
Derived terms: uncraftiness
y'
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: /jə/
Senses: examples: text: Y' are brave, but the most uncrafty lad that I can think upon!
ref: 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:
text: Y'r can turn out the place, boys, if y' think Monty or me had anything to do with his blasted wallet.
ref: 1946, Katharine Susannah Prichard, The roaring nineties: a story of the goldfields of Western Australia:
text: "Then what y'reckon y'gon' do?" the other repeated.
ref: 1986, Robert Herring, McCampbell's war:
glosses: you; ya; ye.
Derived terms: y'all
y'know
unscheming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unscheming
form: most unscheming
Etymology: From un- + scheming.
Senses: glosses: Not scheming; simple and honest.
ageplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪd͡ʒ pleɪ/
Forms: form: age play
Etymology: Compound of age + play.
Senses: examples: text: Although Linden Lab announced that sexual ageplay was always banned in Second Life […]
ref: 2008, Tawfik Jelassi, Albrecht Enders, Strategies for e-business: creating value through electronic and mobile commerce:
text: Then again, that kind of ageplay is basically a normalized kink […]
ref: 2008, Bitch: feminist response to pop culture:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A form of roleplay in which the player deliberately acts an age different from their own (and usually younger).
Related terms: little
big
littlespace
destroyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more destroyable
form: most destroyable
Etymology: From destroy + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be destroyed.
Synonyms: breakable
fragile
Derived terms: nondestroyable
undestroyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undestroyable
form: most undestroyable
Etymology: From un- + destroyable.
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore, the substance of matter and body, as distinguished from the accidents, is the only thing in the world that is incorruptible and undestroyable.
ref: 2004, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe Part One - Page 198:
glosses: Not able to be destroyed; indestructible.
Synonyms: indestructible
unbreakable
nondetective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + detective.
Senses: examples: text: The closest character to Dupin in Poe's nondetective fiction is Roderick Usher in "The Fall of the House of Usher," that gothic nightmare of decadence...
ref: 2000, David Lehman, The perfect murder: a study in detection:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Not involving a detective (as many mystery novels do).
playworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playworkers
Etymology: From play + worker.
Senses: glosses: A childcarer involved in playwork.
playworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playworker
orcharding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orchard + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The growing of fruit in an orchard.
glosses: The hobby of visiting orchards.
cidermaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cider + making.
Senses: glosses: The making of cider.
bootmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boot + making.
Senses: glosses: The making of boots.
dollmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doll + making.
Senses: examples: text: […] a girl of twelve or fourteen whose ideas are so simple and artless and whose mind still lingers at skipping and dollmaking?
ref: 1894, John Wesley Hanson, The World's Congress of Religions:
glosses: The manufacture of dolls.
dollmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dollmakers
Etymology: From doll + maker.
Senses: glosses: A maker of dolls.
glosses: Software for designing virtual dolls (Synonym of dress-up game)
dollmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dollmaker
dollopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dollopy
form: most dollopy
Etymology: From dollop + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having a texture of dollops; lumpy, stodgy.
pendulously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pendulously
form: most pendulously
Etymology: From pendulous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Noiselessly it raised its head, and steadily its green eyes watched this invader, and when convinced that she was a menace, a forked tongue protruded from its head, swinging to and fro pendulously.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 291:
glosses: In a pendulous manner.
pendulousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pendulous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being pendulous.
beermaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beer + making.
Senses: glosses: The making of beer.
beermaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beermakers
Etymology: From beer + maker.
Senses: glosses: One who makes beer; a brewer.
beermakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beermaker
microbrewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + brewed.
Senses: glosses: Produced by microbrewing.
catsitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catsitters
Etymology: From cat + sitter or catsit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Still, don't you think he'd be happier staying home, with a catsitter to take care of him?
ref: 1974, Don Robertson, Praise the human season:
text: She loved me, my parents, my friends, her catsitters, and even visiting cable repairmen and plumbers, in whose toolboxes she liked to nap.
ref: 2004, Linda Anderson, Angel Cats: Divine Messengers of Comfort:
glosses: One who acts as babysitter for a cat in the owner's absence.
Hypernyms: petsitter
Related terms: catsit
catsitting
dogsitter
catsitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catsitter
dogsitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogsitters
Etymology: From dog + sitter or dogsit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In some towns, you can hire a professional dogsitter to come to your home...
ref: 1997, Karla S. Rugh, Miniature Schnauzers:
text: I have had multiple dogsitters report to me that after many hours or days of being away from home, my dog would begin to act differently...
ref: 2009, James Endredy, Shamanism for Beginners: Walking with the World's Healers of Earth and Sky:
glosses: One who acts as babysitter for a dog in the owner's absence.
Hypernyms: petsitter
Hyponyms: puppysitter
Related terms: catsitter
dogsit
dogsitting
dogsitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogsitter
nonparticipial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + participial.
Senses: glosses: Not participial.
petsitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petsitters
Etymology: From pet + sitter.
Senses: glosses: One who acts as babysitter for a pet in the owner's absence.
Hyponyms: catsitter
dogsitter
petsitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petsitter
Collinsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Collinsian
form: most Collinsian
Etymology: From Collins + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to William Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), English author and playwright, or to his works.
macroeconomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From macroeconomic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a macroeconomic fashion.
dulcetly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dulcetly
form: most dulcetly
Etymology: From dulcet + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dulcet manner.
euharmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euharmonic
form: most euharmonic
Etymology: From eu- + harmonic.
Senses: glosses: Pleasingly melodious or harmonious — applied especially to the euharmonic organ invented by Henry Ward Poole (1825-1890), in whose design mathematical principles of harmony were employed.
euglycaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of euglycemia.
euglycaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of euglycemic.
pleasurecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleasurecraft
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pleasure craft.
homeoboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeobox
homoeobox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoeoboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of homeobox.
homoeoboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoeobox
noncoking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coking.
Senses: examples: noncoking fuel
glosses: Not coking.
noncooking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cooking.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to cooking.
nonbuying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + buying.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the waitresses disappeared, others stood against the bar talking to the nonbuying customers.
ref: 1946, Elizabeth Hawes, Hurry up, please, it's time:
glosses: Not buying.
Synonyms: nonpurchasing
playwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From play + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothes designed for children to wear while playing.
postbiblical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + biblical.
Senses: examples: postbiblical literature
glosses: After the publication of the Bible.
Iwate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 岩(いわ)手(て) (Iwate).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Morioka.
prebiblical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + biblical.
Senses: examples: prebiblical traditions
glosses: Before the publication of the Bible.
Miyagi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Miyagis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 宮(みや)城(ぎ) (Miyagi).
Senses: examples: text: Miyagi prefecture is located in the Tōhoku region, in the northeastern part of Japan.
ref: 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 151:
glosses: A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Sendai.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
nonmyofascial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + myofascial.
Senses: glosses: Not myofascial.
postinjection
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + injection.
Senses: examples: text: The gastrocnemius is very prone to postinjection soreness.
ref: 1992, Janet G Travell, David G Simons, Myofascial pain and dysfunction: the trigger point manual:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: After an injection is administered
postinjection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postinjections
Etymology: From post- + injection.
Senses: glosses: An injection of fuel (into an engine) after a previous combustion phase
gastrocnemii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrocnemius
preinjection
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + injection.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Before an injection is administered.
nonsynovial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + synovial.
Senses: glosses: Not synovial.
Tochigi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 栃(とち)木(ぎ) (Tochigi).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Utsunomiya.
sceptering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scepter
sceptered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sceptred
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scepter
sceptered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sceptred
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sceptred.
Gunma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gumma
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 群(ぐん)馬(ま) (Gunma).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Maebashi.
unpestered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pestered.
Senses: glosses: Not pestered; unharassed.
noncreator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncreators
Etymology: From non- + creator.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a creator.
noncreators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncreator
virginly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more virginly
form: most virginly
Etymology: From virgin + -ly.
Senses: examples: virginly modesty
glosses: Befitting a virgin; coy, innocent, pure, unspotted; chaste, etc.
Synonyms: maidenly
virginly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more virginly
form: most virginly
Etymology: From virgin + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a virgin manner; purely, innocently, chastely.
Kanagawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 神奈(かな)川(がわ) (Kanagawa).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
glosses: A ward of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Yamanashi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 山梨(やまなし) (Yamanashi).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Kōfu.
softpaste
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: soft-paste
form: soft paste
Etymology: From soft + paste.
Senses: glosses: Having a body formulation that combines clay and frit, mainly used in the production of decorative figures and domestic wares in 18th-century Europe; also sometimes applied to other soft porcelains such as bone china.
raw_tags: of ceramics
Coordinate terms: hardpaste
Shiga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 滋賀(しが) (Shiga).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Ōtsu.
Shimane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 島(しま)根(ね) (Shimane).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Matsue.
Kagawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 香(か)川(がわ) (Kagawa).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan. Its capital is Takamatsu.
Ehime
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 愛媛(えひめ) (Ehime).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Matsuyama.
smokeproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smokeproof
form: most smokeproof
Etymology: From smoke + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: A smokeproof stairway can help in the event of a fire.
glosses: Resistant to smoke.
tsooris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tsuris.
breasty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛsti/
rhymes: -ɛsti
Forms: form: breastier
form: breastiest
Etymology: From breast + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Blue-eyed, fair-haired and rosy-cheeked, she was not, it is true, either lithe or lath-like, but then had not Tommo once expressed a preference for breasty girls?
ref: 1968, James Balfour, Those Darling Days, page 192:
glosses: Having large breasts; busty.
tussis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin tussis (“cough”).
Senses: examples: text: In cachectic subjects, or in a strumous child the victim is never safe when the diathesis is reinforced by any contagion which further undermines a constitution built on sand. Even in such cases the force of the tussis attack can be rendered less forceful by judicious treatment and proper care.
ref: 1902, Robert M. Tooker, “The Homœopathic Treatment of Whooping Cough”, in The North American Journal of Homeopathy, volume 50, page 48:
text: Except of my coffin, / For what can I else with this horrible tussis?
ref: 1971, Edward Wagenknecht, James Russell Lowell; Portrait of a Many-sided Man, page 224:
text: As George whittled the lengthy wood, his tussis nearly cured, he found himself surrounded by curious lads and lasses.
ref: 2010, Karen Bowden-Cox, Honorable Passage: Repaying Evil With..., page 156:
glosses: A cough.
Related terms: tussic
tussive
tussal
tussicular
tussiculation
social entrepreneurship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Development of social entrepreneurship should be a prime objective of the National Rural Center and regional centers.
ref: 1970, Study Group on an Institute for Applied Science and Social Change in a Rural Area, A National Rural Center: Applying Science to Improve the Quality of Rural Life, National Research Council (U.S.), Division of Behavioral Sciences, National Academy Press, page 40:
text: This social entrepreneurship has been particularly important in the expansion of traditional services by private associations, and in the introduction of community and commercially based distribution projects.
ref: 1987, John Icki, “Structural Issues Related to Delivery Systems”, in Organizing for Effective Family Planning Programs, National Academy Press (Working Group on Family Planning Effectiveness), page 154:
text: Social entrepreneurship, once thought to be mainly the province of the young, turns out to be a path to vibrant encore careers for many people.
ref: 2008, Marc Freedman, Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 174:
glosses: The application of the principles of business entrepreneurship—including risk-taking and ingenuity—to social causes.
Related terms: social entrepreneur
prepossessingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prepossessingly
form: most prepossessingly
Etymology: From prepossessing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a prepossessing manner
charabancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charabancers
Etymology: From charabanc + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who travels by charabanc.
charabancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charabancer
anodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anodons
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the genus Anodon, now Anodonta, of freshwater bivalves.
Related terms: Anodonta
earth closets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earth closet
basketball hoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basketball hoop
beauty parlour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauty parlours
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beauty parlor.
beauty parlors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beauty parlor
beauty parlours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beauty parlour
beauty-marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beauty-mark
beauty salons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beauty salon
abaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abatons
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄβατον (ábaton), nominalized neuter form of ἄβατος (ábatos, “inaccessible”).
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Greece, an enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.
glosses: In Ancient Egypt, any one of the sacred cult sites where a body part of the dismembered Osiris was claimed to be buried.
year-on-year
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: year on year
Senses: examples: text: Within six months, the total number of passengers forecast to use the line in the entire first year (650,000) had already been passed. For the first 12 months, the figure was in excess of 1.2 million. And overall, it has grown year-on-year, reaching over two million in 2018-19.
ref: 2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 52:
text: Prices for new homes in 70 Chinese cities fell by a worse-than-expected 1.3% year on year in August, according to official figures, reflecting a turbulent 12 months in which China’s housing sector has gone from an unstoppable driver of growth and prosperity to being the chief threat to the world’s powerhouse economy.
ref: 2022 September 25, Martin Farrer, “A Ponzi scheme by any other name: the bursting of China’s property bubble”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of year-over-year.
Related terms: period-on-period
quarter-on-quarter
month-on-month
intrinsic protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrinsic proteins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein (or group of proteins) permanently attached to a biological membrane by interactions between its hydrophobic dimer units and the phospholipids of the membrane
Synonyms: integral membrane protein
taf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tafs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of taw (“Semitic letter”).
Marten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Keatsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːtsɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈkitsi.ən/
Forms: form: more Keatsian
form: most Keatsian
Etymology: From Keats + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the English poet John Keats (1795–1821), a key figure of the Romantic movement, or his writings.
intrinsic proteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrinsic protein
margin calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of margin call
forsays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forsay
forsaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: for- + said
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forsay
forsaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forsay
draggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of draggy: more draggy
draggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of draggy: most draggy
commerce raiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commerce raider
mesovortices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesovortex
mesovortex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesovortices
form: mesovortexes
Etymology: From meso- + vortex.
Senses: glosses: A small-scale, vertical vortex of air associated with a thunderstorm that occurs at less than one kilometer from the ground and is between 2-20 kilometers in width.
Derived terms: eyewall mesovortex
on the street
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We haven't been able to pay rent for five months. Next month we'll be on the street.
text: Delays with universal credit have compounded the problem, pushing people into rent arrears and putting them at risk of losing their homes. And the retrenchment of services such as mental health and drug rehabilitation means that vulnerable people are more likely to find themselves on the street.
ref: 2018, The Observer, The Observer view on the budget and the decade of austerity, 28 October
glosses: Without a home; without the means to afford good shelter.
examples: text: But to work "on the street" is clearly quite different from "working the street."
ref: 1983, Streets as Public Property: Opportunities for Public/private Interactin in Planning and Design, page 108:
text: Indeed, the contribution of study abroad to significant language gains is commonly believed to derive from the numerous opportunities program participants have to engage in first-hand language practice on "the street", in restaurants, in shops, in the homes of native speaker friends and acquaintances as well as a variety of other out-of-class environments in which students find themselves while living in-country.
ref: 1995, Barbara F. Freed, Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context, page 317:
text: 'We took five years of strategy development before we put a single thing on the street,' Slutkin said.
ref: 2020, Adam Kucharski, The Rules of Contagion, page 123:
glosses: In actual practice, as opposed to in a laboratory, classroom, etc.
Related terms: on the streets
mean streets
on the road
street-smart
ignitabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ignitability
poly(U)
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A polynucleotide all of whose bases are uracil.
Related terms: poly(A)
poly(C)
poly(G)
cycles of fifths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycle of fifths
poly(A)
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A polynucleotide all of whose bases are adenine.
Related terms: poly(C)
poly(G)
poly(U)
poly(C)
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A polynucleotide all of whose bases are cytosine.
Related terms: poly(A)
poly(G)
poly(U)
poly(G)
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A polynucleotide all of whose bases are guanine.
Related terms: poly(A)
poly(C)
poly(U)
superfecundations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superfecundation
abstracts of title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstract of title
hypersomniac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypersomniac
form: most hypersomniac
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hypersomnia, excessive sleepiness.
hypersomniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersomniacs
Senses: glosses: A person who has hypersomnia.
desparpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desparple
desparpling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desparple
desparples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desparple
hospital corners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hospital corner