cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
run for one's money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a run for one's money
Etymology: The idiom likely originates with horse racing, where one can get enjoyment "from watching the race even if one does not win much." Its usage was first recorded in 1874.
Senses: examples: text: Since the beginning of the world all men have hunted me like a wolf—kings and sages, and poets and lawgivers, all the churches, and all the philosophies. But I have never been caught yet, and the skies will fall in the time I turn to bay. I have given them a good run for their money, and I will now.
ref: 1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC:
text: "If your competitor regards you as a menace to his pocketbook, he can give you a nice little run for your money and delay you indefinitely."
ref: 1918, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 24, in The Valley of the Giants:
text: After beating Bush in New Hampshire, McCain gave him a two month run for his money. Bush had to prove he wasn't just a famous name.
ref: 2003 April 3, Mitch Frank, “Why Primaries Matter”, in Time:
text: Zoe followed him out, and saw he was halfway down the street, running so fast he would give the Olympic-gold-winning sprinters a run for their money.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A difficult challenge for the person indicated, especially one involving a competitive situation.
examples: text: He appealed and, by some arrangement or other, got leave to state his case personally to the Court of Revision. Said, I believe, that he did not much trust lawyers, but that if the sahibs would give him a hearing, as man to man, he might have a run for his money.
ref: 1913, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 18, in Letters of Travel:
text: "I say he'll get a run for his money. If there's any killing to be done, it will be in fair fight."
ref: 1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 11, in The Sheriff's Son:
glosses: A reasonable opportunity to succeed, perform acceptably, or escape harm, especially in a difficult situation.
Related terms: have one's work cut out for one
money's worth
osteoblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteoblastomas
Etymology: From osteo- + blastoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: an uncommon osteoid tissue-forming primary neoplasm of the bone
carnavals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carnaval
corvinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corvina
nothospecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒθəʊˌspiːʃiz/
Forms: form: nothospecies
Etymology: From notho- + species.
Senses: examples: text: The fourth species, the nothospecies Fragaria × ananassa, was originally established for the hybrids F. chiloensis × F. virginiana, which had originated under cultivation and are known as the large-fruited garden strawberries. When the hybrid populations in the coastal regions of northwestern North America were identified as introgressants of the same two octoploid species, they were combined with the cultivated garden strawberries into the nothospecies F. ×ananassa.
ref: 1999, Günter Staudt, “Systematics and Geographic Distribution of the American Strawberry Species: Taxonomic Studies in the Genus Fragaria (Rosaceae: Potentilleae)”, in Botany, volume 81, University of California Press, page 32:
text: For our treatment we designate hybrid species (nothospecies) by prefix with a multiplication sign placed flush with the species epithet (×; Art H.1.1; H.3A.1 of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Greuter et al. 2000) only if they are of restricted distribution and are sympatric with their putative parents.
ref: 2004, David M. Spooner, Wild potatoes (Solanum section Petota; Solanaceae) of North and Central America, page 17:
text: The number that precedes each species is presented to help determine parentage of nothospecies (i.e., hybrids). Therefore, all nothospecies included in the manual are provided with a numeric formula (e.g., 1 × 3) in addition to the scientific name (when present).
ref: 2011, Arthur Haines, New England Wild Flower Society's Flora Novae Angliae: A Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized Higher Vascular Plants of New England, page xvi:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A hybrid which is formed by direct hybridization of two species, not other hybrids.
Related terms: nothogeneric
nothogenus
nothospecific
nothosubspecies
nothotaxon
cultivar
grex name
grex name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grex names
Etymology: See Latin grex
Senses: examples: Grex names are mainly used for orchids and bromeliads, which hybridize easily and are eagerly cultivated
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A common name for the collective ('herd') of hybrids stemming from a given set of two (or more) commonly paired parent species
Related terms: cultivar
nothospecies
Ninotsminda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ნინოწმინდა (ninoc̣minda), named after the nearby church devoted to Saint Nino: წმინდა (c̣minda, “holy”) + ნინო (nino).
Senses: glosses: An Armenian-populated town in Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia. Known as Bogdanovka before 1991.
Strait of Dover
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A strait in the English Channel, connecting to the North Sea, between Dover (England) and Calais (France)
Pas-de-Calais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French Pas de Calais (“Strait of Dover”, literally “strait of Calais”).
Senses: glosses: A department of Hauts-de-France in northern France, bordering the Strait of Dover.
wikipedia: Strait of Dover
Derived terms: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
funambulism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funambulisms
Etymology: From Latin funambulis.
Senses: synonyms: tightrope walking
glosses: The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope.
Related terms: funambulist
quisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quisses
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:quisse.
glosses: Rare spelling of cuisse.
quisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quisse
69s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of 69
69s
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of 69
incombustibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being incombustible.
Synonyms: noncombustibility
vulpines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulpine
commixtion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪkst͡ʃən/
Forms: form: commixtions
form: commixion
Etymology: From Middle English commixtion, from Middle French commixtion, and its source, Latin commixtiōnem, from commiscēre (“to mix”).
Senses: glosses: The action of mixing or blending together; commingling.
glosses: The blending (of wines, etc.); garbling.
examples: text: Of that commixtion they did then beget / This helliſh Dog, that hight the Blatant Beaſt; […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 426:
glosses: Coition; copulation; sexual intercourse.
glosses: Commixture; a commixed condition or state.
glosses: A mixture; a compound.
topics: law
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A method of acquiring property by mixing or blending substances belonging to different proprietors.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The putting of a small piece of the host into the chalice during Mass, typifying the reunion of body and soul at the resurrection.
commixtions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commixtion
depaint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depaints
form: depainting
form: depainted
form: depainted
form: depainten
Etymology: From de- + paint.
Senses: examples: text: on his shield depainted he did see:
Such homage till that instant never learned hee
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
synonyms: paint
portray
delineate
glosses: To depict.
glosses: To depict in words; to describe graphically.
glosses: To colour; to decorate with colours.
glosses: To stain; to distain.
examples: text: aircraft depainting technology
glosses: To remove paint from.
Derived terms: depainter
gelotophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γέλως (gélōs, “laughter”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Titze sees Gelotophobia as a clinical category, […]
ref: 2008, Victor Raskin, The primer of humor research, page 54:
text: Studies of gelotophobia. It turns out that gelotophobes have difficulty distinguishing between situations in which they are the butts of gentle mockery and those in which […]
ref: 2011, Ted Gournelos, Viveca Greene, A Decade of Dark Humor, page 222:
text: […] associated with higher gelotophobia mean scores.
ref: 2011, Luciano L'Abate, Hurt Feelings: Theory, Research, and Applications, page 68:
glosses: An abnormal and persistent fear of being laughed at.
Related terms: gelotophobe
gelotophobic
gelotophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətəˌfoʊb/
Forms: form: gelotophobes
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, the 14 countries (with altogether 3526 participants) studied yielded a noticeable number of gelotophobes. […] Studies showed that gelotophobes misperceive auditorily presented laughter of a positive quality, and consider it […]
ref: 2008, Victor Raskin, The primer of humor research:
text: Gelotophobes have particular problems understanding facial expressions (Ruch and Proyer, 2008a). A smile may be seen as malevolent, even when no more is intended than a warm, happy, expression of positive emotion, as in teasing.
ref: 2010, Gwyneth Daniel, Utmost Extrication: Why Henry Hellyer Shot Himself, page 53:
text: Studies of gelotophobia. It turns out that gelotophobes have difficulty distinguishing between situations in which they are the butts of gentle mockery and those in which […]
ref: 2011, Ted Gournelos, Viveca Greene, A Decade of Dark Humor, page 222:
glosses: A person who experiences gelotophobia, one who fears being laughed at.
gelotophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelotophobe
run for the money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a run for the money
Senses: glosses: Dated form of run for one's money.
chuiwan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 捶丸 (chuíwán, literally “ball-hitting”).
Senses: glosses: An early Chinese game somewhat similar to golf.
sums of their parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sum of its parts
shiphandler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiphandlers
Etymology: From ship + handler.
Senses: glosses: A person maneuvering a ship.
shiphandlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shiphandler
unshed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shed.
Senses: examples: text: His eyes misty with unshed tears Master Tommy came at her call for their big sister's word was law with the twins.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: That has not been shed.
Tommy Atkins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Said to be a fictitious name inserted in document templates given to soldiers to guide them in filling out account blanks, etc. Found in the publication Soldier's Account Book (1815) and later in King's Regulations (1837). Compare also John Doe and Richard Roe.
Senses: examples: text: O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play
ref: 1892, Rudyard Kipling, Tommy:
text: A voice I don't want to listen to tells me that this is England's last land triumph; that our military history ends here[…]. Tommy Atkins will serve with pluck and valor wherever he fights hereafter, as always; but the conduct of the war is passing out of our hands.
ref: 1978, Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance, Back Bay Books, published 2002, page 507:
glosses: Generic term for any British soldier.
Coordinate terms: Billy Yank
G.I. Joe
Johnny Reb
Related terms: Adolf
crapaud
Fritz
Frog
Jerry
Johnny Crapaud
Roastbeef
Tojo
actino-uranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinouranium
Etymology: From actino- + uranium.
Senses: glosses: Uranium-235.
actinouranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of actino-uranium.
j.g.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jg
Senses: glosses: junior-grade
paganica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The folliculus was merely a smaller follis, apparently about the same size as a paganica, also a middle sized ball, stuffed with feathers, and therefore harder than the follis, which was only filled with air, but tenderer than the pila, which was probably as hard and heavy as our tennis-ball. Martial mentions all the three principal balls in a couplet — ‘ Hæc quæ difficilli turget Paganica plumâ / Folle minus laxa est et minus arcta pilâ. ’ ¶ ‘ This Paganica stuffed with stiff feathers is of tougher substance than the balloon, but of less compact substance than the tennis ball ’
ref: 1875, Sydney Smith, The Edinburgh Review, volume 141, A. and C. Black, pages 72–73:
glosses: A Roman ball stuffed with feathers, used in a game that is sometimes considered a precursor to golf (since early golf balls had a similar construction).
examples: text: An attempt, a rather lame one, however, has been made to prove that golf was known to the Romans, or at least that a game called Paganica resembled it.
ref: 1896, Harry Stirling Crawfurd Everard, Golf in theory and practice: some hints to beginners, George Bell & sons, page 4:
text: Beginning with paganica in Ancient Rome, golf has had many ancestors in many distant lands, all similar in one way or another to the game we know today.
ref: 2002, Robert Muir Graves, Geoffrey S. Cornish, Classic Golf Hole Design, John Wiley and Sons, page 15:
glosses: The game itself.
cambuca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cambuta
form: cambutta
Etymology: From Middle English camboke, from Late Latin cambuca (“hooked rod or stick”) referring to the 'club' used to play the game. Compare cammock.
Senses: examples: text: GOLF. - there are many games played with the ball that require the assistance of a club or bat[…]In the reign of Edward III. the Latin name cambuca was applied to the pastime[…].
ref: 1801, Joseph Strutt, The sports and pastimes of the people of England, page 97:
text: Though golf as it has been played, from time immemorial in Scotland, is more closely allied to the French game jeu de mail, and the Roman game cambuca, an opinion has been long held by writers on the subject that we owe golf to Holland[…].
ref: 1896, John Kerr, The golf-book of East Lothian, page 23:
text: […] there were actually several golf-like games played from the mid-13ᵗʰ Century onwards. One of these games was pell mell, the forerunner of modern croquet, which involved hitting the ball back and forth over a short distance and having to drive the ball through a hoop at either end of the course. Among the everyday activities recorded in the stained glass of cathedrals, one window at Gloucester Cathedral preserves the image of a cambuca player about to strike his ball.
ref: 2001, Paul B. Newman, Daily life in the Middle Ages, page 162:
text: The next incarnation of golf shows up in England while Edward III was in power. In cambuca or cambuta a curved stick similar to the one use^([sic]) in paganica, was used[…].
ref: 2008, Adam Sherman, Golf's Book of First, page 7:
glosses: A 12th-century English game somewhat similar to golf in that it was played with a wooden ball similar to a golf ball.
glosses: A curved stick used to strike the ball in the game of pall mall.
glosses: A pastoral staff.
bullaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullary
fantasque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fantasque
form: most fantasque
Senses: glosses: fantastical
gloser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glosers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of glosser.
afference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæfəɹəns/
Forms: form: afferences
Etymology: Adjective form of afferent, from French afférent (“which brings inward”), from Latin afferent-, from afferēns, present participle of afferre (“bring to”), from af- (variant of ad-) + ferre (“bear”). Doublet of afferentia.
Senses: examples: text: Christina had lost this normal inflow, this afference, had lost her normal proprioceptive vocal tone and posture, and therefore had to use her ears, auditory feedback, instead.
ref: 1984, Oliver Sacks, “The Disembodied Lady”, chapter 3 in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Reset 2007), page 53
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The brain’s reception of signals from the body.
Derived terms: exafference
reafference
Related terms: afferent
deafferentiation
signalosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signalosome
wawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wawls
form: wawling
form: wawled
form: wawled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waul.
mixed signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed signals
Senses: examples: text: Crap, he sent a winky back. That was not good. Mixed signals were a bad way to start any kind of beginning, whether it was love or friendship.
ref: 2015, Mara Reitsma, Amethyst Attraction, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 113:
text: German firms have signed a 15-year deal to buy 2m tonnes of liquid gas from Qatar, sending out mixed signals over the priority Germany places on human rights in the Gulf and its commitment to a carbon neutral energy supply.
ref: 2022 November 29, Patrick Wintour, “Germany agrees 15-year liquid gas supply deal with Qatar”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: mixed message
glosses: An unclear message, often contradicting a situation.
sessileness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sessile + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being sessile, being directly or permanently attached.
six-footedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From six-footed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being a hexapod (having six feet).
glosses: The state or quality of being six foot tall.
six-leggedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From six-legged + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being a hexapod (having six legs).
leggedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From legged + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of or number of legs.
raw_tags: in combinations
Related terms: bowleggedness
long-leggedness
short-leggedness
six-leggedness
headedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From headed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: An analysis of the historical change that led to the development of second-position clitics in Old Bulgarian is proposed that implicates a switch in the parameter of headedness of TP.
ref: 2005 February, Roumyana Pancheva, “The Rise and Fall of Second-Position Clitics”, in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, volume 23, number 1, page 103:
glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of head (in various senses).
Related terms: big-headedness
clear-headedness
cool-headedness
headlessness
hot-headedness
level-headedness
light-headedness
redheadedness
woolly-headedness
wrong-headedness
armedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From armed + -ness.
Senses: examples: long-armedness
glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of or number of arms.
raw_tags: in combinations
opłatek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opłateks
Senses: examples: text: But Mother enclosed in one letter an opłatek—the thin white wafer traditionally shared by all at the beginning of the Christmas Eve dinner. We took it to be a clear message from her: stay in Romania, at least through Christmas.
ref: 2007, Jerzy Główczewski, translated by Danuta Waydenfeld and Stefan Waydenfeld, “The Odyssey Begins”, in The Accidental Immigrant: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Xlibris, →ISBN, part 1 (Unruly Boy, War Exile, Desert Soldier, Fighter Pilot), page 31:
text: Before sitting down, an opłatek—a special wafer symbolizing the Christian child—was broken and shared, while family members, starting with the father and mother, would exchange good wishes for the new year. Family members would sometimes send a piece of their opłatek to ones who were far away, as a symbol that they were breaking the wafer together even though separated by war or a repressive political system. (The opłatek ritual persists among Poles in Chicago, where the wafers are sold in Polish stores.)
ref: 2008, Cynthia Grant Bowman, “Origins”, in Beyond the Uprising: A Polish Girl’s Journey, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 12:
text: The meal has a number of traditional courses, beginning with opłatek, a small blessed wafer made from flour and water. Each family member holds their wafer and gives each person at the table a well wish for the next year, breaking a piece off of each person’s wafer and sharing among the table. “We’re going to make people do the opłatek thing,” says Lasky. “It will be good icebreaker for a family-style dinner.”
ref: 2018 December 5, Celine Roberts, “Apteka and Whitfield Team Up for a Vegan Christmas Meal”, in Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh, Pa., archived from the original on 28 Sep 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of oplatek.
kneedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kneed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of or number of knees.
raw_tags: in combinations
Derived terms: weak-kneedness
chestedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chested + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of chest.
Derived terms: barrel-chestedness
bare-chestedness
flat-chestedness
narrow-chestedness
flat-chestedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatchestedness
Etymology: From flat-chested + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Flat-chestedness was a big problem when I was in school.
glosses: The state of being flat-chested; the state of having small breasts.
neckedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From necked + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of neck.
raw_tags: in combinations
Derived terms: stiff-neckedness
mouthedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mouthed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of mouth.
raw_tags: in combinations
Derived terms: loud-mouthedness
mealy-mouthedness
open-mouthedness
brainedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brained + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Some say there is a link between right-handedness and left-brainedness.
glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of brain.
raw_tags: in combinations
lungedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lunged + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of lung.
raw_tags: in combinations
Derived terms: half-lungedness
earedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eared + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition or tendency to hear with one ear more than the other.
examples: text: Rabbits are known for their long-earedness.
glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of ear.
raw_tags: in combinations
Related terms: closed-earedness
dog-earedness
left-earedness
open-earedness
right-earedness
eyedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eyed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of having a dominant eye - one eye that is used more than the other.
glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of eye or eyes.
raw_tags: in combinations
Synonyms: eye dominance
ocular dominance
Related terms: cross-eyedness
left-eyedness
right-eyedness
toothedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From toothed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of tooth or teeth.
foreheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foreheaded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: You've decided to admit that 'high foreheadedness' and 'balding' are one and the same thing.
ref: 2000, Mike Gayle, Mr. Commitment:
glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of forehead.
raw_tags: in combinations
hairedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From haired + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of hair.
raw_tags: in combinations
Derived terms: red-hairedness
nosedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nosed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having a particular number of or type of nose.
raw_tags: in combinations
Derived terms: snub-nosedness
lippedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lipped + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having a particular number of type of lips.
raw_tags: in combinations
Derived terms: stiff-upper-lippedness
tight-lippedness
elbowedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elbowed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of elbow.
raw_tags: in combinations
tonguedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tongued + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having a particular number of or type of tongue or tongues.
raw_tags: in combinations
bottomedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bottomed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of having a particular type of bottom.
raw_tags: in combinations
chubster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌbstɚ/
Forms: form: chubsters
Etymology: From chub + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: Played by TV sitcom stalwart Kevin James (The King of Queens), the title character is an over-officious, under-achieving chubster.
ref: 2009 March 19, “Film Review - Paul Blart : Mall Cop”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: An overweight person.
glosses: A person with chubby cheeks.
Synonyms: fatso
fatty
porkster
porky
thunder thighs
Argentine tango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Argentine tangos
Senses: glosses: A dance on which the ballroom tango is based, with slow intricate footwork.
Argentine tangos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Argentine tango
lard-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lard-asses
Etymology: From lard + -ass.
Senses: synonyms: butterball
chubster
fatty
lard-arse
lard-bucket
glosses: An overweight person.
Viennese waltz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Viennese waltzes
Senses: glosses: A ballroom dance based on the waltz where the couple is constantly performing turns and pirouettes.
Viennese waltzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Viennese waltz
hugemungous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hugemungous
form: most hugemungous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hugemongous.
chuggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chug + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It's a light beer, so is perfectly chuggable, unlikely the fizzy stuff.
glosses: Able to be chugged; suitable for chugging.
downable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downable
form: most downable
Etymology: From down + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This shooter has a terrible taste, but is downable after a few pints.
glosses: Able to be downed; able to be drunk in one go.
Derived terms: undownable
Related terms: put-downable
un-pin-downable
un-put-downable
belly dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belly dance
belly dancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belly dancers
form: bellydancer
Senses: glosses: One who performs a belly dance.
belly dancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belly dancer
pindownable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pindownable
form: most pindownable
Etymology: From pin down + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be pinned down; not elusive; categorizable.
pigeonholeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pigeonhole + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be pigeonholed; categorizable.
unpigeonholeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈpɪd͡ʒənhoʊləbəl/
/ʌnpɪd͡ʒənˈhoʊləbəl/
Etymology: From un- + pigeonholeable.
Senses: glosses: Not pigeonholeable; elusive in nature; impossible to categorise.
paso dobles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paso doble
pseudo-edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-edges
Etymology: From pseudo- + edge.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The connection between vertices in a pseudo-Hamiltonian-connected graph.
Posh 'n' Becks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Victoria Beckham (dubbed "Posh") and David Beckham ("Becks"), a high-profile celebrity couple.
Senses: glosses: sex (the act of fornicating)
gigster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigsters
Etymology: From gig + -ster.
Senses: glosses: A horse that pulls a gig (a two-wheeled carriage).
examples: text: Of additional interest to dance band musicians was the opening that month [November 1935] of an extension to Manchester’s largest musical instrument store, Mameloks on Oxford Road. The store had a ballroom, café, lounge, and teaching rooms. The Dance Band and Variety booking agencies on its premises made it a center for ‘gigsters’.
ref: 2002, James J. Nott, Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 132–3:
text: Regular gigsters say it's a good venue to play and the promoters have worked hard, even if they have to stuff three bands on a night to make ends meet.
ref: 2002, Max Wooldridge, Rock 'n' Roll London, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: A musician who plays gigs (shows).
hadd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hudud
form: hadood
form: hadud
form: hudood
Senses: glosses: singular of hudud
midwiferies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midwifery
nubilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nubilous
form: most nubilous
form: nubilose
Etymology: Latin nubilus (“cloudy”), from nubes (“cloud”).
Senses: glosses: Cloudy, misty.
glosses: Unclear.
Derived terms: innubilous
throwing shapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throw shapes
steely-eyed missile men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steely-eyed missile man
bulletholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullethole
grass mud horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grass mud horses
form: grass-mud horse
form: Grass Mud Horse
Etymology: A calque of the Mandarin 草泥馬／草泥马 (cǎonímǎ). See 草泥馬 for more.
Senses: examples: text: What began as an entertaining by-product of that internet clean-up has become a sensation. This is because “Grass Mud Horse” in Chinese is a homonym for an unprintable but widely used phrase. Both the phrase – “F*** your mother” – and the name of the mythical animal are pronounced as caonima, although using different tones
ref: 2009 March 6, “Chinese fight internet censors with "Grass Mud Horse" cuddly toy”, in Times Online, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2009:
text: A YouTube children’s song about the beast has drawn nearly 1.4 million viewers. A grass-mud horse cartoon has logged a quarter million more views. A nature documentary on its habits attracted 180,000 more.
ref: 2009 March 11, Michael Wines, “A Dirty Pun Tweaks China’s Online Censors”, in New York Times:
glosses: One of the ten "mythical Baidu deities" invented by Chinese internet users for the purpose of circumventing censorship. Usually depicted as resembling an alpaca, and is supposedly living in the Mahler Gobi desert.
eobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eobiotic
form: most eobiotic
Senses: glosses: Relating to any substance that is endogenous to the body or to an ecological system
eobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eobiotics
Senses: glosses: Such a substance
submachine guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submachine gun
in someone's way
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I couldn't get to the door because there were too many people in my way.
text: Wrex: Shepard! Get that second hammer going!
Shepard: There's a Reaper in my way, Wrex!
Wrex: I know! You get all the fun!
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tuchanka:
glosses: Obstructing, blocking, or impeding the movement or line of sight of someone.
examples: text: In the meantime, we had found nothing of any value but the silver and the trinkets, and neither of these were in our way.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: Of interest or relevance to someone.
Synonyms: sense: obstructing or blocking
english: thing
translation: thing
word: in something's way
sense: obstructing or blocking
word: in the way of
regimina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕjĭʹmĭnə
ipa: /ɹɛˈdʒɪmɪnə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin regimina, nominative plural form of regimen.
Senses: examples: text: Let us consider a few examples of regimina and similar works in various literatures. The earliest to draw our attention in this period are the Greek.
ref: 1931: George Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, volume 2, part 1, page 88 (the Williams & Wilkins Company)
glosses: plural of regimen
Derived terms: regimina duodecim mensium
regimina principum
regimina sanitatis
glass-works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of glassworks.
high touches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high touch
Caesars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Caesar
Caesars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caesar
catheterisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catheterisation
cherry picks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cherry pick
cherry picked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cherry pick
cherrypicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cherrypick
cherrypicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cherrypick
contenement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contenements
Etymology: From Middle French contenement.
Senses: glosses: That which is held together with another thing.
glosses: That which is connected with a tenement, or thing holden, as a certain quantity of land adjacent to a dwelling, and necessary to the reputable enjoyment of the dwelling.
Synonyms: appurtenance
cotranscriptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotranscription
cotransfections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotransfection
co-transfection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-transfections
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cotransfection.
co-transfections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-transfection
countersings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of countersing
countersinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of countersing
countersung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of countersing
cynologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cynologist
delipidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delipidate
delipidates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delipidate
delipidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delipidate
delipidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delipidate
saics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saic
end state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end states
form: endstate
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The specified situation at the successful completion of the final phase of a military operation.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Any ending state..
Katanga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, originally conquered by the Congo Free State (owned by the Belgian king, not his European state) but administered as a corporate mining concession.
glosses: Since 1910, an autonomous part of the Belgian colony Congo.
glosses: Since 1933, a regular province, until 1947 however named after its capital: Elisabethstad in Dutch or Elisabethville in French.
glosses: In 1960 a unilaterally declared independent state; in 1961-63 reconquered by Congo and reorganized in three provinces until 1966; renamed Shaba 1972-1997 as part of president Mobutu's Zaireanization.
Derived terms: East Katanga
Haut-Katanga
Katangese
North Katanga
South Katanga
bedels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedel
Juno Moneta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iuno Moneta
Etymology: From New Latin Juno Moneta, varient of Classical Latin Iūnō Monēta, from Iuno (“Juno”), queen of the Roman gods equated with the Greek Hera, and Moneta, of uncertain etymology. The name has been popularly derived from monēre (“to advise or warn”) since antiquity with reference to various events in Roman legend and history, but modern archeology seems to show the worship of a goddess Moneta elsewhere in Italy prior to her introduction to Rome (cf. evocatio) in 344 BC. The connection to coinage and money derived from her temple's use to house the state mint until a fire around AD 84. Cognate with money and monetary.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Juno, particularly as a patron of the state mint and Roman coinage.
synonyms: word: Juno
word: particularly as a patron of the state mint and Roman coinage
sideward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sideward
form: most sideward
form: sidewards
Etymology: From side + -ward. Compare Middle English liftsideward (“leftward”, adjective).
Senses: glosses: Toward a side.
sideward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sideward
form: most sideward
form: sidewards
Etymology: From side + -ward. Compare Middle English liftsideward (“leftward”, adjective).
Senses: glosses: Toward a side.
sidewards
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sidewards
form: most sidewards
form: sideward
Etymology: From side + -wards. Compare Middle English syduardys (“sideways, obliquely”).
Senses: glosses: Toward a side.
Related terms: sideling
sidelong
sideway(s)
sidewise
sidewards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sidewards
form: most sidewards
form: sideward
Etymology: From side + -wards. Compare Middle English syduardys (“sideways, obliquely”).
Senses: glosses: Toward a side.
sideling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sideling
form: most sideling
form: sidling
Etymology: From Middle English sidlyng (early 14th century), from side + -lyng (modern English side + -ling).
Senses: glosses: directed toward one side
glosses: inclined; having an inclination
Synonyms: word: directed to one side
sense: inclining
word: sloping
sideling
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sideling
form: most sideling
form: sidling
Etymology: From Middle English sideling, sidelinge, equivalent to side + -ling.
Senses: glosses: in a sidelong direction
glosses: obliquely; askew
Synonyms: sideways
Derived terms: sidle
Related terms: sidelong
sideward
sidewise
sideling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidelings
Senses: examples: text: Upon the main stem […] there is also but one track of Rails with sidelings and turnouts.
ref: 1832, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Annual Report of the President and Directors... (page 5)
glosses: Archaic form of siding (“side branch of railway track”).
OLDI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: On-Line Data Interchange: A Eurocontrol standard used in ATC systems in order to exchange information about flights crossing the border between the two ATC units. The messages described by this standard use ICAO subfields.
boardsport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boardsports
Etymology: From board + sport.
Senses: glosses: Any sport based on riding a board, such as surfing or snowboarding.
Hyponyms: longboarding
skateboarding
snowboarding
surfing
wakeboarding
windsurfing
stas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sta
wall ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall rides
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A trick where the rider makes the bottom of the board or bicycle touch the side of a wall.
wall ride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wall rides
form: wall riding
form: wall rode
form: wall ridden
Senses: glosses: To perform this trick.
boardslide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boardslides
form: board-slide
form: board slide
Etymology: From board + slide.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A slide trick where the boarder stands on the center of the board, on the rail between the two axles.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A slide trick, where the boarder balances the snowboard at its centre, between the two boot bindings, and slides along the width of the board.
Coordinate terms: fifty-fifty
Related terms: backslide
lipslide
rockslide
heelflip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heelflips
Etymology: From heel + flip.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A flip trick where the skateboarder kicks the board in order to make it flip 360 degrees along its long axis.
Synonyms: heel
heelie
Related terms: kickflip
pole jam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pole jams
Etymology: Named in honor of Pearl Jam, a rock group popular in the 1990s.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A trick where the skateboarder skates over a bent pole.
wikipedia: Pearl Jam
cock pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock pumps
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:cock pump.
glosses: A penis pump.
Viennois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Viennois. By surface analysis, Vienne + French -ois.
Senses: glosses: A historical region of Dauphiné.
seed vessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed vessels
form: seed-vessel
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The ripened and otherwise modified wall of a plant ovary.
Synonyms: pericarp
Related terms: sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seedcake
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seedcase
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seed coat
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seedeater
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seeder
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seed fern
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seedful
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seedily
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seediness
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seed leaf
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seedling
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seed oyster
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seed pearl
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seed plant
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seedpod
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seedsman
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seed stock
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seedtime
sense: terms related to seed vessel (noun)
word: seedy
seed pearl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed pearls
Senses: glosses: A tiny, often irregular pearl.
glosses: Some minute pearls worked into a bedding.
Related terms: sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seedcake
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seedcase
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seed coat
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seedeater
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seeder
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seed fern
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seedful
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seedily
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seediness
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seed leaf
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seedling
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seed oyster
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seed plant
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seedpod
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seedsman
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seed stock
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seedtime
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seed vessel
sense: terms related to seed pearl (noun)
word: seedy
seed leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed leaves
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the first leaves a seed plant's embryo develops.
Synonyms: cotyledon
Related terms: sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seedcake
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seedcase
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seed coat
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seedeater
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seeder
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seed fern
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seedful
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seedily
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seediness
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seedling
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seed oyster
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seed pearl
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seed plant
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seedpod
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seedsman
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seed stock
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seedtime
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seed vessel
sense: terms derived from seed leaf (noun)
word: seedy
geisha ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geisha balls
Senses: glosses: A Ben Wa ball.
vizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of viz
vizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viz
shooting galleries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shooting gallery
berisping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of berisp
cynocephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyno- + -cephaly.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The state of a human having the head of a dog.