cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
assassinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assassinous
form: most assassinous
Etymology: From assassin + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: And let him ask the jesuits about him, whether it be not their known doctrine and also practice, not by fair and due process of justice to punish kings and magistrates, which we disavow not, but to murder them in the basest and most assassinous manner, if their church interest so require.
ref: 1649, John Milton, “Observations on the Articles of Peace between the Earl of Ormond and the Irish”, in The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume I, published 1838, page 265:
glosses: Murderous; assassin-like.
Related terms: assassin
assassinate
impreventable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impreventable
form: most impreventable
Etymology: From im- + preventable.
Senses: synonyms: unpreventable
glosses: Not preventable; inevitable.
irrejectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrejectable
form: most irrejectable
Etymology: From ir- + rejectable.
Senses: examples: text: the latter [Arminians], though they deny it to be irrejectable[…]
ref: 1665, Robert Boyle, Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God […] :
glosses: That cannot be rejected; irresistible.
conjector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjectors
Etymology: Latin [Term?]
Senses: examples: text: a great conjector at other men by their writings
ref: 1642, John Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus:
synonyms: conjecturalist
glosses: One who guesses or conjectures.
conjectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conjector
lithotripsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithotripsy
lithotriptist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithotriptists
form: lithontriptist
Senses: glosses: a surgeon who specializes in performing lithotripsy
Related terms: lithotripsy
lithotriptists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithotriptist
business analysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of business analyst
preternaturalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preternaturalisms
Etymology: From preternatural + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of being preternatural; a preternatural condition.
glosses: Belief in the preternatural.
rationalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rational + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And what difference is there between the credibleness and rationalness of any of these wonders and the credibleness and rationalness of Papal infallibility?
ref: 1861 August 31, “The New Papacy”, in The Nation, volume 13, number 322, retrieved 05 Dec 2011, page 142:
glosses: The quality or state of being rational.
Synonyms: rationality
Pestalozzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pestalozzian
form: most Pestalozzian
Etymology: From Italian Pestalozzi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), Swiss teacher, especially his system of elementary education incorporating manual training.
Derived terms: Pestalozzianism
Pestalozzian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pestalozzians
Etymology: From Italian Pestalozzi + -an.
Senses: glosses: An advocate or follower of Pestalozzi's system.
Pestalozzians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pestalozzian
Irvingite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irvingites
Etymology: From Irving + -ite, after Edward Irving.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
wikipedia: Edward Irving
Related terms: Irvingism
Irvingites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irvingite
Irvingism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irving + -ism, after Edward Irving.
Senses: glosses: The doctrines and practices of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
wikipedia: Edward Irving
Related terms: Irvingite
illuminatest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: illuminate + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of illuminate
illuminateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: illuminate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of illuminate
Gravenstein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɑːv(ə)nstaɪn/
Forms: form: Gravensteins
Etymology: Named after a place in Schleswig, Germany.
Senses: glosses: A variety of autumn apple with deep red or orange streaks.
Gravensteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gravenstein
isatogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isatogens
Etymology: From isatin + -gen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex nitrogenous radical, C₈H₄NO₂, related to isatin.
Derived terms: diisatogen
Related terms: isatogenic
isatogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isatogen
draglink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draglinks
Etymology: From drag + link.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
glosses: A drawbar.
draglinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draglink
lavaboes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavabo
splatterproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more splatterproof
form: most splatterproof
Etymology: From splatter + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to splattering.
Synonyms: spatterproof
splashproof
pseudowire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudowires
Etymology: From pseudo- + wire.
Senses: topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: An emulation of a point-to-point connection over a packet-switching network.
pseudowires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudowire
femslash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femmeslash
Etymology: From fem + slash.
Senses: examples: text: The demographics of femslash are a little more complicated than regular slash; stories are written by straight and lesbian women and sometimes straight men.
ref: 2005, Phyllis M. Japp, Mark Meister, Debra K. Japp, Communication Ethics, Media & Popular Culture, page 178:
text: One of the driving forces behind slash and femslash is the pervading heterosexism of commercial media – if television will not give us the due proportion of same-sex eroticism we are entitled to expect, then we will make it for ourselves.
ref: 2010, Stacey Abbott, The Cult TV Book, page 245:
text: The point of slash is that the orientation of one or more canonical characters is changed, which is why slashing is strongest in fandoms where the source parades heteronormativity or machismo. Kirk/Spock, Bodie/Doyle, Aragorn/Boromir, Darcy/Bingley and Harry/Snape stories all slash their canons, but a story featuring, say, Sebastian Flyte and Anthony Blanche in bed would not be slash, nor would a relationship between two lesbian characters in The L Word qualify as femslash.
ref: 2013, John Lennard, London Review of Books, letter, vol. 35, no. 6:
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: altfic
f/f slash
girlslash
glosses: Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.
Derived terms: femslasher
calcars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcar
Tribecan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tribecan
form: most Tribecan
form: TriBeCan
Etymology: From Tribeca + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Tribeca region in Manhattan, USA.
Tribecan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tribecans
form: TriBeCan
Etymology: From Tribeca + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans.
ref: 2000, AIA Guide to New York City, page 58:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Tribeca.
Tribecans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tribecan
upslur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upslurs
Etymology: From up + slur.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A slur in which the pitch of the note rises.
downslur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downslurs
Etymology: From down + slur.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A slur in which the pitch of the note descends.
upslurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upslur
downslurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downslur
keyholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyholders
form: key holder
Etymology: From key + holder.
Senses: synonyms: claviger
glosses: One who holds the key for security reasons.
glosses: A device or component for holding a key.
examples: text: A key duplicating machine comprising […] a keyholder attached to said shaft, said keyholder providing for holding a key blank and an existing key having notches thereon; […]
ref: 1978, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 32:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The individual or organization with access to a cryptographic key.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A dominant partner who controls whether their submissive partner is able or allowed to orgasm or receive sexual stimulation, typically by locking the submissive partner in a chastity belt or chastity cage.
Related terms: keyholding
keyholding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From key + holding.
Senses: glosses: The role of entrusting or holding the key to a building or other asset for security purposes.
Related terms: keyholder
keyholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyholder
Waterloo cracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Waterloo crackers
Senses: glosses: A kind of explosive cracker, pulled at both ends.
vocoded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vocode
Sadie Hawkins dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sadie Hawkins dances
Etymology: Named after the Li'l Abner comic strip character Sadie Hawkins. The event was introduced in the daily strip for 13 November 1937.
Senses: synonyms: turnabout dance
glosses: A relatively informal school or college dance to which female students invite male students.
wikipedia: Li'l Abner
Related terms: Sadie Hawkins Day
Pompeiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːnə
Etymology: From Pompeii + -ana.
Senses: glosses: Things relating to Pompeii.
chronicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronicon
heathenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heathenly
form: most heathenly
Etymology: From Middle English hethenli; equivalent to heathen + -ly.
Senses: examples: heathenly peoples
glosses: heathen
heathenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more heathenly
form: most heathenly
Etymology: From Middle English hethenli; equivalent to heathen + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a heathen manner.
heathenisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heathenism
tied oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tied oils
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Any oil that is either a light oil, or a heavy oil that falls into the excise definition of gas oil, fuel oil or kerosene.
Lexa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛksə/
rhymes: -ɛksə
Forms: form: Lexas
Etymology: A short form of Alexa or Alexandra.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Glasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Glasites
form: Glassite
Etymology: From Glas + -ite, after founder John Glas.
Senses: glosses: One of a Christian sect founded around 1730.
wikipedia: John Glas
Hyponyms: Sandemanian
Glasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Glasite
Glassite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Glassites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Glasite.
Glassites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Glassite
Sandemanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sandemanians
Etymology: From Sandeman + -ian, after John Glas's son-in-law Robert Sandeman.
Senses: glosses: One of the Glasites who received the doctrines through Robert Sandeman.
wikipedia: Robert Sandeman
Sandemanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sandemanian
Andrina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A rare feminine form of Andrew.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: Andrea
nail house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail houses
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 釘子戶／钉子户 (dīngzihù).
Senses: glosses: A private home whose owner refuses to move to clear way for new real estate developments despite offers of small monetary sums from a private developer or expropriation attempts by the government.
Related terms: holdout
splatterpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splatterpunks
Etymology: From splatter + -punk, coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Senses: glosses: A movement within horror fiction distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depictions of violence.
examples: text: It is interesting to note that even as the arguments fly back and forth between the splatterpunks and the traditionalists of horror fiction, other forces appear to be eroding the ground on which the splatterpunks have made their stand.
ref: 1989, Marc A. Cerasini, How to Write Horror and Get It Published, page 95:
text: Although the gore may be too sparse for most splatterpunks, the then-taboo subject matter and overall bleak tone of the film should more than please them, as well as fans of low-budget 70s horror.
ref: 2001, Scott Aaron Stine, The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s:
glosses: A fan of splatterpunk fiction.
pewlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pewlike
form: most pewlike
Etymology: From pew + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pew.
seatlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seatlike
form: most seatlike
Etymology: From seat + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a seat.
planklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more planklike
form: most planklike
Etymology: From plank + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a plank.
keyboardlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more keyboardlike
form: most keyboardlike
Etymology: From keyboard + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a keyboard.
pay-by-wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: 21st century.
Senses: glosses: A contactless electronic payment technology by which a purchase is made by waving a card or mobile phone near a reader.
do me a lemon
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: "Do me a favour" (rhyming with "lemon flavour") in Cockney rhyming slang.
Senses: glosses: Expresses disbelief.
Synonyms: pull the other leg
pull the other one, it's got bells on
deniggerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deniggerizes
form: deniggerizing
form: deniggerized
form: deniggerized
form: deniggerise
Etymology: From de- + niggerize.
Senses: examples: text: A broad spectrum of African-Americans have used education to deniggerize themselves […]
ref: 1996, Carl Upchurch, Convicted in the womb: one man's journey from prisoner to peacemaker:
text: But Al had accused Holly of going beyond the wishing to live the delusion that she had escaped the trap of blackness and had become an adored equal in a racist white world that considered her deniggerized and no longer tainted […]
ref: 2000, Iceberg Slim, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, page 89:
text: Included in Killens's attempt to change or deniggerize the world was a continual verbal assault on literary, media, and educational establishments relative to their collectively abysmal record of promoting positive Black images.
ref: 2003, Keith Gilyard, Liberation memories: the rhetoric and poetics of John Oliver Killens, page 140:
glosses: To raise (a black person, etc.) above the traditional negative racist stereotypes.
examples: text: In some areas black schools were integrated only after insulting efforts to 'deniggerize' the school were carried out (replacement of all toilet seats, fumigation of the school, etc.
ref: 2010, Stuart Buck, Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation, page 85:
glosses: To free from black people or their influence.
Derived terms: deniggerization
deniggerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deniggerize
denigratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more denigratory
form: most denigratory
Senses: glosses: Tending to denigrate.
Synonyms: denigrative
datewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From date + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of dates; chronological.
powder puff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powder puffs
form: powder-puff
Senses: examples: text: The little bag, with its shiny, silvery jaws open, lay on her lap. He could see her powder-puff, her rouge stick, a bundle of letters, a phial of tiny black pills like seeds, a broken cigarette, a mirror, white ivory tablets with lists on them that had been heavily scored through. He thought: “In Egypt she would be buried with those things.”
ref: 1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 273:
text: Both the lipstick and the rouge are waterproof and frictionproof. They won't come off on your handkerchief or powder puff.
ref: 1925, Cosmopolitan, volume 78, page 194:
glosses: A ball or pad of soft material used for the application of cosmetic powder to the face.
glosses: Any of certain species of genus Calliandra.
Derived terms: powderpuff
powder-puff plant
powder puffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powder puff
powderpuff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From powder puff, associated with female makeup.
Senses: examples: text: In response to a hypothetical question, the psychiatrist stated that quite probably Miss Lynch's abnormal brainwave pattern and behavioral difficulties were caused by the head injury she received in the powderpuff football game.
ref: 1983, Don E. Arnold, Legal considerations in the administration of public school physical education and athletic programs:
text: A new field on the 110-acre campus has provided the opportunity for a softball team, and a new sports complex and a student center are planned. Intramurals, with the exception of powderpuff football, suffer.
ref: 1987, Edward B. Fiske, Joseph M. Michalak, The best buys in college education:
text: I know for a fact there would still be sports because women are competitive as hell. At my high school they brought an end to the annual powderpuff game because of the mounting number of severe injuries.
ref: 2009, Mathew Dekinder, Wait Till Next Year: A Die-Hard Fan's Year Without Sports, page 97:
glosses: Being or relating to a division of a traditionally male sport that is reserved for females.
multichoice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + choice.
Senses: examples: text: A strong democratic referendum process would utilize a multichoice format in place of the conventional yea/nay option.
ref: 2003, Benjamin R. Barber, Strong democracy: participatory politics for a new age, page 286:
text: If there are a large number of funds, we'll use a multichoice list box, and if there are three or fewer funds, we'll use a set of check boxes.
ref: 2003, James William Cooper, C# design patterns: a tutorial, page 130:
text: We provide an example of a multichoice game for which the value Φ is not equal to any of the values Ψʷ.
ref: 2008, Rodica Brânzei, Dinko Dimitrov, Stef Tijs, Models in Cooperative Game Theory, page 161:
glosses: multiple-choice
fraxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹæksɪn/
Etymology: From translingual Fraxinus + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless crystalline glucoside found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) at the horse-chestnut. It is faintly fluorescent in alkaline solutions.
Synonyms: pavin
Related terms: english: also found in the bark of the horse-chestnut
translation: also found in the bark of the horse-chestnut
word: aesculin
West Papua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Muksin specifically mentioned 11 extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua, and Nila in different areas of Maluku.
ref: 2024 March 8, Antara, “11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry”, in Jakarta Globe:
glosses: A province of Indonesia.
synonyms: Western New Guinea
glosses: The western half of the island of New Guinea.
Related terms: Papua
pseudodevice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodevices
Etymology: From pseudo- + device.
Senses: examples: /dev/null is a pseudodevice on Unix-like systems.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An entry in a file system that acts like a physical device without having the corresponding hardware.
pseudodevices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudodevice
pseudoterminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoterminals
Etymology: From pseudo- + terminal.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pair of pseudodevices that can communicate with each other without the hardware that a true device would require.
pseudoterminals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoterminal
Girawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.
Synonyms: Bagasin
Begasin
Begesin
antispace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antispaces
form: anti-space
Etymology: From anti- + space.
Senses: examples: text: It is antispace, home of the enemy, a creature without a face or with the face of a beast.
ref: 2005, Evgeny Dobrenko, Eric Naiman, The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space, page 90:
text: The wilderness as antispace
ref: 2008, Dag Øistein Endsjø, Primordial Landscapes, Incorruptible Bodies, page 36:
glosses: A space or region that violates the norms or conventions of spaces.
examples: text: There exists a natural one to one mapping from the class of antispaces onto itself […]
ref: 1968, Evert Wattel, The Compactness Operator in Set Theory and Topology:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A kind of topological space.
antispace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-space
Etymology: From anti- + space.
Senses: examples: text: Further, unlike nuclear power, with strong and organized pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear groups, there has never been a significant anti-space movement in the United States.
ref: 1996, National Science Foundation, chapter 7, in Science and Engineering Indicators – 1996, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2015:
text: Because of the importance of space superiority, the Air Force published new doctrine on 2 August 2004: Air Force Doctrine Document (AFDD) 2-2.1, Counterspace Operations. Gen John P. Jumper, US Air Force chief of staff, asserts that "space superiority is as much about protecting our space assets as it is about preparing to counter an enemy’s space or anti-space assets" (1). The new publication (pub) defines key terms characteristic of counterspace operations and highlights factors that Airmen must take into consideration when they plan/execute those operations.
ref: 2004, Lt. Col. Paula B. Flavell, USAF, “AFDD 2-2.1, Counterspace Operations”, in Air & Space Power Journal, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2011:
text: […] disruptive capabilities, such as cyber warfare, directed energy weapons, biotechnology, or antispace systems, to marginalize U.S. power.
ref: 2009, Amos A. Jordan with William J. Taylor, Jr., Michael J. Meese, and Suzanne C. Nielsen, American National Security, →ISBN, page 285:
text: To the sizable antispace contingent in Congress, Nixon promised an earnest effort to "minimize technical and economic risks"
ref: 2012, Matthew H. Hersch, Inventing the American Astronaut, →ISBN, page 144:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Against space.
Related terms: counter-space
counterspace
antispaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antispace
antisolitons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisoliton
keyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keymen
Etymology: From key + man.
Senses: examples: text: Conscious of their importance, the 324 labor delegates marched bravely in and elected by acclaim as their president a onetime Ontario telegraph keyman, Senator Gideon Decker Robertson […]
ref: 1932, Time (volume 19, part 2)
glosses: A telegraph operator.
glosses: A workman who checks a railway track for faults, and who carries a keying hammer.
examples: text: A corporation may feel the need for life insurance on one of its keymen under a variety of circumstances.
ref: 1957, Pearce Shepherd, Andrew C. Webster, Selection of risks:
text: As the keymen learn how to handle confidential company information, the owner-manager can disclose more to them. In most very small firms, the keymen will be "working" bosses.
ref: 2000, Harvey C. Krentzman, The essentials of business management for profit, page 123:
glosses: An employee of vital importance to a business.
Derived terms: keyman insurance
keymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyman
remasticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remasticates
form: remasticating
form: remasticated
form: remasticated
Etymology: From re- + masticate.
Senses: examples: text: Ruminants such as cattle and sheep regurgitate and remasticate their food.
glosses: To chew or masticate again.
examples: text: Nixon, on the same night, sat alone, remasticating answers for Bud Wilkinson, his kept TV interrogator […]
ref: 1970, Garry Wills, chapter 7, in Nixon Agonistes,, New York: New American Library, page 257:
text: Matters that had been adjudicated in other courts would not be remasticated.
ref: 2000, Jack Olsen, “Enigma in Robes”, in Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt, New York: Doubleday, page 384:
glosses: To go over or ponder again.
Synonyms: rechew
Related terms: remastication
remasticated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remasticate
remasticates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remasticate
remasticating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remasticate
digraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From digraph + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Cases of the arbitrary use of consonants as digraphic modifiers also occur
ref: 1874, Henry Sweet, A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a digraph.
glosses: Of or pertaining to digraphia, the use of two or more writing systems.
klonklave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klonklaves
Etymology: Blend of Klan + conclave.
Senses: glosses: A meeting of the Ku Klux Klan.
klonklaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klonklave
kloncilium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klonciliums
Etymology: Blend of Klan + Latin concilium
Senses: glosses: A judicial body in the Ku Klux Klan.
glucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gluck
gladiatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gladiatory
form: most gladiatory
Etymology: Latin gladiatorius.
Senses: glosses: gladiatorial
gluttonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gluttonizes
form: gluttonizing
form: gluttonized
form: gluttonized
form: gluttonise
Etymology: From glutton + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: the material Demons do strangely gluttonize upon the Nidours and Bloud of Sacrifices
ref: 1681, Henry Hallywell, Melampronoea:
text: Mayflies are among Mother Nature's most graceful and beautiful creations, and I think I'd believe that even if trout didn't gluttonize on them when they ride on a stream's currents to dry their wings.
ref: 2013, William G. Tapply, Close to the Bone:
glosses: To eat an excessive amount, or voraciously.
gluttonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gluttonize
gluttonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gluttonize
gluttonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gluttonize
preterhuman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preterhuman
form: most preterhuman
Etymology: From preter- + human.
Senses: examples: text: And there is something pathetic in the preterhuman solicitude and preterhuman patience with which the Allies went on, week after week, and month after month, laboriously striving to persuade the Serbs, the Greeks, and the Roumanians to assent to territorial sacrifices in order to satisfy Bulgaria's claims and make possible the organisation and development of the elements of a civilised and self-sufficing system in the Penninsula.
ref: 1915 November, E.J. Dillon, “The Balkan Imbroglio”, in W.L. Courtney, editor, The Fortnightly Review, volume 97, page 911:
text: Prominent among these “preterhuman beings”, not unnaturally, were Tuitit Bey and Serapis, as well as the – as yet unannounced – Morya and Koot Hoomi.
ref: 2011, David Conway, Magic Without Mirrors: The Making of a Magician, page 129:
text: Some prey, a mouse probably, crept to the edge of the pavement below, sniffing, twitching, its heartbeat flashing in Trustyfriend's preterhuman hearing like a buoy light.
ref: 2021, Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land, page 254:
glosses: More than human; superhuman.
beaconage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beaconages
Etymology: From beacon + -age.
Senses: glosses: A fee paid for the maintenance of a beacon.
glosses: Beacons collectively.
Coordinate terms: sense: fee for beacon
word: anchorage
sense: fee for beacon
word: ballastage
sense: fee for beacon
word: cranage
sense: fee for beacon
word: demurrage
sense: fee for beacon
word: shippage
sense: fee for beacon
word: shorage
sense: fee for beacon
word: tonnage
sense: fee for beacon
word: wharfage
beaconages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beaconage
prattlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prattlements
Etymology: From prattle + -ment.
Senses: examples: April 1805, Francis Jeffrey, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel", in Edinburgh Review
she had never listened to the prattlement of the river and mountain spirits
glosses: prattle; childish chatter
prattlements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prattlement
infestivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + festivity.
Senses: examples: text: Her days of infestivity were plainly ended, and her days of gladness were to begin.
ref: 1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the first (George Somerset), page 231:
text: Moreover, Caillette experienced a superior sadness, sifted through years of infestivity and gloom.
ref: 1903, Frederic Stewart Isham, Under the Rose (2009 reprint), p. 70
text: May Week. . . . As in every year, that infamous week was dragging its boorish heels with remarkable infestivity.
ref: 1989, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, Arcade, published 1998, →ISBN, page 256:
glosses: A lack of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth.
stipendless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stipend + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no stipend.
galvanoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: galvanoscopic frog
text: galvanoscopic leg
glosses: Of or pertaining to a galvanoscope.
clanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clanships
Etymology: From clan + -ship.
Senses: glosses: An association under a chieftain.
glosses: The state of being united together, as if in a clan; cliquishness.
clanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clanship
schnozzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schnozzle
pituitary bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pituitary body
pedicellus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin pedīcellus.
Senses: glosses: The base of the antenna of some insects
lame-brain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lame-brains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lamebrain.
lame brain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lame brains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lamebrain.
lamp-shade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamp-shades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lampshade.
landing field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landing fields
Senses: glosses: Synonym of airfield.
synonyms: word: airfield
unattended installation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unattended installations
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An installation that does not require user interaction.
experimentals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of experimental
lap dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæpdɒɡ/
Forms: form: lap dogs
form: lap-dog
form: lapdog
Senses: examples: text: A lady loses her muff, her fan, or her lap-dog, and so the silly poet runs home to versify the disaster.
ref: 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter XVII, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:
text: There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 3:
text: Frau von Greifenstein had seated herself in a straw chair with her parasol, her fan and her lap-dog, a little toy terrier which was always suffering from some new and unheard-of nervous complaint.
ref: 1889, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 4, in Greifenstein:
text: Steffi is a tricolor King Charles spaniel, an archetypal lap dog and love sponge, barely a foot high and no more than 10 pounds.
ref: 2007 December 1, Harry Hurt III, “Proof That Overscheduled Modern Life Isn’t Fit for a Dog”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Dec 2011:
glosses: A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner.
examples: text: As a lady's lap-dog Leonard did not excel. He was not an Italian, still less a Frenchman.
ref: 1908–1910, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter 16, in Howards End, New York, N.Y.; London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons […], published 1910, →OCLC:
text: Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who vacations in Cape Cod, has nevertheless been […] determined to shed the image of his predecessor, Tony Blair, as America’s lap dog.
ref: 2007 October 28, Dan Bilefsky, “The special relationship tries to swim the Channel”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: This process, known as "regulatory capture," turns regulators from watchdogs into lapdogs.
ref: 2014, Charles Seife, “Capture”, in John Brockman, editor, What Should We be Worried About?, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 36:
text: “Doesn't matter. That man is not the leader.” “But he is the main guy on the show.” “He is an actor, Nandor. A simpleton who paints his face. He is an empty-headed puppet who thinks the world loves him, when in actual fact, he is nothing more than a lapdog begging for scraps.” [groans] “No, he is not the leader. That would be another devil who pulls the strings. The halfwit they call the director.”
ref: 2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (11:26 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
synonyms: ass-kisser
bootlicker
sycophant
toady
glosses: A person who behaves in a servile manner, such as a sycophantic employee or a fawning lover.
Derived terms: lapdoggery
lap-doggy
lap-dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lap-dogs
Senses: examples: text: There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of lap dog.
FFVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FFV
WDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WD
MTK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of MediaTek
sexually anorexic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sexually anorexic
form: most sexually anorexic
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or having sexual anorexia.
torose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more torose
form: most torose
Etymology: From Latin torosus (“full of muscle, brawny, fleshy”). See torus.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the figure in Plum, icon t. 102, f. 1. is referrible to this species, and all the synonymes to the following, but the leaves in our plant are not peltate as int it, the flowers are smaller and the legume is not glabrous nor torose at the seeds, as represented in the figure of Plumier.
ref: 1832, George Don, A General System of Gardening and Botany, page 373:
text: With the Carabidae, Hydrocanthari, and Lucanidae, the testicles consist of two extremely long, torose caeca, ( 31 ) of which each is sometimes enclosed in two special envelopes.
ref: 1854, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold, Anatomy of the Invertebrata - Volume 1; Volume 1854, page 461:
text: Several gradations between the smooth and the torose or embossed forins are to be met with, sometimes even on one hand-specimen of the shales; the most torose variety ( var. torosa, Q. J. G. S. loc. cit. fig. 8) occurs in the buff marl with selenite, eight or nine feet above the Rissoa-bed-weith Planorbis.
ref: 1856, Edward Forbes, On the Tertiary Fluvio-marine Formation of the Isle of Wight, page 158:
text: A not uncommon state of Lysimachia stricta, without flowers, and bearing concatenate or torose bulblets in the axils, is the original of the Viscum terrestre of Linnæus .
ref: 1881, Berthold Seemann, Journal of Botany: British and Foreign - Volume 19, page 326:
text: The pattern of a torose surface suggests that lower threads of flow sank down into plastic mud which then resisted being carried away.
ref: 1955, Geological Society of America, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, page 1360:
text: In the LV the anterior part of the hinge is developed as a deep, oval, loculate trough which is framed proximally by a torose lip.
ref: 2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 62:
glosses: Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences; having the appearance of a knobbly rope.
Derived terms: torosity
acquirees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acquiree
two-stroke engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two-stroke engine
checked build
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checked builds
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A special version of a software program that can provide advanced debug information in the event of a fault.
boobyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boobyish
form: most boobyish
Etymology: From booby + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] I have therefore determined to make a pretense for suddenly leaving this place, dear as it is to me, and containing all I most admire and adore;—and I will stay in town till the violence of this boobyish humour is abated."
ref: 1778, Fanny Burney, Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, Letter XXXIV:
glosses: Stupid; dull-witted.
effluviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: effluviates
form: effluviating
form: effluviated
form: effluviated
Senses: examples: text: an effluviating power
ref: 1685, Robert Boyle, An Essay of the Great Effects of Even Languid and Unheeded Motion:
glosses: To give forth effluvium.
effluviated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of effluviate
effluviates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of effluviate
effluviating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of effluviate
disconformable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disconformable
form: most disconformable
Etymology: From dis- + conformable.
Senses: examples: text: disconformable in religion from us
ref: 1603, James VI and I, speech:
glosses: Not conformable.
Derived terms: disconformably
mellowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mellowy
form: most mellowy
Etymology: From Middle English melowy, equivalent to mellow + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Thy plumpe and swelling wombe, whose mellowy gleabe doth beare
The yellow ripened sheafe, that bendeth with the eare.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 10 p. 159:
text: The first a dry mellowy soil, made up of a due mixture of clay and sand, very deep, and passes under the name of daichy haughs.
ref: 1812, Great Britain. Board of Agriculture, Agricultural Surveys: Banff, page 68:
glosses: Soft; unctuous; loamy.
examples: text: mellowy light
text: Like a stream-wrestling lily of mellowy gold, What sweet parted lips, and what glozy blue eyes, Purple-steeped as the heartsease held up to the light!
ref: 1856 February 23, “Poetical Nuisances”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 328:
text: A little distance off was a grey and mossy cottage, the sight of which made Michael's heart leap, and called to his memory many reflections, pleasing, but mellowy sad.
ref: 1887, R. M. Tate ·, Michael Malcolm, Or, Annals of a Sea-port Town, page 186:
text: The fish sauce shall have a mellowy taste and should not be too salty.
ref: 1968 August 5, “Philippine Trade Standared Specifications for Fish Sauce”, in Official Gazette, volume 64, number 32, page 8108:
text: The silver moon—the silver moon—how mellowy it gleams!
ref: 1829, T.C.O., “To S****”, in Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette, volume 2, page 35:
text: I have investigated with great care the alterations of the soft, free, mellowy character of the normal respiratory murmurs, in all the cases of auscultation I have met for some years, and I have learned to give to this class of signs more weight than is usually assigned to them.
ref: 1841, Jules Fournet, Clinical Researches on Auscultation of the Respiratory Organs and on the First Stage of Phthisis Pulmonalis, page 58:
text: Get the fun of "playing" outdoors in the mellowy energising winter sunshine.
ref: 1928, Country Life - Volume 55, page 127:
glosses: Mild; subdued; gentle; not at all harsh or sharp.
examples: text: Anita saw that look on him, that mellowy, kind of stupid look that some men get when they've been drinking.
ref: 2004, Charles Fleming, The Ivory Coast:
text: Not that he got all soft and mellowy around them, but he'd never met one he didn't like.
ref: 2016, Marilyn Pappano, A Summer to Remember:
glosses: Tender; emotional.
examples: text: Round its sides, A range of Gardens, gay as those which crown'd Thy work Semiramis, luxuriant waved With Autumn's mellowy growth;
ref: 1769, John Ogilvie, Providence. Solitude. Paradise. An aeolian ode, page 29:
text: Autumn's rich mellowy fruit bedecks the trees, Laid low, beneath a winter's stormy skies.
ref: 1839, Margaret Richardson, The Buds of Hope: A Collection of Miscellaneous Poems, page 48:
text: The first named never becomes a mellowy Pear, even grown on a south wall here ;
ref: 1886 January 9, W. Ingram, “Fruit Garden: Amateur Pear Growers”, in The Garden, volume 29, page 22:
glosses: Mature and soft; ripe.
raw_tags: of plants
cuirassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cuirass + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a cuirass.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass; said of certain fishes.
cuirassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cuirass + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cuirass
trinketer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trinketers
Etymology: From trinket + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who trinkets.
trinketers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trinketer
bronzist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronzists
Etymology: From bronze + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes, collects, or deals in bronzes.
bronzists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronzist
guevi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guevis
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any pygmy antelope of the genus Cephalophus, the duikers, of Africa.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cephalophus pygmaeus
word: Cape guevi
guevis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guevi
phrenologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phrenologers
Etymology: From phreno- + -loger.
Senses: glosses: A phrenologist.
phrenologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phrenologer
trijugate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See trijugous.
Senses: examples: text: A trijugate bud
text: A trijugate leaf is a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.
text: A trijugate arrangement of phylotaxis
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: trijugous
glosses: In three pairs.
octofid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin octofidus, from octus (“eight”) + -fidus, related to findere (“to split”).
Senses: examples: an octofid calyx
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Cleft or separated into eight segments.
Coordinate terms: bifid
trifid
quadrifid
quinquefid
sexfid
sexifid
novemfid
decemfid
duodecimfid
centifidous
multifid
multifidous
provisorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provisorships
Etymology: From provisor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: A worthy fellow h' is: pray let me entreat for / The prouiſorſhip of your horſe.
ref: 1612–1613 (date written), John Webster, The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy. […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, for Iohn Waterson, […], published 1623, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: The office or position of a provisor.
provisorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provisorship