cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
'70s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If the '60s were over in 1972, the ’70s were in trouble by 1977. Don't get me wrong — the Eagles and Foreigner and Earth, Wind & Fire are, er, survivors. Good or bad they're careerists, they jog two miles a day, and they're all destined to outlast the Ramones.
ref: 1981, Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the '70s, as republished (unabridged) in 1990 asRock albums of the '70s: a critical guide; page 10
text: Heckman has been analyzing data from two famous early-childhood intervention programs, the Abecedarian Project of the ’70s and the Perry Preschool project of the ’60s. Both have furnished ample evidence that, if you enroll very young children from poor families in programs that give both them and their parents an extra boost, then they grow up to be wealthier and healthier than their counterparts—less fat, less sick, better educated, and, for men, more likely to hold down a job.
ref: 2013 May 13, Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2015:
glosses: Alternative spelling of 70s.
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s
00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
graded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪdɪd/
rhymes: -eɪdɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grade
graded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪdɪd/
rhymes: -eɪdɪd
Forms: form: more graded
form: most graded
Senses: examples: a graded road
glosses: Having been smoothed by a grader.
glosses: Forming a series decreasing or increasing in intensity of a given quality.
Derived terms: autograded
bigraded
multigraded
nongraded
ungraded
gummier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gummy: more gummy
gummiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gummy: most gummy
Chuck E. Cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The chain is named after the character, whose full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese.
Senses: examples: 2006 April 9, Harold McGee (interviewee), Anne Strainchamps (interviewer), “Techno Cuisine”, To the Best of Our Knowledge, Wisconsin Public Radio
Dining should be fun. Eating should be fun. It should be like a kid going to Chuck E. Cheese for the first time.
2006 July 7, Douglas Sarine (guest), “'Pirates' Any Good? Ask a Ninja, If You Dare”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio
I went and did the research on, like, how they came up with this movie and basically, it was inspired by old-school robot pirates, like, like, I'm talking Chuck E. Cheese-style
2008 February 16, Chuck Liddell (guest), Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
Man, I'd climb on the jungle gym. Everyone laughs. I go into Chuck E. Cheese, I'm climbing up through the—, I'll chase my kids through those little crawl spaces up there.
glosses: A chain of pizzerias offering diversions for young children such as climbing equipment, arcades, and animatronic and walkaround characters.
glosses: The chain's logo and mascot, an anthropomorphic rat (later, mouse).
luck dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luck dragons
form: luckdragon
Etymology: A calque of the German term Glücksdrache, coined in The Neverending Story (1983) (translated by Ralph Manheim from the original Die Unendliche Geschichte (1979) by Michael Ende).
Senses: examples: text: 2006 July 7, Douglas Sarine (guest), “'Pirates' Any Good? Ask a Ninja, If You Dare”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio
Like literally, the last line of the movie is a new plotline. It's a never-ending story, but with no luckdragon.
text: “I am Princess Tessiyon Windmere and captain of my ship I am to go back to. And yourself?” said she. / “I am Zandor, I am a luck dragon,” he replied. / “You sure are indeed. It was my luck that saved me, you came.”
ref: 2008, Kyann Zorain, The Stones of the Hidden Power: The Fight for Freedom, page 90:
text: His first magical creature was a bonsai tiger called Jack (of the tabby variety), followed by a small luck dragon named Daisy. Sometimes people mistook Daisy for a spaniel, but you could tell she was a luck dragon because she had big floppy ears.
ref: 2009 March 1, Sam Bowring, The Zoo of Magical and Mythological Creatures, Macmillan, preface:
text: I liked that there was no bright light but the perpetual clouds and drizzle were depressing. It was like The Nothing was coming. Too bad I couldn’t ride a luck dragon out of this place.
ref: 2010 March 15, Paul Y. Csige, The Symphony of Leif, CsiMec Incorporated, page 127
glosses: A fictitious flying dragon with a giant, elongated, wingless body and commonly a canine head, unfailing in its serendipity.
sick as a dog
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I caught that new strain of flu and for three days I was as sick as a dog.
text: Ay, but thou knowest he's as uncertain as the wind; and if, instead of quarrelling with me, he should grow fond, he'd make me as sick as a dog.
ref: 1797, John Banks, The Albion Queens, or The Death of Mary, Queen of Scots: A Tragedy, J. Bell, page 32:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very ill.
Synonyms: sick as a cat
sick as a parrot
chemophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: By chemophobia I mean an exaggerated fear of toxicity brought about by the widespread use of chemicals in food production and processing.
ref: 1962, John Clifton Ayres, Chemical and Biological Hazards in Food:
text: Chemophobia also means that every six months there is a "new scientific finding" about a synthetic chemical found in regular food in very low quantites that, if you ate a cargo ship or two of it every day for three years, could kill you.
ref: 2018, Hans Rosling, Factfulness, page 118:
glosses: An irrational fear of chemicals
Related terms: chemophobe
chemophobic
unsuspicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsuspicious
form: most unsuspicious
Etymology: From un- + suspicious.
Senses: examples: text: […] he his guide requested
(For so from such as nearer stood we heard),
As over-tired, to let him lean awhile
With both his arms on those two massy pillars,
That to the arched roof gave main support.
He unsuspicious led him; […]
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, lines 1630-1635:
text: Unsuspicious of her danger, the lamb’s throat will hardly shun thy knife!—O be not thou the butcher of my lambkin!
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: For a moment or two nothing was said, and she was unsuspicious of having excited any particular interest, till she found her arm drawn within his, and pressed against his heart […]
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], Emma: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
text: Whenever such a mischance occurred—when a waggon-load of valuable merchandise had been smuggled ashore, at noonday, perhaps, and directly beneath their unsuspicious noses—nothing could exceed the vigilance and alacrity with which they proceeded to lock, and double-lock, and secure with tape and sealing-wax, all the avenues of the delinquent vessel.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Introductory”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: For, innocent and unsuspicious as she was, she could not help understanding the gossip of her friends.
ref: 1868, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 9, in Little Women: […], 1st part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1869, →OCLC:
glosses: Not suspicious; not suspecting, unaware (of something).
examples: text: The skeletons in this sport’s hitherto unsuspicious closet belong to upward of a dozen top-notch show jumpers, all insured for $50,000 to $250,000, all killed by a hitman-for-hire in an insurance-fraud scheme perpetrated by some of the most sterling names in the business.
ref: 1995 October 30, Robin Finn, “Horse Show; Equestrians Facing Competition and Lingering Scandal”, in The New York Times:
text: 2004, A. Heidenreich and V. Ravery, “Preoperative imaging in renal cell cancer,” Abstract, in World Journal of Urology, 22(5), November 2004,
The involvement of the adrenal gland can be accurately predicted by CT scans or MRI, allowing an adrenal sparing approach in the case of unsuspicious findings.
text: One of May’s inquiries is a “review of reviews”, occasioned by the loss of the files. This was investigated by the Home Office a year ago and found to be unsuspicious.
ref: 8 July 2014, Simon Jenkins, “This Grand Inquisition won’t find ‘the truth’ of child sex abuse,”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Not arousing suspicion.
Derived terms: unsuspiciously
unsuspiciousness
unsunny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsunny
form: most unsunny
Etymology: From un- + sunny.
Senses: glosses: Not sunny
unsurprised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsurprised
form: most unsurprised
Etymology: From un- + surprised.
Senses: glosses: Not surprised
unswept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unswept
form: most unswept
Etymology: From un- + swept.
Senses: glosses: Not swept
unsymbolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsymbolic
form: most unsymbolic
Etymology: From un- + symbolic.
Senses: glosses: Not symbolic
untimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + timed.
Senses: examples: an untimed motor race
glosses: Not timed.
untimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + timed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untime
unforced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unforced
form: most unforced
Etymology: From un- + forced.
Senses: glosses: Not forced.
Derived terms: unforced error
unforcedly
unforcedness
unformulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + formulated.
Senses: glosses: Not formulated.
unscratched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unscratched
form: most unscratched
Etymology: From un- + scratched.
Senses: examples: text: Although most lotologists collect scratch tickets that have already been scratched, approximately 15% of lotologists collect unscratched tickets.
ref: 2014, Eric LeMay, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments, New York, N.Y.: Emergency Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Not scratched.
unscientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unscientific
form: most unscientific
Etymology: From un- + scientific.
Senses: glosses: Not scientific
Synonyms: nonscientific
non-scientific
Related terms: ascientific
antiscientific
pseudoscientific
unschooled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unschooled
form: most unschooled
Etymology: From un- + schooled.
Senses: glosses: Not schooled; not having been to school.
examples: text: He was unschooled in the art of persuasion.
glosses: Inexperienced; not having developed skill or knowledge in some area.
unschooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unschool
unscented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + scented.
Senses: glosses: Unperfumed; having no scent.
examples: text: Tomaso's real dealings, the ones from which he derived his considerable revenues (unscented by the feds), were concluded in hushed tones...
ref: 1994, Jean Echenoz, Mark Polizzotti, Double Jeopardy:
text: The mindset of the hunter is split between focus on gathering visual or sound information regarding the elk and remaining unseen, unscented, and unheard, thus avoiding detection by the elk.
ref: 2005, Tom Airhart, Elk Hunting Guide:
glosses: That has not been scented (detected by smell); undetected.
unteachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unteachable
form: most unteachable
Etymology: From un- + teachable.
Senses: glosses: Not teachable.
unteachable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unteachables
Etymology: From un- + teachable.
Senses: glosses: Someone who cannot be taught.
run like a top
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs like a top
form: running like a top
form: ran like a top
form: run like a top
Etymology: Derived from comparison to the smooth, balanced manner of the operation of a spinning top.
Senses: examples: text: I've just tuned my car, and now it's running like a top.
qualifier: simile
glosses: To operate flawlessly and smoothly.
raw_tags: of motorized machinery
Related terms: like clockwork
happy as a lark
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Derived from comparison to the cheerful-sounding birdsong of a lark.
Senses: examples: text: She's happy as a lark with her ten dollar pay raise, even though the long-term prospects for the business are not good.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very happy (sometimes with the extra connotations of being carefree or unaware of grimmer realities).
Synonyms: happy
five will get you ten
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Betting parlance for even odds, i.e. betting five pounds (dollars, etc.) should win you ten.
Senses: examples: text: Five will get you ten that your sheet will have an editorial on the Orchard case Sunday, and what will it say?
ref: 1948, Rex Stout, And Be a Villain:
text: Five will get you ten that he's either gone or dead by midnight Sunday.
ref: 1957, Clyde Brion Davis, Unholy Uproar:
text: She has a nice strong tone that falters just a bit in the upper ranges; five'll get you ten that problem clears up as soon as [she] gets completely comfortable with performing publicly.
ref: 1983 December 3, Jolanta Benal, “Spandex, Sousa, Bad Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 6:
text: As it is I'm going to be in big trouble financially if I lose my job and five will get you ten the bastards will try to drum me out.
ref: 2003, F. Winston Pate, Serenity:
synonyms: ten will get you twenty
glosses: I strongly believe.
Republic of Korea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Korea
form: ROK
Etymology: Calque of Korean 대한민국(大韓民國) (daehanmin'guk).
Senses: examples: text: Our men have fought with grim gallantry. The soldiers of the Republic of Korea have also been fighting fiercely.
ref: 1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 1:27 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, via YouTube, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
glosses: Official name of South Korea: a country in East Asia.
wikipedia: Republic of Korea
Related terms: Korea
Korean Peninsula
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Countries of the world
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌdɛməˈkɹætɪk ˈpiːpəlz ɹɪˈpʌblɪk əv kəˈɹiːə/
Forms: form: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
form: DPRK
form: DPR Korea
form: People's Democratic Republic of Korea
Etymology: Calque of Korean 조선민주주의인민공화국 (joseonminjujuuiinmin'gonghwaguk)
Senses: glosses: Official name of North Korea: a country in East Asia.
wikipedia: Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Derived terms: People's Korea
Related terms: Korea
Korean Peninsula
Republic of Korea
Countries of the world
ickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: ickles
form: eckle
Etymology: From Middle English ikil, ykle, from Old English *ġicol, ġiċel (“icicle, ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *jekul, *jikil, from Proto-Germanic *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), diminutive of *jekô (“lump of ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yeg-.
Cognate with Low German Jäkel (“icicle”), Danish egel (“icicle”), Norwegian Bokmål jøkel (“glacier, icesheet”), Norwegian Nynorsk jøkul, jøkle (“glacier, icicle”), Faroese jøkul (“glacier”), Icelandic jökull (“glacier”), Swedish jökel (“glacier”) and probably Albanian akull (“ice”) (Gheg okull). Doublet of jokul.
Senses: glosses: An icicle.
Derived terms: brinicle
icicle
ickle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: ickler
form: icklest
form: ikkle
Etymology: Childish pronunciation of little.
Senses: examples: text: Izzum's ickle heart a-beatin' so floppity! Um's own mumsy make ums all right, um's p'eshus Flopit!
ref: 1917, Booth Tarkington, Seventeen:
text: Wasums and didums, then? Was it a ickle birdie, then?
ref: 1919, Punch:
text: Did she try to hit her ickle bruzzer on his nosie-posie wiz a mug?
ref: 1919, Punch:
text: A Peke, the ickle angel pet, wiv his gweat big soulful eyes and his ickle black nosie — oh so ducky-duck!
ref: 1936, George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying:
glosses: Little.
fourth finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourth fingers
Senses: qualifier: bowed string instruments
glosses: pinky (smallest finger)
qualifier: keyboard instruments
glosses: ring finger
incapacitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of incapacitate
incapacitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incapacitated
form: most incapacitated
Senses: glosses: Rendered unable to act; restricted from taking action.
Derived terms: unincapacitated
skittered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skitter
wife-beater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wife-beaters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wifebeater.
needfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more needfully
form: most needfully
Etymology: From Middle English nedefully; equivalent to needful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a needful manner; necessarily.
nefariously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nefariously
form: most nefariously
Etymology: From nefarious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nefarious manner.
neurotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /njʊə̯ˈɹɒtɪklɪ/
ipa: /njəˈɹɔtɪklɪj/
ipa: /ˌnjəˈɹɔtɪkli/
ipa: /njʊˈɹɑtɪkli/
Forms: form: more neurotically
form: most neurotically
Etymology: From neurotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a neurotic manner.
Derived terms: aponeurotically
nonnegotiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-negotiable
Etymology: From non- + negotiable.
Senses: examples: text: For the hypermaterialistic and chronically adolescent Nancy, what was nonnegotiable was control, the power to sculpture her world to gratify her ever-sharpening appetites and desires.
ref: 2007 December 16, Bob Shacochis, “Here Comes the Bride”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not negotiable; not subject to negotiation.
glosses: Not negotiable; not subject to negotiation.
Not subject to bargaining or haggling.
raw_tags: of prices or values
glosses: Not negotiable; not subject to negotiation.
Not redeemable for money or other assets.
raw_tags: of a legal instrument
nonnegotiable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonnegotiables
form: non-negotiable
Etymology: From non- + negotiable.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: deal breaker
text: “It is only once you start looking at houses that you realize what you do and don’t like, and what your negotiables and nonnegotiables are,” Ms. Wexler said.
ref: 2007 August 26, Joyce Cohen, “No Longer Boxed In”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: sine qua non
glosses: Something that is not negotiable.
altre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: altres
form: altring
form: altred
form: altred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of alter.
ammonium laureth sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound formed by the ethoxylation of ammonium lauryl sulfate, having properties similar to sodium laureth sulfate.
Azal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæzəl/
/əˈzɑl/
Forms: form: Azel
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew אָצַל ('atsal), of unclear meaning, generally interpreted as "very near".
Senses: examples: text: And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Zechariah 14:5:
glosses: A place near the western extremity of the valley near Jerusalem.
EPCM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of engineering, procurement, construction management.
fanny magnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanny magnets
Senses: synonyms: pussy magnet
glosses: A man or thing that attracts women.
hot seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot seals
Senses: glosses: A method of applying a piece of embroidered or printed fabric (i.e. a patch) to another piece of fabric by using a heat activated adhesive.
examples: text: It was easy add his the new merit badge to his uniform because the patch had a hot seal backing.
glosses: The adhesive backing itself.
McScience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From McDonald's, a well-known commercial venture, and science.
Senses: examples: 2004. Richard Horton, MMR Science & Fiction - Exploring the Vaccine crisis Granta Publications, London, United Kingdom. →ISBN.
Chapter 3: "The Dawn of McScience"
glosses: The unethical commercialization of science, as for example where results are deliberately misinterpreted in exchange for large grants from a corporation.
peromelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Severe congenital malformations of the limbs.
pseudologic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudologics
form: pseudo-logic
Etymology: From pseudo- (“false”) + logic.
Senses: glosses: False logic. A logical argument that deliberately omits an outcome so that a false conclusion is reached.
Related terms: strawman
neuroanatomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + anatomical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to neuroanatomy
Derived terms: neuroanatomically
paleoneuroanatomical
vellicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈvɛlɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: vellicates
form: vellicating
form: vellicated
form: vellicated
Etymology: From Latin vellicatus, past participle of vellicare (“to twitch”). Cognate with Spanish pellizcar (“to pinch”).
Senses: examples: Convulſions ariſing from Some Acrimony in the Stomach, or from ſomething vellicating a Nerve in its Extremity, and not in its Original where it ariſeth from the Brain, are not very dangerous.
glosses: To touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.
examples: text: All her life, Mrs Foster had had an almost pathological fear of missing a train, a plane, a boat, or even a theatre curtain. In other respects, she was not a particularly nervous woman, but the mere thought of being late on occasions like these would throw her into such a state of nerves that she would begin to twitch. It was nothing much – just a tiny vellicating muscle in the corner of the left eye, like a secret wink – but the annoying thing was that it refused to disappear until an hour or so after the train or plane or whatever it was had been safely caught.
ref: 1954, Roald Dahl, The Way Up to Heaven:
glosses: To twitch or move convulsively.
examples: text: Where irritation coincides with sensation to produce the same catenations of motion, as in inflammatory fevers, they are excited with still greater energy than by the irritation alone. So when children expect to be tickled in play, by a feather lightly passed over the lips, or by gently vellicating the soles of their feet, laughter is most vehemently excited; though they can stimulate these parts with their own fingers unmoved. Here the pleasureable idea of playfulness coincides with the vellication; and there is no voluntary exertion used to diminish the sensation, as there would be, if a child should endeavour to tickle himself.
ref: 1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia:
glosses: To tickle, provoking twitching and laughter.
examples: text: Sir, I Have received yours, and reading the Confirmation of your Hypotheſis (which I took the boldneſs a little to vellicate) and your Anſwer to my Objections againſt it, I could not but obſerve your ingenious dexterity therein with pleaſure.
ref: 1688, John Norris, The Theory and Regulation of Love: A Moral Essay.:
glosses: To criticize in a somewhat irritating way; to carp at.
Related terms: vellicating
vellication
vellicative
tickle
titillate
neuroanatomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌn(j)ʊroʊəˈnætəmi/
ipa: /njʊəɹəʊəˈnatəmi/
Forms: form: neuroanatomies
Etymology: From neuro- + anatomy.
Senses: examples: text: This flowchart suggested by the neuroanatomy corresponds fairly well with what psychologists see in the clinic and lab.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 609:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The anatomy of the nervous system.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The structure of the nerves of a specific organ or organism.
Derived terms: palaeoneuroanatomy
paleoneuroanatomy
Related terms: neuroanatomic
neuroanatomical
straddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of straddle
unmowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mowed.
Senses: glosses: Not mowed
unrevealing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrevealing
form: most unrevealing
Etymology: From un- + revealing.
Senses: glosses: Not revealing
estaminet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛˈstæmɪneɪ/
/ɛstæmɪˈneɪ/
Forms: form: estaminets
Etymology: Borrowed from French estaminet.
Senses: examples: text: Kit […] went in a little estaminet, and sat over in a corner with a twelve-centime glass of beer, reviewing the situation.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 589:
glosses: A small café or bar.
glosses: A restaurant where smoking is allowed.
jollied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jolly
springwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springwaters
form: spring water
form: spring-water
Etymology: From spring + water.
Senses: glosses: Water originating from a spring.
glosses: Water that is purportedly, and marketed as, originating from a spring, but is mostly or entirely filtered or tap water.
Derived terms: springwater cyst
houndstooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊndstuːθ/
Forms: form: houndsteeth
Etymology: From hound + -s- + tooth, from its appearance.
Although the pattern itself is archaeologically found from time immemorial, the modern term is first attested in 1936.
Senses: examples: text: Other patterns include varied adaptations of paisleys, Tree of Life motifs, tiles, scenics, patchworks, ticking, soft-edge geometries, sports themes, crewel shapes, houndsteeth, and a plethora of florals.
ref: 1974, Interior Design, volume 45, New York, N.Y.: Interior Design Division of Whitney Communication Corp., →OCLC, page 251, column 1:
text: A houndstooth fabric is composed of tiny, interlocking pinwheel motifs. There are many houndstooth knitting patterns[…]; to add an extra touch to these patterns, work them in nubby or textured yarns.
ref: 1998, Deborah Newton, “Dressmaker Details & Finishing”, in Designing Knitwear, Newtown, Ct.: Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 210:
text: Sophisticated houndstooth checks highlight a toddler's jacket and hat.
ref: 2004, Lois S. Young, “Houndstooth Toddler Set”, in Jeanne Stauffer, editor, Knitting in the Round, Berne, Ind.: House of White Birches, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: A two-colour fabric pattern of broken checks.
examples: text: Their ties were tidier, their houndsteeth toothier … they ended up looking more Windsorian than Windsor.
ref: 1970, Men's Wear, volume 161, New York, N.Y.: Fairchild Publications, →OCLC, page 73, column 1:
text: Her dress is wool too, brown and black houndsteeth that belonged to her mother.
ref: 2014, Jacinda Townsend, “Jupiter”, in Saint Monkey: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Fabric with a houndstooth pattern; an item of clothing made with such fabric.
glosses: Hound's tongue, a plant of species Cynoglossum officinale
Synonyms: dogstooth
dog's tooth
pied-de-poule
worsening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of worsen
worsening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worsenings
Senses: glosses: A worse situation; an aggravation or deterioration
mild ale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mild ales
Senses: glosses: A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour.
glosses: Young (newly brewed) ale, not yet having developed a tangy flavour.
mild and bitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mild and bitters
Senses: glosses: A drink consisting of a mixture of mild and bitter beers.
Related terms: black and tan
flaming queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flaming queens
Senses: examples: text: By his senior year, Gary was a "flaming queen," wearing full makeup and platform shoes.
ref: 2003, Leila J. Rupp, Verta Taylor, Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret, University Of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 29:
text: No person could be masculine without becoming fully feminine, and no person could be feminine without also at the same time becoming fully masculine. In ethical-prescriptive terms, this would be interpreted as meaning that all femmes must become as butch as possible, and all butches must work their hardest to become flaming queens. Everyone must take the macho, made-up, cross-dressing basketball star or actor as the Christian role model—or the hyperfeminine drag queen fashion model, or the gentlemanly butch lesbian country singer.
ref: 2006, Dale B. Martin, Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Outside the cell, Jose carried himself like a true gentleman, yet behind his cell door with Candy, he'd frolicked about like a flaming queen; Jose traipsed around in homemade thongs, cropped T-shirts, cut-off shorts and shower slippers.
ref: 2006, Meadows Damon Amin, Jason Poole, Convict's Candy, Ghettoheat, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: A homosexual, and often cross-dressing, man acting in an ostentatious and flaunting manner akin to a diva.
flaming queens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flaming queen
iterator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iterators
Etymology: From iterate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which iterates.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
coordinate_terms: iteratee
glosses: A method capable of performing the same action on every item in a collection.
Hyponyms: topics: programming
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: lazy iterator
Derived terms: itinerant worker
interactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntɚˈæktɚ/
ipa: /ˌɪntəɹˈæktə/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: interactors
Etymology: From interact + -or or inter- + actor.
Senses: examples: text: The “Zarfian Cruelty Scale” rates games as Merciful, Polite, Tough, Nasty, or Cruel. The scale describes how works of IF become unwinnable, especially how and when the interactor (here a player, and one trying to win) learns this.
ref: 2007, Jeremy Douglass, Command Lines, page 88:
glosses: One who interacts.
renderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renderers
Etymology: From Middle English renderar, equivalent to render + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, renders.
glosses: A vessel in which lard, tallow, etc., is rendered.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software or hardware process that generates a visual image from a model.
composited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of composite
thearchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thearchies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θεαρχία (thearkhía), from θεός (theós, “god”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “rule, ruling”). By surface analysis, the- + -archy.
Senses: examples: text: There ends Monarchy as a Thearchie, or divine dynastie.
ref: 1643, Subject of Supremacie, section 42:
text: Thearchie, or Gods Government in Families, a Nation, and all Nations.
ref: 1643, Maximes Unfolded, section 8:
text: [The Jew's] belief in that direct thearchy, to which he was bound by the ties of gratitude.
ref: 1863, G.J. Whyte-Melville, Gladiators, I 254:
glosses: A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.
examples: text: From rank to rank in Thearchy divine, We angel raylets gladden in thy sight.
ref: 1852, P.J. Bailey, Festus, section 11:
text: Pan was one of the younger gods in the Hellenic thearchy.
ref: 1876, W.E. Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism, section 245:
text: When Jesus entered upon his ministry, the Olympian thearchy […] was already tottering to its fall.
ref: 1899 December 1, Literary Guide, 178 1:
glosses: A system or ordering of deities. (Compare pantheon.)
Related terms: sense: A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.
word: thearch
sense: A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.
word: theocracy
sense: A system or ordering of deities. (Compare pantheon.)
word: hierarchy
thearch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thearchs
Etymology: Related to thearchy, from Ancient Greek θεαρχία (thearkhía), from θεός (theós, “god”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “rule, ruling”). By surface analysis, the- + -arch.
Senses: glosses: The ruler of a thearchy, a monarch of gods
glosses: The emperors (皇帝) of China, particularly the five legendary ones (五帝) of Chinese prehistory
Synonyms: word: emperor
word: divine emperor
word: Son of Heaven
word: theocrat
Derived terms: August Thearch
wet job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet jobs
Senses: examples: text: Like the Navy SEALs (who often work in conjunction with the Delta Force), Delta Force can go anywhere, anytime; they just leave the wet jobs to SEAL Team 6-the navy's version of Delta Force.
ref: 2003, Robert Young Pelton, Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places: 5th Edition (Robert Young Pelton the World's Most Dangerous Places), Collins, →ISBN, page 112:
text: Being a shocked witness in Lisbon to the Carnivore's last bloody wet job
ref: 2004, Gayle Lynds, The Coil: A Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 53:
text: But as soon as the janitor saw Tice, he would have known he had the wrong man and should have and should have withdrawn or attempted a live capture to find out where Theosopholis was. Instead, everything about his style announced wet job. He was assigned to liquidate Tice, and maybe only Tice.
ref: 2006, Gayle Lynds, The Last Spymaster, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 30:
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A covert assassination performed by government operatives.
examples: text: The following year – the year of lawyering dangerously, at least at the LRB – saw Hitchens’s wet job on Henry Kissinger (22 October 1992). As he does with many of his subjects, he walked straight up to this one and dropped the guillotine, likening the book under review – an authorised biography – to ‘the profile of a serial murderer’.
ref: 2011, Jeremy Harding, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:
glosses: A vicious attack (on someone's reputation, ideals etc.); a hatchet job.
Related terms: wet work
wet jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wet job
Coimbatore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tamil கோயம்புத்தூர் (kōyamputtūr).
Senses: glosses: A large city and district of Tamil Nadu, India.
Synonyms: Kovai
chicken hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken hawk
stamp duty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stamp duties
Senses: examples: text: an all-up amount including GST and LCT (but not stamp duty, registration etc)
ref: 2009, Philip McCouat, Australian Motor Vehicle Tax Guide, page 139:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A tax levied upon certain documents, a stamp being applied to show that tax has been paid.
glosses: Ellipsis of stamp duty land tax (“a tax on land transactions in England and Northern Ireland”).
pursues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pursue
pyrolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrolysis
pyrolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pyrolyzes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pyrolyse
pyrolyzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pyrolyses
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pyrolyze
pyrolysing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pyrolyzing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pyrolyse
pyrolyzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pyrolysing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pyrolyze
pyrolysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pyrolyzed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pyrolyse
pyrolyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pyrolysed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pyrolyze
euglycemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euglycemic
form: most euglycemic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to euglycemia.
glosses: Having a normal concentration of glucose in the blood.
dead as a doornail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: deader than a doornail
Etymology: From Middle English ded as dore-nail.
One of the earliest usages in English is in William Langland's poem Piers Plowman A. i. 161 (late 14th century) "Fey withouten fait is febelore þen nouȝt, And ded as a dore-nayl", though it is unlikely this is Langland's invention. It also appears in the English William of Palerne l. 628 "For but ich haue bote of mi bale‥I am ded as dore-nail" and in the alliterative debate poem The Parlement of the Thre Ages "Dede als a dore-nayle doune was he fallen" 65. Both of these texts are of uncertain date, and may predate Langland's usage.
One plausible explanation is that doors were built using only wood boards and hand-forged nails: the nails were long enough to dead nail the (vertical) wooden panels and (horizontal) stretcher boards securely together, so they would not easily pull apart. This was done by pounding the protruding point of the nail over and down into the wood. A nail that was bent in this fashion (and thus not easily pulled out) was said to be "dead", thus dead as a doornail.
Senses: examples: text: I picked up the phone, but the line was dead as a doornail.
text: We finally found John's cat run over in the next road. He was as dead as a doornail.
text: Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 1–2:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Unquestionably dead. Used for both inanimate objects and once living beings.
Related terms: dead as a dodo
dead as a doorknob
dead as a herring
dead as a kipper
dead as a mackerel
dead as ditch-water
deaf as a doornail
dumb as a doornail
shrivelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shriveling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shrivel
shrivelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrivellings
form: shriveling
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which something shrivels.
shriveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shrivelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shrivel
shriveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrivelings
form: shrivelling
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which something shrivels.
shrivels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shrivel
doornail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doornails
form: door nail
form: door-nail
Etymology: From Middle English dore-nail, equivalent to door + nail.
Senses: glosses: A nail with a wide head, traditionally used in the construction and ornamentation of wooden doors.
Derived terms: dead as a doornail
deader than a doornail
deaf as a doornail
dumb as a doornail
camel through the eye of a needle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: With reference to the New Testament, Mark 10.25, Mat. 19.24 and Luke 18.25. See the Citations page for those texts.
Senses: examples: text: Getting George to wake up before 7 o'clock is harder than getting a camel through the eye of a needle.
text: 1795, John Swanwick (as "Snub"), "To WILLIAM WILCOCKS, Esquire, L. L. D. and DUke of New-York, &c.", in A Rub from Snub; or a cursory analytical epistle, page 57, quoting Wilcocks in the first footnote.
Alluding to the exordium of his writings againſt the democrats, wherein he ſays “ It is a difficult for a party-man to be an honeſt man, as for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,” whereby he moſt emphatically declares his own diſhoneſty at the very firſt daſh of his pen.
text: 1825, "Sir H. L.", in The Political Correspondence of the Leading Members of Parliament with the the Speaker of the House of Commons on Emancipation, James Bigg (publ.), page 83.
You are endeavouring to pass a bill that never can and that never will pass the House of Lords. Do you want to make a camel go through the eye of a needle?
glosses: Hyperbole to illustrate something that is impossible to do or to make happen.
Related terms: it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
door-nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: door-nails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doornail.
noddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒdi/
ipa: /ˈnɑdi/
ipa: [-ɾi]
homophone: knotty
homophone: naughty (cot–caught merger, flapping)
rhymes: -ɒdi
Forms: form: more noddy
form: most noddy
Etymology: Noun sense 1 is possibly from nod (“to incline the head up and down; to gradually fall asleep”) + -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns or familiar names); or a shortening of noddypoll, an obsolete alteration of hoddypoll (“fumbling, inept person”).
The origin of noun sense 2 is uncertain; it is possibly derived from sense 1. Compare muggins (“fool, idiot; card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one’s cards”).
The origin of the adjective is uncertain; it is possibly also from nod (verb) + -y (suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives).
The verb is derived from noun sense 1.
Senses: examples: text: For that no man shulde se / Nor rede in any scrolles / Of theyr dronken nolles, / Nor of theyr noddy polles, […]
ref: 1521–1522, John Skelton, “Here after Followeth a Litel Boke Called Colyn Cloute, […]”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, →OCLC, page 359, lines 1242–1245:
text: I beſeech you, VVill your VViſdoms, or common Senſe, or Underſtanding, or vvhat you vvill call it, approve of nothing in our Common-Prayer Book, that you preſent us vvith an inane nihil, a nevv Directory of a noddy Synod, or find you ſo many Deficiencies in Monarchical Government, that you ſhould ſeek to introduce an Ochlocracy, a People Svvay?
ref: 1648, “The British Bellman”, in [Samuel Johnson, William Oldys], editors, The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as Well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library. […], volume VII, London: […] T[homas] Osborne, […], published 1746, →OCLC, page 589, column 1:
glosses: Foolish, silly, stupid.
noddy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒdi/
ipa: /ˈnɑdi/
ipa: [-ɾi]
homophone: knotty
homophone: naughty (cot–caught merger, flapping)
rhymes: -ɒdi
Forms: form: noddies
form: noddying
form: noddied
form: noddied
Etymology: Noun sense 1 is possibly from nod (“to incline the head up and down; to gradually fall asleep”) + -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns or familiar names); or a shortening of noddypoll, an obsolete alteration of hoddypoll (“fumbling, inept person”).
The origin of noun sense 2 is uncertain; it is possibly derived from sense 1. Compare muggins (“fool, idiot; card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one’s cards”).
The origin of the adjective is uncertain; it is possibly also from nod (verb) + -y (suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives).
The verb is derived from noun sense 1.
Senses: examples: text: If ſuch an Aſſe be noddied for the nonce, / I ſay but this, to helpe his Idle fit; / Let him but thanke himſelfe for lacke of VVit, […]
ref: 1600, N[icholas] B[reton], Pasquils Fooles-cap Sent to Such (to Keepe Their Weake Braines Warme) as are Not Able to Conceiue Aright of His Mad-cap. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock], for Thomas Iohnes, […], →OCLC, signature D2, verso:
glosses: Synonym of noddify (“to make (someone) into a noddy (noun sense 1), to make a fool of”)
synonyms: word: noddify
extra: (“to make (someone) into a noddy (noun sense 1), to make a fool of”)
noddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒdi/
ipa: /ˈnɑdi/
ipa: [-ɾi]
homophone: knotty
homophone: naughty (cot–caught merger, flapping)
rhymes: -ɒdi
Forms: form: more noddy
form: most noddy
Etymology: From nod (“to incline the head up and down; to gradually fall asleep”) + -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns or familiar names; and meaning ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives).
Noun sense 1 (“tern of the genus Anous”) possibly refers to the nodding behaviour of the birds during courtship. Sense 3 (“fellatio”) refers to the nodding motion of the head of a person performing the sex act. Sense 5 (“cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding”) was coined by the English cultural theorist and media scholar John Fiske (1939–2021) in 1987. Sense 6.2 (“state of being asleep”) is possibly a pun on etymology 1, sense 2.2.1 (“sexual intercourse”).
Senses: examples: text: […] I'll say a prayer and try to go to sleep. I feel very noddy all at once.
ref: a. 1865 (date written; first published 1872 January–August), Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Una Hawthorne, Septimius Felton; or The Elixir of Life, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, published 1872, →OCLC, page 139:
glosses: Drowsy, sleepy.
Akademeia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia). Doublet of academy and academia; see there for more.
Senses: glosses: A grove near Athens (named after the Athenian hero Akademos), where Plato founded his original Akademia in 385 B.C.
sandboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandbox
sandboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sandbox