cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dunderpate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunderpates
Etymology: From dunder + pate.
Senses: examples: text: Homer: Here's your package, Mr. Burns!
 Mr. Burns: [Sputters] My name is the return address, you senseless dunderpate!
ref: 1995, Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, “Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One”, in The Simpsons:
glosses: dunderhead
unbung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbungs
form: unbunging
form: unbunged
form: unbunged
Etymology: From un- + bung.
Senses: glosses: To remove a bung (stopper) from.
Chinese hawthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese hawthorns
Senses: glosses: Crataegus pinnatifida, a species of shrub that produces a medicinal herb used in Chinese traditional medicine.
glosses: the fruit of the shrub
Synonyms: Chinese hawberry
spotted wolffish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotted wolffishes
form: spotted wolffish
Senses: glosses: A North Atlantic species of wolffish, Anarhichas minor.
Timorese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Timor + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or from Timor
Timorese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Timor + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Tetum (a national language of East Timor)
Derived terms: East Timorese
Timorese horseshoe bat
bekas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beka
bekah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bekahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beka.
Réunionese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Réunionese
form: most Réunionese
form: Reunionese
Etymology: From Réunion + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the island of Réunion.
bekahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bekah
bejumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bejumble
unalienated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unalienated
form: most unalienated
Etymology: From un- + alienated.
Senses: examples: text: It's amazing to me that doing pottery is now considered an "alternative" profession, because it's one of the oldest professions known to human beings on this earth, and in Marxist terms it's a very unalienated process. We're involved in every step of the process.
ref: 1990 February 4, Randy Albelda, Carole Ann Fer, Annie Hoffman, “Clay Pots And 'Equality'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 7:
glosses: Not alienated.
SVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SV
unquashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + quashed.
Senses: glosses: Not quashed.
unsquashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + squashed.
Senses: glosses: Not squashed.
oper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opers
Etymology: Short for operator.
Senses: examples: text: Chanops can kick people off a channel; opers can ban people logging in from specific Internet sites from participating in IRC.
ref: 2000, Howard Rheingold, The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier, number 28, page 187:
glosses: A network operator on IRC.
Synonyms: IRCop
Related terms: chanop
op
deop
reop
opers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oper
unextinguishably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unextinguishably
form: most unextinguishably
Etymology: From unextinguishable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that cannot be extinguished.
unquashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unquashable
form: most unquashable
Etymology: From un- + quashable.
Senses: examples: text: Ghadah's beauty was radiant, unquashable. No abbayah could vanquish this resilient, gleaming woman.
ref: 2008, Qanta Ahmed, In the land of invisible women, page 66:
glosses: That cannot be quashed.
IRCop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IRCops
Etymology: From IRC + op.
Senses: glosses: A network operator on IRC.
Synonyms: oper
IRCops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IRCop
lottomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lotto + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: The lottomania (Forbes, Mar. 6, 1989) that sent state lottery revenues to more than $20 billion last year has finally run out of steam. Revenue gains are slackening off...
ref: 1992, Forbes, volume 149, numbers 5-9:
text: As lottomania has swept the nation, one result is an entirely new social stratum of millionaires...
ref: 1994, Linda Schinke-Llano, Time: Reaching for Tomorrow:
glosses: Enthusiasm for playing the lottery.
nonexpense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + expense.
Senses: examples: a nonexpense account
nonexpense payments, such as payment of debts
glosses: Not of or pertaining to expenses.
bliddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Then there was thousands of the bliddy critturs left in the rabbuts' buries.
ref: 1935, Henry Williamson, Devon holiday:
glosses: bloody; accursed
blackism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blackism
Etymology: From black + -ism.
Senses: coordinate_terms: whitism
glosses: A political movement promoting black people.
drusen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of druse
druplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of druplet
Nanto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Toyama Prefecture, Japan.
-icism
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -ic + -ism, either based directly on the adjective in -ic (as in asceticism, mysticism), or on the verb in -ise (as in anglicism).
Some productivity within English, as in witticism (1670s, by analogy with criticism).
Senses: glosses: Forms abstract nouns from Greek or Latin bases.
Derived terms: academicism
aestheticism
agnosticism
anglicism
athleticism
classicism
criticism
cynicism
eclecticism
empiricism
esotericism
fanaticism
pedanticism
stoicism
witticism
Nara period
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The history of Japan covering the years from AD 710 to 794. Empress Gemmei established the capital of Heijō-kyō (present-day Nara).
caput mortuum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæpət ˈmɔː(ɹ)tjʊəm/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin caput mortuum (literally “dead head”).
Senses: topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: Worthless residue of sublimation or distillation.
examples: text: Were they working their way through the colours and now had reached the more abstruse layers of the spectrum? What would be next — caput mortuum, heliotrope? The colours of the day.
ref: 2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, page 227:
glosses: Cardinal purple, a variety of haematite iron oxide pigment.
Related terms: 🝎
plan out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plans out
form: planning out
form: planned out
form: planned out
Senses: examples: July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
glosses: to plan, organize, make a plan for something
pile on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: piles on
form: piling on
form: piled on
form: piled on
Senses: examples: text: As football linebackers pile on a quarterback in a blitz, the newspaper editorialist heaped sarcasm onto the president.
ref: 2006, Steven M. Hallock, Editorial and Opinion: The Dwindling Marketplace of Ideas in Today's News, Praeger, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Piling on: Players may not pile on a runner after the ball is dead or intentionally fall upon any prostrate player.
ref: 2009, Human Kinetics with Thomas Hanlon, The Sports Rules Book - 3rd Edition, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 116:
text: The quarterback turns and hands the ball to his fullback just as Sumo hits him in the backfield causing a fumble. Ball loose, ball loose screamed Jones. There is a mad scramble for the loose ball as bodies pile on top of each other.
ref: 2011, Michael Harston, The Show: The Michael Thomas Story, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: To jump on top of someone or something quickly.
examples: text: OK, OK, they've already gotten the constructive criticism. Now you're just piling on.
text: Piling on Nickelback is old hat. Can't we all just move on already? Chad Kroeger and his band are still the group everyone loves to hate, but after the Queensland police put out a wanted poster for them for ‘crimes against music’ Luke Holland asks: has the hating gone too far?
ref: 2015 May 20, Luke Holland, “Piling on Nickelback is old hat. Can't we all just move on already?”, in The Guardian:
text: The hashtag #WorstFlotusEver has started to take off on Twitter, with critics piling on the former model by listing their many grievances and mocking her achievements over the past four years.
ref: 2020 December 31, Alexis Carey, “'Worst ever': Melania Trump's legacy brutally mocked”, in NZ Herald:
glosses: To criticize someone or something in a concerted effort; to add on some additional critique.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To unnecessarily extend the margin of a winning score.
glosses: To add or apply in great quantities.
Derived terms: word: pile-on
pile on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pile ons
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of pile-on.
Related terms: dogpile
piscary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piscaries
Etymology: From Latin piscarius (“relating to fishes or to fishing”), from piscis (“a fish”).
Senses: glosses: fishery
examples: text: It seemed to have been generally understood that the lord could not approve, where the commoners had a right of turbary, piscary, of digging sand, or of taking any species of estovers upon the common.
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: The right or privilege of fishing in somebody else's waters.
Hypernyms: profit à prendre
placoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλάξ (pláx, stem plak-) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: What about the carp? He regarded the two placoid shapes with doubt.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 68:
glosses: Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoid fish
placoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placoids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλάξ (pláx, stem plak-) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Such a scale
glosses: Any fish having placoid scales, such as the sharks
glosses: A placodioid lichen
Related terms: microplacoid
plosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plosions
Senses: examples: text: In Russian, nasal plosion is confined to cases where both the plosive and the nasal consonant have the same primary articulation. In English, however, nasal plosion occurs also in such groups as kn, tm (as in Hackney ['haekni], utmost [ˈʌtmoʊst]).
ref: 1923, Michael V. Trofimov, Daniel Jones, The pronunciation of Russian:
text: Plosive consonants are sometimes not fully articulated ; under certain conditions they may be reduced to stops only, without plosions. This generally happens in English when a plosive is immediately followed by another plosive.
ref: 1956, Daniel Jones, The pronunciation of English, page 121:
text: To avoid too much air escape at the moment of plosion, the tongue-tip is placed lightly on the alveolar ridge, the less muscular pressure the better.
ref: 1998, Michael McCallion, The voice book: for everyone who wants to make the most of their voice:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Pronunciation of a consonant that is characterised by completely blocking the flow of air through the mouth.
Derived terms: preplosion
Related terms: plosive
placoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placoid
plosions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plosion
undilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dilated.
Senses: glosses: Not dilated.
nondilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dilated.
Senses: glosses: Not dilated.
counterprophecy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterprophecies
Etymology: From counter- + prophecy.
Senses: examples: text: Although she tends not to be a dance actor of spontaneity, she was suddenly vivid in her mime reply to Carabosse and her calm counterprophecy, judiciously timed.
ref: 2008 June 18, Alastair Macaulay, “Ballet Theater’s Revised ‘Beauty’ Spotlights a Very Busy Prince”, in New York Times:
glosses: A prophecy predicting the opposite of another prophecy.
counterprophecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterprophecy
cedarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cedarlike
form: most cedarlike
Etymology: From cedar + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Part of a line of knotty-looking wood pieces, it is made from sugi, or Cryptomeria japonica, an elegant cedarlike evergreen.
ref: 2008 June 19, Penelope Green, “Comfortable Seating From Japanese Forests”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of cedar.
dumbphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumbphone
nonusage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + usage.
Senses: examples: text: “Because we work during the day, and we leave town on the weekends,” she explained of her own nonusage.
ref: 2008 June 19, Eric Konigsberg, “The Guardian of Gramercy Park”, in New York Times:
glosses: Absence of usage; failure to use.
torpedolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more torpedolike
form: most torpedolike
Etymology: From torpedo + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The blonde has her allure, but not the brunette’s sex appeal — or her dress, a red-hot number with tassels hanging from each torpedolike breast.
ref: 2008 June 19, Manohla Dargis, “Sylph or Siren, the Legs Have It”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a torpedo.
umwelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umwelts
form: umwelten
Senses: examples: text: ... a fragment snipped from the perplexing umwelt of Homo sapiens, our innumerable temporary enclosures.
ref: 2006, Chris Arthur, “Empty Room”, in Southwest Review, volume 91, number 3, pages 295–312, 18p:
text: We keep going, locked into our little umwelts, only occasionally remembering to look up.
ref: 2008 June 19, Claudia La Rocco, “An Ordinary-Looking Bunch, Reflecting the Random Activities of Others”, in New York Times:
text: Author and journalist Ed Yong uses the German term umwelt to describe an organism’s unique sensory perspectives. […] He uses the metaphor of a large house with many windows looking onto a garden. Each animal has its own window. But there are other windows as well, each with a different view of the same place. We humans have our own window, our own particular umwelt.
ref: 2024 November 22, Stephanie Hanes, Melanie Stetson Freeman, “Moody chickens? Playful bumblebees? Science decodes the rich inner lives of animals.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Umwelt.
umwelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umwelt
undercabinet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + cabinet.
Senses: examples: text: The hardware component is a bulbous bar code scanner, dressed up in Any-Décor White and mounted on a countertop stand, an undercabinet bracket or a wall mount.
ref: 2008 June 19, David Pogue, “Grocery Shopping Made Easy”, in New York Times:
glosses: Beneath a cabinet.
classwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From class + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: All along, she had agreed with her fellow classmate Christian Lopez-Balboa, who had pointed out in a classwide meeting with administrators that in five or six years, Arabic, not Chinese, might well be the more important language for those students who would be starting careers in finance.
ref: 2008 June 20, Susan Dominus, “A School Steeped in Tolerance Adds a Course That Tests It”, in New York Times:
glosses: Throughout a class.
classwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From class + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Throughout a class.
melodramata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕʹlōdrämətə
enpr: mĕlōdräʹmətə
ipa: /ˈmɛləʊdɹɑːmətə/
ipa: /mɛləʊˈdɹɑːmətə/
enpr: mĕʹlədrä'mətə
ipa: /ˈmɛləˌdɹɑːmətə/
enpr: mĕʹlədrä'mətə
ipa: /ˈmɛləˌdɹɑmətə/
Etymology: A plural form of melodrama formed on the pattern of dramata; representing a supposed Ancient Greek etymon of the form *μελοδρᾱ́ματα (melodrā́mata), from the extant roots μέλος (mélos) and δράματα (drámata) (drāmata; the nominative plural form of δρᾶμα (drâma), drāma).
Senses: examples: text: At the Tobyhanna depot, before he left, Festa turned to Chief Deputy Marshal Scheu and cried. “If I get sent away, you gotta watch Rose for me.” Scheu did not and would not believe that this display was simply melodramata.
ref: 1984, Michael Harold Brown, Marked to Die, page 293:
text: Unfortunately, the show veers into melodramata when a soused Penny expresses second thoughts to Raj about dumping Leonard.
ref: 2011 May 20th, Adam H. Kerman, rec.arts.tv, “The Big Bang Theory ‘The Roomate Transmogrification’ (spoilers)”, Message ID
glosses: plural of melodrama
unquilted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + quilted.
Senses: glosses: Not quilted.
mobilelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mobilelike
form: most mobilelike
Etymology: From mobile + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Punctuated by grainy appropriated photographs, like a recurring image of women reading newspapers on a subway, they veer between colorful quiltlike patchworks of fabric scraps and painted wood or Goth-style compositions of black, white and silver Mylar, and occasionally venture into three dimensions with mobilelike standing structures.
ref: 2008 June 20, Roberta Smith, “Just Enough Seriousness to Go Around”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mobile (decorative hanging arrangement).
semiapologetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semiapologetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: “I’m not a word person,” she says, semiapologetically.
ref: 2008 June 20, Robin Finn, “When Brush With Broadway Ends, She’ll Play On”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a semiapologetic manner.
semiapologetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + apologetic.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat apologetic.
Derived terms: semiapologetically
shortribs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ONIEALS GRAND STREET, 174 Grand Street, at Centre Market Place, Lower East Side, (212) 941-9119, site of a former speakeasy at the end of Weegee’s block, is a clubby hideaway known for its shortribs and filet mignon.
ref: 2008 June 20, “Weegee: A Primer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of short ribs.
short ribs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortribs
Senses: glosses: A cut of beef from the rib and plate primals and a small corner of the square-cut chuck.
Related terms: English-cut
flanken
nonpanoramic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + panoramic.
Senses: glosses: Not panoramic.
timesharing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The group’s online forums offer discussions on all aspects of timesharing, and its reviews and ratings for more than 4,000 properties can help you find one with good trading potential.
ref: 2008 June 20, Steve Bailey, “Trading Places”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of time-sharing.
compleatest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of compleat: most compleat
flyfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Curt Gowdy bequeathed his passion, particularly flyfishing, to his sons Trevor and Curt Jr. on the marvelous trout streams of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
ref: 2008 June 21, Peter Kaminsky, “Taking His Cue From the Fish”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of fly fishing.
flyfishermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyfisherman
uncomplaisant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncomplaisant
form: most uncomplaisant
Etymology: From un- + complaisant.
Senses: glosses: Not complaisant.
nonspecification
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + specification.
Senses: examples: text: The wire fraud charge is related to the “receipt of electronic payment for inadequate and nonspecification work it knowingly performed on the contracts.”
ref: 2008 June 21, Pam Belluck, “Big Dig Contractor Faces Charges in Tunnel Collapse”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not conforming or pertaining to a specification.
payara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: payaras
form: payara
Senses: examples: text: In his career as a producer and host of hunting and fishing shows for cable television, Trevor Gowdy has tangled with a wide range of trophy game fish, including 1,000-pound hammerheads in the Florida Keys, giant stingrays off the coast of Thailand and razor-toothed payara below Venezuela’s Uraima Falls.
ref: 2008 June 21, Peter Kaminsky, “Taking His Cue From the Fish”, in New York Times:
glosses: Hydrolycus scomberoides, a Venezuelan gamefish with two long fangs protruding from the lower jaw.
payaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of payara
anthemion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthemions
form: anthemia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνθέμιον (anthémion), from ἄνθος (ánthos).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Moore ran copper cresting in the form of anthemion leaves around the top of a bay window on the side of the house, and he put low, curved eyebrow dormers on either side of the third-floor gable.
ref: 2008 June 22, Christopher Gray, “Brooklyn’s Stately Esplanade”, in New York Times:
glosses: An ornamental design consisting of palmettes or lotus flowers.
anthemions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthemion
anthemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthemion
ariolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hariolation
Etymology: From (the stem of) Latin ariolari, hariolari, from hariolus (“soothsayer”) + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the Priests of Elder time, have put upon them many incredible conceits, […] deluding their apprehensions with Ariolation, South saying, and such oblick Idolatries […]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
text: […] belongs to the technical part of divination, and may be reckoned for an Art, as well as any other sort of Ariolation.
ref: 1685, Francis Rous, Seven Books of the Attick Antiquities, page 323:
text: The foolish system of ariolation is much practised by the primitive Papuas, previously to entering into any undertaking.
ref: 1842, The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal, page 60:
glosses: Soothsaying; prophecy.
slide rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slide rule
inferrible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfəɹɪbəl/
ipa: [ˈɪnfəɹɪbl̩]
Forms: form: inferible
Etymology: From New Latin īnferibilis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of inferable.
synonyms: word: inferable
friend of Bill W.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friends of Bill W.
form: friend of Bill
form: friend of Bill's
Etymology: An allusion to William Griffith Wilson (1895–1971), known as “Bill W.”, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Senses: examples: text: He was a friend of Bill W. and had just celebrated Ten Years of Sobriety.
ref: 1994 May 31, “Obituary: Middletown BRIAN EDWARD CRAWFORD”, in Providence Journal, USA, page D10:
text: The Sandy Beaches cruise offers Alcoholics Anonymous meetings billed simply as Friends of Bill W.
ref: 2003 February 23, Lynne Margolis, “Delbert McClinton rocks the boat for music lovers”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 08 Jul 2011:
text: Most people in recovery know that asking if you are a friend of Bill W. is an anonymous way to identify yourself as a member of AA.
ref: 2004, Jack Canfield et al., Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul,, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: A recovering alcoholic, especially one who is a member of the organization Alcoholics Anonymous.
wikipedia: Bill W.
Related terms: friend of Dorothy
friends of Bill W.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The organization Alcoholics Anonymous.
glosses: plural of friend of Bill W.
alienesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alienesque
form: most alienesque
Etymology: From alien + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: "Aliens used up our bog roll?"
"Just because they're aliens, it doesn't mean they don't have to visit the smallest room. Only, they probably do something weird and alienesque; like it comes out of the top of their heads, or something."
ref: 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf:
text: After checking the room for other alienesque creatures, she sat down on the edge of the bed and began to stare at the phone.
ref: 2008, John R. Johnson, Purusha's Urn, page 126:
text: Ray feeding is a popular activity at many resorts and it's quite something to see these muscular, alienesque creatures jump out of the water and chow down on raw steak.
ref: 2009, Tom Masters, Lonely Planet Maldives, page 49:
glosses: Suggestive of an alien (creature from space).
macroing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Macroing means that you can record some keying sequences while you are editing a text, and later re-execute the keying sequences with a single command.
ref: 2002, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C++, page 563:
text: In general, use of macroing for linking and relations is discouraged, as it is better expressed through classes of relation.
ref: 2010, John G. Breslin, Thomas N. Burg, Hong-Gee Kim, Recent Trends and Developments in Social Software, page 8:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of macros.
macrogols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrogol
palmette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmettes
Etymology: From palm + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A motif in decorative art resembling the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree.
Synonyms: anthemion
palmettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmette
Palmerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Palmerian
form: most Palmerian
Etymology: From Palmer + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Daniel David Palmer (1845–1913), the founder of chiropractic.
break one's fall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks one's fall
form: breaking one's fall
form: broke one's fall
form: broken one's fall
Senses: examples: text: A pile of leaves broke my fall when I slipped off the roof of the shed.
glosses: To provide alleviation to prevent someone from slamming into the ground at full speed; to prevent someone from hitting the ground too hard at the end of a fall.
platysmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platysma
platysmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pləˈtɪz.mət.ə/
Senses: glosses: plural of platysma
anchusas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchusa
anchyloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchylosis
shriveler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrivelers
form: shriveller
Etymology: From shrivel + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, shrivels.
shriveller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrivellers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shriveler.
shrivelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shriveler
shrivellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shriveller
time-keeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of timekeeping.
time-keeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of time-keep
rouge et noir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French rouge et noir (literally “red and black”).
Senses: glosses: A solitaire card game played with two decks of playing cards.
glosses: A French gambling game using six decks of cards, played at a special table with two croupiers.
Related terms: roulette
subprefect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subprefects
Etymology: From sub- + prefect.
Senses: glosses: The executive of a subprefecture.
examples: text: Their authority, as it was when they were school leaders, cut across the houses. Below them were house prefects and subprefects, with their authority limited to their Houses.
ref: 2010, Chike Momah, The Shining Ones:
glosses: An assistant prefect in a school.
subprefects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subprefect
subprefecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subprefectures
form: sub-prefecture
Etymology: From sub- + prefecture.
Senses: examples: text: Captain Camara reacted angrily to these statements, telling reporters Monday that “Guinea is not a subprefecture, is not a neighborhood in France.”
ref: 2009 October 7, Adam Nossiter, “U.S. Condemns Mass Killings and Rape in Guinea”, in New York Times:
glosses: An administrative division of a country below prefecture.
Derived terms: subprefectural
subprefectures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subprefecture
collielike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more collielike
form: most collielike
Etymology: From collie + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a collie (type of dog).
terrierlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terrierlike
form: most terrierlike
Etymology: From terrier + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a terrier (type of dog).
sterndrives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sterndrive
urning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urnings
Etymology: From German Urning, from Latin Uranus; see Uranian for more.
Senses: examples: text: The urning loves and deifies the male object of his affections, just as a man idealizes the woman he loves.
ref: 1886, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, F. A. Davis Co, published 1894, page 255:
text: My aim in life will be to create tolerance among mankind and especially to vindicate the decent, spiritual Urning
ref: 1940, Bob Mizer, diary entry quoted in Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement (2019), page 48
glosses: A homosexual person, especially a man.
Related terms: Uranian
urningism
restoratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more restoratively
form: most restoratively
Etymology: From restorative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a restorative manner.
restorativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From restorative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being restorative.
lowlihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lowly + -hood. Compare lowlihead.
Senses: glosses: The state of being lowly; meekness; humility.
Synonyms: lowlihead
kennellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kennellike
form: most kennellike
Etymology: From kennel + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a kennel.
urnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urning
urnfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urnfield
unreimbursable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reimbursable.
Senses: glosses: Not reimbursable.
reimbursability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reimburse + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being reimbursable.
lowth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊθ/
ipa: /loʊθ/
rhymes: -əʊθ
Etymology: From low + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old Norse lægð.
Senses: examples: text: "For I am sure that neither death nor life, neither angel nor rule, neither power, neither things present, neither things to come, neither height nor lowth, nor any other creature, shall lie able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
ref: 1843, Thomas Becon, John Ayre, The early works of Thomas Becon:
glosses: Lowness.
glosses: (in the plural) Lowlands.
jingler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jinglers
Etymology: From jingle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, jingles.
jinglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jingler
assayable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From assay + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be assayed.
bifoliolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + foliolate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: unifoliolate
trifoliolate
quadrifoliolate
glosses: Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves do.
Related terms: english: two leaves
translation: two leaves
word: bifoliate
Bai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bái
Etymology: From Chinese 白 (Bái). Doublet of Bach (Vietnamese surname).
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group of China.
Bai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bái
Etymology: From Chinese 白 (Bái). Doublet of Bach (Vietnamese surname).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: The language of the Bai ethnic group.
Bai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay Bai.
Senses: glosses: An island off the coast of Sabah, Malaysia
bumperette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumperettes
Etymology: From bumper + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A small secondary bumper to protect a car's main bumpers in the event of a collision.
bumperettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumperette
reddlemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reddleman
daintify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: daintifies
form: daintifying
form: daintified
form: daintified
Etymology: From dainty + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make dainty.
daintified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: All violent emotions, like uncouth nature, have become stylized, symbolized, daintified.
ref: 1960, Arthur Koestler, The Lotus and the Robot, page 195:
glosses: simple past and past participle of daintify
dahlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dahlia + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: inulin
dancetté
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dancettée
form: dancetty
Etymology: From French danché, related to dent (“tooth”).
Senses: examples: text: A fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Deeply indented; having large teeth.
Danubian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Danubian
form: most Danubian
Etymology: From Danube + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or bordering on, the Danube river in Europe.
Synonyms: word: Danubic
Derived terms: Danubian corridor
Transdanubian
Danubian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Danubians
Etymology: From Danube + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: After decades of quiescence, mid-Danubians took the war path as the 400s began.
ref: 2009, Walter Goffart, Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire, page 87:
glosses: A member of one of the early human cultures which were centred in the Danube basin, such as the Linear Pottery culture or the Vučedol culture.
glosses: Synonym of Sebastopol (“type of goose”).
synonyms: word: Sebastopol
extra: type of goose
Danubians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Danubian
Transdanubian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + Danubian.
Senses: glosses: Straddling the Danube river in Europe.
Related terms: Transdanubian Mountains
Transdanubian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Transdanubians
Etymology: From trans- + Danubian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Transdanubia.
transcytotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to transcytosis.
daphnetin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless crystalline substance, 7,8-dihydroxycoumarin, extracted from daphnin.
Thamesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Thames + -ian.
Senses: examples: a Thamesian village, a Thamesian stench, the Thamesian mud, Thamesian provinces
glosses: From, residing or located by, or pertaining to the English river Thames.
unknownnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unknownness
gazinta
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Spring is what winter / Always gazinta.
ref: 1941, Ogden Nash, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Singing the multiplication tables, the 24-"gazinta"-48-how-many-times method
ref: 1945, Grade teacher: Volume 63:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of goes into.
Darwinianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Darwinian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Darwinism
dysenterical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dysenteric.
dyscromias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyscromia
dyspeptone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyspeptones
Etymology: From dyspeptic + -one?
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice.
dyspeptones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyspeptone
MSDN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Microsoft Developer Network.
dyehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyehouses
Etymology: From dye + house.
Senses: glosses: A building where dyeing takes place.
dyehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyehouse
dyewoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyewood
neutralities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutrality
neutralness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neutral + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being neutral.
Synonyms: neutrality
dwarfling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwarflings
Etymology: From dwarf + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive dwarf.
dwarflings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwarfling
dwarfishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dwarfishly
form: most dwarfishly
Etymology: From dwarfish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dwarfish manner.
fragmentarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fragmentarily
form: most fragmentarily
Etymology: From fragmentary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So he got his flute, propped up the book against a vase, and played the tune, whilst she hummed it fragmentarily.
ref: 1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 18, in Aaron’s Rod:
text: In the working-class quarters the barricades were being pulled down, rather fragmentarily, for it is a lot easier to build a barricade than to put the stones back.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter X, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: Two were ramshackle old men—droolers as toothless as carp. They were irregulars, armed and clothed fragmentarily with junk taken from real soldiers who were newly dead.
ref: 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 57:
glosses: In a fragmentary manner.
fragmentariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fragmentary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Both French and English had once used parcel to refer to pieces of land that made up an estate, but when it evolved to imply an item of business in both, it retained its connotations of small fragmentariness in French, whereas in English it simply meant a package.
ref: 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 470:
glosses: The quality of being fragmentary.
duumviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin duumvirālis.
Senses: glosses: Of or belonging to the duumviri or the duumvirate.
Related terms: duumvir
duumvirate
trochil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trochils
Etymology: From Latin trochilus (“a small bird”, probably applied to a wren).
Senses: examples: 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique., 2. ed. revised and enlarged.
The crocodile […] opens his chaps to let the trochil in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding.
glosses: The crocodile bird, Pluvianus aegyptius.
duskily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more duskily
form: most duskily
Etymology: From dusky + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “I'll tell you something, too,” retorted the captain, duskily flushing. “I wouldn't sail this ship for the man you are, if you went upon your knees. I've dealt with gentlemen up to now.”
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 10, in The Wrecker:
glosses: In a dusky manner.
workfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From work + -free.
Senses: examples: visions of a workfree society
glosses: Free from having to work; voluntarily unemployed.
dusking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dusk
dusked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dusk
subsentence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsentences
Etymology: From sub- + sentence.
Senses: glosses: A sentence making up part of a larger sentence.
subsentences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsentence
dustbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustbrushes
Etymology: From dust + brush.
Senses: examples: text: Then erase any pencil lines with a good, soft eraser, rubbing gently, in only one direction. A dustbrush can be useful in removing any eraser crumbs.
ref: 2012, Caroline Joy Adams, An Italic Calligraphy Handbook, page 79:
text: Matted fur drifted against skirting boards. Even as he worked a soft grey clump from the bristles of a dustbrush, Sucks to you, Boo, thought Tom.
ref: 2012, Michelle de Kretser, The Lost Dog, page 168:
glosses: A light brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.
non-pareil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-pareils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonpareil.
dustbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dustbrush
Durhams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Durham
take responsibility
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes responsibility
form: taking responsibility
form: took responsibility
form: taken responsibility
Senses: examples: text: I take responsibility for my poor choice; it was my fault.
glosses: To blame oneself for something; to acknowledge a fault.
examples: text: The new captain will take responsibility for the ship at the beginning of January.
glosses: To accept or take on an obligation or liability.
durukuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durukulis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of douroucouli.
durukulis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of durukuli
durableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From durable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: durability
stepsizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepsize
Dormand-Prince method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the Dormand-Prince method
Etymology: Described in a 1980 paper by J. R. Dormand and P. J. Prince.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: numerical analysis
glosses: A method for solving ordinary differential equations, using six function evaluations to calculate fourth- and fifth-order accurate solutions, the difference between which is then taken to be the error of the (fourth-order) solution.
Runge-Kutta method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Runge-Kutta methods
Etymology: Developed around 1900 by the German mathematicians C. Runge and M. W. Kutta.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: numerical analysis
glosses: Any of an important family of implicit and explicit iterative methods for the approximation of solutions of ordinary differential equations.
Cash-Karp method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Cash-Karp method
Etymology: The method was proposed by Professor Jeff R. Cash and Alan H. Karp.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: numerical analysis
glosses: One of the Runge-Kutta methods for solving ordinary differential equations.
dupable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dupable
form: most dupable
Etymology: From dupe + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being duped.
Derived terms: dupably
undupable
counting numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counting number
dunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dunt
dunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dunt
dupped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dup
duoliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duo- + literal.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of two letters only; biliteral.
duncedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dunce + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm or domain of dunces; dunces collectively.
glosses: A dunce's condition or character.
Related terms: duncehood
præpares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of præpare
wordhoards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wordhoard.
sunphotometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunphotometer
sunphotometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sun + photometry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the intensity of direct sunlight.
Related terms: sunphotometer
sunphotometric
sunphotometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sun + photometric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sunphotometry.
sunrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunray
suggestopedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suggestopedic
form: most suggestopedic
Etymology: From suggestopedia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the teaching method of suggestopedia.
teletexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teletex
nonraster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + raster.
Senses: examples: text: First, bitmaps cannot be displayed on nonraster output devices like plotters.
ref: 1991, PC magazine, volume 10, numbers 11-12:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to rasters.
plottered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plotter
plottering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plotter
foretriangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foretriangle
fuk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌk
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of fuck.
fuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: fuks
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of fuck.