cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whammelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whammel
whammels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whammel
whammeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whammel
whammeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whammel
extill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: extills
form: extilling
form: extilled
form: extilled
Etymology: From Latin extillare, exstillare, from ex (“out”) + stillare (“to drop”), stilla (“drop”).
Senses: examples: text: Oyl of Mace may be extilled after the ſame manner : it calcfies and digeſts frigid humours
ref: 1657, Jean de Renou, Oylof Mace may be extilled after the fame manner : it calefies and digefts frigid humours:
glosses: To drop or distill.
extilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of extill
extilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of extill
extills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of extill
cenogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cœnogamy
Etymology: From cen- + -o- + -gamy, from Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common”) + γάμος (gámos, “bond”).
Senses: glosses: The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, i.e. in which husbands and wives are shared and held in common.
stiltified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stiltify
stiltifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stiltify
stiltify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stiltifies
form: stiltifying
form: stiltified
form: stiltified
Etymology: From stilt + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To raise upon stilts, or as if upon stilts.
stiltifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stiltify
petersham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petershams
Etymology: Named after Lord Petersham.
Senses: glosses: A rough, knotted woollen cloth, used chiefly for men's overcoats.
glosses: A coat made of that material.
petershams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petersham
cosenage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosenages
Senses: examples: text: They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: / Darke vvorking Sorcerers that change the minde: / Soule-killing VVitches, that deforme the bodie: […]
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 87, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cozenage.
cosenages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosenage
muscardin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscardins
form: muscardine
Etymology: From French muscadin (“a musk-scented lozenge”), from muscade (“nutmeg”), from Latin muscus (“musk”), so called from its odour. See muscadel.
Senses: glosses: The common European dormouse.
muscardins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscardin
sarcolactic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sarco- + lactic + acid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid found in the muscles after prolonged contraction; lactic acid, when it is produced during anaerobic respiration.
Related terms: lactic acid
stomatode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomatodes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Stomatoda.
stomatodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomatode
cassidonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cassidony
cassidony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cassidonies
Etymology: Compare Latin cassidonium, French cassidoine. See chalcedony.
Senses: synonyms: cast-me-down
glosses: French lavender (Lavandula stoechas).
glosses: Goldilocks (Galatella linosyris, syn. Aster linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.
glosses: Chalcedony.
Synonyms: Chrysocoma linosyris
Crinitaria linosyris
Linosyris vulgaris
pengolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pengolins
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pangolin.
pengolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pengolin
tincal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪŋkl̩/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəl
Forms: form: altincar
form: tangar
form: tankal
form: tincall
form: tincar
form: tinkal
Etymology: From Arabic تِنْكَار (tinkār), from Persian تنکار (tankâr), from Sanskrit टांकण (ṭāṃkaṇa). Compare altincar and tincar.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: crude native borax, formerly imported from Tibet, and once the chief source of boric compounds
Related terms: borax
tinclads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinclad
emplecton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emplectons
form: emplection
Etymology: French or Latin emplecton, from Ancient Greek ἐμπλέκω (emplékō, “to plait or weave in”); ἐν (en, “in”) + πλέκω (plékō, “to twist, weave”).
Senses: examples: text: In these cases, it has been envisaged the pulling off of the emplectons of the wall, the removal of the roots, the placing back of the loose blocks and finally the placing back of the emplectons so as not to exert too great a pressure on the paraments of the wall.
ref: 1980, Romanian Review - Volume 35, page 97:
glosses: A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders.
wikipedia: John Weale
interlaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interlay
interlays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interlay
interlaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interlay
exsufflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛksəˈfleɪʃən/
Forms: form: exsufflations
Etymology: Compare Latin exsufflātiō, from exsufflō.
Senses: examples: text: The next is when it will fly upwards over the helm by a kind of exsufflation without vapouring
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: A blast from beneath.
examples: text: the Ceremony of Exsufflation, for ejecting of the Devil
ref: 1655, Jeremy Taylor, Unum Necessarium:
glosses: A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs.
Related terms: insufflation
exsufflations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exsufflation
peppergrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peppergrasses
Etymology: From pepper + grass.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.
ref: 1944, Oregon. Agricultural experiment station, Circular of Information - Issues 323-395, page 3:
text: To this group belong feeds such as: Silage, alfalfa hay, turnips, kale, apples, potatoes, beet pulp, beet tops, rape, cabbage; and also weeds such as garlic, scaleweed, dog-fennel, tarweed, peppergrass, wild mustard, and others.
ref: 1951, Practical Butter Manufacture, a Manual for Buttermakers, page 25:
glosses: Any of the pungent herbs of the cruciferous genus Lepidium, especially the garden peppergrass, or garden cress, Lepidium sativum; pepperwort.
glosses: The pillwort, or European pillwort (Pilularia globulifera).
peppergrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peppergrass
supercrescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercrescences
Etymology: See supercrescent.
Senses: examples: text: wherever it groweth, it is of constant shape, and maintains a regular figure; like other supercrescences, and such as living upon the stock of others are termed parasitical plants
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Something that grows on another growing thing; a parasite.
supercrescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercrescence
dunbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunbirds
Etymology: From dun + bird, from its colour.
Senses: glosses: The pochard.
glosses: The ruddy duck.
dunbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunbird
syringocoele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syringocoeles
Etymology: From syrinx + Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The central canal of the spinal cord.
syringocoeles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syringocoele
faglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faglets
Etymology: From fag + -let, from faggot.
Senses: examples: text: We encourage each GCN reader to sit in a comfortable place, close his/her eyes and dream of a NOLAG as nationally recognized recognized as the ACLU, NAACP, or NOW. Dream of little faglets and dykelings coming to you and asking what it was like to live in a time when people could hate you or kill you because of who loved.
ref: 1981 December 12, Pranab Coomar, “Kathy MacDonald;Jay Darnell;Anne Simon;Maryanne Kirkbride”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 4:
text: "Look, boys, a young faglet. What do we do with 'im?"
ref: 1988, Paul Hofrichter, Death Ride, Leisure Books, published 1988, →ISBN, page 165:
text: Are you feeling a little frustrated because the gay porn industry has passed at the chance to have a pimply-faced faglet like you in their movies??
ref: 1999 January 18, Escamillo Thunderbunny [username], “Re: WOW”, in alt.fan.rosieodonnell (Usenet):
text: As a tender young faglet, I had sense enough to cache my musty copies of International Male and Penthouse beneath the false bottom of my chest of drawers.
ref: 2006, D. Travers Scott, “Growing Up in Horror”, in Ted Gideonse, Robert Williams, editors, From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up, Carol & Graf Publishers, →ISBN:
glosses: A young or short male homosexual.
Synonyms: fagling
faglets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faglet
sustainingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sustainingly
form: most sustainingly
Etymology: From sustaining + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to sustain or offer sustenance.
sustainments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sustainment
confeder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: confeders
form: confedering
form: confedered
form: confedered
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English confederen (“to confederate; to organize a conspiracy”), borrowed from Old French confederer or directly from Late Latin confoederō. Doublet of confederate.
Senses: examples: text: hauing confedered together
ref: 1579, Thomas North, Plutarch's Lives:
glosses: To confederate.
confedered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of confeder
confedering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confeder
confeders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of confeder
fallings out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falling out
a camel is a horse made by a committee
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a camel is a horse designed by a committee.
uninym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uninyms
Etymology: From uni- (“one”) + -nym (“word, name”).
Senses: examples: text: Casting the role with the "uninym-ed" Ariane, a model taking her first shot at acting, is not what you'd call damage control.
ref: 1985 August 19, Jeff Millar, “Ups in engrossing Dragon' overshadow the downs”, in Houston Chronicle:
glosses: A single name by which a person or thing is known.
Synonyms: mononom
mononym
Derived terms: uninymic
uninyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uninym
mess halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mess hall
chow hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chow halls
Senses: examples: text: Back home you may not be much, but out there they've got deployment goggles—you look good, so you're in chow hall and it's kind of uncomfortable because you feel like a piece of meat or something on display.
ref: 2010, Laura Browder, Sascha Pflaeging, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 137:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: mess hall
chow halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chow hall
dining facility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dining facilities
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: mess hall
Synonyms: DFAC
DFAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DFACs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of dining facility.
dining facilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dining facility
DFACs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DFAC
Ackerman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ackermans
Etymology: From Middle English acker (“field”) + -man. Originally denoted a farmer who did not own the fields he worked.
Senses: examples: text: Wherever Eliot went, Agent Ackerman appeared five seconds later, automatically locked onto her coordinates.
ref: 2017 September 19, Ryan Graudin, Invictus, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Choctaw County, Mississippi, United States.
Derived terms: Ackerman syndrome
Related terms: Ackermann
Abelson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Abel + -son.
Senses: glosses: A Hebrew surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms: abelsonite
Thermidorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθɜːmɪˈdɔːɹɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌθɝməˈdɔɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiən
Forms: form: Thermidorians
Etymology: From Thermidor + -ian, after French thermidorien.
Senses: examples: text: By then, the Thermidorians’ sights were already trained on a further target, namely, ‘the Four’, as they became known: Billaud-Varenne, Collot d'Herbois and Barère from the old CPS and Vadier from the CGS.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 501:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Someone who took part in, or supported, the overthrow of Robespierre on the 9th Thermidor (27 July) 1794.
Thermidorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθɜːmɪˈdɔːɹɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌθɝməˈdɔɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiən
Forms: form: more Thermidorian
form: most Thermidorian
Etymology: From Thermidor + -ian, after French thermidorien.
Senses: examples: text: The Thermidorian spirit of revenge focused particularly on the most extreme – and most unrepentant – former Terrorists within the Convention.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 501:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to such people (in French history).
examples: text: It is against the background of these Thermidorian tendencies in the Soviet Union that we have to view the so-called ‘Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution’ in China.
ref: 1974, W.F. Wertheim, Evolution and Revolution:
glosses: Designating a relatively moderate reaction to a revolution.
Related terms: Brumairian
Fructidorian
Thermidorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thermidorian
peanut paste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peanut pastes
Senses: glosses: peanut butter.
cinemuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of cinema + muck.
Senses: examples: text: It only makes me wonder if there's any market at all for people who require only a clean theater - not too much cinemuck on the floors - that's not too far from home and doesn't make you wait in the cold too long to buy a ticket.
ref: 2003 March 10, “Where have all the Fort Wayne movie theaters gone?”, in Fort Wayne News Sentinel:
glosses: A sticky coating on the floor of a movie theatre caused by spilled beverages and dropped snack items.
examples: text: Crawling on your knees to the real Graceland over shards of broken glass would be less painful than sitting through this cinemuck.
ref: 2001 March 1, Denise A. Raymon, “An inch too far to go see '3,000 Miles to Graceland'”, in Press Republican:
glosses: Cinematic material of low quality.
oneironautics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˌnaɪ.ɹəˈnɔːt.ɪks/
ipa: /əˌnaɪ.ɹəˈnɔːt.ɪks/
ipa: /oʊˌnaɪ.ɹoʊˈnɔt.ɪks/
Etymology: From oneironaut + -ics.
Senses: glosses: lucid dreaming, the ability to explore dreams.
Babouvist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈbuːvɪst/
Forms: form: Babouvists
Etymology: From French babouviste, corresponding to Babeuf + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: At the end of the month, Merlin ordered the disbanding of the Police Legion, which had been infiltrated by the Babouvists.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 510:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter or follower of François-Noël Babeuf or his ideas, including universal equal income and the abolition of private property.
Babouvists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Babouvist
uninymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uninym + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Everything is copacetic, it seems, between the two uninymic celebrities, and therefore between America and Madonna as well.
ref: 2006 October 25, James Poniewozik, “Oprah Justifies Madonna's Love”, in Time:
glosses: Having or known by a single name.
Synonyms: mononymic
mononymous
bers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ber
parma wallabies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parma wallaby
parma wallaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parma wallabies
Etymology: First element parma from Thurawal dama + wallaby.
Senses: examples: text: The parma wallaby, Macropus parma, last seen in 1932 and thought to be extinct, was subsequently rediscovered in 1966.
ref: 1978, Derrick Ovington, Australian Endangered Species, page 42:
text: It was thought that parma wallabies were extinct in Australia in 1957, but it is now known that they exist in an area of coastal New South Wales, north of the Hunter River (Maynes 1977).
ref: 2003, John Long, Introduced Mammals of the World: Their History, Distribution and Influence, page 39:
text: The rest of the macropods are wallabies. They are usually smaller than kangaroos and wallaroos. The smallest is the parma wallaby (Macropus parma) of New South Wales in Australia. Adult parma wallabies average 18 inches (47 cm) or so in body length, with tails about the same length.
ref: 2007, Rebecca Stefoff, The Marsupial Order, page 65:
synonyms: white-throated wallaby
glosses: A rare species of wallaby, Macropus parma.
orbital cavities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orbital cavity
sulfations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulfation
center of attention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centers of attention
Senses: glosses: US spelling of centre of attention.
centre of attention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centres of attention
form: center of attention
Senses: examples: text: That fellow's new limousine is the centre of attention, as everyone stops to stare at it.
glosses: Something that attracts a lot of attention.
roller shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roller shoes
Senses: glosses: A shoe with wheels fixed to the sole which can be extended for skating or retracted for walking.
roller boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roller boots
Senses: glosses: a roller skate
MDVP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of MDPV.
bath salts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bath salt
bath salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bath salts
Senses: glosses: Any of several inorganic salts sometimes added to bath water.
synonyms: monkey dust
qualifier: psychedelic drug culture
glosses: Any of a class of methylenedioxypyrovalerone-based psychoactive recreational drugs.
MDPV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of methylenedioxypyrovalerone.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: Abbreviation of Muscovy duck parvovirus.
Coordinate terms: bath salt
anti-vaxxer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-vaxxers
form: anti-vaxer
form: antivaxer
form: antivaxxer
Etymology: From anti-vax + -er or anti- + vax + -er. Equivalent to anti- + vaxxer.
Senses: examples: text: Janice D'Arcy reports at the Washington Post on the latest measles outbreak traced back to anti-vaccination fanatics, but this time, instead of an outbreak being traced back to a Whole Foods or a nursery school---the usual places where the kids of yuppie anti-vaxxers have a chance to expose and be exposed---the trail for this one leads back to the Super Bowl.
ref: 2012 February 24, Amanda Marcotte, “Measles Outbreak Traced to Super Bowl, Anti-Vaccination Fanatics”, in Slate:
text: Like everyone else (other than anti-vaxxers, I guess), I was delighted to see the good news about the Pfizer vaccine hopefully being rolled out before Christmas.
ref: 2020 November 18, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Of ministers and messaging”, in Rail, page 3:
text: She acknowledged the existence of a “cohort of anti-vaxers”, as well as “valid” scepticism among other parts of society given the speed at which the vaccine has been developed. But the bigger issue, she said, will be how they manage a drip feed in supply.
ref: 2020 November 21, Mark Hilliard, “Health officials working on strategy to overcome vaccine scepticism”, in The Irish Times:
synonyms: word: anti-vaccinationist
word: anti-jabber
antonyms: word: pro-vaxxer
word: vaxxer
glosses: A person who opposes vaccination, as for its purported dangerous effects.
Derived terms: anti-vaxxerism
anti-vaxxery
Related terms: anti-vaccination
anti-vaccine
anti-vax
anti-vaxxing
vaxx
minaul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minauls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manul.
minauls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minaul
anti-vaxxers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-vaxxer
pourlieu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pourlieus
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of purlieu.
pourlieus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pourlieu
labyrinthodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labyrinthodons
Senses: examples: text: One day they unearthed some bones in a sandhill that Mr Shinglar said were of the labyrinthodon, a great sloth-lizard that roamed in forests submerged for a thousand thousand years.
ref: 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 35:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of labyrinthodont.
labyrinthodons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labyrinthodon
comprobation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comprobations
Etymology: Latin comprobatio.
Senses: examples: text: Thus in law both Civill and Divine, that is only esteemed a legall testimony, which receives comprobation from the mouths of at least two witnesses;
ref: 1650, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: joint attestation; proof
examples: text: the comprobation of the beſt and most famous learned men
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
glosses: approbation
comprobations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comprobation
prosingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prosingly
form: most prosingly
Etymology: From prosing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: prosily
Using prose
glosses: prosily
bored, with tedium
anti-vaccinationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-vaccinationists
form: antivaccinationist
form: anti-vaccinist
Etymology: From anti- + vaccination + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In the past, physicians and vaccine producers were remarkably flexible and politically astute when making claims about vaccine safety or responding to anti-vaccinationists. To defeat anti-vaxxers’ campaign of misinformation, the same thing must happen today.
ref: 2019 December 10, Tess Lanzarotta, “How to beat anti-vaxxers at their own game”, in The Washington Post:
synonyms: word: anti-vaccinator
word: anti-vaxxer
antonyms: pro-vaccinationist
vaccinationist
glosses: One who opposes vaccination.
Related terms: anti-vaccination
anti-vaccine
anti-vax
anti-vaccinationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-vaccinationist
ivory-bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ivory-bills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ivorybill.
ivory-bills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ivory-bill
stack-guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stack-guards
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: hay tarp
glosses: A covering or protection for a haystack, such as a canvas.
stack-guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stack-guard
splenization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splenizations
form: splenisation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”) + -ization.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A morbid state of the lung produced by inflammation, in which its tissue resembles that of the spleen.
splenizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splenization
colbertine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Colbert + -ine.
From Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a minister of Louis XIV, who encouraged the lace manufacture in France.
Senses: synonyms: colberteen
Colbertine lace
glosses: A kind of lace.
wikipedia: Jean-Baptiste Colbert
meliority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin melioritas, from melior. See meliorate.
Senses: examples: text: [M]en are accuſtomed after themſelues & their ovvne faſhion, to incline vnto them vvhich are ſofteſt, and are leaſt in their vvay, in deſpight and derogation of them, that hold them hardeſt to it. So that this colour of meliority and preheminence is of a ſigne of eneruation and weakneſſe.
ref: 1597, Francis [Bacon], “Of the Colours of Good and Evill, a Fragment”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland […], published 1632, →OCLC:
glosses: The state or quality of being better; melioration.
sinopite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinopites
Etymology: From French [Term?], from Latin sinopis (terra) (“a red earth or ocher found in Sinope”), from Sinope (“a town in Paphlagoma, on the Black Sea”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sinopia (clay)
cacoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cacoons
Senses: glosses: The bean-like seed of a tropical vine (Entada rheedei), used as a hallucinogen and in traditional medicine, and made into jewelry.
Derived terms: cacoon vine
cacoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cacoon
shad-spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shad-spirits
Senses: glosses: The shadbird.
shad-spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shad-spirit
tailage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailages
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tallage.
tailages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailage
thible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθaɪbəl/
Forms: form: thibles
form: thivel
Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English thyvelle, perhaps from Old English þȳfel (“thicket”) through an intermediate sense of "whisk".
Senses: glosses: A stick for stirring food.
thibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thible
plethoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plethoretic
form: most plethoretic
Senses: examples: text: a plethoretick Fondness
ref: 1725, James Sedgwick, A new Treatise on Liquors:
glosses: Obsolete form of plethoric.
scranny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: scrannier
form: scranniest
Etymology: See scrannel.
Senses: examples: text: Rat.
I’ll slily seize and
Let blood from her weasand,—
Creeping through crevice, and chink, and cranny,
With my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny.
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
text: Observe in the whole lot, from the magnificent lord of the herd down to the scranniest runt, the superlative of self-reliance, the air of puffy arrogance and solid disregard of public or private opinion such as few of us attain.
ref: 1901, New England Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly - Volume 24, page 177:
text: “Well, in the first place," I explained the little lady, "they've got three of the scranniest kids, and the mother herself don't look very strong."
ref: 1914, Oral Hygiene - Volume 4, page 11:
text: Among the affairs of men their voices, single or united, amounted to no more than a scranny interruption easily put aside;
ref: 2001, Margaret Mead, Geoffrey Gorer, John Rickman, Russian Culture, →ISBN, page 38:
text: 'Look at him, said Ada, pursing her lips. 'Is he fighting material? If Hitler's crack Panzer divisions see a scranny feller like him coming towards them, will they panic?"
ref: 2007, David Nobbs, The Complete Pratt, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: scrawny
crossgrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crossgrained
form: most crossgrained
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross-grained.
job center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: job centers
form: job centre
Senses: topics: business
glosses: An agency, often a government agency, that tries to find a job for working-age people.
job centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of job center
plough stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plough stops
Senses: glosses: British spelling of plow stop.
plough stop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plough stops
form: plough stopping
form: plough stopped
form: plough stopped
Senses: glosses: British spelling of plow stop.
job centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: job centres
Senses: examples: text: She put it all down last time she was at the job centre and they stopped her benefits for the hundredth time because of an error in the system that will take twelve weeks for them to reassess.
ref: 2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 260:
glosses: British standard spelling of job center.
job centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of job centre
figgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪɡəɹi/
Forms: form: figgeries
Etymology: From fig + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A fig farm or orchard.
figgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪɡəɹi/
Etymology: From fig + -ery, in colloquial sense of "figure".
Senses: glosses: Dressy ornamentation.
flittery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flittery
form: most flittery
Etymology: From flitter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: MOSQUITOS On this New York trio's 2003 debut, everything that's cheap and listless about loungey indie pop melded with everything that's overly precious and flittery in Brazilian pop--ugh.
ref: 2005 February 4, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: flitty
flunkeydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flunkey + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: The coachman was fat and florid, the footman a particularly fine specimen of flunkeydom, and their faces, as the light of my lamps fell upon them--they could not speak, for they were both gagged as well as bound--were so convulsed with terror, that I could see they did not look upon me as a friend.
ref: 1906, George Sidney Paternoster, The Motor Pirate:
text: So, for an instant, Anthony stood at Susanna's threshold, looking into her antechamber, breathless almost with his sense of her imminence;--and then the tall flunkey said, in the fastidious accents of flunkeydom, "Net et em, sir;" and all my hero's high-strung emotion must spend itself in the depositing of a card.
ref: 1902, Henry Harland, The Lady Paramount:
text: His Worship had indeed usurped all the modern appliances of flunkeydom.
ref: 1856, Timothy Templeton, The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth:
glosses: The state of a being a flunkey
frowardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frowardly
form: most frowardly
Etymology: From Middle English frowardly; equivalent to froward + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They refuse still to return, Ephraim-like, going on frowardly in the way of their own heart.
ref: 1850, The Reformed Presbytery, Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive:
text: The queen of England, however, frowardly bent on opposing the match to the utmost, directed sir Nicholas Throgmorton, her ambassador, to set before the eyes of Mary a long array of objections and impediments; and he was further authorized secretly to promise support to such of the Scottish nobles as would undertake to oppose it.
ref: 1818, Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth:
text: Up, and with Sir W. Batten to the Committee of Lords at the Council Chamber, where Sir G. Carteret told us what he had said to the King, and how the King inclines to our request of making us Commissioners of the Prize office, but meeting him anon in the gallery, he tells me that my Lord Barkely is angry we should not acquaint him with it, so I found out my Lord and pacified him, but I know not whether he was so in earnest or no, for he looked very frowardly.
ref: 1664, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, October/November 1664:
glosses: in a froward manner
fusiony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fusion + -y.
Senses: examples: text: There are also some new faces, like Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab and Jay Israelson of the new wavey psych-pop collective Lansing-Dreiden, but they don't change the sound much: more organic and melodic than most post-rock, Pierce's music is essentially fusiony electric-acoustic pop, its jazzy drums and shimmering flamenco guitars rushing along with the cool momentum of illbient electronica or IDM.
ref: 2007 May 18, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Their overblown debut, Ling (Giant/Mechanic), mixes fusiony fretless bass playing (by Salls), prog rock precision, effects-heavy guitar, and pristine vocal harmonies with simpy melodies and wretched lyrics.
ref: 1994 October 14, Peter Margasak, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Containing elements of fusion music.
glosses: Containing elements of fusion cooking.
gemman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmən
Forms: form: gemmen
Senses: examples: text: But dar am a gemman yere, sah,--" "What!" came a surprised ejaculation that caused the negro to jump, and I heard a chair overturned within.
ref: 1904, Randall Parrish, When Wilderness Was King:
text: But a negro servant who had been stationed as warden at the door refused to allow the messenger to pass in, saying, 'The gemman can't be disturbed.'
ref: 1891, Martha Finley, Elsie's Vacation and After Events:
text: A gem-man who often comes down with me says his father was a slopseller in Ratcliffe Highway, and afterwards marrying the widow of Admiral Hughes, a rich old West India nabob, he left this young gemman the bulk of his property, and a very worthy fellow he is: but we've another rich fellow that's rather notorious at Brighton, which we distinguish by the name of the silver Ball, only he's a bit of a screw, and has lately ~285~~got himself into a scrape about a pretty actress, from which circumstance they have changed his name to the Foote Ball.
ref: 1825, Bernard Blackmantle, The English Spy:
glosses: A gentleman.
geognostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɪəɡˈnɒstɪk/
Etymology: From German geognostisch, equivalent to geo- + gnostic.
Senses: examples: text: To a ploughboy, a pebble is an insignificant thing, suggestive possibly of some discomfort in walking, and fit only to shy at a bird, may be; but to the geologist it appears worthy a volume, and speaks to him of strata may be a million of years old, of glacial attrition, of volcanic action, of chemical constituents, of mineralogical principles, and crystallogenic attraction, of mathematical laws and geometric angles, and of future geognostic changes.
ref: 1900, Louise Manly, Southern Literature From 1579-1895:
text: Unfortunately I do not possess sufficient geognostic knowledge to be able to set this cavern down as an extinct volcano.
ref: 1853, Ida Pfeiffer, Visit to Iceland:
text: There is, indeed, one piece of evidence for the probability of the comparative youth of our system, altogether apart from human traditions and the geognostic appearances of the surface of our planet.
ref: 1845, Francis Bowen, A Theory of Creation= A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation':
glosses: Pertaining to geognosy; geological.
Derived terms: geognostically
geognostical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to geognosy
geomantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin geōmanticus. By surface analysis, geo- + -mantic.
Senses: examples: text: And though he was almost persuaded that Aladdin must have died miserably in the subterranean abode where he had left him, yet he had the curiosity to inform himself about his end with certainty; and as he was a great geomancer, he took out of a cupboard a square, covered box, which he used in his geomantic observations.
ref: 1909, Unknown, The Arabian Nights:
text: A long table was covered with scrolls, skulls, crucibles, crystals, star-charts, geomantic figures, and other appurtenances of a magician's calling.
ref: 1903, Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales:
glosses: Of or relating to geomancy.
Derived terms: geomantically
gether
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gethers
form: gethering
form: gethered
form: gethered
Senses: examples: text: "'Twere back-end o' t' yeer," he continued at last, "an' t' lads had gone into t' woods to gether hesel-nuts an' accorns.
ref: 1919, Frederic Moorman, More Tales of the Ridings:
text: An a taicher wise aw've faand thi, An this lesson gained throo thee; 'At when dangers gether raand me, Th' wisest tactics is to flee.
ref: 1898, John Hartley, Yorkshire Lyrics:
text: I remember once, we'd had a spell o' weather jest like this, and it begun to gether up in the same way.
ref: 1881, Sarah P. McLean Greene, Cape Cod Folks:
text: But the silence was broken by Cynthy Ann, who came into the hall and called, "Jule, I wish you would go to the barn and gether the eggs; I want to make some cake."
ref: 1872, Edward Eggleston, The End Of The World:
glosses: Alternative form of gather.
gliosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glioses
Etymology: From glia + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: Material for the second MS library (herein MS2) came from a pool of tissues from two patients, one with acute, active lesions and widespread inflammatory involvement in the white matter, and the other with chronic, "silent" lesions, with gliosis, but without evidence of a lymphocytic infiltrate.
ref: 2001 November 23, Dorothee Chabas et al., “The Influence of the Proinflammatory Cytokine, Osteopontin, on Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease”, in Science, volume 294, number 5547, →DOI, pages 1731–1735:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A proliferation of astrocytes in damaged areas of the central nervous system. This proliferation usually leads to the formation of a glial scar.
Derived terms: enterogliosis
macrogliosis
microgliosis
neurogliosis
plebeiance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plebeiances
Senses: glosses: plebeianism
glosses: plebeians collectively
plebeiances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plebeiance
podesta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podestas
Etymology: From Italian podesta, from Latin potestas (“power; powerful one”). Doublet of poustie. See potent.
Senses: examples: text: Secular palaces, such as that of the Tolomei, were rented for municipal use, and officials such as the Podestà were found lodgings in others.
ref: 2022, Jane Stevenson, Siena, Head of Zeus, p. 65
glosses: A chief magistrate of various Italian republics and city-states in the Middle Ages.
examples: text: M.B. herself is tormented by anxiety […] for her husband, who, as Podestà of this town, is likely soon to get into trouble.
ref: 1943, Iris Origo, War in Val d'Orcia, Pushkin Press, published 2017, page 131:
glosses: A municipal administrator during the Italian Fascist regime (1927–43).
Derived terms: podestaressa
podestas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podesta
globar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globars
form: glowbar
Etymology: From glow and bar; originally a trademark.
Senses: glosses: A silicon carbide rod that is used as a source of infrared radiation when electrically heated.
prestimonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prestimony
prestimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prestimonies
Etymology: From Latin praestimonium, from praestare (“to furnish, supply”). Compare French prestimonie. See prest (noun).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A fund for the support of a priest, without the title of a benefice.
glunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glunches
form: glunching
form: glunched
form: glunched
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots glunch, of uncertain origin, possibly an alteration of glum or glump.
Senses: glosses: To look sullen or glum; to frown
glunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glunches
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots glunch, of uncertain origin, possibly an alteration of glum or glump.
Senses: glosses: A sullen or glum look; a frown.
gordian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The final disentanglement of sister chromatids can only be achieved by cleavage of the "gordian knot" by separin.
ref: 2000 May 26, Kim Nasmyth et al., “Splitting the Chromosome: Cutting the Ties That Bind Sister Chromatids”, in Science, volume 288, number 5470, →DOI, pages 1379–1384:
text: This fire, like the eye of gordian snake, Bewitch'd me towards; and I soon was near A sight too fearful for the feel of fear: In thicket hid I curs'd the haggard scene-- 500 The banquet of my arms, my arbour queen, Seated upon an uptorn forest root; And all around her shapes, wizard and brute, Laughing, and wailing, groveling, serpenting, Shewing tooth, tusk, and venom-bag, and sting!
ref: 1818, John Keats, Endymion:
glosses: Alternative form of Gordian.
gorry
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: She hedn't any particular kind of a nose nor mouth nor eyes, but gorry! when she looked at yer, yer felt kind as if yer was turnin' to putty inside."
ref: 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin (Riggs), The Village Watch-Tower:
text: "By gorry!" says I; "you're right.
ref: 1912, Gouverneur Morris, IT and Other Stories:
text: No mollycoddle swain am I. I shall not sit and pine, by gorry!
ref: 1920, Franklin P. Adams, Something Else Again:
glosses: God!
pentail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentails
Etymology: From pen + tail.
Senses: glosses: A species of treeshrew (Ptilocercus lowii) of Borneo, with a very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.
Synonyms: pen-tailed treeshrew
pentails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentail
proctorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of proctorial.
gotter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From got to.
Senses: examples: text: "You gotter go," said she.
ref: 1915, Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie, A Tall Ship:
text: My Pa says it's mostly guff, but the pollertishans has gotter feed the people with that kinder guff ev'ry once in a while, he says, they get fat on it, he says.
ref: 1913, William Banks, William Adolphus Turnpike:
text: "If you folks in the coves want the immunity of non-combatants, by Gawd! you gotter preserve the neutrality of non-combatants!"
ref: 1911, Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree), The Raid Of The Guerilla^([sic]):
text: See here, gal, you just gotter marry me.
ref: 1916, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916:
text: "We gotter go right by de doh ob Dr. Skilapius."
ref: 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Olympian Nights:
text: Excuse me," he murmured absently; "I gotter see a feller——"
 "G'wan down the road!"
ref: 1894, Various, McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908:
text: But we've gotter die fo' long, honey, en be put erway in the cold groun' fur the wurms ter make meals of; sum of us cheaten' the grave rite now.
ref: 1892, Sophie Fox Sea, That Old-Time Child, Roberta:
glosses: Alternative form of gotta.