cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
movement disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: movement disorders
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any abnormality that concerns control of skeletal muscle, from involuntary twitching or lack of coordination to loss of function.
Mensheviki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Roughly, the Mensheviki and Socialist Revolutionaries believed that Russia was not economically ripe for a social revolution — that only a political revolution was possible.
ref: 1987 [1919 January 1], John Reed, “Preface”, in Ten Days That Shook the World, Moscow: Progress Publishers, page 14:
glosses: plural of Menshevik
jump the rattler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps the rattler
form: jumping the rattler
form: jumped the rattler
form: jumped the rattler
form: jump a rattler
Senses: examples: text: Four times he jumped the rattler, his knuckles bleeding from punching walls.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 269:
glosses: To travel on a train without paying the fare.
Related terms: rattler-jumper
rattler-jumping
daying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪ.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of day
dayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of day
apple-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple-trees
Senses: examples: text: And I'll sing a song as rare
Of the apple-tree!
The red-bloomed apple-tree;
The red-cheeked apple-tree;
ref: 1838, Parley's Magazine (American periodical series: 1800-1850), volume 6, C.S. Francis & Company, →OCLC, THE APPLE-TREE, page 290:
text: Many years ago, my old friend, the late Dr. J. A. Lintner, State Entomologist of New York, compiled a list of 356 insects that feed on the apple-tree. Later authorities place the number at nearly five hundred species.
ref: 2008, Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Apple-Tree: the Open Country (Library of Alexandria), Library of Alexandria, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: Rare form of apple tree.
breaks the ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of break the ice
breaking the ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break the ice
broke the ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of break the ice
shatter the ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shatters the ice
form: shattering the ice
form: shattered the ice
form: shattered the ice
Etymology: By extension of the metaphor used in break the ice.
Senses: glosses: To break the ice in a sudden or dramatic fashion.
grand uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand uncles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of granduncle.
Lay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, spelling variant of Lee.
* As a Scottish surname, reduced from McClay.
* As a Khmer surname, Khmer ឡាយ (laay).
* As a French surname, from several place names in France. The river is from Medieval Latin Ledius.
* As a German surname, from various placenames in Bavaria and Rhineland.
Senses: glosses: A river in western France.
glosses: A surname.
Dows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dowses
Senses: glosses: A surname
glosses: A placename
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States
A minor city in Franklin County and Wright County, Iowa, United States, named after William Greene Dows.
Dows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dow
Colo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.loʊ/
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: Colos
form: Coloes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename
A volcano in Indonesia.
glosses: A placename
A city in Iowa, United States.
glosses: A placename
A town in New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A placename
A river in Australia.
glosses: A placename
Alternative form of Colo..
inclusion complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclusion complexes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of inclusion compound.
synonyms: word: inclusion compound
superpod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superpods
Etymology: From super- + pod.
Senses: examples: text: Coastal pods tend to share a large area with other pods, and sometimes combine temporarily to form ‘superpods’ or clans.
ref: 1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 41:
glosses: A very large pod of dolphins.
superpods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superpod
laserable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From laser + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being lasered.
columnization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From column + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Columnization of pillars is the most common practice in pillar layout for roof stability, yet analyses demonstrate that columnization results in a very high load concentration in the pillars.
ref: 1990, W. Hustrulid, G. A. Johnson, Rock Mechanics Contributions and Challenges:
glosses: Formation into columns or pillars.
chookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: cho͝ok'i
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʊki/
rhymes: -ʊki
Forms: form: chookies
Etymology: From chook + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Now, darling,’ she said to her client, ‘we have ten colours written on our chart so we can put our chookie back in its little house.’
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 292:
glosses: A small or young domestic fowl; a chick.
chookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: cho͝ok'i
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʊki/
rhymes: -ʊki
Forms: form: chookies
Etymology: Blend of cheesecake + cookie
Senses: examples: text: And as I looked up in my rear view mirror to look at my two precious darling little divas, I heard a quiet whimpering voice say, "Mommy...Can I have a Chookie?"
ref: 2014 September 10, Ari, “No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies”, in TheDiva-Dish.com, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2023:
text: Janet also described their chookie -- think of s’mores, but with cheesecake.
ref: 2019 July 29, Al Warr, “Corn, Tomato, & Beer Festival returns to Flemington”, in NJ.com, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2023:
text: Airport Chookie Chake A Delicious Twist on a Classic Cookie. This delicious recipe is perfect for those times when you're craving something sweet and spicy. airport chookie chake will hit the spot every time.
ref: 2022, “Chake Jars”, in Chakes.club, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2023:
text: The proprietors of a bakery realize they “can do anything”—like, add a “chookie” (cheesecake cookie) to their menu—in the latest from GoDaddy.
ref: 2022 October 12, Ad Age, Creativity Staff, “Watch the newest commercials from Hilton, GoDaddy, Burger King and more”, in Ad Age, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2022:
text: For an authentic Chookie, use Maddalena's CheeseCake: Let Chookie Cookie cool for at least 20 minutes after removing from oven.
ref: 2023 February 13, Vincent Parisi, Patrick Lombardi, The New Jersey Food Truck Cookbook, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 80:
text: Each truck has a distinct cuisine, teaching you how to make everything from Surf N Turf Burger Sliders to Chookie desserts (which is a cheesecake sandwiched between two chocolate chip cookies).
ref: 2023 February 22, Rebekah Schroeder, “Off the Presses: The New Jersey Food Truck Cookbook”, in CommunityNews.org, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2023:
glosses: A cheesecake cookie dessert.
chookies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chookie
bush pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush poles
form: bushpole
form: bush-pole
Senses: examples: text: He shoved at one of the bush-poles that supported the roof.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 294:
text: The shack was a one-room bushpole construction with a corrugated iron roof and walls.
ref: 2004, Tim Winton, “Commission”, in The Turning:
text: Near the forest edge stood three big military tents with scalloped air vents along their rooflines and bush pole supports tethered to big sharpened bush pegs.
ref: 2006, Nigel Turvey, Terania Creek, page 13:
glosses: A pole or other length of wood found or gathered in the bush, as used for basic construction, support etc.; now also a piece of timber designed to resemble such a pole.
bush poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bush pole
anti-revolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-revolutionary
form: most anti-revolutionary
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antirevolutionary.
anti-revolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-revolutionaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antirevolutionary.
anti-revolutionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-revolutionary
non-Archimedean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + Archimedean.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not having the Archimedean property: containing infinite elements, i.e. elements which are larger than any result of adding 1 to itself any finite number of times.
raw_tags: of an ordered field
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Meeting the requirements to be an ultrametric.
raw_tags: of a metric
ventaille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ventailles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ventail.
rear vision mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rear vision mirrors
form: rear-vision mirror
Senses: examples: text: The cockatoo was tied with dunny chain to the outside rear-vision mirror from which perch it shrieked and wailed and attacked its own reflection.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 298:
text: I stood on the brake and shoved the gear stick into reverse, not even looking in the rear-vision mirror, thinking there was no need.
ref: 1995, John Marsden, The Third Day, The Frost:
text: The girl was watching my rear vision mirror, and when I looked into it, she murmured, ‘You're welcome.’
ref: 2007, Ben Peek, Black Sheep:
glosses: A rear-view mirror.
rear vision mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rear vision mirror
excimer laser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excimer lasers
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A laser generated by an excited diatomic molecule
Synonyms: exciplex laser
victory laps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victory lap
maids of honor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maid of honor
Johnlock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒn.lɒk/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑnˌlɑk/
Etymology: Blend of John + Sherlock.
Senses: examples: text: All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.
ref: 2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8
text: (Of course, as any fan knows, the shippers watching the show who want the relationship to be there will find it anyway — as they did with Xena and Gabrielle — and the Johnlock fanfic is alive and well.)
ref: 2015, Nikki Stafford, Investigating Sherlock: The Unofficial Guide, pages 57-58:
text: Although Johnlock is certainly the most prolific argument for a queer reading of the relationship between John and Sherlock, Johnlockary argues that there is more than one queer interpretation of the text, and the inclusion of a woman in the Johnlock relationship does not make it any less queer.
ref: 2017, Alyxis Smith, “Fan Fiction as an Argument: Arguing for Johnlock through the Roles of Women and Explicit Sex Scenes in Sherlock Fan Fiction”, in Lynnette Porter, editor, Who Is Sherlock?: Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations, page 167:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters John Watson and Sherlock Holmes from the television series Sherlock.
wikipedia: Arthur Conan Doyle
BBC
Sherlock (TV series)
Derived terms: Johnlocker
TJLC
TJLCer
nutricial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nutricial
form: most nutricial
Etymology: From Latin nūtrīx + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a nurse.
Nungas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nunga
nytril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An artificial fiber containing vinylidene dinitrile.
Nyungars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nyungar
nukespeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nuke + -speak, coined by linguist Paul Chilton.
Senses: glosses: A form of misleading language used to present nuclear weapons in a positive light.
Related terms: technostrategic
ecospeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + -speak.
Senses: glosses: A form of language used for discussing environmental and ecological issues.
Synonyms: envirospeak
greenspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From green + -speak.
Senses: glosses: A form of language used for discussing environmental and ecological issues.
Occitanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Occitanic
form: most Occitanic
Etymology: From Occitan + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Occitan.
hinoki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɪˈnəʊki/
Forms: form: hinoki
form: hinokis
form: finoki
Etymology: From Japanese 檜(ひのき) (hinoki).
Senses: examples: text: The large hinokis are repotted every four to five years, while the smaller plants are repotted every two to three years.
ref: 1989, Arnold Arboretum, Peter Del Tredici, Early American Bonsai: The Larz Anderson Collection of the Arnold Arboretum, page 17:
glosses: A tree (species Chamaecyparis obtusa), the Japanese cypress.
glosses: The wood of this tree.
Derived terms: hinoki cypress
hinokiflavone
hinokitiol
hinokis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hinoki
oilionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilionaires
Etymology: Blend of oil + millionaire
Senses: glosses: One who has made a large amount of money in the oil business.
oilionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oilionaire
ollycrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ollycrocks
Etymology: From alikreukel.
Senses: glosses: giant periwinkle
ollycrocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ollycrock
Alawi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alawis
form: ‛Alawi
Senses: glosses: Alawite
Alawis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alawi
Arkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɹki/
ipa: /ˈɑːki/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: Arkies
Etymology: Diminutive + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the state of Arkansas in the United States of America.
Synonyms: Arkansan
Arkansasan
Arkansasian
Arkansawyer
Arkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arkie
Numic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the reconstructed Proto-Numic word for "person", *nɨmɨ (“person”). In the three Central Numic languages and the two Western Numic languages, its reflex is /nɨmɨ/. In Kawaiisu it is /nɨwɨ/, and in Colorado River it is /nɨwɨ/, /nɨŋwɨ/ and /nuu/.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, including seven languages spoken by Native Americans traditionally living in the Great Basin, Colorado River basin, and southern Great Plains.
Related terms: Colorado River Numic
nurturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nurturists
Etymology: From nurture + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The nurturists would say that without the childhood that Kepler experienced, he would not have developed the neurotic, insecure personality that seemed very much a part of his unique brand of genius […]
ref: 1999, Rocky Kolb, Edward W. Kolb, Blind Watchers of the Sky:
glosses: One who ascribes things to nurture (environment and experiences) rather than nature (predisposition at birth).
Related terms: nurturism
nurturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nurturist
nymphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nymph
nymphing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Fly fishing using a nymph larva as bait.
emergers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emerger
nutrose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sodium caseinate
nystagmography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From nystagmus + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The diagnostic recording of eye movements to identify nystagmus.
Derived terms: electronystagmography
vestibulonystagmography
videonystagmography
Related terms: nystagmogram
nystagmographic
obituarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌbɪt͡ʃʊˈɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /əˌbɪtjʊˈ-/
ipa: /əʊˌ-/
ipa: /əˌbɪt͡ʃəˈwɛɹi.əl/
ipa: /oʊˌ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Forms: form: more obituarial
form: most obituarial
Etymology: From obituary + -al.
Senses: examples: an obituarial notice in the newspaper
glosses: Of or relating to an obituary.
aftercooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftercoolers
Etymology: From after- + cooler.
Senses: glosses: An intercooler located at the end of the supercharging chain.
Related terms: cooler
intercooler
precooler
aftercoolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aftercooler
carbolineum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An oily, water-insoluble, flammable, dark brown coal tar mixture, formerly used to preserve wooden structures.
dunny can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunny cans
form: dunnycan
Etymology: From dunny + can.
Senses: examples: text: Empty your bladder into the stinking mysteries of the dunnycan.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, llywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 312
text: Looking after chooks and feeding dogs were bad enough, but having to empty the dunny can? That was the final straw!
ref: 2004, Alan Greenhalgh, Gathers No Moss:
glosses: A toilet.
dunny cans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunny can
carbowax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbowaxes
Etymology: From a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: The amount of nitrogen in these enzyme extracts increased at first with increasing carbowax concentration in the extracting medium to reach a maximum at the carbowax concentration of 5 gm per 100 ml.
ref: 1967, South African journal of agricultural science:
glosses: A solution of polyethylene glycol
dunnycan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunnycans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dunny can.
carbowaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbowax
cellulolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hydrolysis of cellulose
Related terms: cellulolytic
artmobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artmobiles
Etymology: From art + -mobile.
Senses: glosses: A vehicle that operates as a mobile art exhibition.
artmobiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artmobile
sexploit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexploits
Etymology: Blend of sex + exploit
Senses: examples: text: The ultimate collision between these irreconcilable worlds comes in the dream sequences where Portnoy fantasises about the possible domestic outcome of his latest sexploit[…]
ref: 1973, Punch, volume 264, number 1, page 185:
glosses: A sexual exploit.
sexploit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sexploits
form: sexploiting
form: sexploited
form: sexploited
Etymology: Blend of sex + exploit
Senses: glosses: To take advantage of someone sexually.
sexploits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexploit
Britpoppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Britpoppy
form: most Britpoppy
Etymology: From Britpop + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Britpop.
yellow slug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow slugs
Senses: glosses: Limax flavus (syn. Limacus flavus), a species of air-breathing land slug with a yellow body.
actemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acteme
Idared
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Idaho + red
Senses: glosses: A red apple cultivar from Idaho, United States, having white flesh and a firm body.
Idareds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Idared
identicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identicalities
Etymology: From identical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being identical.
Derived terms: unidenticality
SJF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SJFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of single (unmarried) Jewish female.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of shortest job first.
c**ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of c**t; censored spelling of cunts
melakartas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melakarta
mellowish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mellowish
form: most mellowish
Etymology: From mellow + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat mellow.
tallows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tallow
greenfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more greenfaced
form: most greenfaced
Etymology: From green + faced.
Senses: examples: text: Where greenfaced garden set att Flora's feet,
Makes Nature's beauty quick Apelles greet...
ref: 1835, Richard Hay, James Maidment, Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn, page 29:
text: It was already late and they had to start for Raleigh with their mouths full of roastbeef to catch the plane, leaving Sally sour and silent and greenfaced to putter in the kitchen and to keep an eye on the kids.
ref: 1949, John Dos Passos, “In The Field”, in The Grand Design, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, section II (The Ship of State), page 140:
text: Doctor Sax bangs his knotty cane on the door of an Isadora Duncan-type party in the Castle in the Twenties when the batty lady owned it, when they see who's at the door all greenfaced and leering and blazing-maniac-eyed they scream and faint […]
ref: 1987, Jack Kerouac, Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three, page 33:
text: “This is ungracious! You better mind your own business,” he whispers almost greenfaced.
ref: 2008, Mina A. A., Road Atlas to Love, page 90:
text: Quite a few of us made trips to the rail, and by the time the squall abated and we reached shore, numerous would-be sailors were greenfaced and swore to take the plane next time.
ref: 2010, Alan Cohen, A Daily Dose of Sanity: A Five-Minute Soul Recharge for Every Day of the Year, page 19:
glosses: Having a green face or appearance.
untallowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tallowed.
Senses: glosses: Not treated with tallow.
germlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of germling
rassolniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rassolnik
giant periwinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant periwinkles
Senses: synonyms: alikreukel
South African turban
ollycrock
glosses: Turbo sarmaticus, a turbinid sea snail.
giant periwinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant periwinkle
ear-fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ear-finger
ear fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ear finger
ogogoro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Yoruba ògógóró. A toast in celebration of two people coming tog ether as a family, to honour our ancestors and give salutation, to celebrate a life well lived, Kai-Kai.
Senses: examples: text: On the centre table, in front of him, there was a half-empty bottle of ogogoro, an ashtray, and a packet of cigarettes.
ref: 1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, Section 1, Book 1, Chapter 8:
glosses: A strong alcoholic drink of West Africa, distilled from the juice of raffia palm trees.
rejiggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rejigging
Miniconjous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Miniconjou
Sitzmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sitzmanns
form: Sitzman
Etymology: Borrowed from German Sitzmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
transnationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transnationalisms
Etymology: From transnational + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The phenomenon, or the analytical view, that people's activities and cultures transcend national boundaries.
glosses: Support for culture or business that crosses national boundaries.
transnationalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transnationalism
Minkowski inequality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An inequality that establishes that the Lp spaces are normed vector spaces.
churrascarias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churrascaria
middelmannetjies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middelmannetjie
pedelecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedelec
mesohyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesohyls
Etymology: From meso- (“middle”) + Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood, timber, matter”) (whence English hyle).
Senses: glosses: The gelatinous matrix within a sponge, filling the space between the external pinacoderm and the internal choanoderm.
Derived terms: mesohylar
mesohyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesohyl
choanoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choanoderms
Etymology: From choano- + -derm.
Senses: glosses: The inner part of a sponge's mesohyl, composed of choanocytes
Related terms: choanodermal
choanoderms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choanoderm
skatecore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From skate + -core.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of skatepunk.
synonyms: word: skatepunk
skatepunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skatepunks
form: skate punk
form: skate-punk
Etymology: From skate + punk, from its popularity among skateboarders.
Senses: examples: text: Similar to how Green Day, The Offspring, and Rancid brought the early 90s punk revival to the top of alternative rock, blink-182 took skate-punk to the masses in 1999 with Enema of the State.
ref: 2021, Mike Damante, Hey Suburbia: A Guide to the Emo/Pop-Punk Rise, Di Angelo Publications, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: skatecore
glosses: A fast, intense, melodic form of hardcore punk music, associated with skateboarding culture.
examples: text: Nothing was moving out there except falling snow, a Finch bus and insufficiently dressed skatepunks.
ref: 2008, Rebecca Rosenblum, Once, page 113:
glosses: A member of the skateboarding subculture that listens to punk music.
free jazz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: jazz
glosses: A form of jazz music of the 1950s and 1960s that attempted to overcome existing limitations and conventions, often by discarding features such as fixed chord changes or tempos.
Related terms: New Thing
autobiopic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autobiopics
Senses: glosses: An autobiographical biopic.
glosses: A motion picture based on the life of a real person with that real person portraying himself or herself in the film.
autobiopics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autobiopic
pinacocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinacocyte
pizzaiolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizzaiolo
Bismarckism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bismarck + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The political ideology of Otto von Bismarck.
Related terms: Bismarckian
planometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From planometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of or in terms of planometry.
pincerwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pincer + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: […] we saw gannets plummet, guided by some sort of magical mud vision, and emerge with mulletlike prey held pincerwise.
ref: 1955, William Beebe, Adventuring with Beebe, page 142:
glosses: As if with pincers.
nyatitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nyatiti
popified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more popified
form: most popified
Etymology: From popify + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Many bands have been accused of becoming popified on signing or licensing themselves to a large company.
ref: 1997, Alison J. Ewbank, Fouli T. Papageorgiou, Whose Master's Voice?:
text: His mocking appropriation of the style is of a piece with the popified magnifications of Roy Lichtenstein's mid-60s "brushstroke" paintings[…]
ref: 2005, Franklin Bruno, Elvis Costello's Armed Forces, page 52:
glosses: Converted into a popular form, such as pop music or pop art.
popified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From popify + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of popify
Red Queen hypothesis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Red-Queen hypothesis
form: Red Queen's hypothesis
Etymology: An allusion to a remark by the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass: "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." The hypothesis was advanced in 1973 by American biologist Leigh Van Valen, who called it the Red Queen's hypothesis.
Senses: examples: text: Stenseth and Maynard Smith (1984) reformulated this hypothesis by including the idea of evolutionary lag and dismissing Van Valen's zero-sum assumption. They contrast the Red-Queen hypothesis with the stationary hypothesis, q.v. Hoffman and Kitchell (1984 in Lewin 1985a, 400) offer some support for the Red-Queen hypothesis.
ref: 2000, Edward M. Barrows, Animal Behavior Desk Reference, 2nd edition, CRC Press, page 358:
text: We extend the Red Queen hypothesis, a mechanism proposed to maintain genetic diversity at the population level, to explain diversity at the community level.
ref: 2008, Keith Clay et al., “Chapter 7: Red Queen Communities”, in Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing, Valerie T. Eviner, editors, Infectious Disease Ecology, Princeton University Press, page 145:
text: The Red Queen hypothesis defines evolution as a kind of arms race, in which species must constantly evolve and adapt merely to survive.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 219:
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: An evolutionary hypothesis which proposes that organisms must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate not merely to gain reproductive advantage, but also simply to survive while pitted against other evolving organisms in an ever-changing environment.
wikipedia: Leigh Van Valen
Lewis Carroll
Red Queen (Through the Looking-Glass)
Through the Looking-Glass
Related terms: treadmill
autovectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autovector
tick marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tick mark
reeflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reeflike
form: most reeflike
Etymology: From reef + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a reef.
reefpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reefpoint
globularetin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cleavage product of globularin, with purgative and diuretic properties.
Derived terms: paraglobularetin
numbers station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numbers stations
Senses: examples: text: The most common numbers station features a young lady reading the numbers in Spanish. Other stations have both male and female voices reading numbers in Spanish, German, English and Chinese. So far, nobody has been able to decode any of the messages!
ref: October 1986, William O'Connell, “Get On The Air”, in Boys' Life, volume 76, number 10, page 35:
text: Naturally enough, no government has actually admitted to operating a numbers station, but the suspicion is there.
ref: 2012, Ripley's Believe It Or Not! (compiler), Ripley's Unbelievable Stories For Guys:
topics: broadcasting
espionage
government
media
military
politics
radio
war
glosses: A shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, often of artificially generated voices reciting streams of numbers, words, etc., supposedly of coded messages.
numbers stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numbers station
peaness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pea + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A rose comb is therefore regarded as a single comb in which roseness is present but peaness is absent; and a pea comb is similarly a single one where peaness is present and roseness is absent.
ref: 1909, The Eugenics Review, volume 1, page 136:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The property of being a pea comb.
peasemeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːz.miːl/
Forms: form: peasemeals
Etymology: From pease + meal.
Senses: examples: text: peasemeal bannocks
text: peasemeal porridge
text: My grandmother's recipe for peasemeal bannocks calls for a touch of lard.
text: Some peasemeals are ground coarser than others.
text: Jean charged the cutty pipe, and set up a reek that changed the atmosphere of the whole house, and seemed to excite a train of new and sociable feelings and ideas, which set John [the local weaver] to his apostrophising in a very different style of spirit. […] "Now, there's naething to the fore to buy bread to eat the sheep's bouks wi'—and it looks daft-like to see the bairns tearin' at banes an' sennents o' lean sheep flesh without a bite o' bread till't! Od, I'm feared they'll turn cannibals. But an' I be spared till another Martinmas term, I sall ha'e corn to make meal an' bread-meat, though we should never see flesh in this warld again." And John was as good as his word, for next Martinmas he bought three bolls of raw pease, on which he expended his all again, and was in the same predicament—with the one thing alone, the kiln-dried peasemeal bannocks and porridge—that he had been the previous season, with what he had deplored as the constant and unvaried flesh, flesh, flesh—now changed to boiled pease, peasemeal bannocks, and peasemeal porridge, morning, midday, and evening everlastingly.
ref: 1881, John Younger, Autobiography of John Younger, Shoemaker, St. Boswells, Kelso, Scotland: J. & J.H. Rutherfurd, page 102:
synonyms: peameal
pea flour
hypernyms: meal
flour
coordinate_terms: beanmeal
beanflour
;
cornmeal
cornflour
maizemeal
oatmeal
ricemeal
rice flour
rye flour
wheatmeal
wheat flour
glosses: A meal (flour) produced from yellow field peas that have been roasted.
Related terms: alt: near-homophone
word: piecemeal
pontil marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pontil mark
bioelectromagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + electromagnetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bioelectromagnetics.
iddah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪdə/
Forms: form: iddat
Etymology: From Arabic عِدَّة (ʕidda).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The period for which a woman must wait after the death of her spouse, or after a divorce, before she can remarry.
iddat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: During the iddat, she did not sit with her head covered in a room, praying for her departed husband and observing the mandatory period of mourning.
ref: 2025, Banu Mushtaq, “The Shroud”, in Deepa Bhasthi, transl., Heart Lamp, And Other Stories, page 170:
glosses: Alternative form of iddah.
biochronologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biochronological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, biochronology.
biogeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + geological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to biogeology.
biogeologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biogeologists
Etymology: From bio- + geologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies biogeology.
biogeologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biogeologist
biogeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + geology.
Senses: topics: biology
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The interdisciplinary study of the interactions between the Earth's biosphere and the lithosphere, which incorporates both biology and geology.
Synonyms: geobiology
Derived terms: biogeologist
palaeobiogeology
paleobiogeology
Related terms: exogeobiology
Biot number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862).
Senses: glosses: A dimensionless number used in heat transfer calculations, giving a simple index of the ratio of the heat transfer resistances inside of and at the surface of a body.
cyberjournalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberjournalists
Etymology: From cyber- + journalist.
Senses: glosses: A journalist whose work is published on the Internet or in cyberspace.
cyberjournalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberjournalist
cyberaffair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberaffairs
Etymology: From cyber- + affair.
Senses: glosses: An adulterous relationship that takes place over the Internet or in cyberspace.
cyberaffairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberaffair
cybersmut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + smut.
Senses: examples: text: That was 1994. Now it's what you do on the Internet— the worldwide network of computers that in 1995 was embraced as the medium that will change the way we communicate, shop, publish and (so the cybersmut cops warned) be damned.
ref: 1996, Newsweek, volume 127, page 21:
text: Cybersmut is just the latest pornography utility available to American homes.
ref: 2002, Wallace W. White, Freedom from Lust, page 56:
text: Cybersitter, to take another example, “works by secretly monitoring all computer activity” so as to close the door on “unrestricted cybersmut” including, interestingly, that stored in parental files on the computer, whereas Childsafe allows parents to "see exactly what your children have been viewing online ... [and to] monitor chat room sessions, instant messaging, email."
ref: 2006, Robert Kraut, Computers, Phones, and the Internet:
glosses: Pornographic material published on the Internet or in cyberspace.
cyberpornography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From cyber- + pornography.
Senses: glosses: Pornography distributed on the Internet.
Synonyms: cyberporn
Related terms: technoporn
cytidylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cytidyl + -ate.
Senses: glosses: cytidine monophosphate
cytopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cytopenic
form: most cytopenic
Etymology: From cytopenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to cytopenia.
Derived terms: pancytopenic
thrombocytopenic
cytoplasmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + plasmatic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cytoplasm
Derived terms: cytoplasmatically
extracytoplasmatic
intracytoplasmatic
idiomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiomeres
Senses: glosses: chromomere
idiomeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiomere
bioyogurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioyogurts
Etymology: From bio- + yogurt.
Senses: glosses: probiotic yogurt
bioyogurts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioyogurt
biophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + -phobia. Piecewise doublet of zoophobia.
Senses: glosses: aversion to nature
biophilosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + philosophy.
Senses: glosses: A branch of philosophy dealing with epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues in the biological and biomedical sciences.
undercompensate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undercompensates
form: undercompensating
form: undercompensated
form: undercompensated
Etymology: From under- + compensate.
Senses: glosses: To underpay: to pay a lower wage or salary, or other compensation, than is warranted
Related terms: undercompensation
zantedeschia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌzæntɪˈdɛski.ə/
Forms: form: zantedeschias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Zantedeschia of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa.
zantedeschias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zantedeschia
bloodberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodberries
Etymology: From blood + berry.
Senses: glosses: Rivina humilis, a flowering plant in the pigeonberry family (Petiveriaceae) with bright red berries.
wikipedia: bloodberry
bloodberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodberry
biophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biophobic
form: most biophobic
Etymology: From bio- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, biophobia; having a dislike of nature.
metagaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + gaming.
Senses: glosses: The playing of metagames.
examples: text: Other terms are specific to the role-playing experience, such as […] 'Metagaming', in which players act on information that they, as players, know, but which their characters could not know (or have not yet learned).
ref: [2017, Amanda K. Allen, “Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 284:
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: The act of a roleplayer making use of knowledge that they have learned out of character (and which their character does not know) while they are in character; often considered a form of cheating.
metagaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From meta- + gaming.
Senses: qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: present participle and gerund of metagame
metanalytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + analytical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metanalysis
metanalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: metaanalytic
form: meta-analytic
Etymology: From meta- + analytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metanalysis
anaprotaspides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anaprotaspis
metaprotaspides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaprotaspis
paraprotaspides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraprotaspis
puzzledness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From puzzled + -ness.
Senses: glosses: puzzlement; perplexity
rhedariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhedarium
rhizotrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizotron
Rosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rosie
canary girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canary girls
Etymology: Exposure to toxic TNT could turn the skin an orange-yellow colour reminiscent of the plumage of a canary.
Senses: glosses: A female worker making TNT shells during World War I.
canary girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canary girl
munitionette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjʊnɪʃəˈnɛt/
Forms: form: munitionettes
Etymology: From munition + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: Since they all had a slightly yellow tinge to their skin, he assumed they were munitions workers. Munitionettes, as the newspapers liked to call them.
ref: 1991, Pat Barker, Regeneration (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 119:
glosses: A female worker in a munitions factory, especially during the First World War.
Synonyms: canary girl
munitioneer
munitioner
munitionettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of munitionette
roseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rose + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] the ruling idea being that the knower cannot know the sensible things, but can only know the unchanging Forms of the things, and Plato means that there can be no rose absent roseness, for roseness makes a rose be a rose.
ref: 2015, Loren Berengere, Infinity and the Supermen, page 367:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of being a rose (type of flower).
examples: text: A rose comb is therefore regarded as a single comb in which roseness is present but peaness is absent; and a pea comb is similarly a single one where peaness is present and roseness is absent.
ref: 1909, The Eugenics Review, volume 1, page 136:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The property of being a rose comb.
flowerness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flower + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The property of being the qualificand residing in a flower which is the qualificand is limited by the universal flowerness, and the property of being the qualifier residing in a red colour which is the qualifier is limited by both redness and the relation of inherence which relates a red colour to a flower.
ref: 1997, The Journal of the Indian Academy of Philosophy, volume 36, page 62:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of being a flower.
biopharmaceutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + pharmaceutic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to biopharmaceutics.
rhandirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhandir
catalufa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catalufas
Senses: glosses: Any of three priacanthid fish: Heteropriacanthus cruentatus, Priacanthus arenatus, and Pristigenys serrula.
catalufas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catalufa
cataloreactants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cataloreactant
presettable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From preset + -able.
Senses: examples: a presettable timer
glosses: Capable of being set in advance.
preboiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + boiled.
Senses: examples: preboiled tap water
preboiled lentils
glosses: boiled in advance
pribumi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A group of people in Indonesia who share a sociocultural heritage and whose members are regarded as natives of the country.
pretendress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretendresses
Etymology: From pretender + -ess.
Senses: glosses: female pretender
pretendresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretendress
pretarsus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretarsi
Etymology: From pre- + tarsus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The distal segment of the leg in many insects, often including a pair of claws.
pretarsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretarsus
Kumina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Afro-Jamaican religion involving music, dancing, and the practice of bringing down spirits of the dead to briefly inhabit the bodies of the faithful and share ancestral wisdom.