cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sagum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sagums
form: saga
Etymology: From Latin sagum, perhaps of Gaulish origin.
Senses: glosses: A cloak, worn in ancient times by the Gauls, early Germans, and Roman soldiers, made of a rectangular piece of (usually red) coarse cloth and fastened on the right shoulder.
sagums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sagum
Sahaptian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sahaptians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sahaptin.
Sahaptian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sahaptin.
Derived terms: Proto-Sahaptian
Sahaptians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sahaptian
Sahaptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sahaptins
form: Sahaptin
form: Shahaptian
form: Sahaptian
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American people who occupied a large territory along the Columbia river in northern Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Sahaptin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shahaptian
form: Sahaptian
Senses: synonyms: Sahaptian
glosses: The language spoken by the Sahaptin people.
synonyms: Sahaptian
glosses: A family of languages comprising Sahaptin and Nez Perce.
playfriend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playfriends
Etymology: From play + friend.
Senses: glosses: A playmate.
playfriends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playfriend
Sahaptins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sahaptin
unscalable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unscaleable
Etymology: From un- + scalable.
Senses: examples: text: […] Remember, sir, my liege,
The kings your ancestors, together with
The natural bravery of your isle, which stands
As Neptune’s park, ribbed and paled in
With rocks unscalable and roaring waters,
With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats,
But suck them up to the topmast. […]
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: The other end of their promenade was closed by a lofty and almost unscaleable precipice,the abode of hundreds of sea-fowl of different kinds […]
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in The Pirate. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
text: 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings,
Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.
glosses: Not scalable, that cannot be climbed.
examples: text: The idea has its detractors. Skeptics argue the whole idea is unscalable, and that large vertical farms would be insatiable consumers of energy to keep the plants lit, healthy, and harvested […]
ref: 2013 January 7, Patrick Metzger, “Public Works: Vertical Farming”, in Torontoist:
text: The result is a marketplace where low-revenue companies (say zero to $2 million per annum) are attracting valuations in the tens of millions of dollars and raising too much money. Most of these businesses will turn out to be poorly run, not special, unscalable, and will not deliver negative returns.
ref: 2016 March 7, Adir Shiffman, “Beware a ‘barbell bubble’ in tech as investor demand outstrips startup supply”, in The Australian Financial Review:
glosses: Not scalable, that cannot be changed in scale.
unscalably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unscalably
form: most unscalably
Etymology: From unscalable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unscalable way.
unscalability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unscalable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The unscalability of the software made it impractical for more than five users at a time.
glosses: The state or condition of being unscalable.
how-tos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of how-to
Shahaptian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shahaptians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sahaptin.
Shahaptian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sahaptin.
Shahaptians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shahaptian
forkheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forkhead
shitlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shitlike
form: most shitlike
Etymology: From shit + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling shit in some way; shitty.
golfiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːnə
Etymology: From golf + -iana.
Senses: examples: text: St Andrews also offers the other off-course interest to the golfer, notably collections of golfiana in The Scores Hotel and nearby pubs...
ref: 1995, David Hamilton, Sean Connery, The Scottish Golf Guide:
text: 1987-1994, Charles A Duffner, Publisher, Golfiana- The International Journal for Golf Historians and Collectors
glosses: Things related to golf.
fistiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪstɪˈɑːnə/
ipa: /fɪstɪˈænə/
ipa: /fɪstɪˈeɪnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Etymology: From fist + -iana.
Senses: examples: text: Then came the necessary preliminaries — the finding of a place in which to train; the securing of an expert boxer to instruct me in the art of fistiana...
ref: 1915, Joseph K Griffis, Tahan, Out of Savagery Into Civilization:
text: ...Heenan's friends urged him to issue a challenge to Tom Sayers, British title holder, for the highest honors in fistiana.
ref: 2001, Nat Fleischer, Sam Andre, Don Rafael, Nigel Collins, An Illustrated History of Boxing:
glosses: Things related to the sport of boxing.
nonspam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + spam.
Senses: glosses: Electronic mail that is not spam (junk mail); legitimate e-mail.
park and ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: park-and-ride
Senses: examples: text: The plan is to build a large park and ride offering charge points for electric vehicles for commuters from further afield.
ref: 2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, in RAIL, number 944, page 42:
glosses: A car park with connections to public transport services, allowing commuters and other travellers to complete their journey via bus or rail system.
Related terms: hail and ride
kiss and ride
kiss and ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the idea that a person's partner might drop them off with a parting kiss; compare park and ride.
Senses: examples: text: I long to hold you in my arms and sway
 Kiss and ride on the CTA
ref: 1996, “Far, Far Away”, in Jeff Tweedy (lyrics), Being There, performed by Wilco:
glosses: A car park or other roadside location at a railway station, airport, etc. for brief stops to allow the dropping off and picking up of passengers.
Related terms: hail and ride
kiss and fly
park and ride
kissably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more kissably
form: most kissably
Etymology: From kissable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a kissable way.
respectabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of respectability
respectabilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: respectabilizes
form: respectabilizing
form: respectabilized
form: respectabilized
form: respectabilise
Etymology: From respectable + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: There's not a notion in this book that has a more frightful, or ridiculous, mien than had the notion of human footprints in rocks, when that now respectabilized ruffian, or clown, was first heard from.
ref: 1919, Charles Fort, chapter 11, in The Book of the Damned:
text: Uhde’s morals were not all that they should be and as his fiancée seemed a very well to do and very conventional young woman we were all surprised. But it turned out that it was an arranged marriage. Uhde wished to respectabilise himself and she wanted to come into possession of her inheritance, which she could only do upon marriage.
ref: 1933, Gertrude Stein, chapter 5, in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas:
text: What do we want, me and Ronald and Leonardo? To be left alone! If only for half an hour at a time! Stop already hocking us to be good! hocking us to be nice! Just leave us alone, God damn it, to pull our little dongs in peace and think our little selfish thoughts—stop already with the respectabilizing of our hands and our tushies and our mouths!
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, pages 121–122:
glosses: To make respectable; to give an appearance of respectability.
respectabilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of respectabilize
respectabilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of respectabilize
respectabilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of respectabilize
gunges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gunge
gunges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunge
gunged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gunge
gunging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gunge
tumourlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tumourlike
form: most tumourlike
Etymology: From tumour + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tumorlike.
tumorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tumorlike
form: most tumorlike
form: tumourlike
Etymology: From tumor + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a tumor.
bookstaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookstaff
Balaamite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Balaamite
form: most Balaamite
Etymology: From Balaam + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Balaam (a Biblical figure).
topics: Christianity
glosses: Resembling Balaam, as described in Revelation 2:14.
Balaamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Balaamites
Etymology: From Balaam + -ite.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A Balaamite person.
Balaamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Balaamite
chest press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chest presses
Senses: glosses: An exercise performed by pressing a bar or lever away from the chest while seated.
Related terms: bench press
chest presses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chest press
leg press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg presses
Etymology: From leg + press.
Senses: examples: text: The same logic applies to leg presses; the more you lower the sled, the harder your hams have to work, as long as you're controlling the weight.
ref: 2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: An exercise performed by using the legs to press weight away from one's body, while the body remains stationary.
glosses: A leg press machine, a piece of exercise equipment designed for performing these exercises.
Related terms: hack squat
leg extension
leg presses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leg press
alterables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alterable
hack squat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hack squats
Etymology: From German Hacke (“heel”) + squat.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: An exercise performed on a machine by using the legs to move weight resting on the shoulders, thereby moving the weight as the legs are straightened and the feet remain stationary.
glosses: A squat exercise with the barbell held in the hands just behind the legs, but without the use of a machine.
Related terms: squat
leg press
hack squats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hack squat
rotator cuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotator cuffs
Senses: examples: text: In my quest for world records, I ruined both my rotator cuffs. The cuff, a group of four relatively small (but important) shoulder muscles which control inward and outward rotation of the humerus, is particularly vulnerable to the kind of trauma gymnastics, weighlifting and powerlifting inflict.
ref: 1988, Frederick C. Hatfield, “Powersource: Ties that bind”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 21:
glosses: A set of four smaller muscles in the shoulder responsible for rotating the humerus (upper arm bone).
Hypernyms: scapulohumeral
Hyponyms: infraspinatus
subscapularis
supraspinatus
teres minor
rotator cuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotator cuff
bench pressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bench press
bench pressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bench press
double biceps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double biceps
Senses: examples: text: And when he hits a double biceps shot, his proportion is more than a little startling.
ref: 1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A standard pose in which both sets of biceps are flexed and the chest is thrust forward.
Derived terms: back double biceps
front double biceps
rear double biceps
delts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛlts/
rhymes: -ɛlts
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: His enthusiasm is contagious, and his delts are outrageous.
ref: 1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The deltoid muscles.
posedown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊz.daʊn/
Forms: form: posedowns
Etymology: Blend of pose + showdown
Senses: examples: text: The real reason for these subdued responses was the fact that the audience knew it would be a fight to the finish; they were saving their screams for the posedown festivities to come.
ref: 1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The final part of a competition in which two or more bodybuilders pose freestyle on stage side by side, rather than individually.
posedowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posedown
most muscular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: most musculars
Senses: examples: text: Then Christian heads Quinn off at the pass with a most muscular.
ref: 1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A standard pose in which the chest, shoulder, and arm muscles are flexed with the arms in front of the body.
most musculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of most muscular
misin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular antibiotic peptide
cozzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: other: /ˈkɒzi/
rhymes: -ɒzi
Forms: form: cozzies
form: cossie
Etymology: Alteration of cossie.
Senses: examples: text: If it′s hot, take your cozzie (swimsuit) and towel to Bondi Beach or Manly.
ref: 2008, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Australia For Dummies, page 145:
text: Got my new cozzie ready for tomorrow – summer has finally arrived!
ref: 2010, L. J. Adlington, The Diary of Pelly D, unnumbered page:
text: Cat's wandered down the garden on the pretext of using the pool so she takes her towel and cozzie.
ref: 2010, Barbara Trapido, Sex and Stravinsky, unnumbered page:
glosses: A swimming costume (especially a female swimming costume).
Synonyms: bathers
Related terms: cozzie livs
mermaid's purse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mermaid's purses
Senses: glosses: The egg case of a skate, shark or ratfish.
Synonyms: devil's purse
sailor's purse
sea-purse
sea-pincushion
univ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: univs
Etymology: Clipping of university.
Senses: glosses: university
univs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of univ
facs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fac
hot wars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot war
zoiks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: zoikes
form: zoinks
Etymology: Possibly from a shortening of gadzooks. Compare also yoicks.
Senses: glosses: An expression of surprise, shock etc.
Synonyms: blimey
cor
goodness me
goodness gracious
zoinks
eastern tarantulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eastern tarantula
bodhi trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodhi tree
leg extension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg extensions
Etymology: From leg + extension.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: An exercise performed on a machine while seated. The quadriceps (thigh muscles) are exerted to straighten the knee while acting against resistance applied to the lower shin.
Related terms: extension
triceps extension
leg press
leg extensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leg extension
leg curl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg curls
Etymology: From leg + curl.
Senses: examples: text: You'd never dream of doing just bench presses to build a massive chest, or only lateral raises to build up your shoulders, so you'll surely limit your overall leg development if you restrict your hamstring training to leg curls.
ref: 2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: An exercise performed on a machine in which the hamstring muscles are exerted to bend the knee while acting against resistance applied to the lower calf. The exercise may be performed while prone or standing, depending on the design of the machine.
Related terms: curl
biceps curl
leg curls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leg curl
swivet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: weak vowel distinction
ipa: /ˈswɪvɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈswɪvət/
Forms: form: swivets
form: swivvet
Senses: examples: "Theo wasn't perfect either - buried a son, divorced a wife, never learned to drive, plagued by swivets." ("The Nerve" by Lee Henderson appearing in The Walrus July/August 2009)
glosses: A state or condition of haste, flutter; extreme discomposure or distress; irritation, exasperation, annoyance.
Josepha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
LWR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LWRs
form: L.W.R.
form: L. W. R.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of line width roughness; used by semiconductor process engineers to describe a lithographic process problem.
qualifier: nuclear power
glosses: Initialism of light water reactor; a nuclear reactor which uses light water as a neutron moderator.
Coordinate terms: word: light water reactor
english: boiling water reactor
translation: boiling water reactor
word: BWR
english: pressurized water reactor
translation: pressurized water reactor
word: PWR
english: heavy water reactor
translation: heavy water reactor
word: HWR
Related terms: english: advanced boiling water reactor
translation: advanced boiling water reactor
word: ABWR
side chest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side chests
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A standard pose in which one arm is bent at the elbow, and the chest muscles are flexed, with one's side turned to the judges.
Related terms: side triceps
side chests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side chest
side triceps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side triceps
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A standard pose in which one arm is held straight with the triceps flexed, with one's side turned to the judges.
Related terms: side chest
back double biceps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back double biceps
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A standard pose in which both sets of biceps and back muscles are flexed, with one's back turned toward the judges.
Synonyms: sense: pose
word: rear double biceps
Related terms: double biceps
front double biceps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front double biceps
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A standard pose in which both sets of biceps and the abdominals are flexed, while one is facing the judges.
Related terms: double biceps
rear double biceps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rear double biceps
Senses: examples: text: Using this information, set the poses up in a manner that allows easy transition from one pose to another. Hitting a front lat spread and then trying to follow with a rear double biceps is just not practical.
ref: 1997, Gerard Thorne, Phil Embleton, Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding, page 287:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A standard pose in which both sets of biceps and back muscles are flexed, with one's back turned toward the judges.
Synonyms: sense: pose
word: back double biceps
Related terms: double biceps
pacy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pacier
form: paciest
Senses: examples: text: They looked pacy and powerful in attack and opened the scoring when Ba scored his fourth goal in two games when he headed in Cabaye's corner from the left.
ref: 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
text: Arsenal's Noni Madueke scored his first England goal two minutes later with a pacy run and fine finish past Serbia goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic, a moment which had Tuchel pumping his fists in delight in the technical area.
ref: 2025 September 9, Phil McNulty, “Serbia 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pacey.
Derived terms: pacily
paciness
pacier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of pacey: more pacey
glosses: comparative form of pacy: more pacy
paciest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of pacey: most pacey
glosses: superlative form of pacy: most pacy
pacey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pacier
form: paciest
Etymology: From pace + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Not only were Jupp Heynckes' team pacey in attack but they were relentless in their pursuit of the ball once they had lost it, and as the game wore on they merely increased their dominance as City wilted in the Allianz Arena.
ref: 2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: fast, rapid, speedy.
miséricorde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miséricordes
Etymology: From French miséricorde.
Senses: examples: text: Figs. a and b, from Harleian MS. 2278; c, from the blade of a miséricorde, in the Meyrick collection;
ref: 1834, [James Planché], “Reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV., 1420—1483”, in History of British Costume, London: Charles Knight, page 198:
text: In the baldrick which crossed over his right shoulder hung a long straight sword, which with a miséricorde or short dagger, carried in his belt, furnished him—for he knew how to use them—with very fair means of defence.
ref: 1865, Francis Davenant, “Hubert Ellis. A Story of King Richard’s Days the Second.”, in The Boy’s Own Volume of Fact, Fiction, History, and Adventure, London: S. O. Beeton, pages 189–190:
text: To the belt are attached the long sword in an ornamental scabbard on the left side, and a miséricorde on his right side;
ref: 1884 November 25, Cecil T. Davis, “The Monumental Brasses of Herefordshire and Worcestershire”, in Transactions, Excursions and Reports. 1884-85., Birmingham, published 1887, page 70:
text: On his right side is fastened a miséricorde.
ref: 1899, Cecil T[udor] Davis, The Monumental Brasses of Gloucestershire, London: Phillimore & Co., page 64:
text: He has a miséricorde with which to give the coup de grace to a fallen foe.
ref: 1900, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society for 1900, volume XXIII, Bristol, page 76:
text: At that time everyone, man and woman, carried his purse hanging on his hip by means of a baldric and containing generally a miséricorde as well as money, keys, and so on.
ref: 1920, Ronald Ross, The Revels of Orsera, page 195:
text: I suggest that the alenas was an improved miséricorde, of a strength and solidity suited to a special purpose.
ref: 1926, Ernest Weekley, Words Ancient and Modern, page 8:
text: ‘A miséricorde to deal the death-blow,’ acquiesced Griselda.
ref: 1938, Mary Rhys, Scenes from Family Life, page 130:
glosses: Alternative form of misericord.
oligarchically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more oligarchically
form: most oligarchically
Etymology: From oligarchic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an oligarchical way.
Chuy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kyrgyz Чүй (Cüy)
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chu, a river in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
synonyms: word: Chu
extra: a river in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
countershaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countershafts
form: counter shaft
Etymology: From counter- + shaft.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of the pistons driving through the connecting-rods directly on to the wheels that carry the weight of the engine, the Drachenfels piston and connecting-rod drove on to a countershaft which carried two small cog wheels. The latter engaged with two larger gears, between which, and on the same shaft, was the pinion to engage with the rack rail.
ref: 1952 December, John C. Gillham, “Rack Railways at Königswinter”, in Railway Magazine, page 843:
glosses: Synonym of jackshaft (“mechanical component for rotational force”).
synonyms: word: jackshaft
extra: mechanical component for rotational force
countershaft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: countershafts
form: countershafting
form: countershafted
form: countershafted
Etymology: From counter- + shaft.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jackshaft.
synonyms: word: jackshaft
countershafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countershaft
jackshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackshafts
Etymology: From jack + shaft.
Senses: synonyms: countershaft
glosses: A common mechanical component used to transfer or synchronize rotational force in a machine.
examples: text: Final drive is by reduction gears on the jackshaft, and through flycranks and rods to the wheels.
ref: 1950 October, “S.R. Diesel-Mechanical Shunter”, in Railway Magazine, page 692:
glosses: A wheelless axle used to turn the wheels of a locomotive.
jackshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jackshafts
form: jackshafting
form: jackshafted
form: jackshafted
Etymology: From jack + shaft.
Senses: synonyms: countershaft
glosses: To transfer or synchronize rotational force by means of a jackshaft.
jackshafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackshaft
swanee whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swanee whistles
Senses: glosses: A slide whistle.
slide whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slide whistles
Senses: glosses: A wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it, the pitch being varied with a slide, commonly used as a sound effect to accompany pratfalls in slapstick.
Synonyms: jazz flute
piston flute
swanee whistle
fipple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪpəl/
rhymes: -ɪpəl
Forms: form: fipples
Etymology: Perhaps related to Icelandic flipi (“the lip of a horse”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The mouthpiece of a ducted flute, or the plug forming the floor of the windway.
fipples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fipple
sneery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sneerier
form: sneeriest
Etymology: From sneer + -y.
Senses: glosses: Sneering, supercilious.
Derived terms: sneerily
sneeriness
sneerily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sneerily
form: most sneerily
Etymology: From sneery + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sneery way.
Synonyms: sneeringly
sneeriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sneery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being sneery.
Synonyms: superciliousness
you'll've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: You’ll’ve finished by the time I get home.
text: You'll’ve had dinner already, I expect.
text: If you never do another thing you’ll’ve done more than any architect I know.
ref: 1990, Ward S Just, Twenty-one: selected stories:
glosses: You will have.
croqueta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croquetas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish croqueta. Doublet of croquette.
Senses: examples: text: The restaurant’s croqueta, or savory fritters, are served piping hot, with a molten core.
ref: 2007 February 18, “Hail to the Menus”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Cuban croquette, usually made of ham, beef, chicken, or fish, and generally based on flour rather than potatoes.
croquetas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croqueta
cubeland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cube + land.
Senses: examples: text: The feeling is that we shouldn't look like any old cubeland. We should look like a dot com. We're going to get a pinball machine...
ref: 2004, Greg Williams, Boomtown:
text: Everyone in cubeland would be smelling the MSG.”
ref: 2007 February 18, Abby Ellin, “When the Food Critics Are Deskside”, in New York Times:
text: Whether you're a paper-pusher in cubeland or a decision-maker at the top of the corporate ladder...
ref: 2007, Lloyd M Field, Xingyun Bstan-ʾdzin-rgya-mtsho, Business and the Buddha:
glosses: The office environment, where people work in cubicles.
deconstructivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈstɹʌktɪvɪzəm/
ipa: /diːkənˈstɹʊktɪvɪzəm/
Etymology: From deconstructive + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: As an artist I have to ask: How much God is there in art theories like appropriation, deconstructivism, simulation and consumerism, which from the mid-1970s on have dominated the syllabus of many institutions that teach, critique and exhibit art?
ref: 2007 February 18, “English Renaissance; ‘Not for Sale’; Abu Dhabi Arts District; Robert Moses”, in New York Times:
topics: architecture
glosses: A development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s, characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, and non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The practice of deconstructing dishes.
Synonyms: deconstruction
Related terms: constructivism
deskside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From desk + -side.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Wilesmith welcomes deskside dining because she views it as a sign of dedication to the company.
ref: 2007 February 18, Abby Ellin, “When the Food Critics Are Deskside”, in New York Times:
glosses: By the side of one's desk (as in an office).
Derived terms: deskside computer
deskside server
deskside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desksides
Etymology: From desk + -side.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer intended to be placed alongside a desk, etc. (contrasted with the smaller desktop models).
desksides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deskside
dynastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dynastical
form: most dynastical
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δυναστικός (dunastikós) + -al. By surface analysis, dynasty + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: CHICAGO, Feb. 17 — Even as Mayor Richard M. Daley rolls toward a sixth term in elections this month, another chapter in Chicago’s dynastical politics is playing out in a few crime-plagued neighborhoods on the South Side.
ref: 2007 February 18, Susan Saulny, “With Eye on Post-Daley Era, 2 Powerful Families Battle for a Chicago Council Seat”, in New York Times:
glosses: Dynastic; pertaining to a dynasty.
Derived terms: dynastically
dynastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dynastically
form: most dynastically
Etymology: From dynastic + -ally or dynastical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dynastic (or dynastical) way.
egretlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more egretlike
form: most egretlike
Etymology: From egret + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Instead the play focuses on Don Juan (the egretlike Rhys Ifans) as an aristocratic anachronism, a vestige of a dead age who has nothing left to do but play games and exercise his droit de seigneur.
ref: 2007 February 18, Ben Brantley, “When Adaptation Is Bold Innovation”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an egret.
epiphanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more epiphanically
form: most epiphanically
Etymology: From epiphanic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an epiphanic way.
enlighteningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enlighteningly
form: most enlighteningly
Etymology: From enlightening + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an enlightening way.
Synonyms: epiphanically
expectedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛktɪdli/
Forms: form: more expectedly
form: most expectedly
Etymology: From expected + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: More expectedly (and successfully), the Royal Shakespeare Company offers up a “Richard III” that speaks to contemporary fears of the hatreds that breed fascism, with the eponymous crookback played (by the rising young actor Jonathan Slinger) as a festering skinhead who addresses the audience with the complicity of a caveman comic.
ref: 2007 February 18, Ben Brantley, “When Adaptation Is Bold Innovation”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In an expected way; as expected; predictably.
fillup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fillups
Etymology: From fill + up.
Senses: examples: text: We had slyly ordered a few gallons of punch to be brought down to the office, to give a fillup to the worthy workmen at the close of their labors...
ref: 1866, John Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianæ:
text: The disadvantage of slow fillups is somewhat offset by the cost, the equivalent of $1.20 to $1.40 a gallon, Mr. Carr said.
ref: 2007 February 18, Jim Motavalli, “A Self-Serve Station, in Your Garage”, in New York Times:
glosses: An act or process of filling up; a replenishment.
examples: text: […] various vocal techniques of presentation and delivery as well as how to ad-lib assorted information from programme parades as "fill-ups" at programme junctions.
ref: 1988, Combroad, numbers 78-85, page 49:
glosses: Filler material.
fillups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fillup
upfills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upfill
upfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upfill
upfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upfillings
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rock formation that fills the lower part of a hollow or valley.
upfilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upfill
gastropodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gastropod + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: And yet, despite its occasionally gastropodous pacing, “Exile” delivers the sort of torn-from-the-headlines story Patterson’s fans have come to expect.
ref: 2007 February 18, Andrew Ervin, “Fiction Chronicle”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to gastropods (snails and the like).
French kissing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French kissings
Senses: glosses: The act or practice of two individuals engaging in a French kiss.
French kissing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of French kiss
French kissed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of French kiss
French kisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French-kisses
Senses: glosses: plural of French kiss
French kisses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: French-kisses
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of French kiss
hitmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hit + making.
Senses: glosses: Making hits (popular songs).
Related terms: hitmaker
unyieldingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unyieldingly
form: most unyieldingly
Etymology: From unyielding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Reynolds’ character, called simply Guy, is an unyieldingly chipper everydude who greets each morning with a smile.
ref: 2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club:
glosses: In an unyielding way.
yieldingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more yieldingly
form: most yieldingly
Etymology: From yielding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He tooke her in his armes, as yet ſo coyiſh to be kiſt / As Mayds that knovv themſelues belou'd and yeeldingly reſiſt.
ref: 1602, William Warner, “The Eight Booke. Chapter .”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 202:
text: A sudden stillness came on them both, a sense of something momentous that must happen. Flory reached across and took her other hand. It came yieldingly, willingly.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIV, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: The wet sand is as dark and more yieldingly solid than fudge and waking across a panful is a promenade in the Kingdom of Sweets.
ref: 1974, Angela Carter, “The Smile of Winter”, in Fireworks, London: Virago, published 1988, page 44:
glosses: In a yielding way.
interluding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interlude
interluded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interlude
interluded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Inserted as an interlude.
glosses: Having interludes.
allowabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allowability
lycanthropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lycanthropic
form: most lycanthropic
Etymology: From New Latin lycanthrōpus + -ic. By surface analysis, lycanthrope + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Lycanthropic survival instincts
 Embrace the beast and shun the weak
 Awake the primal one that sleeps inside
 Or feel the shiver running through your spine
ref: 2015, “512”, performed by Lamb of God:
glosses: Of or pertaining to lycanthropy.
examples: text: He had kept the silver wolf’s head cane ornament that Claude Rains used to kill his lycanthropic son, Lon Chaney Jr., in “The Wolf Man” in 1941.
ref: 2007 February 18, Dave Kehr, “A Creepy Stash of Movie Magic, Lovingly Amassed”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to lycanthropes.
Derived terms: lycanthropically
lycanthropically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lycanthropically
form: most lycanthropically
Etymology: From lycanthropic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a lycanthropic way.
moblogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moblog
moblogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moblog
nonairline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + airline.
Senses: examples: text: La Guardia, however, has very few off-peak periods; most of the day it is near its limit, defined as 75 scheduled flights per hour, plus 6 nonairline flights.
ref: 2007 February 18, Matthew L. Wald, “Airlines at La Guardia Fight Bush Administration Proposal to Auction Off Landing Rights”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to an airline (as of private flights).
nonanesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonanaesthetic
Etymology: From non- + anesthetic.
Senses: examples: text: He seeks to widen them somehow, by doing something else, something tactile, nonanesthetic, something to get adrenaline moving in his numbed veins.
ref: 2007 February 18, Lawrence Downes, “Running Into Fences”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not anesthetic.
nonanesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonanesthetics
form: nonanaesthetic
Etymology: From non- + anesthetic.
Senses: glosses: A drug without anesthetic effects.
nonanesthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonanesthetic
nonbeneficial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonbeneficial
form: most nonbeneficial
Etymology: From non- + beneficial.
Senses: examples: text: In more recent times, she writes, they have been disproportionately enrolled in risky, nonbeneficial research in gynecology, oncology, surgery, pediatrics, infectious disease and genetics .
ref: 2007 February 18, Ezekiel Emanuel, “Unequal treatment”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not beneficial; that produces no benefit.
Derived terms: nonbeneficially
noncontrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + controlling.
Senses: examples: text: Noncontrolling Methods to Get Children to Change Behavior
ref: 1989, Thomas Gordon, Teaching children self-discipline--at home and at school:
text: Honda, which has been selling 1,000 natural gas Civics a year — about 60 percent at retail and the rest to corporate or government fleets — owns a noncontrolling stake in FuelMaker.
ref: 2007 February 18, Jim Motavalli, “A Self-Serve Station, in Your Garage”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not controlling (especially of a stake in a company).
gee-gees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gee-gee
gee-gees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He lost all his money on the gee-gees.
text: I put some money on the gee-gees last week, and I've got to see a bloke about it.
ref: 2008, Nigel Hinton, Time Bomb:
glosses: horse racing.
raw_tags: with 'the'
Saharanpur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, in northern India.
leadoff hitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leadoff hitters
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The first hitter in the batting order, who faces the first pitch of the game.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The first hitter of any given inning.
Related terms: cleanup hitter
leadoff hitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leadoff hitter
Sahelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sahelian
form: most Sahelian
Etymology: From Sahel + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Sahel.
Sahelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sahelians
Etymology: From Sahel + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Sahel.
Sahidic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saidic
Etymology: Calque of Arabic صَعِيدِي (ṣaʕīdī, “Upper Egyptian, Thebaic”), used to name the dialect in an 11th-century Coptic grammar by Athanasius of Qus.
Senses: glosses: A Coptic dialect that was spoken in southern Egypt.
Synonyms: Thebaic
scerne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scernes
form: scerning
form: scerned
form: scerned
Senses: glosses: To discern.
outtrade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outtrades
form: outtrading
form: outtraded
form: outtraded
Etymology: From out- + trade.
Senses: examples: text: No. 8 in his top 10 rules of Wall Street self-defense: “Remember that brain-damaged people will outtrade you.”
ref: 2007 February 18, Harry Hurt Iii, “Financial Advice From ‘That Henry Blodget’”, in New York Times:
glosses: To trade more or better than.
outtrades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outtrade
outtrading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outtrade
outtraded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: To sell liquor to the Indians was against the law but the forts had to resort to it or be outtraded by the peddlers.
ref: 1947, Jay Monaghan, The Overland Trail, page 252:
glosses: simple past and past participle of outtrade
pricer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pricers
Etymology: From price + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “I always joke with people that I’m a department store pricer, because I think that psychologically the first number has an impact,” said Frederick W. Peters, the president of Warburg Realty.
ref: 2007 February 18, Teri Karush Rogers, “The Psychology of Pricing”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, prices.
pricers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pricer
remilitarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remilitarizes
form: remilitarizing
form: remilitarized
form: remilitarized
form: remilitarise
Etymology: From re- + militarize.
Senses: glosses: To militarize (a demilitarized area) again.
remilitarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remilitarize
remilitarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remilitarize
remilitarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remilitarize
remilitarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remilitarizations
form: remilitarisation
Etymology: From re- + militarization.
Senses: examples: text: In more sophisticated versions, the German people are understood to have been taken in by Hitler’s charisma not least because the remilitarization he initiated — not to mention the Wehrmacht’s early battlefield successes — was a balm to wounded national pride.
ref: 2007 February 18, Dagmar Herzog, “Handouts From Hitler”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of remilitarizing.
remilitarizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remilitarization
rudderlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rudderlessly
form: most rudderlessly
Etymology: From rudderless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He lived rudderlessly, without ambition.
ref: 2007 February 18, Carol Pinchefsky, “‘La Bohème’ Is Romantic, as Long as I’m Not the Star”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a rudderless way.
squeegeeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squeegee
squeegeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squeegee
throbbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throbbing
underinflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underinflates
form: underinflating
form: underinflated
form: underinflated
Etymology: From under- + inflate.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe the tire could emit the scent whenever it is underinflated — after all, a car with properly inflated tires gets the best gasoline mileage.
ref: 2007 February 18, “Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: To inflate too little.