cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
submarining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The design, construction and use of submarines
submarining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The only reliever who has yet to drive into a rut is the 28-year-old rookie Peter Moylan, a submarining right-hander from Australia with swirling tattoos on his thick right arm.
ref: 2007 August 6, Ray Glier, “Braves Feel Good About New Faces, and So Do Fans”, in New York Times:
glosses: Tending to strike unexpectedly, in the fashion of one who submarines
sublinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + linear.
Senses: synonyms: infralinear
glosses: Placed below a line of text.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Almost but not quite linear in shape.
examples: text: The sublinear dependence of blue straggler number on core mass is interesting.
ref: 2009 January 15, Christian Knigge, Nathan Leigh, Alison Sills, “A binary origin for ‘blue stragglers’ in globular clusters”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7227, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a function that grows more slowly than a linear one.
Derived terms: sublinearity
sublinearly
subjectivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subjectivist
form: most subjectivist
Etymology: From subjective + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: When Martin rejects a foundationalist as well a subjectivist understanding of phenomenology (5f.), instead stressing phenomenology’s “characteristic concern” with “the structure of experience” (6), […].
ref: 2007 November 23, Günter Zöller, “Kant and the problem of existential judgment: critical comments on Wayne Martin’s Theories of Judgment”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 137, number 1, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Regarding subjective experience as fundamental.
subjectivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjectivists
Etymology: From subjective + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to subjectivism
Related terms: subjectivism
subfloor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfloors
Etymology: From sub- + floor.
Senses: examples: text: The original floor was still there: wide boards, laid tongue-in-groove, not the inferior subfloor they had predicted.
ref: 2007 May 6, Tracie Rozhon, “The Good Bones Were Still There, Hidden Under the Additions”, in New York Times:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The floor structure supporting and underlying the visible flooring or other finishing surface such as a carpet
subfloors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subfloor
stymieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stymie
subjectivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subjectivist
stepgrandchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepgrandchild
stepgrandchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepgrandchildren
form: step-grandchild
Etymology: From step- + grandchild.
Senses: examples: text: Other survivors are […] three grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two stepdaughters; and two stepgrandchildren.
ref: 2007 February 7, Matthew L. Wald, “M. Lamar Muse, 86, Dies; Led Southwest Airlines”, in New York Times:
glosses: The stepchild of one's own child.
glosses: The grandchild of one's wife or husband by a previous partner, or the child of one's stepchild.
Related terms: stepgranddaughter
stepgrandfather
stepgrandmother
stepgrandparent
stepgrandson
strongside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: strong + side
Senses: examples: text: Bradley might push for playing time right away at the strongside linebacker spot.
ref: 2007 May 27, The Associated Press, “For a Rookie Linebacker, It’s Like Going to Work”, in New York Times:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of or pertaining to the strongside linebacker position, which typically lines up across from the tight end
stratospherically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stratospherically
form: most stratospherically
Etymology: From stratospheric + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: It is no coincidence that when chefs Bocuse and Vergé organised a stratospherically expensive Mediterranean cruise […] they called on the skills of their friend Lenôtre to produce Bocuse's legendary truffle soup.
ref: 2009 January 12, Tom Jaine, “Gaston Lenôtre”, in The Guardian:
text: Being forgotten is the fate of most SCP Foundation employees, due only in part to the invisibility of their work. At Site-43, where the community is close-knit, the staffbase relatively humane, and a well-trafficked hallway is set aside for portraits of past local notables, the problem is somewhat attenuated. But memeticists, countermemeticists and antimemeticists face high, very high, and stratospherically high odds, respectively, of being forgotten while they're still around. Amnestic effects have a way of rubbing off on you over time, and there are enough identophagic, obfuscatory or predatorily erasive entities dwelling at the edge of perception that every bit of visual reinforcement helps to underline one's continued existence.
ref: 2022 September 24, HarryBlank, “Transition”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024:
glosses: In a stratospheric manner, or to a stratospheric degree.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: By way of or in regard to the stratosphere.
stewarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of steward
staredown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staredowns
Etymology: From stare + down.
Senses: glosses: A game or confrontation in which two individuals intently gaze at each other, until the other individual is forced to blink or turn away.
examples: text: Since then, Stephon, 31, and the Knicks have been locked in a staredown regarding the cost of a potential buyout.
ref: 2009 January 26, David Waldstein, “Pursuing N.B.A., Marbury’s Brother Takes Long Detour”, in New York Times:
glosses: A confrontation in which each party waits for the other to yield.
Related terms: stare down
staredowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staredown
squishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squishable
form: most squishable
Etymology: From squish + -able.
Senses: examples: text: To use a very unscientific term, the earth is squishable.
ref: 2007 May 15, Henry Fountain, “How a Vast Ice Sheet Put the Squeeze on Earth (and Its Gravity)”, in New York Times:
text: On group trips, we like to bring a squishable football. It's light (just a few ounces), packable, and universally popular: Who doesn't love a game of two-hand touch in the great outdoors?
ref: March 2003, Backpacker - Vol. 31, No. 211
glosses: Able to be squished or compressed
Derived terms: squishably
squawky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːki
Forms: form: squawkier
form: squawkiest
Etymology: From squawk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It’s impossible to find the center of a Hella song, which explodes in multidirectional streaks of percussion and squawky guitar like a Jackson Pollock painting.
ref: 2007 March 30, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a squawk; raw and grating
raw_tags: of a sound
examples: a squawky chicken
glosses: Making squawking sounds.
spectatorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectatorships
Etymology: From spectator + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: His sporting enthusiasms had already embraced yachting, coaching, fencing, and spectatorship at boxing-matches, cock-fights, dog-fights, and rat-baitings.
ref: 1937, Dixon Wecter, The Saga of American Society:
text: Once again, spectacle and spectator become confused, although here spectatorship becomes anything but passive[…].
ref: 1988 March 11, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Paranoid Illusions”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The state or quality of being a spectator
spoonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spoonable
form: most spoonable
Etymology: From spoon + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The batter should be spoonable but not pourable, essentially vegetables just moist enough to hold together.
ref: 2007 March 28, Mark Bittman, “Pancakes of the World, Dressed for Dinner”, in New York Times:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Able to be dipped into with a spoon.
specifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more specifiable
form: most specifiable
Etymology: From specify + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Malament’s suggestion […] provides a striking example of how close the descriptive content of the two theories is in at least one precisely specifiable sense.
ref: 2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Able to be specified
Derived terms: specifiably
specifiability
spacewalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spacewalker
spacewalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spacewalkers
Etymology: From space + walker. Analyzable as spacewalk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: NASA has spacewalkers periodically look at their gloves, since the discovery of a cut in a glove used by an astronaut during the last shuttle mission.
ref: 2007 August 16, Kenneth Chang, “Shuttle Crew Is Told to Study for Repairs, as NASA Wavers”, in The New York Times:
text: Mr. Clooney, as a veteran spacewalker, with his resonant voice and folksy yarns, seems to be channeling every imperturbable astronaut you ever heard speaking from on high.
ref: 2013 September 30, Dennis Overbye, “Astronaut and a Writer at the Movies”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An astronaut engaging in a space walk or other activity outside the spacecraft.
sonofusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sono- + fusion.
Senses: examples: text: Up to now, Purdue has focused on two scientific papers published in 2005 that Dr. Taleyarkhan hailed as independent confirmation of his sonofusion results.
ref: 2007 May 11, Kenneth Chang, “Purdue Will Reinvestigate Its Professor Who Claimed Desktop Fusion”, in New York Times:
glosses: A nuclear fusion reaction hypothesized to occur during sonoluminescence.
Synonyms: bubble fusion
songcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒŋkɹɑːft/
ipa: /ˈsɔŋkɹæft/
ipa: /sɑŋ-/
Forms: form: song-craft
Etymology: From song + -craft, sometimes after Old English sangcræft (“singing, poetry; music”).
Senses: examples: text: The purpose of the anecdote is to show the bold recklessness of the warrior, who could amuse himself with his song-craft in the very face of the enemy.
ref: 1846, Thomas Wright, “Essay III. The Chansons de Geste, or Historical Romances of the Middle Ages”, in Essays on Subjects Connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and History of England in the Middle Ages. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho Square, →OCLC, page 94:
text: Pause by some neglected graveyard, / For a while to muse, and ponder / On a half-effaced inscription, / Written with little skill of song-craft, / Homely phrases, but each letter / Full of hope, and yet of heart-break, / Full of all the tender pathos / Of the Here and Hereafter;— / Stay and read this rude inscription, / Read this Song of Hiawatha!
ref: 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 8–9:
text: [The] Mother Hips was the first band in the 1990s to emerge from the Chico, California, music scene and introduce itself to the wider world. […] During this era, many area venues frequently invoked a "no original material" policy, but the exemplary song craft and swelling fan base of Mother Hips led many bars and clubs to abandon that edict.
ref: 1998, Dean Budnick, “Mother Hips”, in Jam Bands: North America’s Hottest Live Groups: Plus How to Tape and Trade Their Shows, Toronto, Ont.: ECW Press, →ISBN, page 176:
text: A child weaned on Police Academy sequels or, say, the appalling robot pimp in 1984's The Ice Pirates could have no trouble giggling at song parodies like "Eat It" or "I Lost On Jeopardy," but might come to appreciate, however unconsciously, ["Weird Al"] Yankovic's songcraft or the peculiar places his lyrics could go.
ref: 2012 July 14, Scott Tobias, “Weird Al’s UHF is uneven, but that just made it ahead of its time”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2013:
text: “The Life of a Showgirl” doesn’t quite fulfill this prophecy — or, rather, it delivers only technically. It is a work of hyperprofessional songcraft and production, but its emotional texture is curiously flat and joyless.
ref: 2025 October 16, Mitch Therieau, “Taylor Swift Is Our Biggest Cinematic Universe. But the Magic Is Fading.”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The practice or skill of crafting or composing songs.
sonero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈnɛəɹəʊ/
Forms: form: soneros
Etymology: From Spanish sonero.
Senses: examples: text: This annual concert at Madison Square Garden features two salsa giants: Victor Manuelle, a leading young sonero, or improvising singer, who is not above dipping into reggaetón to score a hit, and Gilberto Santa Rosa, an unswerving traditionalist for three decades.
ref: 2007 February 9, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An improvising lead singer in salsa music
soneros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonero
snus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /snuːs/
Forms: form: snoos
form: snoose
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish snus.
Senses: glosses: A type of tobacco snuff consumed in the form of a moist powder which is placed under the (usually upper) lip, without chewing, for extended periods of time.
stewarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of steward
sectionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sectional
semiconsciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semiconscious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: With Mr. Corzine in a state of semiconsciousness, Richard J. Codey, the president of the State Senate, is serving as acting governor.
ref: 2007 April 17, David Kocieniewski, “Corzine Could Be Walking in 3 Months, Doctors Say”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being semiconscious, neither unconscious nor fully aware
selectwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selectwomen
Etymology: From select + woman.
Senses: examples: text: “She buys up everything that’s in her view,” said Ruth Epstein, the first selectwoman of Kent.
ref: 2007 May 18, Eric Konigsberg, “The Reclusive Rich Neighbor and Her Report of Intruders”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A female selectman
seitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪtən/
ipa: /ˈseɪtɑːn/
ipa: /ˈseɪtæn/
rhymes: -eɪtən
rhymes: -eɪtɑːn
rhymes: -eɪtæn
homophone: Satan
Forms: form: seitans
Etymology: Romaji of the Japanese セイタン which was coined by philosopher George Ohsawa in 1961. Ohsawa also occasionally used the kanji term 生蛋 from 生 (“fresh; raw”) and 蛋, the first character in 蛋白 (tanpaku, “protein”).
In Japan, wheat gluten itself is usually referred to as 麩 (fu, “wheat bran, gluten”), while seitan in particular is generally written in katakana as セイタン. Another common term for this is グルテンミート (“gluten meat”).
Senses: examples: text: Pan-simmer baked seitan cutlets in Basic Broth (page 20) or other seasoned stock for 15 minutes.
ref: 1994, Leonard Jacobs, Cooking with Seitan: The Complete Vegetarian "wheat-meat" Cookbook, Penguin, →ISBN, page 28:
text: Fifty people […] ordered from a diverse menu that included vegan options like wheatgrass shots ($4) and seitan cutlets ($16).
ref: 2007 July 13, C. J. Hughes, “Amid the Ruins of the Bungalow Era, a Weekenders’ Revival”, in New York Times:
text: Morningstar Farms makes two vegan seitans called Meal Starters, chicken and beef flavor, already well seasoned.
ref: 2009, Nancy Robinson, Around the World Vegan Style, page 271:
glosses: Specially processed wheat gluten, used as a protein-rich food.
wikipedia: George Ohsawa
Derived terms: seitanic
selectwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selectwoman
semiregular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-regular
Etymology: From semi- + regular.
Senses: examples: text: Although Lester must still see doctors on a semiregular basis for checkups, his health has returned to normal.
ref: 2007 July 24, Bill Finley, “Victorious Night for Lester in His Return From Cancer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat regular; occasional.
examples: text: A space is semiregular iff the regularly open sets (3D) form a base for the topology.[…]Every space X can be embedded in a semiregular space.
ref: 1970, Stephen Willard, General Topology, published 2004, page 98:
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Whose regular open sets form a base.
raw_tags: of a topological space
examples: text: It will be seen below that this semiregular polyhedron is of importance in its relationship to periodic minimal surfaces serving as a conceptual reference.
ref: 1993, H. Terrones, A. L. MacKay, “The Geometry of Hypothetical Curved Graphite Structures”, in H. W. Kroto, J.E. Fischer, Deann Cox, editors, The Fullerenes, page 115:
text: In a semiregular tessellation, there is an isometry of the plane carrying any vertex to any other vertex.
ref: 1998, David A. Singer, Geometry: Plane and Fancy, page 35:
text: While one of the semiregular polyhedra was mentioned by Plato, their first serious study is attributed to Archimedes.
ref: 2003, Saul Stahl, Geometry from Euclid to Knots, published 2010, page 272:
text: One that we will consider here is the semiregular tessellation—a tessellation of two or more regular polygons that are arranged so that the same polygons appear in the same order around each vertex point. The tessellation at the left in Figure 9.38 is a semiregular tessellation because the two figures are a square and a regular octagon. The tessellation at the right in Figure 9.38 is not a semiregular tessellation because the two figures are a square and a nonregular octagon.[…]There are only eight possible semiregular tessellations.
ref: 2011, Tom Bassarear, Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers, page 583:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Uniform (isogonal and isotoxal) with regular faces of two or more types, such that each vertex is surrounded by the same polygons in the same order.
raw_tags: of a polyhedron or tessellation of the plane
Derived terms: semiregular tessellation
semiserious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-serious
Etymology: From semi- + serious.
Senses: examples: text: Rosenblum's semiserious survey of dogs in art illustrates major cultural and social changes over the centuries.
ref: 1988 November 4, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: somewhat or partially serious
shamanistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shamanistic
form: most shamanistic
Etymology: From shaman + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: From Christ to the Fisher King of the Grail legends, the man suffering from a magical wound is no ordinary man; he is the man who has transcended the duality of sexuality, the man with a vulva, the shamanistic androgyne.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 109:
text: There are an estimated 300 shamanistic temples within an hour of Seoul’s bustling city center, and in them, shamans perform their clamorous ceremonies every day.
ref: 2007 July 7, Choe Sang-Hun, “Shamanism Enjoys Revival in Techno-Savvy South Korea”, in New York Times:
text: In this film Ute Gebhardt looks at shamanistic healing rituals in Tuwa, which today is part of the Russian Federation. In Tuwa shamanism was able to survive five and a half decades of Soviet communism. Even today there is a shamanistic clinic in Tuwa’s capital Kyzyl.
ref: 2009 December, Günter Nyul, “The Neutral in biodynamic cranio-sacral osteopathy – an extraordinary state of consciousness”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 02 Mar 2024, page 15:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of shamanism.
Related terms: shamanism
shamanic
shamanist
sermonizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sermonizers
form: sermoniser
Etymology: From sermonize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Before long, Jansson[…]had acquired a reputation as a riveting sermonizer.
ref: 1988 October 7, John Kennedy, “"Here is the place!"”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A preacher; one who delivers sermons
sermonizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sermonizer
shushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shusher
shusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shushers
Etymology: From shush + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers?
ref: 2007 July 8, Kara Jesella, “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone who shushes, insisting on silence
shorefront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)fɹʌnt
Forms: form: shorefronts
Etymology: From shore + -front.
Senses: glosses: The area fronting on a coastline.
shorefront
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)fɹʌnt
Etymology: From shore + -front.
Senses: examples: text: A small trailer with a sign out front was advertising Beachtown, a New Urbanist community of pastel-colored shorefront homes.
ref: 2007 March 18, Kristina Shevory, “Texans Find Their Own Hamptons Equivalent”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of property or real estate: adjacent to the shore.
Related terms: beachfront
oceanfront
soundfront
shorefronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shorefront
sheerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sheerly
form: most sheerly
Etymology: From Middle English schyrly, equivalent to sheer + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: On a sheerly technical plane, the projections used for the backgrounds were very effective, particularly in the third act, where a sunset faded most convincingly.
ref: 1988 October 21, George Grass, “WagnerVision”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Absolutely; purely; quite.
examples: text: The pit dropped sheerly from my feet, but a little way along, the rubbish afforded a practicable slope to the summit of the ruins.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 238:
glosses: At a very steep angle; precipitously.
glosses: At once.
shticky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: shtickier
form: shtickiest
form: schticky
Etymology: From shtick + -y.
Senses: examples: text: So I handed out lyrics by Allan Sherman, the shticky 1960s parody writer who my father revered and channeled to the end.
ref: 2007 June 17, Bob Morris, “Mirth, in Honor of Dad”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a pronounced shtick; gimmicky.
Related terms: sticky
snoozy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: snoozier
form: snooziest
Etymology: From snooze + -y.
Senses: examples: text: While the basic automatic-transmission 528xi takes a snoozy 7.6 seconds to reach 60 miles an hour, the 535xi blazes there in 5.6 seconds, a remarkable two-second advantage.
ref: 2007 October 7, Lawrence Ulrich, “Same Carriage, Fresh Horses”, in New York Times:
synonyms: word: hypnotic
word: somnolent
word: dormitive
word: hypnic
word: hypnotic
word: slumberous
word: somniferous
word: somnific
word: somnolent
word: soporiferous
word: soporific
word: soporous
word: stupefacient
word: stupefactive
word: tranquilizing
word: vapid
word: banal
word: beat
word: blah
word: bland
word: boring
word: cold
word: colourless
word: drab
word: dreich
word: drowsy
word: dull
word: dull as dishwater
word: flat
word: ho-hum
word: humdrum
word: insipid
word: lackluster
word: lame
word: languid
word: lifeless
word: longsome
word: monotonous
word: mundane
word: no fun at parties
word: plain
word: plodding
word: prosaic
word: prosy
word: pedantic
word: pedestrian
word: static
word: straightforward
word: snoozeworthy
word: soporific
word: tedious
word: uncool
word: wan
word: weaksauce
word: wooden
word: uninteresting
word: stodgy
word: vapid
word: vanilla
glosses: Sleep-inducing; tedious.
examples: text: She places the snoozy child in the car seat at her feet.
ref: 2011, Fiona Gibson, Babyface:
synonyms: word: sleepbound
word: somnolent
word: adrowse
word: bedroomy
word: dozy
word: dopey
word: dragging one's tail
word: drowsy
word: eyelids at half-mast
word: nodding off
word: oscitant
word: out of steam
word: sleepbound
word: sleepish
word: sleepy
word: slombry
word: snoozy
word: slumberful
word: slumberous
word: slumbersome
word: slumbery
word: somniculous
word: somnolent
word: somnolescent
word: tired
glosses: Sleepy; drowsy.
skylighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From skylight + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The court, with its burbling fountain, is […] a vast, skylighted, airy new public space, chilly with all the newly scrubbed marble and naked light but aptly lofty.
ref: 2007 April 20, Michael Kimmelman, “Classical Treasures, Bathed in a New Light”, in New York Times:
glosses: Furnished with one or more skylights
snoozier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snoozy: more snoozy
snooziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of snoozy: most snoozy
record charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of record chart
slopeside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slope + -side.
Senses: examples: text: In the Green Mountains of north-central Vermont, this project is the first slopeside development in Stowe, the center of a resort area long popular with weekenders — especially in winter.
ref: 2007 January 5, Nick Kaye, “Spruce Peak at Stowe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Located on or near a ski slope.
slopeside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slopesides
Etymology: From slope + -side.
Senses: examples: text: There were still few trees, but the slopesides seemed very steep, and plastered over them were the patterned patches of Indian farms!
ref: 1942, Sullivan C. Richardson, Adventure South, page 205:
text: As roots clutch the gully soil and cling to the slopesides.
ref: 2022, Gregory Day, Words Are Eagles:
glosses: The side of a slope.
tokening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English tokenyng, *taknand, from Old English tācniende, from Proto-Germanic *taiknōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *taiknōną (“to mark, denote, indicate”), equivalent to token + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of token
tokening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tokenings
Etymology: From Middle English tokning, takning, from Old English tācnung (“signification, indication, sign, characteristic mark, symptom”), equivalent to token + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of marking or designating.
glosses: A token, sign, or proof.
glosses: That which a thing betokens; meaning, interpretation.
transvaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
-ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: From trans- + vaginal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Through the vagina
Derived terms: transvaginally
transvaginal ultrasound
tokened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of token
wraithlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wraithlike
form: most wraithlike
Etymology: From wraith + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Beyond the hut a clump of myalls loomed spectral and wraith-like, and round them a gang of crows cawed noisily, irreverent of the great silence.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 28:
text: The sight of them [the Grampians] as we crossed the viaduct over the North Esk I am not likely to forget. After a night of snow, they hung wraith-like across the sky, exquisitely beautiful in the greyness of winter dawn.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
text: Mr. Bean’s version plays like the murderous hero of “Crime and Punishment” reimagined as a wraithlike stalker.
ref: 2007 January 20, Matt Zoller Seitz, “Easy Does It, the Next Stop Is a Killer. No, It Really Is.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a wraith; ghostly.
wrister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wristers
Etymology: From wrist + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The opening goal, a wrister by Cal Clutterbuck over Pogge's shoulder from 30 feet out, was certainly one he'd like back.
ref: 2009 January 28, Kevin McGran, “Leafs' call-up Justin Pogge overwhelmed on Wild night”, in Toronto Star:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A wrist shot, a shot made primarily with a wrist motion
glosses: A knitted wrist covering
wristers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrister
worksite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worksites
Etymology: From work + site.
Senses: examples: text: Earlier yesterday, Harper attended a tightly controlled "photo opportunity" at a home renovation worksite to highlight his proposed measure of tax credits to stimulate the construction industry.
ref: 2009 January 29, Tonda MacCharles, “PM survives, 'on probation'”, in Toronto Star:
text: It's easy to miss things. After all, this is a massive project that's around 124 miles long and which contains dozens and dozens of worksites (large and small) covering a whole range of activities.
ref: 2020 August 12, Paul Bigland, “High Speed 2 is starting to accelerate”, in Rail, page 56:
synonyms: jobsite
glosses: A site where work occurs; usually used in reference to construction work.
worksites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worksite
worklessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From workless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The majority come from circumstances where worklessness is embedded, and placements need to incorporate some element of mentoring if these individuals are to develop the life skills necessary to sustain a career.
ref: 2009 January 16, Libby Brooks, “Generation Crunch need more than just McJobs”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Unemployment; the state of being without paid work
Synonyms: unwork
wishfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wishfulnesses
Etymology: From wishful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She asked her little question with something of the softness of her old manner, with something of the longing loving wishfulness which used to make so many of her questions sweet to her mother’s ears.
ref: 1863, Anthony Trollope, chapter 8, in Rachel Ray, volume 2, London: Chapman & Hall, page 170:
text: [The film American Madness] simply hit too close to home for audiences in 1932: the wishfulness of its happy ending could not compensate for the familiarity of its painful subject.
ref: 2004, Mark Feeney, chapter 7, in Nixon at the Movies, University of Chicago Press, page 209:
glosses: The state or quality of being wishful.
examples: text: For the long lost glories, that never in fact existed save in the wishfulness of their brains, were being remembered with a reality as vivid, if not more so, as truth itself.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 36, in Gormenghast, Penguin, published 1969, page 228:
text: […] Gov. Eliot Spitzer has made New York the latest state to travel down a murky legal road, to a place where laws are made not in response to facts, but to wishfulness and fear.
ref: 2007 March 13, “Wrong Turn on Sex Offenders”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wishful thinking.
translesion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + lesion.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Extending across a lesion, often specifically a damaged section of DNA
Derived terms: translesion synthesis
winegrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine-growing
form: wine growing
Etymology: From wine + growing.
Senses: examples: text: Nine riders […] dropped out with injuries sustained in two crashes during the 136km trip from suburban Adelaide through the Clare Valley winegrowing region to Victor Harbour on the coast.
ref: 2009 January 23, Ron Reed, “Winds cause crash carnage”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2009:
glosses: Synonym of viticulture (“the cultivation of grape vines for wine production”).
synonyms: word: viticulture
extra: the cultivation of grape vines for wine production
Related terms: winegrower
wicketless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wicket + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Vettori paid the price for a wicketless outing in the final one-day international against the West Indies on Tuesday, slipping from first place to second.
ref: 2009 January 14, AAP, “Nathan Bracken returns to No.1 in ODI bowling rankings”, in Herald Sun:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having failed to gain a single wicket
whitegoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: THIS has big savings on top brands of whitegoods, televisions, vacuum cleaners and most major appliances.
ref: 2009 February 15, Liz Ackroyd, “Bargains at the click of a button”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2009:
glosses: Alternative form of white goods.
waveguiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waveguide
waterslide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterslides
Senses: examples: text: Each pays $230 a month for the crowded living space that is mostly taken up by three beds and a mattress on the floor. Ms. Silva and her roommates do most of their cooking in microwave ovens; they have wireless Internet and access to the motel pool and waterslide.
ref: 2007 February 17, Jim Robbins, “Boom in the Mountains Creates a Housing Shortage”, in New York Times:
text: "We ended up at Wet 'n' Wild on the Gold Coast and spent the next four hours hurtling down waterslides.
ref: 2009 January 26, Jim Wilson, “Michael Voss plan earns points from Jonathan Brown”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Alternative form of water slide.
waterbombing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waterbomb
wallcovering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wallcoverings
Etymology: From wall + covering.
Senses: examples: text: There is no reason not to paper one wall with your favorite wallcovering — the wall with the fireplace, say, or the one where you plan to park the sofa — and paint adjacent walls a complementary color.
ref: 2007 June 21, Mitchell Owens, “Room to Improve”, in New York Times:
glosses: A covering for a wall, such as wallpaper
waterbomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waterbombs
form: waterbombing
form: waterbombed
form: waterbombed
Etymology: From water + bomb.
Senses: examples: text: Four aircraft - including two air cranes - are currently waterbombing the area, […].
ref: 2009 January 13, Staff writers, “Victoria swelters while Port Lincoln, South Australia and Sydney burn”, in Herald-Sun:
glosses: To drop large quantities of water (onto a fire) from the air.
waterbomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterbombs
Etymology: From water + bomb.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water bomb.
voguing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vogue + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: In past works Mr. Harrell[…] has explored the point where voguing, with its angular movements, meets postmodern dance of the 1960s and ’70s, as well as the concept of “cool.”
ref: 2007 January 25, Gia Kourlas, “Strike a Pose: A Show Pony Choreographs His Obsession”, in New York Times:
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A stylized form of modern dance characterized by photographic-style poses integrated with angular, linear and rigid movements.
Synonyms: vogue
vegies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Nielsen report also revealed a rise in consumers turning to specialist stores for fresh fruit and vegies.
ref: 2009 January 22, Karen Collier, “No-frills shelves plundered as people stay home to eat”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2009:
glosses: plural of vegie
vampy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: vampier
form: vampiest
Etymology: From vamp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She was a wonderfully campy, vampy siren, and her double fouettes in the coda were breathtaking.
ref: 1988 November 18, Dorothy Samachson, “Moscow Classical Ballet”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a vamp; tending toward indecency
vaccinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaccinias
Etymology: From Latin vaccinus + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, Professor Heim inquired minutely into all the circumstances of the case, and says he is convinced of the variolation of the cow, and of the transmission from her of a disease similar to vaccinia.
ref: 1842 May 17, Robert Ceely, “Identity of Small-Pox and Cow-Pock”, in Provincial Medical Journal:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An infection of cowpox.
examples: text: Since then, a handful of vaccinia cases have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including one, described in the May 4 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, of vulvar infection in an Alaskan woman whose sex partner was a serviceman.
ref: 2007 May 18, John Schwartz, “Soldier’s Smallpox Inoculation Sickens Son”, in New York Times:
glosses: The virus which causes this infection.
glosses: A closely related poxvirus, used as a smallpox vaccine.
Derived terms: english: genus of the vaccinia virus
translation: genus of the vaccinia virus
word: Vaccinia
word: vaccine
word: vaccination
untransformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + transformed.
Senses: examples: text: The manuscript he's come up with, he asserts, is a rarity for him: It represents experience untransformed by the power of imagination.
ref: 1988 December 16, Joshua Kosman, “Reading: Zuckerman Meets His Maker”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not transformed; free of any transformation
untransformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untransform
unselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪv
Etymology: From un- + selective.
Senses: examples: text: The 1851 Exhibition was international and unselective; the 1951 exhibitions, however, will be entirely British.
ref: 1951 May, “Railway and the Exhibitions of 1851 and 1951”, in Railway Magazine, page 300:
text: “I’m preaching the virtues of the unselective small colleges, the ones that are inclusive rather than exclusive,” Mr. Pope said in an interview at his apartment in a retirement community here in the suburbs of northern Virginia.
ref: 2007 February 28, Alan Finder, “A Fighter for Colleges That Have Everything but Status”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not selective; open and inclusive.
unscreened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + screened.
Senses: examples: text: They are usually untrained, unscreened and unsupervised[…].
ref: 2007 March 1, Jane Gross, “New Options (and Risks) in Home Care for Elderly”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not screened, or not having been screened
glosses: not protected by a built-in screen. (of cables etc.)
unrelievedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unrelievedly
form: most unrelievedly
Etymology: From unrelieved + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In the review, which appeared in the Literary Review of Canada, Mr. Black wrote, “she would have to write something unrelievedly terrible before I could bring myself to write anything negative about it.”
ref: 2007 January 8, Christopher Mason, “Conrad Black Twits an Author, Then Makes News by Apologizing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Utterly; absolutely; without relief
unmiked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + miked.
Senses: examples: text: But it may end up unmiked in her coloratura register, where it does.
ref: 2007 February 4, Matthew Gurewitsch, quoting Adams, “Broadway Babies Give a Grand Old Lady a Hand”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not miked; not amplified with a microphone
unmatchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmatchable
form: most unmatchable
Etymology: From un- + matchable.
Senses: examples: text: An edge in a graph which has a perfect matching is an unmatchable edge if no perfect matching in the graph contains that edge.
ref: 1995, V. Balakrishnan, Network Optimization, page 228:
glosses: Unable to be matched.
examples: text: Yes, the originals were fantastic, perhaps even unmatchable.
ref: 2007 January 2, Allan Kozinn, “Celebrating Movie Musicals That Are Never Out of Date”, in New York Times:
glosses: Uniquely good; not approached by anything else in quality or excellence.
unmatchable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unmatchables
Etymology: From un- + matchable.
Senses: examples: text: Both the matchables and the unmatchables direct us along new lines of inquiry. The matchables invite study of kinship, neighbouring, and property as advantageous ladders of social advancement, while the unmatchables invite inquiry into risk, its incidence, and the strategies young people were employing […]
ref: 2015, Peter Baskerville, Kris Inwood, Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources, page 209:
glosses: Something that cannot be matched.
unintegrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + integrated.
Senses: examples: text: Still, for all the current talk of integrating advertising into programming, […] there’s something distinctly unintegrated about this finished product.
ref: 2007 April 14, Virginia Heffernan, “An Amazing Race, With Cars as the Stars”, in New York Times:
glosses: Lacking integration
unflashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unflashy
form: most unflashy
Etymology: From un- + flashy.
Senses: examples: text: He was quiet, unassuming, decidedly unflashy, nearly clergylike: the antithesis of the popular image of an agent.
ref: 2000, Daniel Okrent, Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game:
text: She was nothing like the wild supermodels and party girls he had been dating. Ms. Hamm has unflashy clothes, jewelry and ways and is the opposite of high-maintenance.
ref: 2007 January 28, Lois Smith Brady, “Shannon Hamm and John Warner IV”, in New York Times:
text: Sunak has been keen to assemble a cabinet largely in his own image - straightforward, unflashy and low-profile - and is likely to prioritise others who fit this mould.
ref: 2023 July 15, Aubrey Allegretti, “Sunak eyes reshuffle: Ministers prepare for post-political careers”, in The Guardian, page 23:
glosses: Not flashy.
unplaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + placed.
Senses: examples: text: For none of these I write, and none of these
Could read the writing if they deigned to try;
So may they flourish in their due degrees,
On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky.
ref: 1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
text: Until more detailed phylogenetic work is done to elucidate their true relationships, it seems best to leave all these species unplaced.
ref: 2009, Karl N. Magnacca, Patrick M. O'Grady, Revision of the Modified mouthparts species group of Hawaiian Drosophila:
glosses: Not assigned a place.
examples: text: The Listed John Dillon Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Australia Day is an option for Rok Posta, who has only been unplaced four times in his 20 starts.
ref: 2009 January 18, Adrian Dunn, “Girls combine to Posta win at Flemington”, in Herald Sun:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: Not among the first three horses to finish a race.
undersupplied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undersupply
waterbombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of waterbomb
waveguided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of waveguide
truckmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truckmakers
Etymology: From truck + maker.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: automaker, carmaker
text: Sodertalje, a scenic industrial town about 20 miles southwest of Stockholm, is home not just to the truckmaker Scania, which has its main factory here, but also to a thriving and growing population of Iraqis, most of them Christians. Ms. Ewas chose Sodertalje because her brother lives here.
ref: 2007 January 16, Ivar Ekman, “Iraqi Refugees Find Sanctuary, and Fellow Iraqis, in Sweden”, in New York Times:
glosses: A manufacturer of trucks.
Related terms: cartmaker
wagonmaker
vampier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of vampy: more vampy
vampiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of vampy: most vampy
truckmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truckmaker
tryna
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪ(ə)nə/
rhymes: -aɪnə
Forms: form: trynna
form: tryinna
form: try'na
form: try'n'a
Etymology: Reduction of trying to. Chiefly AAVE, though also a natural realization of "trying to" in many other dialects. Compare gonna.
Senses: examples: text: Every time I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho / Tryna make a sister feel low / You know all of that gots to go
ref: 1993, “U.N.I.T.Y.”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:
text: You get caught in the middle, tryna dribble on my court
ref: 2001, Adam F featuring MOP, “Stand Clear”:
text: […] Mr. Kelly’s verse outshines all the others (“I’m tryna keep it R&B/But these streets is a part of me,” he sings, ascending into falsetto); he gives the chorus a tuneful makeover too.
ref: 2007 February 4, Kelefa Sanneh, “Friends, Feuds, Yelps, Sobs and a Swedish Nightingale”, in New York Times:
text: Catch me up in snowin, in my sliders and my shorts / Chicks tryna get my brotha Flips to share his thoughts
ref: 2019, Stormzy, “Vossi Bop”:
text: You're beautiful, but misunderstood / So why you tryna be just like the neighborhood?
ref: 2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle, “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max:
text: Kissy face, kissy face / Sent to your phone, but / I'm tryna kiss your lips for real (uh-huh, uh-huh)
ref: 2023 November 7 (date recorded), Chae Young Park [i.e., Rosé]; Bruno Mars [pseudonym; Peter Gene Hernandez] [et al.], “Apt.”, in Rosie, performed by Rosé and Bruno Mars, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Records; Seoul, South Korea: The Black Label, published 18 October 2024:
qualifier: chiefly African-American
glosses: a future modal indicating intent
wikipedia: reduction (linguistics)
Related terms: finna
gonna
wanna
gotta
oughta
Imma
tripleton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripletons
Etymology: From triple + -ton.
Senses: examples: text: It means that you lead low from a doubleton and the middle card from a tripleton.
ref: 2007 August 9, Phillip Alder, “For a Young Polish Player, One Trip Yields Two Gold Medals”, in New York Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: Three cards of the same suit, held in a dealt hand
Related terms: doubleton
singleton
tripletons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripleton
tyramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyramides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tyramine derivative
tyramides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyramide