cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
adhærence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] Potter was more timerous, but his hand was at a bond with ſome 30 others, wheirin he renunced the King; he would have qualified his adhærence to theſe practiſes, in ſo far as they aggreed with the Word of God […]
ref: 1840, John Lauder, Historical Observes of Memorable Occurrents in Church and State, page 10:
glosses: Archaic spelling of adherence.
amnesiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The superficialities, the incoherencies, the paradoxes, the deliria, the amnesiæ, are well brought into evidence.
ref: 1906, Leonardo Bianchi, James H. Macdonald, A Text‐Book of Psychiatry for Physicians and Students, William Wood & Company, Part III, Chapter I, page 407:
glosses: plural of amnesia
yaksha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yakshas
Etymology: From Sanskrit यक्ष (yakṣa).
Senses: qualifier: Hindu mythology
glosses: A kind of supernatural being; can be a malevolent demon or a beneficent tutelary deity.
qualifier: Southeast Asia mythology
glosses: A kind of supernatural being, often depicted as having supernatural power, great strength, and frightening appearance; can be a malevolent demon or a beneficent tutelary deity.
Related terms: yakshi
yakshini
Juliet cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Juliet caps
Etymology: Named for the character in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Senses: glosses: A round shaped tight-fitted cap worn by brides etc.
pœnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The anthor’s exteusive experience as a magistrate gives peculiar interest to his views on the pœnological side of criminality.
ref: 1893, Arthur MacDonald, chapter II, in Abnormal Man, page 46:
glosses: Archaic spelling of penological.
hypnotiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypnotisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypnotizer.
ye've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: ye have
ye'll
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /jiːl/
ipa: /jiːəl/
ipa: /jəl/
rhymes: -iːl
rhymes: -iːəl
Senses: glosses: Contraction of ye shall.
glosses: Contraction of ye will.
ye'd
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: -iːd
Senses: examples: text: Isn't that my baby you're carryin', and wasn't I the best lover ye'd ever met?
ref: 2017, David Bischoff, Charles Sheffield, The Selkie:
glosses: Contraction of ye had.
examples: text: “Ye'd beat me?” She was suddenly breathless. “Really, Bertie? Ye'd beat me?”
ref: 1995, Catherine Coulter, The Duke, →ISBN:
text: If ye bring ye'er wife f'r to see th'game, an' she has her name in th'paper, that counts ye wan. So th'first thing ye do is to find th'raypoorter, an' tell him ye're there. Thin ye ordher a bottle iv brown pop, an' have ye'er second fan ye with a towel. Afither this ye'd dhress, an' here ye've got to be dam particklar or ye'll be stuck f'r th' dhrinks.
ref: 2012, Jeff Silverman, Classic Golf Stories: 26 Incredible Tales from the Links, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: Contraction of ye would.
May bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: May bugs
Senses: glosses: cockchafer
how do ye do
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: How do ye do
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of how do you do.
beautiful fruit dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beautiful fruit doves
form: Beautiful Fruit Dove
Senses: glosses: A frugivorous dove of the species Ptilinopus pulchellus, also known as the rose-fronted pigeon or crimson-capped fruit dove (leading to easy confusion with the crimson-crowned fruit dove): small, approximately 19 cm (7½ in) long, mainly green fruit dove.
incoop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incoops
form: incooping
form: incooped
form: incooped
form: incoup
Etymology: From in- + coop.
Senses: glosses: To coop in; inclose.
raskol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raskols
Etymology: Reborrowed from Tok Pisin, from English rascal.
Senses: glosses: A criminal in Papua New Guinea, sometimes operating as part of a gang.
atoll fruit dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atoll fruit doves
form: Atoll Fruit Dove
Senses: glosses: A fruit-eating dove (Ptilinopus coralensis) in the family Columbidae, endemic to French Polynesia.
golden fruit dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden fruit doves
Etymology: From the males' bright golden-yellow colour.
Senses: glosses: Ptilinopus luteovirens, a small, approximately 20 cm (8 in) long, short-tailed fruit dove in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae.
Synonyms: golden dove
lemon dove
yellow dove
plagioclases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plagioclase
Trollywood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒ.li.wʊd/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑ.li.wʊd/
rhymes: -ɒliwʊd
Etymology: Blend of Trollhättan + Hollywood
Senses: glosses: The Swedish film industry located in Trollhättan.
nontelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + telic.
Senses: glosses: Not telic.
nonobservational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + observational.
Senses: glosses: Not observational.
carnosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carnosities
Etymology: From carnose + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey ſuppoſe an Olive the more grovvne it is in carnoſitie, to be the fuller of oile: vvhereas in very truth, all the good juice in them is converted then into the groſſe and corpulent ſubſtance thereof, […]
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XV.] The Natures of Trees that Beare Fruit.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 431:
glosses: Fleshiness.
glosses: A fleshy caruncle or excrescence.
Related terms: carnose
carnosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carnosity
scutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scut
principlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: principlists
Etymology: From principle + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of principlism.
principlists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of principlist
principlism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From principle + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A system of ethics based on the four moral principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.
Related terms: principlist
principlistic
slacklining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slackline + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Highlining was a high-wire version of slacklining, an extreme cousin of tightrope walking in which no pole was used for balance and the rope was elastic, allowing for various tricks involving walking, sitting, lying down, flipping, even spinning hula hoops.
ref: 2008 March 14, Jeré Longman, “900 Feet Up With Nowhere to Go but Down”, in New York Times:
glosses: A sport resembling tightrope walking but with the rope or webbing only partially taut.
slacklining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From slackline + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slackline
teachercentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teachercentric
form: most teachercentric
form: teacher-centric
Etymology: From teacher + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: Even then the teacher must not allow the pupilcentric structure to be replaced by a teachercentric one.
ref: 1967, Edward R. Fagan, English and the disadvantaged:
text: Mr. Vanderhoek, who is keen on reinvention (before creating Manhattan GMAT in 2000, he taught at I.S. 90 for three years, subsisting on falafel and moonlighting as a tutor based at his local Starbucks), has updated the 3Rs to fit his teachercentric credo: Rigorous Qualifications, Redefined Expectations, and Revolutionary Compensation.
ref: 2008 March 14, Robin Finn, “A Product of Private Schools, Advocating for Public Education”, in New York Times:
glosses: Focusing on a teacher.
Synonyms: teacher-centered
antipop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipop
form: most antipop
Etymology: From anti- + pop.
Senses: examples: text: It extrapolates those ideas in antipop directions; the beat started amid feedback and reverb, then drove the music toward brick-walled dead ends, while Mr. Barnett repeated thoughts like “Strike me down” or “We’re being watched by experts.”
ref: 2008 March 15, The New York Times, “South by Southwest, Shot by Shot”, in New York Times:
text: Autechre’s soundscape is crowded and discordant, determinedly antipop.
ref: 2008 April 17, Jon Pareles, “An Antipop Soundscape of Beats, Riffs, Throbs and Hisses, Full of Ideas”, in New York Times:
text: The song, “We've Saved the Best for Last,” became a wide mainstream hit as well, adding even more fuel to an antipop sentiment in jazz.
ref: 2011, Thomas Harrison, Music of the 1980s, page 143:
glosses: Opposing mainstream pop music.
antisecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisecular
form: most antisecular
Etymology: From anti- + secular.
Senses: examples: text: The lawsuit, filed with the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the country, seeks to shut down the party because of what it says are antisecular activities.
ref: 2008 March 15, Sabrina Tavernise, “Suit Seeks to Bar Party of Premier in Turkey”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
religion
sciences
social-science
sociology
antonyms: antireligious
glosses: Opposing what is secular.
calligraphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calligraphy
candified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of candify
friendlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more friendlike
form: most friendlike
Etymology: From friend + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Casting for the show started immediately, as Ms. Hilton invited prospective friends, male or female, to apply at her new Web site, ParisBFF.com. Twenty contestants will begin the show by living with Ms. Hilton in a house, where they will undertake tasks to prove their friendlike qualities.
ref: 2008 March 15, Edward Wyatt, “Return From the Serious Life: Reality TV Has Paris Hilton Again”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a friend.
Derived terms: unfriendlike
inbreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inbreak
inbreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inbreak
inbroken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of inbreak
key grip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key grips
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The head of the grip department, involved with lighting and camera movement.
key grips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key grip
squinching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squinch
squinched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squinch
degunker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degunkers
Etymology: From degunk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It used to be that you could take off the cowling, wrap plastic bags around the electrical stuff (magnetos, regulator, and alternator) and vacuum pump, and blast away with engine degunker.
ref: 2005, Ron Wanttaja, Airplane Ownership, page 191:
text: The Disk Defragmenter utility (see Figure 3-5) is a degunker's friend, enabling your computer to consolidate fragmented files and gain more efficient access to your folder system.
ref: 2005, Wayne Palaia, Christina Palaia, Degunking Microsoft Office:
text: Citra-Drain is an eco-Drano-type degunker, unclogging everything but my nonvegan arteries.
ref: 2009 March 3, “It’s Not Easy Being Clean”, in New York Times:
glosses: Something that removes gunk.
close-mid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From close + mid.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: pronounced with the tongue in a position approximately two-thirds of the way between an open and a close vowel
raw_tags: of a vowel
Related terms: close
open
open-mid
depressional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From depression + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It’s only right that the tide of inspirational books should yield to the occasional depressional one — for every humorist, a dishumorist, a man who runs his nails down the blackboard and makes everyone’s hair stand up, though we humorists would note that you have to work hard to get a laugh and that dishumor is tyrannical: you need only say out loud, “How can you people stand around here and enjoy yourselves while the world is falling apart?” and all conversation ends.
ref: 2008 March 16, Garrison Keillor, “Woe Be Gone”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to psychological depression.
examples: text: Those natural depressional wetlands are comparable to those occurring in the SE and NW case-study areas...
ref: 2006, Russell S. Harmon, Carol M. Wicks, Derek C. Ford, Perspectives on Karst geomorphology, hydrology, and geochemistry, page 229:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a physical depression.
open-mid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From open + mid.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: pronounced with the tongue in a position approximately one-third of the way between an open and a close vowel
raw_tags: of a vowel
Related terms: close-mid
UTG
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Initialism of under the gun. From the fact that being UTG (i.e., the first to play) is often considered a strategically disadvantageous position.
Senses: examples: text: The UTG player.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Sitting to the left of the big blind (BB), thus being the first to play in many varieties of poker, including Texas hold 'em and Omaha.
UTG
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Initialism of under the gun. From the fact that being UTG (i.e., the first to play) is often considered a strategically disadvantageous position.
Senses: examples: text: Playing UTG.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: In the UTG position.
UTG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism of under the gun. From the fact that being UTG (i.e., the first to play) is often considered a strategically disadvantageous position.
Senses: examples: text: UTG raises 3 big blinds.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A UTG player.
membranophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From membranophone + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to membranophones.
nonmembrane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + membrane.
Senses: examples: nonmembrane proteins
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a membrane.
hyperlegible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperlegible
form: most hyperlegible
Etymology: From hyper- + legible.
Senses: examples: text: Ours is an era of plentiful but repetitive erotic writing, an age of “copper-lidded eyes” and “green eyes flecked with yellow,” of a “backbreaking orchid” and an “orchid boat,” of hyperlegible Freudian metaphor (silos and fountains, copper pipe and cowboy hats) and its counterpart, the forensic, literal overcorrection (aureoles, Formica countertops and AA batteries).
ref: 2008 March 16, Dan Chiasson, “Hot or Not”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very easily legible.
lookist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lookist
form: most lookist
form: looksist
Etymology: From look + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Weldon was sent to profile Jordan and worried her subject was a simple reminder of Britain’s “shoddy, lookist, celebrity culture.”
ref: 2008 March 16, Dwight Garner, “Inside the List”, in New York Times:
glosses: Forming prejudices based on a person's physical appearance.
lookist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lookists
form: looksist
Etymology: From look + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I don't blame racists, sexists, lookists, or any other “ists” for what they personify and perpetuate. They are mere hostages of their egos.
ref: 2007, Fran Harris, Will the REAL You Please Stand Up?:
glosses: One who forms prejudices based on a person's physical appearance.
Related terms: lookism
lowballer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowballers
Etymology: From lowball + -er.
Senses: examples: text: James and Valentina Sbarra fit the last description, and they are relieved to be able to call themselves successful lowballers.
ref: 2008 March 16, Lisa Prevost, “Lowball Offers on the Rise”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who lowballs.
lowballers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowballer
macrohistory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrohistories
Etymology: From macro- + history.
Senses: examples: text: These days, it’s chiefly nonhistorians like Jared Diamond and Tim Flannery who seek to trace the long arc of the species and write macrohistory in a scientific key.
ref: 2008 March 16, Alexander Star, “I Feel Good”, in New York Times:
antonyms: microhistory
glosses: A form of large-scale history dealing with large groups of cultures over very long time periods.
Related terms: macrohistorian
macrohistorical
macrohistorically
big history
deep history
macrohistories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrohistory
macrohistorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrohistorians
Etymology: From macro- + historian.
Senses: glosses: A historian in the field of macrohistory.
microhistorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microhistorians
Etymology: From micro- + historian.
Senses: examples: text: Microhistorians have likened their methods to criminal detection, in which careful observation of seemingly marginal details of obscure events and lives can result in evidence that is significant in terms of larger issues.
ref: 2004, Michael J. Hogan, Thomas G. Paterson, Explaining the history of American foreign relations, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A historian in the field of microhistory.
macrohistorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrohistorian
microhistorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microhistorian
macrohistorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + historical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to macrohistory.
Derived terms: macrohistorically
microhistorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + historical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microhistory.
Derived terms: microhistorically
microhistories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microhistory
melancholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melancholic
unmelancholy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmelancholy
form: most unmelancholy
Etymology: From un- + melancholy.
Senses: glosses: Not melancholy.
methylbenzodioxepinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Just as steel, the new high-tech metal, allowed the rise of the skyscraper, Pfizer’s 1966 discovery of the methylbenzodioxepinone molecule, trade-named Calone, with its fresh marine/ozonic scent, allowed the creation of the oceanic scents of the ’90s.
ref: 2009 March 3, Jens Mortensen, “Eau de Mies”, in New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An odorant used to give the olfactory impression of a seashore.
nonbiodegradables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonbiodegradable
nonbiodegradability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + biodegradability.
Senses: glosses: The property of not being biodegradable.
nonpurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonpurists
Etymology: From non- + purist.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a purist.
nonpurists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpurist
officewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From office + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: The N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament starts this week, and your colleagues have asked you to participate in an officewide pool.
ref: 2008 March 16, Matt Villano, “Dipping Carefully Into the Betting Pool”, in New York Times:
glosses: Throughout an office.
overprogrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overprogram
glosses: simple past and past participle of overprogramme
overprogrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overprogrammed
form: most overprogrammed
Senses: examples: text: Because they are such ready joiners and such eager participants, children in the intermediate years can easily become overprogrammed. How many activities constitute enough and how many are too many?
ref: 1982, James Andrew Kenny, Mary Kenny, Whole-life parenting:
text: “The one nice thing about being the most overprogrammed middle-school kid in America was that doing nothing felt like a special treat,” Winerip writes.
ref: 2008 March 16, Rich Cohen, “All the Principal’s Men”, in New York Times:
glosses: Given a programme or schedule of too many activities.
overproductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overproduction
overproducer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overproducers
Etymology: From overproduce + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who overproduces.
overproducers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overproducer
ozonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ozonic
form: most ozonic
Etymology: From ozone + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Just as steel, the new high-tech metal, allowed the rise of the skyscraper, Pfizer’s 1966 discovery of the methylbenzodioxepinone molecule, trade-named Calone, with its fresh marine/ozonic scent, allowed the creation of the oceanic scents of the ’90s.
ref: 2009 March 3, Jens Mortensen, “Eau de Mies”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to ozone.
phosphokinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphokinase
phospholanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phospholane
champagne problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champagne problems
Etymology: Because champagne is a luxury product; compare champagne socialist.
Senses: examples: text: It's a champagne problem, but for Duhamel, a problem nonetheless.
ref: 2007, Best Life (volume 4, number 6, July-August 2007, page 86)
text: These stories both reflect and reinforce destructive stereotypes, painting work-family conflict as a champagne problem enjoyed by upper-middle-class women in white-collar jobs.
ref: 2010, Joan Williams, Reshaping the Work-Family Debate:
glosses: The need to make a decision between alternatives that are both desirable.
Related terms: candy store problem
tweetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tweeting
pseudotraditional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudotraditional
form: most pseudotraditional
Etymology: From pseudo- + traditional.
Senses: examples: text: Its endless rows of pseudotraditional houses — identical white boxes sheltered under orange terra-cotta roofs — are flanked by narrow streets on one side and suburban lawns and canals on the other.
ref: 2009 March 3, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Machines for Living”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a false veneer of tradition; apparently, but not actually, traditional.
rebottler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebottlers
Etymology: From rebottle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Find everything from fragrance notes to hints about which decanters — home rebottlers who have been controversially banned from eBay — can still slip you some of the good stuff.
ref: 2008 March 16, Virginia Heffernan, “Good Vibrations”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who rebottles.
rebottlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebottler
rebottle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebottles
form: rebottling
form: rebottled
form: rebottled
Etymology: From re- + bottle.
Senses: examples: text: The unscrupulous landlord rebottled cheap sparkling wines as vintage champagne.
glosses: To bottle again or anew.
Derived terms: rebottler
rebottled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebottle
rebottling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebottle
rebottles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebottle
repackagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repackaging
roundhousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roundhouse
roundhoused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roundhouse
rubberwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rubber + wood.
Senses: examples: text: And why employ a bevy of eco-cleaners when the only thing that’s biodegradable in your living space is probably you, and Sparky over there in her pet Murphy bed made of tree-farmed rubberwood?
ref: 2009 March 3, “It’s Not Easy Being Clean”, in New York Times:
glosses: The wood of the Pará rubber tree.
stumblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stumbling
trans male
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: trans-male
form: transmale
Etymology: From trans + male.
Senses: examples: text: His [Carson's] vlogs offer another representation of trans male identity than the representation that dominates on YouTube; thus, his self-presentation is much more feminized and ambiguous than what is typically enacted and claimed among other medically transitioning trans male vloggers
ref: 2016, Tobias Raun, Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube, Routledge, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Male and trans; that is, being a male who was assigned female at birth.
Coordinate terms: trans female
Related terms: trans man
trans male
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans males
Etymology: From trans + male.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:trans male.
glosses: A trans man or trans boy.
Related terms: cis male
unbenign
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: more unbenign
form: most unbenign
Etymology: From un- + benign.
Senses: examples: text: They gave him, those eyes, the look of being always meanly at work on some extended, crafty and unbenign calculation.
ref: 2008 March 16, Benjamin Black, “The Lemur”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not benign; malevolent.
unretirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + retirement.
Senses: examples: text: The Green Bay Packers would be celebrating Brett Favre’s unretirement.
ref: 2008 March 16, Steve Hofstetter, “The Ultimate Fan Fantasy: Owning a Piece of the Rock”, in New York Times:
glosses: A return to work from retirement.
watchcases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watchcase
watchchains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watchchain
attitudinally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From attitudinal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There have been others, from Kenny Anderson to Felipe Lopez, but one also wonders: How much better might Marbury, whose all-star talent remains unquestioned, have fared attitudinally in the pros without the early fawning?
ref: 2008 March 17, Harvey Araton, “The Burden of Hype in the City’s Bright Lights”, in New York Times:
glosses: In terms of attitude.
humpless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hump + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Another pen, apparently a kind of maternity suite, held nursing mothers; a 3-day-old, virtually humpless and the size of a golden retriever on very long legs, followed at a confident trot when its mother was led away by a buyer.
ref: 2008 March 17, Katherine Zoepf, “Camels Go Easily Through the Eyes of Admirers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without humps.
Derived terms: humplessness
misprescription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misprescriptions
Etymology: From mis- + prescription.
Senses: glosses: The erroneous prescription of a medicine.
misprescribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misprescribes
form: misprescribing
form: misprescribed
form: misprescribed
Etymology: From mis- + prescribe.
Senses: examples: text: Even in a case where the doctor and the pharmacist somehow misprescribed and misdispensed, it seems obvious that the consumer would see that the product was for weight loss and would not accept it in place of an allergy relief medication.
ref: 1981, The United States Patents Quarterly - Volume 209, page 74:
text: Disagreeing with Iowa’s nosologist, Ms. Petersen says the lethal consequences of overprescribed or misprescribed drugs are too readily accepted as “natural” death.
ref: 2008 March 17, Janet Maslin, “The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers’ Dirty Tactics”, in New York Times:
glosses: To prescribe (a medicine) erroneously.
Related terms: misprescription
misprescriptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misprescription
misprescribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misprescribe
misprescribes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misprescribe
misprescribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misprescribe
nosologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosologists
Etymology: From nosology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Disagreeing with Iowa’s nosologist, Ms. Petersen says the lethal consequences of overprescribed or misprescribed drugs are too readily accepted as “natural” death.
ref: 2008 March 17, Janet Maslin, “The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers’ Dirty Tactics”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who studies diseases.
nosologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosologist
overaccommodate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overaccommodates
form: overaccommodating
form: overaccommodated
form: overaccommodated
form: over-accommodate
Etymology: From over- + accommodate.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, the accommodating new governor needs to make certain he does not overaccommodate Albany’s leaders.
ref: 2008 March 17, “Governor Paterson’s Tests”, in New York Times:
glosses: To be too accommodating towards.
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: To adjust the focus of the eye so that the image resolves at a point behind the retina.
overaccommodates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overaccommodate
overaccommodated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overaccommodate
overaccommodating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overaccommodate
interactant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interactants
Etymology: From interact + -ant.
Senses: glosses: One who interacts.
interactants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interactant
praty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praties
form: pratie
Etymology: From Irish prátaí.
Senses: glosses: A potato.
praties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praty
pratie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of praty.
salinomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -mycin (“antibiotic”).
Senses: examples: text: An investigation showed that the camels had been poisoned by fodder contaminated with an antibiotic called salinomycin, often added to chicken feed but poisonous to camels.
ref: 2008 March 17, Katherine Zoepf, “Camels Go Easily Through the Eyes of Admirers”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antibacterial and coccidiostat ionophore therapeutic drug.
subcircle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcircles
Etymology: From sub- + circle.
Senses: examples: text: If the building hadn’t been reduced to a pile of rubble, he’d have been there on Sunday, too, for what he called family night: a small dinner with a subcircle of the regulars, often potluck. Mr. Shuff would bring his “auntie’s red rice”; the super and his wife from a building next to Fubar would bring a roast or some deviled eggs.
ref: 2008 March 17, Susan Dominus, “Near Rubble, Regulars Miss Regular Bar”, in New York Times:
glosses: A lesser circle.
subcircles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcircle
quasitoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + toric.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a smooth 2n-dimensional manifold that admits a smooth, locally standard action of an n-dimensional torus, with orbit space an n-dimensional simple convex polytope.
hooty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hootier
form: hootiest
Etymology: From hoot + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Kegel has a distant, underpowered chorus and a dull orchestra. Tempos are too rushed for effect, and the interpretation is downright delicate - totally inappropriate. A hooty, scratchy soprano and a stiff baritone don't help.
ref: 1988, Peter Hugh Reed, American record guide: Volume 51:
text: Berg's partner here, Sophie Daneman, a young British soprano, has a small, pure, lyric voice that occasionally turns hooty (characteristic of many Britsh sopranos).
ref: 1998, American Record Guide - Volume 61, Issues 4-6, page 241:
text: The hooty noise came again and this time seemed much closer.
ref: 2007, Caroline Plaisted, 10 Ways to Cope with Boys, page 65:
text: Oh, there are plenty of animals in which males and females team up to raise young, as we do, that form “pair bonds” of impressive endurance and apparent mutual affection, spending hours reaffirming their partnership by snuggling together like prairie voles or singing hooty, doo-wop love songs like gibbons, or dancing goofily like blue-footed boobies.
ref: 2008 March 18, Natalie Angier, “In Most Species, Faithfulness Is a Fantasy”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characterised by a hooting sound.
examples: text: It's the kind of hooty melodrama Burnett used to spoof, but new series doesn't know where to look for laughs, with lame ideas lamely written (a cavewoman discovers cow's milk; Burnett is forced to impersonate her own celebrity look-alike) and others (a gay guy in Antarctica, Spike Lee ripoffs) that are striving so hard to be hip.
ref: 1994, Variety TV REV 1991-92 17, page 4:
text: Every time you turn around, there she is this summer in The Very best of Cher: The Video Hits Collection (Warner Bors. Records), not to mention her hooty '60s movies Good Times and Chastity (both MGM Home Video).
ref: 2004, Pour Me a Video -, page 66:
text: In this hooty gay twist on those "choose your own adventure" paperbacks, you have to save yourself from zombie drag queens
ref: 2003 June 10, “Great Summer Reading”, in The Advocate, number 891, page 47:
glosses: Very funny; hilarious; fit to make one hoot with laughter.
Related terms: hooty tooty
raptorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raptorlike
form: most raptorlike
Etymology: From raptor + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Reporting in the journal Animal Behaviour, researchers from Adam Mickiewicz University and the University of South Bohemia described transactions among great grey shrikes, elegant raptorlike birds with silver capes, white bellies and black tails that, like 90 percent of bird species, form pair bonds to breed.
ref: 2008 March 18, Natalie Angier, “In Most Species, Faithfulness Is a Fantasy”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a raptor (the bird of prey).
semiamusing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + amusing.
Senses: examples: text: The guy jumping into a chat room may be out for some fast self-gratification, a little entertainment, or a semierotic, semiamusing way to kill ten minutes at the office.
ref: 2007, Jack Mauro, M4M: For an Hour or Forever--the Gay Man's Guide to Finding Love Online, →ISBN:
text: There have been some semiamusing aspects to the controversy.
ref: 2008 March 18, Claudia Dreifus, “One Gene Closer to Understanding Pancreatic Cancer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat or partially amusing.
sudsiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sudsy: most sudsy
sudsier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sudsy: more sudsy
sudsers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sudser
sudsed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suds up
sudsing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suds up
Rachelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: 20th-century variant of Rachel, from French Rachelle, or possibly coined independently of it.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
superinteresting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superinteresting
form: most superinteresting
Etymology: From super- + interesting.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s a superinteresting area,” he said, beginning a discussion of Pericles’ funeral oration and the importance of honoring the legacies of those fallen in battle.
ref: 2008 March 18, Adam Liptak, “A False Claim of Valor and a Cry of Free Speech”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very interesting.
ultrapeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrapeers
Etymology: From ultra- + peer.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In a peer-to-peer network, a peer capable of routing requests and responses from others rather than always adopting a direct client-server connection.
ultrapeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrapeer
eurodollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eurodollars
Etymology: From euro- + dollar.
Senses: examples: text: Traders in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s eurodollar options pit on Tuesday.
ref: 2008 March 19, Mark Landler, “Dollar’s Fall Is No Cause for Alarm in Euro Zone”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Eurodollar.
eurodollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eurodollar
kulich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkuːlɪtʃ/
Forms: form: kulichi
form: kulichs
Etymology: From Russian кулич (kulič), ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλλιξ (kóllix, “roll or loaf of bread”). Cognate to Persian کلوچه، کلیچه (koluče, količe). Doublet of kulcha.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most famous of all Easter breads is the Russian kulich, a tall but delicate sweet yeasted bread that is sugared and decorated with the initials XB, which stand for “Christ is risen.”
ref: 2008 March 19, Florence Fabricant, “Easter Is for Baking, Too”, in New York Times:
synonyms: Russian Easter bread
paska
glosses: A tall, cylindrical Eastern European Easter bread, traditional in the Orthodox Christian faith.
muttonbirding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mutton bird + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The seasonal harvesting of petrel chicks, especially shearwater species, for food, oil and feathers.
ultrafunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrafunctional
form: most ultrafunctional
Etymology: From ultra- + functional.
Senses: examples: text: The disappearance of large quantities of these distinctive, ultrafunctional tables and chairs — most of them designed by Mr. Jeanneret, Le Corbusier’s cousin, for the city’s government offices, courtrooms and colleges — has begun to alarm architects and some officials in the city.
ref: 2008 March 19, Amelia Gentleman, “A City That Sat on Its Treasures, but Didn’t See Them”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely and rigidly functional, without emotion or ornament.
voguers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voguer
vogued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vogue
crossbreeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossbreeders
Etymology: From crossbreed + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Pat Metheny has cultivated an extraordinarily broad musical terrain over the last 30 years, exerting substantial influence in the process: as a guitarist, as a composer and conceptualist, as a champion crossbreeder.
ref: 2008 March 20, Nate Chinen, “Small Group, Big Sound”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who crossbreeds.
crossbreeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossbreeder
multiborough
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + borough.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Bloomberg’s sales pitch was not confined to the new governor; he also took a hard-sell approach on a soggy multiborough tour to promote the plan.
ref: 2008 March 20, Diane Cardwell, “Governor Is Another Obstacle for the Mayor’s Congestion Pricing Plan”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one borough.
multibracket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multibrackets
Etymology: From multi- + bracket.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A partition of a set into disjoint subsets such that each subset contains an even number of elements, and that if those elements are ordered, they divide the subset into ranges (1st to 2nd element, 3rd to 4th element, and so on) such that no element from another subset appears in any of the ranges.
multibracket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + bracket.
Senses: examples: text: The standard period of time which is normally required to complete an orthodontic treatment using a multibracket appliance is at least 2–3 years.
ref: 2014, Jitendra K. Pandey, Kummetha R. Reddy, Amar K. Mohanty, Handbook of Polymernanocomposites, →ISBN:
glosses: Having multiple brackets.
multirace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + race.
Senses: examples: multirace politics
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one race (ethnic group).
examples: a multirace bet
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one race (contest of speed).
Related terms: multiracial
XPer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XPers
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: extreme programmer
glosses: A person with xeroderma pigmentosum
extreme programmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extreme programmers
Senses: examples: text: In analyzing this tendency among engineers using agile methods, he points out that extreme programmers are told not to worry about possible new requirements until they are imposed on a system.
ref: 2006, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Joanne M. Atlee, Software engineering: theory and practice:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer programmer who uses extreme programming techniques.
Synonyms: XPer
XPers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of XPer
extreme programmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extreme programmer
nonblogging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + blogging.
Senses: examples: text: The costs incurred by amateurs depend on whether, in their nonblogging lives, they are self-employed or work for others. A self-employed blogger obviously has an incentive to refrain from expressing very unpopular opinions...
ref: 2000, James L. Swanson, First amendment law handbook:
text: Here’s what a number of successful bloggers with successful nonblogging careers say are the ways to think about getting into the business of blogging.
ref: 2008 March 20, Paul Boutin, “So You Want to Be a Blogging Star?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to blogging.
patternmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pattern + making.
Senses: examples: text: It involves patternmaking and fit, qualities that have diminished partly, if not purely, as a result of the decline in skilled cutters and tailors in New York and Italy.
ref: 2008 March 20, Cathy Horyn, “Two Who Believe Fashion Is More Than Flash”, in New York Times:
glosses: The creation of patterns for either sewing or casting.
Related terms: modelmaking
patternmaker
underregulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underregulates
form: underregulating
form: underregulated
form: underregulated
Etymology: From under- + regulate.
Senses: examples: text: It’s not a question of overregulating or underregulating.
ref: 2008 March 20, Diana B. Henriques, “Commodities: Latest Boom, Plentiful Risk”, in New York Times:
hypernyms: regulate
coordinate_terms: deregulate
overregulate
glosses: To regulate inadequately.
Related terms: underregulation
underregulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underregulate
underregulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underregulate
incut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + cut.
Senses: glosses: Set in by or as if by cutting.
examples: incut notes
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Inserted in a reserved space of the text instead of in the main margin.
incut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incuts
Etymology: From in- + cut.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A note inserted in a reserved space of the text instead of in the main margin.
scratchiti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of scratch + graffiti
Senses: examples: text: “What a trip!” Land had said as we took our seats on the Red Line. The seats were brand spanking new with no graffiti or scratchiti on the walls or windows and no need to purchase tickets!
ref: 2007, Sid Nasr, Passing the American Charivari, page 35:
text: The zebrawood paneling is beginning to get the scratchiti veneer of a grade-school desktop.
ref: 2008 March 20, Cintra Wilson, “Better Angel, Out of the Dressing Room!”, in New York Times:
glosses: A form of graffiti that is scratched into a surface, rather than drawn or painted.
Johannah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicized spelling of Johanna.
Senses: examples: text: I can't reconcile myself to being called Miss Silver. I can't realise the character. It's like an affectation, like making-believe. Directly I relax my vigilance, I forget, and sink back into Johannah Rothe. I'm always Johannah Rothe when I'm alone.
ref: 1897 Henry Harland, Comedies and Errors, Ayer Publishing (reprint), page 284
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
mucousy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mucousy
form: most mucousy
Etymology: From mucous + -y or muc(us) + -ous + -y or muco- + -ous + -y (see note).
Senses: examples: text: Do all the puppies seem healthy, with no mucousy discharge from the nose, no loose stools, and no foul smell from their ears? Are their coats clean and full? Do they have plenty of energy when awake?
ref: 2005, Jo Ann White, Shih tzu, page 35:
glosses: Synonym of mucous.
synonyms: word: mucous
examples: text: He makes obstreperous, richly glazed ceramic vessels that suggest charred remains; totemic sculptures webbed with mucousy, macramélike drips of resin; large, dark collages dotted with constellations of tiny images of artifacts; and drawings, photographs and short videos.
ref: 2008 March 21, Roberta Smith, Andro Wekua, Dan Walsh, Ken Johnson, Mark Handforth, Karen Rosenberg, George Condo, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suggesting mucus; mucus-like; slimy.
Synonyms: mucusy