cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
articulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: articulators
Etymology: From articulate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: He’s got a point; the same qualities that make Exxon Mobil the world’s best producer of oil and gas also cause it to be a terrible articulator of its own message.
ref: 2008 May 31, Joe Nocera, “At Exxon’s Can’t-Miss Meeting”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, articulates or expresses.
glosses: One who articulates bones and mounts skeletons.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A mechanical device to which casts of the teeth are fixed, reproducing recorded positions of the mandible in relation to the maxilla.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: speech organ
glosses: Any organ in the vocal tract used to articulate, produce speech.
cyclosporin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclosporins
Senses: examples: text: At Stanford, Dr. Shumway combined the use of cyclosporin, an immunosuppressant drug, with an innovative biopsy technique that enabled him to readily check the body’s acceptance or rejection of a new organ.
ref: 2008 May 31, Jeremy Pearce, “Richard Lower Dies at 78; Transplanted Animal and Human Hearts”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of ciclosporin.
cyclosporins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclosporin
articulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of articulator
messageless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From message + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a message.
Derived terms: messagelessness
foppishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more foppishly
form: most foppishly
Etymology: From foppish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With Piazza Maggiore, Bologna’s main square, as the backdrop, a short video depiction of the volume, which can be seen on www.fmronline.it, was followed on Thursday night by an hourlong spectacle that included dozens of costumed dancers, a string quartet playing from a stage suspended in midair, suckling pigs roasted over a pit, a fake snowfall and a foppishly dressed acrobat walking Spiderman^([sic])-style up the facade of San Petronio, the city’s cathedral.
ref: 2008 May 31, Elisabetta Povoledo, “Michelangelo for Readers With Deep Pockets”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2011:
glosses: In a foppish way.
trelliswork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trellisworks
form: trellis work
form: trellis-work
Etymology: From trellis + work.
Senses: examples: text: […] the trellis-work of lace and ruffles […]
ref: 1820, William Hazlitt, “Mr. Farren—Inexpediency of Many Theatres”, in A View of the English Stage, London: Robert Stodart, page 190:
text: Through leaves and trellis-work the sun
Left the wine cool within the glass,—
They feasting where no sun could pass: […]
ref: 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “[Poems.] Dante at Verona.”, in Poems, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 96:
text: 1932, Arthur G. Chater (translator), The Burning Bush (Den brændende busk) (1930) by Sigrid Undset, New York: Knopf, Book One, Chapter Five, p. 96,
Paul strolled about the garden and watched the stars coming out above the intricate trellis-work of the apple-trees’ branches.
text: Wavy panels made of steel trelliswork hang from the entry’s ceiling; big squat columns frame views to a small public garden outside.
ref: 2008 May 31, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Looking Skyward in Lower Manhattan”, in New York Times:
glosses: A trellis or trellis-like structure.
trellisworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trelliswork
atwinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtwɪŋkəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəl
Forms: form: a-twinkle
Etymology: From a- + twinkle.
Senses: examples: text: And he rode with a jewelled twinkle, / His pistol butts a-twinkle, / His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky.
ref: 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza II, page 46:
text: Eyes atwinkle at age 71, he boasts skills rare in the Republican Party for waging guerrilla war with help from the news media.
ref: 2008 June 16, John Harwood, “No Ordinary Candidates, No Typical Campaign”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Twinkling.
codgerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more codgerly
form: most codgerly
Etymology: From codger + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So it is not surprising that the old boy finds himself in codgerly company these days. Ms. Rendell has ghoulish fun with the assorted elderly, eccentric characters who bedevil him in “Not in the Flesh,” which is only the third of her Wexford books to appear in this present century.
ref: 2008 June 16, Janet Maslin, “Truffle Hound and Trusty Snoop Unearth Grim Secrets”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a codger; old and ill-tempered.
duplicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duplicity
legitimizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legitimizers
form: legitimiser
Etymology: From legitimize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, legitimizes.
memorizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memorizers
form: memoriser
Etymology: From memorize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, memorizes.
legitimizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legitimizer
memorizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memorizer
legitimiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legitimisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of legitimizer.
memoriser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memorisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of memorizer.
legitimisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legitimiser
memorisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memoriser
barbat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbats
form: barbud
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian بربط (barbat, barbot), from Middle Persian, possibly from Ancient Greek βάρβιτος (bárbitos), an unrelated musical instrument.
Senses: examples: text: MOHAMMAD REZA SHAJARIAN (Thursday) Renowned in his native Iran, the vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian has been performing since the 1960s, and is now widely considered one of the finest classical Persian singers in the world. Mr. Shajarian’s son, Homayoun Shajarian, will provide additional vocals and tombak (goblet drum), while Ensemble Ava, a four-piece, will contribute additional instrumentation on the ancient Persian instruments barbat (short-necked lute), tar (long-necked lute), kamancheh (spike fiddle) and daf (frame drum).
ref: 2008 May 30, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2022:
glosses: An ancient Persian plucked lute with a pear-shaped body, a flat belly, an angled back near the pegbox, and a fretless neck.
barbats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barbat
buzzsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buzzsaws
form: buzzsawing
form: buzzsawed
form: buzzsawed
Etymology: From buzz + saw.
Senses: glosses: To cut with a circular saw.
examples: text: The 7.62 tumblers would buzzsaw through the flimsy protection offered by the float.
ref: 1990, Kyle Maning, Blood Storm, page 53:
glosses: To spin rapidly like the blades of a circular saw.
examples: text: When the sun comes early through eastern windows and a single horsefly buzzsaws the air it is then I rise from bed my dreams of amputation, of teeth lost, cloaked in the amnesia of another day overwhelmed with trivia.
ref: 1981, Michael Hogan, The Broken Face of Summer: Poems:
text: A loud screeching sound buzzsaws the eerie silence of the day.
ref: 2014, Cody Toye, Evolution:
glosses: To produce a loud, harsh noise like that of a circular saw.
buzzsaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buzzsaw
Neider
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neiders
Etymology: Borrowed from German Neider.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Neiders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Neider
chartlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chartlike
form: most chartlike
Etymology: From chart + -like.
Senses: examples: text: His vigorous, chartlike compositions of hieroglyphic signs and word lists are products of a dandyish, semiotic gamesmanship.
ref: 2008 May 30, Ken Johnson, “Each Experience Speaks Its Own Language”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a chart.
crownlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crownlike
form: most crownlike
form: crown-like
Etymology: From crown + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Lot 28 at Sotheby’s is a 21-inch-tall bronze Tyche, late Hellenistic or Roman, about first century B.C. to 1st century A.D. She is standing, with a crownlike diadem resting on top of her curly hair.
ref: 2008 May 30, Wendy Moonan, “Chateau’s Monkey Room Is Lovingly Restored”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a crown.
daf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dafs
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian and Arabic دَف (daf).
Senses: examples: text: MOHAMMAD REZA SHAJARIAN (Thursday) Renowned in his native Iran, the vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian has been performing since the 1960s, and is now widely considered one of the finest classical Persian singers in the world. Mr. Shajarian’s son, Homayoun Shajarian, will provide additional vocals and tombak (goblet drum), while Ensemble Ava, a four-piece, will contribute additional instrumentation on the ancient Persian instruments barbat (short-necked lute), tar (long-necked lute), kamancheh (spike fiddle) and daf (frame drum).
ref: 2008 May 30, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2022:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East.
daf
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: DAF
Senses: glosses: Initialism of dumb as fuck.
dafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daf
honeycomblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more honeycomblike
form: most honeycomblike
Etymology: From honeycomb + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Near the fourth-floor elevators, Soo Sunny Park has installed “Fractal Immersion”; viewers peer through honeycomblike openings in layers of drywall, mylar, aluminum and paper.
ref: 2008 May 30, Karen Rosenberg, “Where Have All the Paintings Gone? To the National Academy”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a honeycomb.
pickpocketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pickpocket
pickpocketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickpocketings
Senses: examples: text: Copperfield says he turned his pockets inside out to reveal nothing in them, even though he was carrying his passport, wallet and cellphone. "Call it reverse pickpocketing," Copperfield told The Palm Beach Post for Wednesday's editions.
ref: 2006 April 26, “David Copperfield tricks robbers”, in USA Today, sourced from Associated Press, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2010:
text: The vast majority of crime in the capital is petty street crime, such as pickpocketing and “grab and runs.”
ref: 2010, Graeme R. Newman, Crime and Punishment around the World, page 124:
glosses: The act of stealing from the pocket of a passerby; the crime committed by a pickpocket.
pickpocketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pickpocket
pillowlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pillowlike
form: most pillowlike
Etymology: From pillow + -like.
Senses: examples: text: This is most publicly evident in Mr. Kapoor’s wildly popular “Cloud Gate,” an enormous, shiny, pillowlike archway (known as the Bean) at Millennium Park in Chicago.
ref: 2008 May 30, Roberta Smith, “Sculptor as Magician”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a pillow.
plastination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastinations
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A technique for preserving bodies or body parts by replacing the water and fat with certain plastics.
proclamatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proclamatory
form: most proclamatory
Senses: examples: text: Her arms bare, her manner proclamatory, she descended Federal Hall’s steps and struck — again and again — a large gong.
ref: 2008 May 30, Alastair Macaulay, “Grand Leaps on Wall Street, for a Change”, in New York Times:
glosses: In the manner of a proclamation.
siphoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siphoner
siphoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siphoners
Etymology: From siphon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Nick Damianidis, an owner, said the barrel had been hit seven or eight times since last summer by siphoners who strike in the night.
ref: 2008 May 30, Susan Saulny, “As Oil Prices Soar, Restaurant Grease Thefts Rise”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, siphons.
syrahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syrah
antiheroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiheroic
form: most antiheroic
Etymology: From antihero + -ic or anti- + heroic.
Senses: examples: text: “Monsieur Verdoux” may once again be timely, but the audacity of its statement derives less from Chaplin’s antiwar polemic than from his antiheroic pose.
ref: 2008 June 8, J. Hoberman, “When Chaplin Became the Enemy”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or typical of an antihero.
Derived terms: antiheroically
unpostmodern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpostmodern
form: most unpostmodern
Etymology: From un- + postmodern.
Senses: examples: text: It reads as a manifesto of sorts, a way for the author to assert his right to roam outside his ethnicity, and to justify the rest of his collection, which neurotically avoids the “Vietnamese thing,” taking the reader around the world in 80 days, with narrators of all ages and genders, before coming full circle in the title story — 40 pages of entirely unpostmodern realism about boat people suffering as they try to escape the new Communist state.
ref: 2008 June 8, Hari Kunzru, “Outside Ethnicity”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not postmodern.
unoffended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unoffended
form: most unoffended
Etymology: From un- + offended.
Senses: examples: text: It’s easy enough to walk away, unoffended, or to buy a piece of the miscellany that Savvyology or Baron Von Cool thinks is priceless.
ref: 2008 June 8, Virginia Heffernan, “Rank and File”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not offended.
unfragmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfragmented
form: most unfragmented
Etymology: From un- + fragmented.
Senses: examples: text: The zoning codes of the three towns have incorporated provisions of the commission’s plan, including those requiring that any new development have unfragmented expanses of open space that are free of chemical fertilizers.
ref: 2008 June 8, Valerie Cotsalas, “Ecology vs. Economy”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not fragmented.
unexalted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexalted
form: most unexalted
Etymology: From un- + exalted.
Senses: examples: text: It is rare but welcome news that members of one of the most overlooked and unexalted sectors of the work force are raising their voices together.
ref: 2008 June 8, “Women’s Work”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not exalted.
unembarrassing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unembarrassing
form: most unembarrassing
Etymology: From un- + embarrassing.
Senses: examples: text: At 42, Mr. Chandler has had a career distinguished by few roles that are as well conceived (or as fundamentally unembarrassing) as this one.
ref: 2008 June 8, Ginia Bellafante, “After 20 Years, Kyle Chandler Gets Off the Bench”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not embarrassing.
unbuildable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + buildable.
Senses: examples: text: Because unusual facades catch the public’s eye and generate much of the popular interest in contemporary architecture, clients often urge an architect to build something that looks unbuildable.
ref: 2008 June 8, Arthur Lubow, “Face Value”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not buildable; that cannot be built.
sentencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentencers
Etymology: From sentence + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A rigid Baptist, a devoted member of the Harvest Baptist Temple, the sentencer of children to beatings administered by her husband, Bill, Linda wouldn’t have allowed the books if she had known what was in them.
ref: 2008 June 8, Robert Pinsky, “Speaking the Unspeakable”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who sentences.
sentencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sentencer
sandings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanding
reflectography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From reflect + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: IF a picture is worth the proverbial thousand words, taking a peek under the paint using infrared reflectography surely adds a few thousand more — especially when it comes to a work as detailed as the enormous 15th-century altarpiece from the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Ascension in Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain.
ref: 2008 June 8, J. D. Biersdorfer, “What Lies Beneath Can Tell Another Tale”, in New York Times:
glosses: An infrared technique used by art historians to detect layers beneath the top surface of a painting and thus determine whether it is an original.
reflectogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflectograms
Etymology: From reflect + -o- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: The set of data captured in an application of reflectography.
reflectograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflectogram
psoriatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He is a college professor who drinks heavily, suffers from terrible psoriatic arthritis and seems to loathe everything about what’s become of his life.
ref: 2008 June 8, Hugo Lindgren, “Life With Father”, in New York Times:
topics: dermatology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or suffering from psoriasis.
psoriatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psoriatics
Senses: glosses: A person who has psoriasis.
megabuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megabuildings
Etymology: From mega- + building.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, while the big boys were designing their supersleek megabuildings, it was Tolla and Lignano’s container fetish that got them not one job but two.
ref: 2008 June 8, Pilar Viladas, “A Lot-Ek Solution”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very large and imposing building.
megabuildings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megabuilding
liquidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liquidly
form: most liquidly
Etymology: From liquid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Since Naipaul, and before him, we have had Earl Lovelace, the Commonwealth Writers Prize best-book winner; Lawrence Scott, winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book in Canada and the Caribbean; Sam Selvon, writer of the most liquidly gorgeous sentences in the Trinidadian canon.
ref: 2008 June 8, “Scorned by Naipaul, Embraced by Others”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a liquid way.
innkeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inn + keeping.
Senses: examples: text: For Season 3 Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott give up innkeeping and buy their first house.
ref: 2008 June 8, Mike Hale, “Surf’s Up, Channel Surfers”, in New York Times:
glosses: The trade of an innkeeper; hostelry.
begrudger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: begrudgers
Etymology: From begrudge + -er. Popularized in the second half of the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: She still doesn’t believe Obama can win, but she knows she can move ahead only as a beguiler, not a begrudger.
ref: 2008 June 8, Maureen Dowd, “Watch Out, Meryl Streep! She’s a Master Thespian.”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who begrudges.
begrudgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of begrudger
cyberself
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberselves
Etymology: From cyber- + self.
Senses: examples: text: In this age of cyberselves, with hookups just a Craigslist ad away, the game has evolved to the point of no rules.
ref: 2008 June 8, Joel Walkowski, “Let’s Not Get to Know Each Other Better”, in New York Times:
glosses: An alternate self on the Internet or in cyberspace; an online alter-ego.
Synonyms: cyberidentity
Related terms: technoself
cyberselves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberself
Byronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈɹɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈbaɪrənɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: more Byronic
form: most Byronic
Etymology: From Byron + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: You have your lovers - dusky beaus / Not made of the poetic stuff / That sports an Apollonian nose, / And wears a sleek Byronic cuff.
ref: 1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24:
glosses: Of or pertaining to British Romantic poet George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) or his writings.
Related terms: Byronism
antiforeclosure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + foreclosure.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. McCain relented in April, but his new stance represented mostly a political pivot, supporting administration antiforeclosure efforts.
ref: 2008 June 15, “Foreclosures and the Election”, in New York Times:
glosses: In opposition to foreclosure.
biomineralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of biomineralization.
bulkwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bulk + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: “Audition” tells of a life lived on, in and never far from TV. This bulky memoir weighs in at more than 600 pages, falling midway, bulkwise, between “Oblomov” and “Ulysses.”
ref: 2008 June 15, David Kelly, “Major Barbara”, in New York Times:
glosses: In terms of bulk (size).
burster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bursters
Etymology: From burst + -er. Compare buster.
Senses: examples: text: Third, the bubble bursters argue that the Greenspan-Bernanke policy is inherently inflationary because of a built-in asymmetry.
ref: 2008 June 15, Alan S. Blinder, “Two Bubbles, Two Paths”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, bursts or causes to burst.
glosses: A machine that separates one-part continuous form paper into individual sheets along the transverse perforations.
Derived terms: egg burster
bursters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burster
codesign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: codesigns
form: codesigning
form: codesigned
form: codesigned
Etymology: From co- + design.
Senses: examples: text: And I get a huge kick out of laughing at the hilariously unpredictable inflexibility of the computer models of mental processes that my doctoral students and I codesign.
ref: 2008 June 15, Douglas R. Hofstadter, “Reading File”, in New York Times:
glosses: To design together.
Derived terms: codesigner
codesign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: codesigns
form: codesigning
form: codesigned
form: codesigned
Etymology: From code + sign.
Senses: glosses: To cryptographically sign (software).
codesigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of codesign
codesigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of codesign
codesigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of codesign
housewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From house + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: The couple listed the house for $1,649,900, substantially more than the $1.35 million they paid in January 2005, but it was warranted, they thought, given their many improvements, including extensive landscaping and a housewide audio system.
ref: 2008 June 15, Lisa Prevost, “House Won’t Sell? Turn It Into a B&B”, in New York Times:
glosses: Throughout a house.
illegibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illegibility
minbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minbars
form: mimbar
form: mimber
Etymology: From Arabic مِنْبَر (minbar).
Senses: glosses: A pulpit in a mosque, usually shaped like a small tower, where the imam stands to deliver sermons.
minbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minbar
ministroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ministrokes
Etymology: From mini- + stroke.
Senses: examples: text: Initially, Ichord, like the doctors before her, thought these “spells,” as the boy called them, sounded like T.I.A.’s — ministrokes.
ref: 2008 June 15, Lisa Sanders, M.D., “Strange Spells”, in New York Times:
glosses: A transient ischemic attack.
ministrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ministroke
overpack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpacks
form: overpacking
form: overpacked
form: overpacked
Etymology: From over- + pack.
Senses: examples: text: The opportunity to start over reawakens the belief that I can become someone else -- an organized, thrifty, wise, elegant, worldly traveler, rather than the disorganized, frumpy, overpacked and harried traveler that I am.
ref: 2000 March 12, Julia Duffy Ward, “On the Road to Reform: The Traveler Within”, in The New York Times:
text: The mix of ballet vocabulary, modern techniques and African steps is familiar, but the extent to which Mr. Rhoden packs — and overpacks — phrases, cultivates warp-speed delivery and hyperextends every possible hip jut and arabesque is, thank goodness, something special to Complexions.
ref: 2007 November 23, Claudia La Rocco, “Ballet and African Steps, Delivered at Warp Speed”, in The New York Times:
text: The truth is, I tend to overpack like everyone else, and this summer is no different.
ref: 2008 May 14, Matt Gross, “What is in Matt’s Duffel Bag?”, in The New York Times:
text: Infrequent travelers tend to overpack, stuffing suitcases full of a different outfit for every day of the week, plus a few extras — just in case.
ref: 2008 June 15, Michelle Higgins, “Checking Baggage? Not at These Prices”, in The New York Times:
text: If you’re prone to overpacking and could use external structure, limit yourself intentionally: Pick a small carry-on bag or travel backpack and stick with it.
ref: 2022 December 1, Kit Dillon, “How to Maximize Space as You’re Packing”, in Wirecutter:
antonyms: underpack
glosses: To pack too much.
overpack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overpacks
Etymology: From over- + pack.
Senses: examples: text: Each container in an overpack must be a package authorized for that hazardous material in the HMR.
ref: 2011, Minnesota Department of Transportation, “Minnesota Commercial Truck and Passenger Regulations Fact Sheet”, in http://www.dot.state.mn.us/, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2013:
glosses: A container intended to hold smaller containers.
Related terms: overpacker
overpacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpack
overpacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overpack
overpacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpack
overpacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpack
untranscribable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + transcribable.
Senses: glosses: Not transcribable.
untranscribed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + transcribed.
Senses: glosses: Not transcribed.
preeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preener
preener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preeners
Etymology: From preen + -er.
Senses: examples: text: So in a town that’s in fact entirely over-populated with blow-dried preeners, it seemed entirely appropriate that the signature TV star be, if not ugly, aggressively “not pretty.”
ref: 2008 June 15, Mark Leibovich, “Tiny Town: Washington After a Fall”, in The New York Times:
text: Cake is a tall preener, calling out from the center of the dining room table, but often disappointing with overly cloying frosting or a crumb that proves less than moist.
ref: 2013 January 7, Jennifer Steinhauer, “Humble Pie? Precisely”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who preens.
agammaglobulinaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agammaglobulinaemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of agammaglobulinemia.
agammaglobulinaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agammaglobulinaemia
raspingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more raspingly
form: most raspingly
Etymology: From rasping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ali is irreverent, lazy and raspingly sardonic, and his obvious fictional predecessor is Joseph Heller ’s Yossarian.
ref: 2008 June 15, Robert Macfarlane, “The Late Dictator”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a rasping way.
Synonyms: raspily
raspily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more raspily
form: most raspily
Etymology: From raspy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a raspy way.
Synonyms: raspingly
shtik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shtiks
Senses: examples: text: Yes, I’ve heard the shtik from every muscle-car manufacturer: We only make a handful of these; most owners use them as weekend toys; boomers are willing to pay the price for nostalgic fun.
ref: 2008 June 15, Lawrence Ulrich, “An Attention-Getter, Like That or Not”, in New York Times:
text: There’s a deep phoniness at the center of his [Bill O'Reilly's] shtik.
ref: 2023 March 9, Arwa Mahdawi, quoting Tucker Carlson, “So Tucker Carlson secretly hates Donald Trump … is anybody surprised?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shtick.
shtiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shtik
soubise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soubises
Etymology: French. Named after Charles de Rohan (1715-1787), Prince de Soubise.
Senses: examples: text: Among the starters are crab meat resala, delicate, sweet petals of crab with a turmeric-onion soubise; and tender fried quail dressed with a bacon vinaigrette.
ref: 2008 June 15, “The Other Hot Spot”, in New York Times:
glosses: A béchamel-based sauce containing strained or puréed onions.
glosses: A kind of cravat worn by men in the late 18th century.
soubises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soubise
tapestried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tapestry + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Brill had no living room — only a great, tapestried music room running 40 feet across the back of the house.
ref: 2008 June 15, Christopher Gray, “A Block’s Beautification, Lost to More Makeovers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Decorated with tapestry.
soubrettish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soubrettish
form: most soubrettish
Etymology: From soubrette + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a soubrette; cheeky and mischievous.
underfurnished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underfurnished
form: most underfurnished
Etymology: From under- + furnished.
Senses: examples: text: MARLENE DUMAS’S STUDIO occupies an underheated, underfurnished ground-floor apartment on the southern side of Amsterdam.
ref: 2008 June 15, Deborah Solomon, “Figuring Marlene Dumas”, in New York Times:
glosses: Inadequately furnished; lacking in furniture.
undoctrinaire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undoctrinaire
form: most undoctrinaire
Etymology: From un- + doctrinaire.
Senses: examples: text: Partway through her undoctrinaire book, Royte, a lifelong fan of tap water, refills her old plastic water bottle, reflecting that “what once seemed so simple and natural, a drink of water, is neither.
ref: 2008 June 15, Lisa Margonelli, “Tapped Out”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not doctrinaire.
unenacted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + enacted.
Senses: examples: text: But Mr. Slater said a component of the motor-voter law designed to reach low-income people who do not drive remained largely unenacted.
ref: 2008 June 15, Shaila Dewan, “Democrats’ Vote Drive in Louisiana Stirs Concern”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not enacted.
untouchability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From untouchable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Can we make sure that we create a social structure where we remove untouchability?
ref: 2008 June 15, Anand Giridharadas, “Indian to the Core, and an Oligarch”, in New York Times:
text: One study found about a third accpeting they'd earned untouchability by committing sins in past lives, with others blaming unfairness or believing a more self-serving version of the Hindu dream, cleaiming 'they never took a true plunge in status, that they were really Brahmans in disguise.'
ref: 2021, Will Storr, The Status Game:
glosses: The state or condition of being untouchable.
Synonyms: untouchableness
untouchableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From untouchable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Untouchability.
unsoaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + soaped.
Senses: glosses: Not soaped; unwashed.
obelisklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obelisklike
form: most obelisklike
Etymology: From obelisk + -like.
Senses: examples: text: She just happens to have both in her dressing room, a personalized nook she has decorated with an Oriental theme: hanging paper lanterns, tiny colored lights and a pricey obelisklike lamp from a splurge downtown at the Pearl River shop.
ref: 2008 June 20, Robin Finn, “When Brush With Broadway Ends, She’ll Play On”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling an obelisk.
pettable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtəbəl
Forms: form: more pettable
form: most pettable
Etymology: From pet + -able.
Senses: examples: text: To unsuspecting eyes these mongoose relatives can seem eminently pettable.
ref: 2008 June 20, Edward Rothstein, “Critters of a Wondrous Isle, Meet Your Friend and Foe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suitable for petting.
Synonyms: strokable
Derived terms: unpettable
polysyllabically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more polysyllabically
form: most polysyllabically
Etymology: From polysyllabic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: He speaks so calmly and polysyllabically that people fail to appreciate the Machiavellian ambition inside.
ref: 2008 June 20, David Brooks, “The Two Obamas”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a polysyllabic way.
slurve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slurves
Etymology: Blend of slider + curve
Senses: examples: text: Of the 90 pitches he threw, Igawa, who relies on a slurve, fastball and changeup, never unleashed one that traveled faster than 91 miles per hour.
ref: 2008 June 20, Rainer Sabin, “Igawa Searching for a Way Back to New York”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch in which the pitcher throws a slider as if he or she were throwing a curve ball.
slurves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slurve
speechifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speechifiers
Etymology: From speechify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: On the one hand, there is Dr. Barack, the high-minded, Niebuhr-quoting speechifier who spent this past winter thrilling the Scarlett Johansson set and feeling the fierce urgency of now.
ref: 2008 June 20, David Brooks, “The Two Obamas”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who speechifies.
speechifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speechifier
stitchwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stitch + work.
Senses: examples: text: A Twombly-inspired canvas with slanted scribbles of white on a black background feels less forced, perhaps because Ms. Amer’s stitchwork is closer to line drawing and handwriting than to the splashes of a paintbrush.
ref: 2008 June 20, Karen Rosenberg, “Veiled or Naked: Scrutinizing Women’s Roles”, in New York Times:
glosses: Work produced by stitching.
fody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fodies
Etymology: From Malagasy fody.
Senses: examples: text: “Only in Madagascar,” the labels proudly proclaim, next to descriptions of animals like the spiny-tail iguana, the radiated tortoise or a small bird, the red fody.
ref: 2008 June 20, Edward Rothstein, “Critters of a Wondrous Isle, Meet Your Friend and Foe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Foudia in the weaver family Ploceidae.
fodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fody
unlobed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lobed.
Senses: examples: text: The laterally compressed shoots with broad, unlobed, translucent leaves extending beyond the stem[…]
ref: 1999, Jean Annette Paton, The liverwort flora of the British Isles, page 291:
glosses: not lobed
celebratedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more celebratedly
form: most celebratedly
Etymology: From celebrated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a celebrated way; famously.
bitternut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitternuts
Etymology: From bitter + nut.
Senses: glosses: The bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, a common hickory tree native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada.
glosses: Its fruit, a bitter nut sometimes used as feed for livestock.
bitternuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitternut
delimb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delimbs
form: delimbing
form: delimbed
form: delimbed
Etymology: From de- + limb.
Senses: examples: text: Statues are decapitated and delimbed, hacksawed into pieces that can be carried off and sold for their weight, not their grace.
ref: 2008 June 18, Jim Dwyer, “Bronze Eagles Owe Survival to Drug Dealer”, in New York Times:
glosses: To cut the limbs from.
delimbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delimb
delimbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delimb
delimbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delimb
dimwittedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪmˈwɪtədnəs/
Etymology: From dimwitted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His character, despite the dimwittedness, is the one you’re still pondering on the way home.
ref: 2008 June 18, Neil Genzlinger, “A Two-Man, One-Woman Crime Wave”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being dimwitted.
fuzzless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fuzz + -less.
Senses: examples: text: His most extraordinary variety has smooth, fuzzless skin like a plum, tender yellow flesh and a honey taste.
ref: 2008 June 18, David Karp, “Sweet Rewards for Apricot Explorers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without fuzz.
Derived terms: fuzzlessness
disassociations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disassociation
paletas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleta
truckbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truckbeds
form: truck bed
Etymology: From truck + bed.
Senses: examples: text: Iraqi policemen stacked bodies several feet high in a pickup truck, but some fell out of the truckbed when they drove away.
ref: 2008 June 18, Richard A. Oppel, “At Least 51 Are Killed in Blast at Baghdad Market”, in New York Times:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The bed (load-supporting platform) of a truck.
truckbeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truckbed
urbanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From urban + -ness. Piecewise doublet of urbaneness.
Senses: examples: text: The city’s quintessential urbanness could be its silver lining.
ref: 2008 June 18, Anemona Hartocollis, “Workshop on Preparing for Calamities Focuses on the Flu”, in New York Times:
synonyms: urbanity
glosses: The state or condition of being urban.
flyrod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyrods
form: fly rod
form: fly-rod
Etymology: From fly + rod.
Senses: examples: text: Though the flyrod remains Gowdy’s preference, the best way to characterize his angling style these days is: whatever it takes to get the big ones, an approach he attributes to a chance encounter 10 years ago in a Chinese restaurant near his home at the time in North Andover, Mass.
ref: 2008 June 21, Peter Kaminsky, “Taking His Cue From the Fish”, in New York Times:
glosses: a thin, flexible fishing rod designed to cast an artificial fly
Derived terms: flyrodder
flyrods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyrod
flyrodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyrodders
Etymology: From flyrod + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In making the transition from a doctrinaire flyrodder to an all-around big fish hunter on all kinds of tackle, Trevor Gowdy, became the compleatest (Izaak Walton’s rendering) angler I know.
ref: 2008 June 21, Peter Kaminsky, “Taking His Cue From the Fish”, in New York Times:
glosses: An angler who fishes with a flyrod.
flyrodders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyrodder
unmoaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + moaned.
Senses: glosses: not moaned about, not lamented
pumpkinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pumpkinlike
form: most pumpkinlike
Etymology: From pumpkin + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Other decorative touches included a red broken head of a Trojan horse, a blood-smeared wall and a black Halloween pumpkinlike mask that filled with flames when Idamante slayed the monster.
ref: 2008 June 21, Vivien Schweitzer, “An Opera’s Homecoming, in a Newly Restored House”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pumpkin.
goalball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goalballs
Etymology: From goal + ball.
Senses: examples: text: And a blind athlete, Qasim Muttar, who was a promising player of goalball — soccer played with a ball that contains bells — died after being run over by an American convoy while crossing a street.
ref: 2008 June 29, Andrew E. Kramer, “Athletes Disabled by Wars Lead Iraqi Team in World Games”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: disability
glosses: A ball game, designed for the blind, in which teams of three players attempt to throw a ball with bells embedded in it into the opposing goal.
glosses: The ball used in the sport.
Derived terms: goalballer
interfamilial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + familial.
Senses: examples: text: I did a lot of reading about early Renaissance vendettas, and the interfamilial violence is horrifying.
ref: 2008 June 29, Roslyn Sulcas, “O Romeo, Romeo, Wilst Thou Smile at This Finale?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Between families
Derived terms: interfamilially
leanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more leanly
form: most leanly
Etymology: From lean + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Faraj Hasab Khudhair, Iraq’s star wheelchair fencer, lost a leg below the knee to a mortar shell in 1986. Mr. Khudhair, a fit, leanly muscled 41-year-old, said he ventured out during United States airstrikes in his Diyala Bridge neighborhood of Baghdad to get to training sessions.
ref: 2008 June 29, Andrew E. Kramer, “Athletes Disabled by Wars Lead Iraqi Team in World Games”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a lean way.
macrobiotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From macrobiotic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: So I left Teach for America, moved home to be with my mother and prepare for my surgery, and transformed myself into a macrobiotically inclined housekeeper.
ref: 2008 June 29, Glynis Ann Ritchie, “Rescued by an Israeli Soldier”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a macrobiotic way.
overtires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtire
overtiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtire
plantless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plant + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Lynn lived on LeRoy Street in a basement apartment through which the street dust blew into the dust of the plantless garden.
ref: 1960, Donald Windham, The hero continues, page 20:
glosses: Without plants (non-animal organisms).
Derived terms: plantlessness
skyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sky + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a sky.
unpulled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pulled.
Senses: glosses: not pulled
unwashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + washable.
Senses: glosses: Not washable; that cannot be washed.
Synonyms: nonwashable
unwashable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unwashables
Etymology: From un- + washable.
Senses: examples: text: Unwashables, such as stuffed animals, should be stored in bags for at least 1 week until mites have died
ref: 2013, Samir S. Shah, Brian Alverson, Jeanine Ronan, Step-Up to Pediatrics, page 350:
glosses: Something that cannot be washed in the normal way without being damaged.
aspatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + spatial.
Senses: glosses: Not spatial
infonaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infonauts
Etymology: From info + -naut.
Senses: examples: text: 1985, Rheingold, Howard, Tools for thought: the people and ideas behind the next computer revolution, Chapter 11. Computer Book Division/Simon & Schuster.
Because he started out young in a field that was young itself, [Alan] Kay was one of the first of the generation of infonauts, the ones who grew up with the tools created by the pioneers, and who have been using them to create a medium for the rest of us.
text: […] the networked teacher—the infonaut charting a course with her students across the vast terrain of Internet communities, databases, and WWW sites—can connect with other teachers in on-line professional communities […]
ref: 1996, Carmen Luke Singh, ekastasis@cyberia. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 17(2):187-207
text: Yet the central issue remains, would an Iranian infonaut navigate like, say, an American one?
ref: 2003, Allan Martin, Hannelore B Rader, Information and IT literacy: enabling learning in the 21st century:
glosses: One who navigates the information superhighway; an Internet user.
Synonyms: cybernaut
cybersurfer
infonauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infonaut
flong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒŋ/
ipa: /flɔŋ/
ipa: /flɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: flongs
Etymology: From French flan.
Senses: examples: text: A few sheets of paper are soaked in water and then pasted together to form a flong. This flong is beaten into a page of type and dried, thus forming a matrix to receive the molten metal, which, when cooled, becomes an exact duplicate of the type page.
ref: 1892, Charles Sumner Partridge, Stereotyping, the Papier Mache Process:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype.
flong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒŋ/
ipa: /flɔŋ/
ipa: /flɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Senses: glosses: simple past of fling