cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lash-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lash-ups
form: lashup
Etymology: Deverbal from lash up.
Senses: examples: text: The home-made raft was a lash-up, but it floated.
text: It is, in mitigation, a faintly understandable confusion, the films having become down the decades such a lash-up of stylistic tics, fashion anachronisms, "humour", believable gunplay, cartoon violence and casual sexism that it's a wonder anyone can remember the Bond of the books as opposed to the brand Bond.
ref: 2013 October 7, Euan Ferguson, “Solo: A James Bond Novel by William Boyd – review”, in The Guardian:
text: When a six-car Class 158 lash-up arrives at Platform 17, I have to take refuge behind a post to avoid getting swept away by a tsunami of disembarking passengers.
ref: 2024 November 27, Paul Bigland, “Around the UK on nearly 80 trains...”, in RAIL, number 1023, page 48:
synonyms: word: band-aid
word: band-aid solution
word: bodge
word: cludge
word: fiddle
word: hack
word: hack job
word: jugaad
word: kludge
word: kluge
word: lash-up
word: make-do
word: makeshift
word: patch
word: patch-up
word: put-together
word: quick-and-dirty
word: quick fix
word: stopgap
word: workaround
glosses: A crude improvisation or bodged effort.
attenuable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attenuable
form: most attenuable
Senses: glosses: Capable of being attenuated.
Related terms: attenuability
attenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attenable
form: most attenable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of attainable.
modus operandus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of modus operandi.
modus operandum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of modus operandi.
split shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split shots
form: split-shot
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A type of lead shot cut part-way through the diameter, used as a line weight in angling.
examples: text: I ordered a split shot latte.
glosses: A drink of coffee comprising half-caffeinated and half-decaffeinated espresso.
Synonyms: sense: shot or stroke
word: split stroke
short of
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: He tried everything short of lending her the money himself.
text: Short of a miracle, nothing/little short of kneeling before your boss will do.
glosses: Except; but; without resorting to; up to the point of.
examples: text: He's a nice person, but a bit short of brains.
glosses: Insufficiently equipped with.
examples: text: An Olympic athlete cannot perform at any level short of world-class.
glosses: Less than.
Derived terms: three stops short of Dagenham
portafilter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portafilters
Etymology: Blend of portable + filter, or possibly incompletely calqued from Italian portafiltro "filter-carrier".
Senses: glosses: A holder for ground espresso coffee that is attached to a group in an espresso machine to produce espresso.
glosses: A similar-shaped device but without a bottom opening, used to backflush or clean an espresso machine.
shininesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shininess
grassless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English greceles; equivalent to grass + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking grass.
Derived terms: grasslessness
brightnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brightness
prescan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prescans
form: prescanning
form: prescanned
form: prescanned
Etymology: From pre- + scan.
Senses: glosses: To scan in advance.
prescans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prescan
prescanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prescan
prescanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prescan
extractivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extractive + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Discreet extractivisms happen on the local level, but the extractivist mindset has grave implications on the world-system level. The increasingly pervasive and aggressive extractivist paradigm is now a global phenomenon.
ref: 2021, C. Parker Krieg, Reetta Toivanen, editors, Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts, Helsinki University Press, →ISBN, page 243:
glosses: Characterised by seeking to extract as much of a high-demand resource as possible from a forested area in as short a time as possible.
extractivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extractivists
Etymology: From extractive + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Such a person or organisation.
Derived terms: agroextractivist
Related terms: extractivism
slow as molasses
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slow as molasses in January.
victimy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more victimy
form: most victimy
Etymology: From victim + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It is not the whiny, helpless, victimy kind of dependency.
ref: 1999, John C. Friel, The 7 Worst Things Parents Can Do, →ISBN, page 41:
text: There's nothing victimy about me and you knew that from the first day you met me. So if I'm not the victim - and I'm not - does that make me your enemy?
ref: 2001, Ashok Mathur, The short, happy life of Harry Kumar, page 220:
glosses: Characteristic of a victim, or of someone who has victim mentality.
Synonyms: victimlike
unticketed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ticketed.
Senses: examples: text: In its statement, the inaugural committee said, “Many of the problems appear to have been due to the unprecedented crowds, and a huge flow of unticketed people toward the U. S. Capitol […].”
ref: 2009 January 22, David Johnston, “Guided Into Tunnel, Ticket Holders Missed Swearing-In”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having been issued a ticket
examples: text: There is no discount on unticketed items.
glosses: Not marked with a ticket.
slow as a snail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely slow.
Synonyms: slow as molasses
slow as molasses in January
snail's pace
unpublishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpublishable
form: most unpublishable
Etymology: From un- + publishable.
Senses: examples: text: The band’s hourlong set inspired arcs of flying bodies; before it was another excellent performance by a sludgy and curious punk band with another unpublishable name, this one from Allentown, Pa.
ref: 2009 January 22, Ben Ratliff, “Chords of Fame? These Bands Never Heard of Them”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not suitable for publication
unpressured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pressured.
Senses: examples: text: At almost every turn he seemed intensely focused but unpressured and completely in command.
ref: 2009 January 22, Nate Chinen, “A Single Jazz Band, by Way of Two Trios”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not pressured; relaxed
ungrammaticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ungrammaticalities
Etymology: From ungrammatical + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Though the ungrammaticality of split verbs is an urban legend, it found its way into The Texas Law Review Manual on Style, which is the arbiter of usage for many law review journals.
ref: 2009 January 22, Steven Pinker, “Oaf of Office”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being ungrammatical.
glosses: An ungrammatical statement or utterance.
regionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regionalizations
form: regionalisation
Etymology: From regionalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Fox and CBS, with some input from the league, create each Sunday’s regionalization maps.
ref: 2009 January 22, Richard Sandomir, “Cardinals Reach the Super Bowl, but Have Trouble Reaching Viewers”, in New York Times:
glosses: An act or process of regionalizing.
preconcert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + concert.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Goebbels’s typically voracious settings represent, as one performer said in a preconcert discussion, “the accretions of centuries.”
ref: 2009 January 22, James R. Oestreich, “Gertrude Stein's Texts as Songs Spoken by Instrumentalists”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring before or in preparation for a concert
preconcert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preconcerts
Etymology: From pre- + concert.
Senses: glosses: Something concerted or arranged beforehand; a previous agreement.
preconcert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preconcerts
form: preconcerting
form: preconcerted
form: preconcerted
Etymology: From pre- + concert.
Senses: glosses: To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.
regionalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regionalization
multiheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiheaded
form: most multiheaded
Etymology: From multi- + head + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] 17,000 American troops are battling a multiheaded enemy, which includes Al Qaeda .
ref: 2009 January 22, Dexter Filkins, “In Afghan South, Taliban Fill NATO’s Big Gaps”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having multiple heads
multidecade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + decade.
Senses: examples: text: With the pound at a multidecade low and British banks requiring ever-larger injections of taxpayer cash, it is no wonder that observers have started to refer to London as “Reykjavik-on-Thames.”
ref: 2009 January 22, Julia Werdigier, Nelson D. Schwartz, “The Falling Pound Raises Fears of Nationalization”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2012:
glosses: Extending over multiple decades.
Synonyms: decadeslong
Related terms: multiday
multiweek
multimonth
multiyear
decadelong
perennial
yearlong
yearslong
outrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outrates
form: outrating
form: outrated
form: outrated
Etymology: From out- + rate.
Senses: examples: text: […] “The Rachel Maddow Show,” outrates CNN’s “ Larry King Live” in the 25-to-54 age group.
ref: 2009 January 22, Brian Stelter, “MSNBC Wants to Add a 3rd Prime-Time Show”, in New York Times:
glosses: To get a higher rating than something or someone else
outrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outrate
outrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outrate
outrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outrate
noseplug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noseplugs
Etymology: From nose + plug.
Senses: examples: text: I see men and women wearing earmuffs that look like noseplugs.
ref: 2009 January 22, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Season of the Chullo”, in New York Times:
glosses: A plug placed in the nose, usually to prevent accidental inhalation of water when swimming
nonreporting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reporting.
Senses: examples: text: This is a nonreporting political organization.
glosses: Not reporting; particularly, not required by law to file certain reports
nonreporting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + reporting.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Geithner insisted his nonreporting of the payroll taxes on income from the I. M. F. from 2001 to 2004 were mistakes […].
ref: 2009 January 22, Jackie Calmes, David M. Herszenhorn, “Geithner Grilled Over Tax Issue”, in New York Times:
glosses: A failure to report
outkick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outkicks
form: outkicking
form: outkicked
form: outkicked
Etymology: From out- + kick.
Senses: examples: text: He spoke with humor, saying that he outkicked his coverage in marrying his wife.
ref: 2009 January 22, Greg Bishop, “Jets Begin Ryan Era With High Hopes”, in New York Times:
glosses: To kick more than, or beyond, something or someone.
Derived terms: outkick one's coverage
nonemotional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒnɪˈməʊʃənəl/
ipa: /nɑniˈmoʊʃənəl/
rhymes: -əʊʃənəl
Etymology: From non- + emotional.
Senses: examples: text: By the time the Suns came to Madison Square Garden for another reunion, the only impulse D’Antoni had about his old players was the need to beat them, for purely nonemotional reasons.
ref: 2009 January 22, Howard Beck, “The Knicks Win Again to Remain on a Roll”, in New York Times:
synonyms: word: emotionless
word: unemotional
word: alexithymic
word: apathistical
word: clinical
word: dull
word: cold-blooded
word: cold-hearted
word: dead inside
word: dispassionate
word: emotionless
word: immovable
word: impassible
word: impassive
word: insensible
word: nonemotional
word: nonfeeling
word: nonpassionate
word: nonsentimental
word: stolid
word: unemotional
word: unfeeling
word: unmovable
word: unpassionate
word: unsentimental
glosses: Not emotional; unrelated to emotion.
Derived terms: nonemotionally
outkicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outkick
outkicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outkick
outkicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outkick
multiphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + phonic.
Senses: examples: text: He prefaced his next song with a row of hard, multiphonic squawks, sounding like a truck horn.
ref: 2009 January 22, Nate Chinen, “A Single Jazz Band, by Way of Two Trios”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having the character of multiphonics: sounding two or more pitches at the same time
Related terms: polyphonic
antismuggling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + smuggling.
Senses: examples: text: Israel’s foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, was in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss the antismuggling effort with European officials.
ref: 2009 January 23, Isabel Kershner, “Hamas to Start Paying Gaza Residents Compensation and Reconstruction Aid”, in New York Times:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Acting to combat or prevent smuggling
boatyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatyards
Etymology: From boat + yard.
Senses: glosses: A place where boats are built and repaired.
examples: text: There’s money for nurse training, Medicare, Head Start, boatyard support, home weatherization and so on.
ref: 2009 January 23, David Brooks, “The First Test”, in New York Times:
glosses: A shipyard.
campness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From camp + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: From its beginning, the group had an “irretrievable air of campness.”
ref: 2009 January 23, Dwight Garner, “The Mahvelous and the Damned”, in New York Times:
topics: art
arts
synonyms: campiness#Noun
glosses: The quality of being camp.
dancegoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dancegoers
Etymology: From dance + goer.
Senses: examples: text: If the score is in a traditional mode, some dancegoers will complain that it sentimentalizes the dancing; if experimental, other dancegoers will call it distracting noise.
ref: 1997, Jack Anderson, Choreography Observed, page 246:
text: As a dancegoer, I feel I have much to learn from watching this company; I hope others feel the same.
ref: 2009 January 23, Alastair Macaulay, “Finally Arriving in Manhattan, With Balanchine as Its Calling Card”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who attends either a dance or a dance performance.
Related terms: dancegoing
dancegoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dancegoer
boatyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatyard
essayistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more essayistic
form: most essayistic
Etymology: From essayist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Taylor[…] tells this story with a good deal of essayistic flair, precision and flyaway wit.
ref: 2009 January 23, Dwight Garner, “The Mahvelous and the Damned”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characteristic of, or pertaining to, an essayist.
Derived terms: essayistically
hypochondriacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypochondriacal
form: most hypochondriacal
Etymology: From hypochondriac + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Fracastorius, Fallopius, and others, being to give their sentence of a party labouring of hypochondriacal melancholy, could not find out by the symptoms which part was most especially affected […].
ref: , I.iii.2.2
glosses: Coming from the hypochondria; pertaining to or caused by depressive spirits.
examples: text: […] the hypochondriacal British ceramist William De Morgan, who spent winters in Florence for his health while gradually bankrupting his business back home producing iridescent mythological scenes on tiles, vases and plates.
ref: 2009 January 23, Eve M. Kahn, “Conversation-Piece Buys, Maybe. Intriguing Histories, Definitely.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suffering from hypochondria.
Derived terms: hypochondriacally
mystifyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mystifyingly
form: most mystifyingly
Etymology: From mystifying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A wall label mystifyingly explains that it represents “a single silver particle from a vintage gelatin silver photographic print of ‘Reclining Figure No. 4, 1955’ by Henry Moore” enlarged 300,000 times.
ref: 2009 January 23, Kenneth Johnson, “Aesthetic Withdrawal in the Quest for Ideas”, in New York Times:
text: Capello mystifyingly left Ashley Young out despite a match-winning display in the Euro 2012 qualifier win in Wales in March and he only underlined the folly of the decision by emerging as substitute at half-time and striking a fine equaliser six minutes after coming on.
ref: 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC:
glosses: In a way that mystifies.
noncoercive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coercive.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Obama signed executive orders […] requiring all interrogations to follow the noncoercive methods of the Army Field Manual.
ref: 2009 January 23, Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti, Helene Cooper, “Obama Reverses Key Bush Security Policies”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not coercive; free of coercion
Derived terms: noncoercively
nonfashion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fashion.
Senses: examples: text: The show substantiates the influence of nonfashion photography on the fashion kind[…].
ref: 2009 January 23, Roberta Smith, “Fashion Forward (Not for the Fainthearted)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not directly related to fashion, or the fashion industry
unstyled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + styled.
Senses: examples: text: […] the unstyled backyard images by Lise Sarfati, who began her career as a photojournalist.
ref: 2009 January 23, Roberta Smith, “Fashion Forward (Not for the Fainthearted)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not styled; unaffected.
examples: unstyled hair
an unstyled element in a Web page
glosses: To which no style has been applied.
unfrivolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + frivolous.
Senses: examples: text: The annual Americana fest is meant to help collectors […] pore through unfrivolous, astringent, functional American design.
ref: 2009 January 23, Eve M. Kahn, “Conversation-Piece Buys, Maybe. Intriguing Histories, Definitely.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not frivolous
unfancy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfancy
form: most unfancy
Etymology: From un- + fancy.
Senses: examples: text: Physically, the piece is slight: an odd-shaped, four-inch-across scrap of blue paper marked with unfancy parallel ink strokes and white highlights.
ref: 2009 January 23, Holland Cotter, “Where Lines Become a Kind of Language”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not fancy; simple
treasonously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more treasonously
form: most treasonously
Etymology: From treasonous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] British potters in Liverpool treasonously inscribed pro-American slogans on 1810s pitchers for the lucrative export trade ($2,000 to $6,000 at William R. and Teresa F. Kurau).
ref: 2009 January 23, Eve M. Kahn, “Conversation-Piece Buys, Maybe. Intriguing Histories, Definitely.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2020:
glosses: In a treasonous manner, or to a treasonous degree
underinsulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underinsulates
form: underinsulating
form: underinsulated
form: underinsulated
Etymology: From under- + insulate.
Senses: examples: text: “Most homes are underinsulated in this country,” Mr. Kraeutler said.
ref: 2009 January 23, Billie Cohen, “Work Now, Loaf Later”, in New York Times:
glosses: To insulate insufficiently
Derived terms: underinsulation
underinsulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underinsulate
underinsulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underinsulate
underinsulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underinsulate
territorialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: territorialisms
Etymology: From territorial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Such incidents create debate about localism, a brand of territorialism that has been practiced at surf breaks around the world for decades.
ref: 2009 January 23, Matt Higgins, “Rough Waves, Tougher Beaches”, in New York Times:
glosses: Territoriality: the assertion of rights to a territory
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A theory of church government according to which the ruler of a country has the natural right to rule also over the ecclesiastical affairs of its people.
superpipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superpipes
Etymology: From super- + pipe.
Senses: examples: text: Open since 1972, the resort overlooks the northwestern shore of Lake Tahoe and has 89 mostly intermediate trails on its 2,904 acres, as well as a 420-foot superpipe and eight terrain parks.
ref: 2009 January 23, Nick Kaye, “Martis Camp & Naos”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A large halfpipe, used in certain gravity-based extreme sports such as snowboarding and freestyle skiing
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see super, pipe.
Related terms: half-pipe
pipe
quarter-pipe
slopestyle
tubular
stepgrandson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepgrandsons
Etymology: From step- + grandson.
Senses: examples: text: The son of an out-of-work contractor can hope for a crack someday at a Senate seat, knowing that the stepgrandson of a woman who lives in a metal-roofed shack is moving into the White House.
ref: 2009 January 23, Susan Dominus, “Coming Up Short as a Role Model for the Mommy Track”, in New York Times:
glosses: The grandson of one's stepgrandfather's wife or stepgrandmother's husband from previous marriage, or the stepson of one's child.
Related terms: stepgrandchild
stepgranddaughter
stepgrandfather
stepgrandmother
stepgrandparent
stepgrandsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepgrandson
nostalgist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɒsˈtæld͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: nostalgists
Etymology: From nostalgia + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: When I was a little girl, if they ever called me a backward child they must have meant a looking-backward child; for I grew up to claim the proud title of the world’s champion nostalgist.
ref: 1944, Gladys Bronwyn Stern, Trumpet Voluntary, page 32:
text: The railroad also hears from nostalgists with fond memories of the station, buffs, who ask for such items as clocks and train gates and small boys who write in all the time asking for pieces of the floor.
ref: 1964 June 20, “Souvenir Seekers Eye Penn Station”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: After a seven-year interlude […] she has brought back the sweetly madcap nostalgist of her fondly remembered 2001 show, which opened at Arci’s Place, now defunct, on lower Park Avenue.
ref: 2009 January 23, Stephen Holden, “She's Back, and the Timing Is Uncanny”, in New York Times:
text: Of the possible postpandemic identities one can assume, there’s the early 2000s nostalgist in ironic Juicy Couture sweats, […]
ref: 2021 June 10, Isabel Slone, “There Are No Fashion Rules Anymore”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: nostalgic
glosses: A person who is prone to nostalgia.
overeducated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overeducated
form: most overeducated
form: over-educated
Etymology: From over- + educated.
Senses: examples: text: The Bright Young People were the most glamorous, influential, self-absorbed, quasi-bohemian and overeducated creatures in existence.
ref: 2009 January 23, Dwight Garner, “The Mahvelous and the Damned”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having received too much education
overeducated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-educated
Etymology: From overeducate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overeducate
overexuberance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + exuberance.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Knicks had just upended the Phoenix Suns, so a little overexuberance was understandable.
ref: 2009 January 23, Howard Beck, “At Halfway Point, Tandem Buoys the Knicks”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessive exuberance
Related terms: overexuberant
paintinglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paintinglike
form: most paintinglike
Etymology: From painting + -like.
Senses: examples: text: […] on the whole he appears to favor more a resolved, paintinglike solidity of form.
ref: 2009 January 23, Holland Cotter, “Where Lines Become a Kind of Language”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a painting
snarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snark
snarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snark
nostalgists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nostalgist
skronky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skronky
form: most skronky
Etymology: From skronk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: MODESELEKTOR (Saturday) This duo, from Berlin, plays skronky, occasionally disconcerting electronic music, and has benefited enormously from the copious—and copiously heeded—praise of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke.
ref: 2009 January 23, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
text: This is the kind of difficulty that has a kinship with skronky jazz, and avant-garde noise, and some hip-hop, and lots of punk rock.
ref: 2019, Stephanie Burt, Don't Read Poetry:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Raw and discordant, especially of an electric guitar.
politicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈlɪtɪˌsaɪd/
Forms: form: politicides
Etymology: Blend of political + -cide
Senses: examples: text: With an immediate Arab majority over the Jews, it would be instant politicide for the Israeli government.
ref: 2009 January 23, “Qaddafi’s Solution: A State of ‘Isratine’”, in New York Times:
glosses: Political suicide
examples: text: Certainly, one could imagine this kind of systematic denial of the resources required to live as a form of politicide -- or political genocide.
ref: 2002 May 20, Samantha Power, “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide”, in Washington Post:
glosses: Political killing
tiebreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiebreaks
Etymology: From tie + break.
Senses: examples: text: Should the score in the tiebreak become tied at 6 points all, play must continue until one player has a two point advantage.
ref: 1988, Anne Pittman, Tennis, page 100:
text: 2003, Athanasios Papageorgiou, Willy Spitzley, Handbook for Competitive Volleyball, Meyer & Meyer, UK, page 297,
If there have not been any major errors in the service reception, then the service reception strategy should not be changed during the tiebreak.
text: Simon committed only one unforced error in the 47-minute opening set, which required a tiebreak to settle it.
ref: 2009 January 23, Bruce Matthews, “Gooch gets a hand”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2009:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A tiebreaker, a game or an extension to a game played to resolve a tied score.
tiebreak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tiebreaks
form: tiebreaking
form: tiebroke
form: tiebroken
Etymology: From tie + break.
Senses: examples: text: As the end of the game, game tiebroke in favor of triad, inexplicably. I thought that two people on different teams(even if nominally aligned), like a Triad and a Judge lost ties against single factions with more members(2 town).
ref: 2014 February 13, “Judge and Triad Enforcer win tiebreak over two Doctors.”, in Sc2 Mafia:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To break a tie.
Derived terms: Champions tiebreak
darkhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dark-horse
Etymology: From dark + horse.
Senses: examples: text: “He's a highly intelligent boy but a bit of a different character,” says Alan Peiper, the Australian who directs the big American team Columbia-Highroad, for which Hansen is a darkhorse contender in the Tour Down Under.
ref: 2009 January 23, Ron Reed, “Quirky but still the wheel deal”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2009:
glosses: Having the character of a dark horse.
Derived terms: darkhorse candidate
tiebreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiebreak
tiebreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tiebreak
superpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superpipe
uninquiring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninquiring
form: most uninquiring
Etymology: From un- + inquiring.
Senses: examples: text: Your column might be dismissed as vapid and predigested pap, catering to and titillating, I must assume, the uninquiring minds […
ref: 1988 January 15, C. Arnold, “Vapid Pap”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not inquiring; thus, lacking curiosity.
antiauteurist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiauteurist
form: most antiauteurist
Etymology: From anti- + auteurist.
Senses: examples: text: Compared with the macho rich-boy fantasies of Rafelson's previous work, there is something rather antiauteurist about this well-crafted film noir thriller.
ref: 1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Opposed or contrary to auteurism
Related terms: antiauteurism
campiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From campy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Still, here, as in the calculated Gong Show campiness of El Grande de Coca-Cola[…], excellence would simply get in the way.
ref: 1988 January 8, Lawrence Bommer, “Live Dancers Tonite”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Sometimes you embrace the danger of unintentional campiness. I'm not afraid to make State Fair as bright and colorful as possible and put bunch of prints and plaids on actors, and make it all saccharine-sweet.
ref: 2010 September, Lou Bird, quoted in "What It's Like to be a Costume Designer", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 32
topics: art
arts
synonyms: campness#Noun
glosses: The quality of being campy.
campuslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more campuslike
form: most campuslike
Etymology: From campus + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The North Shore count area is filled with corporate headquarters and research labs set on fashionably campuslike grounds[…].
ref: 1988 January 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling a campus, especially a college or university campus
childrearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃaɪldˌɹɪəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: child-rearing
Etymology: From child + rearing.
Senses: examples: text: While it’s easy to dwell on the things you lack, there are so many good things about childrearing in a city like London. I can’t imagine a better place for having a newborn, with so many people to make friends with, classes to go to and coffee shops to linger in.
ref: 2014, Rebecca Ley, “City versus country childhoods”, in The Guardian, +201 December 2014:
text: The compulsions of her own personality pushed aside convention in childrearing (both she and Lincoln were shockingly indulgent)[…].
ref: 1988 January 8, James Krohe Jr., “Reading: Last Among First Ladies”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The raising of children; parenting.
darn tootin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: darn tootin’
form: dang tootin'
form: dang tooting
form: darn tooting
form: durn tootin'
form: durn tooting
form: damn tootin'
form: damn tooting
Senses: examples: text: Pink . . . nodded assent. "You're durn tootin’ it's right!" he testified.
ref: 1916, B. M. Bower, chapter 28, in The Heritage of the Sioux:
qualifier: countrified
glosses: Absolutely correct; speaking the truth.
examples: text: I’ve decided that Wii Fit is darn tootin’ fun.
ref: 2009 January 5, Lana Sweeten-Shults, “Look out 2009, here I come”, in Times Record News, Wichita Falls, Texas, retrieved 24 Jan 2009:
qualifier: countrified
glosses: Absolute, utter, complete, very.
darn tootin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: darn tootin’
form: dang tootin'
form: dang tooting
form: darn tooting
form: durn tootin'
form: durn tooting
form: damn tootin'
form: damn tooting
Senses: examples: text: In speech, in rapid responses, in interviews, Kerry and Edwards remind us these days how darn tootin’ chock full of values they really are.
ref: 2004 July 17, David Brooks, “Values, Values Everywhere”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Jan 2009:
qualifier: countrified
glosses: Assuredly, absolutely, utterly, completely, you bet.
darn tootin'
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: dang tootin'
form: dang tooting
form: darn tooting
form: durn tootin'
form: durn tooting
form: damn tootin'
form: damn tooting
Senses: examples: text: "May I assume you wish to enter a plea of not guilty?"
"Darn tootin’."
ref: 2001, William Bernhardt, Murder One, →ISBN, page 66:
qualifier: countrified
glosses: You are absolutely correct.
disanalogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disanalogies
Etymology: From dis- + analogy.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, there would appear to be an important disanalogy between the case of mathematics and the case of philosophy.
ref: 2008 December 6, Sanford C. Goldberg, “Reliabilism in philosophy”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: A lack or failure of analogy.
glosses: A lack or failure of analogy.
A false analogy.
darn tooting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
darn tooting
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
darn tooting
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
disanalogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disanalogy
durn tooting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
durn tooting
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
durn tooting
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
nonmanufacturing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + manufacturing.
Senses: examples: text: Between 1962 and 1984, Chicago lost 244,000 manufacturing jobs, while the number of nonmanufacturing jobs (service, research, retail, financial, and real estate) climbed by 372,500.
ref: 1988 January 8, Grant Pick, “A Plant Dies in Cragin”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Outside of the manufacturing sector
horridness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horridnesses
Etymology: From horrid + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It's true that the horridness of these basement creatures may not be apparent to the naked eye.
ref: 1988 January 8, Kitry Krause, “On Exhibit: a menagerie of microscopic monsters”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The quality of being horrid
Synonyms: horridity
edematous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more edematous
form: most edematous
form: oedematose
form: oedematous
form: œdematous
Etymology: By surface analysis, edemato- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: […] Mary grew nearly blind in her sixties, in part because constant weeping had caused her corneas to become edematous.
ref: 1988 January 8, James Krohe Jr., “Reading: Last Among First Ladies”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Afflicted with edema.
Synonyms: edematized
Derived terms: antiedematous
edematously
nonedematous
Related terms: angioedematous
edematogenic
erythematoedematous
croplands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crop + lands.
Senses: examples: text: Today, the vacant lands and the croplands are almost gone and the count results reflect the change.
ref: 1988 January 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: cropland
durn tootin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: durn tootin’
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
durn tootin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: durn tootin’
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
durn tootin'
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darn tootin'.
coscreenwriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coscreenwriters
form: co-screenwriter
Etymology: From co- + screenwriter.
Senses: examples: text: […] insofar as coscreenwriter Michael Herr has recently pointed out that Kubrick set out to make a certain kind of war film before he settled on either Vietnam or Gustav Hasford's novel The Short-Timers, I see no reason to doubt this testimony.
ref: 1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Someone who cooperates with one or more other people in screenwriting
commoditization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commoditisation
Etymology: From commoditize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The gay capitalists are identifying the commoditization of homosexuality with liberation.
ref: 1977 February 5, Allen Young, quoting Jonathan Katz, “Katz To Us: History Lives!”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 32, page 9:
text: Having established this ultimate, farcical commoditization of heroism, Robbins turns his attention to Carlos.
ref: 1988 January 8, Henry Sheehan, “Class Encounters”, in Chicago Reader:
synonyms: commodification
glosses: The transformation of something into a commodity.
Related terms: commodityism
coscreenwriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coscreenwriter
unsettledness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsettlednesses
Etymology: From unsettled + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Its unsettledness and the extremes of its social style paralleled Mary's personality.
ref: 1988 January 8, James Krohe Jr., “Reading: Last Among First Ladies”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The quality of being unsettled.
whooshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whoosh
whooshing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whooshings
Senses: glosses: A sound or motion that whooshes.
whooshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whoosh
ultraliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultraliberal
form: most ultraliberal
Etymology: From ultra- + liberal.
Senses: examples: text: We aren't sure how we happened to find ourself numbered among the ultraliberal patsies rather than the pigeons of rock-ribbed conservatism[…].
ref: 1988 January 8, Michael Miner, “Newspaperman Gets Serious/Direct Mail”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Extremely liberal.
ultraliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultraliberals
Etymology: From ultra- + liberal.
Senses: glosses: A person of extremely liberal politics.
semidomestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + domestic.
Senses: examples: text: City birds are often semidomestic, depending on humans to provide food and habitat.
ref: 1988 January 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Partially domesticated; accustomed to living together with humans
seeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsi.əbl̩/
Forms: form: more seeable
form: most seeable
Etymology: From see + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The relative scarcity of experimental work in relation to the box-office leviathans is of course only one of the reasons they're less seen and less seeable[…].
ref: 1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Able to be seen; visible.
Related terms: seeability
seeable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsi.əbl̩/
Forms: form: seeables
Etymology: From see + -able.
Senses: glosses: That which is to be seen.
scalelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scalelike
form: most scalelike
Etymology: From scale + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Below these antennae, a rounded flap hangs over all you can see of its bloodsucking stinger, a buckled straw apparently supported by a channel that is thick with scalelike excrescences.
ref: 1988 January 8, Kitry Krause, “On Exhibit: a menagerie of microscopic monsters”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling scales in shape or form
Synonyms: squamiform
squamoid
resegregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resegregations
Etymology: From re- + segregation or resegregate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: […] the city would allow a self-taxing fund in certain areas to guarantee the value of homes against depreciation caused by such things as resegregation.
ref: 1988 January 8, Grant Pick, “A Plant Dies in Cragin”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The state or process of being segregated again or in a new way
proindustrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pro-industrial
Etymology: From pro- + industrial.
Senses: examples: text: The NNF study, prepared by the proindustrial University of Illinois' Center for Urban Economic Development (CUED)[…], found that within a two-mile radius of the plant there was a close match between purchasing power and retail sales.
ref: 1988 January 8, Grant Pick, “A Plant Dies in Cragin”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: government
politics
antonyms: antiindustrial
glosses: Favoring industry
predisco
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-disco
Etymology: From pre- + disco.
Senses: examples: text: The intimate Sneakers Annex space, which could just as easily pass for a mid-50s combination truck stop/clip joint (except for Mark Mac Lean's clever predisco music), teems with the eternally generic[…].
ref: 1988 January 8, Lawrence Bommer, “Live Dancers Tonite”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: post-disco
glosses: Of the period in the 1970s preceding the advent of disco music.
posttrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + trial.
Senses: examples: text: Baker notes only that Robert "saw his mother only once" after their posttrial estrangement[…].
ref: 1988 January 8, James Krohe Jr., “Reading: Last Among First Ladies”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: law
glosses: Following the end of a trial
objectifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of objectify
nonnarrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + narrative.
Senses: examples: text: The prime advantage of nonnarrative cinema is that it allows one to think, in contradistinction to the conveyor-belt strategies of story telling[…].
ref: 1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not narrative in character or style
nonnarrative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonnarratives
Etymology: From non- + narrative.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a narrative.
nontechnique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + technique.
Senses: examples: text: Spaceballs and Amazon Women on the Moon were unwieldy messes, but they both had their moments of brilliance: the characters watching the videocassette of Spaceballs in the midst of Spaceballs, as well as some of Mel Brooks's ethnic humor and the flaunting of his nontechnique (qualities that seem to go together, as they do in Richard Marin's Born in East L.A.)[…].
ref: 1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Lack of technique
psychologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: psychologizes
form: psychologizing
form: psychologized
form: psychologized
form: psychologise
Etymology: From psychology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The absence of psychologizing, as in Jon Jost's thematically similar and equally haunting Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977), liberates the imagination in relation to Benning's beautifully composed images, and this respect for the viewer's intelligence pays off in highly charged dividends.
ref: 1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Let it be clear, however, that we are not psychologizing here; rather we are presenting at most a characteriology of thought.
ref: 2023, Jean-Luc Nancy, Derrida:
glosses: To interpret or analyze in psychological terms
Derived terms: psychologization
overtout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtouts
form: overtouting
form: overtouted
form: overtouted
Etymology: From over- + tout.
Senses: examples: text: The River's Edge, despite its strong subject, was confused and conspicuously overtouted.
ref: 1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To tout to excess
psychologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of psychologize
psychologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of psychologize
psychologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychologizings
Senses: examples: text: The Icelander must tell his story in haste; the deeds of men are his care, not their divagations nor their psychologizings.
ref: 1901, Conrad Hjalmar Nordby, The influence of old Norse literature upon English literature, page 63:
glosses: Psychological analysis or interpretation.
psychologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of psychologize
overtouted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtout
overtouting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtout
overtouts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtout
cowriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowriters
Etymology: From co- + writer.
Senses: examples: text: Joining her will be […] and Catherine MacKinnon, […] cowriter of the controversial and ultimately unconstitutional (if you believe the Seventh District Court of Appeals) Indianapolis antipornography statute.
ref: 1988 January 22, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Someone who writes something together with one or more other people.
classers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of classer