cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerite
katastate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katastates
Senses: examples: text: Now, it has been shown experimentally that a constantly subdued frame of mind produces certain poisons in the blood, called katastates, just as virtuous feelings of pleasure and delight produce helpful chemicals called anastates.
ref: 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:
glosses: Alternative form of catastate.
katastates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katastate
catastate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catastates
form: katastate
Etymology: From cata- (“down”, compare catabolism) + Ancient Greek στατός (statós, “placed, standing”), from ἵστημι (hístēmi).
Senses: glosses: A substance formed by a catabolic process.
Related terms: anastate
catastates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catastate
catastases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catastasis
uncatastrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncatastrophic
form: most uncatastrophic
Etymology: From un- + catastrophic.
Senses: glosses: Not catastrophic.
katastasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katastases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catastasis.
katastases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katastasis
katabolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katabolisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catabolism.
katabolisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katabolism
kerana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keranas
form: kerrana
form: karnay
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A long Persian trumpet.
karnay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karnays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kerana.
karnay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karnays
Etymology: From Uzbek karnay.
Senses: glosses: a long trumpet or horn made of brass or copper, used as a traditional instrument in Uzbekistan and other parts of Central Asia
karnays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karnay
Carmathian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carmathians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qarmatian.
Karmathian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karmathians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qarmatian.
Carmathians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Carmathian
Karmathians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Karmathian
Qarmathian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Qarmathians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qarmatian.
Qarmathians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Qarmathian
Qarmatian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Qarmatians
form: Carmathian
form: Karmathian
form: Qarmathian
Etymology: From Arabic قَرْمَطِيّ (qarmaṭiyy, “one who writes in small letters”) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of a religious group combining elements of the Ismaili Shi'i branch of Islam with Persian mysticism, founded by Hamdan Qarmat and centered in eastern Arabia, where they attempted to establish a utopian republic in 899 CE.
Qarmatians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Qarmatian
wagpastie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagpasties
form: wag-pastie
form: wagpasty
form: wag-pasty
Etymology: From wag + pastie.
Senses: examples: text: Mathew Merygreeke: I will call hir: Maide with whome are ye so hastie?
Tibet Talkapace: Not with you sir, but with a little wag-pastie,
A deceiuer of folkes, by subtill craft and guile.
Mathew Merygreeke: I knowe where she is: Dobinet hath wrought some wile.
ref: c. 1552, Nicholas Udall, Ralph Roister Doister, act 3, scene 2:
text: Truly this wagpastie is eyther drunck or mad.
ref: c. 1562, Nicholas Udall, Jacke Jugeler, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 1914, page 70:
glosses: A rogue; a rascal; a scoundrel.
Synonyms: troublemaker
Carmatian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carmatians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qarmatian.
Karmatian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karmatians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qarmatian.
Carmatians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Carmatian
Karmatians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Karmatian
pardusco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parduscos
Senses: glosses: A tanager of species Nephelornis oneilli found in Peru.
lyrick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lyrick
form: most lyrick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lyric.
lyrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyricks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lyric.
monkey-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey-houses
form: monkey house
Senses: examples: text: "The fellow is as full of tricks as the monkey-house at the Zoo."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: An enclosure in which monkeys are kept.
glosses: A frenetically chaotic place, often said of a place where politicians gather.
glosses: A brothel.
horrifick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horrifick
form: most horrifick
Senses: examples: text: His jaws horrifick, arm'd with threefold fate,
Here dwells the direful ſhark.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of horrific.
specifick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more specifick
form: most specifick
Senses: examples: text: But tho' the difficulties, in which all these questions are involved, should leave some room to dispute on this difference between man and beast, there is another very specifick quality that distinguishes them, and a quality which will admit of no dispute.
ref: 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 37:
glosses: Obsolete form of specific.
specifick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specificks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of specific.
generick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more generick
form: most generick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of generic.
antagonistick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antagonistick
form: most antagonistick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of antagonistic.
scholastick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scholastick
form: most scholastick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of scholastic.
scholastick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scholasticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of scholastic.
monastick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monastick
form: most monastick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of monastic.
monastick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monasticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of monastic.
prognostick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prognostick
form: most prognostick
Senses: examples: text: Whereas, those Distampers which are chiefly seated in the Fluids, and therefore acute and short, by reason of their quick and violent motion, occasioned sometimes by external Causes, and sometimes proceeding from this or that peculiar Inflammation of the Blood; irregularity and Intemperies of particular Bodies, run speedily through their Period; and are so nice and unmanagable, that, sometimes they seem to baffle Experience it self, and the very Principles of the Prognostick Art.
ref: 1720, James Harvey, Præsagium Medicum; or, the Prognostick Signs of acute Diseases, London, page 3:
text: Here I could easily make several Divisions of a Consumption of the Lungs, and those such as are confirm'd by daily Experience; but, because they neither afford any Light to the forming of a true Notion of this Distemper in general, nor help us to a clearer, or more distinct Understanding of the general Prognostick Signs and Indications of Cure, I shall not so much as mention them, at least in this place.
ref: 1720, Richard Morton, Phthisiologia: or, a treatise of consumptions., London: W. and J. Innys, page 117:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of prognostic (adjective).
prognostick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prognosticks
Senses: examples: text: So that the death of the godly, is a sad Prognostick of the destruction of the wicked.
ref: 1658, Nathaniel Hardy, A Sad Prognostick of Approaching Judgement; Or The Happy Misery of Good Men in Bad Times, London, page 25:
text: It seemed to be a prognostick of a far greater fire raised on this earl's lands, as ye shall hear hereafter.
ref: 1829, Spalding, John: The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, in the Reign of Charles I. (George King, Aberdeen) p.417
text: The omen and prognostick are both drawn from external objects; the presage is drawn from one's own feelings.
ref: 1844, George Crabb, English Synonymes Explained: with copious illustrations and examples, drawn from the best writers, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 93:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of prognostic (noun).
ecclesiastick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecclesiastick
form: most ecclesiastick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ecclesiastic.
ecclesiastick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecclesiasticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ecclesiastic.
enthusiastick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enthusiastick
form: most enthusiastick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enthusiastic.
kenotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Linked to the kenotic concept of innocence and denial of self-esteem was the new popularity which from very early on an old genre of Eastern saint enjoyed in the Christianity of Kievan Rus’, and which has endured into modern Russian Orthodoxy: the Holy Fool.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 509:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Pertaining to kenosis
Related terms: kenoticism
analytick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more analytick
form: most analytick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of analytic.
trochaick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of trochaic.
trochaick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trochaicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of trochaic.
Teutonick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Teutonick
form: most Teutonick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Teutonic.
Teutonick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Teutonicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Teutonic.
ellisize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɛlɪsaɪz/
Forms: form: ellisizes
form: ellisizing
form: ellisized
form: ellisized
Etymology: From Ellis + -ize. A large number of immigrants to the United States were processed at Ellis Island.
Senses: examples: text: Her maiden name is Kukulain, ellisized from the Irish in a penstroke of linguistic legerdemain.
ref: 1970-2010 Wilyem Clark, Terra Infirma, page 80
text: Her name was ellisized.
qualifier: passive voice
glosses: To anglicize or Americanize; to alter in transcription, either intentionally to facilitate spelling or pronunciation by (American) English speakers, or by mistake due to unfamiliarity with or indifference to the language of origin.
raw_tags: of a name
sceptick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scepticks
Senses: examples: text: And what happineſs is there in a ſtorm of paſſions? On this account the Scepticks affected an indifferent æquipondious neutrality as the only means to their Ataraxia, and freedom from paßionate diſturbances.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XXVII, in Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinion with a Reply to the Exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius, London: E. Cotes, page 168:
text: That there may be Certainty upon an infallible Evidence in Matters of Science, I readily grant you. But since there once were Scepticks in Philosophy as well as Religion, such as doubted of every thing, I very much question, whether the whole World be agreed in this Point; unless you could assure me, that Race of Seekers is now extinct.
ref: 1720, Samuel Fancourt, “The Remarker's second Objection produced and examined”, in An Essay Concerning Certainty and Infallibility: Or, Some Reflections Upon a Pamphlet Stiled, “The Nature and Consequences of Enthusiasm Considered, in Some Short Remarks on the Doctrine of the Blessed Trinity Stated and Defended.” In a Letter to the Author of Those Remarks, London: R. Cruttenden, page 35:
glosses: Obsolete form of sceptic.
skeptick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skepticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of skeptic.
rheumatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rheumatick
form: most rheumatick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rheumatic.
italick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of italic.
italick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: italicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of italic.
heroick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heroick
form: most heroick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of heroic.
Derived terms: heroickly
centrick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more centrick
form: most centrick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of centric.
systematick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more systematick
form: most systematick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of systematic.
panick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more panick
form: most panick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of panic.
panick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panicks
Senses: examples: text: Panicum […] hathe no name in Engliſh yet, but it may well be called panick after yͤ Latin.
ref: 1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of Panick”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 76, recto:
english: Panicum […] hath no name in English yet, but it may well be called panic after the Latin.
translation: Panicum […] hath no name in English yet, but it may well be called panic after the Latin.
bold_translation_offsets: 67
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text: There be ſundrie ſorts of Panick, although of the ancients there hathe beene ſet downe but two, that is to ſay, the wilde or fielde Panick, and the garden or manured Panick: […]
ref: 1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Panick”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book I, page 78:
text: [H]e perceived hovv that many vvomen follovved his ſouldiers, ſome being their vvives, and ſome vvanting nothing to make them ſo but marriage, […] The King coming to a great river, after his men and the vvagons vvere paſſed over, cauſed the bridge to be broken dovvn, hoping ſo to be rid of theſe feminine impediments; but they on a ſudden liſt up a panick ſhrick vvhich pierced the skies, and the ſouldiers hearts on the other ſide of the river, vvho inſtantly vovved not to ſtirre a foot farther, except vvith baggage, and that the vvomen might be fetch'd over, vvhich vvas done accordingly.
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, “The Life of Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden”, in The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC, book IV, paragraph 5, page 332:
glosses: Obsolete form of panic.
panick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: panicks
form: panicking
form: panicked
form: panicked
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of panic.
down antiquarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of down antiquark
Tupperware parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tupperware party
Tupperware ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tupperware lady
bowling alleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowling alley
CIFS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪfs/
Senses: topics: Windows
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
coordinate_terms: SMB
glosses: Initialism of Common Internet File System.
Hyponyms: JCIFS
trans person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans persons
form: trans people
form: transperson
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most surprising and controversial issue to emerge was that of "transpeople." Transpeople, as defined by the highly articulate Houston based Transpeople Caucus are "transexuals, transgenderists, transvestites, drag queens, and female impersonators." Phyllis Frye, a transgenderist from Houston, in fact opened the welcoming Friday night session. The original motion made by this caucus called for, "the term Gay Transpeople to be included in all statements...The demands as well as policy and media coverage." They also called for the changing of the name of the March to read "Lesbians, Gay Males and Gay Transpeople’s March on Washington."
ref: 1979 September/October, “The March Is On!”, in The Lesbian Tide, volume 9, number 2, Los Angeles: Tide Publications, page 12, column 3:
antonyms: cis person
glosses: A transgender or transsexual person.
Related terms: trans man
trans woman
command performance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: command performances
Senses: examples: text: "I've been giving a ‘command’ performance for the president," explained the actor modestly.
ref: c. 1900, Richard Harding Davis, Billy and the Big Stick:
text: Following a 1973 White House command performance and a TV special, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back, Sinatra made his first nightclub appearance in three years at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace.
ref: 1974 February 4, “People”, in Time:
text: And he won't let his audience forget that he was part of a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II in June.
ref: 1998 October 4, Alvin Klein, “Theater: A Potential New Star For an Ever-Rarer Art”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Oct 2011:
glosses: A dramatic, musical, or similar entertainment performed before a monarch or other head of state, especially in a circumstance where that ruler has requested or ordered the performance.
examples: text: Some big client of Arthur's is coming to town, and Sally is supposed to entertain the man's wife. She says it's a command performance.
ref: 2002, Susan Wittig Albert, Indigo Dying, Penguin, published 2004, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: A task, activity, or other assignment which one undertakes in order to satisfy someone in authority, such as an employer.
Hypernyms: performance
throwing knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throwing knives
form: throwing-knife
Senses: hyponyms: trumbash
glosses: A knife designed and weighted so that it can be thrown effectively, typically as a weapon or for competitions of knife-throwing skill.
Related terms: ballistic knife
throwing knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throwing knife
Mahoma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romance-language forms of the name.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Muhammad.
empowre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empowres
form: empowring
form: empowred
form: empowred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of empower.
centeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of central.
akratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more akratic
form: most akratic
form: acratic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to akrasia.
Derived terms: akratically
relinquisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relinquish
massacrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: massacre + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of massacre
considrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: considre + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of considre
considreth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: considre + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of considre
power strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power strips
Senses: synonyms: extension block
extension box
power board
power bar
multiple socket
multi-socket
socket log
glosses: A block of electrical sockets that attaches to the end of a flexible cable and allows multiple electrical devices to be plugged in.
Related terms: extension cord
extension lead
extension reel
surge protector
surge protector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surge protectors
Senses: synonyms: surge suppressor
glosses: An appliance designed to protect electrical devices from voltage spikes by limiting the voltage supplied to an electric device by either blocking or by shorting to ground any unwanted voltages above a safe threshold.
Related terms: AFCI
extension block
extension cord
GFCI
overcurrent protective device
power board
power strip
extension block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extension blocks
Senses: glosses: A power strip.
power board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power boards
Senses: glosses: A power strip.
stupifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stupify
stupifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stupify
sleeper cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeper cell
trust deeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trust deed
ammetre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammetres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ammeter.
attaindre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attaindres
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of attainder.
arginyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːd͡ʒə.nɪl/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.d͡ʒə.nɪl/
Forms: form: arginyls
Etymology: From arginine + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from arginine.
Derived terms: arginyl aminopeptidase
arginylation
arginyltransferase
glutaminyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡluˈtæ.mə.nɪl/
Forms: form: glutaminyls
Etymology: From glutamine + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from glutamine.
leucyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈluː.sɪl/
Forms: form: leucyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from leucine.
Derived terms: leucyltransferase
valyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvæ.lɪl/
/ˈveɪ.lɪl/
Forms: form: valyls
Etymology: From valine + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from valine.
histidyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪs.tə.dɪl/
Forms: form: histidyls
Etymology: From histidine + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from histidine.
Derived terms: hexahistidyl
histrelin
tryptophyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪp.tə.fɪl/
Forms: form: tryptophyls
Etymology: From tryptophan + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from tryptophan
threonyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threonyl
tyrosyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyrosyl
histidyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of histidyl
valyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valyl
leucyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucyl
arginyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arginyl
glutaminyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glutaminyl
tryptophyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tryptophyl
flannelmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flannelmouths
form: flannel-mouth
form: flannel mouth
Etymology: From flannel + mouth.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh!—Oh!—Oh!" Bert screamed, with every blow she struck "Hey, old flannel-mouth! Watch out! You'll get yours in a second."
ref: 1913, Jack London, chapter 4, in The Valley of the Moon:
text: [Y]ou may detect your own "elderly" tricks—pushing your shoulders up around your ears, being a mumble-boy or a flannelmouth!
ref: 1943 October 8, “Why Give Clues to Your Age?”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 11 Oct 2011, page 5:
text: How do they sit there, hour after hour, and listen to the congressional gasbags without blowing their tops? . . . never once leaping over the table, grabbing an inquisitor by his ears and screaming, "Hey, flannel mouth—does the phrase ‘posturing hypocrite windbag’ ring a bell?"
ref: 1998 November 30, Jeff Greenfield, “With Respect, You Moron...”, in Time:
glosses: One who speaks in an unclear, muffled, or sluggish manner.
examples: text: Uncle Sedgwick, who is considered around and about as somewhat of a flannelmouth, has talked Drizzlepuss into going ice fishing. . . . Uncle can tell you some wonderful fish stories, but, boy, I've never known a guy who's so careless with the truth.
ref: 1947 January 6, George O'Halloran, “Chester the Pup”, in Milwaukee Journal, retrieved 11 Oct 2011, page 2:
text: "Flannelmouth Fred"—He spends most of his time going around indiscriminately patting all the other employes on the back and saying "You're doing a grand job." . . . But the rest of the hired hands . . . know that after they finish doing their work, he'll ask them to help do his.
ref: 1962 October 11, Hal Boyle, “Joy Gladly Spread”, in Spokane Daily Chronicle, retrieved 11 Oct 2011, page 4:
glosses: One who speaks in a glib manner with the intent of deceiving or manipulating others.
Derived terms: flannel-mouthed
flannel-mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flannel-mouths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flannelmouth.
flannel mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flannel mouths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flannelmouth.
prospection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prospections
Senses: glosses: The action of looking forward into the future. Formed by analogy with retrospection.
glosses: The act of prospecting for minerals.
glosses: A search for archaeological remains, usually using modern technology, for example ground penetrating radar.
untempred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untempred
form: most untempred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of untempered.
centredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From centred + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of centeredness.
proprely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more proprely
form: most proprely
Etymology: From propre + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of properly.
disordrely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disordrely
form: most disordrely
Etymology: From disordre + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of disorderly.
disordre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disordres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of disorder.
disordre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disordres
form: disordring
form: disordred
form: disordred
Senses: examples: text: I serve for nothing els but for your pourposes, and therfore I beseche Your Majestie moost humbly to disordre no one poynt of your determinations for my sake, betyde on me whatsoever shall.
ref: 1543, Will̃m Paget quoted in State Papers, page #335
glosses: Obsolete form of disorder.
Derived terms: disordrely
sinistrely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sinistrely
form: most sinistrely
Etymology: From sinistre + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sinisterly.
grotsky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grotsky
form: most grotsky
Etymology: From grot + -sky.
Senses: examples: text: Thus was born National Mean Girls Day, a day for everyone—unfriendly black hotties, the girls who eat their feelings, the sexually active band geeks and every grotsky bitch in between—to celebrate all things Mean Girls.
ref: 2014 October 3, John Boone, “The 20 Best Mean Girls Quotes, Ranked From Grool to Totally Fetch”, in E News:
text: From grotsky used tissues to fingernail clippings, there's no limit to the germ-infested materials the humble pouch could have contained.
ref: 2016 July 8, Vanessa Lawrence, “Do Not Touch The Following On A Plane Unless You Want To Get Sick and Die”, in Pedestrian:
text: Trang Pak is a grotsky little byotch.
ref: 2017, Micol Ostow, Mean Girls: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: Also, if you're walking around crying that you're not gorgeous but you look like Kendall Jenner, no one, I repeat no one will want you, you grotsky little biatch.
ref: 2017, The Betches, I Had a Nice Time And Other Lies...: How to Find Love & Sh*t Like That, →ISBN:
glosses: Worthless; unappealing; deserving contempt; highly disagreeable.
americanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: americanizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Americanisation.
americanizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of americanization
attempre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: attempres
form: attempring
form: attempred
form: attempred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of attemper.
parametre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of parameter.
pornocopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pornocopias
form: porno-copia
form: pornucopia
Etymology: Blend of porn + cornucopia
Senses: examples: text: But the "coming" is decidedly profane: an encounter with a dominatrix, who strips Principle, makes him beg, then rides him through a porno-copia of sexual positions.
ref: 1999, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 31:
text: What author Frank Rose calls the web's "pornocopia" generated close to $1 billion (U.S.) in revenue in 1996.
ref: 2001, David Taras, Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media, Broadview Press, →ISBN, pages 110–111:
text: Back in the pre-"pornocopia" era, wearing a thong meant painful waxing and a wedgie, pole dancing meant emulating a low-class stripper, and taking a man for a lap dance meant tolerating and even endorsing the humiliation of watching your mate cheat.
ref: 2005, Pamela Paul, Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families, Owl Books, →ISBN, page 109:
text: Pornocopia represents a form of sexuality that, for the most part, only exists through fiction – a particular kind of pornographic space that gives greater license to the imagination of readers and writers alike than they were apt to enjoy in the real world.
ref: 2006, Henry Jenkins, “'He's in the Closet but He's Not Gay': Male-Male Desire in Penthouse Letters”, in Peter Lehman, editor, Pornography: Film and Culture, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 147:
text: Hollywood becomes a "pornocopia" where erotic desire is everything and must be satisfied at all costs.
ref: 2007, Henry Jenkins, The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 132:
text: Marlowe's eyes trailed slick video covers posted outside each, a pornocopia of pouting lips, inflated breasts, and overblown cocks.
ref: 2009, Terence Taylor, Bite Marks: A Vampire Testament, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: An abundance of pornography, sexual imagery, or nudity.
pornocopias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pornocopia
porno-copia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porno-copias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pornocopia.
porno-copias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porno-copia
accultures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acculture
acculturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acculture
accultured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acculture
offenseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more offenseless
form: most offenseless
form: offenceless
Etymology: From offense + -less.
Senses: glosses: Unoffending; innocent; inoffensive; harmless.
Derived terms: offenselessly
offenselessness
balustre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balustres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baluster.
Decembre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Decembres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of December.
glosses: A surname.
diametre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diametres
Etymology: From Old French diametre (French diamètre), from Latin diametrus, from Ancient Greek διάμετρος (diámetros) (γραμμή (grammḗ)) (diametros grammē, “line measuring across”), from διά (diá, “across”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”).
Senses: examples: text: Only a few year ago, a beauty equipped for conquest was a heterogeneous combination of incoherent forms, which nature could never have united in one animal, nor art blended in one composition : it consisted of a head, disguised so as to resemble that of no living creature, placed upon an inverted cone, the point of which rested upon the centre of the curve of a semieliptic base, more than three times the diametre of its own.
ref: 1806, Richard Payne Knight, An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste, page 3:
text: The value of a fleece is determined by fibre diametre, lustre, softness, freedom or near freedom from kemps, and clean yield.
ref: 1995, O. J. Petrie, Harvesting of Textile Animal Fibres, →ISBN, page 9:
text: The girth, radial diametre, percentage of sapwood and heartwood and percentage of bark at BDH are given in Table 1.
ref: 2001, Journal of the Timber Development Association of India:
text: A cone of 90 mm base diametre and 90 mm generator length is resting on ground.
ref: 2004, Dr. A.R. Bapat, Engineering Graphics, →ISBN, page 365:
text: Because the area occupied by an image is proportional to the square of the focal length of the lens, the light intensity over the image area is directly proportional to the diametre of the lens and inversely proportional to the square of the focal length.
ref: 2011, Edgar Thorpe, Showick Thorpe, The Pearson CSAT Manual, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of diameter.
Novembre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of November.
Octobre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of October.
Septembre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of September.
high fructose corn syrup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high fructose corn syrups
form: high-fructose corn syrup
Etymology: From high + fructose + corn syrup.
Senses: examples: text: In 1982, high fructose corn syrup production amounted to 8.4 billion pounds with a value well in excess of one billion dollars.
ref: 2005, P.R. Yadav, Raijv Tyagi, Industrial Biotechnology, page 174:
text: Let's take a look at the sweetener used in most soft drinks, high fructose corn syrup.
ref: 2005, W. Allan Walker, Eat, Play, and Be Healthy:
text: Sucrose is just as bad as high fructose corn syrup," maintains Dr. Ludwig, an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard[…]
ref: 2006, Connie Bennett, Stephen Sinatra, Sugar Shock!:
text: Not because high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is any worse for you than sugar, but because it is, like many of the other unfamiliar ingredients in packaged foods, a reliable marker for a food product that has been highly processed.
ref: 2009, Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater's Manual, →ISBN, page 11:
synonyms: HFCS
isoglucose
glucose-fructose syrup
glucose/fructose
maize syrup
high-fructose maize syrup
corn sugar
glosses: A type of corn syrup that has undergone an enzymatic processing to convert some of its glucose into fructose in order to produce a desired sweetness.
HFCS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Not because high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is any worse for you than sugar, but because it is, like many of the other unfamiliar ingredients in packaged foods, a reliable marker for a food product that has been highly processed.
ref: 2009, Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater's Manual, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Initialism of high fructose corn syrup.
tachometre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tachometres
Etymology: From tacho- + -metre.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tachometer.
tachymetre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tachymetres
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tachymeter.
high-fructose corn syrup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-fructose corn syrups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high fructose corn syrup.
high-fructose corn syrups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high-fructose corn syrup
trimetre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimetres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trimeter.
isoglucose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoglucoses
Etymology: From iso- + glucose.
Senses: examples: text: I can taste the difference between sodas with isoglucose and those made with real sugar.
glosses: High fructose corn syrup.
isoglucoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoglucose
tetrametre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrametres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tetrameter.
glucose-fructose syrup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucose-fructose syrups
Senses: glosses: High fructose corn syrup.
glucose-fructose syrups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucose-fructose syrup
maize syrup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maize syrups
Etymology: From maize + syrup.
Senses: examples: text: I love how sweet maize syrup is.
glosses: High fructose corn syrup.
Related terms: high-fructose maize syrup
high-fructose maize syrup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-fructose maize syrups
Senses: glosses: High fructose corn syrup.
spirometre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirometres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spirometer.
glucose/fructose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucose-fructose
Senses: examples: text: 2009 "The Canadian Soft Drink Industry"
Glucose/fructose is a generic term for high fructose corn syrup or HFCS
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: High fructose corn syrup.
wikipedia: glucose/fructose
glucose-fructose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 2008. "The Pastry Chef's Companion"
High-fructose corn syrup, known as glucose-fructose in Canada, is equal parts fructose and glucose
text: 2010. "How Baking Works"
Called glucose-fructose in Canada and isoglucose in the European Union, it was first popularized in the 1970s and 1980s, when high sugar prices
glosses: Alternative form of glucose/fructose.
slandre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slandres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of slander.
slandre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slandres
form: slandring
form: slandred
form: slandred
Senses: examples: text: What yow are I kan not tell; but, a my honestie, I am ashaymd of it and sory for it, that yow should so slandre the name of childer, and deceive your elders, which have an eye unto yow to note and folow your maners, as thei are advertysed by the wordes of Christ.
ref: 1558, Two sermons Preached by the Boy Bishop, page 23:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of slander.
corn sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn sugars
Etymology: From corn + sugar.
Senses: examples: text: Corn sugar is a key ingredient in home beer making.
ref: 2003, The Complete Joy of Homebrewing:
text: These added sugars assume various names on food labels: sucrose, invert sugar, corn sugar, corn syrups and solids, high-fructose corn syrup, and honey.
ref: 2010, Understanding Nutrition:
glosses: Dextrose, especially originating from corn starch.
examples: text: Last week, the industry group applied to the federal government for permission to use a new name for the ingredient on food labels: "corn sugar."
ref: 2010, “Corn sugar makers hope you'll but the new name”, in NPR:
text: The Corn Refiners Association wants to use "corn sugar" as an alternative name for the widely used liquid sweetener currently labeled as high fructose corn syrup on most sodas and packaged foods.
ref: 2011, Thomas Watkins, “'Corn sugar' is false advertising, FDA warns”, in Associated Press:
text: In April, eight leading sugar companies and two trade associations sued six corn processors and a lobbying group, alleging the corn industry is improperly using the term "corn sugar" in advertisements and elsewhere to describe high-fructose corn syrup, a widely used sweetener used in snack foods, condiments, fruit drinks and other products.
ref: 2011, Ashby Jones, “'Corn Sugar' Goes On Trial As Suit Debates High-Fructose Corn Syrup”, in The Wall Street Journal:
text: The Food and Drug Administration has cautioned the corn industry over its use of the term "corn sugar" to describe high fructose corn syrup before the proposed new name has received regulatory approval.
ref: 2011, “FDA warns industry over 'corn sugar' label”, in Star Tribune, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2011:
glosses: A deceptive term for high fructose corn syrup developed by corn refiners meant to imply sugar.
corn sugars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corn sugar
corn starch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn starches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cornstarch.
corn starches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corn starch
rabbit holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabbit hole
prime ministerial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prime ministerial
form: most prime ministerial
form: prime-ministerial
Etymology: From prime minister + -ial, under the influence of ministerial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a prime minister.
Related terms: presidential
mad hatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mad hatters
Etymology: The term is attested since at least the 1790s, and a Mad Hatter character appears in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. See mad as a hatter.
Senses: glosses: A lunatic; a highly eccentric person.
Related terms: March hare
mad hatters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mad hatter
cross border
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross-border.
cross border
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross-border.
reaggravate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaggravates
form: reaggravating
form: reaggravated
form: reaggravated
form: re-aggravate
Etymology: From re- + aggravate.
Senses: glosses: To aggravate again.
re-aggravate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-aggravates
form: re-aggravating
form: re-aggravated
form: re-aggravated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reaggravate.
pimp out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pimps out
form: pimping out
form: pimped out
form: pimped out
Senses: examples: text: You can't pimp out a ho on no earth level.
ref: 2000, Ice-T, quoted in Josh Kun, “Quickfix: Pimps in Space”, CMJ New Music Monthly, ISSN 1074-6978, Number 84 (August 2000), page 12
text: 2005, Spin Magazine
Spouting some of the most hilarious "urban" dialogue Quentin Tarantino ever wrote, Spivey (Gary Oldman) throws raging parties and pimps out feisty ho Alabama
text: 2005 Jocelyn M. Pollock, Prisons: today and tomorrow
To be turned out, prostituted, pimped out, or turned into an inmate whore.
text: The young prostitute he pimped out.
ref: 2010, John De Vito, Frank Tropea, Epic television miniseries: a critical history, page 108
text: My mom pimped me out, for my fundraising skills, to the United Way for a fundraiser.
text: Scott likes pimping out his girlfriend to his friends.
text: I hate men that live off the earnings of the prostitutes that they pimp out.
glosses: To prostitute, take advantage of, exploit, use, to hire out or provide to others like a whore.
examples: 2006, Games Access Unwired
There's also a special meter that lies underneath the health bar which increases as the fight ensues, and fills more rapidly if your fighter is pimped out with the latest kicks, bling and hairdos.
2008, David Meerman Scott
Need to Know to Get Started Pimp Out Your Blog Building an Audience for Your New Blog Tag, and Your Buyer Is It Blogging Outside of North America What Are You
synonyms: mack out
pimp up
glosses: To make showy improvements to; to adorn or beautify.
Synonyms: sense: to prostitute
word: hustle
word: whore out
word: dog out
word: mack
word: pander
word: pimp
word: pimp out
word: ponce
word: prostitute
word: punk
word: whore
Hypernyms: word: work
Hyponyms: word: turn out
Related terms: word: bludge
word: brothel
pimps out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pimp out
pimping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pimp out
pimped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pimp out
fire tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire towers
Senses: glosses: A watchtower for the purpose of looking for fires in a forest.
glosses: A stairway in a high building, protected by thick concrete and entered through a kind of airlock that prevents smoke from entering.
lookout tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lookout towers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of watchtower.
synonyms: word: watchtower
fire lookout tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire lookout towers
Senses: glosses: A lookout tower to search for fires in a forest.
Synonyms: fire tower
orthros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek ὄρθρος (órthros, “daybreak”).
Senses: qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: The divine office or service at dawn.
fire tower stairway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire tower stairways
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fire tower (“type of stairway for fire safety”).
synonyms: word: fire tower
extra: type of stairway for fire safety
smoke tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke towers
Senses: glosses: In a high building, a stairway protected by several inches of concrete and entered through a kind of "air lock" that prevents the poluted smoke to enter inside it.
Synonyms: fire tower stairway
pinosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The degree to which a wine exhibits the characteristics of a Pinot Noir.