cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cwt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cwt.
form: cwt
Etymology: Short for centum weight, from Latin centum + weight.
Senses: examples: text: The latter were ponderous affairs weighing over 1 cwt. and mostly made by taking a front steering tricycle or a Rotary and coupling another wheel, crank axle and chain to the existing frame and extending it outwards to accommodate the seat or saddle of the companion rider.
ref: 1921, W. F. Grew, The Cycle Industry, London, page 22:
glosses: Abbreviation of hundredweight.
totient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtoʊʃənt/
Forms: form: totients
Etymology: From Latin totiēns (“so many times, so often”). Coined by English mathematician James Joseph Sylvester in 1879.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of positive integers not greater than a specified integer that are relatively prime to it.
Related terms: Euler's totient function
Heron's formula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hero's formula
Etymology: Named after Hero of Alexandria.
Senses: glosses: The formula A=√, where a, b, and c are the sidelengths of a triangle, s is its semiperimeter, and A is its area.
sidelength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidelengths
Etymology: From side + length.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The length of a side (of a polygon).
semiperimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiperimeters
Etymology: From semi- + perimeter.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Half of the perimeter (sum of the lengths of the sides) of a polygon. The term is typically applied to triangles, cyclic quadrilaterals, and regular polygons.
Euler characteristic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euler characteristics
Senses: examples: text: A polygon's or polyhedron's Euler characteristic is just the number of corners minus the number of edges plus the number of faces.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The sum of even-dimensional Betti numbers minus the sum of odd-dimensional ones.
raw_tags: of a topological space
cyclic-inscriptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: All triangles, all rectangles, and all cyclic quadrilaterals are cyclic-inscriptable.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Able to be inscribed in a circle; able to be circumscribed.
relatively prime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 24 and 35 are relatively prime.
text: 24 is relatively prime to 35.
text: [Nicomachus] sets up three classes, and designates them as prime, composite and relatively prime; the latter are pairs of composite numbers that are prime to each other.
ref: 1926, Nicomachus of Gerasa, Frank Egleston Robbins, Louis Charles Karpinski, chapter VIII, in Martin Luther D'Ooge, transl., Introduction to Arithmetic, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 121:
glosses: Synonym of coprime.
synonyms: word: coprime
coprime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: co-prime
Etymology: From co- + prime.
Senses: examples: text: 24 and 35 are coprime.
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
synonyms: relatively prime
glosses: Having no positive integer factors in common, aside from 1.
raw_tags: of two or more positive integers
examples: text: 24 is coprime to 35.
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
synonyms: relatively prime
glosses: Having no positive integer factors, aside from 1, in common with one or more specified other positive integers.
raw_tags: of a positive integer
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Whose greatest common divisor is a nonzero constant (i.e., polynomial of degree 0).
raw_tags: of two or more polynomials
qualifier: ring theory
glosses: (of two or more ideals of a ring) Whose sum is the whole ring; (of two or more elements of a ring) generating the whole ring.
Derived terms: coprimely
Related terms: coprimality
coprimeness
greatest common divisor
fleecier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fleecy: more fleecy
fleeciest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fleecy: most fleecy
onomatopeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onomatopeias
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of onomatopoeia.
Derived terms: onomatopeic
scroop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scroops
form: scrooping
form: scrooped
form: scrooped
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: I exclaimed in a loud voice, scrooping back my chair on the brick floor and standing up.
ref: 1937, Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress, London: Faber, page 628 (in The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston ):
glosses: To produce the a harsh scraping, grating sound, as of friction.
To make sounds such as of a chair on the floor or chalk on a blackboard.
examples: The friction causes the silk to scroop.
glosses: To produce the a harsh scraping, grating sound, as of friction.
To produce a rustling sound, like that from friction between silk fibers.
scroop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scroops
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: A rustling sound like that produced from friction between silk fibers.
redoubling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redouble
redoubling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redoublings
Senses: examples: text: With their multiple narrators, labyrinthine story-within-a-story narrations, echoic redoublings and repetitions, and complex forms of self-referentiality, they repeatedly circumvent their own ostensibly orderly plot progressions.
ref: 1990, Susan Hardy Aiken, Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative, page 70:
text: Two short-term measures are proposed. The first is the redoubling of the junction, so that Up and Down trains on the Ely line no longer conflict with each other. The second is the provision of a passing loop.
ref: 2020 April 22, Paul Shannon, “Felixstowe: Is 47 trains a day achievable?”, in Rail, page 51:
glosses: The act by which something is redoubled.
redoubles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redouble
deratization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deratizations
Etymology: From de- + rat + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Extermination of rats, especially aboard a merchant vessel.
Related terms: deratize
demousing
sui juris
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsuːi ˈd͡ʒʊɹɪs/
/ˌsuːi ˈjʊɹɪs/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sui iuris.
navy blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: navy blues
Etymology: So called because it was the color of the British naval uniform.
Senses: synonyms: navy
glosses: A dark blue color.
Related terms: marine blue
sailor blue
navy blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more navy blue
form: most navy blue
Etymology: So called because it was the color of the British naval uniform.
Senses: glosses: Having a navy blue color.
photism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊtɪzəm/
Forms: form: photisms
Etymology: From the stem of Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs, “light”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The color that a synesthete may report seeing in association with a particular letter or number.
examples: text: I refer to hallucinatory or pseudo-hallucinatory luminous phenomena, photisms, to use the term of the psychologists.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture X: Conversion—Concluded”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 251:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A luminous appearance, image or subjective perception of a hallucinatory nature.
puts to rest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put to rest
putting to rest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put to rest
aforecited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + cited.
Senses: glosses: Having been cited, quoted or named earlier.
Synonyms: beforementioned
up-beat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of upbeat.
spearmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spearman
glossitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡlɒˈsaɪtɪs/
Etymology: From glosso- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammatory condition of the tongue.
Derived terms: glossitic
hemiglossitis
rascality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rascalities
Etymology: From rascal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: And the judgement of our inclinations and actions (the weightiest and hardest matter that is) we referre it to the idle breath of the vaine voice of the common sort and base raskalitie, which is the mother of ignorance, of injustice and inconstancie.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Rascals collectively; the rabble, the masses.
examples: text: The two of them engaged in all kinds of rascality in college.
text: On an a priori view of Wakem's aquiline nose, which offended Mr. Tulliver, there was not more rascality than in the shape of his stiff shirt-collar, though this too along with his nose, might have become fraught with damnatory meaning when once the rascality was ascertained.
ref: 1860, George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, Book III, Chapter VII:
text: Shortly after, the rascality of a business partner developed itself by the announcement of a failure.
ref: 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, “Preface”, in Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Vol. I, New York, United States: Charles L. Webster & Co., page 7:
text: The verdict of the sea quid nuncs has been cited only by way of showing what sort of moral impression the man made upon rude uncultivated natures whose conceptions of human wickedness were necessarily of the narrowest, limited to ideas of vulgar rascality,—a thief among the swinging hammocks during a night-watch, or the man brokers and land-sharks of the sea-ports.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: The behavior of a rascal; the quality of being a rascal.
ecstacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecstacies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ecstasy.
aristocratical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aristocratical
form: most aristocratical
Etymology: From aristocrat + -ical.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Aristocratic.
Derived terms: aristocraticalness
heroical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heroical
form: most heroical
Etymology: From Middle English heroicalle, from Latin hērōicus + -al. By surface analysis, hero + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Heroic.
Derived terms: heroicalness
unheroical
anarchical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anarchical
form: most anarchical
Etymology: From anarchy + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Anarchic
controversialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: controversialists
Etymology: From controversial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Richard Dawkins has become a leading controversialist in a few areas.
text: His indefatigable adversary, who is the perfect model of an agile controversialist, had attacked him as a magniloquent Thraso, on account of his Pansophical promises.
ref: 1847–1886, James Crossley, editor, The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington, notes:
text: Does this explain the sensational character of some of his public pronouncements? A controversialist might drive through some of the later chapters with a coach and four without encountering serious impediments; but sono ben trovati, and he is a hold man who would presume to pass final judgment upon the contemporary phase of Italy’s history.
ref: 1926 May 24, Victor S. Clark, “The Life of Benito Mussolini”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
text: He was not a drunkard, not a chronic bankrupt. For the rest, Mr. Woodward depicts [Thomas] Paine as a highminded controversialist, persecuted by reactionaries on both sides of the Atlantic for no more than liberal political views.
ref: 1945 September 24, Charles W. Morton, “Tom Paine: America's God Father”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
text: In the early 1700s [Jonathan] Swift spent much of his time in London, where he wormed his way into the company of coffee-house wits and politicians, and, beginning to publish political tracts, won a reputation as a controversialist.
ref: 2003, Roy Porter, chapter 9, in Flesh in the Age of Reason, Allen Lane, →ISBN, page 149:
text: This was to have been the final date of the rightwing controversialist’s charmingly named Dangerous Faggot Tour of US campuses.
ref: 2017 February 6, Matthew d’Ancona, “There must be free speech, even for Milo Yiannopoulos”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: One who regularly engages in public controversies.
cowmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowman
unsocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsocial
form: most unsocial
Etymology: From un- + social.
Senses: examples: text: The municipal corporations of that universal kingdom are not morally at liberty at their pleasure, and on their speculations of a contingent improvement, wholly to separate and tear asunder the bands of their subordinate community, and to dissolve it into an unsocial, uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
text: He went to London, though he would have preferred remaining in the country; he gave a grand fête of some description or other every year, though he hated the noise and confusion; he filled his house with company, though his habits were even unsocial: in short, his whole life was one succession of sacrifices, but they were sacrifices without merit—they were the sacrifices of weakness, not of strength.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 13:
text: The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man, goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. […] Once we killed bad men: now we liquidate unsocial elements.
ref: 1943, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “The Abolition of Man”, in The Abolition of Man […], New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published 1947, →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: Not social.
examples: text: The cupbearer shrugged up his shoulders in displeasure. "I thought to have lodged him in the solere chamber," said he; "but since he is so unsocial to Christians, e'en let him take the next stall to Isaac the Jew's.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not seeking or showing the desire for the company of others; inhospitable.
Derived terms: unsocially
tittered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of titter
cogitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cogitation
supplementing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of supplement
ostriches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostrich
howlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊlɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of howling
loneliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lonely: most lonely
lonelier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lonely: more lonely
teems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teem
gladder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlædə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Middle English gladere, from Old English glædra (adjective), glador (adverb), comparative of glæd (“glad, shining, bright”). More at glad.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of glad: more glad
gladder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlædə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: gladders
form: gladdering
form: gladdered
form: gladdered
Etymology: From gladder (“one who makes glad”), or perhaps from Middle English *gladderen, from Old English *gladrian (“to make glad”), equivalent to glad + -er (fequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Under the auspicious influence of the Company's just and equitable administration, the face of this province is gladdered —the blossoms of Peace are blowing and the blessings of tranquility increasing daily …
ref: 1909, Country Correspondence, Political Department, 1800-[1804]
text: The light of snow has gladdered the heart [...]
ref: 2006, Pūrana Siṅgha, Sāhitya Akādemī, The knock at midnight:
glosses: Alternative form of gladden.
cottons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotton
cottons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cotton
sots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sot
sots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sot
repays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repay
subserviency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subserviencies
Etymology: From subservi(ent) + -ency.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, I would hint, that in all our proceedings the greatest caution and circumspection must be observed; and that every means employed should be in entire subserviency and conformity with the character and temper of her towards whom our views are directed.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter IV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 47–48:
glosses: Alternative form of subservience.
halyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halyard
likings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪkɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of liking
strifes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.
ref: 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man:
glosses: plural of strife
cowslips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowslip
tyrannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyranny
pattered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of patter
aliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪlɪfɔːm/
ipa: /ˈælɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more aliform
form: most aliform
Etymology: From Latin ala (“wing”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a wing.
glosses: Having wings.
raw_tags: of a building
crying shame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crying shames
Senses: examples: text: It's a crying shame that so much money has been wasted on this pointless political campaign.
text: [T]hese brothels continued to be the crying shame of the community.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 346:
glosses: A situation that is considered to be a disgrace, or deplorable.
ov
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: Respelling of of popularized by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.
Senses: examples: text: Scholar ov the unlight / Great volcano ov excrement
ref: 2014, Behemoth, Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer:
glosses: Alternative spelling of of.
leep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Ye mountains, that ye did leep like rams; and ye hills, like lambs of the flock.
glosses: Obsolete form of leap.
Leiden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪdən/
ipa: /ˈleɪdən/
rhymes: -aɪdən
rhymes: -eɪdən
Forms: form: Leyden
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Leiden, which see.
Senses: glosses: A city in South Holland, Netherlands, on the Old Rhine, seat of a famous Dutch university.
Derived terms: Leyden jar
with open arms
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Well, I've made so many new friends / With open arms they let me in / They say they'll be with me till the end / They say they'll stick through thick and thin
ref: 2012, Saint Motel, chapter 1997, in Voyeur:
glosses: With enthusiasm, as if embracing
Related terms: open-armed
with arms wide open
take action
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes action
form: taking action
form: took action
form: taken action
Senses: examples: We must take action on this issue immediately.
glosses: To act; to act positively and decisively to resolve a problem.
pretreat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pretreats
form: pretreating
form: pretreated
form: pretreated
Etymology: From pre- + treat.
Senses: glosses: To give something a treatment prior to another operation.
Related terms: pretreated
pretreatment
pretreated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pretreat
pretreated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pretreated
form: most pretreated
Senses: glosses: That has been subject to pretreatment.
principium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: principia
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin prī̆ncipium.
Senses: glosses: singular of principia
Derived terms: principium individuationis
take against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes against
form: taking against
form: took against
form: taking against
Senses: examples: text: He took against me when I was promoted over him.
glosses: To stop liking or supporting someone; to become unfriendly towards.
Apostolicship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Apostolicships
Etymology: From Apostolic + -ship.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: The office of a Pope
peewee golf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: miniature golf
glosses: A children's age classification for golf tournaments.
idiochromosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɪdɪə(ʊ)ˈkɹəʊməsəʊm/
Forms: form: idiochromosomes
Etymology: From idio- + chromosome.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sex chromosome.
miniature golf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: crazy golf
midget golf
minigolf
putt-putt
Tom Thumb golf
glosses: An informal form of golf, played with a putter on a short course featuring novelty obstacles.
idio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈɪdɪəʊ/
Etymology: Representing a combining form of Ancient Greek ἴδιος (ídios, “own, personal, distinct”).
Senses: glosses: individuality, peculiarity, separateness.
Ulyanov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Улья́нов (Ulʹjánov), from Ульян (Ulʹjan, “Julian”) + -ов (-ov, “genitive possessive ending”).
Senses: examples: text: Vladimir Ulyanov was Lenin's original name.
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Улья́нов (Ulʹjánov).
Related terms: Iulianov
Ulyanovsk
Aesir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Æsir.
meadow muffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meadow muffins
Senses: glosses: cow pat
cow pat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow pats
Senses: examples: text: There's something for the whole family with events including cow pat throwing, sack races, three-legged races and more.
ref: 2021 December 24, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 27, column 3:
synonyms: cow chip
cow patty
cowpie
glosses: The excrement of a cow forming a somewhat rounded flat piece of dung on the ground.
EMAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
bestrews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bestrew
Australianises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Australianise
bedazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedaze
interlocutrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlocutrices
Etymology: From French interlocutrice.
Senses: examples: text: I have forbidden Adèle to talk to me about her presents, and she is bursting with repletion; have the goodness to serve her as auditress and interlocutrice:
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter XIV, in Jane Eyre, 1st edition, page 253:
synonyms: interlocutress
interlocutrix
glosses: A female interlocutor
blindest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: blind + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of blind: most blind
blindest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: blind + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of blind
cock-a-hoop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cock-a-hoop
form: most cock-a-hoop
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: I have to say I felt pretty cock-a-hoop straight after my epidural but, some hours later, my head felt as though someone large and heavy had been sitting on it.
ref: 2008, Lucy Cavendish, The Guardian, G2, 9th January 2008, p. 3
synonyms: word: euphoric
word: joyous
word: air-headed
word: blissed out
word: blissful
word: cock-a-hoop
word: delighted
word: ecstatic
word: elated
word: euphoric
word: exultant
word: filled with happiness
word: giddy
word: gladsome
word: gleeful
word: greatly pleased
word: joyful
word: joyous
word: lighthearted
word: orgasmic
word: on cloud nine
word: over the moon
word: overjoyed
word: thrilled
word: walking on air
glosses: Exultant, very happy, triumphant.
coming and going
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comings and goings
Senses: examples: text: Many roads and tracks crossed the green fields, and there was much coming and going: wains moving in lines towards the Great Gate, and others passing out.
ref: 1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 40:
glosses: A general bustle of activity
glosses: The activities of a specified person or group
coming and going
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come and go
general availability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: GA
glosses: A release of software which is good enough to be made available outside the originating company, to the general public.
transversals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transversal
Mirandizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Mirandize
yuppifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yuppify
take apart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes apart
form: taking apart
form: took apart
form: taken apart
Senses: examples: I carefully took the clock mechanism apart to clean it.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, apart.
To dismantle something into its component pieces.
examples: text: ....then went close up to him, and took him apart into a dark corner. "I say," he began, with a thoughtful brow, "haven't I seen you before
ref: 1868, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, apart.
To move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private.
examples: text: And besides, I was also enjoying the way you took them apart. You know, arguing with them like you did.
ref: 2001, by Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon, page 143:
text: Argentine defender Martinez, normally so reliable and combative, was taken apart, especially when Salah led him a merry dance to set up Gakpo to settle the game with Liverpool's third five minutes after half-time.
ref: 2023 March 5, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 7-0 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: tear apart
glosses: To soundly defeat someone, or a (sport) team.
examples: text: For nearly an hour, I took them apart for failing to understand, connect with, empathize with, and listen to the American people.?
ref: 2007, Frank Luntz, Words That Work, page 150:
glosses: to criticise someone
winterfeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of winterfeed
valorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of valorize
in private
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Privately, in an area where no one else can see or hear.
videoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of videos.
videoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of video
vivifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪvɪfʌɪs/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vivify
punisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punishers
Etymology: From punish + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He grimaced after another lash across his back and settled deeper into the post. The punisher stood nearly ten feet away, dragged the end of his whip through the dirt back toward him.
ref: 2024, Percival Everett, James, Picador (2025), page 95:
glosses: One who punishes.
Abrams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.bɹəmz/
Forms: form: Abramses
Etymology: From Abraham.
Senses: examples: text: The animation, in a style somewhere between Arthur Rackham’s and Disney gothic, is handsome enough to have furnished publisher Harry Abrams with a new, coffee-table edition of “The Hobbit,” and the voices of the characters—Orson Bean, John Huston, Richard Boone, Cyril Ritchard and Brother Theodore—are as distinctive as you’d want for this odd assortment of Middle-earthians.
ref: 1977 November 25, Alexander Keneas, “‘Rolling Stone’ a musical show to miss”, in Newsday, page 80A, column 2:
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms: Abramsverse
Abrams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.bɹəmz/
Etymology: From Abraham.
Senses: glosses: plural of Abram
unnerstand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: [ˌɜɽ̃.ɻˈstæn(d̚)]
Forms: form: unnerstands
form: unnerstanding
form: unnerstood
form: unnerstood
Senses: examples: text: I unnerstand, Randall unnerstands, a lotta people would unnerstand.[…]A grand jury, they would have a problem unnerstanding. You unnerstand?
ref: 2000, Ron Shinkman, chapter 26, in Black Projects (fiction), San Jose, CA: iUniverse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 238, lines 19–23:
text: YEW UNNERSTAND ME, MISSTAH?
ref: 2014, Lucian K. Truscott, chapter 19, in Dress Gray, New York City, NY: Open Road Media, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 173, line 3:
text: He finally unnerstood what she meant, so he took the pooch outside an’ tied her in a shady spot in front o’ the bar an’ went back inside ta crawl into a cold Coors or two.
ref: 2018, Chip O’Brien, “How Elmer Got in Trouble”, in Horse Apples, volume 2, La Vergne, TN: Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 86, lines 12–15:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of understand.
frumentaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəs
Etymology: From Late Latin frumentaceus, from Latin frumentum (“grain”), from the root of frux (“fruit”).
Senses: glosses: Resembling or pertaining to grain, especially wheat.
oinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oinkers
Etymology: From oink + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that oinks.
glosses: A pig: an animal of the genus Sus.
examples: text: "What an oinker," someone whispered off screen. Then something Caffery couldn't understand, which ended clearly with the word "flabby."
ref: 2002, Mo Hayder, The Treatment, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 302:
glosses: A pig: a fat person.
glosses: A pig: a dirty or slovenly person.
examples: text: The slug they dug out of him was a .22. A woman's gun? Or was I being a sexist oinker?
ref: 2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: An MCP; male chauvinist pig.
examples: text: "I know I'm being an oinker but I didn't get lunch today." My ravenous gaze fell to his half-eaten hotdog. "You going to finish that?"
ref: 2005, Jacqueline Meadows, Something Wanton, Ellora's Cave Publishing, →ISBN, page 95:
glosses: A pig: a glutton.
examples: text: "Hi. I'm Rachel Porter, with Fish and Wildlife," I said.
ref: 1998, Jessica Speart, Tortoise Soup, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 40:
english: "So you're the new oinker, huh?" he commented, squinting up at me.
translation: "So you're the new oinker, huh?" he commented, squinting up at me.
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glosses: A pig: a police officer.
Synonyms: sense: all senses except 1
word: pig
a's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪz/
Forms: form: A's
form: As
form: as
form: aes
Senses: glosses: plural of the letter a
Related terms: A's
A's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A
Related terms: a's
rob the cradle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: robs the cradle
form: robbing the cradle
form: robbed the cradle
form: robbed the cradle
Senses: examples: text: The actress, 31, also pooh-poohs the notion that she's robbing the cradle with Timberlake, 22.
ref: 2004 January 8, Karen Thomas, “Cameron won't pull a Britney”, in USA Today:
glosses: To marry or become romantically involved with a much younger person, especially one from a younger generation.
examples: text: They were ordered to the field, and their places filled by the Georgia "Reserves," an organization of boys under, and men over the military age. As General Grant aptly-phrased it, "They had robbed the cradle and the grave," in forming these regiments.
ref: 1879, John McElroy, chapter 29, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons:
glosses: To use a young person for a purpose inappropriate to their age.
haul one's ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hauls one's ashes
form: hauling one's ashes
form: hauled one's ashes
form: hauled one's ashes
Senses: examples: text: Now ye and yore boys jest haul yore ashes and start makin' tracks back to the Yellowstone.
ref: 1996, Matt Braun, Bloody Hand, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 222:
text: "Then leave, you yeller-belly!" Luttie said. "You're paid up. Haul your ashes."
"I believe I'll just do that little thing. I'm pullin' out...."
ref: 2001, William W. Johnstone, Code of the Mountain Man, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 265:
text: Tate uncorked a haymaker, and Starbuck ducked low, belted him in the gut.... The impact buckled Tate.... He was out cold....
"Anybody [referring to Starbuck] that can haul Sam Tate's ashes is my kinda of man...."
ref: 2002, Matt Braun, Hangman's Creek, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, pages 91–93:
glosses: To move one's body; to move away, depart.
examples: text: "George Brent has got one hell of a schlong on him," Tabitha ventures.
"And how!" Lucy agrees enthusiastically. "I'd haul his ashes for him any time."
ref: 1989, Gilbert Sorrentino, Misterioso; republished in Pack of Lies, Dalkey Archive Press, 1997, →ISBN, page 349:
text: Just do me a favor: if you decide to haul her ashes, don't tell Victory. He's got a crush on her, and so far she won't give him any play.
ref: 2002, Stephen J. Cannell, The Viking Funeral, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 157:
text: I still get beautiful ladies to haul my ashes when my old balls get heavy.
ref: 2004, Iceberg Slim, Mama Black Widow, Holloway House Publishing, →ISBN, page 293:
glosses: To have sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: sense: to move away
word: haul ass
word: skedaddle
word: rush
sense: to have sexual intercourse
word: discuss Uganda
word: have sex
word: Netflix and chill
word: show someone one's etchings
word: copulate
extraneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extraneities
Senses: glosses: The state of being extraneous
glosses: Something extraneous
quicky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quickies
Etymology: From quick + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of quickie.
xeroxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xerox
xeroxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of xerox
xeroxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of xerox
xeroxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of xerox
Wayuu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Goajiro
Guajiro
Wahiro
glosses: An Amerindian ethnic group of the La Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela.
Wayuu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Arawak language of the Wayuu people.
skunk works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skunk works
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skunkworks.
skunkworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skunkworks
form: skunk works
Etymology: From skunk + works, since c. 1943. Skunk Works was the nickname of Lockheed Advanced Development Projects, eventually gaining official recognition. The name is derived from a mysterious, foul-smelling “skonk oil”-brewing facility called the Skonk Works in the comic strip L'il Abner by Al Capp.
Senses: examples: text: Not all ideas coming out of the Phillips skunkworks have been success stories, of course. A polyethelene saddle never even made it through the patent process.
ref: 1998 January 19, Teresa Riordan, “When it comes to number of patents, the petroleum industry is a veritable gusher”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Downing Street is seeking applications for a £135,000-a-year data expert to set up a “skunkworks” in No 10, in the latest evidence of Dominic Cummings’ Whitehall shake-up.
ref: 2020 July 10, Heather Stewart, “Downing Street seeks data expert to set up ‘skunkworks’ in No 10”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A loosely organized research and development team or facility.
wikipedia: Al Capp
Lockheed
Skunk Works
blued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bluːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blue
blued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bluːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: synonyms: blackened
glosses: Having the property of having been chemically passivated.
Coordinate terms: aluminised
aluminized
bronzed
galvanised
galvanized
Derived terms: unblued
blueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bluing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blue
Related terms: bluening
blueing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blueings
form: bluing
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blue (“blue liquid added to laundry to prevent yellowing”).
synonyms: word: blue
extra: blue liquid added to laundry to prevent yellowing
dysregulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dysregulate
dysregulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dysregulates
form: dysregulating
form: dysregulated
form: dysregulated
Etymology: From dys- + regulate.
Senses: examples: text: What, beyond abnormal, dysregulated cell division, was the common pathophysiological mechanism underlying cancer?
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 285:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To cause a dysfunctional level of an activity or chemical in an organism by disrupting normal function of a regulatory mechanism.
Derived terms: dysregulation
Related terms: deregulate
diamond in the rough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamonds in the rough
Senses: examples: text: He wants to go try his luck at that state park in Arkansas where you can look for diamonds in the rough and you can keep what you find.
text: They all wanted money, and they all wanted to get away from that God-forsaken hole. Diamonds they were after? Well, he could take them to a place at the other end of the world where there were enough diamonds in the rough to make them all rich for life.
ref: 1922, Arthur J. Rees, chapter XXVIII, in The Moon Rock:
text: Often the inclusions can be cut out of a diamond in the rough. After seeing what shape and size best suits the rough diamond, the craftsman will begin to make his cuts.
ref: 2009, Cindy Lasiter, Diamonds in the Rough, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page xi:
synonyms: rough diamond#Noun
glosses: An uncut diamond.
examples: text: Her auto mechanic is a diamond in the rough: tough-talking but honest, even generous.
text: You must tell me, if you can, that Mr. Hattersley is better than he seems—that he is upright, honourable, and open-hearted—in fact, a perfect diamond in the rough.
ref: 1848, Anne Brontë, chapter XXV, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
synonyms: rough diamond#Noun
glosses: A person or thing whose goodness or other positive qualities are hidden by a harsh or unremarkable surface appearance.
demesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demesmen
Etymology: From deme + -s- + man.
Senses: glosses: A member of the same deme; a member of the same township in Attica in Greece of the Classical period.
demesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demesman
rends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rend
flatteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flattery
gaiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaiter
outcries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outcry
outcries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outcry
oftenest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Brother Samson Subsacrista, one remarks, is ready oftenest with some question, some suggestion, that has wisdom in it.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 8, The Electon”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: 1930, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Invincible,Chapter 8, The Treachery of Abu Batn,
Each hour La learned new words, all nouns at first, that described each familiar object that appeared oftenest to their view.
glosses: superlative form of often: most often
habited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of habit
habited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a habited nun
glosses: Dressed in a habit.
examples: text: He was on deck in an instant, habited merely in his light pyjammas^([sic]) and sleeping-jacket.
ref: 1869, Onward, volumes 2-3, page 397:
glosses: Clothed.
Derived terms: dishabited
suffrages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suffrage
foretells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foretell
solicitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solicitor
schooners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schooner
play hard to get
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays hard to get
form: playing hard to get
form: played hard to get
form: played hard to get
Senses: qualifier: courtship
glosses: To be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest.
flints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flint
flints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flint
STML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Synchronous Telop Mark-up Language: a telop adding language for mobile-device content, developed in Japan.
goblets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goblet
ensues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ensue
minarets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minaret
b's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of b
Related terms: B's
B's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B’s
Senses: glosses: plural of B
Related terms: b's
c's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of c
Related terms: C's
C's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C
Related terms: c's
porches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porch
d's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of d
Related terms: D's
D's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of D
Related terms: d's
e's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E's
form: es
form: Es
form: ees
Senses: glosses: plural of e (letter)
Related terms: E's
E's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of E
Related terms: e's
leagued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leagued
form: most leagued
Derived terms: unleagued
leagued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of league
f's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of f
Related terms: F's
g's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of g
Related terms: G's
h's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of h
Related terms: H's
F's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of F
Related terms: f's
G's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of G
Related terms: g's
H's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of H
Related terms: h's
i's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: I's
form: is
form: Is
form: ies
Senses: examples: remember to dot your i's
glosses: plural of the letter i
Related terms: I's
i's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of it's.
Senses: glosses: It's (it is).
Related terms: english: I is; contraction of dialectal sometimes confused with i's because both are often at the beginning of a sentence and therefore capitalized the same.
translation: I is; contraction of dialectal sometimes confused with i's because both are often at the beginning of a sentence and therefore capitalized the same.
word: I's
j's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of j
Related terms: J's
k's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of k
Related terms: K's
leaguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of league
l's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of l
Related terms: L's
m's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ms
Senses: glosses: plural of m
Related terms: M's
n's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of n
Related terms: N's
o's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊz/
ipa: /oʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: O's
form: Os
form: os
form: oes
Senses: glosses: plural of the letter o
p's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of p