cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
jehadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jihadism.
jehadists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jehadist
blowsily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blowsily
form: most blowsily
Etymology: From blowsy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a blowsy manner.
pyrogeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + geography.
Senses: glosses: The geographical study of the spread of fire
Related terms: pyrogeographic
silent barter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: A system of bartering, once common in Africa, in which traders remain silent, either because they have no language in common or because they both wish to keep secret and not discuss the origins of their goods (especially gold and salt).
nonmanual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + manual.
Senses: examples: a nonmanual occupation
glosses: Not manual.
Derived terms: nonmanually
silver frost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver frosts
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A deposit of glaze on trees, shrubs, and other exposed objects during a fall of freezing precipitation; the product of an ice storm.
Synonyms: topics: meteorology
climatology
natural-sciences
word: silver thaw
topics: meteorology
climatology
natural-sciences
word: verglas
silver frosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver frost
off like a prom dress
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Pun on two senses of off, with the implication that a couple at a prom are likely to have sexual intercourse. Compare off like a bride's nightie.
Senses: examples: text: When we heard the police car pull up, we were off like a prom dress.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Making a start, or departing, very rapidly.
nontemplatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + templatized.
Senses: examples: text: Note that unlike the nontemplatized version, this function still supports constant objects because T is allowed to bind to a constant object...
ref: 1995, The C++ report: the international newsletter for C++ programmers:
text: The old-style library uses a less-complicated, nontemplatized class hierarchy.
ref: 1997, Herbert Schildt, C/C++ programmer's reference:
text: Want to know how to derive a nontemplatized class from a class template?
ref: 2009, Jeff Cogswell, John Paul Mueller, C++ All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies:
glosses: Not templatized.
nonclonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonclonal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonclonal manner.
nonchimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + chimeric.
Senses: glosses: Not chimeric.
punniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From punny + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being punny.
punnily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more punnily
form: most punnily
Etymology: From punny + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a punny manner.
poncier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of poncy: more poncy
ponciest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of poncy: most poncy
gear levers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gear lever
nondimensionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nondimensional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nondimensional manner.
nonfissioning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fissioning.
Senses: glosses: In which fission does not occur.
nonfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fishing.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to the sport or commercial activity of fishing.
nonadmission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonadmissions
Etymology: From non- + admission.
Senses: glosses: Lack or absence of admission; failure to admit.
nonadsorbent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + adsorbent.
Senses: glosses: Unable to adsorb.
nonaerobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aerobiotic.
Senses: glosses: Able to live without oxygen from the atmosphere.
aerobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aerobiotic
form: most aerobiotic
Etymology: From aero- + -biotic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to aerobiosis
Derived terms: aerobiotically
nonadsorptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + adsorptive.
Senses: glosses: Not adsorptive.
charge off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charge offs
form: charge-off
form: chargeoff
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A write-off.
charge off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: charges off
form: charging off
form: charged off
form: charged off
form: charge-off
form: chargeoff
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: To write off (an expense).
charge offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charge off
chargeoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chargeoffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of charge off.
chargeoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chargeoff
charge-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charge-offs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of charge off.
charge-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charge-off
nonachievements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonachievement
nonaccomplishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonaccomplishment
supergraphics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + graphics.
Senses: glosses: Large graphics that are applied with vibrant colors, usually in geometric shapes, over walls or floors and ceilings to make the illusion of altered space.
pennywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penny + wise.
Senses: examples: text: Now some employers are reversing course, convinced that their pennywise approach does not always reduce long-term costs.
ref: 2007 February 21, Milt Freudenheim, “Some Employers Are Offering Free Drugs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Careful with small amounts of money or over small matters.
multifold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌltəˌfoʊld/
Forms: form: more multifold
form: most multifold
Etymology: From multi- + -fold.
Senses: examples: text: There are many drug lords, each with his own corridor (think of it as a franchise of sorts) funneling narcotics into Texas. There are multifold methods of transport.
ref: 2000, Arturo Longoria, Keepers of the Wilderness:
glosses: Many; very diverse; manifold.
Synonyms: multifarious
various
Derived terms: multifoldness
bible leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bible leaves
Senses: glosses: Tanacetum balsamita, a Eurasian perennial herb that has flowers that are yellow and buttonlike.
Synonyms: costmary
bible leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bible leaf
buttonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buttonlike
form: most buttonlike
Etymology: From button + -like.
Senses: examples: text: […] I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. When I reached it, it had subsided to a creamy pool. Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling circle, like another Ixion I did revolve.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “-Epliogue”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: [He] was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes.
ref: 1922, E. E. Cummings, chapter 7, in The Enormous Room, New York: Boni and Liveright, page 153:
glosses: Resembling a button.
Synonyms: buttony
scorzoneras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorzonera
fone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Despair made some run headlong gainst their fone...
ref: 1600, Tasso, translated by Edward Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered:
glosses: plural of foe
fone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fones
Senses: glosses: phone
Related terms: freephone
thoracic cages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoracic cage
ancony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anconies
Etymology: Unknown. Compare French encrenée (“iron twice heated and hammered”).
Senses: glosses: A piece of malleable iron that is wrought into the shape of a flat bar, about three feet long, with a square rough unwrought knob on each end.
blognovel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blognovels
Etymology: From blog + novel.
Senses: glosses: A novel or book created from a blog.
childism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: childisms
Etymology: From child + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Twain and Salinger's common genius, Heiserman and Miller suggest, lay in their masterful use of a colloquial American adolescent's voice to convey their respective "childism," by which they mean the nostalgic wish to recover our inner Adamic child.
ref: 2005, Leerom Medovoi, Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, →ISBN, page 75:
text: If nothing else, a project in childism would ask those who study ethics to reflect on whether they are considering the challenge of childhood.
ref: 2012, Marcia J. Bunge, Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities, →ISBN, page 137:
text: He rightly suggests that “the story of childhood cannot be told in one-dimensional formulas of either innocence and vulnerability or unruliness and undevelopment” (7), but instead require a new paradigm for ethics: “childism.”
ref: 2012 Spring/Summer, David Cloutier, “Ethics in Light of Childhood (review)”, in Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, volume 32, number 1:
text: Using an approach that I call 'childism', which I will say more about below, I wish to look not at how conceptions of play may be applied to children, but instead at how the experiences of children may be applied to conceptions of play.
ref: 2013, John Wall, “2 All the world's a stage”, in The Philosophy of Play:
text: The article examines the kind of resistance children and youth can meet when participating in democratic processes, with examples of speech acts from the Gothenburg Youth Council. It also discusses the theoretic concept of childism (Wall, 2008, 2010) and how childism can be a way to escape the dominance of adulthood norms.
ref: 2017, “A Political space for children? The age order and children's right to participation”, in Social Inclusion, volume 5, number 3Jeanette Sundhall:
glosses: Responding to children's particular lived experiences
glosses: Empowering children as an oppressed group
glosses: Prejudice and/or discrimination against the young.
examples: text: About the same time I was working on my life is a circle theory, I was also working on a childism that could define human behavior and explain why people behave the way they do and predict their behavior.
ref: 2003, Joseph Assante, Wisdom of a Lifetime: Things I Would Want You to Know If I Died Tomorrow, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Apart from categorizing her clients' childisms through the several case histories in her book, Young-Bruehl also applies her schema to the Child Savers of the late nineteenth century in order to highlight the transhistorical nature of this kind of treatment ...
ref: 2016, “Disciplining Children in Toronto Playgrounds in the Early Twentieth CenturyAnn Marie F. Murnaghan”, in Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures:
text: . Some of these childisms are: (1) “Thimble-drinker … He lived in a cara-van. Dum dum.” All of these childisms originate in childhood incidents ...
ref: 2017 May, Lorna Martens, “Mood, Voice, and the Question of the Narrator in Third-Person Fiction”, in Narrative, volume 25, number 2:
glosses: A child-like insight or behavior made by an adult
erotosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erotosexual
form: most erotosexual
Etymology: Blend of erotic + sexual
Senses: glosses: Both erotic and sexual.
firtle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜːtəl/
ipa: /ˈfɝtəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)təl
homophone: furtle
homophone: (one US pronunciation) fertile
Forms: form: firtles
form: firtling
form: firtled
form: firtled
Senses: examples: text: Stop tha firtlin’ aboot.
glosses: To mess around, to waste time.
laptronica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of laptop + electronica. The term gained a certain degree of currency in the 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: More recently, the notion of using a portable computer on stage became a reality and new forms of music including laptronica, the synthesis of laptop and electronica, were born.
ref: 2012, Leigh Landy, Making Music with Sounds, Routledge, →ISBN, page 16:
topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Musical output made with a laptop computer combined with electronic devices, portable enough for live performances.
puzzlewit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puzzlewits
Etymology: From puzzle + wit.
Senses: glosses: A stupid person
wait for the ball to drop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waits for the ball to drop
form: waiting for the ball to drop
form: waited for the ball to drop
form: waited for the ball to drop
Etymology: An allusion to the Times Square Ball, and perhaps other time balls.
Senses: glosses: To wait in expectation of an occurrence.
Related terms: wait for the other shoe to drop
little girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little girls
Senses: examples: text: More than ever I wished she was my sister and that mother could watch over her. She would gladly, I knew. A little girl, barely twelve years old and not large for her age.
ref: 1904, Amanda Minnie Douglas, A Little Girl in Old Chicago:
text: My ... what a sweet little girl!
ref: 2000 May 31, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
synonyms: word: babe
word: bint
word: bird
word: cake
word: chick
word: colleen
word: cutty
word: damoiselle
word: damsel
word: elrig
word: frail
word: gal
word: gel
word: girl
word: girlie
word: girly
word: grill
word: hottie
word: lass
word: lassie
word: little girl
word: maggie
word: maid
word: maid child
word: maiden
word: minoress
word: miss
word: missy
word: moggy
word: poppet
word: pucelle
word: puss
word: quean
word: tart
word: wan
word: wench
word: woman child
glosses: A female child, especially one younger than ten years of age.
examples: text: My little girl's getting married next week!
glosses: One's daughter.
examples: text: Laurie tells him to stop being such a little girl and do something bad for once.
ref: May 1 2000, TV.com - Holy Crap! Episode Recap
synonyms: mollusc
nose of wax
pushover
glosses: A weak-willed or effeminate person.
Derived terms: cry like a little girl
little girl's room
Related terms: little boy
zoophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌzəʊ.əˈfɪlɪk/
/ˌzuː.əˈfɪlɪk/
Forms: form: more zoophilic
form: most zoophilic
Etymology: From zoo- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Liking or preferring animals.
examples: text: Species dysphoria in zoophilic men can be understood as an outgrowth of autozoophilia, just as gender dysphoria in gynephilic men can be understood as an outgrowth of autogynephilia.
ref: 2009 April 24, Anne A. Lawrence, “Erotic Target Location Errors: An Underappreciated Paraphilic Dimension”, in Journal of Sex Research, volume 46, numbers 2–3, Routledge; Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to or exhibiting zoophilia; paraphilic to animals.
Related terms: zoophilia
zoology
recoined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recoin
recoining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recoin
recoining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recoinings
Senses: examples: recoinings of archaic terms
glosses: The act or result of coining again.
sacculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæk.jəˌlaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of sacculus
piggy banks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piggy bank
lupulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlupjəlɪn/
Forms: form: lupulins
Etymology: From Latin lupulus + -in.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Small hairs obtained from the strobili of the hop plant.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The bitter aromatic principle of the hop.
lupulins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lupulin
nonagesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonagesimals
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The middle to highest point of a part of an ecliptic that is above the horizon at any period of time.
nonagesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the ninetieth degree or to a nonagesimal.
nonagesimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonagesimal
nonagrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonagrians
Etymology: Nonagria + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any one of the moths of the genus Nonagria.
nonagrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonagrian
non-agricultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonagricultural.
nonalienation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + alienation.
Senses: examples: nonalienation of pension benefits
glosses: Failure to alienate.
non-allergenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonallergenic.
nonambulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ambulatory.
Senses: examples: text: Traditionally, proximal femoral varus derotational osteotomy has been used in nonambulatory patients to produce a more stable sitting base.
ref: 2010, Tulio E. Bertorini, Neuromuscular Disorders: Management and Treatment E-Book:
glosses: Not able to walk around.
non-daily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nondaily.
non-dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-dances
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nondance.
non-dance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nondance.
non-dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-dance
sonder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑndɚ/
ipa: /ˈsɒndə/
rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Etymology: Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack names. Inspired by German sonder- (“special”) and French sonder (“to probe”).
Senses: examples: text: I had a sonder, a realization that the random girl sitting next to me inside of Starbucks might have a fantastic life or she might be dealing with a very ill family member.
ref: 2012 December, John Buysse, “On 2nd thought, we do have linked lives”, in The Daily Illini, volume 142, number 68,5, University of Illinois, page 4A:
text: We need to have a "sonder" moment, where we realize that we aren't the only ones with feelings, dreams, regrets and hopes.
ref: 2013, Annie Cohen, "A Deeper Understanding", Panorama (Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri), Volume 62, Issue 3, 14 October 2013, page 14
text: I knew the feeling of sonder my whole life. […] Every time I stopped what I was doing and just watched people, this feeling of breathlessness would wash over me.
ref: 2015, Emily Neiman, Sonder: Clara's Story, iUniverse, →ISBN:
glosses: The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.
wikipedia: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
escouade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escouades
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A squad.
intriguant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intriguants
Senses: glosses: An intriguer.
sounding balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sounding balloons
Senses: glosses: weather balloon
dormitive virtue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dormitive virtues
Etymology: A calque translation of Latin, virtus dormitiva, coined by Molière in The Imaginary Invalid. In the play, he lampoons a group of physicians providing an explanation in macaronic Latin of the sleep-inducing properties of opium as stemming from its "virtus dormitiva".
Senses: examples: text: The inevitable next suggestion -— that aesthetic experience is distinguished not by pleasure at all but by a special aesthetic emotion can be dropped on the waste-pile of "dormitive virtue” explanations
ref: 1968, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, American Philosophical Association, page 6:
text: Solidity now has all the defects of a dormitive virtue, obscurity, unobservability, something-we-know-notwhattery — and none of the advantages of a dormitive virtue
ref: 1998, Rae Langton, Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves, page 176:
text: Because (1) is postulated and at the same time used as a covering law, the putative explanations are vacuous in the sense in which explanatory appeals to dormitive virtue are.
ref: 2003, Henry E. Kyburg, Mariam Thalos, Probability is the Very Guide of Life, page 66:
text: Now admittedly, this has the look of a dormitive virtue argument: the reason the intellect can recollect its own activity is that it possesses just such a recollective capacity.
ref: 2013, Charles Bolyard, Rondo Keele, Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic, page 147:
text: But if talk of such facts just arises via hypostatizations out of the relevant truths, then the facts posited can't explain the truths except via a blatant dormitive virtue explanation.
ref: 2021, Karen Bennett, Dean W. Zimmerman, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, volume 12, page 29:
text: Fitness is not the empty idea of a dormitive virtue. The point is that although fitness is explanatory, it seems to be a placeholder for a deeper account that dispenses with the concept of fitness [again the propensity concept].
ref: 2021, Richard E. Michod, Darwinian Dynamics: Evolutionary Transitions in Fitness and Individuality, page 186:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.
Synonyms: dormitive principle
Related terms: aureation
jargon
weather balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weather balloon
capellanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capellane
hymners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hymner
Pasir Ris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌpɑːsə ˈɹɪs/
/-seɪ -/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay Pasir Ris.
Senses: glosses: A town in the eastern part of Singapore.
bio-available
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bio-available
form: most bio-available
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bioavailable.
epoch-making
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: epochmaking
Etymology: Calque of German epochemachend.
Senses: examples: text: Equally to be expected, in view of the trend of Government legislation and pronouncements over the past few years—but no less epoch-making for that—is the proposal that the railways and canals shall cease to be common carriers and be entirely free to fix their own passenger and freight charges, [...].
ref: 1961 December, “Editorial: Führerprinzip for nationalised transport”, in Trains Illustrated, page 705:
text: The prime minister, Tony Blair, described the terrorist attacks on America as having "epoch-making proportions" as parliament was recalled for an emergency session today.
ref: 2001 September 14, Matthew Tempest, quoting Tony Blair, “Blair: attacks are of 'epoch-making proportions'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Constituting an epoch; opening a new era; introducing new conceptions or a new method in the treatment of a subject; highly novel and influential.
Synonyms: earthshaking
earthshattering
metabasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metabases
Etymology: From Late Latin metabasis, from Ancient Greek μετάβασις (metábasis, “a change, a transition”), from μεταβαίνω (metabaínō, “I cross”), from μετά (metá) and βαίνω (baínō, “I move”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-.
Senses: glosses: A change from one subject to another.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any change in the course of a disease; metabola.
metabases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metabase
glosses: plural of metabasis
Lhasa apso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːsə ˈæpsoʊ/
Forms: form: Lhasa apsos
Etymology: From Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) + Tibetan ཨོག་ཚོམ (og tshom) / ཨག་ཚོམ (ag tshom, “goatee, chin-beard”). Alternatively, from Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) + ར་ཕོ (ra pho, “billy goat”) OR from Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) + འབ་ ('ab, “to bark”) + སོ་ (so, “guard, watchman”).
Senses: glosses: A particular breed of dog, Tibetan in origin.
Lhasa apsos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lhasa apso
medical examiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medical examiners
form: ME
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: coroner
forensic scientist
glosses: A physician who examines cadavers on behalf of the government.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A physician who examines pilots to ensure that they are medically fit to fly.
Related terms: autopsy
forensic medicine
medical examiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medical examiner
unfond
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfond
form: most unfond
Etymology: From un- + fond.
Senses: examples: text: Although I was not unfond of pigs, they were not the same as the little calves.
ref: 1999, Caroline Brettell, Writing against the wind: a mother's life history:
glosses: Not fond.
Derived terms: unfondly
unfondness
nonfungible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-fungible
Etymology: From non- + fungible.
Senses: examples: text: Horses, slaves, and so forth, are non-fungible things, because they differ individually in value and cannot be exchanged indifferently one for another.
ref: 1880, Thomas Erskine Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence, 12th edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1916, page 107:
text: But the claim that love of certain sorts—romantic, maternal, filial—is nonfungible means that this emotion is directed only to the particular individuals who manifest those properties.
ref: 2019, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Things: In Touch with the Past, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 100:
topics: business
finance
law
property
glosses: Not fungible, not interchangeable.
Derived terms: non-fungible token
nonfungible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfungibles
form: non-fungible
Etymology: From non- + fungible.
Senses: glosses: Any nonfungible item.
nonarchaeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + archaeological.
Senses: glosses: Not archaeological.
nonarchaeologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonarchaeologists
Etymology: From non- + archaeologist.
Senses: glosses: One who is not an archaeologist.
nonarchaeologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonarchaeologist
treasureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From treasure + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without treasure or treasures.
nonshifted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + shifted.
Senses: glosses: Not shifted.
Synonyms: unshifted
Siberian elms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Siberian elm
gearless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪɹləs/
ipa: /ˈɡɪələs/
ipa: /ˈɡiːɹləs/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)ləs
Etymology: From gear + -less.
Senses: examples: text: These locomotives, which were finished in crimson lake livery with gold lining and lettering, were not considered very satisfactory, for their gearless motors, with armatures mounted directly on the axles, set up considerable vibration.
ref: 1950 September, “Central London Railway Jubilee”, in Railway Magazine, page 620:
glosses: Without gears.
Derived terms: gearlessness
nonverifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + verifiable.
Senses: glosses: unverifiable
cush-cush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of couche-couche.
synonyms: word: couche-couche
glosses: A tropical American yam with small yellow-skinned edible tubers: Dioscorea trifida
kyoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːdəl
Forms: form: kyoodles
Senses: examples: text: The yelps and kyoodles had wandered home or after Rube and his idolators — all except the Widow Steger's dog, a long, strange, German sort of dog with no legs to speak of, a lonesome boyless kyoodle that had to go home early and sleep under the geranium box.
ref: 1912, Charles Tenney Jackson, The Midlanders, page 34:
text: For all the breeds and breeding on display at this most elegant of kyoodle carnivals, there is a wonderful sameness about people who go to the dogs.
ref: 2013, Red Smith, Daniel Okrent, American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith, →ISBN:
text: Among other dodges that we employed to track down the border crossers, was a pack of hounds. These kyoodles worked fairly well if we put them on a track immediately after a rain, otherwise the sand was so barren of moisture it would not hold the scent for any length of time.
ref: 2015, Jim Casada, The Expert's Guide to Handgun Marksmanship, →ISBN:
glosses: A mutt, dog of mixed breed of little value; noisy dog.
examples: text: There was a yip and kyoodle for John Brown and "the great deeds of the past."
ref: 1956, Eric F. Goldman, Rendezvous With Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform:
text: Liberals everywhere echoed the "yip and kyoodle" of the Osawatomie crowd; conservatives were aghast at Roosevelt's radicalism.
ref: 1962, Ernest J. Wrage, Barnet Baskerville, Contemporary forum: American speeches on twentieth-century issues:
glosses: A loud, meaningless noise; howl or holler.
examples: text: Oodles an' boodles an' kyoodles av id, Mrs. McGlaggerty!
ref: 1900, John Joseph Jennings, Widow Magoogin, page 343:
text: The Chrysler and me lit out like a kyoodle of pups.
ref: 1992, Fantasy & Science Fiction - Volume 84, Issues 500-505, page 143:
text: "I've heard of folks having ghosts," he said, "but I never knew a man to have a whole kyoodle of 'em."
ref: 1992, Jack Cady, The sons of Noah & other stories, page 113:
glosses: A large noisy collection.
examples: text: If I wasn't afraid of you thinking I was a kyoodle, I'd quit the business tonight.
ref: 1995, John O'Hara, The Novellas of John O'Hara, page 528:
text: And the reason he says that is because he's absolutely convinced that Louis has a little kyoodle in him. Tony means Louis'll quit if he's hit.
ref: 2012, Joseph Monninger, Two Ton: One Night, One Fight -Tony Galento v. Joe Louis, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: A coward or quitter; one who lacks the determination to face hardship.
kyoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uːdəl
Forms: form: kyoodles
form: kyoodling
form: kyoodled
form: kyoodled
Senses: examples: text: Be known as a booster and crow like a rooster; don't yelp like a bow-wow that's tied to a can; laugh, sing and kyoodle, and blow in some boodle, and help things along like a nice little man.
ref: 1884, The Shield: Official Publication of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity:
text: And now the drought is broken, let's be joyful in our gains. Let's kyoodle, whoop, and holler for these miliion-dollar rains!
ref: 1915, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Isaac Kaufman Funk, William Seaver Woods, The Literary Digest - Volume 51, page 33:
text: No living thing moved upon it, not even a medicine wolf to kyoodle to the invisible moon.
ref: 1977, Richard Sale, The White Buffalo, →ISBN, page 13:
text: There were many, he said, "who unfold their ample jaws and yip and kyoodle about old John and the Cause of freedom," who, when faced with the modern struggle for reform, "pull down their blinds [and] fasten the doors."
ref: 2002, H. Craig Miner, Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854-2000, page 8:
glosses: To make loud noises; to howl or holler.
unsoulful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsoulful
form: most unsoulful
Etymology: From un- + soulful.
Senses: examples: text: The Brodie set might easily have lost its identity at this time, not only because Miss Brodie had ceased to preside over their days which were now so brisk with the getting of knowledge from unsoulful experts, but also because the headmistress intended them to be dispersed.
ref: 1961, Muriel Spark, chapter 4, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, London: Macmillan:
glosses: Not soulful.
EMG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EMGs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of electromyography.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of electromyograph.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of electromyogram.
milk punch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk punches
Senses: examples: text: He listened, and with respect too, to Mr. Foker’s accounts of what the men did at the University of which Mr. F. was an ornament, and encountered a long series of stories about boat-racing, bumping, College grass-plats, and milk-punch—and began to wish to go up himself to College to a place where there were such manly pleasures and enjoyments.
ref: 1946-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, ch 3
glosses: A hot Irish drink, scáiltín, made from equal amounts of hot whiskey and milk.
glosses: A cold beverage of milk, bourbon, sugar, and vanilla extract, common in New Orleans.
externs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extern
wheeltapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheeltappers
form: wheel-tapper
Etymology: From wheel + tapper.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
wheeltappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheeltapper
solar sail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar sails
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sail-like structure on a spacecraft consisting of very large ultrathin mirrors, with propulsion being achieved by the radiation pressure of light from a star or laser.
Synonyms: light sail
photon sail
solar sails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solar sail
photon sail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photon sails
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A solar sail.
Synonyms: light sail
solar sail
light sail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light sails
form: lightsail
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A solar sail.
Synonyms: photon sail
solar sail
photon sails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photon sail
light sails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light sail
frontlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontlists
Etymology: From front + list.
Senses: examples: text: The frontlist is often the top revenue center, but a strong backlist provides another revenue stream that hedges risk.
topics: media
publishing
antonyms: back catalog
back catalogue
backlist
hypernyms: booklist
stocklist
glosses: A list of the most recent books available from a publisher, as opposed to the backlist of older titles.
examples: text: The celebrity tell-all has been proposed as a frontlist title, whereas the cookbook has been proposed as a backlist title and the food history book as a midlist title.
topics: media
publishing
antonyms: backlist
coordinate_terms: midlist
glosses: Intended to sell strongly while still recent, and to be profitable on that basis alone, even if predicted to sell poorly after that.
raw_tags: of books being planned
frontlists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontlist
unhold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unholds
form: unholding
form: unheld
form: unheld
form: unholden
form: un-hold
Etymology: From Middle English unholden, equivalent to un- + hold.
Senses: examples: text: The unrefuted accusation had also been a libel on yourselves, whose great intelligence has unholden Maga in so unprecedented a degree, and who monthly devour the astonishing number of six and thirty thousand of her copies.
ref: 1857, William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn, volume 5, page 37:
text: For each man has the same problem — women — how to hold them when you want to hold them — how to unhold them when you want to unhold.
ref: 1997, Sherwood Anderson, Welford Dunaway Taylor, Charles E. Modlin, Southern Odyssey:
text: I unheld my ears. It wasn't all that yucky.
ref: 2008, Jamie Gilson, Chess! I Love It, I Love It, I Love It!, page 10:
text: Say the love, create the romance, fizz out the anger or walk away the way your heart wishes... Life is simple as we listen daily but only when we un-hold the load... Everything is changing around you and you also can't escape the change.
ref: 2016, Manita Bajaj, Bharat Bhushan Bassan, Appraisals of the Soul: Musings of the Heart:
glosses: To unhand, release from one's grasp, let go of.
examples: text: Scroll to Hold, and press the trackball. Your call is now on hold. Follow these steps to unhold your call: […]
ref: 2009, Dante Sarigumba, Robert Kao, BlackBerry Bold For Dummies, page 120:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: To remove from a "hold" or "on hold" state.
cannulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænjʊleɪt/
ipa: /ˈkænjəˌleɪt/
Forms: form: cannulates
form: cannulating
form: cannulated
form: cannulated
Etymology: From cannula + -ate (suffix forming verbs).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: cannulize
antonyms: decannulate
glosses: To insert a cannula (“tube to drain or inject fluid”) into (a body part such as a cavity, organ, or vessel (especially a vein)).
Derived terms: cannulation
decannulate
recannulate
Related terms: cannula
cannulize
cannulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cannulate
cannulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cannulate
cannulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cannulate
boring clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boring clams
Senses: glosses: A clam, Tridacna crocea, capable of burrowing even through rock.
Synonyms: crocus clam
nonreligiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonreligious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being nonreligious.
gnomishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gnomish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being gnomish.
nonsummer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + summer.
Senses: examples: nonsummer months
glosses: Not of or pertaining to summer.
noninjected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + injected.
Senses: glosses: Not injected.
unpiqued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + piqued.
Senses: glosses: Not piqued.
unpityingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpityingly
form: most unpityingly
Etymology: From unpitying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unpitying manner.
possessee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɒˈzɛsiː/
Forms: form: possessees
Etymology: From possess + -ee.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Verb complement in some languages or some constructions of a given language; the noun which is possessed.
examples: text: The story gets wildly out of hand as renegade exorcist James Olsen kidnaps the possessee from jail and drags him to the house for a climactic display of head-splitting make-up effects and noisy ritual chanting.
ref: 2011, Kim Newman, Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s, page 225:
glosses: The subject of a possession by a demon or spirit.
Synonyms: sense: Verb complement
word: complement
sense: subject of a possession
word: energumen
nonmodified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + modified.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, the nonmodified parts of these loans still have the original covenants.
ref: 2009 July 6, Dwight Cass, “The Risk of Junk Upends Leverage”, in New York Times:
glosses: unmodified
nonmoderated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + moderated.
Senses: glosses: unmoderated
nonmodally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonmodal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonmodal manner.
noncoded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coded.
Senses: glosses: Not coded.
nondecoded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + decoded.
Senses: glosses: undecoded
nonencoded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + encoded.
Senses: glosses: unencoded
undelegated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + delegated.
Senses: glosses: nondelegated
plygain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌɡaɪn/
ipa: /ˈplɪɡaɪn/
Forms: form: plygains
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh plygain.
Senses: glosses: A Welsh custom of singing carols at dawn on Christmas morning.
plygains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plygain
holdoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holdoffs
Etymology: Deverbal from hold off.
Senses: examples: text: The ladder holdoff enabled him to clean the gutters easily without the ladder's weight damaging them.
coordinate_terms: standoff
glosses: A fixture or attachment intended to prevent direct contact between two objects.
examples: text: There was a three-month holdoff in the decision.
coordinate_terms: hold-up
glosses: A delay or forbearance.
Rosicrucianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Rosicrucian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A theology of a secret society of mystics, allegedly formed in late medieval Germany by Christian Rosenkreutz, and using the rose cross as their symbol.
pylonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pylonlike
form: most pylonlike
Etymology: From pylon + -like.
Senses: examples: text: One elaborates Surrealist curves and swellings into bright red undulating sofas and ottomans; the other, geometric, masses bright pylonlike forms and resembles the ’60s designs of Verner Panton.
ref: 2009 July 31, Roberta Smith, “Bravado That Swaggers to Its Own Beat”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pylon.
pythonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pythonlike
form: most pythonlike
Etymology: From python + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Its pythonlike form should produce as much a stir, at least within architectural circles, as did the Bird’s Nest stadium by Mr. Herzog and Pierre de Meuron when it was unveiled a year ago at the Beijing Olympics.
ref: 2009 July 12, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Inside His Exteriors”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characteristic of or resembling a python; pythonic.
cablelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cablelike
form: most cablelike
Etymology: From cable + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cable.
buttresslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buttresslike
form: most buttresslike
Etymology: From buttress + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a buttress.
boring clams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boring clam
nonlexicographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lexicographical.
Senses: synonyms: nonlexicographic
glosses: Not lexicographical.
pin-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pin-holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pinhole.
pin-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pin-hole
pin-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pin-heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pinhead.
Derived terms: pin-headed
pin-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pin-head
piniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piniform
form: most piniform
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of or resembling a pine cone.
pinkeyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinkeye
motorik
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more motorik
form: most motorik
Etymology: German
Senses: examples: text: ...explores the anti-auto tirades of Peggy Suicide while (ironically) paying tribute to the motorik beat and highway sounds of Neu! and krautrock.
ref: 1996, Jim DeRogatis, Kaleidoscope eyes: psychedelic rock from the '60s to the '90s:
text: Kraftwerk and Can both used the motorik style as did later electronic oriented bands like Ultravox...
ref: 2006, Steve Taylor, A to X of Alternative Music:
text: ...with occasional C-sharp and B chords thrown in there to relieve the tension, and a motorik beat.
ref: 2007, Phil Freeman, Marooned: the next generation of desert island discs:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having a rigid, repetitive, driving 4/4 beat, as in krautrock.
pink-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pink-eyes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pinkeye.
Derived terms: pink-eyed
pink-eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pink-eye
pin-point
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pin-point
form: most pin-point
Senses: examples: text: Granit Xhaka also forced Martin Dubravka into an smart save in the first half, before Aubameyang made it five goals in five appearances against the Magpies with an acrobatic finish after Martinelli's pin-point cross.
ref: 2021 May 2, Mantej Mann, “Newcastle United 0-2 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pinpoint.
pin-point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pin-points
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pinpoint.
pin-point
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pin-points
form: pin-pointing
form: pin-pointed
form: pin-pointed
Senses: examples: text: Because most diesel failures can be traced to electrical faults, minor in themselves but often difficult to pin-point, any unscheduled halt during a trial run is often the signal for the frenzied unfolding of wiring diagrams and the appearance of an impressive array of voltmeters and circuit testers.
ref: 1962 April, R. K. Evans, “The Acceptance Testing of Diesel Locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 268:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pinpoint.
pin-points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pin-point
pin-points
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pin-point
no-break space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-break spaces
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
qualifier: word processing
glosses: Synonym of non-breaking space.
synonyms: word: non-breaking space
pin-pointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pin-point