cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gorp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔɹp/
ipa: /ˈɡɔːp/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: gorps
form: GORP
Etymology: The Oxford English Dictionary cites a 1913 reference to the verb gorp (“to eat greedily”). The occasionally theorized "good old raisins and peanuts" and "granola, oats, raisins, peanuts" are probably backronyms.
Senses: examples: text: Before you take off, pack food for picnics and snacks. Experienced biking adventurers usually fill a plastic bag with a quick-energy concoction called "gorp" (good-old-raisins-and-peanuts). Create your own gorp according to taste.
ref: 1974, Sue Ellin Browder, The American Biking Atlas & Touring Guide, Workman Pub. Co., →ISBN, page XXIII:
text: Nuts are cheap. Per pound: peanuts, $1.50, pistachios, $1.80, hazelnuts, 75¢. Mix them with dried fruit and you have a scrumptious gorp.
ref: 1981, John Rakowski, Adventure Cycling in Europe […] , Rodale Press, →ISBN, page 280:
text: “They were living in their pajamas so as not to have too much laundry. They were eating gorp for their suppers.”
“I'm not even going to ask what gorp is,” Sarah said,
“It's a mixture of wheat germ and nuts and dried—”
ref: 1985, Anne Tyler, chapter 19, in The Accidental Tourist, Knopf, →ISBN, page 307:
text: i also take some cheese and hard salami and crackers which are normally not contained in gorp to give even more variety. variety is the key here, and a bag of gorp curtails this.....unless of course you wish to pack ten different varieties of gorp with you :^)
ref: 1996 September 24, Brian M. Parks, “gorp”, in rec.backcountry (Usenet):
text: “Do you want some gorp? I have an extra bag.” Gorp was like gold by that point. Nobody had any left. She thought of the M&M's. Her mouth began to water, but she stayed strong.
ref: 2009, Ann Brashares, 3 Willows, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 236:
text: “What if I need energy?” “Well, try some G.O.R.P.” “What's G.O.R.P.?” “It's a cereal that you eat with your hands.”
ref: 2014 February 11, Nick Kroll, “Krolling Around With Nick Clown” (8:03 from the start), in Kroll Show, season 2, episode 5, spoken by Gene Creemers (Jon Daly):
synonyms: scroggin
trail mix
glosses: A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement for use while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.
Derived terms: gorpcore
Related terms: trail mix
jabbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jabber
jabbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jabber
jabbering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jabberings
Senses: glosses: Speech that jabbers; gibberish.
subapostolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + apostolic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the period after the apostolic age (the time of Christ's apostles) and the early Catholic age (when the followers of the apostles were gone) in early Christian church history, at the tail end of the first century and into the early years of the second century AD.
jabbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jabber
subclavian artery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subclavian arteries
Senses: examples: text: Glass from the shattered side windows had lodged itself quite deep between Lia’s shoulder blade and collar bone, just missing the subclavian artery.
ref: 2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 205:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A paired artery of the upper thorax which passes beneath the clavicle and mainly supplies the upper limb, and continues as the axillary artery at the lateral border of the first rib.
drug test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drug tests
Senses: glosses: Any chemical check for the presence of (usually illegal) drugs in a sample of one's blood, hair or urine.
drug test
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drug tests
form: drug testing
form: drug tested
form: drug tested
Senses: glosses: To perform a drug test; the check for the presence of illegal drugs in a sample of blood, hair or urine.
dioptrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /daɪˈɒptɹɪkəl/
Forms: form: more dioptrical
form: most dioptrical
Senses: examples: text: dioptrical principles
ref: 1857, John Pringle Nichol, Cyclopedia of the Physical Sciences:
glosses: Alternative form of dioptric.
opiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of opiate
opiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more opiated
form: most opiated
Senses: glosses: Treated with an opiate.
glosses: Under the influence of an opiate.
oppo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒ.pəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɑ.poʊ/
rhymes: -ɒpəʊ
rhymes: -ɑpoʊ
Forms: form: oppos
form: oppoes
Etymology: Clipping of opposite number.
Senses: examples: text: 'I suppose you're referring to Fluker,' I told him, and he looked at me in stunned amazement when I explained that he was one of my old oppoes.
ref: 2012, Tony Orchard, Here's to our Far-Flung Empire:
text: “It's all right, chaps, the decorator's come. This 'ere is me old ’oppo Ginger Vernall.”
ref: 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 53:
glosses: A friend, associate or colleague.
oppo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒ.pəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɑ.poʊ/
rhymes: -ɒpəʊ
rhymes: -ɑpoʊ
Etymology: Clipping of opposition, or of opposition research as a whole.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: oppo research
opposition research
glosses: Research into one's opponent's family, friends, and past, which aims to uncover activities or interests which embarrass or discredit them.
controlled substance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: controlled substances
Senses: examples: text: In order to determine that a controlled substance is present, it is frequently necessary to carry out a full forensic analysis of such samples.
ref: 2003, Michael D. Cole, The Analysis of Controlled Substances, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 120:
topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
synonyms: controlled drug
glosses: A drug or chemical whose use, possession, manufacture, or sale is regulated or banned by the government.
Related terms: schedule
orach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔɹɪt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈɒɹɪtʃ/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪtʃ
Forms: form: oraches
form: arrach
form: orache
Etymology: From Middle English arage, from Anglo-Norman arace, arache; apparently an irregular derivation from Old French arepe, from classical Latin atriplex, from Ancient Greek ἀτράφαξυς (atráphaxus), of unknown origin (probably loaned).
Senses: glosses: The saltbush: any of several plants of the genus Atriplex
especially Atriplex hortensis
glosses: The saltbush: any of several plants of the genus Atriplex
or Atriplex patula, found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach.
glosses: Lamb's quarters: frost-blite (Chenopodium album) or another plant of the genus Chenopodium.
Synonyms: sense: Atriplex hortensis
word: common orach
sense: Atriplex hortensis
word: garden orache
sense: Atriplex hortensis
word: red orach
sense: Atriplex hortensis
word: mountain spinach
sense: Atriplex hortensis
word: French spinach
word: spear orach
word: spreading orach
word: spreading orache
word: spear saltbush
Derived terms: word: common orach
word: garden orach
taxonomic: Atriplex hortensis
word: red orach
word: spear orach
taxonomic: Atriplex patula
word: spreading orach
taxonomic: Atriplex hastata
word: sea orach
Related terms: lamb's quarters
endorphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endorphin
endorphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈdɔːfɪn/
ipa: /ɛnˈdɔ(ɹ)fɪn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪn
Forms: form: endorphins
Etymology: Borrowed from French endorphine, from endo(gène) (“endogenous, produced within”) and morphine.
Senses: examples: text: The explanation for the depression-reducing effects of exercise that clearly has been the most popular with the media is the endorphin hypothesis (see Hoffmann, 1997), which has also been discussed as a possible explanation in nearly every exercise-depression literature review.
ref: 2019, Curt L. Lox, Kathleen A. Martin Ginis, Heather L. Gainforth, Steven J. Petruzzello, The Psychology of Exercise: Integrating Theory and Practice, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of peptide hormones found in the mammalian brain that act as neurotransmitters and have properties similar to morphine.
Derived terms: endorphinergic
neoendorphin
orby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orby
form: most orby
Etymology: From orb + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It smote Atrides orbie targe; but runne not through the brasse.
When, now arraid The world was with the spring; and orbie houres Had gone the round againe, through herbs and flowers.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
text: Their orbye christales moue
More actiue than before,
And entheate from aboue
Their soueraigne prince laude, glorifie, adore.
ref: 1623, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Flowers of Sion:
glosses: having characteristics of an orb
orenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔˈɹɛn.də/
ipa: /oʊˈɹɛn.də/
rhymes: -ɛndə
Etymology: Supposedly coined in 1902 by American ethnologist John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt using a Wyandot (Iroquoian) cognate to Mohawk orę́·naʔ (“inherent power”).
Senses: examples: text: In the Handbook of American Indians, Alice Fletcher describes the Iroquois conception of orenda as "a fictive force, principle, or magic power"
ref: 1920, George Willis Cooke, The Social Evolution of Religion:
glosses: A mystical power thought by the Iroquois to pervade all things.
Related terms: mana
wakan
organised crime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of organized crime.
orogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒɹə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪk/
Etymology: From orogeny + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: For Suess, summing up folding and thrusting in a dozen mountain chains, orogenic events happened when the earth shrugged violently and pulled itself together.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 116:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: orogenous
glosses: Concerned with orogeny; pertaining to the creation of mountains.
Derived terms: anorogenic
nonorogenic
orogenically
orogenic belt
synorogenic
osmanthus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɒzˈmænθəs/
Forms: form: osmanthuses
Etymology: From João de Loureiro's (1790) taxonomic name Osmanthus (“genus of flowering shrubs”), from Ancient Greek ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”), for the strong scent of the Osmanthus fragrans.
Senses: examples: text: By 1969, the flower district had under cultivation over 13 hectares of rosebeds alone, 10,000 pots of osmanthus, 50,000 pots of magnolias, camellias and jasmine and several hundred thousand pots of chrysanthemums, as well as thousands of pine, pomegranate and iron trees.
ref: 1995, Zhou Shachen, “The Charm of the Flower District”, in Beijing Old and New: A Historical Guide to Places of Interest […], 2nd edition, Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, chapter VII (Scenic Spots on the Outskirts of Beijing), page 321:
glosses: Any of several widely distributed evergreen flowering plants, of the genus Osmanthus.
wikipedia: João de Loureiro
Singapore
Hyponyms: holly osmanthus
sweet osmanthus
Derived terms: osmanthus wine
ostentatiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ostentatiously
form: most ostentatiously
Etymology: From ostentatious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "You working with Fisheye?" Ng says, lighting up cig. The smoke swirls in the air ostentatiously.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 366:
glosses: In an ostentatious manner; extravagantly or flamboyantly.
Derived terms: unostentatiously
osteoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteoplasty + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Of, or relating to osteoplasty.
osteoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteoplasties
Etymology: From osteo- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgery to repair, modify or graft bone or bony structures.
Derived terms: osteoplastic
ostracized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ostracize
ostracized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ostracized
form: most ostracized
Senses: glosses: Blackballed.
glosses: Banished by ostracism.
Derived terms: unostracized
OSV
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: SVO
SOV
VSO
VOS
glosses: object–subject–verb [word order].
Related terms: sense: object-subject-verb
word: anastrophe
OSV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Our Sunday Visitor (Catholic publication).
otogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more otogenic
form: most otogenic
Etymology: From oto- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: originating in the ear
oude genever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oude genevers
Etymology: From Dutch oude genever.
Senses: glosses: A style of jenever gin distilled using traditional methods.
Related terms: jonge genever
outdoorsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outdoorsmen
Etymology: From outdoors + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever the kids ask my wife what to get Ol' Whosis for Christmas, she tells them, "You know how he loves outdoor sports. Why don't you get him something outdoorsy?" […] Let me state here that there should be a law prohibiting any person who uses the term "outdoorsy" from dispensing advice about what kinds of presents to buy an outdoorsman.
ref: 1978 December, Patrick F. McManus, “The Gift”, in Field & Stream, volume LXXXIII, number 8, New York, N.Y.: CBS Publications, →OCLC, page 88:
text: Dalio is an outdoorsman and naturalist of the Hemingway school: he likes to go places and kill things. He fishes in Canada, shoots grouse in Scotland, and hunts big game in Africa, […]
ref: 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
hypernyms: outdoorsperson
coordinate_terms: outdoorswoman
glosses: A man who spends time in outdoor pursuits or sports.
Derived terms: outdoorsmanship
Related terms: word: outdoorsy
outshine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈʃaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: outshines
form: outshining
form: outshone
form: outshone
form: outshined
form: outshined
Etymology: From out- + shine.
Senses: glosses: To shine brighter than something else
examples: text: Four minutes later Walcott, who until then had been redundant as a lone striker owing to one-star service, was given his first decent pass of the game and duly took his chance to outshine the Senegalese, springing a poorly conceived offside trap to collect Lukas Podolski's ball and stroke a low 15-yard shot past Tim Krul and into the far corner.
ref: 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
examples: text: Bright, outshining beams.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: To shine forth, to give out light.
Derived terms: outshiner
outshone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈʃɒn/
ipa: /aʊtˈʃoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: outshown stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outshine
jingoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jingoists
Etymology: From jingo + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The term "jingoist;" or its equivalent, was applied to Washington and Henry, to Jefferson and Jackson. It was applied to James G. Blaine, the typical American of his time -- a man from beneath whose very toe-nails enough intellect might be scraped to make an hundred Clevelands or McKinleys. All were jingoes in their day and generation, because all preferred the title of sovereign to that of subject...
ref: 1919, William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12:
glosses: One who advocates an aggressive nationalism; one who vociferously supports a nation's military aims.
Synonyms: hawk
war hawk
warmonger
jingoist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jingoist
form: most jingoist
Etymology: From jingo + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: When liberals did acknowledge the persistence of the covenant theme, they treated it like some atavistic beast, lumping it together with the largely aberrant doctrines of ultra-right-wingers, "Jewish conspiracy" advocates, Nazi sympathizers, and jingoist fanatics.
ref: 1988, Jeffrey Hadden, Anson Shupe, Televangelism: Power and Politics on God`s Frontier:
glosses: Jingoistic; extremely supportive of warlike foreign policy.
Synonyms: hawkish
Related terms: chauvinistic
jingoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jingoist
hawkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːkɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈhɑːkɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɔːkɪʃ
Forms: form: more hawkish
form: most hawkish
Etymology: From hawk + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
examples: text: The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion.
text: This was not the first disagreement between the ultra-hawkish Bolton and the occasionally more intervention-skeptic Trump.
ref: 2019 September 10, Christian Britschgi, “Ultra-Hawk John Bolton Fired From Trump Administration”, in Reason:
text: But before the letter was finalized, it drew denunciation from the hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
ref: 2020 July 1, Dan Friedman, “Congressional Democrats Are Tying Themselves Into Knots About Whether to Restrict Aid to Israel”, in Mother Jones:
text: The Russian authorities said on Sunday that they had begun a murder investigation into the killing of Daria Dugina, 29, a hawkish political commentator who was the daughter of the philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, long a leading proponent of an imperialist Russia who has been urging the Kremlin to escalate its assault on Ukraine.
ref: 2022 August 21, Anton Troianovski, “Brazen Attack Near Moscow Rattles Russians”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: bellicose
antonyms: dovish
glosses: Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
examples: text: The Federal Reserve's recent statement on the slowing of inflation was interpreted as hawkish by the market.
antonyms: dovish
glosses: Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.
Derived terms: hawkishly
hawkishness
unhawkish
Related terms: war hawk
jaybird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaybirds
Etymology: From jay + bird.
Senses: examples: text: "When I say birds of a feather flocks together, it's a metaphorical way of saying -- "
"But dey don't, Mars Tom. No, sir, 'deed dey don't. Dey ain't no feathers dat's more alike den a bluebird en a jaybird, but ef you waits till you catches dem birds together, you'll -- "
"Oh, give us a rest! You can't get the simplest little thing through your thick skull. Now don't bother me any more."
ref: 1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad:
glosses: A jay or blue jay.
examples: text: Belinda was a jaybird and could prattle on for hours about the latest gossip.
glosses: One who talks incessantly.
Derived terms: happy as a jaybird
naked as a jaybird
jaybirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaybird
naked as a jaybird
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: naked as a jay
form: naked as a jay-bird
Senses: examples: text: Never the prude, Eliza walked out into the dorm common room naked as a jaybird and grabbed her forgotten towel.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Stark naked; nude; especially, naked in a public setting and without embarrassment.
Synonyms: nude
chinois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinoises
form: chinoise
Etymology: Borrowed from French chinois. Doublet of Chinese.
Senses: examples: text: Strain through a chinois or fine-meshed sieve to remove any lumps of yolk.
ref: 2007 February 21, “Recipe: Maple Crema”, in New York Times:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A fine-meshed conical strainer.
Coordinate terms: food mill
tamis
herbes de Provence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herbs de Provence
Etymology: Borrowed from French herbes de Provence.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A mixture of bay leaves, parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Related terms: bouquet garni
mixed herbs
desistive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desistive
form: most desistive
Etymology: From desist + -ive.
Senses: glosses: conclusive or final
disconsolately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disconsolately
form: most disconsolately
Etymology: From disconsolate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: From the bank the lamb looked at her, then faced round to the hut, and, baaing disconsolately, trotted a few paces back.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 44:
text: Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 74:
glosses: In a cheerless, dreary manner; in a manner which suggests that one is beyond consolation.
Synonyms: sense: in a cheerless, dreary manner
word: bleakly
sense: in a cheerless, dreary manner
word: drearily
sense: in a manner suggesting one's being beyond consolation
word: dejectedly
sense: in a manner suggesting one's being beyond consolation
word: inconsolably
sense: in a manner suggesting one's being beyond consolation
word: unconsolably
disconsolateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disconsolate + -ness.
Senses: examples: Each day's disconsolateness greater than the last.
glosses: The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
Synonyms: bleakness
disconsolation
dreariness
disconsolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disconsolations
Senses: glosses: The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
Synonyms: disconsolateness
brown sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown sauces
Senses: glosses: A sauce made by the addition of stock to a heated and browned mixture of butter and flour.
examples: text: HP Sauce is a popular variety of brown sauce.
glosses: Any of many brands of bottled sauce based on malt vinegar, fruit and spices.
examples: text: He put brown sauce on the mashed potatoes.
glosses: Gravy.
Hyponyms: sense: sauce made with stock
word: Madeira sauce
Coordinate terms: white sauce
malt vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malt vinegars
Senses: glosses: a dark, aged vinegar made by brewing malted barley
Related terms: non brewed condiment
overanxious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overanxious
form: most overanxious
form: over-anxious
Etymology: From over- + anxious.
Senses: glosses: Excessively anxious or nervous.
Derived terms: overanxiously
Related terms: overanxiety
overanxiousness
overattachment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + attachment.
Senses: glosses: Excessive attachment, affection or fondness.
overcapitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcapitalised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcapitalize
overcapitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcapitalized
form: most overcapitalized
form: overcapitalised
Senses: glosses: Having excess capital.
overcapitalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcapitalizes
form: overcapitalizing
form: overcapitalized
form: overcapitalized
Etymology: From over- + capitalize.
Senses: glosses: to estimate the value of a company, stock etc too highly
glosses: to capitalize a business beyond a sustainable level
Related terms: overcapitalization
overcapitalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcapitalizations
form: overcapitalisation
Etymology: From over- + capitalization.
Senses: glosses: The state of being overcapitalized.
overenthusiastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvɝənθuziˈæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more overenthusiastic
form: most overenthusiastic
Etymology: From over- + enthusiastic.
Senses: glosses: excessively enthusiastic
Derived terms: overenthusiastically
overgrazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overgraze
overgrazing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overgrazings
Senses: examples: text: The law was intended to reduce overgrazing by cattle, but its impact would be to further curtail land for Africans.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 142:
glosses: Excessive grazing to an extent that the land is damaged.
overgraze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overgrazes
form: overgrazing
form: overgrazed
form: overgrazed
Etymology: From over- + graze.
Senses: glosses: to graze land excessively, to the detriment of the land and its vegetation
glosses: to allow animals to graze excessively
protoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or relating to protoplast
glosses: prototypical
protoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: prō′tə-plăst′
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.təˌplæst/
ipa: /-ˌplast/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.təˌplæst/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʉ.təˌplæst/
ipa: /ˈpɹɐʉ-/
ipa: /ˈpɹɐʉ.təˌplɛst/
ipa: /ˈpɹo.təˌplast/
ipa: /ˈpɾoː.ʈoˌplæsʈ/
Forms: form: more protoplast
form: most protoplast
Etymology: From Middle French prothoplaste, and its source Late Latin protoplastus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek πρωτόπλαστος (prōtóplastos, “first-formed”), from Ancient Greek πρωτο- (prōto-) + πλαστός (plastós, “formed, moulded”).
Senses: glosses: Created first; archetypal.
protoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prō′tə-plăst′
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.təˌplæst/
ipa: /-ˌplast/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.təˌplæst/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʉ.təˌplæst/
ipa: /ˈpɹɐʉ-/
ipa: /ˈpɹɐʉ.təˌplɛst/
ipa: /ˈpɹo.təˌplast/
ipa: /ˈpɾoː.ʈoˌplæsʈ/
Forms: form: protoplasts
Etymology: From Middle French prothoplaste, and its source Late Latin protoplastus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek πρωτόπλαστος (prōtóplastos, “first-formed”), from Ancient Greek πρωτο- (prōto-) + πλαστός (plastós, “formed, moulded”).
Senses: glosses: The first-created human; Adam.
glosses: A prototype or archetype; a model.
examples: text: Habsburg tradition insists that the protoplast of the family was called Guntram.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 121:
glosses: The first person in a given family, lineage etc.; an ancestor.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The contents of a plant cell.
völva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜːlvə/
ipa: /ˈvɒlvə/
ipa: /ˈvəʊlvə/
ipa: /ˈvɑlvə/
ipa: /ˈvoʊlvə/
rhymes: -ɑlvə
Forms: form: völvas
form: volva
Etymology: From Old Norse vǫlva (völva in modern Icelandic).
Senses: examples: text: In the Eddas, Odin conjures up a dead volva and questions her about Baldur's fate.
ref: 1988, Freya Aswinn, Runes & Feminine Powers: Northern Mysteries & Magick, page 30:
text: In another account a volva was paid by a king to find his nephews who had been hidden by a man skilled in magick.
ref: 1994, Michael Howard, The Mysteries of the Runes, page 157:
text: There is another story in Landnamabok telling of a volva who actively brought prosperity to the fishing activity of the people through her use of seidr.
ref: 1995, D. J. Conway, Moon Magick: Myth & Magick, Crafts & Recipes, Rituals & Spells, page 26:
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
synonyms: seiðkona
glosses: In Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy.
glosses: Any prophetess, sooth-sayer, or witch.
sucralose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sucraloses
Senses: examples: text: Some examples of the sweeteners include aspartame, saccharin, sucralose and stevia. The W.H.O.’s announcement contradicts previous studies that have said these sweeteners don’t offer any health benefits but also do not cause harm.
ref: 2023 May 15, April Rubin, “World Health Organization Warns Against Using Artificial Sweeteners”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A selectively chlorinated sucrose, used as an artificial sweetener.
suction curettage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suction curettages
Senses: glosses: A common method of abortion where the products of conception are removed by a vacuum arrangement.
volva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volvas
form: volvae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin volva.
Senses: examples: text: The genus Amanita has both a volva and a veil; the spores are white, and the stem is easily separable from the cap.
ref: 1903, George Francis Atkinson, chapter VI, in Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc., 2nd edition, New York: Henry Holt:
glosses: A cup-shaped mass at the base of various fungi.
examples: ref: 1989, Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition:
glosses: The membranous covering which completely encloses many fungi in the early stage of growth.
volva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volvas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of völva.
paralysed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paralysed
form: most paralysed
form: paralyzed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paralyzed
Derived terms: paralysedly
unparalysed
paralysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paralyzed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paralyse
paralysing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paralysing
form: most paralysing
form: paralyzing
Senses: examples: text: The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
text: Also in 1955 came the paralysing two-week ASLEF pay strike, which did even more to end the love affair between the railways and its regular customers.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
glosses: Alternative spelling of paralyzing.
Derived terms: paralysingly
paralysing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paralyzing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paralyse
paralyzing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paralyzing
form: most paralyzing
form: paralysing
Senses: examples: text: The snake's paralyzing venom prevented the mouse from escaping.
glosses: That paralyzes.
Derived terms: paralyzingly
paralyzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paralysing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paralyze
suffragan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌ.fɹə.ɡən/
ipa: /ˈsə.fɹə.ɡən/
Forms: form: suffragans
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman, Old French suffragam, from (the stem of) Latin suffrāgium (“suffrage”).
Senses: examples: text: Now take your hors said sir Tristram And as ye say / soo hit shal be / and alle thyn euylle wil god forgyue it yow and I doo / And here within this myle is the suffrecan of Carleil that shalle gyue yow the sacrament of baptym
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XII:
english: “Now take your horse,” said Sir Tristram, “And as you say, so it shall be and God will forgive you all your evil and I do, too. And less than a mile from here is the suffragan [bishop] of Carlisle who shall give you the sacrament of baptism.“
translation: “Now take your horse,” said Sir Tristram, “And as you say, so it shall be and God will forgive you all your evil and I do, too. And less than a mile from here is the suffragan [bishop] of Carlisle who shall give you the sacrament of baptism.“
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glosses: A bishop seen in relation to his archbishop or metropolitan province (which may summon him for support, to attend synods etc.).
examples: text: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: A suffragan could share the tasks which were special to bishops; for example, by conducting confirmations.
ref: 2015, GR Evans, Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War:
glosses: An auxiliary bishop.
Related terms: coadjutor bishop
suburbicarian
coadjutor bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coadjutor bishops
Senses: examples: text: The bishop [...] encouraged his flock to bully this brilliant stranger into being ordained priest and soon Augustine was coadjutor (assistant) bishop in the town.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 304:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: An auxiliary bishop with the right of succession, i.e., he becomes bishop upon the death, removal or retirement of the incumbent bishop.
auxiliary bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auxiliary bishops
Etymology: auxiliary + bishop
Senses: glosses: A bishop who functions as another bishop's deputy, where the weight of sacramental duties is too much for a single bishop.
Coordinate terms: coadjutor bishop
paralyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paralyzed
form: most paralyzed
form: paralysed
Senses: glosses: Partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled.
examples: text: We were paralyzed with fear.
glosses: Rendered incapable of action.
Derived terms: nonparalyzed
paralyzedly
semi-paralyzed
semiparalyzed
unparalyzed
paralyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paralysed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paralyze
sugar daddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar daddies
Etymology: Apparently from slang sugar (“money”) and colloquial daddy (“father”).
Senses: examples: text: "Huh, indeed!" Isobel answered him. "Proposing, or propositioning? If either of you two Romeos ever rattle the doorknob of my room at night again, you're apt to get a bullet through it." Jake winced. "Wasn't me. Look at my gray hair, Isobel. I'm old enough to be your daddy." "Sugar daddy, I suppose," she said mockingly.
ref: 1961, Dallas McCord Reynolds, Black Man's Burden, Project Gutenberg EBook edition:
text: […] Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci [street]: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.
ref: 2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: A man who spends money on an often younger romantic or sexual partner in order to maintain the relationship.
Synonyms: aristo
Hypernyms: salt daddy
Splenda daddy
sugar parent
Coordinate terms: sugar mama
sugar maple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar maples
form: sugar-maple
Senses: examples: text: Residents love this trail because of its wet coolness in the summer; its bright orange sugar maples in autumn, the contrast of green pines and white snow in the winter.
ref: 2024 December 6, Mackenzie Farkus, Brooke Holder, Nate Iglehart, Jacob Posner, Sophie Ungerleider, “Record drought and blazes? The US Northeast awakens to new wildfire risks.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: hard maple
rock maple
glosses: A North American hardwood tree, Acer saccharum, famed as the source of maple sugar and maple flavoring; the wood from such a tree.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Acer nigrum
word: black sugar maple
taxonomic: Acer barbatum
word: southern sugar maple
taxonomic: Glycobius speciosus
word: sugar-maple borer
taxonomic: Acer grandidentatum
word: Western sugar maple
Related terms: maple sugar
sugar beet
sugar bush
sugarbush
sugar cane
sugaring
sugar pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar pines
Senses: glosses: Pinus lambertiana, the largest species of pine, native to California and Oregon; particularly noted for its huge, distinctive cone.
Krumholz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krumholzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Krumholz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
supersessionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersessionisms
Etymology: From supersession + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Pat Robertson's comment makes sense as an expression of what theologians call "supersessionism." While he may love Jews, Robertson believes that the coming of Jesus made Christians, not Jews, the chosen people. The Christian covenant with God is the one that matters.
ref: 2006, Mark Oppenheimer, The Slate.:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The belief not merely that Judaism has been supplanted by Christianity, but that the covenant between God and Israel as His chosen people has been abrogated.
Derived terms: post-supersessionism
keffiyeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈfiː(j)ə/
enpr: kə'fi-ə
Forms: form: keffiyehs
form: kaffiyah
form: kuffiyeh
form: kufiya
form: kufiyah
form: kufiyya
Etymology: From Arabic كُوفِيَّة (kūfiyya). Doublet of kofia.
Senses: examples: text: This guy's already awake! And chipper! He wraps on a keffiyeh!
ref: 2015, Joe Sacco, Palestine, Fantagraphics, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Speaking to a crowd of demonstrators, some of whom dressed in raincoats while others wore keffiyehs in solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel’s deadly war on Gaza, one demonstrator said: “Any president that has come to power has also let workers down.”
ref: 2024 November 9, Maya Yang, “Anti-Trump protests erupt across US from New York City to Seattle”, in The Guardian:
text: The group assembled in Romare Bearden Park shortly after 6 p.m., just barely outnumbering a dozen city police officers stationed in clusters around the area’s edge. The crowd grew to more than 50 people within the hour, many draped in keffiyehs and hoisting Palestinian flags high above their heads.
ref: 2025 June 27, Lila Hempel-Edgers, Damenica Ellis, “Protesters gathered in uptown Charlotte to oppose Trump bombing of Iran sites”, in The Charlotte Observer, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2025, Politics & Government:
synonyms: word: chafiye
word: cemedanî
word: ghutra
word: hattah
word: keffiyeh
word: kufiya
word: mashadah
word: rezza
word: scarf
word: shawl
glosses: A headdress traditionally worn by some Arabs, also used as a scarf.
kaffiyeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaffiyehs
Senses: examples: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Hamoudi, my guide, sings his way uphill. He leads a pack mule by a chain, bowed against an icy wind. His faded kaffiyeh snaps like a flag.
glosses: Alternative spelling of keffiyeh.
ambulance chaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambulance chasers
Etymology: The origins of this phrase date from 1897, from newspaper articles about attorneys seeking clients through targeted mail solicitation. “Ambulance chasing” was one of the descriptive phrases employed by the media for this activity. It later became a derogatory term for direct advertising.
Senses: examples: text: You know nothing about the law. You're a used-car salesman, Daniel. You're an ambulance chaser with a rank. You're nothing. Live with that.
ref: 1992, Aaron Sorkin, A Few Good Men, spoken by Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway (Demi Moore):
text: Republicans have tried to cast him as a millionaire ambulance chaser, the kind of man who forces doctors and businesses to pay ever higher liability-insurance costs.
ref: 2004 July 19, Richard Lacayo, “Court and Spark: Edwards' Legal Career”, in Time:
glosses: An unethical attorney who solicits business at the scenes of accidents or in hospitals, in exchange for a percentage of the damages that will be recovered in the case.
glosses: An attorney who engages in unethical behavior.
glosses: An unethical funeral director or person who engages in the unlicensed sale of services to those who do not yet require them in an attempt to increase business.
Related terms: ambulance chasing
elfin wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elfin woods
form: elfinwood
Etymology: From elfin + wood, circa 1900-05.
Senses: glosses: A collection of trees that survives on poor soil above the tree line, often covered by snow; krummholz.
Paakantyi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaːkəndʒiː/
Forms: form: Baagandji
form: Barkindji
form: Barkandji
Senses: glosses: An aboriginal people of New South Wales.
Paakantyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaːkəndʒiː/
Senses: glosses: A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language of this people; Baagandji.
paedomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːdə(ʊ)ˈmɔːfɪk/
ipa: /ˌpidəˈmɔɹfɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛdəˈmɔɹfɪk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪk
Forms: form: more paedomorphic
form: most paedomorphic
form: pædomorphic
form: pedomorphic
Etymology: From paedo- + -morphic.
Senses: examples: text: Based on pedomorphic changes in the fossils of Paleolithic humans, Wrangham has suggested that a similar process has been taking place in human evolution during the past thirty to fifty thousand years, and may still be taking place.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 744:
glosses: Of, relating to, or resulting from the retention of juvenile characteristics by an adult.
Synonyms: neotenic
Related terms: gerontomorphic
paedomorphism
pedomorphism
pedomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛdəˈmɔɹfɪk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪk
Forms: form: more pedomorphic
form: most pedomorphic
Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + -morphic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paedomorphic.
paedomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pedomorphism.
pedomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + -morphism.
Senses: glosses: The retention, by an adult, of juvenile characteristics.
Synonyms: neoteny
Pangwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
Pangwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The people who speak that language.
Pangwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Along Myanmar’s 1,300-mile border with China, a town called Pangwa sits in a small valley, surrounded by forested peaks that are occasionally dusted with snow. For years, this hardscrabble outpost was controlled by an aging warlord, an ally of Myanmar’s brutal military junta, who ran his fiefdom largely according to his own whims.
ref: 2025 July 18, Timothy McLaughlin, “A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border. The Kachin Independence Organization fought for decades in obscurity. Now it's supplying essential minerals to manufacturers around the world”, in Bloomberg Businessweek, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2025:
glosses: A town in Shan State, Myanmar.
panne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæn/
rhymes: -æn
homophone: pan
Forms: form: pannes
Etymology: Borrowed from French panne. Doublet of pen, penna, and pinna.
Senses: glosses: A lustrous finish applied to velvet and satin.
glosses: A fabric resembling velvet, but having the nap flat and less close.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A wetland consisting of a small depression, with or without standing water, often in a salt marsh or other coastal wetland.
paralogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralogues
form: paralog
Etymology: From para- + -logue.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pair of genes that derives from the same ancestral gene and now reside at different locations within the same genome.
Derived terms: interparalogue
malmignatte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malmignattes
Senses: synonyms: karakurt
glosses: A small venomous spider of southern Europe, Latrodectus tredecimguttatus, having thirteen small red spots on the abdomen.
sawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Japanese millet (“Echinochloa esculenta”)
synonyms: word: Japanese millet
extra: Echinochloa esculenta
lacklustre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lacklustre
form: most lacklustre
Etymology: From lack + lustre.
Senses: examples: text: Substitute Charlie Austin scored seven minutes into his Southampton debut as a lacklustre Manchester United were booed off at Old Trafford.
ref: 2016 January 23, Phil Dakwes, “Man Utd 0–1 Southampton”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), BBC Sport:
text: With railway industry revenues continuing to sit significantly below their pre-pandemic level, and a lacklustre response by the industry to Government's calls for efficiencies and cost control, it's no surprise that the Treasury has lost faith in the railway's ability to curb its need for financial support.
ref: 2023 March 22, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: Slow speed ahead for High Speed”, in RAIL, number 979, page 3:
qualifier: Commonwealth spelling
glosses: Alternative spelling of lackluster.
Derived terms: lacklustrely
lacklustreness
lacklustre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacklustres
Etymology: From lack + lustre.
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, the fear of offending the military has reduced the campaigns to mere lacklustres. Promises are reeled off with so much obvious lack of passion that it is quite possible the party bosses themselves hardly believe what they say […]
ref: 1990, The Nigerian Economist, volume 4, page lxxii:
qualifier: Commonwealth spelling
glosses: Alternative spelling of lackluster.
drill instructor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drill instructors
Senses: examples: Army: drill sergeant
Navy: recruit division commander
Marine Corps: drill instructor
Air Force: military training instructor
Coast Guard: company commander
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The generic term for the principal instructor of fresh military recruits undergoing basic training in the various branches of the United States military, routinely abbreviated to the initialism DI; always filled by enlisted personnel (a sergeant or petty officer).