cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cuntfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cuntfaced
form: most cuntfaced
Etymology: From cunt + faced.
Senses: glosses: A term of abuse.
glosses: Very drunk.
glosses: Under the influence of mind-altering drugs.
Related terms: cuntface
dark money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In Colorado, at least $18 million in dark money was spent on behalf of Cory Gardner, the Republican newly elected to the Senate; $4 million was spent on behalf of Senator Mark Udall, the Democratic incumbent.
ref: 2014 November 8, “Dark Money Helped Win the Senate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The Senate budget committee held a hearing on Wednesday morning to scrutinize the role of oil- and gas-linked “dark money” in delaying climate action – and tearing through local and federal budgets.
ref: 2023 June 21, Dharna Noor, “Senate examines role of ‘dark money’ in delaying climate action”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Funds used to pay for an election campaign that are not disclosed to voters prior to voting, whether spent on behalf of a candidate running in an election, or to influence voting on a ballot.
Shota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian შოთა (šota).
Senses: examples: text: Shota Rustaveli (1172–1216) was a Georgian poet of the 12th century, and one of the greatest contributors to Georgian literature.
glosses: A male given name of Georgian origin.
animalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more animalian
form: most animalian
Etymology: From animal + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: To give an instance from the animalian side of Linnaeus's efforts, he may have classified the swift (Hirundo apus) and the swallow (Hirundo rustica) together because of general similarity … .
ref: 1998, Sayre N. Greenfield, The Ends of Allegory, Delaware, →ISBN, page 142:
topics: sciences
glosses: Of the kingdom Animalia, which includes humans.
examples: text: We stood before the Lord in the high-backed chair, and I saw that the wood figures of his regal throne were, of course, animalian, feline and diabolical.
ref: 1999, Anne Rice, Vittorio the Vampire, Ballantine, published 2001, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: Of an animal or animals, usually including humans but sometimes connoting nonhuman nature.
examples: text: He did not look at her because he did not wish to see that deliciously animalian slit of her mouth, naked and red, beneath the white mask that made her eyes look so feline.
ref: 1982, Anne Rice, Cry to Heaven, Ballantine, published 1995, →ISBN, page 78:
text: His big hands clutched him about the collar of the suit that had once been fine, and he was shaking him with animalian violence, shoving him[…].
ref: 2007, Lynn Stegner, Because a Fire Was in My Head, Nebraska, →ISBN, page 202:
coordinate_terms: animaloid
glosses: Like that of an animal or animals, usually including humans but sometimes connoting nonhuman nature.
Synonyms: sense: of any animal, including humans
word: animalic
sense: of a nonhuman animal
word: bestial
sense: of a nonhuman animal
word: beastly
sense: like that of a nonhuman animal
word: bestial
sense: like that of a nonhuman animal
word: beastly
Hyponyms: mammalian
human
nonhuman
Sookie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of the name Susan or Susannah, from Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (“Shoshána”) meaning "rose" or "lily".
Senses: glosses: A female given name of Hebraic origin.
diplophonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diplo- + -phonia.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The production, by the voice, of sounds of two different pitches simultaneously
Related terms: diplophonic
triplophonia
triplophonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From triplo- + -phonia.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The production, by the voice, of three differently pitched sounds simultaneously
Related terms: triplophonic
diplophonia
fauxgasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊ.ɡæzəm/
Forms: form: fauxgasms
Etymology: Blend of faux + orgasm.
Senses: examples: text: Every woman, if she is honest, will admit to having performed a fauxgasm at least once in her life.
ref: 2008 March 4, Andrea Burns, “Column: Why girls find faking it easier than making it”, in Herald Sun:
text: Opened in 1888, this kosher deli continues to serve some of the best pastrami in New York (and was the site of Meg Ryan's famous 'fauxgasm' scene in When Harry Met Sally…).
ref: 2010, Time Out New York, Time Out Guides Ltd, →ISBN, page 67:
text: (Question: Why is every news article about these studies accompanied by a photo of Meg Ryan's fauxgasm scene in "When Harry Met Sally"? Centuries from now, archaeologists will infer that we copulated only fully clothed in delis.)
ref: 2010 January 30, Monica Hesse, “New research snub of G spot leaves many hot and bothered”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A simulated orgasm.
Synonyms: fakegasm
geekosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geekospheres
Etymology: From geek + -o- + -sphere.
Senses: examples: text: He looked around the cubicle he was dismantling, the good old geekosphere: a comfortable mush of old coffee cups and fast-food wrappers and technical manuals and rolled-up softscreens, and the multi-poster on the partition that cycled through classic Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea scenes.
ref: 2000, Stephen Baxter, Manifold: Time, Del Rey, →ISBN, page 169:
text: Many visit the site every day; some (like me) read the site many times over the course of the day as a running summary of the geekosphere at any given time. Because of this, millions of Slashdot readers are likely to respond to a story at any given time.
ref: 2001, Chris Radcliff, Perl for the Web, New Riders, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Crowding the geekosphere around his terminal, forming piles on the floor, were not monitor pets but books of cyberthink: […]
ref: 2012, Carlin Romano, America the Philosophical, Knopf, →ISBN, page 485:
glosses: The realm or sphere of geeks collectively; a space belonging to a particular geek or geeks.
Synonyms: sense: sphere of geeks collectively
word: geekdom
grrl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grrls
form: grrlz
Senses: examples: text: You end up being a projection screen for everyone’s unfinished business: butches excluded because they were “too male identified”; women body-builders and transmen who started testosterone because they made the space unsafe with their “male energy”; leatherdykes because they were into “violence against women” and that made the vanilla grrlz “feel threatened”; lesbos because the straight women were sure they’d get jumped, and on and on and on.
ref: 1997, Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, →ISBN, page 188:
text: A rough-and-tumble newsprint equivalent is Wilds Woman (subtitled “Women Getting Wild Outside”) that also rounds up reviews of gear, rock groups, and “grrlz on film.”
ref: 2002, Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins, The Complete Walker IV, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, pages 25–26:
text: Graffiti Women was the first book specifically about graffiti grrlz and street artists; Ganz himself noted how despite incremental improvement the inclusion of grrlz in graffiti art publications remained sparse.
ref: 2018, Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón, Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of grrrl.
grrls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grrl
gingerphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ginger + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Last night, Tate staged a nice running gag on racism by creating a world in which the majority had an irrational hatred of "gingers", meaning redheads. Women of that persuasion were forced to hide from gingerphobia in Russet Lodge, a "ginger refuge".
ref: 2005 July 22, Ian Bell, “Those who pay the PR rarely get to call a tune as perfect as this one”, in The Herald, Glasgow:
text: There is a phenomenon called "gingerism" (prejudices against red-headed people) and "gingerphobia" (fear of red-headedness) in Scotland today.
ref: 2007 August 9, “Genetics Gets to the Roots of Why It Is Better to Be Red Than Dead in Cold Climates”, in Cape Times, South Africa:
text: Although Western civilisation needs new categories of thought-crime like a hole in the head, the idea of gingerphobia as a hate crime is probably no more absurd than many other categories.
ref: 2013 January 9, Ed West, “Why is gingerism so common in Britain?”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: Fear, dislike, or hatred of people with red hair.
Synonyms: gingerism
craptabulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more craptabulous
form: most craptabulous
Etymology: Blend of crap + fantabulous.
Senses: examples: text: So Kenny stayed back and said notliing, and the dude took his issues and limped up to the register, and life went on, every bit as craptabulous as before, the whole thing a nonevent, a not-amazing nonstory.
ref: 2008, Charles Bock, Beautiful Children, Random House, published 2009, →ISBN, page 170:
text: Same problem that plagues nearly all amateur video - craptabulous sound.
ref: 2009 October 21, Wolfgang Wildeblood, “Re: Anyone check out my video?”, in aus.tv (Usenet):
text: […] The same industry friends who have said that my career is dead because of one craptabulous movie?”
ref: 2011, Cheris Hodges, Too Hot for TV, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Extremely awful.
Synonyms: crapperific
craptacular
craptastic
low-quality
destinkify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destinkifies
form: destinkifying
form: destinkified
form: destinkified
Etymology: de- + stink + -ify
Senses: examples: text: After banishing his^([sic]) immediately to the shower on arrival home (grin), I use a full cup of vinegar (plain cheap white stuff) tossed into the wash to destinkify his clothes.
ref: 1996 April 10, Brett Williams, “Re: Odor in Fabrics”, in rec.crafts.textiles.sewing (Usenet):
text: How can i destinkify my boots so they smell better or more neutral?
ref: 1998 December 29, Geraldine, “Boot inqueries”, in alt.gothic.fashion (Usenet):
text: “It takes you that long to destinkify yourself?” he asked, walking back toward his aunt's.
ref: 2013, Brittany Geragotelis, Life's a Witch, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 302:
glosses: To mask or remove the odor from; to deodorize.
Synonyms: defunkify
destink
defunkify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defunkifies
form: defunkifying
form: defunkified
form: defunkified
Etymology: From de- + funk + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: I don't know of it works on defunkifying fridges, but I've used it to prevent nasty odors in ice chests.
ref: 2003 July 17, TexasFireGuy [username], “Re: stinky fridge”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):
text: And though we're not implying anything, scented candles and fragrance sticks can defunkify a flat and add alluring aroma to your efforts to cherchez l'amour.
ref: 2006 March, “Add Class To Your Cave”, in Men's Health, page 36:
text: As the hour grows late, I know that I'm going to have to get him out of here so I can clean and defunkify this bedroom.
ref: 2010, Layla Jordan, The Liar's Club, Dafina Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To mask or remove the odor from; to deodorize.
examples: text: But that only depresses me more! I need to defunkify myself in that manner too.
ref: 2001 December 9, Destiny in the Dark [username], “Re: Trying to get defunky”, in alt.depressed.as.fuck (Usenet):
text: I am not trying to spit funky shit to my sisters even when they trying to defunkify my emotions by acting like we ain't all in de bottom of de black boat together.
ref: 2004, Rochell J. Isaac, Black Girls Who Eat Sushi: Life Stories, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 23:
text: i just know that the end of the summer always throws u into a funk, so i wanted to do something to defunkify u.
ref: 2004, Lauren Myracle, ttyl, Abrams, published 2014, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: To take out of a funk; to enliven; to cheer up.
Synonyms: destinkify
unfunkify
un-funk-ify
degunkify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degunkifies
form: degunkifying
form: degunkified
form: degunkified
Etymology: From de- + gunk + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: An aluminum window screen (nonrusting) placed at the bottom of your paint sink makes it easy to degunkify your sink.
ref: 2007, Chuck Gloman, Rob Napoli, Scenic Design and Lighting Techniques: A Basic Guide for Theatre, Focal Press, →ISBN, page 291:
text: Even though I spent half the night in the shower to degunkify.
ref: 2009, Jenny Jones, So Not Happening, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 112:
text: If your mouse pointer jumps around on-screen or doesn't move at all, your mouse is probably clogged with desktop gunk. Follow these steps to degunkify it: […]
ref: 2009, Andy Rathbone, Windows 7 For Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 244:
glosses: To remove a blockage of dirt or grime from.
Derived terms: degunkification
Dubyaphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dubya + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: A new disease of the nervous system is afflicting millions of voting-age Americans: Dubyaphobia.
ref: 2000 October 29, Jeff Cramer (quoting Michael Betzold of Common Dreams), “Dubyaphobia And It's Cure”, in alt.politics (Usenet):
text: If Dubyaphobia does not become widespread and cause Bush to be defeated in the upcoming presidential election, Hillary will be running against a republican nobody in the 2008 election year, and might actually win.
ref: 2003 September 17, GRaleigh345, “Re: True lies”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet):
text: The _Jewish Post_ webmonger didn't put a date on that piece that I can find, but it must have been published before Mr. Soros succumbed to acute dubyaphobia: there is no mention of his latest mental illness.
ref: 2004 May 20, John H. McCloskey, “Re: Why Soros Hates Bush”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet):
glosses: The fear or hatred of George W. Bush.
social anthropologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social anthropologists
Senses: examples: text: Now for some rather more human terminology! Nodes can have mothers, daughters, and sisters (though interestingly the corresponding relations are known as fathers, sons, and brothers in Italian; I shall leave it to social anthropologists and psychologists to work out what the hidden significance of this cross-cultural transvestism may be!).
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 113:
glosses: An anthropologist who specializes in social anthropology.
moultings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moulting
moltings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molting
opinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opining
conjoinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conjoining
showerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showering
rescuings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescuing
queryings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of querying
stubbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stubbing
teleradiographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleradiograph
picturephone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picturephones
Etymology: From picture + phone; a trademark of the 1960s for the earliest such device.
Senses: examples: text: The program has twelve picturephones that link Illinois State Psychiatric Institute (ISPI) with Illinois State Pediatric Institute (one city block away) […]
ref: 1975, Rashid Bashshur, Patricia A. Armstrong, Zakhour I. Youssef, Telemedicine:
text: So a long time ago, I was a true believer in picturephones as the logical extension of the telephone. Although the design I suggested for 2001 was clearly fiction, AT&T spent $500 million in designing and manufacturing its picturephone of the early 1970s.
ref: 2013, A. Michael Noll, Highway of Dreams:
glosses: videophone
picturephones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picturephone
proclaimings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proclaiming
appealings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appealing
implorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imploring
fordings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fording
gentlebeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentlebeings
Etymology: From gentle + being, modelled on gentleman.
Senses: examples: text: Ladies and gentlebeings, let me introduce to you Doctor N'looma and her assistant L'raan, the Yularians who, along with other medical staff, were instrumental in giving me a new lease on life!
ref: 2016, James R. Lane, Last Dance of the Phoenix, page 204:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Polite term of address for any sentient being, human or otherwise.
gentlebeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentlebeing
backslappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backslapping
paederasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pederasty.
metamachines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metamachine
uncoverings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncovering
concealedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From concealed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Although clearly we play a part in particular uncoverings of entities, the discovery of particular truths, we have no control over basic modes of revealing and revealedness, concealing and concealedness.
ref: 2000, Paul Gorner, Twentieth Century German Philosophy, page 158:
glosses: Quality of being concealed.
revealedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From revealed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Although clearly we play a part in particular uncoverings of entities, the discovery of particular truths, we have no control over basic modes of revealing and revealedness, concealing and concealedness.
ref: 2000, Paul Gorner, Twentieth Century German Philosophy, page 158:
glosses: Quality of being revealed.
poindings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poinding
combinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combining
ampelographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ampelography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ampelography.
gloatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gloating
telefilms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telefilm
unassumable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + assumable.
Senses: glosses: Not assumable.
bio-oxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bio-oxidations
Etymology: From bio- + oxidation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of biooxidation
bolognino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolognini
Etymology: From Italian bolognino, after the city of Bologna.
Senses: examples: text: Matteo di Capua followed the example of Chieti, the centre of his authority in the region, by striking a grosso agontano as well as a bolognino, the latter being of papal type with the bust of a saint, and the saint, shown standing on the grosso, being St Nicolas.
ref: 1986, Philip Grierson, Lucia Travaini, Medieval European Coinage: Volume 14, South Italy, Sicily, Sardinia:
glosses: Any of several types of coin once minted in Bologna.
unseens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unseen
overpopulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They generally indicate that there may be large overpopulations of some metropolitan areas, but that the welfare losses of these overpopulations are very small.
ref: 2013, P. Hansen, J. Henderson, M. Labbe, Systems of Cities and Facility Location, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: plural of overpopulation
orang-utang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orang-utangs
Senses: glosses: Rare form of orangutan.
starvings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starving
arrangings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of arranging
glarings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glaring
considerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of considering
clottings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clotting
outflowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outflowing
pausings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pausing
chortlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chortling
hoistings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɔɪstɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of hoisting
outgushings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outgushing
apings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.pɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of aping
rebukings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebuking
ferryings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferrying
mishappens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mishappen
mishappened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mishappen
mishappening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mishappen
mishappening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mishappenings
Senses: examples: text: He had been surprised to find that Detective Chief Inspector Peck, the man who was apparently in charge of the investigation into Willow Road and its mishappenings, was at the Institute.
ref: 1980, James Herbert, The Dark:
glosses: An unfortunate incident.
mishappenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mishappening
gamings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪmɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of gaming
sportings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporting
offendings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offending
alightings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alighting
swirlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swirling
grazeland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grazelands
Etymology: From graze + land.
Senses: examples: text: Ghana is an agricultural country consisting mainly of the coastal plains with grazeland vegetation, a forest belt covering a large part of the South and Ashanti, and the Savannah in the North.
ref: 1960, Susan B.G. Ofori-Atta, “Nutritional Deficiencies and Maternal and Child Health in Africa”, in Journal of the National Medical Association, volume 52, number 1:
text: For instance, one could think of parcelling out the entire grazeland into small, appropriately scattered pastures
ref: 1996, Jean-Marie Baland, Jean-Philippe Platteau, Halting Degradation of Natural Resources: Is There a Role for Rural Communities?, →OCLC:
text: The dense grassland south of the dirt road and north of Laguna Playa Grande and the identified lowland forest is the current habitat in succession from what had previously been grazeland and historically been in sugarcane production.
ref: 1997, Relocatable Over the Horizon Radar (ROTHR) System: Environmental Impact Statement:
text: Land-based production systems — crop, orchard, plantation, grazeland, and freshwater aquaculture — claim almost one-third of the Earth's terrestrial surface
ref: 2005, Don Melnick, Jeffrey Sachs, UN Millennium Project. Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, UN Millennium Project: Environment and human well-being, Earthscan, →OCLC, page 42:
text: Rangelands consist of grazelands, shrublands and forest ranges. Grazelands are mainly natural, of low quality and are grazed, in most cases, throughout the year.
ref: 2005, A. Georgoudis, A. Rosati, C. Mosconi, Animal Production and Natural Resources Utilisation in the Mediterranean Mountain Areas, Wageningen Academic Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: Land used for grazing animals; pasture.
grazelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grazeland
grazings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪzɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of grazing
clenchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clenching
surfacings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surfacing
biddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪdɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of bidding
tumblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumbling
upliftings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uplifting
fissurings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fissuring
eddyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eddying
circumnavigational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circumnavigation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to circumnavigation.
Derived terms: circumnavigationally
pirouettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pirouetting
beholdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beholding
soliloquizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soliloquizing
despisings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of despising
hoeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoeing
justlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of justling
reticulated pythons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reticulated python
unmanageability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + manageability.
Senses: glosses: unmanageableness
blowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowing
sendings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sending
doubtings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊtɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of doubting
rememberings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remembering
jokings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joking
tauntings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taunting
chirrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirring
chearfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chearfully
form: most chearfully
Etymology: From chearful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I will be obey'd, I tell you!—and chearfully too!
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 50:
synonyms: word: cheerly
word: gaily
word: blessedly
word: bubblingly
word: chearfully
word: cheerfully
word: cheerily
word: cheerly
word: eudaemonically
word: eupeptically
word: gaily
word: gayly
word: genially
word: gladly
word: happily
word: joyfully
word: joyously
word: lightheartedly
word: merrily
word: mirthfully
glosses: Obsolete form of cheerfully.
qualifyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qualifying
wayfarings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wayfaring
dottings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dotting
trouncings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trouncing
blabberings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blabbering
blubberings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blubbering
dividings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dividing
dividings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All the Sea Islands have what are called dividings, shoal areas behind the barrier islands where the tides meet and divide.
ref: 2005, Mary R. Bullard, Cumberland Island: A History, page 5:
glosses: A line at which tides from two inlets meet and tide-borne sediment deposits.
Leyden phial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leyden phials
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Leyden jar.
synonyms: word: Leyden jar
Leyden phials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Leyden phial
fur farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fur farms
Senses: glosses: A farm where fur-bearing animals, such as mink, are raised.
sniggerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sniggering
snickerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snickering
samesies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samsies
Etymology: From same + -sies.
Senses: examples: text: […] a thousand thank yous to Rowan Lawton – super agent/enabler/general favourite person. Samesies to Lynne Drew and Thalia Suzuma, thank you for being so patient and so helpful and generally helping this book (and all the others) exist.
ref: 2012, Lindsey Kelk, I Heart London:
text: At one point, two of the friends opted to buy the same style of shoes as the other (whereupon one of the women was heard gleefully to use the word 'samesies') – another testament to the power of peer influence.
ref: 2012, Martin Lindstrom, Brandwashed:
text: Hey bro. Wats up? Anthony texted back. Nothin much, jus layin in bed. You? His phone dinged again a few seconds later. Samesies man.
ref: 2013, Alex Xavier, When the Sun Sets, page 136:
glosses: The same.
Seussification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Seuss + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Residents of Pomona were reportedly pleased with the neighborhood's Seussification, which saw the production team creating facades for a quarter of the buildings — painting everything to conform to Anville's limited and loud color palette […]
ref: 2003, Frederick S. Clarke, Cinefantastique, volume 35, page 1:
text: With the blockbuster success of the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas (starring Jim Carrey) over Christmas 2000, the Seussification of commercial pop culture was pretty well complete.
ref: 2005, Kathleen McDonnell, Honey, We Lost the Kids: Re-thinking Childhood in the Multimedia Age, page 108:
text: Exactly why and how deserts host these exceptional plant types is not clearly understood and such 'Dr. Seussification' of the desert flora deserves systematic study.
ref: 2008, Sven Erik Jørgensen, Brian D. Fath, Encyclopedia of ecology, page 886:
glosses: The process of making or becoming like the works of Theodor Seuss, "Dr. Seuss" (1904–1991), American writer and cartoonist best known for his imaginative children's books, often written in rhyme.
enclosings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enclosing
shruggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrugging
spongings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sponging
noddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nodding
temptings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tempting
mannagrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannagrass
sweetgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetgrasses
Etymology: From sweet + grass.
Senses: glosses: mannagrass, in genus Glyceria
glosses: Hierochloe odorata (syn. Anthoxanthum nitens), an aromatic herb native to northern Eurasia and North America
glosses: Muhlenbergia filipes, a grass native to the southeastern United States
Related terms: Sweet Grass County
sweetgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetgrass
filterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filtering
braunschweiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Braunschweiger (a sausage).
Braunschweigers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Braunschweiger
swaggerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swaggering
pollinaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollinarium
viscidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viscidium
scuffings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scuffing
peltings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelting
autographings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autographing
capstring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capstrings
Etymology: From cap + string.
Senses: examples: text: By this well-managed ruse he came into possession of a scarlet breast-knot from Mrs. Dashwood; a black crape capstring from Mrs. Faithful; a smelling bottle from Juliet; and a pencil-case from Blanche[…]
ref: 1840, Theodore Edward Hook, Cousin Geoffrey, the Old Bachelor, page 129:
text: He had scarcely finished the sentence when the door opened, and in rushed Toppin's wife, making such havoc of her capstrings, which she pulled and twisted in her excitement, that one might have been induced to suppose they were anything but minor objects of her wrath.
ref: 1867, Benjamin Brierley, Marlocks of Merriton, page 101:
glosses: A string that fastens a cap on the wearer's head.
capstrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capstring
rhymings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhyming
flingings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flinging
witnessings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witnessing
foreseeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreseeing
downpourings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downpouring
Tyrolean hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tyrolean hats
Senses: synonyms: Alpine hat
Bavarian hat
glosses: A kind of green felt hat with the crown tapering to a point, originally from the Tyrol in the Alps.
fleckings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflɛkɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of flecking
countermarchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countermarching
burpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burping
unpotholed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + potholed.
Senses: examples: text: The road went from dirt to gravel to finally pavement unpotholed, but remained two lanes, winding back and forth over hills and down hills and always under a perfect canopy of trees with long fingers overhead laced.
ref: 2004, Dave Eggers, How We Are Hungry:
glosses: Free from potholes.
leechings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leeching
publishings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of publishing
homophobias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homophobia
awakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awaking
upgushings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upgushing
upsurgings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upsurging
misreckonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misreckoning
spoonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spooning
hesitatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hesitating
allegings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alleging
conceivings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈsiːvɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of conceiving
gardenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gardening
fructophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fructo- + -philic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: able to ferment fructose
raw_tags: of a yeast
Related terms: fructophile
damnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdæmɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of damning
swearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swearing
summerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summering
observings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of observing
intuitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intuiting
knowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knowing
detectings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detecting
inspectings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inspecting
apprehendings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apprehending
cognisings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cognising
cognizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cognizing
spinternet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of spin + Internet. The word was presumably coined by Evgeny Morozov in 2009.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Spinternet — a Web with little censorship, but lots of spin and propaganda.
ref: 2011, Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion, Public Affairs, page 117:
text: March 29, 2009, Evgeny Morozov, "Propaganda.com" in New York Times
In Iran, the Revolutionary Guards recently announced their ambition to build their own spinternet by launching 10,000 blogs for the Basij, a paramilitary force under the Guards.
glosses: The Internet (and digital technologies) as used to influence public opinion while giving an impression of grassroots mobilisation.
furanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjʊəˈɹænɪk/
ipa: /fjʊɹˈænɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Etymology: From furan + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: related to, or based on the structure of furan
mentionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mentioning
versifyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of versifying
interlockings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlocking
antifracking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifracking
form: most antifracking
form: anti-fracking
Etymology: From anti- + fracking.
Senses: glosses: Opposing fracking (hydraulic fracturing).
angiodermatitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From angio- + dermatitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the blood vessels of the skin
galacturonide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galacturonides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various compounds, similar to glucuronide but containing galactose residues; notably the pectins
Derived terms: galacturonosidase
oligogalacturonide
mendings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mending
tanglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tangling
chippily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪpəli/
rhymes: -ɪpəli
Forms: form: more chippily
form: most chippily
Etymology: From chippy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a chippy manner.
wishings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wishing
undomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + domed.
Senses: examples: an undomed reading room
glosses: Not domed.
cursable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cursable
form: most cursable
Etymology: From curse + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile Captain Bartlett spent much time and trouble, in the midst of cursable weather, in trying to get the ship further north, but failed, and so settled down in Charkbok Inlet to wait and work at his forthcoming Autobiography.
ref: 1921, Ernest Ingersoll, Explorers Journal, page 14:
text: Deut. 27:15-26 then describes the "cursable" conduct of individual persons that will evoke God's curses. Following the recitation of each type of "cursable" conduct, "all the people" are commanded to say "Amen."
ref: 2001, Jordan Jay Hillman, The Torah and Its God: A Humanist Inquiry, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 534:
text: [He's] cursable. Can't drive worth a darn but he's super cursable. Everyone has to be good at something. Warrick is good at getting cursed and charming the ladies. He's real good at buying up property too.
ref: 2018 July 31, Mandy M. Roth, Don’t Stop Bewitching: A Happily Everlasting Series World Novel: (Bewitchingly Ever After Series Book 3), Raven Happy Hour:
text: Those hands and feet are also cursable or disdainful which remain indulged in other worthless actions or deeds without performing the service.
ref: 2022 October 11, Sardar Paramjit Singh, Do Good to Others, Amarjeet Singh Paramjit Publications:
glosses: Capable of or deserving of being cursed; damnable.
Related terms: curseworthy
PUA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PUAs
Senses: examples: text: Sure, the echoes of PUA raise concerns and I have no doubt Saturday Sarge has its fair share of men just wanting to pick up women for sex (Phil says in the four years he's sarged he's only slept with about 10 – the same amount another sarger says he's slept with in the last six months).
ref: 2014 October 18, Gareth May, “Saturday Sarge: meet the men who go hunting for women”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2019:
text: Many also did not know that there is a name for men who often use such cruel tactics in pursuit of women: PUAs, or pickup artists.
ref: 2019 December 29, Li Yuan, “For China’s Pickup Artists, Sex Is the Goal and Urging Suicide Is a Tactic”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2020:
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of pickup artist.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of potentially unwanted application.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Private Use Area (the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use).
Hyponyms: SPUA
douchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of douchey: more douchey
douchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of douchey: most douchey
unovercomeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + overcomeable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be overcome; insuperable
Synonyms: insuperable
unsuperable
undefeatable
insurmountable
overcomeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English overcomabylle, equivalent to overcome + -able.
Senses: glosses: able to be overcome; surmountable.
Aberzombie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aberzombies
Etymology: Blend of Abercrombie + zombie.
Senses: examples: text: They look at those massive tummies and ample asses on their fellow big men with a leering, lusty eye, the same way your average club kid might go all aflutter when he spots an Aberzombie in the house.
ref: 2007, Tim Bergling, Chasing Adonis: Gay Men And the Pursuit of Perfection, Harrington Park Press, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Then I moved on to the sea of chisel-chinned quarterbacks, WASPy golden boys, Aberzombies, and rumpled teenaged fogies.
ref: 2007, James St. James, Freak Show, Speak, →ISBN, page 21:
text: After all, no one respects an Aberzombie clone who's just following the trendies!
ref: 2012, Kimberly Dana, Lucy and Cecee's How to Survive (and Thrive) in Middle School, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 133:
glosses: An unthinking conformist who wears fashions from or in the style of the brand Abercrombie & Fitch.
godbrother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godbrothers
Etymology: From Middle English godbrother, equivalent to god- + brother.
Senses: examples: text: I got excited at the prospect of even more fun in this wonderful house with my godbrothers.
ref: 2008, Sharon Cheston, Faded Rainbows: Psychospiritual Therapeutic Journeys, iUniverse, published 2008, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Wes and his godbrother, Red, moved toward the cheese bus as it slowly rolled to a stop in Dundee Village.
ref: 2010, Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, Spiegel & Grau, published 2010, →ISBN, page 97:
text: Her worldview may also be favorably tweaked by her having a godbrother with cerebral palsy.
ref: 2013, J. W. Wiley, The Nigger in You: Challenging Dysfunctional Language, Engaging Leadership Moments, Stylus, published 2013, →ISBN, page 35:
text: "My mom took him in as her godson, so of course he's my godbrother!" Jia Li said with a hint of pride in her voice. Old Shen, you are awesome!
ref: 2019, Hou ShenDaShu, The Happiness, Funstory, →ISBN:
glosses: The son or godson of one's godparent, or the godson of one's parent.
Hypernyms: godsibling
Coordinate terms: godsister
bed tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed teas
form: bed-tea
Senses: examples: text: The day was pretty fully taken up by a well-defined routine: 6 a.m. chota-hazri (bed tea and some fruit); seven to eight, riding, bath, then breakfast at nine. . . .
ref: 1955, S. K. Kirpalani, Fifty Years with the British, published 1993, →ISBN, page 92:
text: Bed tea or chota hazari (small breakfast), as we used to know it when I was a child in Calcutta during the last days of the raj, is one of the luxuries of my life in India.
ref: 1991, Mark Tully, No Full Stops in India (1992 Penguin edition), (Google preview)
text: His cap and white gloves were perfect whether he was delivering the bed tea at 8am or bringing me a china hot water bottle just before midnight.
ref: 1996 April 13, Justine Hardy, “Travel: That elusive, smart and affordable hotel is only just around the corner”, in The Independent", UK, retrieved 24 Mar 2014:
text: You'll be woken each morning with a tray of cookies and ‘bed-tea’, which is made using leaves plucked from the plantations outside your window.
ref: 2013 June 6, "India's Top Romantic Resorts: Glenburn Tea, Estate Darjeeling, India Times (retrieved 24 March 2014)
glosses: A serving of tea shortly after awakening in the morning.
Related terms: afternoon tea
high tea
morning tea
bed-tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed-teas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bed tea.
Fanson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fansons
Etymology: Blend of fan + Hanson.
Senses: examples: text: While we are a community of "Fansons" (ROFL), we are also people with other things in common.
ref: 1999 October 11, SK, “My rant: will you be heard?”, in alt.fan.hanson (Usenet):
text: If you do, you may be part of the "Fansons," and you probably know that Isaac is available, Taylor is married with a young baby boy, and Zac has a girlfriend.
ref: 2004 July 14, Tatiana Morales, “'90s Music Quiz With Hanson”, in CBS News:
text: Fansons are a breed of their own, where every one of us are so-called "number one fans."
ref: 2011, Kaitlyn Schnell, "Confessions of a Fanson", Emmie (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Fall 2011, page 11
glosses: A fan of the American pop-rock band Hanson.