cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coralize
coralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coralize
counsellees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counsellee
ptochologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptochologist
pubiotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pubiotomy
puffinets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puffinet
puffinries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puffinry
puftaloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puftaloon
fritterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fritterer
ecopsychotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + psychotherapy; perhaps influenced by ecopsychology and ecopsychiatry.
Senses: examples: text: In [Paul] Shepard’s and [Theodore] Roszak’s version, providing ecopsychotherapy and changing our child rearing practices will reunite us with nature and help us avert environmental catastrophe.
ref: 1998, Randall White, “Psychiatry and Ecopsychology”, chapter 13 of Ante Lundberg (editor), The Environment and Mental Health: A Guide for Clinicians, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, page 211
text: While psychotherapy has traditionally looked within the individual for answers, ecopsychotherapy explores how the answers may be found in our relationship with the natural environment.
ref: 1998, George William Burns, Nature-Guided Therapy: Brief Integrative Strategies for Health and Well-being, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 76:
text: Ecopsychotherapy was formulated by Burns (1998) […] In broad terms, ecopsychotherapy proposes that it is beneficial to shift attention away from internal personal problems toward sensory experiences that bring pleasure.
ref: 2004, Sebastiano Santostefano, Child Therapy in the Great Outdoors: A Relational View, Routledge, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: Nature-centered psychotherapy: the use of nature to promote mental health.
pulpotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulpotomy
pulpectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulpectomy
quantum suicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although quantum suicide is a well-reasoned argument, the multi-universe premise on which it stands is more controversial.
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A thought experiment in which it is proposed that it is impossible to commit suicide, as at each attempt the universe will split into multiple realities, in at least one of which the person will still be alive.
Related terms: many-worlds interpretation
quantum immortality
punkettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punkette
punksters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punkster
punklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punkling
purrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purrer
pushballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pushball
firking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of firk
firked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of firk
flabellations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flabellation
flexagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flexagon
teraelectronvolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teraelectronvolt
bowl-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowl-out
wineberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wineberries
Etymology: From Middle English wynberie, wynberie (“a grape or some other kind of berry”), from Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīnabaʀi, from Proto-Germanic *wīnabasją (“wineberry; grape”), equivalent to wine + berry. Doublet of whimberry (“bilberry”).
Cognate with Dutch wijnbeer, West Frisian wynbei (“grape”), wiemer (“currant”), German Weinbeere (“grape”), Swedish vinbär (“currant”), Icelandic vínber (“grape”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌰𐍃𐌹 (weinabasi, “grape”).
Senses: glosses: The grape (fruit of plants of the genus Vitis).
glosses: The plant Rubus phoenicolasius, the Japanese wineberry.
glosses: Its edible fruit, resembling a raspberry.
glosses: The tree Aristotelia serrata, endemic to New Zealand, with broad rose-coloured leaves.
glosses: Its edible fruit, a small black berry.
glosses: The red currant.
wineberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wineberry
parasuicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasuicides
Etymology: From para- (“resembling”) + suicide. Coined by American author Norman Krietman in 1977.
Senses: examples: text: This phenomenon, known as parasuicide, is at least 10 times more common than suicide; however, the exact prevalence of such acts is unknown.
ref: 1996, Felice Lieh Mak, Carol C Nadelson, International Review of Psychiatry: Volume 2:
text: Health staff have shown negative attitudes to parasuicide patients.
ref: 2001, Alexandra Hough, Physiotherapy in Respiratory Care, page 418:
hypernyms: pseudocide
pseuicide
glosses: A supposed suicide attempt that was not intended to succeed.
Derived terms: parasuicidal
-gasm
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-ɡæ.zəm/
rhymes: -æzəm
Etymology: Back-formation from orgasm (“climax or peak of sexual pleasure”).
Senses: examples: nipple + -gasm → nipplegasm
glosses: Forms nouns for a method of orgasm.
examples: ear + -gasm → eargasm
glosses: Forms nouns for an intensely "explosive" or pleasurable experience.
bassooned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bəˈsuːnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bassoon
parasuicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasuicide
caneland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canelands
Etymology: From cane + land.
Senses: examples: text: According to William McMahon's map of 1828, 44 percent of the island was caneland.
ref: 1984, B W Higman, Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834:
text: This reflects a considerable local migration from the peasant areas of the parish into the canelands.
ref: 1965, Lawrence Alan Eyre, Land and Population in the Sugar Belt of Jamaica:
glosses: Land used for the growing of sugar cane.
agnise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: agnises
form: agnising
form: agnised
form: agnised
Senses: examples: text: […] as they were principally designed for agnising the Creator […]
ref: 1840, Joseph Bingham, Richard Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of agnize.
muddier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Comparative form of muddy
Senses: examples: text: Brunel took a site-specific approach - for example, using stone piers for many of the longer and loftier spans, but timber piles for muddier environs that called for lighter-weight structures.
ref: 2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 57:
glosses: Comparative form of muddy: more muddy.
muddier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muddiers
Etymology: From muddy + -er (agentive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: These people will be standing on entrenched ground; they will not be distracted or seduced by the trivialisers, or the muddiers of the waters. Above all, those who care, including you, will be watching to see the direction of the great river of life.
ref: 1997, Charles Manning Hope Clark, Speaking Out of Turn: Lectures and Speeches, 1940-1991, page 33:
glosses: One who muddies or obscures something.
muddiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of muddy: most muddy
mounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mound
mounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moundings
Senses: examples: text: The tipping or emptying of waggons commences, and, as in embankments or moundings in a railway, they advance over the deposit as it reaches the desired height.
ref: 1866, Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England:
glosses: A mound of material.
mounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mound
pedal to the metal
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: pedals to the metal
glosses: At maximum speed.
glosses: With maximum effort.
Derived terms: put the pedal to the metal
Related terms: balls to the wall
step on it
close to the metal
smellier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of smelly: more smelly
motocrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motocross
smelliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of smelly: most smelly
mouthwashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouthwash
powerline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerlines
Senses: examples: text: Assemblymember Bill Quirk (D-Hayward) has introduced a bill to address power outages caused by metallic film balloons when they come into contact with powerlines.
ref: 2018 February 14, “Reducing Power Outages Caused by Metallic Balloons is Focus of Bill Introduced Today”, in California State Assembly Democratic Caucus, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2020:
glosses: Alternative form of power line.
power-line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power-lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of power line.
Mennonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mennonite
tar papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tar paper
din-dins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Diminutive form of dinner.
Senses: examples: text: […] so it went for nothing, my only real moment in the play, and when I asked him afterwards what the hell he thought he was up to, he said, well darling, if we're all so desperate for our din-dins we're not allowed a decent curtain, and I said it wasn't din-dins, it was just that the rest of us didn't particularly enjoy going on bowing after the audience had stopped clapping.
ref: 1979, Simon Gray, Stage Struck:
text: "Who's ready for their din-dins then? Who are Mummy's darling boys?"
ref: 1992, Rosamunde Pilcher, Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories:
glosses: Dinner.
metring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metering
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metre
metred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metered
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metre
mitring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mitre
maydays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mayday
monickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monicker
nailbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nailbrush
nailbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nailbrush
the mills of the gods grind slowly
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Coined by Sextus Empiricus.
Senses: glosses: Justice may arrive slowly, but it cannot be avoided.
wikipedia: Mills of God
Sextus Empiricus
Related terms: justice delayed is justice denied
eleven plus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eleven pluses
form: 11 plus
form: 11+
Etymology: From eleven + plus, eleven years being the minimum age of students taking the test.
Senses: examples: text: The fact that late developers emerged, ripe for grammar school education, having 'failed' the eleven plus test, was embarrassing.
ref: 1967, Robert John Montgomery, Examinations: An Account of Their Evolution as Administrative Devices in England:
text: As one vociferous eleven-plus critic put it, when Winston Churchill was a boy he produced nothing more than "a large blob of ink" on his entrance exam.
ref: 2007, Stephen Murdoch, IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea:
glosses: An examination formerly administered to all students in their final year of primary education, now used only in a few counties of England and Northern Ireland.
nightclubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nightclub
nightclubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nightclub
nomenclatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomenclature
hypotraceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + traceable.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: hypohamiltonian.
hypohamiltonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + Hamiltonian.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a graph, not containing a Hamiltonian cycle but such that the removal of any single vertex produces a Hamiltonian graph.
family men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of family man
Hamiltonian path
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hamiltonian paths
Etymology: Named after William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), Irish mathematician.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
hyponyms: Hamiltonian cycle
glosses: A path through a graph which visits each vertex exactly once.
Related terms: travelling salesman problem
stannic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The hypothetical acidic form of tin dioxide (SnO₂) that is the parent of the stannates
Hamiltonian cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hamiltonian cycles
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A Hamiltonian path with an additional connection between the first and last vertices visited, forming a cycle.
Hamiltonian graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hamiltonian graphs
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph for which there is a Hamiltonian cycle.
noising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of noise
dead to rights
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: US, 1854, originally New York City criminal slang, thence entered general use. dead (“completely, utterly”) + to rights (“properly”).
Senses: examples: text: have someone dead to rights on something
text: Because of the video replay, the ref had him dead to rights on the penalty.
glosses: With sufficient evidence to establish responsibility definitively.
Synonyms: bang to rights
red-handed
Related terms: guilty as charged
Nebraskans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nebraskan
nonprofits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonprofit
untressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tressed.
Senses: examples: text: With bosom loosely knit and untressed locks
ref: 1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The Dawn in Britain:
text: The headbands were worn on the forehead and fastened behind, so the top of the head was open and untressed hair flowed down the back.
ref: 2004, Catherine Richardson, Clothing Culture, 1350-1650:
glosses: Loose, not in tresses.
untressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untress
solvability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solvabilities
Etymology: From solvable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the results listed in this table are the direct consequence of implications concerning the unsolvability or solvability of certain problems.
ref: 1972, Richard Y Kain, Automata Theory: Machines and Languages:
glosses: Capability of being solved.
examples: the solvability of a merchant
glosses: The condition of being solvent; ability to pay debts; solvency.
Derived terms: supersolvability
unsolvability
trichloroacetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trichloro + acetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to trichloroacetic acid or its derivatives
Oklahomans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oklahoman
polyspore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyspores
Etymology: From poly- + spore.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of twelve to sixteen spores present in some red algae
polyspores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyspore
rerelease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rereleases
form: rereleasing
form: rereleased
form: rereleased
Etymology: From re- + release.
Senses: examples: text: For example, in 1926 MGM's desire to rerelease their 1921 hit The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse led to discussions between Hays and the German ambassador.
ref: 2000, Matthew Bernstein, Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era:
glosses: To release (a film, video game, etc.) again.
rerelease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rereleases
Etymology: From re- + release.
Senses: examples: text: That film deserves a rerelease; it didn't get much attention when it first came out.
text: In the fall of 2016, Mike Judge's 2006 comedy film Idiocracy appeared in select theaters across the United States. Ostensibly a ten-year-anniversary event, the rerelease also happened to coincide with Donald Trump's presidential candidacy and the impending U.S. election.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 39:
glosses: A rereleased item.
re-release
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-releases
form: re-releasing
form: re-released
form: re-released
Senses: examples: text: Voodoo Child was recorded in 1968, and was re-released as a single after Hendrix's death in 1970, when it reached number one.
ref: 2009 November 27, “Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff'”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of rerelease.
re-release
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-releases
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rerelease.
peasant blouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peasant blouses
Senses: glosses: A woman's blouse, based on traditional European peasant dress, with puffed sleeves and square neckline.
Synonyms: peasant shirt
peasant top
peasant shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peasant shirts
Senses: glosses: A peasant blouse.
cryotechnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryotechnologies
Etymology: From cryo- + technology.
Senses: glosses: Technology involving very low temperatures, such as cryonics and cryoelectronics.
superdelicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superdelicious
form: most superdelicious
Etymology: From super- + delicious.
Senses: examples: text: ...with one of the cherries of Sollies-Pont drowned therein, is a superdelicious thing, unexcelled in all the "made drinks" the world knows to-day.
ref: 1906, Francis Miltoun, Rambles on the Riviera:
text: For ice cream lovers — at least 25 superdelicious flavors; also shakes, sundaes and sandwiches.
ref: 1982, Florence Lemkowitz, Robert C Fisher, Mexico 1983:
glosses: Extremely delicious.
shindy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪndi/
Forms: form: shindies
form: shindys
Etymology: Uncertain; compare shinney, shinty. Tentatively suggested to be a compound of the Irish words seinn (“play, sing”) and tí (“house”).
Senses: examples: text: She and Eileen are giving a shindy for Gladys—that's Gerald's new acquisition, you know. So if you don't mind butting into a baby-show we'll run down.
ref: 1907, Robert W. Chambers, The Younger Set, New York: D. Appleton & Co.:
text: "Well, from what I hear," Dr. Buckie went on, complacently, "there'll be more shindies. So look out!"
ref: 1939, John Boynton Priestley, Let the People Sing:
glosses: A shindig.
examples: text: "[…] I've married her. And I know there will be an awful shindy at home."
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “LXXIII”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: I always do sit with my hands in my pockets except when I am in the company of my sisters, my cousins, or my aunts; and they kick up such a shindy—I should say expostulate so eloquently upon the subject—that I have to give in and take them out—my hands I mean.
ref: 1886, Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow:
text: […] it was like a Catholic priest striking peace in an Irish shindy.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: More severe injuries were sustained by a young man who received two stab wounds in the chest from a woman's umbrella.
One of the lighter moments was related by an unidentified witness whose glass eye fell or was torn out in the hostilities. As he later searched the gutter for his hand made optic, a woman approached and handed it back to him none the worse, saying it had found its way down her cleavage in the shindy.
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 264:
text: Nurse Solveig inserted the thermometer and disappeared—disappeared (I timed it) for more than twenty minutes. Nor did she answer my bell, or come back, until I set up a shindy.
ref: 1984, Oliver Sacks, chapter 2, in A Leg to Stand On, HarperPerennial, published 1993, page 23:
glosses: An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.
examples: text: […] what is even more disgusting still, I have seen children playing at "shindy" in a Churchyard, a skull used as a substitute for a ball, and large fragments of leg or arm-bones in the place of sticks.
ref: 1841, anonymous author, The Living and the Dead: A Letter to the People of England, on the State of their Churchyards, London: Whittaker & Co., page 31:
glosses: hockey; shinney
examples: text: "Father took a wonderful shindy to her, for even old men can't help liking beauty. […]"
ref: 1855, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, chapter V, in Nature and Human Nature:
glosses: A fancy or liking.
Montagu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒntəɡjuː/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From Old French mont aigu ("sharp mountain").
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
glosses: An English barony (Montagu of Beaulieu).
Related terms: Montague
defeasibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌfiːzɪˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: defeasibilities
Senses: glosses: State or instance of being defeasible.
melting pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melting pot
grebo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡriːbəʊ/
Forms: form: grebos
form: greebo
Senses: examples: text: The highlight of my school days was one day in the mid-70s. There was a sort of glam-rock cult called the Grebos back then who wore smartish Disco clothes […]
ref: 1998, "Bill Jillians", alt.journalism.gonzo (Internet newsgroup)
text: But the realistic side stepped in — y'know, if you're on the point of giving birth, you don't really need a bunch of grebos playing some dodgy old music downstairs.
ref: 2002, Glyn Brown, “Baxter Dury: Chip off the old Blockhead”, in The Independent on Sunday:
glosses: A greaser or biker; a member of any alternative subculture, as opposed to a chav or townie.
examples: text: […] they were soon pigeonholed under the banner of "grebo rock" […]
ref: 1995, Colin Larkin, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music:
text: […] focused on the hyper punk aspect of England's "grebo" movement […]
ref: 2002, Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide to Rock:
text: This debut album is a glorious grebo-fest.
ref: 2003, Peter Buckley, Jonathan Buckley, The Rough Guide to Rock:
glosses: A member of a United Kingdom subculture of the late 1980s and early 1990s, musically affiliated with garage rock and electronica, typically wearing baggy clothes and hair in high ponytails.
glosses: A short-lived subgenre of alternative rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with influences from punk rock, electronic dance music, hip-hop, and psychedelia.
quires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quire
quires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quire
parameterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹæmətɚləs/
ipa: /-lɪs/
Etymology: From parameter + -less.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Taking no parameters; having zero arity.
quarterbacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quarterback
animadverted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of animadvert
downbursts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downburst
dacryocystitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdæk.ɹɪ.əʊ.sɪˈstaɪ.tɪs/
Etymology: From dacryocyst + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the lacrimal sac
riffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riffle
riffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of riffle
riffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of riffle
lacrimal sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacrimal sacs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
synonyms: nasolacrimal sac
tear sac
dacryocyst
glosses: The upper dilated end of the nasolacrimal duct that is situated in a groove formed by the lacrimal bone and the frontal process of the maxilla and receives the lacrimal canaliculi.
Related terms: dacryocystitis
troco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trucco (“lawn billiards”).
disect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dissect.
RAM pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RAM packs
Senses: examples: text: Currently the Ace (for which a 16K RAM pack is obtainable) is one of the lowest priced machines available.
ref: 1985, John P Killingbeck, Microcomputer Quantum Mechanics:
text: After preprogramming, the player can insert the RAM pack into the slot and push a button, and the instrument will load the information and set the registers.
ref: 2002, Wendy Horobin, How It Works: Science and Technology:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hardware module containing RAM for use by another device.
pixillated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pixillated
form: most pixillated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pixilated.
sqush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwʊʃ/
ipa: /skwʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: squshes
form: squshing
form: squshed
form: squshed
form: squush
Etymology: Onomatopoeic variant of squash or squish.
Senses: examples: text: Blamed if the king didn't have to brace up mighty quick, or he'd a squshed down like a bluff bank that the river has cut under, it took him so sudden.
ref: 1885, Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn:
text: […] it was little better than a swamp, and at every step their shoes went sqush […]
ref: 1909, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls:
text: His feet squshed in the water as he went […] He tip-toed upstairs his wet shoes still squshing a little.
ref: 1939, Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun, page 12:
text: […] a "throne", something God can sit on without having it sqush […]
ref: 1965, Ezra Pound, The Cantos:
glosses: To squash or squish.
Related terms: skoosh
sqush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwʊʃ/
ipa: /skwʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: squshes
form: squush
Etymology: Onomatopoeic variant of squash or squish.
Senses: glosses: A squashing or squishing sound.
sqush
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwʊʃ/
ipa: /skwʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: squush
Etymology: Onomatopoeic variant of squash or squish.
Senses: glosses: A squashing or squishing sound.
squush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwʊʃ/
ipa: /skwʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: squushes
form: squushing
form: squushed
form: squushed
form: sqush
Etymology: Onomatopoeic variant of squash or squish.
Senses: glosses: To squash or squish.
Derived terms: squushy
squush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwʊʃ/
ipa: /skwʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: squushes
form: sqush
Etymology: Onomatopoeic variant of squash or squish.
Senses: examples: text: A few yards downstream was a stretch of sloping rock and moss, and here all clamor ceased: only the close-placed ear could detect the muffled squush.
ref: 1949, William Beebe, High Jungle:
glosses: A squashing or squishing sound.
squush
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwʊʃ/
ipa: /skwʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: sqush
Etymology: Onomatopoeic variant of squash or squish.
Senses: examples: text: Some men in the cellar were mixing mortar in trays with hoes. We watched them put sand and cement and lime and water together. Squush!
ref: 1942, Elizabeth Vernon Hubbard, Your Children at School, How They Adjust and Develop:
text: They looked down at the ants and other bugs they saw and felt enormously big and powerful. They pretended the bugs were people. "Got me a dozen!" Squush.
ref: 1972, Charlotte Baker, Cockleburr Quarters:
glosses: A squashing or squishing sound.
defriend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: defriends
form: defriending
form: defriended
form: defriended
Etymology: From de- + friend.
Senses: examples: text: 2005, Schmitt et al, Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design
But why subject myself and friends to the awkward social construct of being virtually "defriended" because I want to save some space on a Web page?
text: Likewise, the actions of friending or defriending someone send out messages of their own.
ref: 2007, Mia Consalvo, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Internet Research Annual: Volume 4:
qualifier: social media
glosses: To remove from one's list of friends (e.g. on a social networking website).
Synonyms: word: unfriend
unfriend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛnd
ipa: /ˈʌnfɹɛnd/
Forms: form: unfriends
form: un-friend
Etymology: From Middle English unfreend, onfrend, equivalent to un- (noun/adjective prefix) + friend. Cognate with Scots unfrend (“unfriend”). Compare Old English unfriþmann, unwine.
Senses: examples: text: It is even as I suspected, my lord, […] Ye have back-friends, my lord, that is, unfriends—or, to be plain, enemies—about the person of the Prince.
ref: 1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, pages 88–89:
text: I wonder often it has not drawn her out of the grave to come and stand before me, and hear me tell her how I loved her. For, sir, we parted unfriends.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Poor Clare:
text: Thus many unfriends and some friends of the Capital agree upon the same policy with diverse and contradictory motives[…]
ref: 1916, William Edwin Chilton, John Downey Works, Fiscal relation between the United States and the District of Columbia:
text: For we desire no strangers in these lands to break the peace in which we live, and these folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can.
ref: 1977, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Of the Coming of Men Into the West”, in The Silmarillion:
text: The unfriend betrays me, ignores me, denies me, breaks me down; the unfriend is against and tries to devour my personhood.
ref: 1999, Kees Waaijman, John Vriend, The mystical space of Carmel:
synonyms: nonfriend
non-friend
hyponyms: backfriend
glosses: One who is not a friend; an enemy.
Related terms: unfriendly
unfriend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛnd
ipa: /ˈʌnfɹɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
ipa: /ʌnˈfɹɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
ipa: /ˈʌnfɹɛnd/
Forms: form: unfriends
form: unfriending
form: unfriended
form: unfriended
form: un-friend
Etymology: From un- (verb prefix) + friend. Compare Dutch ontvrienden (“to unfriend”), German entfreunden (“to unfriend”).
Senses: examples: text: "I hope, sir, that we are not mutually Unfriended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us."
ref: 1659, Thomas Fuller, The Appeal of Injured Innocence:
glosses: To sever as friends.
examples: text: "I asked her why, she said it was because I didn't comment, and I shrugged and said whatever. I didn't unfriend her."
ref: 2007, Mia Consalvo, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Internet Research Annual: Volume 4:
text: Without unfriending someone, you can now choose to limit or block (unsubscribe) someone from your newsfeed or choose to see only what Facebook deems as very important.
ref: 2013, Nils Smith, Social Media Guide for Ministry: What It Is and How to Use It:
qualifier: social media
glosses: To defriend; to remove from one's friends list (e.g. on a social networking website).
Synonyms: defriend
Related terms: unfollow
unsubscribe
slap and tickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mild or playful kissing, cuddling, and other amorous play.
friends list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friends lists
form: friendlist
form: friendslist
Senses: synonyms: flist
glosses: A list of contacts (in social networking, instant messaging, etc.), ostensibly the user's friends.
Related terms: Christmas list
adrenomyeloneuropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A progressive, X-linked, genetic, neurological disorder that deteriorates the myelin sheath that protects the spinal cord.
Synonyms: english: in children
translation: in children
word: adrenoleukodystrophy
word: AMN
Hyponyms: leukodystrophy
adrenoleukodystrophy
Kremlinologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kremlinologists
Etymology: From Kremlin + -ologist.
Senses: examples: text: Long analyses of this statement by the regular Kremlinologists conveyed the impression that the tripod..has been transferred to Moscow.
ref: 1953, John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes, page 162:
text: In his La Russe^([sic]) en 1839, a work still quoted by Kremlinologists today, he warned: ‘They wish to rule the world by conquest.’
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 188:
glosses: A person involved in Kremlinology.
AMN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of adrenomyeloneuropathy.
possession is nine points of the law
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Unknown. Presumably derives from legal principle where the satisfaction of 10 (or at times 12) points legitimated ownership; hence “nine points of the law” (sometimes “eleven points of the law”) constituted close to full ownership. Derived from the early English property system, where the right to possession of property was endorsed by the king in the form of a writ. There were nine traditional writs granted by the King, and each of these nine writs represented the nine basic rights of property possession. These nine writs evolved into the nine original laws defining property ownership, hence the expression "possession is nine points in the law."
Listed in the form “Possession is nine points in the Law.” as a common saying in 1616 by Thomas Draxe, Adages 163.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of possession is nine-tenths of the law.
polegada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polegadas
form: pollegada
Etymology: From Portuguese polegada (“inch”), from Vulgar Latin *pollicāta, from Latin pollicāris (“of or related to a thumb”), from pollex (“thumb”) + -āris (“-ary: forming adjectives”). Doublet of pulgada.
Senses: qualifier: measure
glosses: A traditional Portuguese unit of length, usually about equal to 2.8 cm.
Synonyms: word: Portuguese inch
english: in Portuguese contexts
translation: in Portuguese contexts
word: inch
Coordinate terms: sense: Portuguese unit
word: ponto (1⁄144 polegada)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: linha (1⁄12 polegada)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: grao (1⁄6 polegada)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: dedo (2⁄3 polegada)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: palmo (8 polegadas)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: Portuguese foot (12 polegadas)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: covado (24 or 24+3⁄4 polegadas)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: vara (40 polegadas)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: passo (60 polegadas)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: toesa (72 polegadas)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: braça (80 polegadas)
possession is nine-tenths of the law
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: possession is nine points of the law
Etymology: From possession is nine points of the law.
Senses: glosses: One who has possession of a thing has some right to it; a popular statement of the doctrine of adverse possession.
Related terms: use it or lose it
finders keepers
danceability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dance + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being danceable.
glosses: The extent to which a tune, record etc. is danceable.
intertemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Etymology: From inter- + temporal.
Senses: glosses: Describing any relationship between past, present and future events or conditions.
Derived terms: intertemporal choice
intertemporal consumption
intertemporal equilibrium
intertemporal law
intertemporally
intertemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Forms: form: intertemporals
Etymology: From inter- + temporal.
plain and simple
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪn ən(d)sɪmp(ə)l/
Etymology: Compound of plain + and + simple.
Senses: examples: text: I don't care what he calls it. What he's doing is theft, plain and simple.
glosses: Clearly, without any doubt or complexity.
Synonyms: sense: clearly
word: no two ways about it
neuroradiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + radiology.
Senses: glosses: The radiology of the nervous system; especially the use of radiation to diagnose and treat disorders of the nervous system
Related terms: neuroradiological
neuroradiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to neuroradiology
Derived terms: cliniconeuroradiological
neuroradiologically
never say die
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: never say die !
Senses: glosses: One should not despair; the outlook may be better than it seems, so one should not give up.
Related terms: never-say-die
hope springs eternal
tomorrow is another day
never say never
never-say-die
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In another demonstration of the resilience and never-say-die spirit that is built into this United side, they hunted Blackpool down once they had the whiff of victory and there was almost an inevitability about the final outcome once they found a foothold in the game.
ref: 2011 January 25, Phil McNulty, “Blackpool 2 - 3 Man Utd”, in BBC:
glosses: That does not give up in despair; indomitable.
Related terms: never say die
Combine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒm.baɪn/
Forms: form: the Combine
Etymology: From combine, referring to the merger and purchase of various underground railway, tram and bus companies in London, combining them into one organisation. Originally applied to Underground Electric Railways of London Company Ltd, since used for successor organisations.
Senses: glosses: London Underground
superfactorial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfactorials
Etymology: Coined by Neil Sloane and Simon Plouffe in 1995, from super- + factorial.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A product of factorials, such that the superfactorial of a number n is 1! × 2! × 3! × ... × n!.
miscomprehend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscomprehends
form: miscomprehending
form: miscomprehended
form: miscomprehended
Etymology: From mis- + comprehend.
Senses: glosses: To misunderstand.
clavecin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clavecins
Etymology: Borrowed from French clavecin.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: harpsichord
Derived terms: clavecinist
Tulu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tulu ತುಳು (tuḷu).
Senses: glosses: A Dravidian language of India with fewer than two million speakers, known as Tuluvas.
Related terms: Tulu Nadu
miscegenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The First Restatement [of the Conflicts of Laws] includes miscegenous marriages within those which need not be recognized, even if legally celebrated in another state.
ref: 1997, Mark Philip Strasser, Legally Wed: Same-sex Marriage and the Constitution, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
Synonyms: sense: of miscegenation
word: interracial
sense: of miscegenation
word: miscegenationist
sense: of miscegenation
word: miscegenative
sense: of miscegenation
word: miscegenetic
sense: of miscegenation
word: miscegenic
sense: of miscegenation
word: miscegenist
sense: of miscegenation
word: miscegenistic
miscomprehends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscomprehend
miscomprehending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscomprehend
miscomprehended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscomprehend
mocassin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mocassins
Senses: examples: text: The carving of the toes, the articulation of which is slightly arched in some cases, shows great delicacy[…]. The feet of the leaping youths of the 'Ivory Deposit' omit this feature, since, as was usual in the sports of the bull-ring, they were shod in mocassin-like gear.
ref: 1930, Arthur Evans, “§87. Chryselephantine Figurines of ‘Boston Goddess’ and Boy-god Connected with Ivory Deposit: The Mother Goddess and Child.”, in The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos, volumes III (The Great Transitional Age in the Northern and Eastern Sections of the Palace: The Most Brilliant Records of Minoan Art and the Evidences of an Advanced Religion), London: Macmillan and Co., Limited […], →OCLC, page 452:
glosses: Alternative spelling of moccasin.
superfactorials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superfactorial
nightmarishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nightmarishly
form: most nightmarishly
Etymology: From nightmarish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nightmarish manner.
amber light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amber lights
Senses: glosses: An amber-coloured traffic light indicating that vehicles should stop unless it is unsafe to do so, approximately equivalent to the yellow light in the US.
glosses: Hesitance to proceed; limited approval or permission to proceed.
examples: text: [In 1947 Chicago:] Then the changing traffic lights seemed to warn no one but himself: STOP. And so waited prudently, though there was no traffic in sight and the wind so bitter, till the amber light counseled him to look both ways, for enemy and friend alike, before crossing carefully.
ref: 1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:
glosses: A yellow light.
amber lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amber light
rain crows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rain crow
A-gays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-gay
offals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offal
laser guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laser gun
cubbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubby
liposarcomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liposarcoma
figurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figuration
megabats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megabat
suggestion boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suggestion box
corbiculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corbicula
memorisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memorisation
unicursals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unicursal
xanthophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xanthophore
sheughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheugh
slumber parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slumber party
vegetative cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegetative cell
gelatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelatin
gelatins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gelatin
necrophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necrophage
spectrohelioscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectrohelioscope
tantivies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tantivy
hand grenades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand grenade
heterophanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterophane
polychloroprenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polychloroprene
slutteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sluttery
agamists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agamist
shell suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shell suit
ethnophobias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnophobia
arrectaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrectary
piosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piosity
incunabulists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incunabulist
biotrophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biotroph
pyrazoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrazole
phthalates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phthalate
nonpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonperson
pseudoforests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoforest
denitrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denitration
gymnosophists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnosophist
coumaroyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coumaroyl
phosphorgummites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphorgummite