cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Miyazaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmiːjəˈzɑːki/
ipa: /ˌmiːjəˈzæki/
Forms: form: Miyazakis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 宮崎(みやざき) (Miyazaki).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
glosses: The capital city of Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
untenantable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untenantable
form: most untenantable
Etymology: From un- + tenantable.
Senses: topics: property
glosses: Unliveable-in or unuseful in its present state to purchaser, tenant or vendor.
sulfuranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulfurane
dichogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίχα (díkha, “in two, asunder; differently, oppositely”) + -gamy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition in which an organism changes sex during its lifetime.
Synonyms: sequential hermaphrodism
Hyponyms: protogyny
protandry
Coordinate terms: homogamy
cosexuality
Derived terms: heterodichogamy
Related terms: dichogamous
dichogamic
unliveable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unliveable
form: most unliveable
Etymology: From un- + liveable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unlivable.
appropinquating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of appropinquate
appropinquates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appropinquate
appropinquated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appropinquate
aquamolalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquamolality
arccosecants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arccosecant
archaeointensities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaeointensity
archei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archeus
archosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archosaur
argufies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of argufy
argufying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of argufy
argufied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of argufy
swine flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swine influenza
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Influenza caused by certain orthomyxoviruses, which pass from pigs to humans.
Synonyms: word: pig flu
word: swine influenza
alt: SIV
word: swine influenza virus
alt: S-OIV
word: swine-origin influenza virus
Related terms: bird flu
H1N1
Mexican flu
Mexican influenza
Mexican Flu
Spanish flu
Spanish Flu
aridities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aridity
arnises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arnis
artemins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artemin
Benthamite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Benthamite
form: most Benthamite
form: benthamite
Etymology: From Bentham + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Following Calvo and Obstfeld […] and Diamond […] we assume that the social welfare function takes the following Benthamite form: […]
ref: 2017, Ben J. Heijdra, Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics, 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 654f.:
glosses: Relating to the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham.
Benthamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Benthamites
form: benthamite
Etymology: From Bentham + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Well, should we set aside the more disputable point whether for various reasons it was possible to anchor the fleet, then plausibly enough the Benthamites of war may urge the above.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: One who subscribes to the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham.
Related terms: Benthamism
rascette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaˈsɛt/
Forms: form: rascettes
form: rascetta
Etymology: From Middle French rachette, rascette, from Late Latin racheta, rasceta (“wrist, ankle”), diminutive of rasca, from Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa, “palm of the hand”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The wrist.
qualifier: palmistry
glosses: The lines or wrinkles running across the wrist at the base of the palm.
rascetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The saturnine line going from the rascetta through the hand to Saturn's mount, and there intersected by certain little lines, argues melancholy.
ref: , New York, 2001, p.209
glosses: Alternative form of rascette.
unbloated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bloated.
Senses: glosses: Not bloated.
unbloated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + bloated.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbloat
masdevallia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masdevallias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Masdevallia, from Catalan Masdevall (surname, after José Masdevall, Spanish physician and botanist) + translingual -ia.
Senses: glosses: Any orchid in the genus Masdevallia, whose species (approximately 500 or 600 depending on circumscription) have flowers of extremely diverse appearance.
mash potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mash potatoes
Etymology: Lexicalization of a reduced pronunciation of mashed potato with regular deletion of d before p, from mashed + potato. Compare ice cream (from iced cream).
Senses: examples: text: I ate a mash potato today.
ref: 1995, Conan O’Brien et al., “Foreword —Carl “Oldy” Olson”, in If They Mated?, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN:
text: Roasted Vegetables topped with a mash potato with a cheese herb crust
ref: 2008 November 9, The Wealden Hall, “Evening Brasserie Set Menu”, in Kent on Sunday, number 320, Ashford, Kent: KOS Media Ltd., page 32:
text: I cooked fisherman’s pie, with white fish and prawns, in a cheese sauce, with a mash potato on top.
ref: 2010, John Stewart, Twin Gap Valley, Kennoway, Fife: Spiderwize, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Pan Fried Lambs Liver and Bacon served on a mash potato with chives, with onion gravy
ref: 2010 April 27, The Windwhistle Inn, “Windwhistle Menu”, in Pulman’s View from Seaton & Beer, number 248, Axminster, Devon: Tindle, page 50:
text: Tha’ll help me make a bit of dinner for tonight with a few mash potatoes.
ref: 2011, Kathleen Doyle, “Fish and Chips”, in What Ma Always Said: […], Dublin: Poolbeg Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: Mashed potato (food)
examples: text: Interestingly enough, while Gilly usually tries do the mash potato, this time he went with a waltz.
ref: 2009, Jarrod Kimber, The Year of the Balls 2008: A Disrespective, page 39:
glosses: Mashed potato (dance)
arteriae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈtɪɹ.iˌi/
Senses: glosses: plural of arteria
artesunates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artesunate
arthrodeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arthrodesis
arthrogryposes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arthrogryposis
Masha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: malla stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From Russian and Ukrainian Ма́ша (Máša).
Senses: glosses: A female given name of Russian, Ukrainian origin, diminutive of Maria.
asearching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of asearch
asearched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of asearch
aspergilloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæspəɹd͡ʒɪˈloʊsis/
Etymology: aspergill- + -oses
Senses: glosses: plural of aspergillosis
aspersers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asperser
asphyxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asphyxy
asphyxies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of asphyxy
asterisci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asteriscus
astragali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astragalus
athans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of athan
mash-fat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mash-fats
Senses: glosses: malt vat, a vat that holds malt in a brewery.
atheroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atherosis
athetoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of athetosis
mashies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mashie
mashie niblick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mashie niblicks
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A metal-headed golf club with a moderate loft. The equivalent of a 7-iron in a modern set of clubs.
aurar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyrir
mid-mashie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-mashies
Etymology: From mid- + mashie.
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A metal-headed golf club, the equivalent of a 3-iron in a modern set of clubs.
Synonyms: jigger
prairie dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prairie dog
prairie dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prairie dog
bulgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulger
mashie-niblick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mashie-niblicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mashie niblick.
niblicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niblick
priveledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priveledges
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of privilege.
mashloch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of low-quality bread made from flour and other grains.
manchet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmænt͡ʃɪt/
/-ət/
Forms: form: manchets
Etymology: From Middle English manchet, of unknown origin; compare cheat (“low-quality bread”).
Senses: examples: text: You that can deal with Gudgins,^([sic]) and courſe floure, / 'Tis pitie you ſhould taſte what manchet means […]
ref: 1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 12, column 1:
text: And Enid brought sweet cakes to make them cheer, / And in her veil enfolded, manchet bread.
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 21:
text: As with modern breads, like the baguette, there is no one recipe for a manchet. Each of the few published English recipes from the 1500s and the 1600s is different, though each achieves a result that was accepted as a manchet […]
ref: 2011 October 15, William Rubel, Bread: A Global History, London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 199:
glosses: A type of high-quality bread or cracker made from flour.
Related terms: cheat
raveled
mashloch
universitie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: universities
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of university.
theire
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of their.
legislative body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legislative bodies
Senses: examples: Under unicameral constitutions the legislative bodies are single assemblies, in the bicameral Westminster model the legislative body is a parliament comprising two houses or chambers
glosses: A political institution which holds the legislative power in a state, and often controls the executive power.
glosses: Its equivalent, exercising legislative power at a substate administrative level.
Related terms: legislative assembly
fulicine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fulicine
form: most fulicine
Etymology: From translingual Fulica (genus name) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: The tarso-metatarsus is also typically Fulicine…
ref: 1896, C. W. Andrews, NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. VOL. III. (ON THE EXTINCT BIRDS OF THE CHATHAM ISLANDS. PART II.), page 265
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Of, or pertaining to coots.
ralline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹalʌɪn/
Forms: form: more ralline
form: most ralline
Etymology: From scientific Latin Rallidae (family name).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Of, or pertaining to members of the Rallidae family (also referred to as rails).
unsuspiciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsuspiciously
form: most unsuspiciously
Etymology: From unsuspicious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unsuspicious way.
wisdomless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wisdom + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without wisdom; foolish.
palmiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Be eloquent in praise of the very dull old days which have long since passed away,
And convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good Queen Anne, was Culture's palmiest day.
ref: 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience:
text: Unfortunately, even in the palmiest days of the old Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway Company, passengers were few and far between at Troutbeck, and since the advent of the motor bus road services they are rarer than ever, and never likely to increase.
ref: 1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
glosses: superlative form of palmy: most palmy
wimbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wimble
wimbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wimble
Watergate salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Watergate salad
Gliese 581
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡliːzə/
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A red dwarf star about 20 light years from the Solar System. Gliese 581 is notable due to at least two exoplanets that might be life-sustaining.
hebetudinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: hĕb'ĭ-to͞odʹn-əs
Forms: form: more hebetudinous
form: most hebetudinous
Etymology: From hebetude + -in- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: His hebetudinous lack of curiosity enraged the instructor.
text: Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.
text: comebacks concocted, not said out loud, / would have been incomprehensible to the hebetudinous.
ref: 2010 April 6, MC Frontalot, “A Little Bit Broad”, in Zero Day, track 9:
glosses: Displaying mental lethargy or dullness.
pipas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipa
disbowelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disbowel
disbowels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disbowel
disbowelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disbowel
downpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downpipe
lampless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lamp + -less.
Senses: examples: text: We may be pardoned our nostalgia, those of us who can remember the old days, the days before the grouping and before standardisation, when we see, as today we see so often, the derelict and abandoned buildings of what were once railway stations, for the life which they used to enjoy we lived with them. There they stand, today, as the dusk deepens about them, lampless, cold and deserted.
ref: 1953 April, Henry Maxwell, “Abandoned Railway Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 270:
glosses: Without a lamp or lamps; unlit.
avgolemonos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avgolemono
awqaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic أَوْقَاف (ʔawqāf), plural of وَقْف (waqf).
Senses: glosses: plural of waqf
AXPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AXP
açais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of açai
A♯s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A♯
disliker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dislikers
Etymology: From dislike + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When confronted with cases of racial prejudice it is usual to lay the blame on the disliker rather than the dislikee.
ref: 1941, The National Review, volume 116, page 478:
glosses: One who dislikes.
dislikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disliker
unphilosophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unphilosophically
form: most unphilosophically
Etymology: From unphilosophical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
ref: 1904 July 9 and 16, Gilbert K[eith] Chesterton, “The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady”, in The Club of Queer Trades, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, published April 1905, →OCLC, page 241:
glosses: In an unphilosophical way.
backfische
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backfisch
backsheeshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backsheesh
backshishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backshish
bacteriostases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacteriostasis
unfang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfangs
form: unfanging
form: unfanged
form: unfanged
Etymology: From un- + fang.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of fangs.
glosses: To render harmless.
Synonyms: sense: render harmless
word: declaw
unfangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfang
unfanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfang
unfanged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: not fanged, without fangs
unfanged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unfang
fangless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fang + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without fangs.
bagses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bags
bagsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bags
uncourted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + courted.
Senses: examples: text: His answers didn’t appear to yield any ground, but the fact that he answered questions at all seemed like enough for some community members, called the “uncourted constituency” in this recent article.
ref: 2006 February 11, Kareem Fahim, “Menendez Reaches Out to Arab-Americans”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not courted.
Synonyms: unwooed
bagsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bags
unwooed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wooed.
Senses: examples: text: “I'd like to sec a bill passed that would insure jobs for women, wooed or unwooed. […]
ref: 1971 December 24, “Estelle Sternberger Dies at 85; Radio ComMentator^([sic]) on Politics”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not wooed.
Synonyms: uncourted
bakshishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bakshish
archdeceiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archdeceivers
Etymology: From arch- + deceiver.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: One who orchestrates deception, especially the Devil.
Concepción
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places, including:
A city and commune, the capital of Concepción province, Chile.
glosses: A number of places, including:
A province in Biobío region, Chile.
archdeceivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archdeceiver
Izzy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪzi/
enpr: ĭz􂀽'ē
rhymes: -ɪzi
Forms: form: Izzies
form: Isy
form: Issy
form: Izzie
Etymology: From the /ɪz-/ root of the names + -y. The common noun derives from Isaac and Israel, male given names of Hebrew origin, popular among Jewish people, the latter also being the name of the self-defined Jewish state.
Senses: examples: text: "I approve of anything you desire to do, Izzy," said Henchard huskily.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Isabel, Isobel, Isabelle, Isabella, Elizabeth, Isidora, Isra, Izebel, Ismara and Isobelle.
examples: text: “Geez, Cecil, you sound just like Izzy Benet,” Patrick said. “We don’t need two Izzies. Nobody needs two Izzies.”
ref: 2012 [2011], R. M. Meluch, The Ninth Circle: A Novel of the U.S.S. Merrimack (Tour of the Merrimack; 5), New York, NY: DAW Books, →ISBN, page 367:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Israel, Isaac, Isambard, Isidore, Ismail, Chreistus, Chreistos, Isaiah, Isiah, Izzet, Isarn, Ismail and Isam.
Izzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪzi/
enpr: ĭz􂀽'ē
rhymes: -ɪzi
Forms: form: Izzies
Etymology: From the /ɪz-/ root of the names + -y. The common noun derives from Isaac and Israel, male given names of Hebrew origin, popular among Jewish people, the latter also being the name of the self-defined Jewish state.
Senses: examples: text: “Yeah,”’ Croft said. A spasm of rage worked through him, and he turned on Goldstein and said, ‘‘Listen, Izzy.” / ‘“My name isn’t Izzy,” Goldstein said angrily.
ref: 1948, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, New York, NY: Rinehart & Company, page 137:
text: The Izzies are scared shitless of Iran. That's why they're making such a stink about Iran's perfectly legal nuclear programme - and why they want the JewSA to fight all their wars for them!
ref: 2012 November 24, BlastFromThePast, “Re: Hey anti-Semites, the Jews have an army now. Get used to it.”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):
glosses: A Jew or an Israeli Jew.
predeterminant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predeterminants
Etymology: From pre- + determinant.
Senses: examples: text: […] the assumption that relative deprivation is a necessary predeterminant of political violence.
ref: 1975, Michael Useem, Protest movements in America:
glosses: A determinant of what will follow.
predeterminants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predeterminant
Sunday strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sunday strips
Senses: glosses: A comic strip regularly published in a newspaper (or one of its supplements) on Sundays.
schiedam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for Schiedam schnapps.
Senses: glosses: Gin produced in Schiedam, a southern municipality of the Netherlands.
drinkables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinkable
Balts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Balt
Balzacians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Balzacian
groghouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groghouses
Etymology: From grog + house.
Senses: glosses: An inn where grog can be bought.
groghouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groghouse
superadd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːpəɹˈæd/
Forms: form: superadds
form: superadding
form: superadded
form: superadded
Etymology: From super- + add.
Senses: examples: text: To our antiquarian interest in poor Jocelin and his Convent, where the whole aspect of existence, the whole dialect, of thought, of speech, of activity, is so obsolete, strange, long-vanished, there now superadds itself a mild glow of human interest for Abbot Samson […]
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Abbot Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: Locke's claim that God may superadd to matter a faculty of thinking allows us to usefully relabel our problem[…]
ref: 2007, Lex Newman, The Cambridge companion to Locke's "Essay concerning human understanding":
glosses: To add on top of a previous addition.
Derived terms: superaddition
superadded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of superadd
superadds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of superadd
superadding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of superadd
trusser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trussers
Etymology: From truss + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, trusses.
trussers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trusser
untrussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + trussed.
Senses: glosses: Not trussed.
whimperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whimperers
Etymology: From whimper + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who whimpers.
whimperingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more whimperingly
form: most whimperingly
Etymology: From whimpering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a whimpering sound.
whimperers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whimperer
simperingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more simperingly
form: most simperingly
Etymology: From simpering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]
ref: 1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC:
glosses: In a simpering way.
encumberer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encumberers
Etymology: From Middle English encombrer, equivalent to encumber + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, encumbers; an encumbrance.
encumberers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encumberer
janglingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more janglingly
form: most janglingly
Etymology: From jangling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a jangling sound.
jinglingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jinglingly
form: most jinglingly
Etymology: From jingling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a jingling sound.
snipingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snipingly
form: most snipingly
Etymology: From sniping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sniping (malicious) manner.
nextness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nextnesses
Etymology: From next + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The fact or condition of immediate succession or proximity; the quality of being next.
Synonyms: subsequence
previousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From previous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being previous.
Synonyms: antecedence
nextnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nextness
unprioritised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prioritised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unprioritized.
unprioritized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prioritized.
Senses: glosses: Not prioritized.
Rosario
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rozario
Etymology: From Spanish rosario (“rosary”). Doublet of rosarium and rosary.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
glosses: The name of several municipalities in the Philippines named after the rosary or Our Lady of the Rosary
A municipality of Cavite, Philippines.
glosses: The name of several municipalities in the Philippines named after the rosary or Our Lady of the Rosary
A municipality of Batangas, Philippines.
glosses: The name of several municipalities in the Philippines named after the rosary or Our Lady of the Rosary
A municipality of La Union, Philippines.
glosses: The name of several municipalities in the Philippines named after the rosary or Our Lady of the Rosary
A barangay of Lopez, Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: The name of several municipalities in the Philippines named after the rosary or Our Lady of the Rosary
A municipality of Agusan del Sur, Philippines.
Related terms: Del Rosario
Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Rosario de Mora
Carmine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carmines
Etymology: The given name is borrowed from Italian Carmine.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Italian.
glosses: A surname from Italian.
heathered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heather + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] the land of mountain and flood, river, loch and tarn, brae and strath and heathered moor...
ref: 1877, Nicholas Flood Davin, The Irishman in Canada:
glosses: Covered with heather.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Having flecks produced by interwoven yarns of mixed colours.
birdsongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdsong
splakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splake
Remedios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Remedioses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Remedios. This surname is predominantly found in the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
daybeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪˌbiːm/
Forms: form: daybeams
Etymology: From day + beam.
Senses: glosses: A sunbeam.
daybeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daybeam
viscousless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more viscousless
form: most viscousless
Etymology: From viscous + -less.
Senses: glosses: Inviscid: lacking, or unaffected by, viscosity.
Sunday strips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sunday strip
circumforanean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circumforanean
form: most circumforanean
Etymology: From Latin circumforaneus + -an.
Senses: examples: text: […] I am the bolder to insert, as not borrowed from circumforanean rogues and gypsies, but out of the writings of worthy philosophers and physicians […]
ref: , New York, 2001, p.209
glosses: Wandering from market to market; vagabond, itinerant.
pyometra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpʌɪə(ʊ)ˈmiːtrə/
ipa: /ˌpaɪəˈmitrə/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek πύον (púon, “pus”) and μήτρα (mḗtra, “uterus”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infection of the uterus most commonly seen in dogs, but also occasionally in other small mammals, resulting from hormonal and structural changes in the lining of the uterus.
Derived terms: pyometric
close pyometra
open pyometra
starnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starnies
Etymology: From starn + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A small star.
yuckily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more yuckily
form: most yuckily
Etymology: From yucky + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The relationship between Ares and Discord [in the TV movie] was originally ambiguous, as is the Greek way, and yuckily so. There was some suggestion of an incestuous relationship between them […]
ref: 2004, Robert Weisbrot, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, page 38:
glosses: In a yucky way.
yummily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more yummily
form: most yummily
Etymology: From yummy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a yummy way.
starnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starnie
authorityless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From authority + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without authority.
unauthorizedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unauthorized + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unauthorized way; without authorization.
unauthorisedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unauthorised + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unauthorizedly.
slaveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slave + -less.
Senses: examples: text: From a society of a white elite ruling over a predominantly enslaved Black subaltern population, the Haitian Revolution generated a slaveless country that proceeded to suffer with socioeconomic divides.
glosses: Without a slave or slaves.
mashua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mashuas
form: mashwa
Etymology: From Spanish mashua, from an indigenous language.
Senses: glosses: A root vegetable grown in the Andes, Tropaeolum tuberosum.
mashua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mashuas
form: machua
form: machwa
form: mashwa
form: muchwa
Etymology: From Swahili mashua (“boat”).
Senses: glosses: A type of simple fishing vessel found on the coast of East Africa.
servantless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From servant + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a servant or servants.
maidless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From maid + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Such table decoration is always to be preferred to overlavish floral displays, and in the case of the maidless service we must bear in mind that platters and serving dishes will be placed upon the table […]
ref: 1933, Better Food, volume 38, page 27:
glosses: Without a maid (female servant).
Derived terms: maidlessness
mashwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mashwas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mashua (“fishing vessel”).
starrily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more starrily
form: most starrily
Etymology: From starry + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a starry way.
Related terms: word: starly
starrinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starriness
catless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætləs/
Etymology: From cat + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Because of my pet hair allergy I had to move to a catless apartment building.
glosses: Without a cat or cats.
Derived terms: catlessness
contrafacta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contrafactum
maskanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maskandi
Etymology: From Zulu umaskanda, from Afrikaans musikant (“musician”).
Senses: glosses: A style of Zulu folk music, normally played solo.
skirtless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From skirt + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, she can wear breeches for riding, a skirtless dress for swimming, and even (if she be bold enough) a divided skirt for dancing.
ref: 1914, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale, What Women Want: An Interpretation of the Feminist Movement:
glosses: Without a skirt.
slotless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slot + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a slot or slots.
slot machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slot machine
troubledly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more troubledly
form: most troubledly
Etymology: From troubled + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a troubled way.
maskelynite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maskelynites
Etymology: From Maskelyne + -ite, after Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne, British geologist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glassy phase found in some meteorites and impact craters, typically similar in composition to plagioclase feldspar.
maskelynites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maskelynite
pontil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pontils
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Alternative form of punty (“rod used in glassblowing”).
Derived terms: pontil mark
maskette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maskettes
Etymology: From mask + -ette.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small mask, especially one that does not cover the whole head.
maskettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maskette
mzee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ə)mˈzeɪ/
Forms: form: mzees
form: wazee
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili mzee.
Senses: examples: text: ...every President since Teddy Roosevelt saw Africa in the faces of her mzees, in their English suits or tribal robes...
ref: 2003, Ward S Just, The American Ambassador:
text: It is difficult to be both and the older mzees resent the irregularity of the position.
ref: 2005, Ernest Hemingway, Robert William Lewis, Under Kilimanjaro:
text: ...we arranged an impromptu interview with this reluctant and less than candid local mzee, who lived near the Tsavo boundary.
ref: 2006, Edward I Steinhart, Black poachers, white hunters: a social history of hunting in colonial Kenya:
glosses: An elder (old person).
Synonyms: senior
senior citizen
old person
mzees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mzee
bossyboots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bossyboots
Etymology: From bossy + boots.
Senses: examples: text: Gertrude Stein, who might, in her time, have been considered a bit of a bossyboots herself, suggested that semicolons were simply commas with pretensions.
ref: 2008, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play:
synonyms: bossy pants
glosses: A bossy person.
Related terms: lazyboots
uncoined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + coined.
Senses: examples: uncoined bullion
glosses: Not coined.
faineance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪni.əns/
Etymology: Alteration of faineant.
Senses: examples: text: The mask of sneering faineance was gone.
ref: 1852 January – 1853 April, Charles Kingsley, Jun., chapter 27, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: The state or quality of being faineant.
Synonyms: idleness
laziness
salal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salals
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinook Jargon from Chinook.
Senses: examples: text: Down below, a ragged line of wolves ran silently, in single file, following a deer trail through the salal.
ref: 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 186:
glosses: A leathery-leaved North American shrub, Gaultheria shallon, with edible sepals and leaves.
Synonyms: shallon
slippered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slipper + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Her slippered feet padded across the carpet.
text: 139, the vacuum-fitted Wee Bogie, was transferred to Girvan after a time, and The Mool got her—Will Eaglesome that went to the Argentine—so you may guess 139 didn't lead a life of slippered ease.
ref: 1941 January, David L. Smith, “Still More G. & S.W. Night's Entertainment”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
glosses: Wearing slippers.
Synonyms: beslippered
slippered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From slipper + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slipper
punty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŭntē
ipa: /ˈpʌn.ti/
Forms: form: punties
form: punte
form: puntee
form: ponty
form: pontil
form: pontil rod
form: puntil
form: puntel
Etymology: 1662, from French pontil, from Italian pontello or puntello, diminutive of punto, from Latin punctum (“a point”). Doublet of puntillo and pointel.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
synonyms: fascet
glosses: A metal rod used in the glassblowing process. After a glass vessel has been blown to approximate size and the bottom of the piece has been finalized, the rod, which is tipped with a wad of hot glass, is attached to the bottom of the vessel to hold it while the top is finalized. It often leaves an irregular or ring-shaped scar on the base when removed, called the pontil mark.
unslippered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + slippered.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing slippers.
transfigurates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transfigurate
transfigurating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transfigurate
shallon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shallons
Etymology: From Chinook.
Senses: glosses: The shrub salal.
transfigurated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transfigurate
tolerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toleration
mashuas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mashua
mashwas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mashwa
thyroplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thyroplasty
thiolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiolation
thaumaturgists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thaumaturgist
thanatophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thanatophile
thoracoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoracoplasty
terroriser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terrorisers
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of terrorizer.
terrorisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terroriser
terrorizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terrorizer
tenotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenotomy
maskirovka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian маскиро́вка (maskiróvka, “camouflage”).
Senses: examples: text: Surprise is a key ingredient in maskirovka and the clandestine forces which occupied Crimea last February certainly delivered that.
ref: 2015 January 29, Lucy Ash, “How Russia outfoxes its enemies”, in BBC:
text: And the key to informational struggle was maskirovka—subterfuge—the manipulation of the enemy's picture of reality.
ref: 2018, Carl Miller, chapter 6, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN:
text: As for Syrski’s remarks, a more likely interpretation is that the general is engaged in some simple misdirection – a version of maskirovka – a Russian military concept that encompasses western notions of operational secrecy with simple deception.
ref: 2023 March 25, Dan Sabbagh, “Ukrainian top brass stirs the pot with talk of Bakhmut counterattack”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: especially regarding Soviet or Russian warfare
glosses: A set of procedures designed to confuse, mislead, and camouflage oneself from the enemy.
terebinths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terebinth
terciles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tercile
templars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of templar
teleonomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleonomist
sandblind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sandblind
form: most sandblind
form: sand-blind
Etymology: From Middle English sandblynde, alteration (due to association with sand) of *samblynde (“half-blind”), from Old English *sāmblind (“half-blind”), from sam- (“half-”) + blind (“blind”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him [Johnson] to school. […] The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!
ref: 1832 May, Thomas Carlyle, “[James] Boswell’s Life of [Samuel] Johnson”, in R[alph] W[aldo] E[merson], editor, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: […], volume III, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, published 1839, →OCLC, page 147:
glosses: Half-blind; partially blind.
examples: text: O heauens, this is my true begotten Father, who being more then sand-blinde, high grauel blinde, knows me not, I will trie confusions with him.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 167, column 1:
glosses: Dim-sighted.
Related terms: sam
gravel-blind
stone-blind
undeceivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deceivable.
Senses: glosses: Not deceivable.
deceivably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsiːvəbli/
Forms: form: more deceivably
form: most deceivably
Etymology: From deceivable + -ly, perhaps continuing Middle English deceyvably (“deceptively”).
Senses: glosses: In a deceivable way; gullibly, ingenuously.
mason wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mason wasps
Senses: examples: text: Crabbe continued to lie, eyes slowly following the questing flight of a mason-wasp, flat on his back, hands folded.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 383:
glosses: A potter wasp.
glosses: A wasp of species Pison spinolae, of New Zealand.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pison spinolae
word: New Zealand mason wasp
undeceivably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From undeceivable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undeceivable way.
chimneyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chimney + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a chimney.
potter wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potter wasps
Senses: glosses: A wasp of a group in the subfamily Eumeninae of family Vespidae.
Synonyms: mason wasp
Related terms: eumenine
showerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shower + -less.
Senses: examples: text: We avoided Tourist Homes, country cousins of Funeral ones, old-fashioned, genteel and showerless, with elaborate dressing tables in depressingly white-and-pink little bedrooms, and photographs of the landlady’s children in all their instars.
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 148:
glosses: Without a shower (bathroom fitting).
examples: text: We had to go showerless all week during the water outage.
glosses: Without taking a shower (type of wash).
glosses: Rainless.
hearthless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hearth + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There was a desolate village in a wood,
Whose bloom-inwoven leaves now scattering fed
The hungry storm; it was a place of blood,
A heap of hearthless walls;—the flames were dead
Within those dwellings now,—the life had fled
From all those corpses now,— […]
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 279:
text: For this reason, a hearthless pusher-type furnace has been developed.
ref: 2005, Axel von Starck, Alfred Mühlbauer, Carl Kramer, Handbook of thermoprocessing technologies, page 407:
glosses: Without a hearth.
examples: text: It was not a singer of the fireside, but a hearthless wanderer, who put in all hearts the Anglo-Saxon's simple "Home, Sweet Home."
ref: 1906, Henry Watterson, The compromises of life, page 343:
glosses: Without a home.
Derived terms: hearthlessness
eumenine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the potter wasps of the subfamily Eumeninae.
healthless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more healthless
form: most healthless
Etymology: From health + -less.
Senses: glosses: Unhealthy.
Derived terms: healthlessness