cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
camelthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camelthorns
form: camel's thorn
Etymology: From Dutch kameeldoorn, Afrikaans kameeldoring. Equivalent to camel + thorn.
Senses: glosses: Vachellia erioloba, formerly Acacia erioloba, a tree native to southern Africa.
glosses: Alhagi, a genus of shrubs native to northern Africa and Asia Minor.
camelthorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camelthorn
xenobionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenobiont
detumescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more detumescent
form: most detumescent
Etymology: From de- + tumescent.
Senses: examples: text: I should note that Meat does not work for everyone. A friend called it too rough, others pick it up and then go on to GQ or October, and others seem to be able to read it and stay detumescent.
ref: 1982 April 10, Martin Krieger, “The Brain as Gland”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
text: CDWM brings class into the picture because it tapped into the snobbery of viewers. Look at the ghastly arrivistes, aping their betters and weeping into their detumescent soufflés.
ref: 2023 September 23, Tim Hayward, “Not so easy does it”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
glosses: Exhibiting detumescence; deflated.
Pyke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pykes
Etymology: English and Irish surname, spelling variant of Pike.
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Pike.
Derived terms: pykrete
batcape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batcapes
Etymology: From bat + cape.
Senses: examples: text: The rabbit's feet and batcapes were selling like crazy.
ref: 1978, May, Cincinnati Magazine, page 32:
text: Right, anoraks off... and batcapes on.
ref: 1994, Film Review:
text: He takes her in his arms, after first removing the batcape she's got draped over her shoulders.
ref: 1997, Paul Roen, High Camp, page 63:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Batcape.
Leucippean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Leucippean
form: most Leucippean
Senses: glosses: Related to, or characteristic of Leucippus or his theories
Lombrosian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lombrosian
form: most Lombrosian
Etymology: From Lombroso + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of, Cesare Lombroso or his theories.
smoke-filled room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke-filled rooms
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: backroom (as a meeting place of crooked insiders)
text: In its first decade, prize business was settled in the smoke-filled rooms of London clubs, where it remained resolutely insular.
ref: 2009, Robert McCrum, “No Tóibín, no Trevor? Yes, it's time for more Booker controversy”, in The Guardian:
text: If the forums in which we make this case consist of the smoke-filled rooms of Washington, the votes aren't there.
ref: 2013, Ted Cruz, “Ted Cruz Punches Back”, in National Review:
glosses: A place where powerful people meet to decide a matter in secret, often of a political nature.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see smoke, filled, room.
batcaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batcavers
Etymology: Named after The Batcave, a London nightclub considered to be the birthplace of the English goth subculture, + -er.
Senses: examples: text: btw, hamilton just hosted the marilyn manson concert on friday. the only question i have is, did i look that dopey when i was a batcaver? oh gawd, i hope not!
ref: 1997, leanne kemmler, “Re: Buncha WHSmiths! (wasRe: BUNCHA WHINERS!)”, in alt.society.generation-x (Usenet):
text: The people who listened to bauhaus and wore black were known as the "Batcavers". Instead of sitting around, sipping red wine and saying "this place isn't very goth", we Batcavers enjoyed getting shit-faced, beating up the crap out of the mods and then stealing their mopeds.
ref: 1998, Spaceboy, “Re: Hillbillies in the parking lot! Agh!”, in alt.gothic (Usenet):
text: The look was easy to copy and nearly identical-looking herds of Goths—sometimes called batcavers because of the London nightclub—were commonplace in high schools throughout Europe, North America and Australia by the middle 1980s.
ref: 2010, Jerry Langton, Rage: The True Story of a Sibling Murder:
text: He was naturally devastated, as any self-respecting lugubrious batcaver would be.
ref: 2011, John Donoghue, Police, Crime & 999, page 246:
glosses: An early member of the goth subculture.
wikipedia: Batcave (club)
Related terms: baby bat
batcavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batcaver
winter sun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌn
Senses: examples: a sickly winter sun.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see winter, sun.
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: The off-season holiday market, typically to destinations in North Africa and Southern Europe.
behandle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ændəl
Forms: form: behandles
form: behandling
form: behandled
form: behandled
Etymology: From be- + handle. Cognate with Saterland Frisian behondelje (“to handle, deal with, treat”), Dutch behandelen (“to handle, treat”), German behandeln (“to treat”), Norwegian behandle (“to treat”).
Senses: examples: text: In England I know a household where, after the eight o'clock breakfast, it is usual to behandle one's skeins, find one's knitting, and continue the long even rounds of the stocking begun yesterday, or copy patiently the completed gusset in the sleeve of a spencer.
ref: 1892, Ménie Muriel Dowie, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, A girl in the Karpathians:
glosses: To handle all about; take (up) in one's hands; care for; deal with; treat.
mixis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μίξις (míxis, “mingling”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: reproduction by the fusion of gametes
Related terms: mictic
endomixis
cytomixis
-mictic
chuanxiong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuanxiongs
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 川芎 (chuānxiōng).
Senses: glosses: Szechuan lovage, a plant of the species Ligusticum striatum, formerly Ligustricum chuanxiong
glosses: A preparation of the plant used in traditional Chinese medicine.
hedge sermon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdʒ ˌsɝmən/
Forms: form: hedge sermons
Etymology: Calque of Dutch hagenpreek, from hage (“hedge”) + preek (“sermon”).
Senses: examples: text: Fearing an escalation of the unrest, the city administrators made some important concessions to the Protestants: the Catholic churches were closed after the removal of all religious images; the Calvinists were permitted to hold their hedge sermons, albeit only outside the city […].
ref: 1999, Geert Mak; Philipp Blom, transl., Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, London: Harvill Press, ISBN 978-1-86046-598-7; republished London: Vintage Books, 2001, ISBN 978-1-86046-789-9, page 82
text: The first so-called hedge sermon was held in the cemetery of Boeschepe in the always turbulent Flemish Westkwartier on Sunday morning, July 12, timed to coincide with mass.
ref: 2008, Peter J. Arnade, Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots: The Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 71:
text: Even after the iconoclasm that began on 10 August, many in the Netherlands hoped to see freedom of worship for all, without public violence, hedge-sermons, or the burning of heretics.
ref: 2008, James D[onald] Tracey, The Founding of the Dutch Republic: War, Finance, and Politics in Holland, 1572–1588, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
topics: Christianity
glosses: An open-air religious service held by Calvinists in the Low Countries during the Reformation, typically in rural areas beyond the reach of civic authorities.
wikipedia: Budapest
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Related terms: hedge parson
hedge priest
hedge sermons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedge sermon
Punic tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The pomegranate tree, Punica granatum.
Hypernyms: tree
Related terms: Punic apple
Wetaskiwin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cree ᐑᑕᐢᑮᐏᐣ ᐃᐢᐸᑎᓇᐤ (wiitaskiiwin ispatinaw, “hills where peace was made”).
Senses: glosses: A city in Alberta, Canada, located within the municipal district.
glosses: A municipal district in central Alberta; in full, the County of Wetaskiwin No. 10.
Airdrie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland.
glosses: A city in Alberta, Canada.
Coronation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A settlement in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.
cisphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cis- + -phobia or cis + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: One could then speak of 'cisphobia' or 'heterophobia', claiming adequate protection for cisgender and straight persons.
ref: 2012, Laura Palazzani, Gender in Philosophy and Law, Springer, published 2012, →ISBN, page 101:
text: Piers Morgan has claimed to be the “victim of cisphobia” after several members of the transgender community blasted his ignorance on Twitter.
ref: 2014 February 6, Jenn Selby, “Piers Morgan claims he’s a ‘victim of cisphobia’ after transgender community blast his ignorance on Twitter”, in The Independent:
text: Most of the time this leads to white boys screaming about cisphobia and reverse racism, but that's the post when everyone just ignores them and lets them wallow in their ignorance.
ref: 2014, Sydney Valenzuela, "The addictive and intricate qualities of the underdog networking site, Tumblr", Eye of the Tiger (Roseville High School, Roseville, California), Volume 12, Issue 9, 24 February 2014, page 10
glosses: Fear or hatred of cissexuality or cisgenderism, or of cis individuals.
Coordinate terms: transphobia
homophobia
heterophobia
Related terms: cisphobe
cisphobic
Czar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
Galahad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old French Galahad, of obscure origin and meaning. Suggestions include Old Welsh, or biblical Gilead.
Senses: qualifier: Arthurian legend
glosses: Sir Galahad, son of Sir Lancelot, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table famously known for his purity and who was one of the three achievers of the quest for the Holy Grail.
glosses: A male given name from the Celtic languages in occasional use since the 19th century.
glosses: A hamlet in Flagstaff County, in east-central Alberta.
Galahad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galahads
Etymology: From Old French Galahad, of obscure origin and meaning. Suggestions include Old Welsh, or biblical Gilead.
Senses: glosses: A man considered to be pure, noble, or chivalrous.
new mysterianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Owen Flanagan noted in his 1991 book Science of the Mind that some modern thinkers had suggested that consciousness might never be completely explained; he called these thinkers "the new mysterians" after the rock group Question Mark and the Mysterians.
Senses: glosses: A philosophical position proposing that the hard problem of consciousness cannot be resolved by humans.
wikipedia: Owen Flanagan
Foremost
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
Consort
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
Hussar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From hussar, in honour of a group of German soldiers who had established a large farm near the village.
Senses: glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
Hussar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hussars
Etymology: Americanized form of Hungarian Huszar or Czech Husar.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Duchess
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
Empress
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named in 1913 for Queen Victoria, who was Empress of India.
Senses: glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
prolocutrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolocutrix
Innisfree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
Circleville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From circle + -ville.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Rushville Township, Rush County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A tiny city in Jackson County, Kansas.
glosses: A hamlet in Orange County, New York.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Pickaway County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A town in Piute County, Utah.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pendleton County, West Virginia.
Denison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Denis + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Crawford County, Iowa.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Jackson County, Kansas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Grayson County, Texas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Spokane County, Washington.
Derived terms: Denison barb
Related terms: Dennison
Tennyson
Soldier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A tiny city in Monona County, Iowa.
glosses: A tiny city in Jackson County, Kansas.
glosses: An unincorporated community and coal town in Carter County, Kentucky.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
Fairbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Livingston County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Jefferson County, Nebraska, United States.
dack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæk/
Forms: form: dacks
form: dacking
form: dacked
form: dacked
Etymology: From daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.
Senses: glosses: To pull down someone's trousers as a practical joke.
examples: text: We have it because way back in 1918, Billy Hughes — the Labor defector and leader of the Nationalist Party, from whose remains Robert Menzies was ultimately to build the Liberal Party — introduced preferential voting specifically in order to dack the Labor party.
ref: 2024 December 4, Annabel Crabb, “Liberal MP Paul Fletcher sees red over teals, but look deeper and there's more at play”, in ABC News (Australia):
topics: government
politics
glosses: To cause political embarrassment in order to gain advantage over an opponent.
dacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dack
dacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dack
dad jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dad joke
no harm done
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Well, you painted my room the wrong shade of blue, but (there was) no harm done really.
glosses: Used to express that someone's action had no serious adverse consequences.
not to worry
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: The origin of the phrase is unknown. According to Partridge’s Dictionary of Catch Phrases the idiom dates from the mid-1930s with a surge in 1957–8.
Senses: examples: text: She didn't catch this train, but not to worry: she can get the next one.
text: For those whose economic outlook may be summarised in that hackneyed expression "Not to worry," then the latest figures could be interpreted as conducive to that conviction.
ref: 1958, The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-builder, volume 65, Shipbuilder Press, page 371:
text: Flynn: Not to worry. They'll get back before Sergeant Walker pays his visit. You'll be O.K.
ref: 1965, Plays and Players, volume 13, Hansom Books:
text: Still under the influence of "Havoline" and Demerol, I was drifting in and out of never-never land when a nurse came hurrying in and said, "Not to worry! You have some irregularities. We are going to give you a bolus of lidocaine, and it will all straighten out."
ref: 1986, Robert DeBellis, Suffering: Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care, Psychology Press:
glosses: There is no need for concern; there isn't a serious problem.
Synonyms: no worries
each to their own
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of each to his own.
Gehinnom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈhɪnəm/
Forms: form: Gehenom
form: Gehennom
form: Gehinom
form: Jehanum
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew גֵּיהִנּוֹם (gēhīnnōm). Doublet of Gehenna and Jahannam.
Senses: glosses: The realm of the afterlife where unrepentant souls are cleansed of their spiritual impurities before returning to the presence of God.
Synonyms: Gehenna
Ahuja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ahujas
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਅਹੂਜਾ (ahūjā).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Punjabi.
Rahuria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A kshatriya Punjabi surname.
Ralhan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A kshatriya Punjabi surname.
Rehalan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit राजा-ऐ-जाहान (Rājah-e-Jahan, “Ruler, King of the whole existence”).
Senses: glosses: A kshatriya Punjabi surname.
Rehani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A kshatriya Punjabi surname.
Roshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian روشن (rowšan).
Senses: glosses: A kshatriya Punjabi surname.
arithmetic progressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arithmetic progression
geometric progressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geometric progression
steamboated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of steamboat
mismeeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mismeetings
Etymology: From mis- + meeting, coined by Martin Buber.
Senses: glosses: A situation where a person fails to interact properly with another.
mismeeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From mismeet + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mismeet
mismeetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mismeeting
mindsight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mind + sight.
Senses: glosses: Focused awareness of one's own mental processes in order to correct undesirable behaviours.
mindings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minding
melodied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From melody + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a melody (of a specified kind).
mayings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maying
mayntenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mayntenances
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of maintenance.
mayntenances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mayntenance
nurst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: nurse + -t
Senses: examples: text: They would not deign / To profit by a stain / On the honourable rules, / Knowing that practise perfidy no man durst / Who in the heroic schools / Was nurst.
ref: a. 1928, Thomas Hardy, Then and Now:
glosses: simple past and past participle of nurse
norward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward.
ref: 1912, Thomas Hardy, The Voice:
text: […] considering how much more durable the shingles of this Country are than those from the norward, they are equally as cheap.
ref: 1759, An Inquiry concerning the Trade, Commerce, and Policy of Jamaica, page 18:
glosses: Archaic form of northward.
naibour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naibours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of neighbour.
naibours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naibour
nighs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nigh
neo-ultramontanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + ultramontanism.
Senses: glosses: The belief of certain Catholics, primarily during the period immediately prior to Vatican I, that papal infallibility was not restricted to a small number of papal statements but applied ipso facto (by virtue of being said by the Pope) to all papal teachings and statements.
ultramontanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultramontanism
outshrill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outshrills
form: outshrilling
form: outshrilled
form: outshrilled
Etymology: From out- + shrill.
Senses: examples: text: Once again she had been stricken, beaten down, so violated that to give utterance to her feelings might have outshrilled all the criers in hell.
ref: 1967, Richard M. Elman, The 28th day of Elul, page 94:
text: For one terrifying moment, she felt nothing beneath her feet; empty space whirling round and past her, the slang and heckle of the wind outshrilling her own shriek of fear.
ref: 2012, Wendy Perriam, The Stillness The Dancing:
glosses: To surpass in shrilling; to cry louder than.
outshrills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outshrill
outshrilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outshrill
outshrilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outshrill
orchet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchets
Senses: examples: text: Till he comes to the orchet, when crooping thereright
In the lewth of a codlin-tree, bivering wi’ fright,
Wi’ on’y her night-rail to screen her from sight,
His lonesome young Barbree appears.
ref: 1898, Thomas Hardy, 'The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's' in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Harper & Brothers (1899), page 188
glosses: orchard
orchets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchet
quicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quick
quicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quick
unpled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pled.
Senses: glosses: Not having been pled.
unarithmetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unarithmetical
form: most unarithmetical
Etymology: From un- + arithmetical.
Senses: examples: text: It is not pleasant for lazy ladies to get breakfast over at that regular early hour, which alone sets a household fairly a-going for the day: nor for unarithmetical ladies, who have always reckoned their accounts by sixpences, to put down each item, and persevere in balancing periodically receipts and expenditures […]
ref: 1858, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Woman's Thoughts about Women:
glosses: Not arithmetical.
happy talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Sandwith soon afterwards ran out to the excited chattering group in the garden, and after a few minutes' happy talk with him, Harry spoke to him of the visitors.
ref: 1888, G. A. Henty, chapter 15, in In The Reign Of Terror:
text: "Maybe the public is waking up and getting skeptical about simple public relations, effortless, happy-talk rhetoric," he said.
ref: 1992 February 17, Maureen Dowd, “The 1992 Campaign”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Aug 2014:
text: Clinton's upbeat tone marked his passage from econo-pessimist to cheerleader. Some observers give new mediameister David R. Gergen, who learned happy talk at the knee of Ronald Reagan, credit for the shift.
ref: 1993 June 27, “Commentary: Suddenly, The Rah Rah President”, in Businessweek, retrieved 05 Aug 2014:
text: "Now have there been missteps? Of course." Among them, he admits, Dick Cheney's happy talk about the insurgency in Iraq being in its "last throes."
ref: 2007 June 28, Holly Bailey, “To Be Perfectly Honest . . .”, in Newsweek, retrieved 05 Aug 2014:
text: Even BP fall guy Tony Hayward, after some early happy talk, admitted that the spill was an "environmental catastrophe."
ref: 2010 July 29, Michael Grunwald, “The BP Spill: Has the Damage Been Exaggerated?”, in Time, retrieved 05 Aug 2014:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Lighthearted, pleasant conversation; upbeat banter; optimistic remarks.
Related terms: word: small talk
word: spin
sadlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: So, toward our myth's oblivion, / Darkling, and languid-lipped, we creep and grope / Sadlier than those who wept in Babylon […]
ref: c. 1910, Thomas Hardy, God's Funeral:
glosses: comparative form of sadly: more sadly
silkworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silkworks
Etymology: From silk + works.
Senses: glosses: A silk manufactory.
Related terms: silkwork
slatestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slatestones
Etymology: From slate + stone.
Senses: examples: text: It [St Pinnock Viaduct] has seven piers of roughly-dressed, coursed slatestone from Westwood quarry. […] Moorswater is another masonry replacement, consisting of seven tapering piers of rock-faced slatestone with eight semi-circular arches with granite long and short voussoirs.
ref: 2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 58:
glosses: slate
slatestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slatestone
semblancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semblancies
Senses: examples: text: A dwelling's character / Takes theirs, and a vague semblancy / To them in all its limbs, and light, and atmosphere.
ref: 1922, Thomas Hardy, The Two Houses:
glosses: semblance
semblancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semblancy
sentried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sentry + -ed.
Senses: examples: sentried battlements
glosses: At which a sentry is posted.
sepulturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sepulture
sepultured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sepulture
shieldingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shieldingly
form: most shieldingly
Etymology: From shielding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At once she flung her faint form shieldingly on his […]
ref: 1898, Thomas Hardy, The Burghers:
glosses: In a way that shields.
desilk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desilks
form: desilking
form: desilked
form: desilked
Etymology: From de- + silk.
Senses: examples: text: While we shucked and silked the corn, we talked, sang old nursery rhymes […]
ref: 2013, Lynetra T. Griffin, From Whence We Came, page 17:
synonyms: silk
glosses: To remove the silk from (corn).
Derived terms: desilker
silking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of silk
silked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of silk
desilked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desilk
desilks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desilk
desilking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desilk
undesignable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + designable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be designed.
waggonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waggonettes
Etymology: From waggon + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: At eleven o’clock a commodious waggonette, drawn by four horses and driven by soldiers riding postillion-wise, was in readiness to pick up officers’ wives and others having business at the Puy.
ref: 1892, Betham-Edwards, France of Today: A Survey Comparative and Retrospective, Tauchnitz publishers, page 28:
text: As I drive to the junction of lane and high-way,
And the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette,
I look behind at the fading byway
ref: 1914, Thomas Hardy, 'At Castle Boterel' in Satires of Circumstance, Macmillan, page 121
glosses: Alternative form of wagonette.
waggonettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waggonette
withoutdoors
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From without (“outside of, beyond”) + doors.
Senses: examples: text: The candles alight in the room / For my parting meal / Made all things withoutdoors loom / Strange, ghostly, unreal.
ref: 1917, Thomas Hardy, At the Word 'Fairwell':
glosses: outdoors
Related terms: without-door
undesigningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undesigningly
form: most undesigningly
Etymology: From undesigning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undesigning manner; with no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose.
vampirine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vampirine
form: most vampirine
Etymology: From vampire + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Krook is such an indispensable part of the symbolism of the book that when he spontaneously combusts another vampirine figure has to take his place; namely Vholes.
ref: 2013, Richard Gravil, Reading Dickens's Bleak House, page 43:
glosses: vampiric
violed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of viol
violing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of viol
tabouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tabour
taboured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tabour
vineland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinelands
Etymology: From vine + land.
Senses: glosses: land where vines are grown
vinelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vineland
worktime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worktimes
form: work time
Etymology: From work + time.
Senses: glosses: The period, or daily hours, during which somebody works.
worktimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worktime
wrothfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wrothfully
form: most wrothfully
Etymology: From wrothful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wrathfully.
wrothful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrothful
form: most wrothful
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wrathful.
black moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black mosses
Senses: examples: 1823, Agriculture, article in (editor), Encyclopaedia Britannica, 6th Edition, Volume 1, page 373,
There are, however, two general kinds of mosses; black moss, and whitish or yellow moss. The black moss is originally of a mahogany colour, but speedily becomes black upon exposure to the air.
glosses: Any of numerous species of dark-coloured mosses (Bryophyta), possibly species of the genera Grimmia, Andreaea, Syntrichia, Cinclidotus.
glosses: Tillandsia usneoides (Spanish moss), a flowering plant, particularly after it has been dried for use as stuffing and decoration.
examples: text: Black moss, also known as seaweed hair, looks like fine black hair. The name of the ingredient in Cantonese, fat choy, is the same as the New Year's greeting, Gung Hay Fat Choy, so it has an auspicious meaning and symbolizes prosperity.
ref: 1999, Grace Young, The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing, page 126:
glosses: Nostoc flagelliforme (fat choy), a terrestrial cyanobacterium eaten in Chinese cuisine.
glosses: Bryoria fremontii (wila), a lichen eaten by First Peoples in North America.
illuded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of illude
illuding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of illude
unilluded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + illuded.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, would men look at true things, / And unilluded view things […]
ref: 1899, Thomas Hardy, To Sincerity:
glosses: Not illuded or deceived.
upskirted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upskirt
upspoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of upspeak
upspeaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upspeak
upspeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upspeak
upspake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of upspeak
unconscienced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + conscience + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a conscience.
unaverred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + averred.
Senses: glosses: Not averred.
untroublous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untroublous
form: most untroublous
Etymology: From un- + troublous.
Senses: glosses: Not troublous.
untasked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tasked.
Senses: glosses: Not tasked.
suprasegmentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From suprasegmental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Suprasegmentally, there is a tendency to de-accent information which is repeated, a prominent stressing of demonstratives these and this, and modals and auxiliaries such as should and will, plus a rise-fall intonation that gives a ‘lilting’ quality.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:
glosses: In a suprasegmental manner.
signalhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From signal + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The property of being a signal.
pseudoformal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + formal.
Senses: glosses: Attempting to be formal, but not actually doing so.
thereacross
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From there + across. More at pronominal adverb.
Senses: glosses: Across that.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
terabinth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terabinths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of terebinth.
terabinths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terabinth
townsfolks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From townsfolk + -s.
Etymology tree
English town
English -s-
English folk
English townsfolk
English -s
English townsfolks
Senses: glosses: townsfolk
dahu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dahus
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps still sore at being called crétins des Alpes by lowlanders, the Savoyards, in the early days of mass tourism, would sometimes take gullible visitors on dahu hunts. These entailed all-night vigils out in the open, where the would-be trophy hunter had to crouch and hide so as not to be seen by the sharp-eyed dahu.
ref: 2017, Stephen O'Shea, The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A legendary goat-like animal reputed to live in the mountains of France, Switzerland, and Italy.
dahu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dahus
Etymology: From Mandarin 大胡 (dàhú).
Senses: glosses: A large bowed two-stringed chordophone of Chinese origin, a tenor part of the erhu family of instruments.
platans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platan
nonpreliminary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + preliminary.
Senses: glosses: Not preliminary.
postpreliminary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + preliminary.
Senses: glosses: After a preliminary stage.
adonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adonize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Act or process of adonizing.
adhesion contract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adhesion contracts
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A contract set by one party, so that the other party has little or no ability to negotiate more favorable terms and conditions.
Darier's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Discovered by French dermatologist Ferdinand-Jean Darier.
Senses: glosses: A disorder characterized by dark crusty patches on the skin, sometimes containing pus.
Koebner phenomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Köbner phenomenon
Etymology: Attributed to Heinrich Köbner.
Senses: synonyms: koebnerization
Koebner response
glosses: The tendency for skin lesions to appear on lines of trauma.
wikipedia: Heinrich Köbner
cosmetologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cosmetological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of cosmetology.
preadapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preadapts
form: preadapting
form: preadapted
form: preadapted
Etymology: From pre- + adapt.
Senses: glosses: To adapt in advance.
preadapting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preadapt
preadapts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preadapt
Aesopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aesopical
form: most Aesopical
Etymology: From Aesop + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Aesop; Aesopian.
Aesopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Aesopically
form: most Aesopically
Etymology: From Aesopic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Although we can be sure that he 'Aesopically' related its theme to the Russia of his own day, he saw the play in overwhelmingly historical terms - as a study in the generation gap of the late 1870s 's glubokim istoricheskim podtekstom'.
ref: 2006, Patrick Miles, Mikhail Gromov: Chekhov Scholar and Critic, page 114:
glosses: In an Aesopic manner.
Adeni
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Adeni
form: most Adeni
Etymology: From Aden + -i.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Aden, a seaport in Yemen.
akratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more akratically
form: most akratically
Etymology: From akratic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an akratic manner.
acratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more acratically
form: most acratically
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of akratically.
acratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acratic
form: most acratic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of akratic.
acculturalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ad- + cultural + -ization.
Senses: glosses: acculturation
deuce court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deuce courts
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: The receiver's right-side service box, or the opponent's left for the server, being the receiving side for a deuce point.
interradii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interradius
abbot-bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abbot-bishops
Senses: glosses: An abbot who is also a bishop.
aceneuramic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: N-Acetylneuraminic acid
Adenese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Adenese
form: most Adenese
Etymology: From Aden + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: In March 1938, Sir Bernard Reilly, the Governor of Aden, wrote to the Secretary of State for the Colonies requesting that the restrictions imposed on 'Adenese' seamen in 1935 be reconsidered.
ref: 1994, R. L. Bidwell, New Arabian Studies, volume 2, page 94:
glosses: From or belonging to Aden, a seaport in Yemen.
grassweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grassweed
adraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adarces
Senses: glosses: A salt inflorescence on marshes.
adarces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adraces.
Maphilindo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening of the country names.
Senses: glosses: A proposed non-political confederation of Malaya, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
siopao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃoː.paʊ̯/
Forms: form: siopaos
form: siopao
Etymology: From Tagalog siopao, from Philippine Hokkien 燒包 /烧包 (sio-pau), itself from Cantonese 叉燒包 /叉烧包 (caa¹ siu¹ baau¹). Compare siomai.
Senses: glosses: Chinese steamed stuffed bun; baozi (usually char siu bao, especially the Philippine variant known as "siopao asado")
wikipedia: Philippine Hokkien
Derived terms: fried siopao
siopao asado
siopao bola-bola
Related terms: dim sum
hakaw
hototay
siomai
taipao
siopaos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siopao
antipork
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipork
form: most antipork
Etymology: From anti- + pork.
Senses: examples: text: Antipork propaganda is common in the Qur'an schools, where hocas inform frightened Turkish children that to partake of pork will make them akin to the German infidel and may result in their going to hell.
ref: 2008, Ruth Mandel, Cosmopolitan Anxieties, page 269:
glosses: Opposing the eating of pork.
antiplagiarism
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiplagiarism
form: most antiplagiarism
Etymology: From anti- + plagiarism.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or preventing plagiarism.
mannerlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mannerlessly
form: most mannerlessly
Etymology: From mannerless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without good manners; rudely.
Vygotskyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vygotskyan
form: most Vygotskyan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Vygotskian.
Vygotskyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vygotskyans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Vygotskian.
Vygotskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vygotskian
form: most Vygotskian
form: Vygotskyan
Etymology: From Vygotsky + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Lev Vygotsky (Russian: Лев Вы́готский or Выго́тский, 1896–1934), Soviet Belarusian psychologist.
Vygotskian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vygotskians
form: Vygotskyan
Etymology: From Vygotsky + -an.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Vygotsky's theories.
high crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high cross
sunstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sun + strike.
Senses: glosses: Glare from the road that can temporarily blind drivers.
compo ration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compo rations
Senses: qualifier: World War II
glosses: A composition ration; a crate containing food, tea, soap, toilet paper etc. for 14 men for one day.
compo rations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compo ration
rat pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat packs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A ration pack.
rat pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat packs
Senses: examples: text: […] the operation of one suspected murder gang — described by investigators as a rat pack of 20 to 30 Negro youths […]
ref: 1964, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates..., page 12346:
text: […] gangs, fraternities, cliques, organizations, and "rat packs" have again begun to be reported.
ref: 1974, Herbert L. Foster, Ribbin', Jivin', and Playin' the Dozens, page 91:
glosses: A juvenile criminal gang.
keep one's powder dry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's powder dry
form: keeping one's powder dry
form: kept one's powder dry
form: kept one's powder dry
form: keep the powder dry
Etymology: From the maxim “trust in God and keep your powder dry”, attributed to English statesman Oliver Cromwell; in the days of muskets, soldiers needed to keep their bags of gunpowder dry so they could load their guns at short notice.
Senses: examples: text: […]events now happening, which, beyond almost any set of circumstances which have arisen in our recent history, impose the necessity on Great Britain, at all events, of keeping her powder dry, and of keeping her resources in steadfast charge.
ref: 1904, John Morley, Hansard:
text: He’d for the most part refrained from any dramatic concurrences or dissents—as though keeping his powder dry for Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the biggest religious-liberty decision in years.
ref: 2014 July 1, Noah Feldman, “Alito's Day in Court”, in BloombergView, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2014:
text: Another post written by Mr. Prevost, according to The Daily Beast, told people to “Keep [their] powder dry,” because there is a “war right here at home, a war for our streets and neighborhoods.”
ref: 2025 May 13, Richard Fausset, quoting Louis Prevost, “The Pope’s Florida Brother, a MAGA Disciple, Plans to ‘Tone It Down’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To hold back on action until a future time; to save one's resources in case of emergency.
wikipedia: Oliver Cromwell
Related terms: dry powder
powder keg
rajma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hindi राजमा (rājmā), from Punjabi ਰਾਜਮਾਂਹ (rājmā̃h, “kidney bean”).
Senses: glosses: An Indian dish of red kidney beans in a thick gravy with spices.
set the world alight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets the world alight
form: setting the world alight
form: set the world alight
form: set the world alight
Senses: examples: text: "I didn't set the world alight on my first day, and look at me now. Half the West Riding hangs on my words."
ref: 1988, David Nobbs, Pratt of the Argus:
glosses: Alternative form of set the world on fire.
sekihan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 赤飯, literally "red rice".
Senses: glosses: A Japanese dish of rice boiled with red beans.
geerah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geerahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of girah.