cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
silent as the grave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Perhaps connected to the idea of taking a secret to the grave, or the idea that dead men tell no tales.
Senses: examples: text: The investigation is ongoing, but all the suspects have been silent as the grave so far.
text: “Livesey,” returned the squire, “you are always in the right of it. I’ll be as silent as the grave.”
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: “Well, then, if you’re bound to go, I’ll tell you the way to do when you get to the village. Shut the door and blindfold the doctor tight and fast, and make him swear to be silent as the grave, and put a purse full of gold in his hand, […]
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XL, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: silent as the tomb
qualifier: simile
glosses: Saying absolutely nothing (especially about a particular subject).
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: The abandoned village is silent as the grave.
synonyms: silent as the tomb
qualifier: simile
glosses: Deathly still and silent.
raw_tags: of a place
tenants-in-chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenant-in-chief
hang tough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs tough
form: hanging tough
form: hung tough
form: hung tough
Senses: examples: text: But Hoop Dreams isn't mainly about sport, or even about life and death in the inner city. It's about families hanging tough on nerve and prayer.
ref: 1994 October 24, Richard Corliss, “CINEMA: False Hoops”, in Time:
glosses: To remain strong-willed or brave, especially when experiencing duress or adversity.
Synonyms: grin and bear it
hang in there
suck it up
take it like a man
tough it out
Related terms: hang tight
hash slinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hash slingers
form: hashslinger
form: hash-slinger
Senses: examples: text: At first the spread was not very elaborate. . . . Originally it consisted of a chunk of well greased sole leather served hot, two boiled potatoes, a cup of muddy coffee, a bold of bread, a grunt or growl from the hash slinger, and, in warm weather, a few flies.
ref: 1904 April 8, “The Evolution and Passing of the Popular Fifteen Cent Lunch”, in Weekly News-Review, Indiana, USA, retrieved 05 Dec 2010, page 1:
text: The ‘hash-slinger’ type of waitress of former years has disappeared from the great majority of restaurants.
ref: 1929 June 21, “Says Customer Has Desire To Tip Waitresses”, in San Jose Evening News, retrieved 05 Dec 2010, page 6:
text: San Diego still has trouble making up its mind as to which it wants to be—a hash-slinger or a gourmet chef.
ref: 2008 June 17, Nick Canepa, “Tiger, Torrey triumph”, in San Diego Union-Tribune, retrieved 05 Dec 2010, page A1:
glosses: A cook or food server in a cheap restaurant, especially one who is discourteous or inattentive to customers.
hash-slinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hash-slingers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hash slinger.
gladly suffer fools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gladly suffers fools
form: gladly suffering fools
form: gladly suffered fools
form: gladly suffered fools
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suffer fools gladly.
sunshot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnʃɒt/
Forms: form: more sunshot
form: most sunshot
Etymology: From sun + shot.
Senses: examples: text: Temple stood in the stand, listening to the birds among the sunshot leaves, listening, looking about.
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 91:
text: Another revelation of impuberal softness […] was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess.
ref: 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 41:
glosses: Shot through with sunlight.
eradicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eradicants
Etymology: From eradicate + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: If inclement weather delays a scheduled protectant spray, apply an eradicant when conditions permit but within the kickback period.
ref: 1999, Larry L. Strand, Integrated Pest Management for Stone Fruits, →ISBN, page 169:
text: Some eradicants act by blocking spore production and reducing the potential of established infections to serve as sources of secondary inoculum for new infections.
ref: 2006, K.G. Mukerji, Fruit and Vegetable Diseases, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Usually, these eradicants exhibit a wide range of control over many organisms, and are detrimental to the crop as well.
ref: 2009, Dale Walters, Disease Control in Crops, →ISBN:
glosses: A substance that serves to eradicate an infestation.
eructate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eructates
form: eructating
form: eructated
form: eructated
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ēructātus, from the verb ēructō.
Senses: examples: text: Pain in the right side of the throat, as from an ulcery sensation or as if a splinter were lodged in the throat, when swallowing, eructating, breathing, stretching and moving the neck.
ref: 1850, Erastus Edgerton Marcy, John Charles Peters, Otto Füllgraff, The Elements of a New Materia Medica and Therapeutics, page 400:
text: What hours have I paced those platforms, endlessly, hopelessly, where the draughts of Siberia and the solstice heats of Ecuador focus their unscrupling rigours on the eructated passenger.
ref: 1928, Robert Byron, “Frankfort”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 189:
glosses: To belch, to burp.
Derived terms: eructation
v.v.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of vice versa.
evangelizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evangelizers
Etymology: From evangelize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Their cooperation was really anticipated and their middle position gave evangelization a more disposing tone as the message could be given from native evangelizers too.
ref: 2001, Nkem Hyginus M. V. Chigere, Foreign Missionary Background and Indigenous Evangelization in Igboland, page 288:
glosses: One who evangelizes.
left inverses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of left inverse
excides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of excide
excide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: excides
form: exciding
form: excided
form: excided
Etymology: From Latin excidere, excisum; ex (“out”) + caedere (“to cut”). See concise, and compare excise (“to cut off”).
Senses: glosses: To cut off.
exies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Expenses (charged to one's employer).
sortsa
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: sorta
Etymology: Written form of a reduction of sorts of.
Senses: examples: text: Sends a letter to the Globe and Mail and starts claiming that his friend Mackay says that there's all sortsa cabinet ministers ringing up all sortsa judges in Canada.
ref: 1977, Fred C Dobbs, The Golden Age of B.S., page 93:
text: "Oh. Togs. lt just means.. .special sortsa clothes. Toads? Gad, what a dodo l picked to fall in love with me."
ref: 1984, DeKalb College, DeKalb Literary Arts Journal, volume 17, page 38:
text: Hampton delves into all sortsa cultural rootage — from country blues to smarmy Broadway show-tunage, combining them in a friendly, swinging way. This is the sorta record that should appeal to anybody who gave up on Zappa after Weasels Ripped My Flesh.
ref: 1988 June, “Underground”, in Spin, page 32:
glosses: Sorts of.
wikipedia: reduction (linguistics)
Related terms: kindsa
exultate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exultates
form: exultating
form: exultated
form: exultated
Senses: examples: text: For her exultating her supremacy, in pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, had cut him out: made him feel not only irrelevant but, so often, in the way; his wife looked at him and felt the obligation of love, for of course she did love him, while another kind of love, physical, instinctual, as intimate as her own flesh, pulled at her.
ref: 1989, Joyce Carol Oates, American Appetites:
text: I cannot tell you how my heart expands and exultates within the opening glory of this autumn day.
ref: 2013, Louis H. Sullivan, Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings, →ISBN:
text: My heart exultates, thirsts for more.
ref: 2016, Seema K Jayaraman, Wings Of Rhapsody, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: To exult.
Derived terms: exultating
genre fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genre fictions
Senses: examples: text: Genre fiction encourages a focus on one aspect at the expense of others. This can produce an obsessive, powerful work. But a literary novel has, somewhere, to open out into the universal.
ref: 2014 April 22, Anita Mason, “Genre fiction radiates from a literary centre”, in The Guardian:
topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: Fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre (such as mystery, romance, or horror) with an existing audience.
Synonyms: popular fiction
Hyponyms: crime fiction
fantasy
historical fiction
horror
romance
science fiction
speculative fiction
thriller
western
Related terms: The English genres category
genre fictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genre fiction
nondeep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deep.
Senses: glosses: Not deep.
nonshearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + shearing.
Senses: examples: a nonshearing deformation
glosses: Not shearing.
missiologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of missiology
missiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more missiological
form: most missiological
Etymology: From missiology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to missiology.
Derived terms: missiologically
missiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missiologists
Etymology: From missiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies missiology.
missiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of missiologist
replevinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replevingers
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An agent authorised by a sheriff to enforce a writ of replevin.
Related terms: sheriff
bailiff
versing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of verse
versing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪŋ
Forms: form: versings
Senses: examples: text: Henry of Huntingdon's account of the siege is full of details which have on the whole been accepted as historical, and it is conjectured that he had before him some ancient versings of the fight.
ref: 1892, The History of Early English Literature:
text: Frost's versings on this theme of domesticity are multifaceted and complex […]
ref: 1994, Ed Ingebretsen, Robert Frost's Star in a stone boat: a grammar of belief, page 87:
glosses: A poem.
gameverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gameverses
Etymology: From game + -verse.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A universe depicted in one or more video games.
gameverses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gameverse
festuca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: festucas
Senses: glosses: fescue grass
festucas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of festuca
fimbriae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪm.bɹi.i/
Senses: glosses: plural of fimbria
autoresponse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoresponses
Etymology: From auto- + response.
Senses: glosses: automatic response
exozodi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exozodis
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: exozodiacal cloud (of dust etc)
exozodis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exozodi
half-plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-planes
Etymology: From half + plane.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Either half of an infinite plane (divided by a straight line)
halfplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfplane
quasicritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quasi-critical
Etymology: From quasi- + critical.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having most, but not all, characteristics of a critical system
quasigluon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasigluons
Etymology: From quasi- + gluon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quasiparticle equivalent to a gluon
quasiproton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasiprotons
Etymology: From quasi- + proton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quasiparticle equivalent to a proton
witches' Sabbaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witches' Sabbath
Sabbaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sabbath
cow pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow pools
Senses: examples: text: One of the newest dairy developments is the so-called "cow pool." A number of these arrangements have sprung up in Iowa and in several other states with various modifications. Dairy specialists at Iowa State College have defined a "cow pool" as follows: "Essentially it is a 'milk factory' in which […]
ref: 1958, Virginia Agricultural Economics, numbers 153-177, page 77:
text: A cow pool is defined as a business organization or cooperative which cares for and milks cows in a centralized location. Cow pools are not new.
ref: 1983, M. E. Ensminger, The Stockman's Handbook, page 89:
glosses: A collective or organization through which members have their cows milked in a centralized location.
old-fashionedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more old-fashionedly
form: most old-fashionedly
Etymology: From old-fashioned + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an old-fashioned manner.
quobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quob
quobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quob
onforward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: onforwards
form: onforwarding
form: onforwarded
form: onforwarded
Etymology: on + forward
Senses: glosses: To forward (resend).
onforwarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of onforward
onforwarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of onforward
toothed whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothed whale
Pima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpimə/
rhymes: -iːmə
Forms: form: Pima
form: Pimas
Senses: examples: text: In the valley of the Gila and on its tributaries from the northeast are the Pimas, Maricopas, and Papagos.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:
glosses: A member of a group of American Indians living in an area consisting of what is now central and southern Arizona (USA) and Sonora (Mexico).
Synonyms: Akimel O'odham
Derived terms: pima
Pima Bajo
Pima County
Piman
Pima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpimə/
rhymes: -iːmə
Senses: glosses: The dialect of O'odham spoken by the Pima
pious fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pious fictions
Senses: glosses: A fictional, often religious narrative, presented as true by its author to accomplish some altruistic motive.
quaeritates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quaeritate
hard news
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Under Editor Murray J. Gart, 56, former chief of the Time-Life News Service, the Star stressed hard news and straightforward reporting over fancy writing and instant analysis.
ref: 1981 August 3, Janice Castro, David S. Jackson, “Press: Washington Loses a Newspaper”, in Time, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2010:
text: Even in the late 70's […] women's news was regarded as, by definition, soft news. Today, issues like sexual harassment and the difficulties of single parents are understood to be, in every sense, hard news.
ref: 1993 October 24, “News About The Magazine”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Dec 2010:
text: Ed Bradley, who died yesterday of leukemia at age 65, […] covered hard news and soft features with equal commitment, grace and skill, and many of his stories and interviews were impossible to forget.
ref: 2006 November 10, David Bianculli, “Ed Earned his ‘60 mins.’ of TV Fame”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 06 Dec 2010:
text: Because homepages reflect the values of institutions, and Facebook and Twitter reflect the interest of individual readers. These digital grazers have shown again and again that they aren't interested in hard news, but rather entertainment, self-help, awe, and outrage dressed up news.
ref: 2014 May 15, Derek Thompson, “What the Death of Homepages Means for the Future of News”, in The Atlantic:
text: For many young people, clicking on to Instagram to get the latest news is now as second nature as picking up a daily newspaper once was to generations before. For a site that has traditionally been a platform for sharing lifestyle content rather than hard news, this is a shift in millennials and Gen Z, at a time when news updates seem more important than ever.
ref: 2020 July 27, Katie Bishop, “Why are millennials and Gen Z turning to Instagram as a news source?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: broadcasting
journalism
media
glosses: Factual reportage of events which are socially or politically significant and of a serious nature, as opposed to the reporting of entertaining, humorous, or gossipy accounts of relatively inconsequential events.
standing tall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stand tall
unwithstood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʊd
Etymology: From un- + withstood.
Senses: examples: text: As if their own indignant earth, / Which gave the sons of England birth, / Had felt their blood upon her brow, / And shuddering with a mother's throe, / Had turned every drop of blood, / By which her face had been bedewed / To an accent unwithstood, / As if her heart had cried aloud: […]
ref: 1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem. […], London: Edward Moxon […], published 1832, →OCLC, stanzas XXXV–XXXVI, pages 18–19:
glosses: Unopposed, not resisted.
northwind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] promising to surrender them whenever they should be summoned by a fleet that should sail to them [the Pelasgians of Lemnos] from Attica in one day with a northwind.
ref: 1846, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece, Volume II, New Edition, Longman et al. (publishers), page 264
text: [...] and notwithstanding the cutting blasts of a northwind, and the sharp driftings of the half-frozen snow, [...]
ref: 1882, Charles Lever, chapter XXXI, in The Daltons; or, Three Roads in Life, page 145:
text: To illustrate more fully, if an author managed over a certain number of his pages to produce a feeling of sultriness, or oppression, in the reader, this would unconsciously awaken in the reader the desire for a cold, fresh northwind — and thus some aspect of a northwind would be effective if called forth by some aspect of sultriness.
ref: 1968, Kenneth Burke, Counter-Statement, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of north wind.
quaeritating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quaeritate
page wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Wire that is knotted into rectangles to create a continuous mesh, a page wire fence, usually used to enclose animals like sheep, goats, or cows.
Related terms: chainlink fence
barbed wire
quaeritated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quaeritate
backward compliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backward compliments
form: backwards compliment
Senses: examples: (example) Those glasses just look too cute for you!
glosses: A compliment which unintentionally comes across as an insult.
Related terms: backhanded compliment
backwards compliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backwards compliments
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backward compliment.
ring-tailed macaucos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring-tailed macauco
gehennas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gehenna
smirched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smirch
don't mind if I do
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Would you like a biscuit? ― Don't mind if I do!
coordinate_terms: please#Adverb
;
thank you#Interjection
;
gladly
with pleasure
glosses: Used to express acceptance of something offered to the speaker.
megasporocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megasporocyte.
tank slapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tank slappers
Senses: glosses: A phenomenon resulting from inadequate dampening of the steering of a motorcycle at high speed. This results in the violent oscillation of the handlebars from left to right, so that they make contact with the gas tank, which is situated on the chassis between them.
glosses: A phenomenon that occurs when a vehicle loses and regains traction at the rear of the car, whilst the front retains traction.
pronunciable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pronunciable
form: most pronunciable
Senses: glosses: pronounceable
owsen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ox
hami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamus
festy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛsti
Forms: form: more festy
form: most festy
Senses: examples: text: God knows I've had my fair share of festy flatmates who started out all sweetness and light... :)
ref: 1997 September 10, Brian S, “I'm able to admit it when I fuck up”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
text: I wish I went to Blue Monday, I wanna go back to Wall St, I miss Wall St damnit. The sucken dancefloor, the space under the pin ball machine, the festy toilets, the railings, the venue.
ref: 2000 June 14, Hobbes, “Wheres My Bangles Track!!!?”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet):
text: So, the festy scrag is packing up and pissing off...
ref: 2000 August 28, solitaire, “[MELB] Come live with me...”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet):
glosses: Disgusting.
glosses: Very bad, dreadful.
festy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛsti
Forms: form: festies
Etymology: From festival + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: Keeping that festy vibe going, we've just been promoted to headline act for the REBIRTH festival this weekend in Cardiff!
ref: 2002 July 26, Lee H, “CHAOS ENGINE SPAMBLAST, 26/07/02”, in alt.gothic.music (Usenet):
glosses: A festival.
Related terms: english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: festy cock
kalamkari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalamkaris
Etymology: From Hindi कलमकारी (kalamkārī), Telugu కలంకారి (kalaṅkāri), from Persian قلم (qalam, “pen”) + کاری (kâri, “craftsmanship”).
Senses: glosses: a type of hand-printed cotton cloth from India
hypocrise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hypocrisy.
increpate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: increpates
form: increpating
form: increpated
form: increpated
Etymology: First attested in 1570; borrowed from Latin increpātus, secondary perfect passive participle of increpō (“to upbraid”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in, against”) + crepō (“to talk noisily”).
Senses: examples: text: […]increpated all iconolaters
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters To Squire Pedant, In The East:
glosses: To chide; to rebuke; to tell off.
inhabitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inhabitors
Etymology: From inhabit + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who inhabits; an inhabitant.
Derived terms: inhabitress
inhabitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inhabitates
form: inhabitating
form: inhabitated
form: inhabitated
Senses: examples: text: Of all the people which inhabitate Asia, the Gaules are most renowmed for valiance in warre.
ref: 1600, Philemon Holland, A translation of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita:
text: The first discoverers of Islands not inhabitated by men.
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, The Nature of Bodies, XXXVIII:
glosses: To inhabit.
Derived terms: uninhabitated
illudes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of illude
unforsaken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + forsaken.
Senses: glosses: Not forsaken.
dendrobatid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dendrobatids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family Dendrobatidae of poison dart frogs.
dendrobatids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dendrobatid
Exmoorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Exmoorian
form: most Exmoorian
Etymology: From Exmoor + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of Exmoor in England.
Exmoorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Exmoorians
Etymology: From Exmoor + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Exmoor in England.
Exmoorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Exmoorian
Europlug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Europlugs
Etymology: From Euro- + plug.
Senses: glosses: A flat, two-pole domestic AC power plug suitable for use in most European countries.
Europlugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Europlug
Pikachu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːkət͡ʃuː/
Forms: form: Pikachu
form: Pikachus
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ピカチュウ (Pikachū).
Senses: topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
video-games
glosses: A small yellow rodent-like Pokémon that has red cheeks and a tail shaped like a lightning bolt, and has electricity-related powers.
Derived terms: Pikachu moth
Pikachu nudibranch
pikachurin
Pikaclone
shocked Pikachu
surprised Pikachu
Pikachus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pikachu
bolt-on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊlt ˈɒn/
ipa: /bɒlt ˈɒn/
ipa: /bɔʊlt ˈɒn/
ipa: /ˌbolt ˈɔn/
Senses: examples: text: [T]he first model of this now most famous line of related types, the [Gibson] Les Paul also appeared in 1952, […] The trapeze style tailpiece and combined bar bridge was also fitted, although this gave way to a bolt-on bar bridge by 1953.
ref: 1979, Ken Achard, “The Fabulous Fifties”, in The History and Development of the American Guitar (Guitar Magazine Project; G 128), London: New Musical Services, →OCLC; republished Westport, Conn.: The Bold Strummer, 1990, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Marketing is not an option, a bolt-on activity, or for moments when 'time allows'; it must be present all the time as the company goes about its business.
ref: 1997, Patrick Forsyth, Robin Birn, “Afterword”, in Marketing in Publishing (A Blueprint Book), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 150:
text: They [the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994] force organizations away from traditional ‘bolt-on’ safety, seen as being someone else’s problem.
ref: 1998, Martin J. Barnard, “The CDM Regulations: Keeping an Air of Realism”, in Martin J. Barnard, editor, Health and Safety for Engineers, London: Thomas Telford Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Of an accessory: capable of being bolted on or otherwise attached.
examples: text: This week we take a close look at four top contenders in the multitasking arena […] All the multitasking systems available for microcomputers today fall into one of two distinct categories: "bolt-on" multitaskers, which add multitasking to an operating system (DOS, for example) that originally executed one task at a time; and "built-in" multitaskers, which are part of the operating system by design.
ref: 1990 September 24, Brett Glass, Tracey Capen, “Orchestrating Applications: While Desqview Referees MS-DOS Applications, Three Graphics-based Multitaskers Promote Cooperative Look-alike Environments”, in InfoWorld, volume 12, number 39, Menlo Park, Calif.: InfoWorld Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63, column 4:
text: Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE), also known as Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), is a digital mobile phone technology which acts as a bolt-on enhancement to 2G and 2.5G General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks.
ref: 2007, “Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution”, in Jielin Dong, editor, Network Dictionary, Saratoga, Calif.: Javvin Technologies, →ISBN, page 177:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Used to extend an existing system, operating as an add-on or plug-in.
improperer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On which, nothing was improperer, or unreasonabler, than the desperate push and strain Charles made, put upon it by his brother James, to catch your uncle Hum Hardcastle.
ref: 1824, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 15, page 459:
glosses: comparative form of improper: more improper
pterygote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pterygotes
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Pterygota.
Senses: glosses: Any insect of the order Pterygota.
Derived terms: pterygotan
apterygote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apterygotes
Senses: glosses: Any insect of the order Apterygota.
Derived terms: apterygotan
odonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odonates
Etymology: From translingual Odonata, from Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”), apparently because they have teeth on their mandibles, although most insects have toothed mandibles.
Senses: examples: text: The proportion of these prey that were odonates can be estimated from the food sample data taken at the Potholes (Chapter Four; Orians and Horn, 1969).
ref: 1980, Gordon H. Orians, Some Adaptations of Marsh-nesting Blackbirds, page 246:
text: Thanks to concern about water birds, these activities have slowed in some regions, and mitigation efforts have provided new wetlands, some of them quite good for odonates.
ref: 2009, Dennis Paulson, Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West, page 35:
text: Aspects of such 'smart engineering' are found also in fossil odonates from the mid-Carboniferous, indicating that versatile flight was developed some 80-100 million years ago (Wootton et al. 1988).
ref: 2013, Jill Lancaster, Barbara J. Downes, Aquatic Entomology, page 144:
glosses: Any carnivorous insect of the order Odonata; a dragonfly or damselfly.
Synonyms: sense: any species of order Odonata
english: used loosely, technically incorrect
translation: used loosely, technically incorrect
word: dragonfly
lumbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumbi
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lumbus. Doublet of loin.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of loin.
synonyms: word: loin
lumbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumbus
Gergovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Gergovia + -an.
Senses: glosses: of or from Gergovia
Gergovian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gergovians
Etymology: From Gergovia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Gergovia
Flavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪvɪən/
Etymology: From the Latin Flaviānus, from Flavius + -ianus.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to the Flavian Dynasty, between the years 69 and 96 AD
Flavian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪvɪən/
Forms: form: Flavians
Etymology: From the Latin Flaviānus, from Flavius + -ianus.
Senses: glosses: Someone who lived during the Flavian Dynasty.
Julio-Claudian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: jo͞ol′ē-ō-klô′dē-ən
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒuːl.iː.əʊˈklɔː.diː.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒul.i.oʊˈklɔ.di.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒul.i.oʊˈklɑ.di.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒul.i.oʊˈklɒ.di.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒul.i.oʊˈklɑ.di.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʉːl.iː.əʉˈkloː.diː.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʉːl.iː.ɐʉˈkloː.diː.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʉl.i.oˈklɔ.di.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒuːl.iː.oːˈklɔː.ɖiː.an/
rhymes: -ɔːdiːən
Etymology: From Latin Jūlius + -o- + Latin Claudius + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which ended with the death of Nero in the year 68 AD.
Julio-Claudian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jo͞ol′ē-ō-klô′dē-ən
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒuːl.iː.əʊˈklɔː.diː.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒul.i.oʊˈklɔ.di.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒul.i.oʊˈklɑ.di.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒul.i.oʊˈklɒ.di.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒul.i.oʊˈklɑ.di.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʉːl.iː.əʉˈkloː.diː.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʉːl.iː.ɐʉˈkloː.diː.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒʉl.i.oˈklɔ.di.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒuːl.iː.oːˈklɔː.ɖiː.an/
rhymes: -ɔːdiːən
Forms: form: Julio-Claudians
Etymology: From Latin Jūlius + -o- + Latin Claudius + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
lung buster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lung busters
Senses: glosses: Any task that puts a lot of pressure on one's lungs, making one out of breath.
Related terms: lung-busting
lung-busting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lung-busting
form: most lung-busting
Senses: glosses: exhausting, causing someone to be out of breath.
Related terms: lung buster
furst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They wur not paid for weet days at th' furst; an' they geet it into their yeds at Shorrock were to blame.
ref: 1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine:
text: "An' it black noight, an' men and women wild in the drink; an' Pat Harrigan insoide bloind an' mad in liquor, an' it's turned me an' the children out he has to shlape in the snow--an' not the furst toime either.
ref: 1888, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories:
text: "De furst work I done to get my food wuz to carry water in de field to de hands dat wuz workin'.
ref: 1936-1938, Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives – A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves – The Ohio Narratives:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of first.
furst
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I took a v'y'ge to Australia furst, just to put her out o' my mind a bit, an' I never seed her since.
ref: 1899, W. W. Jacobs, Sea Urchins:
text: "I was thinkin' it over, Stutter, all the way hoofin' it out yere," he said, chewing continually on his tobacco, "but sorter reckoned ez how yer ought ter see the writin' furst, considerin' ez how you're a full partner in this yere claim.
ref: 1907, Randall Parrish, Beth Norvell:
text: He started in on Microby Dandeline--we jest called her Dandeline furst, bein' thet yallar with janders when she wus a baby, but when she got about two year, I wus a readin' a piece in a paper a man left, 'bout these yere little microbys thet gits into everywheres they shouldn't ort to, jest like she done, so I says to Watts how she'd ort to had two names anyways, only I couldn't think of none but common ones when we give her hern.
ref: 1920, James B. Hendryx, The Gold Girl:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of first.
steezy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: stēʹzi
ipa: /ˈstiːzi/
Forms: form: steezier
form: steeziest
Etymology: Blend of style + easy
Senses: examples: 2000 January 24th, Brian Jackson, alt.skate-board (Google group): shoes, 8:00am
Osiris- too steezy for my tastes, I don’t like the look their shoes have
2000 August 10th, Brian Jackson, alt.skate-board (Google group): interesting stuff i got to say that isnt really interesting, 7:00am
That song is ok, I’m sort of bored with it now but its pretty cool when you first hear it, sort of cheezy (or steezy?).
2009 October 14th, Shift, Longboard-Atlanta (Google group): Beast Coast Longboarding 2010 Season, 1:12am
Not to mention GA riders could compete with the best the East Coast has to offer; racing against the fastest and steeziest riders around.
2010 November 18th, daniel, UC Davis Alpine Ski and Snowboard Team (Google group): a little market research in regards to the sweatshirts, 6:48pm
So basically I want to make sure as many people as possible get sweatshirts because (a) you’ll be the steeziest kid on your block / floor / chair lift and (b) its definitely and ego boost to see people wearing something you made.
glosses: Gracefully stylish.
steeziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of steezy: most steezy
indifferency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indifferencies
Etymology: From Latin indifferentia.
Senses: examples: text: Doe we thinke he will ever digest us, in the temper wee are in? which (to confesse the truth of the fashionable Christian) what is it but a state of neutrality, indifferency, or such a mediocrity, as will just serve the time, satisfie Law, or stand with reputation of neighbours?
ref: 1628, Samuel Ward, A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale:
glosses: Impartiality, fairness, disinterestedness.
examples: text: he was sometimes found in his house, bitterly scolding with his sister, for which being reproved, as he that wronged his indifferencie: What? said he; must this seely woman also serve as a witnesse to my rules?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 29, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: I carried it on as far as this with a sort of indifferency that he often wondered at, more than at first, but which was the only support of his courtship; and I mention it the rather to intimate again to the ladies that nothing but want of courage for such an indifferency makes our sex so cheap, and prepares them to be ill-used as they are; would they venture the loss of a pretending fop now and then, who carries it high upon the point of his own merit, they would certainly be less slighted, and courted more.
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c.:
text: For example, one sceptical figure praised the Church of England, in Hume's phrase, "as a Church tending to keep down fanaticism," and recommendable for its very indifferency; whereupon a transcendental figure urges him: "You are afraid of the horse's kicking: but will you sacrifice all qualities to being safe from that?
ref: 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling:
glosses: A lack of strong feeling; indifference.
wyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wyres
Senses: examples: text: Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre, Sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres atweene, Doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre, 156 And, being crowned with a girland greene, Seem lyke some mayden queene.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
text: 104 Smock, climbe a-pace, that I maie see my ioyes; Oh heauen and paradize are all but toyes Compar'd with this sight I now behould, Which well might keepe a man from being olde. 108 A prettie rysing wombe without a weame, That shone as bright as anie siluer streame; And bare out like the bending of an hill, At whose decline a fountaine dwelleth still; 112 That hath his mouth besett with uglie bryers, Resembling much a duskie nett of wyres; A loftie buttock, barrd with azure veines, Whose comelie swelling, when my hand distreines, 116 Or wanton checketh with a harmlesse stype, It makes the fruites of loue oftsoone be rype, And pleasure pluckt too tymelie from the stemme To dye ere it hath seene Jerusalem. 120 O Gods! that euer anie thing so sweete, So suddenlie should fade awaie, and fleete!
ref: c. 1595, Thomas Nash, The Choise of Valentines:
text: Creed and I into the Park, and walked, a most pleasant evening, and so took coach, and took up my wife, and in my way home discovered my trouble to my wife for her white locks, [Randle Holmes says the ladies wore "false locks set on wyres, to make them stand at a distance from the head," and accompanies the information with the figure of a lady "with a pair of locks and curls which were in great fashion in 1670" (Planche's "Cyclopaedia of Costume;" Vol. i., p. 248).] swearing by God, several times, which I pray God forgive me for, and bending my fist, that I would not endure it.
ref: 1667, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1667:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wire.
thyne
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Concernyng famishemente, it is necessarie to see, that the enemie hinder thee not of thy victualles, but to provide where thou maieste have it, and to see that thesame whiche thou haste, bee not loste: and therefore it is requisite, that thou have alwaies in provision with the armie, sufficiente victuall for a monethe, and then removyng into some strong place, thou muste take order with thy nexte frendes, that daily thei maie provide for thee, and above al thinges bestowe the victual with diligence, givyng every daie to every manne, a reasonable measure, and observe after soche sorte this poincte, that it disorder thee not: bicause all other thyng in the warre, maie with tyme be overcome, this onely with tyme overcometh thee: nor there shall never any enemie of thyne, who maie overcome thee with famishemente, that will seeke to overcome thee with iron.
ref: 1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I:
text: The I understanding the cause of his miserable estate, sayd unto him, In faith thou art worthy to sustaine the most extreame misery and calamity, which hast defiled and maculated thyne owne body, forsaken thy wife traitorously, and dishonoured thy children, parents, and friends, for the love of a vile harlot and old strumpet.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
text: Queene of Beauty, Mother of Love and of all worlds delight, 16 Without whose soverayne grace and kindly dewty Nothing on earth seems fayre to fleshly sight, Doe thou vouchsafe with thy love-kindling light T'illuminate my dim and dulled eyne, 20 And beautifie this sacred hymne of thyne: That both to thee, to whom I meane it most, And eke to her whose faire immortall beame Hath darted fyre into my feeble ghost, That now it wasted is with woes extreame, 25 It may so please, that she at length will streame Some deaw of grace into my withered hart, After long sorrow and consuming smart.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of thine.
miserite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Miser (“a surname”) + -ite, named for Dr. Hugh D. Miser, a geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Senses: examples: text: Miserite is rare at Mont Saint-Hilaire, but may be locally abundant.
ref: 1989, Joseph Anthony Mandarino, Violet Anderson, Monteregian Treasures: The Minerals of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, page 141:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lilac-pink or red triclinic-pinacoidal rare-earth mineral of interest also for cleaning up radioactive and other wastes and for ceramics.
Volscian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: vŏlʹshən
ipa: /ˈvɒlʃən/
Etymology: Latin Volscī + English -an
Senses: glosses: Or, or relating to, the people or language of the Volsci.
Volscian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vŏlʹshən
ipa: /ˈvɒlʃən/
Forms: form: Volscians
Etymology: Latin Volscī + English -an
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Volsci, or a person of Volscian descent.
Volscian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: vŏlʹshən
ipa: /ˈvɒlʃən/
Etymology: Latin Volscī + English -an
Senses: glosses: An Italic language formerly spoken by the Volsci and becoming extinct sometime after the 3rd century BC.
kingdomless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kingdom + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a kingdom.
mutis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muti
gynecomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynecomorphous
form: most gynecomorphous
Etymology: From gyneco- + -morphous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling a female in shape, attributes or appearance.
dipluran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diplurans
Etymology: Diplura + -an
Senses: glosses: Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.
thysanuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thysanurans
Etymology: Thysanura + -an
Senses: examples: text: The best known and most often seen thysanurans are the two domesticated species: silverfish and firebrat.
ref: 1984, Robert N. Coulson, Forest Entomology: Ecology and Management, page 59:
text: As insects go, thysanurans are about as primitive as an arthropod can get and still be considered an insect.
ref: 1989, May Berenbaum, Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers, page 21:
text: 2008, Timothy J. Bradley, Saline-water Insects: Ecology, Physiology and Evolution, Jill Lancaster, Robert A. Briers, Aquatic Insects: Challenges to Populations: Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society's 24th Symposium, page 22,
Marine thysanurans are another abundant and highly successful group of apterygotes able to exploit the ocean shore.
glosses: Any of various insects, including the silverfish and firebrats, of the order Thysanura (now Zygentoma), which have three long caudal filaments.
Hypernyms: bristletail
Related terms: thysanurous
entognath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entognaths
Senses: glosses: Any of various ametabolous arthropods, of the class Entognatha, whose mouthparts are retracted within their heads.
Related terms: entognathous
zygopteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygopterans
Etymology: Zygoptera + -an
Senses: glosses: Any of various insects of the order Zygoptera; damselfly.
Related terms: zygopterous
dermapteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermapterans
Etymology: From translingual Dermaptera + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera; earwig.
Related terms: dermapterous
embiopteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embiopterans
Etymology: From translingual Embioptera + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any of the tropical or subtropical insects of the order Embioptera, which spin silk from structures on their front legs.
Synonyms: webspinner
Related terms: embiopterous
webspinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webspinners
Etymology: From web + spinner.
Senses: glosses: Any of the tropical or subtropical insects of the order Embioptera, which spin silk from structures on their front legs.
Synonyms: embiopteran
wireman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪə(ɹ)mən/
/ˈwaɪə(ɹ)mæn/
Forms: form: wiremen
Etymology: From wire + -man.
Senses: glosses: Someone who works with wire; primarily someone who connects electric wiring.
glosses: A person who sets up electronic surveillance.
tableman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tablemen
Etymology: From table + -man.
Senses: glosses: Any of the pieces used to play the game of tables, backgammon or draughts.
glosses: A person sitting at the same table.
paperman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papermen
Etymology: From paper + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who delivers newspapers.
qualifier: jazz slang
glosses: A musician who cannot improvise.
Related terms: paperboy
papergirl
paperwoman
mailman
postman