cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
infecundous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infecundous
form: most infecundous
Etymology: See infecund.
Senses: examples: text: That the Aristotelian Physiology cannot boast it-self the proper Author of any one Invention; is prægnant evidence of its infecundous deficiency: And 'twould puzzle the Schools to point at any considerable discovery, made by the direct, sole manuduction of Peripatetick Principles.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive
amaritude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amaritudes
Etymology: From Middle English amarytude, from Old French amaritude, from Latin amāritūdō, from Latin amārus (“bitter”).
Senses: examples: text: King Iohn, with much more bleeding amaritude of ſpirit, ſhall quickly ſee and feele.
ref: 1611, John Speed, The Historie of Great Britain Under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans:
glosses: Bitterness, sorrow.
amaritudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amaritude
antiorgastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiorgastic
form: most antiorgastic
Etymology: From anti- + orgastic.
Senses: glosses: allaying sexual excitement; sedative.
counterfleury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterflory.
sulphionide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphionides
Etymology: From sulphion + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of sulphion, or one so regarded.
sulphionides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphionide
asomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin asomatus, Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: the conception of the asomatous depressant malaria
ref: 1876, Alfred Alexander Woodhull, Studies, chiefly clinical […] :
glosses: Without a material body; incorporeal.
hyostylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyo- + Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “pillar”) + -ic
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated with the skull as in mammals.
Coordinate terms: autostylic
amphistylic
Related terms: bistylic
monimostyly
streptostyly
devoutless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more devoutless
form: most devoutless
Etymology: From devout + -less.
Senses: glosses: without devotion; undevoted.
Related terms: devoutlessly
devoutlessness
gazement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gaze + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Then forth he brought his snowy Florimele, / Whom Trompart had in keeping there beside, / Covered from peoples gazement with a vele […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: View, stare.
divorcive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more divorcive
form: most divorcive
Etymology: From divorce + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: this divorcive law
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having power to divorce; tending to divorce.
perspectograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perspectographs
Etymology: From Latin perspectus, past participle of perspicere (“to look through”) + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from a single point.
Related terms: perspectography
perspectographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perspectograph
enlaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enlay
enlay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enlays
form: enlaying
form: enlaid
form: enlaid
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of inlay.
enlaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enlay
enlays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enlay
mellific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mellific
form: most mellific
Etymology: From Latin mel, mellis (“honey”) + -ficare (“to make”) (in comp.). See -fy.
Senses: examples: text: mellific glands
synonyms: melliferous
glosses: Producing honey.
high priestess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high priestesses
Senses: glosses: A female clergyman with a higher function than a normal priestess.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
tarot
glosses: The second trump or major arcana card in most traditional tarot decks.
topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A third degree (sometimes forth degree) female witch in Wicca.
Related terms: high priest
bonified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bonify
bonified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of bona fide.
bonify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊnɪfaɪ/
rhymes: -əʊnɪfaɪ
Forms: form: bonifies
form: bonifying
form: bonified
form: bonified
form: bonafy
Etymology: From French bonifier.
Senses: examples: text: to bonify evils, or tincture them with good
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
text: The inventor has (of course) been decorated, and, I am informed, has received a handsome pension from Napoleon III, who, like his great uncle, loves and cherishes every invention tending to bonify and superiorise—let me be allowed the expression—his navy.
ref: 1854, A. R. Reeves, “Progress of the Inventive Art in France and in England”, in Ainsworth's Magazine, volume 25, page 205:
text: A flask suffices to perfume, bonify, and age, a hogshead (barrique) of wine.
ref: 1856, Charles John Huffam Dickens, “The Hall of Wines”, in Household Words:
text: In the previous condition of overcoming, it was notable that while the malefics could only maltreat by overcoming through a superior sign-based square, the benefics could bonify by overcoming through a superior square or trine.
ref: 2017, Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune, page 471:
text: It is not suggested that the criminological viewpoint is superior to others, but rather that a criminology voice and viewpoint can bonify the current state of theorizing , research , and policy development.
ref: 2018, Patrick Lussier, Eric Beauregard, Sexual Offending: A Criminological Perspective:
glosses: To convert into―or make―good; to improve.
examples: text: With the help of a surtax of 11 florins per 100 kilos., the refiners fix the home price at a level which enables them to bonify the manufacturers for all that is sold at home, and the exporters for all that is sent abroad.
ref: 1902, Benjamin Taylor, “Sugar and the Convention”, in The Fortnightly, volume 77, page 639:
text: Bills due on a Sunday or holiday become due on the preceding day; the seller has to bonify the bill stamp necessary in the country where the bill is payable.
ref: 1904, Henry Deutsch, Arbitrage in Bullion, Coins, Bills, Stocks, Shares and Options, page 74:
text: They would not come up beyond 1/2⅞, and we will bonify ⅛ in order to keep them on this yarn.
ref: 1916, Reports of Tax Cases - Volume 6, page 112:
glosses: To remit or reduce a price, typically in order to compensate for a tax for fee.
Derived terms: bonifiable
bonification
bonify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊnɪfaɪ/
rhymes: -əʊnɪfaɪ
Forms: form: bonifies
form: bonifying
form: bonified
form: bonified
form: bonafy
Etymology: From bone + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: The inhabitants of Albion at the harvest & the vintage Feel their brain cut round beneath the temples, shrieking, Bonifying into a skull, the marrow exuding in dismal pain.
ref: 1820, William Blake, Jerusalem:
text: The are beginning to ossify, or bonify, if we may make a word.
ref: 1896, Mary Wood-Allen, The Marvels of Our Bodily Dwelling, page 21:
text: As soon as the cartilage is formed from the fibrous tissue the osteoblasts, which carry in their protoplasm the calcium salts, deposit their contents along the blood stream and so bonify the tissue.
ref: 1913, P.A. Strerath, “Calcium in its Physiology and its Therapeutical Value”, in The Medical Fortnightly, volume 43, page 513:
text: In addition to spheres, more complex microstructures and properties bonify the control of the releasing profile such as with core-shell structures (Shum, Kim, & Weitz, 2008) and with stimuli-responsive microgels (Gu et al., 2018; Herranz-Blanco et al., 2014; Liu et al., 2011; Maher et al., 2017; Shah, Kim, Agresti, Weitz, & Chu, 2008).
ref: 2021, Xiujun (James) Li, Yu Zhou, Microfluidic Devices for Biomedical Applications, page 179:
glosses: To make bony; to ossify or to pare down to the bones.
bonifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bonify
burstwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burstworts
Etymology: From burst + wort.
Senses: examples: text: For some ordinary broths made of Eringos or Sea-Holme, and Burstwort, which twice or thrice I have swallowed downe at the request of some Ladies, who, more kindely then my disease is unkind, offred me the moity of theirs, have equally seemed unto me as easie to take as unprofitable in operation.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.13:
glosses: Rupturewort, Herniaria glabra.
burstworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burstwort
tenancy by the entirety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenancies by the entirety
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A type of concurrent estate available only to married couples, where ownership of property is treated as though the couple were a single legal person.
tenancies by the entirety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenancy by the entirety
concurrent estate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concurrent estates
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Any of various forms of ownership of property by more than one person at a time.
concurrent estates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concurrent estate
beauxite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauxites
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bauxite.
beauxites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beauxite
percaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percalines
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one colour.
Related terms: percale
percalines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percaline
univocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French univocation.
Senses: examples: 1749-1750, William Whiston, Memoirs
This Univocation of Tartar Cities with those of Israel, concurring with the former Reason from the Place and Country, whither they were sometime transplanted by the Assyrians, doth plainly shew that the Israelitish People have been there, and given the Names unto these Cities […]
glosses: Agreement of name and meaning.
auditress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auditresses
Etymology: From auditor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Yet went she not, as not with such discourse / Delighted or not capable her ear / Of what was night: such pleasure she reserved, / Adam relating, she sole auditress
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book CC”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 48-51:
text: I have forbidden Adèle to talk to me about her presents, and she is bursting with repletion; have the goodness to serve her as auditress and interlocutrice:
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XIV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 253:
glosses: A female hearer.
auditresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auditress
elaiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elaiometers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “oil”) + -meter.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of oleometer.
synonyms: word: oleometer
elaiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elaiometer
murth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murths
Etymology: From Middle English murth, morth, from Old English morþ (“death, destruction, homicide, murder; deadly sin”), from Proto-West Germanic *morþ, from Proto-Germanic *murþą (“death, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós (“dead”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moort (“murder”), West Frisian moard (“murder”), German Low German Moord (“murder”), German Mord (“murder”), Danish mord (“murder”), Swedish mord (“murder”), Icelandic morð (“murder”).
Senses: glosses: murder; slaughter.
Related terms: murther
murtherer
murtherous
murth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: plenty; abundance
perilymphatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: perilymphatic foramen
text: perilymphatic fistula
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or containing, perilymph.
examples: text: perilymphatic distribution
glosses: perilymphangial
thrummy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈθɹʌmi/
Forms: form: more thrummy
form: most thrummy
Etymology: From thrum + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In the middle stands a Columella thick set with thrummy apicula , which argue this Plant to belong to the Malvaceous kind
ref: 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World. […], London: […] James Knapton, […], →OCLC:
text: a. 1642, 1683 (published), John Chalkhill, Thealma and Clearchus
On her head a thrummy cap she had.
glosses: Like thrums; made of, furnished with, or characterized by, thrums.
trichopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichopters
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Trichoptera; a caddis fly.
trichopters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichopter
amission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin amissio. Compare French amission.
Senses: examples: text: Why Geomancers do imitate the Quintuple Figure, in their Mother Characters of Acquisition and Amission, &c. somewhat answering the Figures in the Lady or speckled Beetle?
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
text: the amission of God has taken up the name of sin.
ref: 1677, Theophilus Gale, The court of the gentiles:
glosses: deprivation; loss
Related terms: amiss
amissible
recriminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recriminators
Etymology: From recriminate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Someone who recriminates.
recriminators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recriminator
dinmont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinmonts
Senses: glosses: A castrated sheep between one and two years old.
Related terms: Dandie Dinmont
dinmonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinmont
weazen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwiːzən/
Forms: form: weazens
Etymology: See wizen.
Senses: examples: text: Marry, come up, say I — what a plague — does an old weazen think that tender lasses are to be bought like pullets o' a market day?
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
glosses: An old person.
Synonyms: geriatric
oldster
senior citizen
old person
weazen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwiːzən/
Forms: form: more weazen
form: most weazen
Etymology: See wizen.
Senses: examples: text: It was not merely that they were weazen and shrivelled—though they were certainly that too—but they looked absolutely ferocious with discontent.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Thin; sharp; withered; wizened.
discourser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discoursers
Etymology: From discourse + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In his conversation he was the most clear discourser.
ref: 1668, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, the life of Edward Earl of Clarendon:
glosses: One who discourses; a narrator or speaker.
examples: text: philologers and critical discoursers
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The writer of a treatise or dissertation.
discoursers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discourser
palmyra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pælˈmaɪɹə/
Forms: form: palmyras
Etymology: From Portuguese palmeira (“palm tree”), from palma (“palm, palm tree”) + -eria (“-tree: forming tree names”), from Old Galician-Portuguese -eira (“-plant: forming plant names from their fruit”), from Latin -āria (“-ary: forming feminine nouns including plant names”).
Senses: synonyms: word: brab
glosses: A palm (Borassus flabellifer) with straight black upright trunk and palmate leaves, whose wood, fruit, and roots can be used for many purposes.
palmyras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmyra
reinspirit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinspirits
form: reinspiriting
form: reinspirited
form: reinspirited
Etymology: From re- + inspirit.
Senses: synonyms: respirit
glosses: To give fresh spirit to (figurative or literally)
reinspirited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinspirit
reinspiriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinspirit
reinspirits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinspirit
sepaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sepalled
Etymology: From sepal + -ed.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having one or more sepals.
naruto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鳴門 (naruto).
Senses: glosses: A type of kamaboko.
Related terms: narutomaki
narutomaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鳴門巻き (narutomaki).
Senses: glosses: A type of kamaboko (蒲鉾), a cured fish surimi product made in Japan. Prepared in loaves or rolls, then sliced and added to dishes as a garnish.
Baklahorani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑːkləhɔːˈɹɑːni/
Etymology: From Greek Μπακλαχοράνι (Baklachoráni).
Senses: glosses: An annual carnival celebrated on Shrove Monday by the Greek Orthodox community in Istanbul.
inugami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inugami
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 犬神 (いぬがみ, inugami).
Senses: glosses: A guardian dog spirit; an attendant spirit or familiar spirit.
camikini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkam.iˈkiː.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: camikinis
Etymology: Blend of camisole + bikini.
Senses: glosses: A swimsuit consisting of a thin-strapped camisole top and a bikini bottom.
wand work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wandwork.
wand-work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wandwork.
bandini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bænˈdiː.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: bandinis
Etymology: Blend of bandeau + bikini.
Senses: examples: text: The new concept in two-piece swimwear, along with sister suits -- the camisole-strapped camikini and the bandeau-topped bandini, will be the dominant silhouettes for spring/summer '99.
ref: 1999 February 18, Polly Rayner, “The two-for-one suit”, in Morning Call:
text: Elisabeth Filarski's name may be a distant memory, but her legacy is extending far beyond the Australian Outback. Among the popular swimsuit styles you'll find across Middle Georgia this summer is the one the footwear designer of "Survivor" fame wore on that TV show: the bandeau bikini, or bandini, which features a tubelike top.
ref: 2001 May 27, “Suit Yourself”, in Macon Telegraphy:
text: Paula Hermanny for VIX continues the wave of beads and sequins on this "bandini," $140, with bandeau/tank top and "scoop" bottom in grape, […]
ref: 2006 May 7, “Well-suited”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
glosses: A swimsuit consisting of a generally strapless bandeau top and a bikini bottom.
Synonyms: bandikini
bandkini
camikinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camikini
bandinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandini
bandkini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bændˈkiː.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: bandkinis
Etymology: Blend of bandeau + bikini.
Senses: examples: text: "The bandkini is very popular," said Shawn Smith, owner of Tropic Trader on Hilton Head. "It has a band-style top with detachable straps and bikini bottoms."
ref: 2001 June 10, Erin Becker, “Summer fashions hit area beaches”, in The Island Packet:
glosses: A swimsuit consisting of a generally strapless bandeau top and a bikini bottom.
Synonyms: bandikini
bandini
bandikini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæn.dɪˈkiː.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: bandikinis
Etymology: Blend of bandeau + bikini.
Senses: examples: text: It now includes the camikini (camisole top) and bandikini (tube top).
ref: 1999 June 3, Anne Bratskeir, “Tanks a Lot”, in Newsday:
glosses: A swimsuit consisting of a generally strapless bandeau top and a bikini bottom.
Synonyms: bandini
bandkini
bandikinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandikini
bandkinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandkini
halterkini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːni
Forms: form: halterkinis
Etymology: Blend of halter + bikini.
Senses: glosses: A swimsuit consisting of a halter top and a bikini bottom.
Synonyms: halterini
halterkinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halterkini
halterini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːni
Forms: form: halterinis
Etymology: Blend of halter + bikini.
Senses: glosses: A swimsuit consisting of a halter top and a bikini bottom.
Synonyms: halterkini
halterinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halterini
physeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physeters
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the genus Physeter; a sperm whale.
glosses: A filtering machine operated by air pressure.
cuvier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuviers
Etymology: Borrowed from French cuvier (“vat”).
Senses: examples: text: The winery, she said, has a fermenting room – a cuvier – "that[…] is the most modern you can find today."
ref: 2014 July 19, Ian Mount, “A family feud, uncorked in Spain [print version: ‘A family feud uncorked in Spain: Clan's succession battle threatens their legacy and widely praised wine’, International New York Times, 21 July 2014, p. 16]”, in The New York Times:
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
glosses: Fermenting room of a winery
skirtini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɜːˈtiː.ni/
ipa: /skɝˈti.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: skirtinis
Etymology: Blend of skirt + bikini.
Senses: glosses: A two-piece swimsuit consisting of a bikini or other style top (halter, tank, etc.) and a short, skirted bottom.
skirtinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skirtini
spondyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spondyles
form: spondyl
Etymology: From Middle English spondile, spondyle, from Latin spondylus, from Ancient Greek σφόνδῠλος (sphóndŭlos, “vertebra”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A joint of the backbone; a vertebra.
shitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪtnəs/
rhymes: -ɪtnəs
Etymology: From shit + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shittiness.
synonyms: word: shittiness
protonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protonyms
Etymology: From proto- + -onym.
Senses: examples: text: The protonym of Macroscyphus appears to be Nees von Esenbeck's (1817) [genus] Peziza ...
ref: 1968, Mien A. Rifai, The Australasian Pezizales in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew:
text: Protonyms form the name for later revised opinions on a taxon concept as implicitly or explicitly circumscribed in a subsequent publication...
ref: 2005, Bertram Ludäscher, Louiqa Raschid, Data integration in the life sciences:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
zoology
glosses: The first legitimate name of a taxon, on which the currently accepted name is based.
qualifier: prescriptive
glosses: The first/original entity after which another entity is named without the entities being related. If the entities are related, then the original entity is the eponym of the subsequent entities.
Coordinate terms: topics: virology
microbiology
biology
natural-sciences
word: basonym
sense: botany and others
word: basionym
Related terms: eponym
camouflanguage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of camouflage + language.
Senses: examples: text: "Right, but where is it taking us? This is camouflanguage you're using, distorting the truth to fit your own ideal. What does it mean?"
ref: 2001, Grant Guimont, Carousel of Sorts: The Cynic's Secret Guide to Ultimate Happiness, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: Language that uses jargon, euphemism, vagueness, and other phrasal devices to obscure the actual or intended meaning of a statement; newspeak.
sabdariffa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The bark of the hibiscus cannabinus (hemp-leaved hibiscus), as well as that of the sabdariffa is made into cordage.
ref: 1850, Fanny Parkes Parlby, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque, page 316:
glosses: Hibiscus sabdariffa, the roselle, a Hibiscus species native to the Old World tropics.
blepharospastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blepharo- + spastic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to blepharospasm.
tablespace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tablespaces
Etymology: From table + space.
Senses: examples: text: The tablespace provides a layer of abstraction between physical and logical data.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A storage location where the actual data underlying the objects in a database can be kept.
tablespaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tablespace
hemionus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] the ass seldom has stripes on its legs and the hemionus has none and has not even a shoulder-stripe, […]
ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Laws of Variation”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 165:
glosses: Obsolete form of hemione.
UTF8
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of UTF-8.
UTF7
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of UTF-7.
UTF16
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of UTF-16.
Proto-Iranians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Proto-Iranian
quinoas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinoa
hippodroming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hippodrome
tonguey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongueys
form: tonguy
Etymology: From Middle English tungy, tungi, equivalent to tongue + -y. Compare Old English tynġe (“fluent, eloquent, skillful”).
Senses: examples: text: Give me a kiss. No, open your mouth, I want a tonguey.
ref: 1992, Louis Nowra, Così, Sydney: Currency Press, published 1994, act 2, scene 5, page 86:
text: He walked her to her house and received one last lingering Christmas tonguey under the mistletoe that hung above the door.
ref: 2004, Ben Elton, chapter 20, in Past Mortem, London: Bantam, page 200:
synonyms: French kiss
glosses: An act or an instance of kissing that involves the use of one's tongue.
tonguy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tonguier
form: more tonguy
form: tonguiest
form: most tonguy
Etymology: From Middle English tungy, equivalent to tongue + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tonguey.
tonguely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌŋli/
ipa: /-ɡli/
Etymology: From tongue + -ly (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense “appearing like or resembling [what is denoted by the noun]”).
Senses: examples: text: [A] meadow / in his own right, all inwardly afire, ten / thousand tonguely shadings painting him / angelic warden of the face of earth.
ref: 1973, The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought, volume XV, Pittsburgh, Kan.: Kansas State College of Pittsburg, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 374:
text: However simple this basic recipe for tonguely delight seems, many men mess it up in gender-specific ways.
ref: 1998, H. Lloyd Goodall, Food Talk: A Man’s Guide to Cooking and Conversation with Women, Greensboro, N.C.: Snowgoose Cove Pub., →ISBN, page 91:
text: A quick dash back to the bed. A tonguely examination of her dental work. A frantic clutching between her legs.
ref: 2003, Elizabeth George, “I, Richard”, in I, Richard, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 196:
text: "Lo-lee-ta." Our palatal journey, our physical introduction, our tonguely tour of her body in all its divisibility, takes us to her complete sundering: the phonemes have become, as indeed they ought to be as the true bearers of signification, whole in themselves.
ref: 2005, Matthew Pateman, “Lolita—A Region in Flames”, in Nicole Bracker, Stefan Herbrechter, editors, Metaphors of Economy (Critical Studies; 25), Amsterdam; New York, N.Y.: Editions Rodopi, →ISBN, page 119:
text: Language must be further defined through language, more tonguely flexing, more mobilized spittle, more swirls of ink.
ref: 2016, Esther Leslie, “Meltwater”, in Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form, London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 189:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.
examples: text: Women are proverbial for tonguely gifts, and orators do not require very great depth. Like the belle with her chit-chat, it is the tone and manner which do execution.
ref: 1847 May, Fanny Forester [pseudonym; Emily Chubbuck], “A Dream”, in George R[ex] Graham, editor, Graham’s American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volume XXX, number 5, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham & Co. […], →OCLC, page 316, column 1:
text: Only the silence of the spirit in which Thou is addressed can liberate Thou, as [Martin] Buber says, out of the "pre-tonguely," pre-speech-formed It-world.
ref: [1974, Werner Manheim, “The Dialogical Principle”, in Martin Buber (Twayne’s World Authors Series, Germany; TWAS 269), New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 31:
text: His English was and is excellent, just like his French and Spanish. "Few men share this man's tonguely talent for languages!" auctioned Qaddafi [i.e., Muammar Gaddafi] in a speech of praise to your father when he was delegated Libya's official photo prize recently.
ref: 2011, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles, Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger (A Borzoi Book), 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, part 2, footnote 9, page 79:
glosses: Pertaining or relating to languages; lingual, linguistic.
Related terms: tonguey
tonguy
tonguely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌŋli/
ipa: /-ɡli/
Etymology: From tongue + -ly (suffix forming adverbs from adjectives and nouns).
Senses: examples: text: How can such a head not tempt him tonguely? And so he tastes it; […]
ref: 2006, Shawn Postoff, “Sir Richard Wadd, Pornographer”, in Sky Gilbert, editor, Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays, Toronto, Ont.: Playwrights Canada Press, →ISBN, page 132:
text: "How's it going Harold?", gravelled masculinely from a few tables away. "Yeah, not bad mate", as my rested pen raises brows that in turn tonguely prime lips for conversing.
ref: 2011, Eddie Horton, Just Compass, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: In terms of or with the tongue; lingually.
tonguage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tongue + -age modelled after language; or a blend of tongue + language.
Senses: glosses: Any activity involving the tongue; tonguing.
examples: text: Whether the ideas underlying them are expressed and conveyed by eyeage or by tonguage is a detail that matters nothing.
ref: 1890, Samuel Butler, Essays on Life, Art, and Science:
text: I like the French now but can't get on with the Italian tonguage (good word).
ref: 1956, Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young, Letters of Edward Elgar and other writings:
text: In all the districts of Maharashtra except Aurangabad and Bhandara, the number of persons who returned Hindi as a subsidiary language outnumber those with Hindi as mother tonguage.
ref: 1961, India. Office of the Registrar General, Census of India, 1961: Maharashtra:
text: We have a language of social relations, even though we're not thoroughly aware of it— but it isn't all "language" in the sense of "tonguage."
ref: 1973, Howard Paul Becker, Man in reciprocity:
glosses: Language; spoken language, as opposed to other forms of language (body language, written language, etc.).
Wallisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wallisian
form: most Wallisian
Etymology: From Wallis + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Wallis Island.
glosses: Of or relating to the people or culture of Wallis Island.
glosses: Of or relating to the Wallisian language.
Wallisian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wallisians
Etymology: From Wallis + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Wallis Island
Wallisian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wallis + -ian.
Senses: glosses: The language of this place
Wallis Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in the Pacific Ocean within Wallis and Futuna.
Synonyms: Uvea
cand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kand.
habenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From habena + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a habena
habenulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habenula
habenular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From habenula + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a habenula.
Derived terms: perihabenular
septohabenular
ali'i
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ali'i
Etymology: From Hawaiian aliʻi, from Proto-Polynesian *qariki.
Senses: examples: text: The chiefs also conscripted the commoners into armies and for countless years, warfare periodically erupted among rival ali‘i, who fought over land, fishing rights, and perceived insults.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page xx:
glosses: A member of a noble Hawaiian family.
deduster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dedusters
Etymology: From dedust + -er.
Senses: glosses: A piece of cleaning equipment used to separate dust or other fine particles from another material.
Related terms: duster
worm lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worm lizard
Mukhabarat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʊˈkabəɹat/
Forms: form: Mukhabarats
Etymology: From Arabic مُخَابَرَات (muḵābarāt), plural of مُخَابَر (muḵābar, “intelligence”).
Senses: examples: text: He was sallow, morose-looking, and wearing dark glasses indoors: a thoroughly bad sign. A secret-police or Mukhabarat type, bored and resentful and hard to shake.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 283:
glosses: The secret police or intelligence forces in certain Arabic-speaking countries.
glosses: A member of such an organization.
urotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urotoxins
Etymology: From uro- + toxin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any toxic substance that can be found in urine
carborexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of carbon + anorexia.
Senses: glosses: A focus on cutting down one's energy consumption and reducing one's carbon footprint that is deemed irrational, excessive, or unhealthy.
Derived terms: carborexic
carborexic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carborexic
form: most carborexic
Etymology: From carborexia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, characteristic of, or having carborexia.
carborexic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carborexics
Etymology: From carborexia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A person with carborexia.
carborexics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carborexic
anthered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænθəd/
Etymology: From anther + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having (a specified type of) anthers
blephara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blepharon
calyxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From calyx + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a (specified type of) calyx
carcoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carcoons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of karkun.
carcoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carcoons
form: carcooning
form: carcooned
form: carcooned
Etymology: Blend of car + cocoon.
Senses: glosses: To treat a car as an extension of one's home and work environment, attempting to maximize comfort and productivity by using it to do things commonly done off the road, such as eating, making phone calls, and consuming entertainment.
carcooning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carcoon
carcooned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carcoon
cavallas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavalla
carcoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carcoon
carcoons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carcoon
neffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neffies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nevvy.
fertility rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fertility rates
Senses: examples: text: In America the fertility rate of recent immigrants tends to be higher than that of native population.
text: In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate.
glosses: The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she followed the current average pattern of fertility among a given group of women and survived through her reproductive years; used as an indicator of strength of population growth.
Coordinate terms: birthrate
natality
replacement rate
chalcid wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalcid wasps
Senses: glosses: chalcid
bix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I was just wondering what everyone else has in their respective Coffee/Tea […]
please specify what food stuffs that you have been known to dunk.
ref: 2000 January 5, "blackbat" <XXXbtinternet.com>, "Re: the spy who loved tea", message-ID <38760635.2776140@news.btinternet.com>, alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove, Usenet
roman: very catholic, me - strictly bix only
text: Make sure you have plenty of tea/coffee and choccy bix on hand when they show up!
ref: 2003 March 3, Chris Comley <Chris_@spamdeath.kill.die.wizards.co.uk>, "Re: Home Highway - ADSL", message-ID <1oq76vo4gduo15ukcgrdr7e0cecibp8bs2@4ax.com>, uk.telecom.broadband, Usenet
text: btw, the bix are Albert (NAITUK), Lincoln, Jammie Dodger, (Jaffa Cake - NAB), Thin Arrowroot, Malted Milk, Nice, Hobnob.
ref: 2005 September 10, Adrian Bailey <dadgehotmail.com>, "Re: [=SDC=] Q46. A cup of tea's too wet without one....", message-ID <kLwUe.16493$k22.12458@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, alt.usage.english, Usenet
glosses: Biscuits.
Derived terms: Oatibix
Weetabix
Weet-Bix
crystalliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From crystal + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Containing or producing crystals
misknow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misknows
form: misknowing
form: misknew
form: misknown
Etymology: From mis- + know.
Senses: examples: text: As to the time when he fell in it, he saith it was in time of peace, aftr he was delivered from the hands of Sennacherib, and when he was at ease in great wealth and abundance; and, as he himself confesseth, when he was beginning to misknow God, and to abuse the great benefit of his delivery, at that same time God beginneth to pull his ear, and he casteth him out of the hands of a fearful war into the hands of a terrible pest.
ref: 1841, The Wodrow Society, chapter 4, in The Sermons and Life of Mr Robert Bruce, page 261:
text: Whatever real excellence he might misknow, you had but to let it stand before him, soliciting new examination from him: none surer than he to recognize it at last, and to pay it all his dues, with the arrears and interest on them.
ref: 1884, Thomas Carlyle, The life of John Sterling. Latter-day pamphlets, page 122:
text: Steadfast friend, Who never didst my heart or life misknow, Nor either's faults too keenly apprehend,How can I wonder when I see thee go To join the Dead found faithful to the end?
ref: 1885, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poetical Works - Volume 2, page 298:
text: The previous year a Perth session considering that those who desire their banns called "are almost altogether ignorant and misknow the causes why they should marry,” ordered all to appear before the reader to be instructed in the true knowledge of the causes of matrimony.
ref: 1899 September, R. Vashon Rogers, “Scotch Marriages”, in Horace W. Fuller, editor, The Green Bag, volume 11, number 9, page 427:
glosses: to misunderstand
Related terms: misknowledge
misknowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misknowledges
Etymology: From mis- + knowledge. Compare misknow.
Senses: glosses: Misapprehension; imperfect or incorrect knowledge; misunderstanding.
Related terms: misknow
niddicock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niddicocks
Etymology: From niddy + cock, using cock as a diminutive suffix as if niddy + -ock.
Senses: glosses: A foolish person.
sociogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sociograms
Etymology: From socio- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A graphic representation of the structure of interpersonal relations in a group situation; a depiction of the social links that a person has.
Related terms: sociomatrix
sociomatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sociomatrices
Etymology: From socio- + matrix.
Senses: glosses: a tabular representation in matrix form of data collected using a sociometric method to measure interpersonal relationships
Synonyms: adjacency matrix
Related terms: sociogram
Sofana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Safana
Etymology: From Arabic سُفَانَة (sufāna). The name was famously borne by a daughter of the poet Hatim al-Tai.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
wikipedia: Hatim al-Tai
ground rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground rule
sociocritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From socio- + critical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to social criticism.
go-faster stripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-faster stripe
anchorhold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchorholds
Etymology: From anchor + hold.
Senses: examples: text: Every anchorhold was built close to a church, so as to allow its occupant the privilege of seeing the performance of mass, and of receiving the consecrated wafer, […]
ref: 1893, Emily Sarah Holt, “Chapter Five. Warned”, in One Snowy Night, Reprint edition (Historical Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009:
glosses: The residence of an anchorite or anchoress.
examples: text: The Port is very commodious, being one of the largeſt in all theſe Seas , and there is very good Anchorhold all over the Bay
ref: 1763, John Harris, Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca:
text: […] a great tempest arose, which caused many of our ships to drive from their anchorhold, […]
ref: 1910, Captain Walter Biggs, Drake's Great Armada, Reprint edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2006:
glosses: The hold or grip of an anchor, or something to which it holds.
glosses: Firm hold; security.
Related terms: anchoress
anchorite
anchoritess
Izmirian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Izmir + -ian.
Senses: glosses: of or from Izmir
Izmirian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Izmirians
Etymology: From Izmir + -ian.
Senses: glosses: a person from or living in Izmir
slumpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slumping
mischling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mischling.
Mischlinge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mischling
Mischlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mischling
arctoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arctoid
form: most arctoid
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to the carnivoran superfamily Arctoidea
glosses: ursine
dawted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dawt
stedfastness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English stedfastnes, stedfastnesse (“firmness of purpose; fortitude; loyalty, fidelity; strength, boldness, courage”), from Old English stedefæstnes (“constancy”); equivalent to stedfast + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It might be a question whether she was not Will's match in stedfastness, …
ref: 1904, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Chapter II. The Parson's Marjory”, in The Merry Men, Reprint edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2007:
glosses: Obsolete form of steadfastness.
stedfastly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stedfastly
form: most stedfastly
Senses: examples: text: “He told Washington "that the Indians kept stedfastly attached to our interest.”
ref: 1754 April 22, Edward Ward, quotee, David A.Clary, George Washington's First War, Simon & Schuster, published 2011, →ISBN, page 77:
text: … and having clearly perceived his duty, he has pursued it stedfastly in spite of opposition or adverse criticism.
ref: 1905, Booker T. Washington, “A Man About Whom the World Should Know”, in Independent:
glosses: Obsolete form of steadfastly.
Related terms: stedfastness
twist tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twist ties
form: twisty tie
Senses: glosses: A metal wire that is encased in a thin strip of paper or plastic and is used to tie the openings of bags, such as garbage bags or bread bags.