cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cephalaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛ.fəˈlɛɹ.i.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: cephalarias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Cephalaria, from Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + translingual -aria.
Senses: glosses: Any caprifoliaceous flowering plant of the genus Cephalaria, closely related to teasels (Dipsacus).
Related terms: Cephalaria
insulin plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insulin plants
Senses: glosses: Fiery costus (Chamaecostus cuspidatus)
crayonistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crayonista
tartrovinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tart(a)r + vinic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to tartrovinic acid (ethyltartaric acid), an ester formed from tartaric acid and ethanol.
Derived terms: tartrovinic acid
tartramic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tart(a)r + -amic, representing tartaric acid plus an amide group.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to tartramic acid (2-amino-3-hydroxy-3-oxopropanoic acid), the monoamide of tartaric acid.
Derived terms: tartramate
tartramic acid
pup cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pup cups
form: pupcup
Etymology: The specific phrasing was choosen for the rhyme.
Senses: glosses: A small bowl or cup filled with whipped cream or ice cream given to a dog as a treat. Usually given to dog owners as a gift by coffee shops or other businesses.
pup cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pup cup
unguenty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably an alteration of or variant of unguent + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This unguenty being put into a Pot, and cover’d, must stand in the Sun for a Month.
ref: 1721, William Gibson, A New Treatise of the Diseases of Horses, page 315
glosses: An ointment or salve; an unguent.
Homalco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Alina Pete, who is from Little Pine First Nation in Saskatchewan but lives in Surrey, B.C., is writing and illustrating this story for the graphic novel that is meant to pass down traditional knowledge from Homalco elders.
ref: 2024 February 5, Jackie McKay, “Graphic novel from Homalco First Nation aims to spark youth interest in traditional teachings”, in CBC News:
synonyms: Xwémalhkwu
χʷɛmaɬku
χʷɛmaɬkʷu
glosses: A Salishan indigenous people of the upper Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, centred on the Bute Inlet.
Homalco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Homalco is the northernmost dialect of the language known in the literature as Mainland Comox. The first speakers who made an impression on me with their style of enunciation were the Homalco speakers Noel George Harry, born in 1892, Bill Galligos, born in 1903, and Jimi Wilson, born in 1945, along with numerous casual speakers from 1969 up to 1980.
ref: 2015, John Hamilton Davis, “A Trio of Phonetic Details in Homalco”, in Natalie Weber, Erin Guntly, Zoe Lam, and Sihwei Chen, editors, Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 50, University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics:
glosses: Their language, a dialect of mainland Comox.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Comox terms
ʔayʔaǰuθəm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(ʔ)aɪ(ʔ)əˌd͡ʒuθəm/
Forms: form: Ayajuthem
form: ayʔaǰuθɛm
form: Éy7á7juuthem
form: ʔayʔajuθəm
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Comox ʔayʔaǰuθəm.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the individual sounds in ʔayʔaǰuθəm just don’t exist in English – thus, the need for other letters.
ref: 2022 August 24, Pieta Wolley, “Cozy up to ʔayʔaǰuθəm: it’s here to stay”, in qathet Living:
text: Tla’amin language coordinator Randy Timothy recently discussed ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Tla’amin) language and ongoing initiatives to keep the language alive within the Tla’amin Nation community. The general public was invited to the presentation at Powell River Public Library last month.
ref: 2023 July 17, Tanya Hill, “Tla’amin language revitalization imperative to community”, in Powell River Peak:
glosses: Synonym of Comox, Comox-Sliammon.
synonyms: word: Comox
word: Comox-Sliammon
boneyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boney + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His Stature is rather tall than ſhort; his Shape is the moſt exact that can be, nothing was ever more juſtly proportion’d; and though he cannot be call’d fat, he is plump enough not to have any Thing of that Boneyneſs which renders the Lean ſo diſagreeable; […]
ref: 1728, Eliza Haywood, “The History of Signiora Miramene de los Verronvile and the Baron Glencairn”, in The Agreeable Caledonian: or, Memoirs of Signiora di Morella, […], London: […] Richard King, […] And Sold by W. Meadows, […], →OCLC, page 36:
text: The two sisters worked all day and danced all night. Their slenderness was a topic of conversation. Soon Milly was engaged to a son of the wealthiest man in the city and Mag had almost captured a foreign prince who was visiting in the city. But despite her wiles, he had never quite stuck his foot in the trap. He had never become reconciled to the “boneyness” of American women, as he termed it.
ref: 1934 April 8, John W. Kendrick, “Non Omnis Moriar”, in Don Shoemaker, editor, The Carolina Magazine, volume LXIII, number 12, supplement to The Daily Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Publications Union Board of the University of North Carolina, →OCLC, page 8, column 4:
text: She has the nose and cheekbones of a Cherokee and is so black and statuesque in her muscularity and boneyness that she seems carved by an ax from an effulgent vein of coal.
ref: 1974, Mark Smith, “Nymphomania”, in The Death of the Detective, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, book 1 (Prelude to Murder), page 78:
text: Peggy felt the soft bristles and the boneyness of his chin and then the very wet lips on her cheek, because she had turned her head.
ref: 2001, Ruth Ann Lief, “A Touch of the Mother”, in Something to Remember It By and Other Short Stories, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: Rare spelling of boniness.
man purse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man purses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of man-bag
synonyms: word: man-bag
man purses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man purse
boo daddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boo daddies
form: boo-daddy
Senses: examples: text: Dat swamp des’ splodin’ full o’ ghos’ an’ spook, boo-daddy an’ debblement!
ref: 1906, John Bennett, The Treasure of Peyre Gaillard, →ISBN, page 287:
text: HAMILTON’S HILL, 0.4 m., a little elevation, was the starting point for the races, and is known for a wide variety of ghosts including such fearsome creatures as a 10-foot cat that explodes before the beholder’s eyes, plat-eyes in the guise of three-legged hogs and two-headed cows, boo-daddies, boo-hags, and drolls.
ref: 1938, The Ocean Highway: New Brunswick, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida, page 204:
text: Boo-daddies are the spirits of doctor-niggers and conjure-men released from the body of the living at night for dread purposes. […] Boo-daddies are supposed to be the disembodied spirit of conjure-man or doctor-nigger. Unlike the boo-hag, these creatures are harmless.
ref: 1941, South Carolina Folk Tales: Stories of Animals and Supernatural Beings, page 48:
text: When Josie and I were children at midcentury, I would terrorize her with tales of the Boo Daddy, a variation on the boogeyman I’d lifted from Gullah folklore. The Boo Daddy, it was said, would creep into your house late at night if your shutters weren’t painted a certain prophylactic shade of blue.
ref: 2000, Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener, →ISBN, page 322:
coordinate_terms: boo hag
qualifier: Gullah folklore
glosses: A malevolent supernatural being; a bogeyman.
ʔayʔajuθəm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ʔayʔaǰuθəm
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Comox ʔayʔajuθəm.
Senses: examples: text: ʔayʔajuθəm, pronounced eye-uh-joo-thum, is the traditional language of the northern-most Coast Salish peoples, including the Tla'amin Nation, the Homalco First Nation and the Klahoose First Nation.
ref: 2025 September 30, Courtney Dickson, “From Herring to Huckleberries: A storybook journey to reclaim the Tla'amin language”, in CBC News:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ʔayʔaǰuθəm.
boo daddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boo daddy
boo-daddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boo-daddies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boo daddy.
boo-daddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boo-daddy
Chevie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Chevrolet + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chevy
Chevie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chevies
Etymology: Clipping of Chevrolet + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chevy
sh-t
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of shit.
sh-t
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sh-ts
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of shit.
sh-t
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sh-ts
form: sh-tting
form: sh-t
form: sh-t
form: sh-tted
form: sh-tted
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of shit.
cuzzin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuzzins
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cousin.
motherlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more motherlily
form: most motherlily
Etymology: From motherly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Why do I feel the need to add a second "-ly" to adjectives already ending in "-ly" when abverbializing them? […] "Don't worry about it," she reassured him motherlily.
ref: 2005 October 29, PR, “Lily Mad”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Oct 2025:
text: For a long minute they embraced, as though mother and child, each needing the other. Moneeq, now down on one knee, looked Nick motherlily in the eye.
ref: 2006 April 27, Dennis Glawe, chapter 43, in Gifts from Decorah Laurah, Bloomington, Ind.; Central Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, part 17 (Seeking Treasure), page 570:
text: When you see Joyous beam, you beam. Bart beams warmly. […] The shape of his gonads must set the ambit of his emotions? No. Fathers worry about the little bugger’s sport’s prowess. What Bart feels like is mother. He notices that the more orthodoxly mother-type person next to him is not beaming motherlily. She is not beaming at all. Her mouth is set like the wardress of Belsen wishing to boil Joyous’s chubby cheeks into candle wax.
ref: 2008, Denis Beckett, “Explaining prawns”, in Magenta, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press; Johannesburg: Saga Press, →ISBN, pages 82–83:
text: Ghostlily, motherlily, manlily, beastlily are all dictionary-approved but prohibitively awkward, as is, in another way, lily-liveredly, Likylikely, though . . . […] In American English, at least, there seems to be no way to say something along these lines: “For the nine months I carried you, growing inside me, no charge,” Tammy Wynette sang motherlily.
ref: 2011, Roy Blount Jr., “-ly”, in Alphabetter Juice: or, The Joy of Text, New York, N.Y.: Sara Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 145:
text: The adjectival suffix -ly, which attaches to person nouns, does not generally allow a subsequent -ly: *gentlemanlily, *motherlily, *neighbourlily, *womanlily.
ref: [2013, Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber, Ingo Plag, “The suffix -ly”, in The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (Oxford Linguistics), Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 2015, →ISBN, part III (Derivation), chapter 15 (Derived adverbs), section 3 (Suffixation), page 325:
text: “It’s going to be fine,” Mother said in her soothing motherly voice. “Is it?” I whispered. “Yes squishy Josh, it will,” she motherlily soothed me.
ref: 2021, Josh Carrott, “Qingdao”, in Once upon a Time in Carrotland: My YouTube Autobiography Which I Definitely Wrote All Of, [Portsmouth, Hampshire]: Compass-Publishing UK, →ISBN:
synonyms: motherly#Adverb
maternally
glosses: In a motherly manner.
byte pair encoding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byte pair encodings
form: byte-pair encoding
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A lossless data compression algorithm that iteratively replaces the most frequent pair of adjacent bytes in a sequence with a new byte not already present in the data.
qualifier: natural language processing
glosses: A subword tokenization method that iteratively merges the most frequent pairs of adjacent characters in a corpus to form longer and more meaningful tokens, typically until a predefined vocabulary size is reached.
byte pair encodings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of byte pair encoding
byte-pair encoding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byte-pair encodings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of byte pair encoding
byte-pair encodings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of byte-pair encoding
neighbourlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more neighbourlily
form: most neighbourlily
Etymology: From neighbourly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: David stepped up the tempo of the talk as surely, as neighbourlily, as ever.
ref: 1961, Ernest Buckler, “Part Six: The Train”, in Malcolm Ross, editor, The Mountain and the Valley (New Canadian Library; 23), Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, published October 1966, →OCLC, page 228:
text: Owain gave Gort what directions he could, then asked neighbourlily where they had come from.
ref: 1984, lawson davies, chapter 5, in The Garden of Earthly Delights, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 48:
text: The Pembrokes’ cousin, the poet George Herbert, who in the early 1630s was the vicar of Bemerton, in the valley of the Nadder between Wilton and Salisbury, gave many overlapping reasons for beating the bounds in May: […] it was an act of charity and neighbourliness, ‘in living, walking and neighbourlily accompanying one another, with reconciling of differences at that time, if they be any’.
ref: 2008, Adam Nicolson, “And is not euery manor a little common wealth? The inherited community of the Middle Ages”, in Earls of Paradise, London: HarperPress, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: British standard spelling of neighborlily.
Chinese hedgehog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese hedgehogs
Senses: glosses: A species of hedgehog, Erinaceus amurensis, native to eastern China, Russia, Manchuria, and the Korean Peninsula.
examples: text: In the first place let us describe the “Chinese hedge-hog”. This is a wreath of fine soft feathers, with their quills solidly fastened by silver wire to a ring of the same metal, made in various sizes, and sufficiently large to slip over the gland, when the penis is not in erection, and small enough to be stopped by the ring of the gland when the penis is erect. This machine sensibly increases the size of the penis, aud [sic] it will be easily understood that the friction of the feathers against the mucous surface of the vagina produces sensations of a peculiar effect.
ref: 1898, ‘Jacobus X’, Untrodden Fields of Anthropology, volume I, Paris: Charles Carrington, page 97:
text: Somewhat similar is the “Chinese hedge-hog,” a wreath of fine soft feathers with the quills solidly fastened by silver wire to a ring of the same metal, which is slipped over the glans.
ref: 1904, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, page 84:
text: Various lewd contrivances, among them the Chinese ‘hedge-hog,’ ovoid objects, and similar apparatus have all been perversely used as amatory stimulants.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 215:
glosses: A type of sexual apparatus consisting of a ring and feathers, attached to the penis before sexual intercourse.
Chinese hedgehogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese hedgehog
carract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carracts
Senses: examples: text: Faith, he to night hath boarded a Land Carract, / If it proue lawfull prize, he's made for euer.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 312:
glosses: Obsolete form of carrack.
carracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carract
Aagya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Agya
Etymology: From Sanskrit आज्ञा (ājñā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Agya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aagya
Etymology: From Sanskrit आज्ञा (ājñā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
lily-liveredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lily-liveredly
form: most lily-liveredly
Etymology: From lily-livered + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It’s either you fight or you die. / Young Gents, you’ve got no option. / No good asking the reason why, / It’s either you fight or you die, / Die, die, lily-liveredly die, / Or fight and make the splinters fly, / Bust up the holy apple pie. / You’ve got no option.
ref: 1928 December 28, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “[…] It’s Either You Fight or You Die”, in Aldous Huxley, editor, The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, published 1932, →OCLC, part 4 (December 1923–February 1930), page 780:
text: If more rootin’ countries acted decisively like tootin’ Zanoria and not lily-liveredly like rootin’-tootin’ France the better place the whole rootin’-tootin’ planet’d be.
ref: 2010, Gregory Dark, chapter 11, in Charming! or, If the Glass Slipper Fits…, Ropley, Hampshire: O Books, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Afraid my emotions would betray me, I repressed my instincts and lily-liveredly accepted the accusations of authority that she wouldn’t, rather than her protestations that she couldn’t.
ref: 2011, Nuala Jackson, “Thursday 6th February”, in Whoopee!! I’m Going to Die!, Drogheda, County Louth: Choice Publishing & Book Services, →ISBN, page 18:
text: Taking a deep breath, Rafael made himself face up to the facts he’d stupidly and lily-liveredly shied away from in an absurd effort to distance himself from Nicky and the way she made him feel, his pulse racing and his breathing shallowing.
ref: 2013, Lucy King, chapter 14, in One More Sleepless Night (Harlequin KISS; 13), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin, →ISBN; republished in Just Once More… (By Request), London: Mills & Boon, 2016, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: In a lily-livered manner.
Hryhir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Гри́гір (Hrýhir)
needs analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needs analyses
Senses: topics: education
synonyms: NA
glosses: A procedure to assess a learner's needs, in order to plan a course for them.
needs analyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needs analysis
womanlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more womanlily
form: most womanlily
Etymology: From womanly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And if thy wiues ſoule were freed from the frailty of her ſexe, it were as manly, as noble, as vnderſtanding, and euery way as excellent as thine owne: Nay, and if it were poſſible for you to change bodies; hers would worke as manlily in thine, and thine as womanlily in hers. Let the husband then bee ſo farre from inſulting ouer, contemning, or vndervaluing his wiues worth, for the weakeneſſe of her ſexe; […]
ref: 1624, Robert Bolton, Some Generall Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God: […], London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Edmund Weauer, […], →OCLC, pages 245–246:
text: Among the thousands of immigrants crowding our shores the Mormons hold their own manfully or womanlily, rather. These poor creatures come from the most ignorant and degraded society of Europe, and have no concept of the life they are to be inducted into when they reach Utah.
ref: 1882 July 15, Sterling Gazette, volume XXVIII, number 28, Sterling, Ill., →OCLC, page [4], column 1:
text: They would not write so naturally and charmingly (why cannot we say womanlily?) as most of them do, if they kept sklenting at the male persuasion over their pens. A true woman unbosoms herself more readily and frankly to her sister than to her brother, and the charm of women’s writing lies simply in its womanliness.
ref: [1884 August 23, “In the Hebrides. By C[onstance] F[rederica] Evelyn Cumming. […]”, in The Otago Daily Times, number 7027, Dunedin, →ISSN, →OCLC, supplement, page 1, column 2:
text: Not unconsciously you blush, but dramatically, obviously, with some effort, womanlily, / Solely intent to show thusly the wilful fever of your virginal mysterious blood.
ref: 1902 January 11, Frank Morton, “The Blush”, in The Clipper, volume 8, number 458, Hobart, Tas., →OCLC, page 8, column 2:
synonyms: womanly#Adverb
coordinate_terms: manlily
glosses: In a womanly manner.
Marjie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A pet form of the female given name Marjorie.
irrefusably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irrefusably
form: most irrefusably
Etymology: From irrefusable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It approaches irrefusably, hesitantly, terrible as fate, the great task and question: how shall the earth as a whole be managed? (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1885)
ref: 2006 December, Michael Lang, “Globalization and Its History”, in The Journal of Modern History, vol. 78, no. 4, page 924:
glosses: In an irrefusable manner; beyond the possibility of refusal.
dicksuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dicksucks
form: dicksucking
form: dicksucked
form: dicksucked
Senses: glosses: To perform fellatio.
perpendicular magnetic recording
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of perpendicular recording
synonyms: word: perpendicular recording
dicksucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dicksuck
dicksucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dicksuck
species group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: species groups
Senses: glosses: Synonym of species complex
synonyms: word: species complex
species aggregate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: species aggregates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of species complex
synonyms: word: species complex
hull operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hull operators
Senses: glosses: Synonym of closure operator
synonyms: word: closure operator
species flock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: species flocks
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of many closely related, ecologically diverse species that originated from a single ancestor and evolved rapidly in an isolated location.
cryptic species
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of two or more distinct species that are morphologically indistinguishable but are genetically and reproductively isolated from one another.
sibling species
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of two or more species that are almost identical in physical appearance but are genetically distinct and reproductively isolated, and thus cannot successfully interbreed.
Shanks's pony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shanks' pony
shanks's pony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shanks' pony
shank's pony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shanks' pony
shanks pony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shanks' pony
shanks mare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shanks' mare
shanks's mare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shanks' mare
narrative arc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrative arcs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of story arc
synonyms: word: story arc
mackaluck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mukluk.
muck-a-luck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mukluk.
muck-luck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mukluk.
Eskimo boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eskimo boots
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mukluk
synonyms: word: mukluk
mukluk boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mukluk boots
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mukluk
synonyms: word: mukluk
snow shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow shoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snowshoe
electron crystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electron crystals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Wigner crystal
synonyms: word: Wigner crystal
bhau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bhai
sh-ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sh-t
Batahari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Baṭḥari
mukluk wireless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: News of the roundup had spread with incredible speed from mouth to ear - the Mukluk Wireless, they called it – from one fish camp and village to the next all along the shores of Kotzebue Sound.
ref: 1966, Frank Dufresne, My Way was North, An Alaskan Autobiography, page 44:
glosses: Synonym of mukluk telegraph
synonyms: word: mukluk telegraph
mukluked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: muklukked
Etymology: From mukluk + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: At every new arrival a cheer burst from the watching crowd, a cheer that was both for the dogs, and for their tense-faced driver standing behind the handlebars, furred, mukluked, with his starting number on a white square sewed to the back and to the front of his parka.
ref: 1929, Barrett Willoughby, The Trail Eater, A Romance of the All-Alaska Sweepstakes, page 270:
text: muklukked idiots rigged out in Komfortable Kostumes for the Klondyke by Larue & Picard, they straggled down or rather up the Skagway Trail. None of these people had ever been as gifted at planning as they were at dreaming;
ref: 1993, Nancy Huston, Plainsong, page 14:
glosses: Wearing mukluks.
electron crystals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electron crystal
Ashfield cum Thorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk, Suffolk, England, the village was previously named Ashfield (OS grid ref TM2162).
narrative arcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narrative arc
muklukked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mukluked
nuclear football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear footballs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of football (“the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President”)
synonyms: word: football
extra: the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President
atomic football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomic footballs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of football (“the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President”)
synonyms: word: football
extra: the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President
antecession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antecedence
synonyms: word: antecedence
visceration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viscerations
Senses: glosses: A portion of raw flesh, especially one distributed at the death of a wealthy man.
adoption name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adoption names
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The legal name, or names that a child receives following the legal process of adoption, which typically includes their adoptive parents' surname.
adoption names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adoption name
convenery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conveneries
Senses: glosses: A group of people assembled together, such as a convention, assembly, or congress.
atomic footballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atomic football
nuclear footballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclear football
snow shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow shoe
mukluk boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mukluk boot
Eskimo boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eskimo boot
conveneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convenery
viscerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visceration
constructioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constructioners
Etymology: From construction + -er.
Senses: examples: text: We have had the interest of the veterans’ groups, we have had the interest of the builders and constructioners.
ref: 1959, Alan Bible, “Statement of Hon. Alan Bible, […]”, in Independent Offices Appropriations, 1960: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Commitee on Appropriations […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 692:
text: The City Improvement Trust Board, Mysore have regularised the unauthorised construction and facilities like water supply and underground drainages are being provided by collecting the necessary development charges from the unauthorised constructioners.
ref: 1979 May 30, H[irisave] C[howdegowda] Srikantaiah, quotee, “Lack of facilities for New Extension areas in Mysore City”, in Karnataka Legislative Assembly Debates, →OCLC, page 591:
text: Tents, by A. Levin-Talmi (Sifriat HaPoalim, 1949), relates the experiences of a group of pioneers working as road constructioners in the early twenties; […]
ref: 1994, Shula Keshet, “Freedom of Expression in an Ideological Society: The Case of the Early Kibbutz Novel”, in Kibbutz Trends, Tel Aviv, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44, columns 1–2:
text: The large brass plaque was the only part of the lighthouse that had escaped the corrosive sea for far too many years. And although it bore a tinted greenish coating, it was not enough to mar the inscription: CHANCE BROTHERS & COMPANY, Ltd. LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS And CONSTRUCTIONERS NEW BIRMINGHAM 1899
ref: 2014, Glenn M. Cosh, “Flashback”, in The Green Flash, Zest Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Synonym of construction worker.
synonyms: word: construction worker
constructioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constructioner
Cwm Cadnant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in eastern Anglesey, Wales.
Iamus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Iamus, from Ancient Greek Ἴαμος (Íamos).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A son of Apollo and Evadne, who was said to have the gift of prophecy and to be the forefather of the Iamids.
Related terms: Iamid
Bassendean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb and local government area (the Town of Bassendean) in the City of Perth, Western Australia, the name coming from a property named after the former village in the Scottish Borders.
glosses: A hamlet, formerly a village in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT6245).
Éy7á7juuthem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transcription of Comox ʔayʔaǰuθəm.
Senses: examples: text: A large cardboard-backed calendar sits in the Homalco band office in Campbell River, B.C. It looks like a medicine wheel, or pie chart, dissected into several sections with words in Éy7á7juuthem and English handwritten in each space.
ref: 2019 December 6, Chantelle Bellrichard, “'Our language comes from this land': How culture and territory connect for Homalco First Nation”, in CBC News:
text: The revitalization of pentl'ach was helped by its historical connections to Éy7á7juuthem and similarities to Hul'q'umi'num' both neighbouring languages that are already on the province's list of First Nations languages.
 Éy7á7juuthem (pronounced EYE-a-jooth-um) is spoken by the K'omoks, Homalco, Klahoose and Tla'amin First Nations to the north of Qualicum, while the K'omoks also have connections to pentl'ach.
ref: 2023 December 2, Kathryn Marlow, “It was deemed extinct. But now pentl'ach has been declared a living language thanks to Qualicum researchers”, in CBC News:
text: I recently learned that the verb for learning in Éy7á7juuthem is the same for education: tɩwšəm.
ref: 2024 January 21, Graham Cocksedge, “An educator's perspective on addressing climate change”, in Powell River Peak:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ʔayʔaǰuθəm.
bank-book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bank-books
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bankbook
bank-books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bank-book
Ayajuthem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Comox ʔayʔaǰuθəm.
Senses: examples: text: The Raven, FM 100.7 brings Ayajuthem language to communities’ ears three times a day. Starting January 11, the ‘Word of the Day’ single word clips will be expanded. Listeners will next learn longer “Phrase of the Day” clips.
ref: 2021 January 11, Odette Auger, “The Ayajuthem language radiates across territory”, in Toronto Star:
text: The Ayajuthem language revitalization process has been ongoing for a few years now. Some of the newer developments are the new North Island College Ayajuthem Language course, being offered this October free of charge.
ref: 2023 September 13, Marc Kitteringham, “Homalco First Nation undergoing language revitalization project”, in Campbell River Mirror:
text: The English narration is so the tale can be understood by everyone, while the words in Ayajuthem are an homage to the few who know where it comes from.
ref: 2024 April 24, Temur Durrani, “Royal Winnipeg Ballet to premiere T’əl, a historic Indigenous-language production”, in The Globe and Mail:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ʔayʔaǰuθəm.
clocksource
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clocksources
Etymology: Compound of clock + source.
Senses: examples: text: Note, if that clocksource clock also is a low resolution timer like the Jiffies timer, the initialization function of the CPU Jitter Random Number Generator is expected to catch this issue. […] The clocksources tested are: gp_timer. When enabling the dg_timer clocksource, the system reboots after 10 seconds and can therefore not be used.
ref: 2022 July 1, Stephan Müller, “CPU Time Jitter Based Non-Physical True Random Number Generator”, in chronox.de, archived from the original on 27 May 2025, pages 21, 148:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A source of time used by an application, such as a hardware clock.
clocksources
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clocksource
East Penn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Related terms: english: township
translation: township
word: West Penn
woohay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʊˈheɪ/
ipa: /wuːˈheɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: woo-hay
form: wuhay
form: woohey
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, perhaps a blend of woohoo + hey.
Senses: examples: text: Woohay, I feel less like a stranger now…
ref: 2001, Gatsby, “Inaptonyms”, in Wordsmith.org:
text: Well, I think vegetable oil is a BATTER option to fossil fuels. Woohay!
ref: 2004 May 25, Cubesville, “Alternative fuel -- veggie style!”, in The Modern Antiquarian:
text: I'd say 'Woohay, remember the day?' If I had one last wish, I'd ask you to kiss these lips goodbye.
ref: 2010, Left Boy, “Best Friend”, in Genius:
text: This is a kooky deep existentialism with Ka-pow Kapazz! Woohay!
ref: 2014 April 4, Ruth Chang (int. Richard Marshall), “the existentialist of hard choices”, in 3:AM Magazine:
text: …The couple beside her hauled their considerable asses off their stools. “Woohey, drunk,” said the woman.
ref: 2018 June 12, Becky Hagenston, “Storage and Retrieval”, in Oxford American:
glosses: Used to express excitement or joy.
Synonyms: whee
whoopee
woohoo
yay
yippee-ki-yay
instruction set architecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instruction set architectures
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An abstraction between processor hardware and software that can run on it.
Derived terms: ISA
mute list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mute lists
form: mutelist
Senses: qualifier: social media
glosses: A collection of users, posts, or tags that one may mute from one's view.
Related terms: block list
mutelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutelists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mute list.
mutelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutelist
mute lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mute list
block list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block lists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blocklist.
Related terms: mute list
block lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block list
John Mastodon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: For sense 1, referring to his creation of the website Mastodon.
For sense 2, popularised in 2022 by Twitter users who condemned Elon Musk's purchase of the website.
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Eugen Rochko (born 1993), German software developer.
glosses: "join Mastodon", a call for Twitter users to migrate to the website Mastodon.
Docwra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
NOPAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hammond Power Solutions Inc., known for manufacturing dry-type transformers and related magnetics for emerging technologies such as fast chargers for electric vehicles and renewable energy, operates with minimal debt, as indicated by its long-term debt to NOPAT ratio of 0.1. Currently, it is the priciest company on our list, based on a price-to-NOPAT ratio of 23.4., but the least based on its price-to-intrinsic value of 0.5. The company has experienced impressive price momentum, having surged 87.2 per cent over the past year.
ref: 2024 September 9, Anthony Ménard, “Nine low-leverage companies with exceptional value creation”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2024:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of net operating profit after tax(es).
physical memory protection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It can be useful for implementations to provide physical memory protection so that operating systems can keep data safe.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In the RISC-V instruction set architecture, a mechanism that allows for controlling the privileges of different regions of physical memory.
puzzle box show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puzzle box shows
Senses: examples: text: “Severance” is a so-called puzzle box show, with complex story lines that keep viewers guessing to unravel a mystery at the center of the series. Series like “Lost,” “Westworld” and “Mr. Robot” also fill the bill.
ref: 2025 September 11, John Koblin, “Emmys Top Drama Face-Off Tells You Everything You Need to Know About TV”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
synonyms: mystery box show
glosses: A genre of high concept fiction with complex stories and subplots that eventually reveal an underlying mythos.
mystery box show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mystery box shows
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Synonym of puzzle box show
synonyms: word: puzzle box show
puzzle box shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puzzle box show
mystery box shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mystery box show
electric grid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric grids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of power grid.
synonyms: word: power grid
electric grids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric grid
hyperdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.pəˌdɒm/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.pəɹˌdɑm/
rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)dɒm
homophone: hyperdomme
Forms: form: hyperdoms
Etymology: From hyper- + dom.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
antonyms: hypersub
coordinate_terms: hyperdomme
hypernyms: dom
glosses: One who is excessively dominant.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
antonyms: hypersub
hypernyms: dom
glosses: Excessive domination.
hyperdom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.pəˌdɒm/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.pəɹˌdɑm/
rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)dɒm
homophone: hyperdomme
Forms: form: hyperdoms
form: hyperdomming
form: hyperdommed
form: hyperdommed
Etymology: From hyper- + dom.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
antonyms: hypersub
hypernyms: dom
glosses: To excessively dominate.
hyperdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperdom
hyperdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyperdom
early life check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: early life checks
form: early-life check
form: Early Life check
form: "early life" check
form: "Early Life" check
Etymology: From Wikipedia’s “Early Life” sections, which include information about a person’s family background.
Senses: glosses: an investigation into a person’s, often a politician’s or journalist’s, ethnic or religious background, especially to find out if they are Jewish
summercater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summercaters
Senses: examples: text: We tell the summercater bird-watchers to be sure to watch for the fillieloo.
ref: 2005, Harlow, Joan Hiatt, Shadows on the Sea, Aladdin Paperbacks, page 109
text: Few lobstermen admire to have a rider, a visitor, and while almost every summercater would love to "go to haul" to see what it's like, invitations to do so are seldom.
ref: 1985, Gould, John, Stitch in Time, W.W. Norton, page 76
text: On the other end, the foraging summercater is attracted by the sign.
ref: 1971, Sikeston Daily Standard, page 12
glosses: A temporary resident of Maine who lives on the coast during the summer.
pseudosciurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudosciurids
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any member of the Pseudosciuridae family of extinct rodents.
gelocids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelocid
gelocid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gelocids
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any member of the Gelocidae family of extinct mammals
October 8th Jews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of October 8th Jew
October 7
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: 7/10
form: 7-10
Etymology: From the date, by metonymy.
Senses: examples: text: Our friends are not those in organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace, which helped organize a much-photographed protest at New York’s Grand Central Terminal, and which could hardly bring itself to say a word of condemnation for Oct. 7 before launching into lengthy justifications.
ref: 2023 November 7, Bret Stephens, “For America’s Jews, Every Day Must Be Oct. 8”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2023:
text: “I had been observing this shift and monitoring it for about 10 years so I understood immediately after October 7 what I had witnessed and that things would only get worse,” she said.
ref: 2025 October 7, Lianne Kolirin, “October 7 prompted some Jews to leave Israel. For others, the country offers shelter from rising global antisemitism”, in CNN:
glosses: The attacks against Israel by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
m9
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: m9s
Senses: examples: text: u wot m9
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of m8.
m9s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of m9
chileates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chileate
chileate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chileates
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any member of the Chileata class of extinct brachiopods.
buy one, take one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buy one take one
form: buy one, take one free
Senses: glosses: Synonym of buy one, get one.
synonyms: word: buy one
word: get one
eodiscoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eodiscoids
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any member of the Eodiscoidea superfamily of extinct trilobites
χʷɛmaɬku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Comox χʷɛmaɬku.
Senses: examples: text: k'ʷunəmɛn Joe Gallagher is Coast Salish from the ɬaʔəmen (Tla’amin) Nation. His mom Ann was from the χʷɛmaɬku (Homalco) Nation, and his father Norman was also from the ɬaʔəmen (Tla’amin) Nation. Both ɬaʔəmen (Tla’amin) and χʷɛmaɬku (Homalco) are part of the Ey7á7juuthem(EYE-a-jooth-um) speaking people which also includes the ƛohos (Klahoose) and θaɬaθtuxʷ (K'ómoks) Peoples, and who’s rich territory is the northernmost part of the overall Coast Salish territory.
ref: 2025 January 24, “Now You Know Me: Seeing the Unhidden Truth in Settler Colonialism”, in SFU Public Square:
glosses: Synonym of Homalco.
synonyms: word: Homalco
χʷɛmaɬkʷu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Comox χʷɛmaɬkʷu.
Senses: examples: text: ʔayʔaǰuθəm is spoken by χʷɛmaɬkʷu (Homalco), ɬəʔamɛn (Tla’amin), k̓’ómoks (K’omoks) and ƛoʔos (Klahoose) First Nations.
ref: 2024 June 2, Marc Kitteringham, “Celebration of ʔayʔaǰuθəm language held at Homalco First Nation”, in Campbell River Mirror:
text: The Archaeology Branch failed to uphold its duty of due diligence and consultation with χʷɛmaɬkʷu and made decisions that unjustifiably favour the Wei Wai Kum First Nation," Blaney claims.
ref: , Robin Grant Robin Grant, “Homalco First Nation files judicial review over ancient Campbell River burial site”, in Comox Valley Record:
glosses: Synonym of Homalco.
synonyms: word: Homalco
ornithography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ornitho- + -graphy
Senses: glosses: The scientific description of birds.