cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
drop the f-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops the f-bomb
form: dropping the f-bomb
form: dropped the f-bomb
form: dropped the f-bomb
form: drop the F-bomb
Senses: examples: text: I swear to God, I've never heard David (Robinson) or Avery (Johnson) swear. I sometimes sit down and think, "Gosh, I've never heard them drop the F-bomb."
ref: 1999 June 16, Lisa Olsen, “Good Guys Wear Black”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 03 Jan 2009:
text: It's fitting that Clay Aiken, a man who rarely, if ever, drops the f-bomb, topped the list of the Ten Best-Mannered People of 2003.
ref: 2003 December 19, “For The Record”, in MTV.com:
text: From hip-hop artists to bloggers to the vice president of the United States, everyone's dropping the F-bomb.
ref: 2006 June 25, Joel Achenbach, “Dropping the F-bomb”, in The Washington Post, page B01:
glosses: To utter the word fuck, especially in an inappropriate manner or setting.
glosses: To say the word faggot.
drop the F-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops the F-bomb
form: dropping the F-bomb
form: dropped the F-bomb
form: dropped the F-bomb
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of drop the f-bomb.
ecophysiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecophysiologists
Etymology: From eco- + physiologist.
Senses: glosses: A biologist involved in ecophysiology.
ecophysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eco- + physiological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ecophysiology.
Derived terms: ecophysiologically
ecophysiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecophysiologist
muffledly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more muffledly
form: most muffledly
Etymology: From muffled + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A voice came muffledly from inside the closet.
glosses: In a muffled manner; indistinctly.
noneclectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Etymology: From non- + eclectic.
Senses: glosses: Not eclectic.
nonhybridized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hybridized.
Senses: glosses: Not hybridized.
nonchemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonchemical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Nonchemically Initiated Respiratory Reflexes
ref: 1977, Malcolm S Gordon, Animal physiology: principles and adaptations:
glosses: In a nonchemical manner; by means other than chemical.
nonphysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + physiological.
Senses: glosses: Not physiological.
Derived terms: nonphysiologically
nondeficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Etymology: From non- + deficient.
Senses: synonyms: adequate
sufficient
enough
antonyms: deficient
inadequate
insufficient
lacking#Adjective
glosses: Not deficient.
noncanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + canal.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the table given showing ocean freight rates during the canal season, a corresponding table for the noncanal season, namely, for the months from December to April, inclusive, has been prepared and is given herewith.
ref: 1904 April 24, Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce of the United States, Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Statistics:
text: Likewise, in the late Victorian Punjab, as Singh has shown, the neglect of small-scale irrigation improvements in the noncanal districts brought about increasd dependence upon rainfall and thus greater vulnerability to drought.
ref: 2002, Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World, page 338:
text: The latter, in the spirit of the Good Neighbor policy, agreed to curb many canal practices that Panamanians found damaging to their interests, especially with regard to commissary and restaurant sales to noncanal employees and repatriation of retired West Indians.
ref: 2012, Michael L. Conniff, Panama and the United States: The End of the Alliance, page 90:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a canal.
nondelineated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + delineated.
Senses: glosses: Not delineated.
nondelimited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + delimited.
Senses: glosses: Not delimited.
nonmanufactured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + manufactured.
Senses: examples: nonmanufactured commodities
glosses: Not manufactured.
shelllike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shelllike
form: most shelllike
Senses: examples: text: Dark brown to black; streak brownish red; fracture shelllike; crystals equidimensional to tabular, also in rounded and scaly masses...
ref: 1995, Alan M Cvancara, A field manual for the amateur geologist:
glosses: Uncommon spelling of shell-like.
candleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From candle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without candles.
nonequidimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + equidimensional.
Senses: glosses: Not equidimensional.
nondelirious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + delirious.
Senses: glosses: Not delirious.
thickskinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thickskinned
form: most thickskinned
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thick-skinned.
nation-states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nation-state
bogglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bogglesome
form: most bogglesome
Etymology: From boggle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Doing it by touch alone is a bogglesome undertaking.
ref: 1969?, “[title unknown]”, in Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, volume 78, number 4, page 171:
text: The combination of huge world sales, bogglesome advances (a three-book deal for pounds 20m was negotiated with HarperCollins in 1992; it's almost time for a new one) and television rights to mini-series (the personal forte of her gravelly, Germanic husband Bob) brings wads of moolah in every post.
ref: 1995 July 29, John Walsh, “INTERVIEW; She's a friend of Norman Mailer and is the richest Englishwoman after the Queen. Her name is Barbara Taylor Bradford. John Walsh meets a woman of substance. Picture by Dillon Bryden”, in The Independent, page 3:
text: Desperate to razz the whole thing up, Summerhill descends into "imagineering", culminating in the bogglesome scene in which the renowned human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robinson, QC, dresses up as Peter Pan, and attacks Blunkett's lawyer with a cutlass.
ref: 2008 January 19, Caitlin Moran, “School for scandal”, in The Times, page 4:
glosses: Characterised or marked by boggling; mind-boggling.
undemocratizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undemocratize
undemocratizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undemocratize
aurally challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aurally challenged
form: most aurally challenged
Senses: examples: text: I had to repeat the instructions for her five times; methinks the old lady was aurally challenged.
glosses: Deaf or hard of hearing.
raw_tags: of a person
frying pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frying pan
mos'
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of most.
mos'
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of most.
mossers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosser
Mau Mau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Just as it is sometimes impossible to find a Briton who voted for Margaret Thatcher, and every Frenchman’s father appears to have been in the Resistance, every Kikuyu seems to have had a father who fought valiantly for Mau Mau.
ref: 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
glosses: A group of anti-British insurgents in colonial Kenya, active in the 1950's.
topics: games
glosses: A card game for two or more players, similar to crazy eights.
Related terms: mau-mau
KLFA
OOI
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of out of interest.
cedr-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: sēdr
enpr: sĭdr
ipa: /siːdɹ/
ipa: /sɪdɹ/
Etymology: From the Latin cedrus (“cedar”), from the Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros, “cedar”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cedar
Derived terms: cedrat(e)
cedrated
cedre
cedrelaceous
cedrelate
cedrene
cedria
cedrin
cedrine
cedriret
cedrium
cedron
bipas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bipa
bipa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bipas
Etymology: From Korean 비파 (bipa), from Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá). Doublet of biwa and pipa.
Senses: glosses: A pear-shaped lute with five strings, of Korean origin.
Noosaville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Noosa + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A town and suburb in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia.
undemocratise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undemocratises
form: undemocratising
form: undemocratised
form: undemocratised
Etymology: From un- + democratise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of undemocratize.
Derived terms: undemocratisation
undemocratises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undemocratise
undemocratising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undemocratise
undemocratised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undemocratise
cedmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕdʹmətə
ipa: /ˈsɛdmətə/
Etymology: From New Latin cedmata, from the Ancient Greek κέδματα (kédmata).
Senses: glosses: Chronic joint pain, especially of the hip-joint.
Derived terms: cedmatous
undemocratization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undemocratisation
Etymology: From undemocratize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: the act or process of undemocratizing
undemocratisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undemocratise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of undemocratization.
Patras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pəˈtɹæs/
/ˈpætɹəs/
Etymology: From Patreus, the name of its founder.
Senses: glosses: The third most populated Greek city (after Athens and Thessaloniki), the most populated city in the Peloponnese and the capital of Western Greece (administrative region of Greece).
corant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coranto (“kind of dance”).
Meganesia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From mega- + Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos) + -ia.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The continent comprising Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania, which was one connected landmass during the last Ice Age.
Synonyms: Sahul
guilties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guilty
turneaureite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A brown mineral that is a mixed arsenate, phosphate and chloride of calcium
hutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hutters
Etymology: French hut + -er
Senses: glosses: someone who lives in a hut
unqueenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unqueenly
form: most unqueenly
Etymology: From un- + queenly.
Senses: glosses: Not queenly; not befitting a queen.
es-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ɛs/
Etymology: From s-.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of drugs with a chiral center in the S configuration.
deepener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːpənə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: deepeners
Etymology: From deepen + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, deepens.
glosses: A hypnotic suggestion designed to send the listener deeper into a state of trance.
deepeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deepener
unbewitched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bewitched.
Senses: glosses: Not bewitched.
Portman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From port + man.
Senses: examples: text: One Nation, a new 501(c)4 linked to the Karl-Rove-backed American Crossroads super PAC, is spending more than $1.9 million on print, radio and digital ads highlighting the efforts of Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey to pass the “doc fix” legislation that realigned payments to Medicare providers with inflation.
ref: 2015 May 12, Alexandra Jaffe, “First on CNN: New Rove-linked group spends $2M to boost GOP incumbents”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
portman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portmen
Etymology: From Middle English portman, from Old English portman, portmann (“townsman, burgher, citizen”), equivalent to port + man.
Senses: glosses: A burgess of a port, especially of one of the Cinque Ports.
biface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bifaces
Etymology: From bi- + face.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A double-sided stone tool
Derived terms: protobiface
Related terms: bifacial
portmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portman
stylophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stīʹləfōn
ipa: /ˈstaɪləfəʊn/
Forms: form: stylophones
Etymology: From stylo- + -phone.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small synthesizer operated using a stylus.
soysage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soysages
Etymology: Blend of soy + sausage
Senses: examples: text: Soybeans can be used to make soyburgers, souffles, fritters, casseroles, soysages, soymilk, ice bean, tofu (Japanese bean curd), tempeh (Indonesian cultured soy cake), spreads, dips and soups and many more.
ref: 2013, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Whole Dry Soybeans:
glosses: A vegetarian or vegan sausage made with soy instead of meat.
soysages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soysage
mangerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mangerlike
form: most mangerlike
Etymology: From manger + -like.
Senses: examples: a mangerlike receptacle
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a manger.
stylophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stylophone
metroplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metroplexes
Etymology: Blend of metropolitan + complex, originally coined as a marketing term for the Dallas–Fort Worth conurbation.
Senses: examples: text: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
text: The collection of small urban centers and the multinucleated metropolitan subcenters is the twenty-first-century metroplex that provides citizens with opportunities to develop different lifestyles in new environmental settings. In the metroplex the new arrivals do not have to abandon their careers or interests.
ref: 1984, Jack Meltzer, Metropolis to Metroplex: The Social and Spatial Planning of Cities, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 14:
qualifier: urban studies
glosses: A large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs.
Derived terms: Texaplex
metroplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metroplex
nonpunctuated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + punctuated.
Senses: glosses: unpunctuated
nonstimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stimulated.
Senses: glosses: Not stimulated.
nonstimulating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stimulating.
Senses: glosses: Not stimulating.
forecastable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From forecast + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being forecast; predictable.
Derived terms: unforecastable
olivelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more olivelike
form: most olivelike
Etymology: From olive + -like.
Senses: examples: text: An olivelike mass can be felt in the epigastrium.
ref: 2006, James Duke, Anesthesia secrets:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an olive.
armorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more armorlike
form: most armorlike
form: armourlike
Etymology: From armor + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The word armadillo is of Spanish origin and refers to the armorlike covering of these animals.
ref: 1999, Ronald M Nowak, Walker's mammals of the world, Volume 1:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of armor.
armourlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more armourlike
form: most armourlike
Etymology: From armour + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of armorlike.
subway tile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subway tiles
Etymology: From the tile used on the turn-of-the-century NYC subway.
Senses: glosses: A style of white glazed ceramic tile, as used on the walls of the New York City subway stations in the early twentieth century, especially the 3" × 6" size then used.
unwantedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unwantedly
form: most unwantedly
Etymology: From unwanted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She became unwantedly pregnant.
glosses: In an unwanted manner.
beautyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beauty + -less.
Senses: examples: text: All of these base qualities combined compose a maliciously beautyless whole not to be found in other countries, and prove conclusively the brutal power of great sums of money for the enforcement of vulgarity[…]
ref: 1968, New York Times Saturday review of books and art:
glosses: Devoid of beauty.
Derived terms: beautylessness
olive trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olive tree
nonvitreous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vitreous.
Senses: glosses: Not vitreous.
nonglassy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + glassy.
Senses: examples: a nonglassy mineral
glosses: Not glassy.
chantefable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chantefables
Etymology: From French chantefable (from chanter (“to sing”) + fable (“story”)).
Senses: glosses: A form of Medieval French literature with alternative spoken and sung passages.
more and more
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The road gets more and more steep.
text: He started calling more and more frequently.
text: 1923, Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude (translators), War and Peace,
What was expressed by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose.
text: The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.
ref: 1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, in Trains Illustrated, page 91:
qualifier: degree
glosses: Progressively more.
examples: text: The wound hurt more and more as we walked on.
text: His colour sicken'd more and more,
He faded into age;
And then his enemies began
To show their deadly rage.
ref: 1782, Robert Burns, John Barleycorn:
text: A third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour
⁠For private sorrow’s barren song,
⁠When more and more the people throng
The chairs and thrones of civil power?’
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 35:
topics: manner
glosses: In a manner that progressively increases.
examples: text: More and more, children are among the first to take up new technologies.
text: More and more it is not the soul and Nature, but the eye and print, whose resultant is thought.
ref: 1864 September, “The Cadmean Madness”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 14:
glosses: Indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true.
Coordinate terms: less and less
more and more
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: There are more and more people who keep pets these days.
text: It's unarguable that ticket offices are less relevant than they once were. More and more passengers buy tickets online.
ref: 2023 January 11, Philip Haigh, “Comment: The worst chaos for 40 years”, in RAIL, number 974, page 4:
glosses: Increasingly more; a growing number of; a growing quantity of.
Coordinate terms: fewer and fewer
enzyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enzym
tooth fairies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tooth fairy
chemy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĕʹmĭ
ipa: /ˈkɛmɪ/
Etymology: From the post-Classical Latin chemia, chymia, chimia. Doublet of Kimiya.
Senses: glosses: alchemy, chemistry (prior to their being properly distinguished)
chipas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chipa
zo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: zō
ipa: /zəʊ/
Senses: glosses: contracted form of zoo-
Related terms: zoo
zoon
90-day wonders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 90-day wonder
copulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copulants
Etymology: From Latin cōpulāns.
Senses: examples: text: Those which produce copulable copulants in one individual are designated as monoecious, while those in which copulable copulants must come from different individuals are considered dioecious.
ref: 1929 September, George K. K. Link, “Reproduction in Thallophytes, with special reference to fungi”, in The Botanical Gazette, volume 88, number 1:
text: Concerning the copulation positions of Turbellaria in general, Hyman (1951a:127) stated, "Usually the copulants face more or less away from each other with the genital regions pressed together and often elevated, the rest of the body attached to the subtratum.
ref: 1959, The American Midland Naturalist - Volume 61, page 273:
text: In some turbellarians and monogenetic trematodes, the sperm are first aggregated into spermatophores which are discharged into the fellow copulant (Hyman, 1951).
ref: 1993, Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Accessory Sex Glands, page 7:
glosses: One engaged in sexual union.
examples: text: It is well known from chemistry that a fatty or oily element will not of itself unite with a watery, but must be united by means of saline copulants.
ref: 1912, Emanuel Swedenborg, Alfred Acton, The Animal Kingdom, page 345:
glosses: Something that brings other things together into a unified whole.
examples: text: The copulants are likewise indispensable and have the property of being Continuant.
ref: 1974, Charles Sanders Peirce ·, Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce - Volume 7, page 236:
text: Since the classes are yielded by a static typology and not a dynamic process such as semiosis, it might be wiser to conceive the relation between subjects in terms of compatibility rather than state categorically that collectives determine copulants, for example: collectives are not only with the copulant, but also with the designative and descriptive facets of signs..
ref: 2016, Tony Jappy, Peirce’s Twenty-Eight Classes of Signs and the Philosophy of Representation:
text: Examples of such continuous immediate objects, with respect to which a sign is said to be a copulant, include "_ is _," "if _ then _," "_ relatively to _ for _," "Whatever _," etc.
ref: 2017, Francesco Bellucci, Peirce's Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: A sign that represents the joining or unity of other signs.
copulant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin cōpulāns.
Senses: examples: text: By virtue of Oi, namely the identity of the weather on that occasion, the sign expresses a distributive relation —to each situation of utterance there corresponds an identifiable weather type: the sign is therefore Copulant.
ref: 1989, Gérard Deledalle, Semiotics and Pragmatics, page 149:
text: Copulant signs are, quite clearly, those signs whose immediate object is a continuous predicate.
ref: 2017, Francesco Bellucci, Peirce's Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics:
text: If the sign is copulant it is necessarily collective, and if it is an action-producing token, it is necessarily also categorical and percussive.
ref: 2023, Tony Jappy, Developing a Neo-Peircean Approach to Signs, page 106:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: Signifying combination, identity or union.
surmisant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surmisant
form: most surmisant
Senses: examples: text: At the well-known pipe of all hands, every one in the least degree surmisant of the brewing mutiny felt in his inmost soul that something was forthcoming most "material to the issue."
ref: 1838, The Metropolitan, volume 21, page 308:
glosses: Aware through having made a surmise; suspecting.
laundry mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laundry marks
form: laundry-mark
Senses: examples: text: One of his shirt cuffs . . . bore a laundry mark, and the detectives finally located the laundry in this city.
ref: 1888 December 5, “Black Bart, the Highwayman”, in Montreal Herald, retrieved 04 Jan 2010, page 6:
text: The suit-case gave no clue. It contained one empty leather-covered flask and a pint bottle, also empty, a change of linen and some collars with the laundry mark, S. H.
ref: 1909, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “Numbers Seven and Nine”, in The Man in Lower Ten, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 50:
text: Some of the numbers I remember had become useless information until the computer age brought forth the frequent necessity of thinking up passwords. . . . [W]hen at least one letter is required, I type in my army laundry mark, which is my last initial and the final four digits of my serial number.
ref: 2008 August 9, Burle Pettit, “When you get right down to it, life is a numbers game”, in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, retrieved 04 Jan 2010:
glosses: An identifying marking, usually in coded form and handwritten in indelible ink on an inconspicuous area of a garment, widely used until the mid-20th century as an organizing aid by merchants who cleaned and pressed clothing.
Related terms: laundry list
laundry-mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laundry-marks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of laundry mark.
renote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renotes
form: renoting
form: renoted
form: renoted
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To change the date upon which the court will consider a motion.
renotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of renote
Goldstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goldsteins
Etymology: One of the ornamental surnames chosen by German Jews, from German Gold (“gold”) + Stein (“stone”).
Senses: examples: text: After learning about the October 7 Hamas attack, Goldstein said she felt overwhelmed and confused at how communities could see the Hamas attack in such different lights.
ref: 2023 November 22, Brammhi Balarajan, “US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A district of Schwanheim, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
Moshe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊʃɛ/
ipa: /moʊˈʃɛ/
ipa: /ˈmoʊʃə/
Forms: form: Moishe
form: Moses
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew משה, sometimes conjectured to derive from Egyptian msj (“to give birth to”), a common element in Egyptian names of the form ‘[name of deity] is the one who bore him’.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: Synonym of Moses (the Jewish Hebrew prophet)
synonyms: word: Moses
extra: the Jewish Hebrew prophet
Related terms: Moses
tiercé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: French
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; said of an escutcheon.
tiercerons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tierceron
alkynyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alkynyl
form: most alkynyl
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from an alkyne
alkynyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkynyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any univalent radical derived from an alkyne
Synonyms: ynyl
Derived terms: alkynylated
aminoalkynyl
ynyl
-ynyl
Related terms: alkyne
alkyl
alkenyl
ravissant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: French
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey.
examples: text: The Counts of Miranda quarter this coat with (2 and 3):—Arg. two wolves passant in pale Sa., each ravissant a lamb of the first; within a bordure Gu. charged with eight aspas Or for Avellenada..
ref: 1889, Genealogist - Volume 6, page 57:
text: And it came to pass that Clément Chardin des Lupeaulx, whose father was ennobled by Louis XV., and bore quarterly; of the first, argent, a wolf sable, ravissant, carrying a lamb, gules; of the second, purpur, three buckles argent, two and one; of the third, barry of six, gules and argent; of the fourth, gules, a caduceus winged and wreathed with serpents, vert; with four griffins' claws for supporters; and EN LUPUS In HISTORIA for a motto, managed to wurmount his half-burlesque escutcheon with a Count's coronet.
ref: 1900, Honoré de Balzac, Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, page 387:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Devouring prey; raping.
examples: text: In one word, it is so light, so pretty, so ravissant, and such a perfect dear, that EUGENIE herself could not help being jealous, if she were to see it.
ref: 1855 December 22, Mrs. Worldly Mundane, “A Poor Husband on Bonnets”, in Punch, volume 29, page 244:
text: His dame chanced to have a niece—a niece, tradition says, with the loveliest complexion and the most ravissant auburn hair in the world , and with whom, when she visited her aunt, all Oppidans and Tugs who saw the beatific vision became straightway enamoured.
ref: 1861 January, “Granville De Vigne: A Tale of the Day”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 121, number 481, page 18:
text: To me it is 'ravissant, ravissant' to the very utmost height, to sit here in this chair and see you in that one. It is all in life that is most exquisite.
ref: 1888 March 24, Eleanor C. Price, “Red Towers”, in All the Year Round, volume 42, number 1008:
glosses: Ravishing; exquisite.
demonstre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demonstres
form: demonstring
form: demonstred
form: demonstred
Etymology: From Middle French demonstrer, from Old French demonstrer, demoustrer, from Latin dēmonstrō, with re-Latinized spelling.
Senses: glosses: To demonstrate.
Moishy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Moshe.
mailslot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mailslots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mail slot.
mailslots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mailslot
nonmacrophage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + macrophage.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to a macrophage.
nonrocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rocky.
Senses: examples: a nonrocky habitat
nonrocky soils
glosses: Not rocky.
-thermic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Mid 19th century, from Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “heat”) + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: -thermal
glosses: Relating to heat or temperatures.
-thermal
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: synonyms: -thermic
glosses: Relating to heat or temperatures.
Swadesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈswɑːdɛʃ/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Swadesh list
microcomputation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + computation.
Senses: glosses: microcomputing
anti-Canadianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + Canadian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Sentiments or actions directed against the government, culture, or citizens of Canada.
batonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more batonlike
form: most batonlike
Etymology: From baton + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a baton.
afanc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈævæŋk/
/ˈɑvɑŋk/
Forms: form: afancs
Etymology: From Welsh afanc.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: Celtic mythology
glosses: A lake monster in Welsh mythology, described variously as resembling a crocodile, beaver or dwarf-like creature, and sometimes said to be a demon.
kiss the gunner's daughter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kisses the gunner's daughter
form: kissing the gunner's daughter
form: kissed the gunner's daughter
form: kissed the gunner's daughter
Senses: examples: text: But I was punished, my lad—made to kiss the wench that never speaks but when she scolds, and that's the gunner's daughter, comrade.
ref: 1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 14, in Redgauntlet:
text: "No," replied Bosun Thorpe, "for any breaches of discipline by boy seamen are dealt within by making him, in naval jargon, ‘kiss the gunner's daughter’. . . . he bends over one of the guns; then he is lashed across the backside."
ref: 2002, Wallace Bruce, John Paul Jones: Father of the United States Navy, →ISBN, page 81:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: To be flogged or beaten while restrained over a cannon.
Synonyms: marry the gunner's daughter
lenites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lenite
leniting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lenite
lenited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lenite
thricely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thrice + -ly.
Senses: glosses: thrice; three times.
Synonyms: threefold
trebly
thrice
anally inflicted death sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Backronymy; with reference to contracting HIV/AIDS by means of anal sex and to the virtual incurability of the disease.
Senses: examples: text: No, in Canada gays had marched in the streets protesting the group’s song “AIDS” (Anally Inflicted Death Sentence), which boasted such memorable lyrics as: […]
ref: 1994, Jory Farr, Moguls and Madmen: The Pursuit of Power in Popular Music, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 135, →ISBN:
text: anally inflicted death sentence AIDS. Oh sorry that’s MOD, same thing though
ref: 1999 November 9, Poseidon, “Stormtroopers of Death???”, in alt.music.hardcore (Usenet):
text: WTF? Why would I expose myself to anally inflicted death sentence (AIDS)? Of course, I’m being cynical, but homosexual sex has a much higher statistical chance of catching a deadly STD
ref: 2006 February 27, johnsmith060@gmail.com, “South Dakota Nears Abortion Band”, in rec.music.gdead (Usenet):
glosses: AIDS; acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
where are the toilets
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of where is the toilet.
Rhodie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊdi/
rhymes: -əʊdi
homophone: roadie
homophone: rhodie
homophone: rhody
homophone: rhoddy
Forms: form: Rhodies
Etymology: Contraction of Rhodesian + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: […] the British squaddies look with faint contempt on the Rhodesians (or "Rhodies" as they sometimes call them; military slang mushrooms overnight).[…]
ref: 1980, Simon Hoggart, “Ironing the lawn in Salisbury - the last days of Rhodesia”, in The Guardian:
text: Remaindered from the Rhodesian war, all they have now is their ghosts inadequately repressed by extreme religion, alcohol, purple pills or a penchant for tearing down bars. Don't believe these guys don't exist. Spot them at the end of a Harare Rhodie bar or even worse stumbling towards you across the terrace of a bush hotel […]
ref: 2004 September, Peter Longworth, “Dark hearts”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A white person who is resident in, or self-identifies with Rhodesia, particularly in its pre-independence days.
Derived terms: Rhodieboo
Related terms: whenwe
Rhodie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊdi/
rhymes: -əʊdi
homophone: roadie
homophone: rhodie
homophone: rhody
homophone: rhoddy
Forms: form: Rhodies
Etymology: Contraction of Rhodes, with diminutive -ie.
Senses: glosses: A recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship.
RAII
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Bjarne Stroustrup.
Senses: examples: text: With RAII, the closing action cannot be skipped or bypassed, even if the function exits the scope prematurely with an early return or by throwing an exception.
ref: 2019, Fedor G. Pikus, Hands-On Design Patterns with C++, page 469:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Resource Acquisition Is Initialization, a popular design pattern in object-oriented programming that ties resources to the lifespan of associated objects to prevent resource leakage.
wikipedia: Bjarne Stroustrup
Synonyms: alt: Constructor Acquires, Destructor Releases
word: CADRe
english: Scope-based Resource Management
translation: Scope-based Resource Management
word: SBRM
Rhodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rhodie
semischolarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + scholarly.
Senses: examples: a semischolarly biography
glosses: Partly scholarly; having some aspects of scholarship but not others.
noncircadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + circadian.
Senses: glosses: Not circadian.
deinitialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deinitializes
form: deinitializing
form: deinitialized
form: deinitialized
Etymology: From de- + initialize.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To release any resources that were allocated to (some object or process) as part of initialization.
Derived terms: deinitialization
deinitialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deinitialize
deinitializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deinitialize
deinitializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deinitialize
deinitialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + initialization.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of deinitializing.
repunctuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repunctuates
form: repunctuating
form: repunctuated
form: repunctuated
Etymology: From re- + punctuate.
Senses: examples: text: The editor decided that repunctuating Shakespeare's sonnets risked damaging their meaning.
glosses: To punctuate in a new, different manner.
Derived terms: repunctuation
repunctuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repunctuate
repunctuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repunctuate
unpunctured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + punctured.
Senses: glosses: Not having been punctured.
repunctuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repunctuate
repunctuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repunctuations
Etymology: From re- + punctuation.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the editor's repunctuations were challenged by scholars.
glosses: The process or result of repunctuating.
repunctuations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repunctuation
unrepulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + repulsive.
Senses: glosses: Not repulsive.
ethnobotanicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnobotanical
Jedward
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of John + Edward
Senses: glosses: John & Edward, an Irish singing duo who achieved fame in The X Factor in 2009.
doctorhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doctor + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The status or period of being a doctor.
prewritten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of prewrite
prewrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of prewrite
prewrites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prewrite
premarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-marriage
Etymology: From pre- + marriage.
Senses: glosses: Before marriage.
premarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premarriages
form: pre-marriage
Etymology: From pre- + marriage.
Senses: examples: text: Dating and pre-marriage are times to sort out what kind of person you like or if you like people at all.
ref: 2012, Justin Velgus, Ai, Love You?: Finding Friendship, Romance, and Heartbreak in Japan:
text: If we have to start inspecting premarriages and I have to give birth control advice to every innocent woman those boys decide […]
ref: 2012, Cait London, Last Dance:
text: There I have dumped willy-nilly into a giant coffin-sized plastic bin of photos that dated back to premarriage and children.
ref: 2013, Marni Jameson, House of Havoc: How to Make--and Keep--a Beautiful Home Despite Cheap Spouses, Messy Kids, and Other Difficult Rommates:
glosses: A period of time before marriage.
undimpled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dimpled.
Senses: glosses: Not dimpled.
unpimpled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pimpled.
Senses: glosses: Not pimpled.
unfurrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + furrowed.
Senses: glosses: Not furrowed.
pimpliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pimply + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being pimply.
chuddars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chuddar
chaddar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaddars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chador.
chaddars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaddar
didya
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: did + ya
Senses: examples: text: Where didya get the pretty wallpaper?
ref: 1976, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The scarecrow:
glosses: Alternative spelling of didja.
chadur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chadurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chador.
chadurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chadur
chuddah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuddahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chador.
chuddahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chuddah
chuddur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuddurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chador.
chuddurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chuddur
chudder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chudders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chador.
chudders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chudder
godmoder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godmoders
Etymology: From god mode + -er.
Senses: qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A player who engages in godmoding.
godmoders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of godmoder
nonsemiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + semiotic.
Senses: glosses: Not semiotic.
meep
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: mēp
ipa: /miːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Etymology: Imitative
Senses: examples: text: "Meep, meep, meep!" echoed his brothers and sisters. They all felt pleased with themselves for having learnt to call their mother …
ref: ???, Viktor Astafyev, Meep the Baby Martin, published in Soviet Literature: Issues 7-12 in 1983
text: "We gave him three nervous breakdowns, you know," he says, waving his fingers in the rear view.
"Listen, I..."
"I've heard this kind of thing before. The English think the French are little blind dogs. Meep meep meep meep meep," he says, performing a talking pantomime with his hand.
ref: 2006, Dave Bidini, The Five Hole Stories, page 62:
text: 'Granny, your hat squeaked,' said Tiffany. 'It went meep!'
'No it didn’t,' Granny said sharply.
'It did, you know,' said Nanny Ogg. 'I heard it, too.'
Granny Weatherwax grunted and pulled off her hat. The white kitten, curled around her tight bun of hair, blinked in the light.
ref: 2006, Sir Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith; Corgi edition, published in 2007, page 222
synonyms: mew
meow
peep
chirp
glosses: imitating a small animal's cry, particularly a kitten or small bird
synonyms: beep
glosses: imitating a small vehicle's high pitched horn
examples: See Thesaurus:wow
glosses: expressing surprise, dismay, fear, or concern
Related terms: eep
eek
peep
meep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mēp
ipa: /miːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: meeps
Etymology: Imitative
Senses: examples: text: Gilly cradled her daughter close, even when the baby let out a “meep” of protest before getting back to the business of nursing.
ref: 2013, Megan Hart, Precious and Fragile Things, page 407:
glosses: A high-pitched exclamation of fear or concern.
meep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mēp
ipa: /miːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: meeps
form: meeping
form: meeped
form: meeped
Etymology: Imitative
Senses: examples: text: Her companions gathered round her, twittering and meeping sympathetically, but there was nothing that anyone could do.
ref: 1968, Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey, I Primeval Night, 2 The New Rock, page 11
text: He cried out, as if he meant it as a joke, "When I was Richard's age I nearly died of pneumonia." "Darling, it is cold," Ariah meeped, and put her mitten on his.
ref: 2005, John Gardner, October Light, page 126:
text: "See that guy down there?" Jonathan asked, and tilted my chair up on its front legs to give me a better view. I meeped and clutched the chair arms harder. "No? Well, okay, granted, they all look alike from up here. Here, I'll help." My forehead touched the glass. It rippled like water, and I melted right through the slick, cold surface, [...]
ref: 2005, Rachel Caine, Chill Factor, page 103:
text: Rith stayed where he was, watching the silhouette of the cat in the darkness. She sat perfectly still and watched him back. Then she meeped and looked at the stairs.
ref: 2007, Pat Schmatz, Circle the Truth, page 188:
glosses: To make a high-pitched exclamation.
tweetup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tweetups
Etymology: Blend of tweet + meetup
Senses: glosses: A meeting in person organised on the social networking web site Twitter.
reclimb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reclimbs
form: reclimbing
form: reclimbed
form: reclimbed
Etymology: From re- + climb.
Senses: examples: text: They were the first group to reclimb Mount Everest.
glosses: To climb again.