cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Bajau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bajaus
form: Bajau
form: Badjao
form: Bajao
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Indonesian Bajau bajau.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: An island in Indonesia (part of the Riau Islands) with the coordinate location 3°7'31.84"N, 106°18'38.30"E.
examples: text: The Bajaus, or sea gypsies, live in boats, their occupation being fishing.
ref: 1905, United States. Bureau of the Census, Census of the Philippine Islands, volume 1, page 565:
text: The largest tribe is the 60,000-member Bajau. The Bajaus were once sea nomads and pirates.
ref: 1969, James W. Gould, The United States and Malaysia, page 30:
text: The Bajau are a group of seafarers who migrated from the Philippines only a couple hundred years ago. The Bajau on the eastern coast of Sabah carry on their traditional connection to the water, living as sea gypsies and coming to shore only for burials. On the west coast, however, many Bajau have settled on dry land as farmers and cattle raisers.
ref: 2011, Daniel White, Ron Emmons, Jennifer Eveland, Jen Lin-Liu, Frommer's Southeast Asia, page 569:
topics: anthropology
ethnology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The indigenous people native to Bajau island (part of modern-day Indonesia), these ethnic group nowadays predominantly inhabit the Bajau island and its adjacent regions in Indonesia and also expanded to the southern Philippines.
Synonyms: sense: member of people in Indonesia and southern Philippines
word: sea gypsy
Bajau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Badjao
form: Bajao
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Indonesian Bajau bajau.
Senses: examples: ref: 1937, W. F. Schneeberger, A Short Vocabulary of the Banggai and Bajau Language:
text: 2007, Mark T. Miller, A Grammar of West Coast Bajau, PhD Thesis.
topics: human-sciences
linguistic
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The native language spoken by the Bajau people (the indigenous of Bajau island in Indonesia).
linkability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From link + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being linkable.
linkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From link + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The evidence found at the crime scene was not linkable to the primary suspect.
text: If it is available on the Internet the resource name will be highlighted and linkable; if not, it will appear as plain text.
ref: 2003, Erik J. Heels, Diana Botluk, Legal List Research on the Internet, page 83:
glosses: Capable of being linked.
Derived terms: crosslinkable
linkability
unlinkable
Saci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese saci, from Old Tupi sa'si.
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A black, one-legged, prankster youngster in Brazilian folklore, who smokes a pipe and wears a magical red hat that enables him to disappear.
Saci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shachi
Etymology: From Sanskrit शची (śacī).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddess of wrath and jealousy in Hindu mythology.
nonland
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + land.
Senses: examples: nonland resources
nonland transport
glosses: Not of or pertaining to the land.
Pepto Bismol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the trademark Pepto-Bismol.
Senses: examples: text: […] such moderately priced oddities as the bizarrely decorated Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo or the Pepto Bismol-hued Tickle Pink Inn in Carmel Highlands.
ref: 1994, Leah Bendavid-Val, editor, National Geographic: The Photographs, page 443:
text: I needed some Pepto Bismol; I was experiencing a serious case of ideological vertigo.
ref: 2000, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back, page 120:
text: As I held him up so he could "help me", he said, "Listen, Jimmy, you take some Pepto Bismol, do a little coke and then let Manfred show you the best of the boys in New York.
ref: 1992, James Melson, The Golden Boy, page 69:
qualifier: trademark
glosses: Alternative form of Pepto-Bismol.
screenreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From screen + reading.
Senses: glosses: The operation of speaking information aloud from a computer display, performed by screen reader software.
visual artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visual artists
Senses: glosses: An artist who works in the visual arts.
niggardlinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niggardliness
self-pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + pleasure.
Senses: glosses: masturbation
examples: text: Midler's self-pleasure in the merriment and mesmerism she can muster is nicely tempered by her ability to laugh at and with herself.
ref: 1983 April 9, Walta Borawski, “Midler in Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: delight in oneself; the state of being pleased with oneself.
self-pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-pleasures
form: self-pleasuring
form: self-pleasured
form: self-pleasured
Etymology: From self- + pleasure.
Senses: glosses: To pleasure oneself; masturbate.
retunable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retune + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being retuned.
antiinstitutionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiinstitutionalists
Etymology: From anti- + institutionalist.
Senses: glosses: Uncommon spelling of anti-institutionalist.
antiinstitutionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiinstitutionalist
hearken back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɑːk(ə)n ˈbæk/
ipa: /ˌhɑɹkən ˈbæk/
Forms: form: hearkens back
form: hearkening back
form: hearkened back
form: hearkened back
form: harken back
Etymology: From hearken + back, possibly an erroneous substitution of hearken (“to hear (something) with attention; to have regard to (something); to listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience”) for hark: see the usage note.
Senses: examples: text: From the opening shots of the anonymous young Winterfell boy rushing to catch a glimpse of Jon Snow and Queen Daenerys Targaryen, hearkening back to those moments of the very first episode in which Arya rushed to do the same with an approaching King Robert Baratheon, the series is calling back to its beginning, suggesting (at least for now) that the wheel continues to turn, sending us back into a pattern begun seven seasons prior.
ref: 2019 April 14, Alex McLevy, “Winter is Here on Game of Thrones’ Final Season Premiere (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2020:
glosses: Synonym of hark back (“to allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event)”).
synonyms: word: hark back
extra: (“to allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event)”).
wikipedia: Trafford Publishing
harken back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: harkens back
form: harkening back
form: harkened back
form: harkened back
Senses: examples: text: The emerging consensus that writing was merely transcribed speech, then, harkened back to the pre-disciplinary, liberal arts college
ref: 1994, David Coogan, Electronic Writing Centers: Computing the Field of Composition, page 4:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hearken back.
soundbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundbanks
Etymology: From sound + bank.
Senses: glosses: A collection of sounds, especially of simulated instruments in MIDI.
soundbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soundbank
roamable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From roam + -able.
Senses: examples: text: There's something for everyone in this 111-acre botanic garden in the San Gabriel Valley, about forty minutes northeast of central L.A. It's a big and pleasantly roamable place […]
ref: 2017, Donald Olson, The California Garden Tour:
glosses: Suitable for roaming around in.
topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Supporting roaming (the use of a network or service from different locations or devices).
interstacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + stacking.
Senses: examples: 1958, Milk Industry Foundation (U.S.), Convention Proceedings
...manufacturers of milk bottle cases have adopted the standards contained in the Simplified Practice Recommendation so that little, if any, difficulty is encountered in the interstacking of cases made by the different manufacturers.
glosses: Stacking together.
Related terms: interstack
interstacked
nonsonorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sonorous.
Senses: glosses: Not sonorous.
Synonyms: unsonorous
unsonorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsonorous
form: most unsonorous
Etymology: From un- + sonorous.
Senses: glosses: Not sonorous.
Synonyms: nonsonorous
clean-limbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkliːnˈlɪmd/
ipa: /ˌklinˈlɪmd/
Forms: form: more clean-limbed
form: most clean-limbed
Etymology: From clean (“shapely, well-proportioned”) + limbed (“having limbs of a specified kind or quality”, adjective).
Senses: examples: text: He was big and clean-limbed and sinewy, with small cunning eyes, a resolute mouth and chin, and an air of perfect fearlessness. Roldan warmed to him, and looked with admiration and envy at the muscles on his splendid limbs.
ref: 1898, Gertrude Atherton, chapter VI, in The Valiant Runaways, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 60:
text: He was one of those clean-cut and clean-limbed men that young girls like to dream about—frank, honest, and with a keen sense of humor—for a man.
ref: 1920 December, Wilber Wales Wheeler, “Angel Man”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LXXI, number 3, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1921, →OCLC, page 573, column 2:
glosses: Having a slender, athletic body; lithe.
nonattention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + attention.
Senses: glosses: Failure to pay attention; ignoring or avoiding an issue, etc.
nonattentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + attentive.
Senses: glosses: Not attentive.
nonagenda
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-agenda.
datedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more datedly
form: most datedly
Etymology: From dated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The comedy Bird in the Hand (1927) plays neatly and amusingly, if tritely and datedly, with the stubborn class-consciousness and inverted pride of a country landlord whose daughter falls in love with the local squire's son.
ref: 1983, Harry Blamires, A guide to twentieth century literature in English, page 71:
glosses: In a dated manner.
picaresqueness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From picaresque + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being picaresque.
acrophase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrophases
Etymology: From acro- + phase.
Senses: examples: text: The acrophase of the metabolic process ran from shortly mid-morning until sunset, with the peak amplitude recorded in mid-afternoon.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The time period in a cycle during which the cycle crests or peaks, especially the upper part of a sine wave fitted to a measurement of a circadian pattern or other biological rhythm.
bathyphase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathyphases
Etymology: From bathy- (“deep”) + phase.
Senses: examples: text: The bathyphase of the metabolic process ran from late evening until shortly after the subject awoke, with the lowest point recorded in at three o'clock in the morning.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The time period in a cycle during which the cycle is low, especially the lower part of a sine wave fitted to a measurement of a circadian pattern or other biological rhythm.
Synonyms: trough
rotovated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rotovate
rotovates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rotovate
rotovating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rotovate
bathyphases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathyphase
acrophases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrophase
vilenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vileness
creationistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more creationistic
form: most creationistic
Etymology: From creationist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to creationism.
Synonyms: creationist
Related terms: creation
creationary
creationism
creationist
creator
creature
scopeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scope + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without scope.
phurba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phurbas
form: purba
Senses: glosses: A dagger used in Tibetan ritual.
Synonyms: kila
phurbas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phurba
eye fillet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye fillets
Senses: examples: text: It serves seafood, but it's the porterhouse and eye fillets that jump off the plates here.
ref: 2002, Paul Smitz, Tasmania, page 134:
text: And naturally, as the meat is the hero in the dish, please use only the VERY best eye fillet steak you can manage and keep refrigerated until the very moment you′re about to use it.
ref: 2010, Jane Kennedy, OMG! I Can Eat That?: Indulgent Food Minus the Boombah, unnunbered page:
text: Eye Fillet Steak with Béarnaise Sauce
ref: 2011, Gabriel Gaté, Antonia Pesenti, Taste Le Tour: Regional French Cuisine, Hardie Grant Books, page 74:
glosses: Filet mignon; beef tenderloin.
napkinless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From napkin + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Dinners with friends are napkinless.
ref: 2013 April 16, kristininholland, “Strange Things the Dutch Don’t Do”, in kristininholland:
text: […] diner Eddie Schubert, 32, sat napkinless at his kitchen table Tuesday […]
ref: 2018 August 5, “Napkinless Man With Grease-Covered Fingers Realizes He Trapped In A Prison Of His Own Creation”, in The Onion:
text: We hope the avocados for your toast are perfectly ripe and that the pour-over you’re brewing in your napkinless house is smooth like that one song that was popular when we were kids!
ref: 2021 February 24, “Green Living Tips: The Millennial”, in Green Mountain Energy:
glosses: Without a napkin.
napkinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: napkined
Etymology: From napkin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered with a napkin.
napkined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He would always say, with grave cheer, ‘Good-morning, madam!’ to which Mary would reply, with her pure Quaker simplicity, ‘Art thou well, George?’ and pass on, to spread her napkined butter and cheeses in the quaint, breezy colonnades which you remember on Market street.
ref: 1872 September, “Through William Penn’s ‘Low Counties’”, in Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, volume X, number 17, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott and Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 260, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of napkinned.
Derived terms: unnapkined
Sooners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sooner
adoptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adoptor
cold smoking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The smoking of food by saturating it with smoke (which coats the food) but without heating it.
Related terms: hot smoking
attaboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attaboy
nonworkplace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + workplace.
Senses: examples: text: And the primary cause of disability is chronic disease — cardiovascular, musculoskeletal problems and cancer are leading diagnoses — rather than work-related mishaps or nonworkplace accidents, according to a 2007 study for the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education, a nonprofit organization that informs the public about insurance needs.
ref: 2007 June 30, Hillary Chura, “Disability, the Insurance That Is Often Sadly Overlooked”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not in or pertaining to the workplace.
calendarless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From calendar + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There they were, prostitutes, shoplifters, drug-users, teetering on the brink of an Aug. 19 or a Dec. 17, a Feb. 1 or a June 6, tumbling, then plummeting into uncharted, calendarless space.
ref: 2007 July 1, Carol Muske-Dukes, “The Prisoners Time Forgot”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a calendar.
chaats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaat
cyberconversation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberconversations
Etymology: From cyber- + conversation.
Senses: examples: text: Over the next several hours, in constant cyberconversation with an ever-growing pack of other self-appointed editors, Gracenotes — whose real name is Matthew Gruen — expanded and corrected this stub 59 times, ultimately shaping it into a respectable, balanced and even footnoted 50-line account of that day’s major development in the war on terror.
ref: 2007 July 1, Jonathan Dee, “All the News That’s Fit to Print Out”, in New York Times:
glosses: A conversation that takes place in cyberspace.
cyberconversations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberconversation
daytrader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daytraders
Senses: examples: text: But now people are always on their toes to spot the next trend early, particularly if it means they can make a fast buck — the tech-stock boom, a hot housing market, poker (online gambling was a particularly easy transition for all those former daytraders), and hedge funds for people wealthy enough to gain access.
ref: 2007 July 1, Adam Bryant, “iSee Into the Future, Therefore iAm”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of day trader.
daytraders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daytrader
daytimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daytime
daytimes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Daytimes we would venture into the main camping area, which was a lush valley now populated with pup tents and shelters of all types.
ref: 2011, John Mobyed, In the Wind:
glosses: Habitually during the daytime.
dayless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From day + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, The Prisoner of Chillon:
glosses: Without day.
Derived terms: daylessness
Byronians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Byronian
goops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These are fellows who shun the three-, four- and five-blade contraptions and canned goops for an older mode of shaving that they insist remains the ideal: a straight razor or a safety razor with a double-edged blade, and a fine English cream lathered and applied with a badger-hair brush.
ref: 2007 July 1, Jake Mooney, “For Aficionados of Shaving, la Crème de la Crème”, in New York Times:
text: Their most successful program, Double Dare, invites kids to swim through vats of assorted goops and to fling goo at each other...
ref: 2007, Henry Jenkins, The wow climax: tracing the emotional impact of popular culture, page 170:
glosses: plural of goop
kakegoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese かけごえ (“hung voice”).
Senses: examples: text: In Japan traditional kabuki theater is known for kakegoe: shouting at actors upon their entrance, and throughout the performance.
ref: 2007 July 1, Zachary Pincus-Roth, “Enter Acting, Pursued by Applause”, in New York Times:
glosses: Melodramatic calls from an audience in kabuki theatre or as part of call-and-response singing in Japanese folk music.
louty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more louty
form: most louty
Etymology: From lout + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The country’s “self-serving and bogus view of history,” which pities the rest of the world for its disorder, hides what he sees as “the lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd of England.”
ref: 2007 July 1, Richard B. Woodward, “Armchair Traveler”, in New York Times:
glosses: loutish
animable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being put into life or receiving animation.
Related terms: anima
animate
memosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meme + -o- + sphere.
Senses: examples: text: Behe’s name, and not theirs, crackled triumphantly around the memosphere.
ref: 2007 July 1, Richard Dawkins, “Inferior Design”, in New York Times:
glosses: The world or sphere of memes (transmitted ideas).
Memphites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Memphite
renest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renests
form: renesting
form: renested
form: renested
Etymology: From re- + nest.
Senses: glosses: To nest again or anew.
raw_tags: of birds
examples: text: Renest/merge loops for more concurrent iterations.
ref: 1991, Kasra Barkeshli, John L. Volakis, Applications of the Conjugate Gradient FFT Method in Scattering and ...:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To nest (code structures) again or differently.
renested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renest
renests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of renest
renesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renest
nestings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nesting
observationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: observationalists
Etymology: From observational + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: And so the stage was set for the current dispute, again pitting observationalists against theorists on the subject of global warming’s influence on the storms.
ref: 2007 July 1, Lisa Margonelli, “Wild Is the Wind”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who relies on empirical observations.
observationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of observationalist
overrulings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overruling
overwhip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overwhips
form: overwhipping
form: overwhipped
form: overwhipped
Etymology: From over- + whip.
Senses: examples: text: Turn the mixer on medium-high, and then do that thing professional cooks live in fear of being yelled at for: overwhip the cream!
ref: 2007 July 1, Daniel Patterson, “Curd Mentality”, in New York Times:
glosses: To whip (cream, etc.) too much, so as to spoil the texture.
overwhipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overwhip
overwhipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overwhip
postmarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + marriage.
Senses: examples: text: The United States is far from embracing Europe’s postmarriage model or its much higher rates of nonmarital births.
ref: 2007 July 1, Sam Roberts, “The Shelf Life of Bliss”, in New York Times:
glosses: After marriage.
retrievability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retrieve + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: For centuries, an encyclopedia was synonymous with a fixed, archival idea about the retrievability of information from the past.
ref: 2007 July 1, Jonathan Dee, “All the News That’s Fit to Print Out”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being retrievable.
denyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more denyingly
form: most denyingly
Etymology: From denying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He turned back, took her hand, shook his head denyingly […]
ref: 1839, The Corsair: A gazette of literature, art, dramatic criticism, fashion and novelty:
glosses: In a manner that denies.
Derived terms: self-denyingly
baitfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baitfish
sazerac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sazeracs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sazerac.
sazeracs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sazerac
sideyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideyards
Etymology: From side + yard.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, it is a hard-hat area, and you would not want to let children play in the back or sideyard.
ref: 2007 July 1, “Letters to the Editor”, in New York Times:
glosses: A yard at the side of a building.
sideyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sideyard
slowball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slowballs
Etymology: From slow + ball.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch that is not a fastball or curveball; often a change-up.
examples: text: “We imagine that the Russians and the Chinese are going to play slowball here,” said a senior official involved in the sanctions talks.
ref: 2007 July 1, Jim Rutenberg, “Bush to Urge Putin to Aid in Pressuring Iran”, in New York Times:
text: But he says the company is dragging its feet and threatened to use his subpoena power to get them moving. “They’re trying to play slowball,” he said of Google.
ref: 2011 July 2, Deena Winter, “AG to Google: Clean up YouTube”, in Nebraska Watchdog, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
text: Dave Kearney then says he's had enough of the slow-ball tactics and bursts through a couple of tackles.
ref: 2012 May 9, Giles Mole, “Ulster v Leinster, Heineken Cup final”, in The Daily Telegraph:
glosses: Steady, cautionary behavior as a delaying tactic.
examples: text: Remember: In work problems, use your common sense to narrow down answer choices! Now we're going to throw a "slowball" at you.
ref: 1998, Mark Alan Stewart, Frederick J. O'Toole, Arco's Teach Yourself to Beat the GRE in 24 Hours, Arco, →ISBN:
text: The interviewer nodded sympathetically. “Why do you think he would react so harshly?” A slowball question he hoped she would knock out of the park from a pro-abortion perspective.
ref: 2009, Tom Cavenagh, A Matter of Truth, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 150:
text: The opening for a milk-beast related play on the name Lady Angus was a nice hanging slowball, but Keeler bit his tongue.
ref: 2014, James Wittenbach, Worlds Apart Book 10: Eventide, Booktango, →ISBN:
glosses: An easy or obvious target.
slowball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slowballs
form: slowballing
form: slowballed
form: slowballed
Etymology: From slow + ball.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To pitch a slowball.
examples: text: A prolonged study is frequently a method of slowballing an investigation until the Senators or Congress who are interested pass from the political scene.
ref: 1965, United States, Congress, United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Economic Committee:
text: As one senior U.S. military observer stated: "They are stonewalling us and slowballing us."
ref: 1996, Tae-Hwan Kwak, Edward A. Olsen, The Major Powers of Northeast Asia: Seeking Peace and Security, Lynne Rienner Publishers, →ISBN, page 170:
text: And if some guy is dipping into the funds or taking bribes or slowballing things, those people should be exposed.
ref: 2010, J. DAVID BUTLER, THE WATER BALL: A story of faith and enduring love, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
glosses: To delay something for personal advantage.
Related terms: slow-walk
slowballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slowball
Nastia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian and Ukrainian На́стя (Nástja), diminutive of Анастасія (Anastasija), Анастаси́я (Anastasíja, “Anastasia”).
Senses: examples: text: When he got to their nary, Olga was hysterical, clutching Anastasia to her bosom. All he was able to make out, between Olga's sobs and cries was, “Oh, My God, Nastia is dead!!!”
ref: 2005, Anatole Kurdsjuk, The Long Walk Home with Miracles Along the Way:
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name diminutive На́стя (Nástja).
ultrapredictable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrapredictable
form: most ultrapredictable
Etymology: From ultra- + predictable.
Senses: examples: text: In putting together ever bigger deals with ever more burdensome debt, private equity buyers look for targets with ultrapredictable cash flow.
ref: 2007 July 1, Norm Alster, “Your Debt May Become My Advantage”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very predictable.
rum cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rum cakes
Senses: glosses: A type of sponge cake made with rum.
molten lava cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molten lava cakes
form: molten-lava cake
Senses: examples: text: A forkful of molten lava cake halfway to her lips, she stopped and lowered it without tasting to stare at the man next to her.
ref: 2014, Tawny Weber, chapter 10, in A SEAL’s Kiss (Harlequin Blaze; 791), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: Synonym of lava cake.
synonyms: word: lava cake
fudge cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fudge cakes
Senses: glosses: A cake, usually a chocolate cake, that is also made with fudge.
piefaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piefaced
form: most piefaced
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pie-faced.
pieface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: piefaces
form: piefacing
form: piefaced
form: piefaced
Etymology: From pie + face.
Senses: glosses: In professional wrestling, to push an opponent's face with the hand held flat.
pieshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieshops
Etymology: From pie + shop.
Senses: synonyms: pie house
glosses: A shop that sells pies
pieless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pie + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without pies, lacking pies.
piefight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piefights
Etymology: From pie + fight.
Senses: glosses: A fight involving pies, especially the comical throwing of custard pies.
fanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fang
cakeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cakemen
Etymology: From cake + -man.
Senses: examples: text: But they often reported cases of other boys being caned or birched for offences such as buying from 'a cakeman who came without Mr Wickham's leave', making a noise in the dormitory or 'stealing three pears and a few medlars […]
ref: 2009, Vyvyen Brendon, Prep School Children: A Class Apart Over Two Centuries, page 35:
glosses: A man who sells cakes.
cakewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cakewomen
Etymology: From cake + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who sells cakes.
biscuiteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biscuiteers
Etymology: From biscuit + -eer.
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes biscuits.
steak and kidney pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steak and kidney pies
form: steak-and-kidney pie
Senses: examples: text: It was while I was trying to turn this dish, in my imagination, into a decent helping of steak and kidney pie with all the trimmings that I was hailed by a hearty voice from across the table.
ref: 2009, John Mortimer, “Rumpole’s Slimmed-Down Christmas”, in A Rumpole Christmas, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 22:
synonyms: word: Kate and Sidney pie
word: snake and pygmy pie
glosses: A savoury pie made from beef, kidney, gravy and other ingredients.
Related terms: steak and kidney pudding
unfun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌn
Forms: form: more unfun
form: most unfun
Etymology: From un- + fun.
Senses: examples: text: Poor Holly had the massive misfortune of having an assistant principal for a mother, which, Alexa knew, made her life unfun both in and out of school.
ref: 2006, Aimee Friedman, French Kiss, page 14:
text: (“Denis stood at attention, like a waiter in an unfun restaurant”).
ref: 2007 July 1, Mark Sarvas, “Beauty and the Geek”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not fun.
unfun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌn
Forms: form: un-fun
Etymology: From un- + fun.
Senses: examples: text: I love going to the theater but the third week of February was putting a major damper on the experience. First it was Big Deal — a dismal evening of overblown un-fun — then Glengarry Glen Ross in which a lot of straight men talked dirty and made real estate deals.
ref: 1986 April 26, Michael Bronski, “Note This!”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
glosses: Lack or absence of fun; funlessness.
unleveraged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + leveraged.
Senses: examples: text: In running these mostly smaller casinos, which have traditionally appealed to area residents, a major rival is the relatively unleveraged Boyd Gaming .
ref: 2007 July 1, Norm Alster, “Your Debt May Become My Advantage”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having been leveraged.
steak bake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steak bakes
Senses: glosses: A savory pastry made with beef.
Bedfordshire clanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bedfordshire clangers
Senses: glosses: A dish originating from the English county of Bedfordshire, an elongated suet pudding with meat in one side and jam in the other.
Related terms: Cornish pastie
index rerum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: index rerums
Etymology: Latin: index + rerum.
Senses: glosses: A tabulated and alphabetized notebook, for systematic preservation of items, quotations, etc.
glosses: An index of subjects; used when a work contains multiple indices, such as one for personal names (index nominum), passages cited (index locorum), or words (index verborum)
Coordinate terms: index nominum
index locorum
index verborum
chocolate spread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolate spreads
Senses: glosses: a sweet chocolate-flavored paste
Related terms: Nutella
nongirlfriend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nongirlfriends
Etymology: From non- + girlfriend.
Senses: glosses: A woman or girl who is not a girlfriend.
Euro wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euro wasps
form: Euro-wasp
Senses: examples: text: The debate over greater European integration took an unexpected twist yesterday with the arrival of Euro wasp in Britain.
ref: 2001 May 26, Stewart Payne, “Alarm over invasion of the Euro wasps”, in Telegraph (online):
glosses: A median wasp (Dolichovespula media), an aggressive European wasp, which spread from the continent to Britain in 1980s.
Bedfordshire clangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bedfordshire clanger
boxed in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of box in
feg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fegs
form: fig
Etymology: From fig, with the change in spelling reflecting a Caribbean pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: I have many relations and friends who are West Indians. They always speak of the section of an orange as a "fig," and of tearing an orange into its different pieces as "figging an orange." This does not apply to a division by knife.
ref: 1877 February 17, G.P.T., Notes and Queries, volume VII, number 164, London: John Francis, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 134, column 1:
text: Place about ten to fifteen fegs of garlic, half cup of dried fine thyme, (more if fresh thyme is used), 4 or more wiri wiri peppers, and a tablespoon of salt in a blender with about a cup of vinegar and blend for about a minute until well blended.
ref: 2023 December 23, “So you don't eat pork? Use chicken and make Garlic Chicken instead.”, in Guyanese Association of Barbados Inc, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2024:
glosses: A piece, a clove (of segmented produce, especially oranges and garlic).
hyphenless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyphen + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a hyphen.
Synonyms: unhyphenated
unhyphened
nondiegetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-diegetic
form: nondiagetic
Etymology: From non- + diegetic.
Senses: examples: text: “Just ignore it. It's nondiegetic.”
ref: 2013 April 4, Adam Reed, “Sea Tunt: Part I” (11:21 from the start), in Archer, season 4, episode 12, spoken by Cheryl Tunt (Judy Greer):
text: “Holy shit. How is he still breathing?” “Aah!” “He's suspended in disbelief, slowly dying while living out an alternative non-diegetic reality.” “Geez, what a horrible way to die.” “You don't know the half of it.” “Oh!” [both laugh] “You're on fuego with the guy-torn-in-half bits, Rick.” “That one was organic, though.” “Because you're naturally funny. That-- that's good old-fashioned fun right there, you know? W-w-we don't need to over-think shit, okay?” “Okay, buddy. Nice and grounded, fully immersive from here on out.” [Rumbling] “Right after this.” “W-what's happening?” “Going into an act break.”
ref: 2020 May 3, Jeff Loveness, “Never Ricking Morty” (7:40 from the start), in Rick and Morty, season 4, episode 6, spoken by Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland):
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: Not existing within a fictional universe, rather existing in the background, and unable to be perceived by the characters.
nonstriker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstrikers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-striker.
nonstrikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonstriker
nonreplicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + replicable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-replicable.
nonsequitur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsequiturs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non sequitur.
nonsequiturs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsequitur
nonnewsworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + newsworthy.
Senses: glosses: Not newsworthy.
nonimitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonimitations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-imitation.
nonimitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonimitation
nonreplicability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + replicability.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-replicability.
nonredundancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-redundancy.
nonnotable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + notable.
Senses: glosses: Not notable.
nondoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + doing.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-doing.
nonpast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + past.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-past.
pasteurizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pasteurize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being pasteurized.
Derived terms: unpasteurizable
pasteurisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pasteurise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pasteurizable.
Arnold Palmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arnold Palmers
Etymology: Named after American golfer Arnold Palmer (1929–2016). According to urban legend he later claimed true, in circa early 1960s, he ordered a mix of half iced tea and lemonade from a waitress, which there became popular at the Cherry Hills Country Club, and Mr. Palmer later endorsed.
Senses: glosses: A beverage made with iced tea and lemonade in more or less equal parts.
wikipedia: Cherry Hills Country Club
Synonyms: half and half
G2
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -uː
Senses: topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Group of Two; the two leading economies of the world, the United States of America and the People's Republic of China.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of Generation Two, the second generation of characters, fictional history, etc. Used for several different entertainment franchises.
Coordinate terms: sense: Group of Two
word: G20
sense: Group of Two
word: G5
sense: Group of Two
word: G6
sense: Group of Two
word: G7
sense: Group of Two
word: G7+1
sense: Group of Two
word: G8
sense: Generation 2
word: G1
sense: Generation 2
word: G3
sense: Generation 2
word: G4
sense: Generation 2
word: G5
S-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: intelligence
glosses: staff military intelligence officer position in smaller units, or section in larger formations
Related terms: G-2
festinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of festino
infrageneric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + generic (“relating to a genus”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Pertaining to division or subclassification within a biological genus of organisms
Lepontic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈpɑntɪk/
rhymes: -ɑntɪk
Etymology: From Latin Lepontii + -ic.
Senses: glosses: An extinct language attested in Europe until ~100BC, usually considered to be a member of the Celtic family.
wikipedia: Celtic languages
Coordinate terms: sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Celtiberian
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Cumbric
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Galatian
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Gaulish
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Noric
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Pictish
antimatroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antimatroid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an antimatroid
decycling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + cycle + -ing.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The removal of cycles from a graph
decycling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + cycle + -ing.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing the smallest number of vertices that can be removed from a graph such that no cycles remain
eigensystems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigensystem
gyrostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing a gyrostat
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to gyrostatics
Derived terms: gyrostatically
gyrostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrostats
Etymology: From gyro- + -stat.
Senses: glosses: A gyroscope fixed within a rigid case
gyrostatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Etymology: From gyro- + statics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of rotating bodies.
multileptons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multilepton
reamplifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reamplify
reamplify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reamplifies
form: reamplifying
form: reamplified
form: reamplified
Etymology: From re- + amplify.
Senses: glosses: To amplify again
structural failure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: structural failures
Etymology: From structure and failure.
Senses: examples: text: Three buildings in the World Trade Center Complex collapsed due to structural failure on the day of the attack.
text: Structural failure will occur in three minutes, 30 seconds.
glosses: Loss of the load-carrying capacity of a component or member within a structure or of the structure itself. Structural failure is initiated when the material in a structure is stressed to its strength limit, thus causing fracture or excessive deformations.
DJing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of DJ
DJing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The role of a disk jockey, playing and mixing recorded music.
DJed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of DJ
Svetlana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Светла́на (Svetlána), from свет (svet, “light”). Made up by Alexander Vostokov in 1802, later borrowed into English and other languages.
Senses: glosses: A female given name, common in Slavic nations in which Orthodox Christianity is established.
wikipedia: Alexander Vostokov
Related terms: Lana
Sveta
Sveta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Све́та (Svéta), an informal pet form of Светла́на (Svetlána, “Svetlana”).
Senses: examples: text: Then one evening Katya approached a girl named Svetlana.
“Sveta, you have such beautiful hair,” she said. “Where did you get your permanent?”
ref: 2008, Ellen Bailey, Katya's Gold: What Will Her Dreams Cost?, page 53:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Svetlana, from Russian
OpenGL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Open Graphics Library: a standard, cross-platform specification for generating 2D and 3D computer graphics.
abd.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of abdicated.
abs.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of absent.
glosses: Abbreviation of absolute.
glosses: Abbreviation of abstract.
abs.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of absolutely.
abs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of absence.
Derived terms: abs. feb.
Gr.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Greek.
Maced.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of Macedonia.
orth.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of orthodox.
prov.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of province.
rep.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rep.
dearheart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiɹˌhɑɹt/
Forms: form: dearhearts
Etymology: From dear + heart.
Senses: examples: text: What was it, then, dearheart, that hath prevailed with thee to do as thou hast done?
ref: 1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress part two, 1850 David Bogue edition, page 277 http://books.google.com/books?id=IecHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=dearheart
text: I'm not deserting you, dearheart. I'll be home tomorrow, or the day after.
ref: 2005, Anita Diamant, The Last Days of Dogtown, Scribner, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: A term of affection.
dearhearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dearheart
sherpaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sherpa
sherpaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sherpa
compesces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compesce
compesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: compesces
form: compescing
form: compesced
form: compesced
Etymology: Latin compēscō (“I restrain”).
Senses: examples: text: And has coerced and compesced them (all that did not contrive to desert) into soldierly obedience[.]
ref: 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia:
glosses: To keep in check; to restrain or hold down
youts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yout