cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rebottoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebottom
unmoney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + money.
Senses: examples: text: This would enable the banking system to loan out more unmoney, thus "inflating" the unmoney supply.
ref: 1977, Irwin A. Schiff, The Biggest Con: How the Government Is Fleecing You, page 221:
text: "[…] The unarmy is paid well not to engage in war. Isn't it wonderful? All possible because of the miracle of unmoney manufactured out of deficit spending."
ref: 1983, The New Farm, volume 5, page 41:
glosses: Unreal money, or non-monetary currency, such as goods, credit, etc.
Leelanau County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A pseudo-Native American word coined by Henry Schoolcraft.
Senses: glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Suttons Bay Township.
wikipedia: Henry Schoolcraft
fireworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fireworkers
Etymology: From fire + worker.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A person in charge of the operation of a gun.
fireworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fireworkers
Etymology: From firework + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who creates firework displays.
fireworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fireworker
monkeyfy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monkeyfies
form: monkeyfying
form: monkeyfied
form: monkeyfied
Etymology: From monkey + -fy.
Senses: glosses: To cause to appear foolish; to make a monkey out of.
monkeyfied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monkeyfy
monkeyfies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monkeyfy
monkeyfying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monkeyfy
flic-flac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flic-flacs
Senses: examples: text: "Choak chiken, there's more a-hatching," says Miss Mag, in a sort of aside, and cutting a flic-flac with a merry devilish laugh, and a wink to Puddock.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which the Sun Sets, and the Merry-making is Kept Up by Candle-light in the King’s House, and Lily Receives a Warning Which She Does Not Comprehend”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 248:
glosses: Alternative form of flicflac (“ballet movement”).
Suttons Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Leelanau County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A township, the county seat of Leelanau County, Michigan, United States, Suttons Bay Township, surrounding the village of the same name.
flic-flacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flic-flac
bastard cedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard cedars
Senses: glosses: An incense cedar (Calocedrus spp.),
glosses: An incense cedar (Calocedrus spp.),
especially, Calocedrus decurrens.
glosses: A sequoia (Sequoia and Sequoiadendron).
glosses: A Spanish cedar (Cedrela odorata).
glosses: A chinaberry (Melia azedarach).
glosses: A ribbonwood (Adenostoma sparsifolium).
glosses: A tree of species Chukrasia tabularis, native to tropical Asia.
glosses: A West Indian elm (Guazuma ulmifolia).
unsurpliced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + surpliced.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing a surplice.
superveneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: supervene + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of supervene
brain fevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain fever
uncontused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + contused.
Senses: glosses: Not contused.
uncosseted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cosseted.
Senses: glosses: Not cosseted.
overcosseted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcosseted
form: most overcosseted
Etymology: From over- + cosseted.
Senses: glosses: Excessively cosseted.
unsaturnine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsaturnine
form: most unsaturnine
Etymology: From un- + saturnine.
Senses: glosses: Not saturnine.
unbeggared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbeggared
form: most unbeggared
Etymology: From un- + beggared.
Senses: glosses: Not beggared.
unbilious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbilious
form: most unbilious
Etymology: From un- + bilious.
Senses: glosses: Not bilious.
unbespattered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bespattered.
Senses: glosses: Not bespattered.
Iuliyanov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌjuːliˈɑːnɒv/
Forms: form: Iuliyanoff
form: Juliyanov
form: Julianov
form: Yulianov
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Иулия́нов (Iulijánov), from Иулиа́н (Iulián) + -ов (-ov, “genitive possessive ending”).
From Latin Iulianus, the Russian forename of St. Julian of Tarsus (~305 AD).
The name Iulianus may have a similar root to the Roman gens Iūlius, possibly a contraction of the Old Latin personal name *Iovilios (“descended from or pertaining to Jove”). See Iove.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Иулия́нов (Iulijánov).
wikipedia: St. Julian of Tarsus
Related terms: Iulionov
Ulianov
Ulyanovsk
Mackinac County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Mackinac Island and the Straits of Mackinac, originally named Michilimackinac.
Senses: glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: St. Ignace. It is situated on the Upper Peninsula.
wikipedia: Mackinac Island
Straits of Mackinac
financiered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of financier
financiering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of financier
financializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of financialize
financializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of financialize
ree-raw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She was a complete bar to Harry's improvement; his room was no longer neat, as his English landlady had kept it: it was, to use an expressive Irish phrase, always "Ree-raw," and Mrs. O'Reardon herself was a source of perpetual amusement […]
ref: 1836, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Harry O'Reardon, Or, Illustrations of Irish Pride, page 113:
text: The Captain John Kelly here named also owned Mount Pelia and Castle Kelly, in the county of Dublin, and afterwards had a fine ree-raw Irish place, called Larch Hill, […]
ref: 1857, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal:
text: There was something cynical in his ree-raw independence. It was unlike what he had been used to, and its savagery suited with his bitter and unsociable mood of late.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: untidy; chaotic; disordered
St. Ignace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Ignace, from the St. Ignace Mission named after Saint Ignatius of Loyola.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Mackinac County, Michigan, United States.
wikipedia: Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignace Mission
bathroomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bathroom + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Anne, meanwhile, occupied the whole of the fourth floor of the palatial Huntington Sheraton in Pasadena, sharing a three-bedroomed, three-bathroomed suite with Prince Philip and a lady-in-waiting.
ref: 1984, Lynn Picknett, Shona Grimbly, The Royal Year: A year in the life of the royal family, page 68:
text: But the U.S. wasn’t always so profusely bathroomed. In the past half century, the number of bathrooms per person in America has doubled.
ref: 2020 January 23, Derek Thompson, “America Is Overrun With Bathrooms”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Having (the specified kind or number of) bathrooms.
bathroomish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bathroomish
form: most bathroomish
Etymology: From bathroom + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bathroom.
bedroomish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bedroomish
form: most bedroomish
Etymology: From bedroom + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bedroom.
ballroomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ballroom
ballrooming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ballroom
Mecosta County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Chief Mecosta.
Senses: glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Big Rapids.
wikipedia: Mecosta
Mecosta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a 19th century Pottawatomi chief.
glosses: A village in Mecosta County, Michigan, United States.
Derived terms: Mecosta County
what was your first clue
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A riposte to someone who has just stated an obvious conclusion.
Synonyms: word: no shit, Sherlock
Big Rapids
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Mecosta County, Michigan, United States.
round game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round games
Senses: examples: text: [T]he merry company flocked into the King's House, to dance again and drink tea, and make more love, and play round games, and joke, and sing songs, and eat supper under old Colonel Stafford's snug and kindly roof-tree.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which the Sun Sets, and the Merry-making is Kept Up by Candle-light in the King’s House, and Lily Receives a Warning Which She Does Not Comprehend”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 251:
glosses: A game where each player plays for himself or herself, without teams or partners.
round games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of round game
unabling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English unablyng, equivalent to unable + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of rendering unable; disabling
unabling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unable + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unable
Gwitchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gwitchins
Senses: examples: text: Oil interests threaten the Porcupine caribou herd -- the lifeblood of the Gwitchin people.
ref: 1999, Raymond J. Parker, “A Natural Resource”, in Nature Canada, volumes 28-29, page 3:
text: It supported thirty souls in its peak years, most of them named Johansen for the Norwegian stampeder who settled there in 1906 with his Gwitchin bride.
ref: 2009, Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood, →ISBN, page 162:
text: The hunting of caribou in the Porcupine herd is particularly important for the Gwitchin people, who live in settlements throughout the habitat of the caribou, including in the south of ANWR.
ref: 2012, Richard J. Smith, Negotiating Environment and Science, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: Alternative form of Gwich'in.
Gwitchin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gwich'in.
Gwitchins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gwitchin
compulsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compulse
compulsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compulse
shinobu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinobu
Senses: glosses: The rabbit's-foot fern (Davallia)
snowmachining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snowmachine
bastard dory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its resemblance to a dory.
Senses: glosses: An old wife: the fish Enoplosus armatus.
old wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old wives
Etymology: From Middle English ald wyf, eld wiif, olde wyffe.
Senses: examples: text: Once John, being overtaken in drink on the roadside by the cottage, and dreaming that he was burning in hell, awoke and saw the old wife hobbling toward him. Thereupon he fled soberly to the hills, and from that day became a quiet-living, humble-minded Christian.
ref: 1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, pages 230–231:
glosses: An old woman, later especially one who tells old wives' tales.
related: word: oldwife
glosses: Any of various marine fishes :
the alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
related: word: oldwife
glosses: Any of various marine fishes :
A species of perciform fish endemic to the temperate coastal waters of Australia (Enoplosus armatus)
related: word: oldwife
glosses: Any of various marine fishes :
Balistes vetula (Queen triggerfish)
related: word: oldwife
glosses: Any of various marine fishes :
Certain spot-tail porgies (Diplodus ascensionis, Diplodus helenae)
related: word: oldwife
glosses: Any of various marine fishes :
Spondyliosoma cantharus (black seabream)
related: word: oldwife
glosses: Any of various marine fishes :
Trachinotus goodei (great pompano)
related: word: oldwife
glosses: Any of various marine fishes :
A wrasse
examples: text: The Oldvvives, be a foule that never leave tatling day or night, ſomething bigger than a Ducke.
ref: 1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 31:
synonyms: oldsquaw
quandy
glosses: The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis.
glosses: A chimney cap to prevent smoking.
Derived terms: old-wifely
old-wifery
old-wifish
old wives' tale
snowmachined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snowmachine
old wives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old wife
bastard gumwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard gumwoods
Senses: glosses: Commidendrum rotundifolium, a gumwood tree endemic to Saint Helena which evolved from the sunflower, which is now nearly extinct.
bastard gumwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastard gumwood
bastard hogberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Margaritaria nobilis, a plant of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West Indies, which bears fruit with a complex surface structure which causes it to appear bright iridescent blue, or green if wet.
cheapeneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: cheapen + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cheapen
nosefirst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nosefirst
form: most nosefirst
Senses: examples: text: At this point in time — approximately 300 feet above the ground— the aircraft was rapidly descending downward in a nosefirst attitude.
ref: 1986, Aviation Cases - Volume 20:
text: However the drawback to this approach is that the nosefirst attitude is aerodynamically unstable since the aft mounted engine package pulls the empty center of gravity a considerable distance behind the hypersonic center of pressure.
ref: 2003, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society - Volume 56, page 110:
text: Her snow machine was nosefirst in the snowbank on the right-hand side of the creek.
ref: 2009, Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: Alternative form of nose-first.
nosefirst
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nosefirst
form: most nosefirst
Senses: examples: text: The defeat was made complete when Morton's only functioning follower ran nosefirst into the point of a sword held by one of Standish's men.
ref: 1977, William E. Burrows, Vigilante!, page 28:
text: The sight of a destroyer slipping nosefirst beneath the water, carrying its crew to their deaths, was something that I could no longer watch.
ref: 1992, Joe Foss, Paul McCarthy, Top Guns, →ISBN, page 285:
text: It dropped nosefirst, and though Russell tried to get the nose to rise, the weight of the engine forced it down.
ref: 2014, Joseph Monninger, Stay Alive #1: Crash, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of nose-first.
nose-first
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nose-first
form: most nose-first
form: nosefirst
Senses: examples: text: The speed and her heavy pack threatened her balance, but she caught herself before succumbing to an embarrassing nose-first topple to the earth.
ref: 2013, Lindsay Buroker, Conspiracy: The Emperor's Edge:
glosses: Having the nose first.
nose-first
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nose-first
form: most nose-first
form: nosefirst
Senses: examples: text: Bullets do not fly straight, nose-first, but move slowly around their long axis in flight (precession).
ref: 2012, Martin J Dougherty, Sniper: SAS and Elite Forces Guide:, →ISBN:
glosses: With the nose first.
bastard sandalwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard sandalwoods
Etymology: From its resemblance to sandalwood.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of false sandalwood.
synonyms: word: false sandalwood
bastard sandalwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastard sandalwood
bastard ironwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard ironwoods
Senses: glosses: Pouteria costata, a coastal tree native to New Zealand and Norfolk Island (Australia), in New Zealand also called the tawapou; its leathery leaves have prominently raised primary nerves/veins, and branches exude a milky fluid if cut.
bastard ironwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastard ironwood
false sandalwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false sandalwoods
Etymology: From its resemblance to sandalwood.
Senses: synonyms: bastard sandalwood
naio
glosses: Myoporum sandwicense, a flowering tree or shrub in the figwort family endemic to Hawai'i, highly variable in its form, the size and shape of its leaves, in the number of flowers in a group and in the shape of its fruit.
false sandalwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false sandalwood
tawapou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori tawāpou.
Senses: glosses: Pouteria costata, the bastard ironwood.
Alaskana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːnə
Etymology: From Alaska + -ana.
Senses: examples: text: Without the rich and eccentric collection of Alaskana at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England, my initial interest in Alaska could not have advanced very far.
ref: 1991, Peter A. Coates, The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy, →ISBN:
text: Betty Cavanaugh was a retired librarian from Anchorage and a bibliophile who collected Alaskana.
ref: 2009, Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood, →ISBN, page 224:
text: You could easily lose an afternnon just wandering among the stacks, enjoying the cozy sitting room on Level 3, studying the huge relief map of the state, browsing among the paintings hanging on the walls, or picking a book at random from the large Alaskana collection.
ref: 2011, Don Pitcher -, Moon Alaska, →ISBN:
glosses: Cultural items and icons representing Alaska.
overbleeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbleed
overbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbleed
underhydrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underhydrate
Guinayangan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of the province of Quezon, Philippines.
overboss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overbosses
Etymology: From over- + boss.
Senses: examples: text: But Buscetta neglected to inform his overboss about his extracurricular activity in crime.
ref: 1991, William Balsamo, George Carpozi, Crime Incorporated Or Under the Clock, →ISBN:
text: Five years later Trillot had proven his worth to a local Tenloss syndicate, and two years after that he resigned from Cestus Cybernetics to work directly for the overboss himself.
ref: 2004, Steven Barnes, The Hive, page 89:
text: His overboss was constantly on his back checking, making sure the money was coming in. Costa owed his overboss €50,000, the price for protection and safe transit to the UK.
ref: 2017, Alastair Macleod, Illegal, →ISBN:
glosses: A boss of underbosses in a criminal organization.
overboss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbosses
form: overbossing
form: overbossed
form: overbossed
Etymology: From over- + boss.
Senses: examples: text: Those who refuse to take responsibility argue that what ails people is that they are, or have been, overbossed, and not left enough on their own to develop their natural good nature.
ref: 1953, Rhoda Kellogg, Babies need fathers, too, page 191:
text: Both nursing and nonnursing students viewed nurses as respected and hardworking; however, more of the nonnursing than nursing students considered nurses to be overbossed and to have little chance for advancement or independent thinking.
ref: 1975, Helen S. Astin, Allison Parelman, Anne E. Fisher, Sex Roles: A Research Bibliography, page 252:
text: Either they‟re overbossed or underbossed. Either the father tells them when to breathe, or he ignores them.
ref: 2006, Mary Edwards Wertsch, Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress, →ISBN:
glosses: To micromanage.
overbosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overboss
overbosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overboss
overbossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overboss
overbossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overboss
riverpark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverparks
Etymology: From river + park.
Senses: examples: text: Typically, riverparks take the forms of concrete steps or natural banks.
ref: 1989, Progressive Architecture, volume 70, page 70:
text: Yet, beginning in 2001, a binational initiative was undertaken to envision a riverpark in the Alamar River, at that time, a 9-mile stretch of the last remaining free-flowing river in the area, host to a rich riparian area.
ref: 2018, Ken Conca, The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy, page 65:
glosses: A park near a river.
riverparks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riverpark
overcentralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + centralization.
Senses: examples: text: The final chapter sought to clarify the origins of overcentralization, but it went only halfway in that effort.
ref: 2008, János Kornai, By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey, →ISBN:
text: These obstacles to the formation and to the effectiveness of a functioning management explain the great prevalence of one-man rule and of overcentralization as forms of management organization despite their universal condemnation.
ref: 2017, Peter F. Drucker, The New Society: The Anatomy of Industrial Order, →ISBN:
glosses: Excessive centralization.
overcentralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In addition to plan substance, the form of plan implementation, especially in its overcentralisation, had serious shortcomings.
ref: 1981, Arthur MacEwan, Revolution and Economic Development in Cuba, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: Alternative form of overcentralization.
overclerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overclerks
Etymology: From over- + clerk.
Senses: examples: text: There were clerks innumerable, with underclerks beneath them and overclerks above.
ref: 2009, Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection, →ISBN, page 22:
text: As Kharl followed the overclerk with his eyes, he noticed the robed figure of a lord justicer in the hallway outside.
ref: 2010, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Ordermaster, →ISBN, page 355:
glosses: A clerk who also supervises one or more underclerks.
overclerks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overclerk
overclerked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overclerked
form: most overclerked
Etymology: From over- + clerk + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Other offices are notoriously overclerked.
ref: 1918, The Public - Volume 21, Part 2, page 1180:
text: Country banks are rarely if ever overclerked, and they have been seriously burdened by the extra work they have had to assume of various kinds.
ref: 1919, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, Nomination of John Skelton Williams, page 340:
glosses: Having more clerks than is needed for the amount of work to be done.
spie chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spie charts
Etymology: "S" (from superimposed) + pie chart
Senses: glosses: A pictorial graph where a radar chart is superimposed over a pie chart to compare two sets of data.
spie charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spie chart
porogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poro- + -gamy.
Senses: examples: text: The subject of Chalazogamy in Casuarina was discussed somewhat in detail, the speaker taking exception to Nawaschin's theory that Chalazogamy is a primitive type of fecundation from which porogamy has been developed.
ref: 1898, Science, page 918:
text: No statistical records are presently available about the plants showing porogamy, chalazogamy or mesogamy, in angiosperms.
ref: 1973, Parameswaran Krishnan Kutty Nair, Rajendra Kumar Grover, Thomas Meprethu Varghese, Glimpses in Plant Research - Volume 1, page 128:
text: The pollen tube may enter the ovule either via the chalaza (chalazogamy) (Billings 1903) or via the micropyle (porogamy) (Woodroof 1928).
ref: 1996, Jules Janick, James N. Moore, Fruit Breeding, Nuts, →ISBN, page 208:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The property of having the pollen tube in a seed plant enter the ovule by way of the micropyle.
thermohygrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermohygrometers
Etymology: From thermo- + hygrometer.
Senses: glosses: A combined thermometer and hygrometer
thermohygrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermohygrometer
thymocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Related to thymocytes
thymocytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thymocytic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of thymocytes
rigwoodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rigwoodie
trithiocarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trithiocarbonates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion CS₃²⁻ or any salt containing this anion
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The divalent group -S-CS-S-
uncatabolized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + catabolized.
Senses: glosses: Not catabolized
vaginolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cytolysin present in the bacterium Gardnerella vaginalis
rigwoodie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rigwoodies
form: rigwiddie
form: rigwiddy
Senses: examples: text: But even this will not answer, as both the outside Horses must have distinct rigwoodies, and would seldom or never, have equal weight upon their backs.
ref: 1808, Reports on Highways, page 95:
text: ...polished Scotch cart rigwoodie, with shaft rings, draught chains, &c,
ref: 1854, John Sproule, The Irish Industrial Exhibition of 1853: A Detailed Catalogue of Its Contents, page 307:
text: According to his statement, the accident was due to the rigwoodie getting loose while he was going downhill, in consequence of which the cart came upon the horse's hindquarters, and so startled it as to cause it to bolt.
ref: 1887, The Scottish Law Review and Sheriff Court Reports:
glosses: rope, chain, or band that crosses the saddle of a horse to support the attachment of a cart.
rigwoodie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rigwoodie
form: most rigwoodie
form: rigwiddie
form: rigwiddy
Senses: examples: text: But wither'd beldams, auld and droll, Rigwoodie hags wad spean a foal, Lowping an flinging on a crummock, I wonder didna turn thy stomach
ref: 1790, Robert Burns, Tam O'Shanter:
text: As for the ither auld rigwoodie f'adge, her heart is as boss as a bourtrce bush.
ref: 1827, Christian Isobel Johnstone, Elizabeth de Bruce, by the author of Clan-Albin, page 94:
text: What fee will ye gie me, ye rigwoodie carlin ?
ref: 1875, Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland:
text: I seem to be less vauntie of mineself To fork out they partnership of yourself and mineself Thy partnership which was so rigwoodie Thy partnership which soon leaked out To cause a sudden blow to our bond.
ref: 2011, Sebothoma William, Disclosed Verses, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: Fit for the gallows.
vasopermeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasopermeabilities
Etymology: From vaso- + permeability.
Senses: glosses: vascular permeability
Related terms: vasopermeation
vinexin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A vinculin-binding protein that enhances actin cytoskeletal organization
rigwiddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rigwiddies
Senses: examples: text: When Barns's buirdliest' barrowman, Deeming the battle now had come To touch-and-go, conceived a plan To gar wud Watty Strang succumb ; Therefore, unpouching His knife, he crouching Cut belly-band, rope, and rigwiddie,” Whareby the cart, wi' sudden start, Flew backwarts, whummlet hiddygiddie.
ref: 1846, William Drummond, The Muckomachy, Or The Middenfecht: (Polemomiddinia) a Poem:
text: Take away his rigwiddie," said his commander in a voice hollow as thunder.
ref: 1879, Peter Robert Drummond, Perthshire in Bygone Days: One Hundred Biographical Essays:
text: ...the said John Mackenzie had come to the complainers lands of Urray and cuttit his plewis and rigwiddies, and theirby and by utheris and likie oppin and manifest oppressionis, hes laid and halden the said landis waist.
ref: 1899, Robert Bain, History of the ancient province of Ross:
glosses: Alternative form of rigwoodie.
zymolase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zymolases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zymolyase.
picklese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pikliz.
rigwiddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rigwiddie
glosses: plural of rigwiddy
turbeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbehs
form: turbe
form: türbe
form: türbeh
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish تربه (türbe), from Arabic تُرْبَة (turba, “tomb”). Doublet of turbah.
Senses: examples: text: “The guard locks the gates of the turbeh, letting the heavy sound of the lock fall into the dark interior, as though leaving the name of the key inside.”
ref: 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 125:
glosses: A small mausoleum built over the grave of a high-ranking or holy Muslim, especially under the Ottomans.
quirl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɝl/
ipa: /kwɜːl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: quirls
form: quirling
form: quirled
form: quirled
Etymology: Attested since the 18th century. Considered by other dictionaries to be related to curl. Compare German Quirl, said to be related to twirl.
Senses: examples: text: Ephraim clapped his hand to his side, and rolled his eyes agonizingly towards his mother, but she took no notice. She got some paper out of the cupboard, and Ephraim sat down and began quirling it into long spirals with a wretched sulky air.
ref: 1894, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Pembroke: A Novel, page 215:
glosses: To curl or twirl, or twist or coil (up).
Midland County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Midland. Named for its central location in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Midland. So named for its location halfway between Fort Worth and El Paso.
nammet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A snack or light meal; food; originally a farm worker's lunch to be eaten in the fields.
boat park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: boat parks
Senses: glosses: An area on land where small boats can be stored when not in use.
demountables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demountable
annointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annointments
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of anointment.
annointments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annointment
southwesterlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southwesterly
northwesterlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northwesterly
announceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more announceable
form: most announceable
Etymology: From announce + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The pilot with all the self-assurance in the world walks down the aisle enters the cockpit and announces their destination, altitude, and whatever else is announceable.
ref: 1978, Maxine Klein, Theatre for the 98%, page 57:
glosses: Able to be announced.
announceable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: announceables
Etymology: From announce + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I was in Don's office to talk about the day's “announceables,” as we called them — on that day, the things Ontario Liberal Party Leader Dalton McGuinty was saying about health care.
ref: 2007, Warren Kinsella, The War Room, page 38:
glosses: A positive-sounding news item suitable for public announcement; a sound bite.
announceables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of announceable
peopleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From people + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: You are a modern dog, and more connected to your dogness and also to peopleness. The modern dog does not necessarily think in terms of "pack," since this is a social construct.
ref: 2010, Terry Bain, You Are a Dog: Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend, page 150:
text: I wonder if Jesus ever let his peopleness get in the way. I was recently thinking about how tough it is to constantly monitor my human tendencies.
ref: 2012, Denise J. Wilson, I Know Nothing:
glosses: The quality of being a person or people; communal social identity.
gloomster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gloomsters
Etymology: From gloom + -ster.
Senses: glosses: A gloomy, negative person.
gloomsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gloomster
mukata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mukatas
Senses: glosses: A kind of tithe, consisting of the proprietorship of one seventh of all the produce of a parish or district.
mukatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mukata
gut bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gut bombs
Senses: examples: text: It once seemed that the height of plate-lunch decadence was the hyphenated gut bomb called the chicken katsu-curry.
ref: 2010, Frank Davey, Bardy Google, page 45:
text: I still avoid the real obvious gut bombs, like Mexican food for example.
ref: 2014, Heather B. Jacobs, I'mpossible: My Personal Journey of Living with Ulcerative Colitis:
glosses: Any greasy, filling junk food.
Related terms: sugar bomb
gut bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gut bomb
failson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: failsons
Etymology: Compound of fail + son.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: faildaughter
text: This is the thread for Failsons. We are disappointments to our families, burdens on societies, and NOT jealous of our older sibling's nice houses and luxury automobiles.
ref: 2012 November 20, Haoma, “Failson Hangout”, in The Something Awful Forums / FYAD, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2013:
text: That manifests itself differently in different classes and geographic areas. For white, middle-class, male, useless people—who have just enough family context to not be crushed by poverty—they become failsons.
ref: 2016 November 18, Jia Tolentino, “What Will Become of the Dirtbag Left?”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2018:
text: But that is how it went for family failsons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday.
ref: 2017 June 7, Gary Legum, “Trump family grift is getting worse: Eric and Donald Jr. resurface with a discount hotel scam”, in Salon, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2017:
text: Zimbabwe’s people suffer while the spoiled failsons of the elite floss on the ’gram.
ref: 2017 December 5, Benjamin Fogel, “Why Do So Many Western Leftists Defend Robert Mugabe?”, in Jacobin, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2022:
text: [T]he white nationalism of internet failsons is like the allegiance to an imaginary caliphate that motivated the terrorists whose depredations helped get Trump elected in the first place. It's often just a carapace, a flag of convenience, a performance for the vast TV-and-online audience that now attends these grisly spectacles, with a malignant narcissism and nihilism underneath.
ref: 2019 August 6, Ross Douthat, “The Nihilist in Chief”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
glosses: An incompetent, unsuccessful middle-class or upper-class man who is protected from economic duress by his family's wealth or influence.
failsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of failson
weatherology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weather + -ology.
Senses: glosses: meteorology, as used to forecast the weather
weatherologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weatherologists
Etymology: From weatherology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A meteorologist.
weatherologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weatherologist
hide-a-bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hide-a-beds
Etymology: From a trademark, presumably from hide a bed or hideaway bed.
Senses: examples: text: In addition forty-eight hide-a-beds were replaced in the Northwood III project and ninety-five hide-a-beds were reconditioned. Twelve refrigerators were replaced in Northwood II apartments.
ref: 1964, The President's Report to the Board of Regents for the Academic Year 1964-1965, University of Michigan:
text: Looking around the room, Timothy saw that its far wall contained two more hide-a-beds, both of them unmade.
ref: 2004, Alfred D. Byrd, Through the Gate of Horn:
glosses: A sofa-bed.
hide-a-beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hide-a-bed
NGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NG
dadgummest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of dadgum: most dadgum
reconceal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconceals
form: reconcealing
form: reconcealed
form: reconcealed
Etymology: From re- + conceal.
Senses: glosses: To conceal again.
Synonyms: rehide
reconcealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconceal
reconceals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconceal
reconcealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconceal
AVG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of batting average.
idolons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idolon
negociate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: negociates
form: negociating
form: negociated
form: negociated
Senses: examples: text: She designed his retirement from the Royal Irish Artillery, and had negociated an immediate berth for him on the staff of the Commander of the Forces, and a prospective one in the household of Lord Townshend; […]
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Captain Devereux’s Fiddle Plays a Prelude to ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 308:
glosses: Obsolete form of negotiate.
negociates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of negociate
negociating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of negociate
negociated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of negociate
Montmorency County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Of French or French-Canadian origin, possibly named after the House of Montmorency.
Senses: glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Atlanta.
wikipedia: House of Montmorency
S&P
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A new study from S&P Global Market Intelligence found that public companies with women CEOs or CFOs often were more profitable and produced better stock price performance than many of the companies that had appointed men to those roles.
ref: 2019 October 16, Jeanne Sahadi, “Why it’s good for business to have a woman at the top”, in CNN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of Standard & Poor's: a financial services company based in New York City known for providing stock market indices and credit ratings.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The S&P 500 Index, an stock market index published by S&P Global Ratings.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of standards and practices.
superdroplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superdroplet
sweet upon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweet upon
form: most sweet upon
Senses: examples: text: Puddock had now little to trouble him upon a topic which had once cost him some uneasiness, and Mervyn acquiesced serenely in the existing state of things, and seemed disposed to be "sweet upon" pretty Lilias Walsingham, if that young lady had allowed it; but her father had dropped hints about his history and belongings which surrounded him in her eyes with a sort of chill and supernatural halo.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Being a Short History of the Great Battle of Belmont, That Lasted for So Many Days, wherein the Belligerents Showed So Much Constancy and Valour, and Sometimes One Side and Sometimes t’Other Was Victorious”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 297:
glosses: Alternative form of sweet on.
picquets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picquet
Montmorency
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Val-d'Oise department, Île-de-France, France.
glosses: A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A former municipality of Quebec, Canada, now part of Quebec City.
glosses: The Montmorency River in Quebec, which flows into the Saint Lawrence River.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A township in Whiteside County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A township in Montmorency County, Michigan, United States.
Derived terms: Montmorency County
Montmorency Falls
Related terms: Soisy-sous-Montmorency
China orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: China oranges
Senses: glosses: A kind of sweet orange, first brought into Europe from China by the Portuguese.
Derived terms: Lombard Street to a China orange
China oranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of China orange
uncharcoaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + charcoaled.
Senses: glosses: Not made into charcoal.
uncrayoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + crayoned.
Senses: glosses: Not marked with crayons.
unpencilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pencilled.
Senses: glosses: Not marked with, or as if with, a pencil.
tippex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tippexes
form: tippexing
form: tippexed
form: tippexed
Senses: examples: text: If the employer knows you are sick, he can arrange things at work so that the job can go on. First tippex out the wife's name, then write in my name.
ref: 2004, Rights at Work, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Tippex.
tippex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Since the 1986 Social Security Act reached the statute-book, MPs have been called upon to apply 'legislative tippex' (as Frank Dobson put it) through two Bills which corrected errors relating to...
ref: 1989, A. W. Dilnot, Ian Walker, The Economics of social security, page 211:
text: My staff noted that the relevant officials balanced the revenue cash-book at the end of the month in pencil and also made use of tippex.
ref: 1998, Report of the Auditor General on the Accounts of the Government of Namibia for the Financial Year Ended 31 March 1998:
text: How do you stand that hospital smell? I'm sure they pump it in just to annoy the visitors. It's like tippex.
ref: 1998, Sally Goldsworthy, Young Blood, page 286:
text: The copy I have emphasizes that "done" ("so" or "then," in the passage from "Mordant Fleas" quoted above) by dint of tippex (white-out fluid) where the "c" should be.
ref: 2003, Tom Raworth, Removed for Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth, page 179:
text: Just as word-processing made it much easier for individuals to edit their work (who can remember the days, not so long past, of typewriters and tippex?), now programs found on most computers (such as Microsoft Word) enable users to generate texts that combine words and images – and without much more expertise to include animation and sound.
ref: 2005 -, Anne Cranny-Francis, MultiMedia: Texts and Contexts, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Tippex.
Tippexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Tippex
Tippexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Tippex
Tippexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Tippex
odds bud
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: 'Odds bud!' lisped little Puddock, 'what a stentorian voice!'
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ods bodikin.
ungraffitied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + graffitied.
Senses: glosses: Not marked with graffiti.
ods bud
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ods bodikins.