cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tefahim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tefah
tefach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tefachim
form: tefah
Etymology: From Hebrew טפח.
Senses: glosses: A biblical unit of measure, the palm or handbreadth.
tefachim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tefach
grabba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: tobacco
glosses: a form of tobacco normally added to cannabis before smoking
pejority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin peiōritās.
Senses: glosses: pejoration; process of making or becoming worse
pejorativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pejorative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pejorative.
set up one's bristles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets up one's bristles
form: setting up one's bristles
form: set up one's bristles
form: set up one's bristles
Senses: glosses: To bristle; to react in a defensive and bad-tempered manner.
protemporaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See pro tempore and compare contemporaneous.
Senses: glosses: temporary
paroxytoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: paroxytone
parpends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parpend
jacklegged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Probably a hypercorrect form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jackleg.
savoury duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savoury ducks
Senses: glosses: A kind of meatball or faggot (not made with duck meat).
savoury ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savoury duck
atomic buffalo turd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomic buffalo turds
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: ABT
glosses: A spicy barbecue snack, typically a jalapeño stuffed with cheese and wrapped in bacon.
Related terms: popper
ABT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ABTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of atomic buffalo turd.
atomic buffalo turds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atomic buffalo turd
ABTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ABT
Jacobinical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jacobinical
form: most Jacobinical
Etymology: From Jacobinic + -al or Jacobin + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: 1793, Edmund Burke, “Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France” in Three memorials on French affairs, London: F. & C. Rivington, 1797,
Her late dangers have arisen […] from her own ill policy, which dismantled all her towns, and discontented all her subjects by Jacobinical innovations.
text: 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “A Character,” lines 49-52, in Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.), Coleridge: Poetical Works, Oxford University Press, 1912, p. 452,
And though he never left in lurch
His King, his country, or his church,
’Twas but to humour his own cynical
Contempt of doctrines Jacobinical.
text: She is always ready for jacobinical scoffs at a man for being a lord, if he happens to fail; she is always ready for toadying a lord, if he happens to make a hit.
ref: 1847 September, Thomas de Quincey, “Schlosser’s Literary History of the Eighteenth Century”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 14, page 576:
text: “And there must be no letter-scribbling to your cousin Hortense: no intercourse whatever. I do not approve of the principles of the family; they are Jacobinical.”
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 249:
glosses: Synonym of Jacobin, of, related to, or characteristic of the Jacobins of France.
synonyms: word: Jacobin
word: of
word: related to
word: or characteristic of the Jacobins of France
topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of radical.
synonyms: word: radical
Derived terms: Jacobinically
Della Robbia ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Said to have been invented by the Italian sculptor Luca della Robbia.
Senses: glosses: enameled terracotta
wikipedia: Luca della Robbia
Holevo's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The theorem was published by Alexander Holevo in 1973.
Senses: glosses: An important limitative theorem in quantum computing that establishes an upper bound (Holevo's bound) for the amount of information that can be known about a quantum state.
Solèr's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The theorem was originally proved by Maria Pia Solèr.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A result concerning certain infinite-dimensional vector spaces, stating that any orthomodular form that has an infinite orthonormal sequence is a Hilbert space over the real numbers, complex numbers or quaternions.
armadillo egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armadillo eggs
Etymology: Since they do not contain any egg, the name may have come from Scotch egg, another snack food that is wrapped in sausage meat.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A jalapeño popper, especially when wrapped in bacon or sausage meat.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see armadillo, egg.
armadillo eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armadillo egg
outbrakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbrake
unallusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unallusive
form: most unallusive
Etymology: From un- + allusive.
Senses: glosses: Not allusive.
calculose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calculose
form: most calculose
Senses: examples: text: The volatile salt of urine will coagulate spirits of wine; and thus, perhaps, the stones, or calculose concretions in the kidney or bladder, may be produced.
ref: 1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis:
glosses: stony; gritty
Related terms: calculus
somnivolent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more somnivolent
form: most somnivolent
Etymology: Derived from Latin somnus + -i- + volēns; see also volition.
Senses: examples: text: This portion of the poem, just after the Harrowing of Hell has been portrayed, opens with Will at home, awake from his last vision, dressing and going to Mass. In the midst of the service our somnivolent hero falls into his usual state and dreams his second-to-last vision.
ref: 1962, Morton Wilfred Bloomfield, Piers Plowman as a fourteenth-century apocalypse, page 128:
text: […] she impatiently brushed them away, her eyes alight with the joy of living, her cheeks pink, her whole body taking on a sense of direction, a firmness of movement, as if it had been woken out of years of a somnivolent state.
ref: 1986, Christine Park, Joining the grown-ups, page 124:
text: Thoughts of needing to rise for work in the morning further hindered Paul the somnivolent. The longer he lay awake the clearer his head became and the less likely he was to fall asleep, or so he thought.
ref: 2012, Neil Raffan, Neuter Spectator, page 22:
glosses: Having a desire to sleep.
strappled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strapple
strapples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strapple
strappling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strapple
radiumization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radium + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of treating something with radium.
breaker boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breaker boys
Senses: synonyms: coal cracker
glosses: A boy, or sometimes a man unable to do other mining work, employed to separate impurities from coal at the breaker of a coal mine in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
breaker boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breaker boy
A-bomb maiden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-bomb maidens
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hiroshima maiden.
synonyms: word: Hiroshima maiden
A-bomb maidens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-bomb maiden
Hiroshima maiden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hiroshima maidens
Senses: synonyms: A-bomb maiden
glosses: Any of a group of Japanese women who were disfigured by the thermal flash from the fission bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, and who subsequently went on a highly publicized journey to obtain reconstructive surgery in the United States in 1955.
Hiroshima maidens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hiroshima maiden
flycatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flycatch
flycaught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flycatch
ringposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringpost
tryscorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tryscorer
paleoentomologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleoentomologist
pulpsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulpsmiths
Etymology: From pulp + smith.
Senses: examples: text: […] a pulpsmith, one might expect the short adventure novels written for such secondary markets as Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories to carry his mark, but Moore's epic and romantic sensibility is clearly present.
ref: 1985, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, volume 2, page 897:
text: I've read the word unmanned plenty of times — it's a favorite of the pulpsmiths and sob-sisters — but this was the first time I'd ever actually felt that way.
ref: 2017, Stephen King, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, page 839:
text: More seriously, Masks also has trouble navigating the inherent pitfalls of playing through a story modeled after the work of pulpsmiths during the 1920s. There is an obvious gender imbalance, a good portion of the villains are clichéd dark-skinned foreigners, and there are some tasteless depictions of sex rituals.
ref: 2023, Stu Horvath, Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground, Deluxe Edition, page 135:
glosses: A writer of pulp fiction.
pulpsmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulpsmith
rustyhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rustyhood
greenhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenhoods
Etymology: From green + hood.
Senses: examples: text: Gott found that after harvesting the greenhoods, 75 per cent of the pre-harvest density was restored within fourteen months.
ref: 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 24:
glosses: Any of the genus Pterostylis of orchids of Australasia and the southwest Pacific.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pterostylis allantoidea
word: shy greenhood
Related terms: rustyhood
groundsharing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of groundshare
groundshared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of groundshare
greenhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenhood
fitouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fitout
agreeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agreeing
culverineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culverineers
Etymology: From culverin + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: This was in March 1471, when the young duke William was reported to be bringing 300 lances, 1,000 mounted crossbowmen and 200 culverineers on foot to reinforce Charles outside Amiens.
ref: 2002, Richard Vaughan, Charles the Bold: The Last Valois Duke of Burgundy, page 241:
glosses: The operator of a culverin.
culverineers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culverineer
alloplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alloplasm
malstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malsticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maulstick.
malsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malstick
mahlstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahlstocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maulstick.
mahlstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahlstock
communionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: communionists
Etymology: From communion + -ist.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: One who takes part in Holy Communion; a communicant.
communionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of communionist
uncontentiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncontentiously
form: most uncontentiously
Etymology: From uncontentious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncontentious manner.
uncontentiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncontentious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uncontentious.
retroduct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retroducts
form: retroducting
form: retroducted
form: retroducted
Senses: glosses: To draw back; to withdraw.
Related terms: retroduction
retroducts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retroduct
retroducting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retroduct
retroducted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retroduct
carled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carl
falcon-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more falcon-eyed
form: most falcon-eyed
Senses: glosses: Possessing particularly good vision.
shairn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sharn.
Jaggerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jaggerish
form: most Jaggerish
Etymology: From Jagger + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Now that I was used to them, they seemed just as limited as myself. Being different made no difference. How about whining like Dylan, or even a Jaggerish pout?
ref: 1994, George O’Brien, “Play”, in Out of Our Minds, Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, page 77:
text: […] Tim shouted “Whoa!” and slowly pulled away, still slamming from side to side and then backing into the crowd with a Jaggerish raised arm.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Reminiscent of Mick Jagger (born 1943), English musician and actor, best known as the lead vocalist of the Rolling Stones.
Synonyms: Jaggeresque
saxigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: saxicolous
saxicoline
glosses: Growing on rocks.
gone coon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gone coons
Senses: glosses: A goner; a person for whom there is no hope.
gone coons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gone coon
the schoolmaster is abroad
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Coined by Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux.
Senses: glosses: Education and intelligence are now widespread among the people.
wikipedia: Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
rule with a rod of iron
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rules with a rod of iron
form: ruling with a rod of iron
form: ruled with a rod of iron
form: ruled with a rod of iron
Senses: glosses: To rule with stern severity.
agoin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of agoing.
onlucky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more onlucky
form: most onlucky
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of unlucky.
meetaversaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meetaversary
chicken-hazard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A game of chance played with dice for very small stakes.
spookable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spookable
form: most spookable
Etymology: From spook + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be spooked or frightened.
unspookable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspookable
form: most unspookable
Etymology: From un- + spookable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be spooked or frightened.
gas coals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas coal
bounded lattice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bounded lattices
Senses: examples: text: 2004, Anna Maria Radzikowska, Etienne Kerre, On L-Fuzzy Rough Sets, Leszek Rutkowski, Jörg Siekmann, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Lotfi A. Zadeh (editors), Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing — ICAISC 2004: 7th International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNAI 3070, page 526,
A residuated lattice is an extension of a bounded lattice by a monoid operation and its residuum, which are abstract counterparts of a triangular norm and a fuzzy residual implication, respectively.
text: 2006, Bart Van Gasse, Chris Cornelis, Glad Deschrijver, Etienne Kerre, Triangle Lattices: Towards an Axiomatization of Interval-Valued Residuated Lattices, Salavatore Greco, Yukata Hata, Shoji Hirano, Masahiro Inuiguchi, Sadaaki Miyamoto, Hung Son Nguyen, Roman Słowiński (editors), Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing: 5th International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNAI 4259, page 117,
Indeed, in the scope of these logics, formulas can be assigned not only 0 and 1 as truth values, but also elements of [0,1], or, more generally, of a bounded lattice ℒ.
text: In this paper, we study idempotent nullnorms on bounded lattices. We prove that there is no idempotent nullnorm on a distributive bounded lattice L different from the proposal in [13].
ref: 2018, Gül Deniz Çayli, Funda Karaçal, “Some Remarks on Idempotent Nullnorms on Bounded Lattices”, in Vicenç Torra, Radko Mesiar, Bernard De Baets, editors, Aggregation Functions in Theory and in Practice, Springer,, page 32:
topics: algebra
mathematics
order-theory
sciences
glosses: Any lattice (type of partially ordered set) that has both a greatest and a least element.
Derived terms: lower bounded lattice
upper bounded lattice
bounded lattices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bounded lattice
biodynamical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biodynamical
form: most biodynamical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biodynamic.
Herbartians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Herbartian
Steinerians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Steinerian
disciplinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From discipline + -ism.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: An educational approach aiming to foster effective thought and action.
Related terms: disciplinist
Ciceronians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ciceronian
Izora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
disciplinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disciplinist
large-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more large-minded
form: most large-minded
Senses: glosses: Characterized by breadth of view; broad-minded.
Isaurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Isaurian
pilary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pilar (“relating to hair”).
responsibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of responsible
baleage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baleages
Etymology: From bale + -age.
Senses: glosses: Moist, dense forage for animals, produced in a baler.
Related terms: haylage
silage
baleages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baleage
remigrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remigrant
gynoparae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynopara
punsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punsmiths
Etymology: From pun + smith.
Senses: glosses: A person who invents puns, or plays on words.
punsmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punsmith
punology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of punnology.
battered woman syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal defense according to which a female murderer had no choice but to kill her violent partner in response to cumulative abuse rather than a single provocation.
Derived terms: english: a more recent, gender-neutral formulation
translation: a more recent, gender-neutral formulation
word: battered person syndrome
Related terms: battered child syndrome
battered savs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battered sav
cliticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cliticizes
form: cliticizing
form: cliticized
form: cliticized
Etymology: From clitic + -ize.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To make or become clitic.
cliticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cliticize
cliticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cliticize
cliticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cliticize
Derived terms: uncliticized
twigwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From twig + -work.
Senses: glosses: Architectural details constructed of twigs and branches to form decorative motifs in buildings and furniture.
graduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The division of circular arcs into degrees, minutes, etc.
whistle in the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whistles in the wind
form: whistling in the wind
form: whistled in the wind
form: whistled in the wind
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey are expending more and more effort on trying to get right something that cannot, and should not, be done in the first place. […] Endless exhortations to "do it better" are, to put it politely, whistling in the wind.
ref: 2009 February 22, Simon Caulkin, “However good the pay, it doesn't buy results”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 29 Jul 2018:
text: It doesn’t matter how strong your USP is or how powerful your value proposition, if the message isn’t reaching the right people you're whistling in the wind.
ref: 2014 January 21, “Don't whistle in the wind?”, in DLH Marketing, UK, retrieved 29 Jul 2018:
text: [E]veryone is doing no more than whistling powerlessly in the wind.
ref: 2018 July 9, Farouk Cassim, "Let’s do much more than whistling in the wind", voices360.com (South Africa) (retrieved 29 July 2018)
glosses: To attempt something that is futile; to say something that is not heeded.
Synonyms: piss in the wind
piss up a rope
Related terms: whistle Dixie
whistle down the wind
whistle in the dark
whistle past the graveyard
speechmakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speechmaking
cook out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cook outs
form: cookout
form: cook-out
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cookout.
cook out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cooks out
form: cooking out
form: cooked out
form: cooked out
form: cookout
form: cook-out
Senses: glosses: To cook a group meal outside as a family, workplace or other social unit.
cut-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cut-throughs
form: cut through
Etymology: From cut + through.
Senses: glosses: A shortcut; a route that goes through a particular area or property.
examples: text: It is the public mood that a party needs to assess and then recast in order to achieve cut-through and gain votes.
ref: 2022 March 29, Dr Peter Mangan, “What Labour must do to cut through to voters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, Letters:
glosses: Reach, influence.
bash and grab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bash and grabs
form: bash-and-grab
Senses: examples: text: Too often the law of bash and grab, with the axe and saw, have operated on these rich fields of revenue.
ref: 1946, Peter Joseph Hurley, From Kosciusko to the Sea: A Journey Along the River Murray, page 8:
text: Mr BOORD (Rotorua) said he had been concerned about the increase in "bash and grab” crime.
ref: 1956, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates. House of Representatives:
text: In narrow marina berths, tightly closed blinds are a defense against everything from bash-and-grab thieves to peeping toms.
ref: 1991, Janet Groene, Dressing ship: how to furnish, refurbish, and accessorize your boat, →ISBN:
glosses: The violent taking of something, such as in a robbery.
Synonyms: smash and grab
bash and grab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bashes and grabs
form: bashing and grabbing
form: bashed and grabbed
form: bashed and grabbed
form: bash-and-grab
Senses: glosses: To perform such an act.
lettice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛtɪs/
homophone: lettuce
Etymology: From Middle English letuse, from Anglo-Norman letuse; further etymology is unknown.
Senses: glosses: A kind of whitish-grey fur from the winter coat of the least weasel.
Derived terms: lettice cap
lettice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛtɪs/
homophone: lettuce
Forms: form: lettices
Senses: examples: text: To have Syrup of Succory compounded with Rhubarb; Take ſome whole Barley-Corns, the Roots of Smallage, Fennel, and Sparagraſs, with some white crude Tartar, of each two Ounces; two Leaves of Succory, Dandelion, Endive or Scariole, ſmooth Sow-Thiſtle, common Lettice, and Sage […]
ref: 1725, [Noël] Chomel, “SYRUP”, in R[ichard] Bradley, editor, Dictionaire Oeconomique: Or, The Family Dictionary. […], volume II (I–Z), London: […] D[aniel] Midwinter, […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: As for thy drink—I need not tell thee, it muſt be the infuſion of Vervain, and the herb Hanea, of which Ælian relates ſuch effects—but if thy ſtomach palls with it—diſcontinue it from time to time, taking cucumbers, melons, purſlane, water-lillies, woodbine, and lettice, in the ſtead of them.
ref: 1765, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXXIV, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VIII, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, pages 153–154:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of lettuce; however, more often a misspelling of lettuce.
Related terms: ermine
non-sterile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sterile.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonsterile.
Synonyms: unsterile
counter-argumentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counter-argumentative
form: most counter-argumentative
form: counterargumentative
Etymology: From counter- + argumentative.
Senses: glosses: Acting against an argument given; intending to counter an argument.
acetoclastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From acetoclastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an acetoclastic manner
acrolentiginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acro- + lentiginous.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: acral lentiginous (describing melanomas that grow on the palms and soles)
acromoprotease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of achromopeptidase.
synonyms: word: achromopeptidase
alkylphosphonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkylphosphonates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of an alkyl phosphonic acid
aminoaromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any amino derivative of an aromatic compound
civey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪvi/
Forms: form: civy
Etymology: From Middle English cyvee, from Old French civé; equivalent to chive + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In the kitchens the famous cooks were preparing menus which included, for one course alone: ballock broth, caudle ferry, lampreys en gelatine, oysters in civey, eels in sorré, baked trout, brawn in mustard, numbles of a hart, pigs farsed [...].
ref: 1940, TH White, The Ill-Made Knight:
text: Were there served, as in former times, a wine of Grenache and roasts, veal pasties, pimpernel pasties, black pudding and sausages, hares in civey and cutlets, pea soup, salt meat and great joints, a soringue of eels and other fish...
ref: 1954, Austryn Wainhouse, Hedyphagetica, page 132:
text: White leeks, beef pasties, ducks and chines, hares and coneys in civey, a geneste (p. 174) of larks, great joints.
ref: 2006, Eileen Power, editor, The Goodman of Paris (Le Ménagier de Paris): A Treatise on Moral and Domestic Economy by a Citizen of Paris, C.1393, page 151:
glosses: A kind of chive sauce served with game or seafood.
civy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of civey.
anabolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anabolize
anabolized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by anabolism
anthocyanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of anthocyanins
antiarrhythmogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + arrhythmogenic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: That counters arrhythmogenesis
autoagglutinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + agglutinable.
Senses: glosses: Able to cause, or to undergo autoagglutination
autoparasitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + parasitic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to autoparasitism
autoparasitoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoparasitoid
bacteriosponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacteriosponges
Etymology: From bacterio- + sponge.
Senses: glosses: Any marine sponge that hosts a community of bacteria
bacteriosponges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacteriosponge
binucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binucleotides
Etymology: From bi- + nucleotide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dinucleotide.
pastorela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastorelas
form: Pastorela
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pastorela, from French pastourelle.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Mexican theater performance that chronicles the journeys of shepherds and shepherdesses on the way to visit the newborn Jesus, typically performed during Advent.
pastorela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastorelas
form: Pastorela
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old Occitan pastorela (“little shepherdess”), from pastor (“shepherd”) + -ela (feminine diminutive suffix). Compare etymology 1.
Senses: glosses: A type of Occitan lyric poetry in which a knight meets a shepherdess.
glosses: A type of Occitan lyric poetry in which a knight meets a shepherdess.
A work of such poetry.
Related terms: troubadour
pastor
huanca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huancas
Senses: glosses: An elongated vertical stone sacred to Andean peoples.
bioclaustration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioclaustrations
Etymology: From bio- + claustration.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of symbiosis in which a soft-bodied organism lives entirely within a harder-bodied one
glosses: The trace of such relationship left in a fossil
bioclaustrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioclaustration
biomimetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biomimetic.
blockgroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blockgroups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of block group.
block group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block groups
Senses: glosses: A small geographical unit that is part of the US censuses
blockgroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blockgroup
calmidozolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of calmidazolium.
cementoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The protein domain associated with trappin
chlorovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloroviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus, of the genus Chlorovirus, that infects chlorella
chloroviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorovirus
chondroclastogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chondroclast + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The generation and development of chondroclasts
chromafenozide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pesticide N'-tert-butyl-N'-(3,5-dimethylbenzoyl)-5-methyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromene-6-carbohydrazide
weapon-schaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weapon-schaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wapinschaw.
weapon-schaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weapon-schaw
clathrose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clathrose
form: most clathrose
Senses: glosses: Crossed by deep rectangular furrows.
clathrulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clathrulate
form: most clathrulate
Etymology: See -ule.
Senses: glosses: finely clathrate
chronotolerance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronotolerances
Etymology: From chrono- + tolerance.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: chronic (extending over time) tolerance (to medication, especially radiotherapy)
clastogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clastogenicities
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of being clastogenic
coccolithovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coccolithoviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus, of the genus Coccolithovirus, that infects coccolithophores
coccolithoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coccolithovirus
cocircularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + circularity.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being cocircular
cocircular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + circular.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Lying on the same circle
raw_tags: of a set of points
Related terms: cocircularity
colinear
wampish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wampishes
form: wampishing
form: wampished
form: wampished
form: wampas
form: wampes
form: wampuz
Etymology: Cognate to English wamble.
Senses: glosses: To brandish or flourish, or be brandished or flourished.
glosses: To wriggle, twist or swerve about, like a fish swimming
wampishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wampish
wampished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wampish
wampishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wampish
cocladogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + cladogenic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to cocladogenesis
pontinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin pōns (“bridge”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing a bone of the skull of certain fishes
cocladogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + cladogenetic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of cocladogenic.
concatameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From concatamer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of concatemeric.
rhizophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizophores
Etymology: From rhizo- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The structure bearing the true roots in certain species of Selaginella.
Related terms: rhizophorous
rhizophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizophore
araks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arak
verduring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of verdure
twirk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twirks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twerk (“a twitch”).
twirks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twirk
phytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoses
Etymology: From phyto- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: dermatophytosis
Hova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hovas
form: Hova
Senses: glosses: A member of the free commoners of Madagascar, one of the three principal historical castes there, alongside the Andriana (nobles) and Andevo (slaves).
Hovas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hova
steganographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of steganographic.
decatenase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decatenases
Etymology: From de- + catenase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses a decatenation reaction, especially of DNA
planariform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more planariform
form: most planariform
Etymology: From translingual Planaria + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling the planarians.
suturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suturations
Etymology: From suture + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The creation of a suture; a stitching together.
suturations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suturation
misrecitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + recitation.
Senses: glosses: An inaccurate recitation.
dinucleosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinucleoside
cosmopolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cosmopolitic
form: most cosmopolitic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cosmopolitical.
dorsomesial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dorso- + mesial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: dorsal and mesial
dysmegakaryopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dys- + megakaryopoiesis.
Senses: glosses: dysplastic megakaryopoiesis
stealingest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: stealing + -est
Senses: examples: text: One extended family member in Kansas City was known by friends as "the stealingest son-of-a-bitch in town."
ref: 1980, Elmer P. Martin, Joanne Mitchell Martin, The Black Extended Family, page 80:
text: “This is the stealingest dog I ever did know,” muttered Maria beneath the lace. “She's got something and won't give it up.”
ref: 2009, Kathryne Kennedy, My Unfair Lady, page 16:
glosses: Most inclined to steal; most thievish.
chapel cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapel carts
Etymology: By casual dropping of the first syllable.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Whitechapel cart.
synonyms: word: Whitechapel cart
chapel carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapel cart
thrillingest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of thrilling: most thrilling
amazingest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of amazing: most amazing
unintubated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + intubated.
Senses: synonyms: nonintubated
glosses: Not intubated.
gimmickless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gimmickless
form: most gimmickless
Etymology: From gimmick + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from gimmicks.
ungimmicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gimmicked.
Senses: examples: text: The stage magician surreptitiously swapped the ungimmicked pack of cards for a trick pack.
glosses: Free from gimmicks.
scissiparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: fissiparous
glosses: Reproducing by fission.
Related terms: scissiparity
irrevivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unrevivable.
fernshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fernshaws
Etymology: From fern + shaw.
Senses: glosses: A thicket of ferns.
fernshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fernshaw
BWCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BWC
coured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coure
couring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coure
liened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lien + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Subjected to a lien.
Beaunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beaune
solar maculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The idea that solar maculation depends in some way upon the position of the planets occurred to Galileo in 1612.
ref: 1885, Agnes M. Clerke, chapter 2, in A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, page 208:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Sunspots.
lienic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.ən.ɪk/
/laɪˈiːn.ɪk/
Etymology: From lien + -ic or its etymon, Latin lien (“the spleen”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the spleen.
Synonyms: splenic
stasimorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stasis + -morphy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any deviation from the normal form of a bodily organ due to arrested development.
torsolette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torsolettes
Senses: glosses: A camisole with a corset, and often also garters.
Related terms: corsolette
corselet
brasolette
corsolette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corsolettes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corselet.
corsolettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corsolette
torsolettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torsolette
ecogeographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From eco- + geographically.
Senses: glosses: In an ecogeographic manner
electroinjection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electroinjections
Etymology: From electro- + injection.
Senses: glosses: A form of electrotransfection
Related terms: electroinject
perfectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perfect + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process or result of perfecting something
electrotransfections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrotransfection
electroinjections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroinjection
keeperesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keeperess
pycnon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pycna
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pyknon.
pycna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pycnon
hoity-toitiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hoity-toity + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hoity-toity.
rimuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rimuliform
form: most rimuliform
Etymology: From Latin rimula (“little crack”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: crack-shaped
chalcedonyx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An agate formed of a white opaque chalcedony alternating with a greyish translucent chalcedony.
funny paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funny papers
Senses: examples: text: read a funny paper
text: read her kids the funny paper
glosses: Synonym of funny papers.
synonyms: word: funny papers
examples: text: wrapped in funny paper
glosses: Paper on which is printed the comics section of a newspaper.
fatty boombalatty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatty boombalatties
Etymology: From a 19th century children's rhyme: "Fatty, Fatty, Boom-a-latty; This is the way he goes! He is so large around the waist, he can not see his toes!".
Earliest written attestation from 1899.
Senses: examples: text: Fatty Jones proposed it over his shoulders as he waddled along in the dust. The rest whoop wild agreement. "Fatty, Fatty, boom-a-latty," they screeched joyously.[…]
ref: 1908, Minnesota Magazine, Volume 14:
text: O well, never mind, mother, he can have the ‘fatty, fatty, boom-a-latties’ and I will eat the 'petit pois'. They are sweetest. […]
ref: 1909, Edith Loring Fullerton, The Lure of the Land, page 58:
text: This fatty-fatty-boombalatty kid, Ed Linke, who is pitching himself into a regular's berth on the Nats' trip home, is pretty full of awareness, for a rookie.
ref: 1933 March 31, The Washington Post, page 15:
text: An extremely common one, certain to assail my ears whenever I went into a strange neighorbood, was in these words: “Fatty, Fatty, Boom-a-latty, here’s the way he goes.”
ref: 1946, Russell Jachne McLauchlin, Alfred Street, page 20:
text: Now onto more important matters, my motion to add “fatty fatty boombalatty” to the list of unacceptable hate speech.
ref: 1999, King of the Hill, "Bills Are Made to Be Broken", Season 4, Episode 3:
glosses: An extremely obese person.
glosses: An extremely thick joint or blunt of marijuana.
Related terms: fatty bom bom
get ahead of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets ahead of
form: getting ahead of
form: got ahead of
form: got ahead of
form: gotten ahead of
Senses: glosses: To take preemptive action before a potential development becomes reality.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, ahead, of.
dizzify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dizzifies
form: dizzifying
form: dizzified
form: dizzified
Senses: glosses: To make dizzy; to render someone confused and flummoxed.
dizzified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dizzified
form: most dizzified
Senses: glosses: Having been rendered dizzy, confused or flummoxed.
panicmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panicmongers
Etymology: From panic + monger.
Senses: glosses: A person who spreads panic among others, a fearmonger, a scaremonger.
panicmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panicmonger
go ahead with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes ahead with
form: going ahead with
form: went ahead with
form: gone ahead with
Senses: glosses: To resume something previously cancelled or delayed; to continue something despite known concerns.
run ahead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs ahead
form: running ahead
form: ran ahead
form: run ahead
Senses: glosses: To use sidings to pass a different train.
raw_tags: of a train
examples: text: The culture has run ahead of what people are comfortable with.
glosses: To proceed beyond peers or beyond some limit.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To execute (code) in advance, anticipating a likely upcoming need for the result.
Derived terms: word: runahead