cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
monobaramin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monobaramins
Etymology: From mono- + baramin, coined by American creationist Walter ReMine in 1993.
Senses: topics: creationism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Part or all of a holobaramin; a group of organisms believed to be related to by common descent in baraminology.
Derived terms: monobaraminic
polybaramin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polybaramins
Etymology: From poly- + baramin, coined by American creationist Walter ReMine in 1993.
Senses: topics: creationism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A grouping of organisms that belong to different holobaramins.
Derived terms: polybaraminic
polybaraminic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From polybaramin + -ic.
Senses: topics: creationism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or relating to a polybaramin.
holobaraminic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From holobaramin + -ic.
Senses: topics: creationism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or relating to a holobaramin.
apobaraminic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From apobaramin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to an apobaramin.
monobaraminic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From monobaramin + -ic.
Senses: topics: creationism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or relating to a monobaramin.
spotted seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotted seals
Senses: glosses: A true seal, Phoca largha, inhabiting ice floes and waters of the north Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas.
Synonyms: larga seal
largha seal
spotted seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotted seal
grumpster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grumpsters
Senses: glosses: someone with a grumpy temperament
grumpsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grumpster
girl-friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more girl-friendly
form: most girl-friendly
Senses: examples: text: [The text below (items 1–7) is written by Ramona, about Scott's apartment.]
Things that are not cool about Scott's apartment:
① only one room
② only one bed and it's shared with a gay man
[…]
⑦ not "girl-friendly"
Scott: What does "not girl-friendly" mean?
Ramona: It means it's a sucky little hole in the ground, Scott.
ref: 2005, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”, in Scott Pilgrim, volume 2:
glosses: Designed to appeal to girls.
volcanistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From volcano + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: The old volcanistic metaphor is especially apt: a thick, hard crust of earth, beneath which bubbles, hot liquid magma pressing for release above.
ref: 2004, Howard F. Stein, Beneath the Crust of Culture: Psychoanalytic Anthropology and the Cultural:
glosses: Of, or related to volcanism.
plutonistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plutonistic
form: most plutonistic
Etymology: From plutonism.
Senses: examples: text: Werner was correct in pointing out that many sedimentary rocks, such as limestone and sandstone, were deposited in water without any significant role for plutonistic heating.
ref: 1991, William K. Hartmann, Ron Miller, The history of earth: an illustrated chronicle of an evolving planet:
glosses: Of, or related to plutonism.
general studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A school subject that assesses reading and writing skills and awareness of current affairs.
double day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double days
Senses: glosses: The extended working day of a person who has to fulfil the duties of paid employment and then care for a family at home.
Related terms: double burden
a woman's work is never done
double days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double day
double burden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double burdens
Senses: glosses: The extended workload of a person who works double days.
double burdens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double burden
parasafranine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + safranine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound C₂₀H₁₈N₄, obtainable from mauveine.
Related terms: Perkin's mauve
Ypsilanti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɪpsɪˈlænti/
Etymology: Named after Demetrios Ypsilantis, a hero in the Greek War of Independence.
Senses: glosses: A city in Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States.
wikipedia: Demetrios Ypsilantis
Greek War of Independence
Synonyms: word: Ypsi
Ypsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: The city of Ypsilanti, Michigan.
you must be fun at parties
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: 'Pick a language. I'll conjugate any verb you want so fast it will make your head spin.' 'You must be fun at parties.'
ref: 2011, Charles Brokaw, The Temple Mount Code: A Thomas Lourds Thriller, Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 334:
text: "You must be fun at parties." Hunter's mouth was moving faster than his brain and he wasn't even sure what he was saying until he heard himself! 'You must be fun at parties', really?! That sounded so rude.
ref: 2017, Ryan Jensen, The Butterfly Effect, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: A sarcastic retort to somebody who has said something perceived as boring or pedantic.
Related terms: no fun at parties
bit between one's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If he was to get the bit between his teeth after he had got ordained and bought his living, he would play more pranks than ever he, Theobald, had done.
ref: 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh:
text: Unruly clients might take the bit between their teeth and threaten to drag their patron into the fray.
ref: 1991, Stephen Kirby, Nick Hooper, The Cost of Peace: Assessing Europe's Security Options, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Rebkah Rahskail probably wasn't, and neither was her cousin, Dragon Hill, but they might find themselves pulled into an adventure if the others got the bit between their teeth.
ref: 2012, David Weber, Midst Toil and Tribulation, →ISBN:
text: As for taking the bit between his teeth, Sir Raffle, I do not think that any man was ever more obedient, perhaps I should say more submissive, than I have been. But there must be a limit to everything.'
ref: 2014, Anthony Trollope, Helen Small, The Last Chronicle of Barset: The Chronicles of Barsetshire, →ISBN:
glosses: Complete control of a situation; a stance that cannot be controlled or restrained by anyone else.
examples: text: The upheaval in the creative unions seems to have gone further than expected and the forces for renewal took the bit between their teeth — to such an extent that the writers' congress in June of the same year would follow more staid formulas and attempt more of a compromise between the old and the new, as compared to the Fifth Congress of the Filmmakers' Union in May, where the old guard of film directors had been eliminated (Lev Kulidshanov, Vladimir Naumov, and Sergei Bondarchuk).
ref: 1991, Roy Medvedev, Giulietto Chiesa, Time of Change: An Insider's View of Russia's Transformation, →ISBN, page 13:
text: When my father had the bit between his teeth he would work all day and half the night, barely stopping to eat, snapping at anyone who interrupted him.
ref: 2010, Helen Grant, The Glass Demon, →ISBN:
text: Soon, however, he took the bit between his teeth and wrote and wrote. Work was therapy; by the time the memoirs were published he had recovered his self-confidence.
ref: 2015, Martin van Creveld, Moshe Dayan, →ISBN:
glosses: A large degree of focus and commitment to a task.
examples: text: Some fellow British travellers at Xian, who own horses and therefore understand equine tack, pointed out — when I asked about the authenticity of the replicas — that the horses could not possibly have coped with the bit between their teeth (as they were shown) for long.
ref: 2004, Maurice Cotterell, The Terracotta Warriors: The Secret Codes of the Emperor's Army, →ISBN:
text: His eyebrows drew together, his hand found his pipe. He put the bit between his teeth and then he could think better, could think almost as well as when he had the strap of his accordion on his shoulder and his hands on the keys.
ref: 2009, Geoffrey Homes, No Hands on the Clock, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bit, between, teeth.
Related terms: bite the bullet
grit one's teeth
hold the reins
take the bull by the horns
carbocupration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbocuprations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A carbometallation reaction involving copper.
carbocuprations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbocupration
unepic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unepic
form: most unepic
Etymology: From un- + epic.
Senses: examples: text: Virgil, Milton, and Voltaire have obscured the idea of the Epic, as the perfection of ballad poetry, by trying to write after the Epic model in an unepic age.
ref: 1848, The Christian Remembrancer, volume 15, page 403:
glosses: Not epic.
sthenurine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Characteristic of the extinct kangaroo subfamily †Sthenurinae.
sthenurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sthenurines
Senses: glosses: Any extinct marsupial of the subfamily †Sthenurinae.
gloriosky
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Catchphrase of the protagonist of the comic strip Little Annie Rooney (launched in 1927), presumably from glorious.
Senses: examples: text: We are told that it is corny to be sentimental, to feel like shouting “gloriosky” with that little girl of the comic strips, Little Annie Rooney. But it is not corny at all; it is deep wisdom.
ref: 1963, Joseph Anthony Breig, The Mysteries of Marriage, page 20:
text: The individual or group at the top feed entirely on flattering and deceptive garbage (the Howard Hughes syndrome). Gloriosky, the tales I could tell about corporations where I've worked... such things are only possible on the Planet of the Apes.
ref: 1980, Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminati Papers:
text: My heart dropped with a sick thud when I read small type on the label; rather than a German set from EMI Electrola, this originated in the U.K. But it played, gloriosky, without a single tick or click.
ref: 1986, Fanfare, volume 9, numbers 3-4, page 197:
text: STEPHANIE: Gloriosky, Mom! Fiber and long-chain carbs and pure, natural fruit sugar—all without saturated fat! It doesn't get any better than this!
ref: 2003, C. John McCoglin, Surviving Youth Sports, page 232:
glosses: wonderful; great; hurrah!
wikipedia: Little Annie Rooney
EME
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of
Earth–Moon–Earth.
Earth–Moon–Earth.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Early Modern English.
Related terms: moonbounce
Shin Bet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Names of the initial letters of Hebrew שירות הביטחון הכללי (“General Security Service”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘How will you get news of him?’ said Haneen. ‘Can he make phone calls?’
‘The Shin Bet still have him.’
ref: 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 28:
glosses: Israel's internal security service.
prongy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prongy
form: most prongy
Etymology: From prong + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characterised by prongs or a prong-like shape.
counterexplosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊʃən
Forms: form: counterexplosions
Etymology: From counter- + explosion.
Senses: glosses: An explosion triggered by, or in response to, another explosion.
counterexplosions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterexplosion
shitlib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪt.lɪb/
Forms: form: shitlibs
Etymology: From shit + lib.
Senses: examples: text: Shitlibs have dehumanized themselves in our eyes. We simply don't give a shit about them, don't consider them human.
ref: 2017 August 15, Jared Yates Sexton, quoting a 4chan member, The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage, Counterpoint, →ISBN:
text: You arrived here as the mysterious Deepthroat Two, then you immediately told me that you work with CTV, informed me that your two exes were victims of the blasts, and laid out exactly what you'd do with the money we're giving you, so the moment either of those projects premiered, we'd have your name- not that we didn't have it already on account of you being the most loose-lipped deepthroater this shitlib state has ever seen.
ref: 2018, Richard Kelly, T/James Reagan, Southland Tales: The Complete Saga, →ISBN, page 388:
text: For a year and a half, on every social media platform, the Deplorables had waxed breathless about the extent to which they and their MAGA brethren were about to MAGA until every last shitlib had been pwned and rekt and BTFO'd.
ref: 2020, Andrew Marantz, Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, Penguin, →ISBN, page 38:
text: "George Shaw's contribution emphasizes the importance of undermining the "Newspeak" of the "Marxist social engineers," which the alt-right does in part by reappropriating language and creating neologisms like "Cuckservative," "Counter-Semite," and "shitlib," a term that refers to pseudo-intellectual liberal "wearers of pussy hats" who are "slovenly, perverted, mongrelized, devious, tantrum-prone buffoons and lunatics."
ref: 2021 April 21, Alexander Laban Hinton, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US, NYU Press, →ISBN:
text: However, this isn’t to say shitlibs are incapable of, or lack the desire to effect, a cultural revolution. […] Whenever left populists tried to make a nuanced point on gender politics, defend free speech, or propose a different way to address racism, the shitlib simply rejected all nuance and branded every proposed modification of the full-spectrum cultural agenda as "right-wing."
ref: 2023 September 4, Lama Abu Odeh, “How the Shitlibs Won”, in Compact, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2024:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political liberal, especially a hypocritical one.
shitlibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitlib
ringy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ringy
form: most ringy
Etymology: From ring + -y (adjectival suffix).
Senses: glosses: Having a ringing or reverberating sound.
glosses: Having rings (circles), or a ring shape; annular.
Derived terms: ringiness
ringy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringies
Etymology: From ring + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I had a similar thing happen to me. Just called the guy who did the well test and he helped me diagnose it right over the phone. It was something to do with a filter and not the bladder. Cheap to fix in my case. If you have a local well/pump person, give them a ringy.
ref: 1998 June 20, Anacabana, “Forgive my ignorance”, in misc.rural (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Oct 2025:
text: All you Canadian hosers, let's get some tradin' going on, eh. I hope I'm not being too much of a hoser, eh, cause my setlist is pretty short. I'm ready to do some beauty exchanges though, so give me a ringy, O.K., beauty.
ref: 1998 October 21, Marcel Guay, “Canadian Tradin', eh!”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Oct 2025:
text: Gets, give me a ringy when you can. Unsure what number you're at.
ref: 2000 August 11, Da Rocket Avenger, “Sixpack”, in microsoft.public.games.zone.fighterace (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Oct 2025:
text: The Irish love nicknaming landmarks; Billy [Scott] refers to sculptures as 'the thingy with the ringy' (The Beacon Of Hope) and 'the balls on the Falls' (Rise).
ref: 2016 February 9, Louise Cahill, “Back to Belfast: Going home to a city which wears its scars, but can still offer you a fabulous weekend - Northern Ireland-style”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2016:
glosses: Alternative form of ringie (“ring”).
Related terms: ringy-dingy
dunnit
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌnɪt/
Senses: examples: text: Bob's just finished painting the spare room. Looks good, dunnit?
glosses: Contraction of doesn't it.
Related terms: innit
whodunit
whodunnit
cap of maintenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caps of maintenance
Senses: glosses: A ceremonial cap of crimson velvet lined with ermine, worn or carried as a sign of nobility or special honour.
Synonyms: chapeau
chapeau gules
caps of maintenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cap of maintenance
anti-female
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-female
form: most anti-female
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antifemale.
anti-female
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-females
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antifemale.
schizoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schizoidal
form: most schizoidal
Senses: glosses: Synonym of schizoid.
synonyms: word: schizoid
schizoidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more schizoidally
form: most schizoidally
Etymology: From schizoidal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a schizoidal manner.
alt-rightists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alt-rightist
alt-righters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alt-righter
perester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peresters
Etymology: From per- + ester.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ester of a peracid
peresters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perester
persubstituted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From per- + substituted.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: substituted at all available positions
pervilleine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pervilleines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of alkaloids related to tropane
pervilleines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pervilleine
phenoxenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenoxeniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unstable cation resulting from loss of a hydride ion from the hydroxyl group of a phenol
phenoxeniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenoxenium
phenylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction in which phenyl groups are added to a molecule
Derived terms: trinitrophenylation
phenylazirine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylazirines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phenyl derivative of an azirine
pearlish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pearlish
form: most pearlish
Etymology: From pearl + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: In the pearlish half-light he made an apologetic smile and scrutinized the violin from the top and then both sides.
ref: 2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 125:
glosses: Like a pearl; pearly.
Japanese amberjacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese amberjack
phenyloxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenyloxys
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of phenoxy.
synonyms: word: phenoxy
phenylsulfinyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylsulfinyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phenyl derivative of a sulfinyl group
phenylsulfonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylsulfonyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phenyl derivative of a sulfonyl group
phosphitylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by phosphitylation
navratnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navratna
phosphitylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphitylations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The addition reaction of a phosphite
problemsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more problemsome
form: most problemsome
Etymology: From problem + -some.
Senses: examples: text: They are legally mandated to intrude and imprison “the problemsome” on the grounds of dangerousness, whether “the problemsome” are truly dangerous or not and despite the fact that psychiatry's own research and amicus briefs indicate that psychiatrists have no reliability whatever in predicting dangerousness.
ref: 1992, Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence:
text: In an interview, he noted that the long delay in filling the post of Director of Central Intelligence was "especially problemsome."
ref: 2001, William Safire, Let a Simile be Your Umbrella:
text: “[...] We find our meaning in different ways and had rather remain here poor than there poor with our problemsome families dispersed across the face of the earth instead of at home, nearby, for us to tend to.”
ref: 2005, J J Garrett, The Quixote Imbroglio: That Which Remains of the Burden of Honor:
glosses: Characterised or marked by problems
S-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: S-boxes
Etymology: Short for substitution box.
Senses: examples: text: In block ciphers, S-boxes are typically used to obscure the relationship between the key and the ciphertext.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A basic component of symmetric-key algorithms, which performs substitution, transforming one set of bits into another.
S-boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of S-box
theta meditation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of meditation and relaxation that is supposed to induce theta waves in the brain.
Cubanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cuban + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making Cuban.
Related terms: Cubanize
ministers without portfolios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minister without portfolio
globewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From globe + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the form or fashion of a globe.
examples: text: Globewise, it is far south of the British Isles, Holland, Belgium and even Switzerland and no farther from the equator than Marseilles, France, and Pisa and Florence in Italy.
ref: 1982, Leslie E. Arndt, The Bay County Story: Memoirs of the County's 125 Years, page 82:
glosses: In terms of the globe of the Earth; geographically.
MCI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Media Control Interface.
MCI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MCIs
Senses: examples: text: Embedded in the controversy surrounding the establishment of specific diagnostic criteria for MCI, there is much debate regarding whether impairment in everyday activities should be included as a criterion.
ref: 2009, Alireza Minagar, Neurobiology of Dementia:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of mild cognitive impairment.
examples: text: After an MCI, hospital surge-capacity plans will have to be activated quickly.
ref: 2011, Kate Curtis, Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics:
topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of mass casualty incident.
topics: food
government
lifestyle
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: IMP
MRE
C-rat
K-rat
glosses: Initialism of meal, combat, individual.
phantasized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phantasize
phantasizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phantasize
matchbreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matchbreakers
Etymology: From match + breaker.
Senses: examples: text: "She's a great matchmaker," said Kati. "And a matchbreaker too," added the Count.
ref: 1956, Eva Boros, The Mermaids:
glosses: Someone who breaks dating, engagement, or marriage arrangements.
matchbreakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matchbreaker
character-based
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: capable of displaying only text characters or having a text-based user interface
Synonyms: text-based
ATryn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: brand name of the anticoagulant antithrombin manufactured by rEVO Biologics, the first medicine produced using genetically engineered animals
LMHCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LMHC
pixelscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pixelscapes
Etymology: From pixel + -scape.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A landscape constructed from pixels.
Related terms: voxelscape
pixelscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pixelscape
wordscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordscapes
Etymology: From word + -scape.
Senses: coordinate_terms: word cloud
glosses: A landscape constructed from words or language; a word collage.
examples: text: […] we wonder whether the phrase might not be some mis-translation or a misprint […], but no matter, the phrase as is has a certain ring to it and bids fair to be a part of our wordscape for the foreseeable future. So we accept the reality of the notion and imagine that perhaps, like leprechauns, it survives only in Ireland.
ref: 1987, David Justice, The Semantics of Form in Arabic in the Mirror of European Languages (Studies in Language), volume 15, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 188:
text: […] influence our perceptions increasingly as we grow. In one sense we are very much what we say, and how we interpret what is said to us. The world of words that mirrors the world of our experience is our wordscape. Passively accepting the wordscape at any point leads to a 'hardening of the categories', a freezing of the metaphors through which our experience is filtered. Constantly engaging and playing with language and […]
ref: 2007, Stephen Bowkett, 100+ Ideas for Teaching Creativity, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 24:
text: […] all, however, have won their place in the book by passing into wider currency and exhibiting the staying power and the tendency to spawn byforms and allusions that suggest that they are and will remain part of the English-language wordscape.
ref: 2015, Jennifer Speake, “Editor's Preface”, in Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The whole lexicon (word-stock) of a language conceived as such a landscape or collage.
wordscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wordscape
preparationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From preparation + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The view, in Christianity, that unregenerate people can take steps (such as praying, or reading the Bible) in preparation for conversion, and should be exhorted to do so.
Related terms: preparationist
normalfag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normalfags
Etymology: From normal + -fag.
Senses: examples: text: Make sure to call me a ‘white supremacist’ and ‘anti-semite’ or whatever bullshit you spew to spook the normalfags. It doesn’t even matter. You’ve been calling every White person alive those names for decades—they’ve lost all their meaning
ref: 2019 April 27, John T. Earnest, An open letter [so-called Earnest Manifesto], margin number 27:
synonyms: word: basic bitch
word: bourgeois
word: L7
word: mainstreamer
word: mainstreamist
word: muggle
word: mundane
word: normal
word: normalfag
word: normaloid
word: normie
word: square
word: straight
glosses: normie
enharmony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enharmonies
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The property of being enharmonic.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The equivalence between two notes whose names are different.
art gums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of art gum
blue books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue book
lontar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lontars
form: lontar
Etymology: From Balinese lontar, Indonesian lontar, from Old Javanese rontal.
Senses: examples: text: The nature of these powers is written in the sacred palms leaf books, the lontars, in which all sacred Balinese writings are preserved.
ref: 1990, Fred B. Eiseman, Jr., Bali: Sekala and Niskala, Tuttle Publishing, page 128:
text: The technology of lontar writing in Bali, on the other hand, has never severely impeded the circulation of texts.
ref: 2000, Raechelle Rubinstein, Beyond the Realm of the Senses, page 26:
glosses: The palmyra or leaves of this tree as used for palm-leaf manuscripts in parts of Indonesia and Malaysia.
amand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: amands
form: amanding
form: amanded
form: amanded
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin amando, from ab (“from, away from”) + mando (“I order”).
Senses: examples: text: Thou hellish Dog, Depart, or I will amand, ablegate, and send thee to some vast and horrid Desert.
ref: c. 1660, R. Carpenter, Pragmatical Jesuit 64:
glosses: To send away; dismiss.
amand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amands
Etymology: Alteration of amende.
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A fine or penalty.
Related terms: amandation
ablegate
amandation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amandations
Etymology: Either from amand + -ation, or from Latin amandatio.
Senses: glosses: The act of sending someone away.
glosses: More specifically, sending someone on a message.
examples: text: In verity, he possessed no habilitation for his function, and as to his supernal amandation, he labored under an entire hallucination.
ref: c. 1856, Samuel K. Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant in the East by Lorenzo Altisonant:
glosses: A message.
throw one's toys out of the cot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws one's toys out of the cot
form: throwing one's toys out of the cot
form: threw one's toys out of the cot
form: thrown one's toys out of the cot
Senses: glosses: Synonym of throw one's toys out of the pram.
synonyms: word: throw one's toys out of the pram
throw one's rattle out of the pram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws one's rattle out of the pram
form: throwing one's rattle out of the pram
form: threw one's rattle out of the pram
form: thrown one's rattle out of the pram
Senses: glosses: Synonym of throw one's toys out of the pram.
synonyms: word: throw one's toys out of the pram
throw one's rattle out of the cot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws one's rattle out of the cot
form: throwing one's rattle out of the cot
form: threw one's rattle out of the cot
form: thrown one's rattle out of the cot
Senses: glosses: Synonym of throw one's toys out of the pram.
synonyms: word: throw one's toys out of the pram
chuck one's toys out of the pram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chucks one's toys out of the pram
form: chucking one's toys out of the pram
form: chucked one's toys out of the pram
form: chucked one's toys out of the pram
Senses: glosses: Synonym of throw one's toys out of the pram.
synonyms: word: throw one's toys out of the pram
chuck one's toys out of the cot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chucks one's toys out of the cot
form: chucking one's toys out of the cot
form: chucked one's toys out of the cot
form: chucked one's toys out of the cot
Senses: glosses: Synonym of throw one's toys out of the pram.
synonyms: word: throw one's toys out of the pram
wereghost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wereghosts
Etymology: From were- + ghost.
Senses: examples: text: Hey, A long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, (...) long, long after the final, final, final, final, final, final, final, final, final, and final subsubchronon's superending, there were no more blood, bone, bonemarrow, organisms, cells, brains, skulls, or any sign of life or organisms, so a wereghost beat the last werewhore to the last droplet of blood's Sabbathless, Sabbathlike smithers.
ref: 2012, J.D. Melville, Herstory. The Second Released Norma Shearer Novel, Xlibris, →ISBN, section 64:
text: "After he hauls you off to the station and leaves me alone in this forsaken neighborhood, some wereghost will come along and tear me to bits."
ref: 2012, Lauren Bjorkman, Miss Fortune Cookie, page 147:
text: I had thought our last meeting had gone well, or as well as it could have with me strapped to a table about to be killed by my homicidal were-ghost uncle.
ref: 2015, Andy Goldman, The Fifth House. The Only City Left. Book two:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a ghost.
normalfags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normalfag
lontars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lontar
weredingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weredingos
Etymology: From were- + dingo.
Senses: examples: text: “Weredingos are crazy anyway,” Christian said.
ref: 2006, Kathy Love, I Only Have Fangs for You, Kensington Publishing, page 239:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a dingo.
weredingos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weredingo
wereghosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wereghost
isosynchronously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From isosynchronous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In isosynchronous fashion.
triphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + -phonic.
Senses: glosses: In three channels.
raw_tags: of sound reproduction
tetraphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + -phonic.
Senses: glosses: In four channels.
raw_tags: of sound reproduction
duophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duo- + -phonic.
Senses: glosses: In two channels.
raw_tags: of sound reproduction
satin spars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satin spar
technostructural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From techno- + structural.
Senses: glosses: Relating to technostructure.
amandations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amandation
skeinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeining
-nema
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νῆμᾰ (nêmă, “thread”). Compare nemat-.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Characteristic of, pertaining to, or possessing a filiform structure.
Derived terms: protonema
Related terms: nemat-
nawaab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nawaabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nawab.
nawaabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nawaab
Johnsons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Johnson
Lodge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lodges
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sangamon Township, Piatt County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the western part of Lorance Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Colleton County, South Carolina.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
Lodges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lodge
Schlesinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schlesingers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Schlesingers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schlesinger
Spielberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spielbergs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Spielberg.
Senses: examples: text: Director Steven Spielberg deliberately omitted subtitles for scenes in Spanish in his remake of the film “West Side Story” which is currently in theaters.
ref: 2021 December 18, Ching Ching Tan, “Spielberg’s West Side Story shows us the value of multilingualism”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A city in Murtal district, Styria, Austria.
Derived terms: Spielbergian
Spielbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Spielberg
Dumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Kiranti language of Nepal.
Shira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shiras
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A lake in Russia, Lake Shira.
glosses: A local government area in Bauchi State, Nigeria.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the volcanic cones of Kilimanjaro
Shira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shiras
Etymology: Americanized spelling of Shearer.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Shiras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shira
mouthsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mouthsome
form: most mouthsome
Etymology: From mouth + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, in spite of the mouthsome hyphenates into which his thoroughness tempted him, Polonius was guilty of a grave omission.
ref: 1948, Saturday Review of Literature, volume 31:
text: Weakened heart, summer tomatoes the splash of red mouthsome pleasure dichotomy. Who spilt whom? Who holds whom?
ref: 2005, Maria Damon, Miek-a-l And, PleasureTEXTpossession:
text: My mother happily smiled and then, certain that she looked like a mouthsome Tyrannosaur, tried to stretch her lips down over her hundred teeth; but concealment was a lost cause.
ref: 2015, Jonathan Franzen, Purity:
text: (Demonstrating an almost staggering lack of humor, Stuart pressed on with the suit even after the defendants offered to change the site's name to the Jewish Rock and Roll Challah of Fame. They were forced to settle, and the site is now called Jews Who Rock.) Thus the mouthsome acronym MRRLHoF was born.
ref: 2016, Alina Simone, Madonnaland: And Other Detours into Fame and Fandom:
glosses: Characterised by the mouth or by mouthiness; mouthy
juridic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more juridic
form: most juridic
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin iūridicus, from Latin iūs (“law”).
Senses: glosses: Juridical.
travel adapter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travel adapters
Senses: examples: text: If you have a desktop computer, you can also get a cable with a different plug, or use a travel adapter.
ref: 2011, Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Desktop Guide, →ISBN, page 201:
text: If you travel with your iPad, look for a travel adapter that will work in all the countries you visit.
ref: 2013, Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPad 4th Generation and iPad mini, →ISBN, page 70:
text: For two-pin and other appliances a travel adapter is needed.
ref: 2015, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Kenya, →ISBN, page 403:
glosses: A device that allows one to plug an electric cord designed for the electrical outlets in one country into the differently designed electrical outlets of another country.
truckonaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truckonauts
Etymology: From truck + -o- + -naut, a calque of Spanish camionauta.
Senses: examples: text: Remember the truckonaut Cuban, the guy who rigged a ‘52 Chevy truck on to a boat and set sail for the Florida coast? Well, he was captured and sent back, but told to go through properly channels. He did. He’s expected to receive a U.S. visa on Monday.
ref: 2003 October 31, “Anderson Cooper 360”, in Anderson Cooper:
text: Eleven Cubans in a vintage Buick — three of them the original “truckonauts” who tried a similar intrepid journey last year aboard a battered Chevy pickup — were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard early Wednesday and now face a return trip to the communist island.
ref: 2004 May 2, Tere Figueras, Luisa Yanez, “Cubans’ Buick pulled over at sea”, in The Miami Herald:
text: A similar contraption was unveiled in July when some of Diaz’s neighbors attached 55-gallon barrels to a 1951 Chevrolet truck, hooked the drive shaft to a propeller and made their way north. The Coast Guard caught them as they approached South Florida. Some Cuban exiles pressured the U.S. government to let the “truckonauts,” as they called them, enter the country.
ref: 2004 February 16, Tracey Eaton, “Latest effort to flee drives Cuban migration debate”, in The Dallas Morning News:
text: Maroone Chevrolet's general manager, Raul de la Milera, a Cuban Emigre himself, has been working with Grass and other mechanics at the dealership to convert a 1953 Chevrolet truck they located into a near duplicate of the original truckonaut machine.
ref: 2006, Car and Driver - Volume 52, page 130:
glosses: One of the Cubans who adapted a truck to act as a boat and used it to sail to the USA.
leyak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leyaks
form: leyak
Etymology: From Balinese leyak (“black magic; sorcerer”).
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile the leyak has become invisible and the servant is very much relieved, but just then the patih sees it as it is disappearing behind a group of children, who squirm about uneasily.
ref: 1941, Philip Hanson Hiss, Bali, page 45:
text: A leyak can transform himself, or rather, his spirit, into another form – a monkey, a bird, a ghostly light, a body without a head – the variety is endless.
ref: 1990, Fred B. Eiseman, Jr., Bali: Sekala and Niskala, Tuttle Publishing, page 128:
text: She was like a Balinese leyak, one of the spirits of humans most often seen in the form of a blue flame that darts from coconut tree to coconut tree, at night.
ref: 2000, Tobias Schneebaum, Secret Places, page 146:
glosses: A Balinese witch or practitioner of black magic.
murderhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From murder + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a murderer.
arthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From art + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: A move made by Euthyphro suggests another way to avoid the reductio without adopting relativism about arthood.
ref: 2003, James O. Young, Art and Knowledge, Routledge, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: The quality or condition of being an art.
repeatered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more repeatered
form: most repeatered
Etymology: From repeater + -ed.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Fitted with repeaters, as on a transmission line
braggard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braggards
Senses: examples: text: He was a bit of a braggard and a bore.
ref: 2012, Kimberley Rose Dawson, Carousel The Relapse: Spinning Out of Control:
glosses: Uncommon form of braggart.
Derived terms: braggardism
braggardly
braggards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braggard
anothergates
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anotherguess
form: anotherguise
form: anothergaines
form: anotherkins
Etymology: Likely from another + gate (“way, path, journey”) + -s (“possessive suffix”)
Senses: examples: text: If my father had not plaid the hasty fool, I might have had anothergaines husband than Dametas.
ref: 1580, Sir Phillip Sidney, Arcadia:
text: If we be of the spiritualty, there would be in us anothergates manifestation of the Spirit than is ordinarily to be found in the temporalty.
ref: 1619, Robert Sanderson, Ad Clerum:
text: When Hudibras, about to enter Upon anothergates adventure.
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
text: and by consequence must exclude the Rays of the Sun in anotherguess manner than before.
ref: 1696, William Whiston, A New Theory of the Earth:
glosses: Of a different kind or sort.
Related terms: algate
othergates
mutility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːˈtɪlɪti/
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin mutilitās.
Senses: examples: text: Its pathological nature is constituted by its perpetuation into an inappropriate movement which the conviction of its mutility cannot abolish.
ref: 1910, The Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume XI, page 217:
text: Like all other attachments in human life, love too is vulnerable to the onslaught of time and mutility.
ref: 1983, The Indian Journal of English Studies, volume XXII, page 21:
text: Clearly, significant scientific, sociological, and economic reasons suggest continuation of present efforts to establish and understand the role of disease (and other elements of natural mutility) in wild, and captive, estuarine and marine populations.
ref: 1985, Transactions of the Fiftieth North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, page 636:
glosses: deformity, defectivity
need-blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That requires the admitting institution to not consider an applicant's financial situation when deciding admission.
raw_tags: of a college admission policy
examples: text: In a year, give or take, student loans would come due―Harvard was need-blind (that was significantly why he had chosen it), but even his generous financial aid package didn’t cover everything.
ref: 2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), pages 78-79:
glosses: Having such an admission policy.
raw_tags: of a college
alkalotolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alkalitolerant.
AC adapter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AC adapters
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: power adapter
power brick
power charger
wall charger
wall wart
glosses: An adapter for alternating current.
anicut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anicuts
form: anaicut
form: annicut
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil அணைக்கட்டு (aṇaikkaṭṭu, “dam for regulating the flow of an irrigation channel”), from அணை (aṇai) + கட்டு (kaṭṭu). Also compare Kannada ಅಣೆಕಟ್ಟು (aṇekaṭṭu) with the same construction.
Senses: glosses: A dam built in a stream for maintaining and regulating irrigation.
anicuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anicut
truckonauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truckonaut
IEE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /aɪˌdʌb.əɫˌiː/
/aɪˌiːˌiː/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Institution of Electrical Engineers.
Coordinate terms: IEEE
compressed yeasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compressed yeast
tetanolysins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetanolysin
toxidermias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxidermia