cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
excitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more excitive
form: most excitive
Etymology: From excite + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Our own sense of danger, together with the imaginative effect wrought upon our excitive minds by the dancing candlelight and the awesome shadows of the still house, gave a strange relish to our childhood reading.
ref: 1910, Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park, A Williams Anthology:
glosses: excited
examples: text: What I have denominated the common excitive fever, is a febrile affection common to almost every climate, but particularly to that of Great Britain […]
ref: 1818, John Armstrong, Practical illustrations of the scarlet fever, measles, pulmonary consumption, and chronic diseases:
glosses: Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
excitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excitives
Etymology: From excite + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That which excites; an excitant.
excludable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: excludible
form: exclusible
Etymology: From exclude + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Under the same law that made [Hans Paul] Verhoef's detention possible, the legal status of over 600 amnesty applicants who have lived in this country for close to a decade is being reviewed. Those found excludable because of HIV antibody-positivity will become "undocumented" and vulnerable to deportation.
ref: 1990 February 4, Jorge Cortiñas, “Selling Out Immigrants”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 10:
glosses: Able to be excluded.
Derived terms: excludability
nonexcludable
unexcludable
Witherspoon-excludable
excludable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excludables
form: excludible
form: exclusible
Etymology: From exclude + -able.
Senses: examples: text: These increases in the ranks of the excludables brought an accompanying increase in the ranks of the deportables
ref: 1992, Asian Americans and the Supreme Court: A Documentary History, page 90:
glosses: One who or that which can be excluded.
excusatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more excusatory
form: most excusatory
Senses: examples: text: General Grant to Halleck, in an excusatory and exculpatory letter (May 7th), as to the disaster on his right, said: "Milroy's old brigade was attacked and gave way in great confusion, almost without resistance, carrying good troops with them."
ref: 1900, Joseph Warren Keifer, Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2:
text: Before entering another (middle- or lower-class) native's house, he is very complimentary, and sometimes three minutes' polite excusatory dialogue is exchanged between the visitor and the native visited before the former passes the threshold.
ref: 1906, John Foreman, The Philippine Islands:
text: There are two excusatory phrases in the criminal justice lexicon which provoke in me immediate suspicion, especially when used by government ministers or the police. One is "there are safeguards", the other "innocent people have nothing to fear".
ref: 2008 April 8, Marcel Berlins, “Who owns the whale they couldn't save?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: serving to make an excuse
exept
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Than by the force and strengthe of men/ For men see alle daye that suche thynges as may not be achieuyd by force of nature/ ben goten and achieuyd by force of money/ And for so moche hit behoueth to see well to that whan the tyme of the bataylle cometh/ that he borowe not ne make no tayllage/ For noman may be ryche that leuyth his owne/ hopyng to gete and take of other/ Than all waye all her gayn and wynnynge ought to be comyn amonge them exept theyr Armes.
ref: 1474, Caxton, Game and Playe of the Chesse:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of except.
exhauster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhausters
Etymology: From exhaust + -er.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most insignificant-looking men I ever saw then became the destroyer of nations, the leveller of mountains, the exhauster of the ocean.
ref: 1916, R. V. Russell, The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India:
glosses: One who exhausts or depletes.
examples: text: There is, however, another inconvenience which can only be remedied by the use of a second exhauster, viz., the loss of pressure after the passage of the gas through the washer--a loss resulting from the obstacle presented by this appliance to the steady flow of the gas.
ref: 1884, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884:
text: The Westinghouse type CM.38 air compressor is mounted under the main frame and the Northey rotary type exhausters are fitted one on each side of the platform at No. 1 end; [...].
ref: 1962 December, “The B.R. standard diesel-electric Type 1 locomotive”, in Modern Railways, page 381:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Exhaust system.
examples: text: Each engine also drives an exhauster to create the vacuum for operating the brake, which is applied by cylinders of standard pattern.
ref: 1956 April, “Diesel Railcars in East Lancashire”, in Railway Magazine, page 230:
text: The vehicle is fitted with Westinghouse electro-pneumatic brake, and also a Northey exhauster with vacuum chamber and auxiliary reservoir adjacent to the guard's compartment for use when hauling vehicles equipped with vacuum brake gear.
ref: 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 661:
glosses: A vacuum exhauster.
exhausters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhauster
exoccipital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: exooccipital
Etymology: From exo- + occipital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foramen of the skull.
exoccipital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoccipitals
form: exooccipital
Etymology: From exo- + occipital.
Senses: examples: example
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Such a bone.
expurgatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Serving to expurgate.
how long is a piece of string
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: How long is a piece of string
Senses: glosses: Used as a response to a question such as "How long will it take?" or "How big is it?" when the length or size is unknown, infinite, variable, or relative.
exteriorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɪɹiɚli/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɪɹiɚli/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)li
Forms: form: more exteriorly
form: most exteriorly
Etymology: From exterior + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The church, which is situated near the centre of the town, exteriorly resembles a huge Dutch barn.
ref: 1849, Edwin Bryant, What I Saw in California:
glosses: from the exterior, from outside
examples: text: The first evidence of what it was about to be, was the appearance of the drapery establishments in the city on Saturday morning; the windows, exteriorly and interiorly, being one mass of crape and green ribbon--funeral knots, badges, scarfs, hat-bands, neckties, &c., exposed for sale.
ref: 1868, A.M. Sullivan, The Wearing of the Green:
text: The hotel was drab and decayed exteriorly; but the dining room was a continental elegance of marble, gilt, and mirrors.
ref: 1922, Edgar Lee Masters, Children of the Market Place:
glosses: on the exterior, outside
exultancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exultancies
Etymology: From Latin exsultantia.
Senses: examples: text: The voice of the Prussian was full and vibrant with exultancy.
ref: 1921, Louis Joseph Vance, Red Masquerade:
glosses: exultance, exultation
eyebright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyebrights
Etymology: Compound of eye (noun) + bright (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Paracelsus had been recommending the plant eyebright for bad eyes in the sixteenth century; it was still in widespread use in the eighteenth.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 273:
text: He looks for eyebright, a tiny flowering herb he has seen before, and which he knows would make a good eye-wash: not to be found.
ref: 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 91
glosses: Any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections.
Synonyms: euphrasy
Derived terms: taxonomic: Euphrasia cuneata
word: North Island eyebright
eyebrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyebright
eyeshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyeshots
Etymology: From eye + shot, on the pattern of earshot.
Senses: examples: text: He likes his mother to sit off by the side, though--out of eyeshot of the door. "
ref: 1991 July 26, Bonnie McGrath, “Ed Steiger Gives Great Party”, in Chicago Reader:
text: "We were alarmed," says Aimee Sordelli, who lives within eyeshot of the school's chimney. "
ref: 2004 July 23, Grant Pick, “Antenna Invasion”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Human waste, collected in “honey buckets” that many residents use for toilets, is often dumped within eyeshot in a village where no point is more than a five-minute walk from any other.
ref: 2007 May 27, William Yardley, “Victim of Climate Change, a Town Seeks a Lifeline”, in New York Times:
glosses: Range of vision, a distance in which something is visible.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Range.
examples: text: The woman smothered his instant fear with an eyeshot of horror.
ref: 1905, The Monthly Review, volume 19, page 101:
glosses: A brief glance.
noseshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose-shot
Etymology: Blend of nose + earshot
Senses: examples: text: As she approached closer, though, the load of rabbits came into vivid noseshot, and the saxophonist's nose wrinkled at the reek.
ref: 2002, Michael Meehan, Stormy weather, page 74:
text: ...Fartman's thunder has been stolen by a character in the 1999 film Mystery Man named Spleen (played by Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman) whose power was his ability to discharge farts so lethally putrid that they incapacitated anyone within noseshot.
ref: 2006, Jim Dawson, Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart, page 73:
glosses: range of smell, a distance in which something is detectable by smell
granisetron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəˈnɪs.əˌtɹɑn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -setron (“serotonin receptor 5-HT₃ antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A serotonin 5-HT₃ receptor antagonist used as an antiemetic following chemotherapy.
eyewink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyewinks
Etymology: From eye + wink.
Senses: examples: text: As to age, Bead could not form any clear impression; he might have been twenty, or forty. All of this visual perception occurred in an eyewink of time […]
ref: 1972, John Ferguson, War and the creative arts: an anthology:
text: It vanished out of sight with exceeding speed; Rapid it was; A burst of brilliance which lasted less than an eyewink.
ref: 1993, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, The feminine principle in the Sikh vision of the transcendent:
glosses: An instant, a short moment.
examples: text: Dogs were conditioned to give an eyewink to light by pairing a light and a puff of air to the cornea.
ref: 1943, Clifford Thomas Morgan, Physiological psychology:
text: Simply by observing the antecedents to the movement, we can tell, for example, whether an eyewink has occurred voluntarily […]
ref: 1951, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Herbert Sidney Langfeld, Harry Porter Weld, Foundations of psychology:
glosses: The winking of an eye.
eyewinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyewink
neighbourship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neighbourships
form: neighborship
Etymology: From Northern Middle English nychtbourschype, neȝeborusipe, equivalent to neighbour + -ship. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noaberskup (“neighbourship”), West Frisian neibuorskip (“neighbourship”), Dutch nabuurschap (“neighbourship”), German Low German Naberskupp, Naverschop (“neighbourhood; neighbourship”), German Nachbarschaft (“neighbourship; neighborhood”), Danish naboskab (“neighbourship”), Swedish naboskap (“neighbourship”).
Senses: examples: text: He called to his mind and said: "Surely the Ant had in former days his dwelling underneath this tree, and was busy in hoarding a store of provision: now I will lay my wants before her, and, in the name of good neighbourship, and with an appeal to her generosity, beg some small relief.
ref: 1890, W. A. Clouston, Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers:
text: The travelling artist they knew, the pedlar, the insurance agent, and the cockney beanfeaster; but the stranger who desired permanent neighbourship with them they knew not; him they treated as a lunatic at large.
ref: 1907, William J. Dawson, The Quest of the Simple Life:
glosses: The state or condition of being neighbours; a connection or relationship between people or things which is based simply on living close geographically.
examples: text: Their conveyance is no handsome carriage, but a rickety dog-cart, unmistakably betraying its neighbourship to the carts and ploughs of some rural farmyard.
ref: 1912, May Sinclair, The Three Bront:
glosses: A relationship between people and / or things which is based simply on being of a similar class.
neighbourships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neighbourship
gainst
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Then gan triumphant Trompets ſovvnd on hye, / That ſent to heuen the ecchoed report / Of their nevv ioy, and happie victory / Gainſt him, that had them long oppreſt with tort, / And faſt impriſoned in ſieged fort.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 172:
glosses: Against.
Derived terms: foregainst
gagsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gagster
garrotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garrotters
Etymology: From garrotte + -er.
Senses: glosses: someone who garrottes
garrotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garrotter
odd men out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odd man out
gangrened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From gangrene + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gangrene
gangrened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gangrened
form: most gangrened
Etymology: From gangrene + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, when the offender can be judged by laws: But when his greatness overturns the scales, Then kings are justice in the last appeal, And, forced by strong necessity, may strike; In which, indeed, they assert the public good, And, like sworn surgeons, lop the gangrened limb: Unpleasant, wholesome, work.
ref: 1808, John Dryden, The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18):
text: Here were rooms crowded with uncomfortable-looking beds, on which lay men whose gangrened wounds gave forth foul odors, which, mingled with the terrible effluvia from the mouths of patients ill of scurvy, sent a shuddering sickness through my frame.
ref: 1888, Fannie A. (Mrs.) Beers, Memories:
text: In vain he protested and claimed the protection of Louis XIV. The King at Versailles was busied with the saving of his soul and with the doctoring of his gangrened knee.
ref: 1906, Marie Hay, A German Pompadour:
glosses: Infected with gangrene; gangrenous.
examples: text: How different a representation is this from the prejudice and passion of Gangræna Edwards himself, more gangrened than any of his unhappy sectaries.
ref: 1838, John Leifchild, Dr. Redford, The Evangelist, page 129:
text: The army was daily becoming more gangrened by a wilful admixture of accredited and duly subventioned agents, who boasted the title of "Franc-Macons de la Solidarite/ Militaire," and who, forming a loathsome association, ceaselessly spied upon their brother officers, and reported to high quarters upon their religious and political opinions.
ref: 1908, Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen, The Cradle of the Rose, page 42:
text: To give the Commission a list of gangrened members — as he had been directed to do — he would have to include the first and last senators, and all between.
ref: 1957, Sydney Seymour Biro, The German Policy of Revolutionary France:
glosses: Corrupt; degenerate.
Derived terms: ungangrened
garotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garotters
Etymology: From garotte + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of garrotter.
garotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garotter
gangrenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gangrene
gangrenes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gangrene
gartering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From garter + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of garter
gartering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garterings
Etymology: From garter + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: What Catholick has ever offered up more Extasies at the Shrine of his Tutelar Saint, than has been paid to the simple Brade of your Shoe, a discoloured Top-Knot, or perhaps two Spans of unravelled Gartering.
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury:
text: The wealthy adorn themselves besides with ribbons and garterings of various colors, beads and silver broaches. These ornaments are arranged by the women, who, as well as the men, know how to dress themselves in style.
ref: 1900, Edwin MacMinn, On the Frontier with Colonel Antes:
glosses: The material from which garters are made.
nativistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nativistic
form: most nativistic
Etymology: From nativist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: He wrote that the “nativistic American mentality, born of ignorance and nurtured by malice,” insisted on stereotypes of Italian Americans as either “spaghetti-twirling, opera-bellowing buffoons in undershirts (as in the TV commercial with its famous line, ‘That’sa spicy meatball’), or swarthy, sinister hoods in garish suits, shirts and ties.”
ref: 2024 September 2, Richard Sandomir, “Richard Gambino, 84, Dies; Fought Discrimination Against Italian Americans”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In agreement with the philosophy of nativism.
gartered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: wearing a garter
Derived terms: begartered
red-gartered coot
ungartered
gartered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of garter
nongangrenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + gangrenous.
Senses: glosses: Not gangrenous.
gally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallies
Senses: examples: text: In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival.
ref: 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 200:
glosses: Archaic form of galley.
Derived terms: galligaskins
gally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gally
form: most gally
Etymology: From Middle English gally, from Old English gealliġ (“sour, sharp, bitter, sad”), equivalent to gall + -y.
Senses: examples: text: For by the Dart, which is likewise a pipe, is made a deep passage into the skin, and then by the anger of the Fly, is his gally poisonous liquor injected […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXV:
glosses: Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
gally
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gallies
form: gallying
form: gallied
form: gallied
Etymology: See gallow (transitive verb).
Senses: examples: April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden
The next Day being Sunday, call'd by the Natives of this Country Maze Sunday, (and indeed not without some Reason, for the People look'd as if they were gallied) […]
glosses: To frighten, spook; to appall; to worry.
Derived terms: gallicrow
gallybagger
gally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gal + -y.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of gal (“girl”).
Synonyms: girlie
neighborship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neighborships
form: neighbourship
Etymology: From Northern Middle English nychtbourschype, neȝeborusipe, equivalent to neighbor + -ship. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noaberskup (“neighborship”), West Frisian neibuorskip (“neighborship”), Dutch nabuurschap (“neighborship”), German Low German Naberskupp, Naverschop (“neighborhood; neighborship”), German Nachbarschaft (“neighborship; neighborhood”), Danish naboskab (“neighborship”), Swedish naboskap (“neighborship”).
Senses: examples: text: … the telephone had introduced the "epoch of neighborship without propinquity."
ref: 1990, Carolyn Marvin, “Community and Class Order”, in When Old Technologies Were New, Oxford Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 66:
glosses: The state or condition of being neighbors; a community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on living close geographically.
examples: text: The 802.11b spec takes pretty good care to enforce good neighborship on connected hosts.
ref: 2002 December 27, Cory Doctorow, “WiFi: What threat?”, in BoingBoing, retrieved 01 Feb 2012:
text: But we believe that Cambridge is really the heart of oncology today. And we intend to benefit from this as an environment – as a neighborship.
ref: 2010 February 10, Hanspeter Spek, President, Global Operations, “Sanofi-Aventis Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript”, in Seeking Alpha, retrieved 05 Feb 2012:
glosses: A community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on being of a similar class.
neighborships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neighborship
gastronomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastronomers
Senses: glosses: a lover of good food; a connoisseur or gourmet
Synonyms: gastronomist
gastronome
Related terms: gastronomy
gastronomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastronomer
gawd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɔ(ː)d/
Senses: examples: text: There's his right arm over there, and his back
Oh, my gawd!
ref: 1917, H. C. McNeile, No Man's Land:
text: A guy nearby gushed, "Oh my gawd, look at the size of this peanut!" and that was as excited as anyone got all afternoon.
ref: 2006 September 15, Ted Cox, “Lovable Losers and the Lovable Losers Who Love Them”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of god.
Related terms: gawd blimey
genericism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From generic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: CELL, ERIC'S TRIP 6/15, EMPTY BOTTLE After DGC Records scooped up New York's Cell on the basis of one single, their tedious debut, Slo-Blo, proved the move premature with its indie-rock genericism.
ref: 1994 June 10, Peter Margasak, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: the state of being generic
Synonyms: genericness
gesticulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gesticulatory
form: most gesticulatory
Etymology: From gesticulate + -ory.
Senses: examples: a gesticulatory movement
glosses: Of or relating to a gesticulation.
examples: text: The French loungers are gesticulatory, and shoulders, arms, fingers, eyes and eyebrows help out the tongue's rapid utterance; but they are never rude or boisterous.
ref: 1873, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11,:
glosses: Making frequent gesticulations.
ghosty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡoʊ.sti/
Forms: form: ghostier
form: ghostiest
Etymology: From ghost + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian gäistich, West Frisian geastich, Dutch geestig, German geistig.
Senses: examples: text: Regarding Glamis, I should imagine it a ghosty sort of place.
ref: 1881, William White, Notes and queries, Volume 63:
glosses: ghostly
Derived terms: ghostily
ghostiness
ghosty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡoʊ.sti/
Forms: form: ghosties
form: ghostie
Etymology: From ghost + -y.
Senses: glosses: A ghost, especially a diminutive one.
glosses: Ghost (especially a non-frightening one)
gladsomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gladsomely
form: most gladsomely
Etymology: From gladsome + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: THE ADVENT BELLS./ The Advent bells are ringing in many parishes throughout various parts of England during this month of December, if I may judge from my own neighbourhood--on the western borders of Berks--where, at least three times in the week, I hear their merry peals break gladsomely upon the dark stillness of these cold evenings, from many a steeple around.
ref: 1849, Various, Notes & Queries 1849.12.22:
text: But she was dressed in breeches and a slouch hat, a cigarette hung from the corner of her mouth, and she beckoned April gladsomely with an immense cowthong whip.
ref: 1919, Cynthia Stockley, Blue Aloes:
glosses: gladly
gladsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gladsomenesses
Etymology: From Middle English gladsomnesse, equivalent to gladsome + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: gladness
word: joy
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
glosses: gladness
minelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minelike
form: most minelike
Etymology: From mine + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mine (explosive device).
gleesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: glē'səm
ipa: /ˈɡliːsəm/
rhymes: -iːsəm
Forms: form: more gleesome
form: most gleesome
Etymology: From glee + -some. Compare Yola gleezom (“joy”).
Senses: examples: text: So long as the men kept sober, Jervis rather liked this, and was never better pleased than when, on the last evening of the week, he heard the voices of the men raised in song, or the squeaking of the merry fiddle and gleesome flute.
ref: 1894, Gordon Stables, As We Sweep Through The Deep:
text: "And wasn't it just jolly!" gloated a juvenile gleesome voice in a loud whisper.
ref: 1907, Peter T. Harkness, Andy the Acrobat:
text: For the bird will sing gleesome dirges in your heart!"
ref: 1924, Various, O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919:
text: They were “gleesome as kittens, especially when off to a fight or a fire.”
ref: 2010, Josephine F. Pacheco, The Pearl:
text: “So it was a right gleesome frolic he had that night?”
ref: 2014, Julian Stockwin, Pasha:
glosses: Characterised or marked by glee; gleeful; joyous.
Derived terms: gleesomely
gleesomeness
gleamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gleamier
form: gleamiest
Etymology: From gleam + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, still thy name its energies shall deal, When wild storms gather round thy country's sun; Her glowing youth shall grasp the gleamy steel, Rank'd round the glorious wreaths which thou hast won!
ref: 1828, Thomas Gent, Poems (1828):
text: [58] While pastoral pipes and streams the landscape lull, 220 And bells of passing mules that tinkle dull, In solemn shapes before the admiring eye Dilated hang the misty pines on high, Huge convent domes with pinnacles and towers, And antique castles seen through gleamy [59] showers. 225 From such romantic dreams, my soul, awake!
ref: 1896, (Edited by William Knight), The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth:
text: She set them together and opened her lips to show him all the gleamy whiteness between.
ref: 1920, May Edginton, Married Life:
text: Your hair was all a gleamy gold, your eyes a corn-flower blue; Your cheeks were pink as tinted shells, you stepped light as a fawn; Your mouth was like a coral bud, with seed pearls peeping through; As gladdening as Spring you were, as radiant as dawn.
ref: 1958, Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone:
glosses: shiny, bright, glowing
Derived terms: gleamily
gleaminess
gleamier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gleamy: more gleamy
gleamiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gleamy: most gleamy
gloomful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gloomful
form: most gloomful
Etymology: From gloom + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Long, I tell you, long and often, have I pondered on that history, and sought to trace with what ghastly secret has been pregnant the destiny, gloomful as Erebus and the murk of black-peplosed Nux, which for centuries has hung its pall over the men of this ill-fated house.
ref: 1895, M.P. Shiel, Prince Zaleski:
text: Dyke, having expressed a preference for the tomb as a place of residence, went on his gloomful way shedding green paint on one side and red on the other.
ref: 1922, Samuel Hopkins Adams, From a Bench in Our Square:
glosses: gloomy
Derived terms: gloomfully
gloriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gloriousnesses
Etymology: From glorious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Wakes within, the ancient mind For a gloriousness defined: As she sought and knew your pleasure,-- Wiling with a dancing measure, Underneath your closed eyes She calls the shapes of clouded skies; White forms flushing hyacinthine Twine in curvings labyrinthine; Seem with godlike graceful feet, For such mazy motion meet, To press from air each lambent note, On whose throbbing fire they float; With an airy wishful gait On each others' motion wait; Naked arms and vesture free Fill up the dance of harmony.
ref: 1864, George MacDonald, A Hidden Life and Other Poems:
text: These two variegated, great goddesses striving for gloriousness, the golden ones who move crookedly, have approached thy sacrificial grass.
ref: 1900, Various, Sacred Books of the East:
text: Said the artist, "I'm celebrating the gloriousness of putrefaction."
ref: 2000 January 21, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: glory, the state or quality of being glorious
glossarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glossarists
Etymology: From glossary + -ist.
Senses: glosses: someone who writes a glossary
glossarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glossarist
gluttonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gluttonish
form: most gluttonish
Etymology: From Middle English glotenish, equivalent to glutton + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: People with gluttonish inclinations can easily and do make themselves sick while subsisting on an entirely fruit diet; hence, if discretion is needed in the use of the simplest articles of food, of course it cannot be dispensed with while indulging in other sorts.
ref: 1871, Ledyard Bill, Minnesota; Its Character and Climate:
text: The handsome face of the young Apache seemed utterly blank of all expression except gluttonish enjoyment of the food he was wolfing.
ref: 1920, Robert Ames Bennet, Bloom of Cactus:
glosses: gluttonous
Derived terms: gluttonishly
glyde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glydes
form: glyding
form: glyded
form: glyded
Senses: examples: text: XX He so disseized[*] of his gryping grosse, The knight his thrillant speare again assayd In his bras-plated body to embosse, And three mens strength unto the stroke he layd; 175 Wherewith the stiffe beame quaked, as affrayd, And glauncing from his scaly necke, did glyde Close under his left wing, then broad displayd: The percing steele there wrought a wound full wyde, That with the uncouth smart the Monster lowdly cryde. 180 XXI He cryde, as raging seas are wont to rore, When wintry storme his wrathfull wreck does threat The roaring billowes beat the ragged shore, As they the earth would shoulder from her seat, And greedy gulfe does gape,[*] as he would eat 185 His neighbour element in his revenge: Then gin the blustring brethren[*] boldly threat To move the world from off his steadfast henge, And boystrous battell make, each other to avenge.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of glide.
gneissic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gneiss + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The development of the schistose or gneissic structure is accompanied by the recrystallization of the rock materials, producing new minerals of a platy or columnar type adapted to this parallel arrangement.
ref: 1921, C. K. Leith, The Economic Aspect of Geology:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: of or relating to gneiss
hammily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hammily
form: most hammily
Etymology: From hammy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Peter Zahradnick is hammily creepy as the doomed handyman who wises up to Rhoda before anyone else.
ref: 1990 August 10, Lawrence Bommer, “The Bad Seed/Craig's Wife”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Baltar, played hammily as a selfish, cowardly survivor, is to “Battlestar Galactica” what Erica Kane is to “All My Children”  an amusingly villainous central character who brings a little campy comic relief to all that earnest, jaw-clenched melodrama.
ref: 2008 April 4, Alessandra Stanley, “Space Opera Returns: One Last Step for Mankind”, in New York Times:
glosses: in a hammy manner
hamminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hammy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The actors carry off this farce with the usual crude camp, semaphore gestures, shameless hamminess, and heavy ogling.
ref: 1988 October 21, Lawrence Bommer, “Magnum Farce”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Linda Balgord brings bug-eyed hamminess and a bothersome vocal wobble to the role of aging actress Norma Desmond, almost completely missing the textured humor, intelligence, and pathos of Gloria Swanson's great screen performance.
ref: 1997 April 11, Albert Williams, “Sunset Boulevard”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The downside to DiFranco's maturation is that showboating can be fun--it's one reason we started paying attention to her in the first place, and why these ruminations will work better when they're integrated into her stage patter, where she can't contain her hamminess.
ref: 2005 February 25, Keith Harris, “Ani DiFranco”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The state of being hammy.
masturbatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masturbatrices
form: masturbatrixes
Etymology: From masturbate + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: I thought at first she was a regular intriguer, but came to the conclusion that I had had the first of her; and that until then she had been a masturbatrix, and frigged her flesh off her bones.
ref: 1888, "Walter", My Secret Life:
text: Mony quickly divested himself of his clothes, then, cock aloft, fully rigid, he flung himself upon the two masturbatrices, attempting to separate them. But his hands slipped on their damp and gleaming bodies which were coiled about like snakes.
ref: 1995, Guillaume Apollinaire, Flesh Unlimited: Two Erotic Novellas, page 17:
text: The actress wanted to stretch in a role that was 180 degrees away from the omnivorous Tramell and the masturbatrix from Sutton.
ref: 1997, Frank Sanello, Naked instinct: the unauthorized biography of Sharon Stone:
glosses: A female masturbator.
examples: text: Thus under the Restoration one spoke of the branleuses or masturbatrixes of the Palais Royal, whose clients, students for the most part, came to have their hard-ons massaged away for a few centimes.
ref: 1987, anonymous author, Pleasure's Mistress:
text: Beresford triumphs again with this intoxicating tale, filled with castle dungeons and tightly corseted ladies-in-waiting, naughty viscounts and impossibly cruel masturbatrixes […]
ref: 1997, Michael Ford, Butch Boys: Stories for Men Who Need It Bad:
text: Down from my high -the return of blood to the brain bringing with it the same troubling thoughts unmanning me before the usual had taken over- all my former feelings in regard of the masturbatrix with the massive knockers returned with a vengeance.
ref: 2021, Xavier Couperin, One-Way Marriage:
glosses: A dominatrix who specialises in handjobs.
Synonyms: word: wankette
masturbatrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masturbatrix
masulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masula
Americanocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Americanocentric
form: most Americanocentric
form: Americano-centric
Etymology: From American + -o- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: Making Sense of the Sixties used the typical Americano-centric documentary style that avoided a world or historical context for events […] Other countries were mentioned only insofar as they disturbed the insular course of events in the United States.
ref: 1991 February 4, Owen Shows, “Start Making Sense”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 16:
text: A very superficial and Americanocentric view of history was a necessary adjunct to the reigning Americanocentric view of world affairs.
ref: 2006, Norman Davies, No simple victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945, New York: Penguin, page 479:
glosses: Centred on or overemphasizing the United States of America.
Synonyms: Americocentric
Americo-centric
nonstreamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + streamed.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Not divided into academic streams.
goosecap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goosecaps
Etymology: From goose + cap.
Senses: examples: text: Lucy and Edmund and Peridan were busy with their plans for the battle and though Lucy once said, "But where is his goosecap Highness?" Edmund only replied, "Not in the front, and that's good news enough. Leave well alone."
ref: 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy:
glosses: A fool; a dolt.
goosecaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goosecap
lern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lerns
form: lerning
form: lernt
form: lernt
Senses: examples: text: Remember to come home, we're having prime rib and scalloped potatoes in the dining room, then we'll go out on da patio to dance, they're having a Mariachi Band from Spain, ya can show us your new steps ya lernt from dat fatty, Dixie Doolittle.
ref: 2012 August 27, Anne McNicholas, Thank You Jesus: A Funny Book, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 179:
text: But to be mitey fine at any of them things, ya gotta take the senses the good Lord giv ya an put em together with the skills ya lern over time, an do things right.
ref: 2017 April 28, David L. Miller, A Travelerz Trew Tale: My Journey with Lewis & Clark: Daniel Mueller September, 1837, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of learn.
space ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of space ship
testest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: test + -est
Senses: examples: text: If thou triest my heart, if thou visitest me by night, if thou testest me, thou wilt find no wickedness in me.
ref: 1952, Bible (Revised Standard Version), Psalms 17:3
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of test
cathedral city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cathedral cities
Senses: glosses: A title awarded to a town in the United Kingdom which, before letters patent, held city status by virtue of having a cathedral within its bounds.
glosses: A city in a former British colony which resembles an English cathedral city in that it has a relatively small population, an Anglican cathedral, and also holds the title of city.
babions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babion
babians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babian
baby farms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby farm
baby farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby farmer
shower caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shower cap
chlorion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorions
Etymology: From chlor- + ion.
Senses: glosses: A chlorine ion.
juice up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: juices up
form: juicing up
form: juiced up
form: juiced up
Senses: examples: text: I need to juice up my phone because the battery's dead.
glosses: To charge, to charge up.
examples: text: Juice man up with this 15 inch
Like, now I got blood on my splasher
ref: 2020 August 13, Blacz, “TwentyTwo”, 1:21–1:26:
synonyms: chef up
stab
coordinate_terms: spill juice
glosses: To kill or seriously injure with a knife.
examples: text: For so long I stayed natural because it was a sense of pride to me that as a natural I was still competing and beating guys who were juicing up.
ref: 2010, Gregg Valentino, Nathan Jendrick, Death, Drugs, and Muscle:
synonyms: juice
glosses: To take a performance-enhancing drug.
examples: text: With her pussy spread he pressed into her and she bit into her bottom lip. “Damn, shawty,” he moaned. She juiced up even more when she heard how he responded to her.
ref: 2017, T. Styles, The Fold, page 122:
glosses: Of a woman: to secrete vaginal juices due to arousal.
get one's juices flowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's juices flowing
form: getting one's juices flowing
form: got one's juices flowing
form: got one's juices flowing
form: gotten one's juices flowing
Senses: examples: text: Many people think that the best way to make meetings tolerable is to walk into the room and fire away with lots of ideas to get juices flowing. Such ideas goad uncreative colleagues into building more elaborate strategies to conceal their lack of creativity.
ref: 2008 [2006], Douglas Coupland, JPod, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: To inspire creativity and thought.
glosses: To sexually excite, to tantalize (a woman).
upscales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upscale
upscaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upscale
upscaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upscalings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is upscaled; an increase in size or numbers.
if you like
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: But imagine, if you like, a world where climate change did not exist.
text: If you('d) like to come this way.
glosses: Please, kindly; used in giving a non-concrete instruction.
examples: text: This band's genre can be described as, if you like, New Wave or Post-Punk.
glosses: So to speak, like; used to indicate that a description is not standard.
Synonyms: if you will
tie one on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ties one on
form: tying one on
form: tied one on
form: tied one on
Etymology: From earlier tie a bun on, where bun means “bender, drunken spree” and probably comes from bung. First attested in the 1940s.
Senses: examples: text: "Let's tie one on!" said Peachy gaily. "Come on, Eve!"
Eve said she couldn't drink a thing. "Besides, it's fattening!"
ref: 1940, Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, volume 109, page 77:
text: Haiti […] was distressed, tropical, ramshackle, overcrowded, poor and on the brink of civil war. […] Its ornate hotels were in a state of decay, yet there was enough alcohol available for a guest to tie one on.
ref: 2004 October 17, Paul Theroux, “Books: Damned Old Graham Greene”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Sep 2010:
synonyms: hang one on
glosses: To drink alcohol excessively, to the point of being drunk
Related terms: drunk
black chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black chambers
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A government or royal court's cryptanalyst department.
editing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛdɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of edit
editing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛdɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: editings
Senses: examples: text: To her, I credit three complete editings, numerous arguments and discussions over an extended period of time, and the incalculable benefit of her great knowledge and love of the English language.
ref: 2012, Betty R. Pritchett, The Indian Summer of Mary Margaret Masters:
synonyms: word: montage
english: sound recording, cinematography
translation: sound recording, cinematography
glosses: An act or instance of something being edited.
Derived terms: analytical editing
copy editing
evil editing
hyperediting
immunoediting
line editing
nonlinear editing
peer editing
socialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socialism
presex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + sex.
Senses: glosses: Before sex.
Guanhua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kuan-hua
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 官話 /官话 (Guānhuà).
Senses: glosses: Mandarin, group of Northern Chinese dialects including Standard Mandarin (Putonghua).
Synonyms: Beifanghua
blue chambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue chamber
GibE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Gibraltarian English.
StE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Standard English.