cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
reptilianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛpˈtɪl.i.ən.nɪs/
Etymology: From reptilian + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And it wasn't just because he took her to the theater, the best movies, the most expensive restaurants (which reptile people always do to make up for their reptilianness).
ref: 1973, Sarah Lyddon Morrison, The Modern Witch's Spellbook, page 135:
text: That the combination was perfectly capable of overriding any repugnance people might feel toward his additionally overwhelming reptilianness had already been demonstrated, in response to his first interview on 3-V.
ref: 2000, James Blish, A Case of Conscience, page 148:
text: The first option would require that we are aware of properties such as clumsiness, reptilianness, and felineness by being aware of objects that actually possess those properties.
ref: 2005, William Fish, Philosophy of Perception: A Contemporary Introduction, page 25:
synonyms: reptility
glosses: The quality of having reptile characteristics.
oftmentioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:oftmentioned.
glosses: Alternative spelling of oft-mentioned.
oftused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:oftused.
glosses: Alternative spelling of oft-used.
oft used
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oft-used.
oft-mentioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oft-mentioned
form: most oft-mentioned
form: oftmentioned
form: oft mentioned
Senses: glosses: Often mentioned.
supererogatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more supererogatorily
form: most supererogatorily
Etymology: From supererogatory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a supererogatory manner.
Related terms: supererogate
supererogation
supererogatory
tensome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛnsəm/
rhymes: -ɛnsəm
Forms: form: tensomes
Etymology: From Middle English tensom, tensum, equivalent to ten + -some.
Senses: examples: 1974, International Thespian Society, National Thespian Dramatic Honor Society for High Schools, Dramatics: Volumes 46-47, link
Hastily the tensome make their way to the stage unloading their props in the wings.
glosses: A group of ten persons or things.
tensomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tensome
glassdoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glassdoors
Senses: examples: text: with a balcony and large glassdoor in the back-ground,
ref: 1824, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 16, page 196:
text: A 35 m², 210 m², moveable glassdoor, built like a funnel […]
ref: 1977 December 3, Billboard:
text: Glassdoor Firescreens
ref: 1994 October, Popular Science:
glosses: Alternative form of glass door.
glassdoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glassdoor
glass-doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass-door
glass-door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass-doors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glass door.
glass door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass doors
form: glassdoor
form: glass-door
Senses: glosses: A door made of glass.
glass doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass door
fisty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪsti
Etymology: From fist + -y. Piecewise doublet of fistic.
Senses: examples: text: As when, at some low Bacchanalian feast,
His drunken votaries, for a trifling jest
Or ancient grudge, two staggering clowns begin
A fisty fight, fools from all sides rush in:
They pull, they rend, they shout […]
ref: 1857, Ben Asaph, The Moriad: Or, End of the Jewish State, page 196:
text: Unlike some here, i don't worship drivers or teams. Everyone is good in something, so them being good at racing is their thing. Good on them, but they don't give a damn about me, so i'm not going to slash my wrists over them, or make life long enemies here by arguing it all the way to a virtual fisty fight..
ref: 2007 August 8, a_Frank, “FIA Announces Turkey F1 Starting Lineup”, in rec.autos.sport.f1 (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Sep 2025:
glosses: Involving the fists; pugilistic.
Derived terms: fistiness
Tiburon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish tiburón (“shark”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Marin County, California.
ninesome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nīn'səm
ipa: /ˈnaɪnsəm/
rhymes: -aɪnsəm
Forms: form: ninesomes
Etymology: From nine + -some.
Senses: examples: text: In the ninesome reel the dance is fully organized; i.e. there is no arbitrary change of partner, and quite sophisticated dance-figures occur.
ref: 1954, The Folk Dancer, volumes 1-3, page 34:
text: As they stood before a staid cast-iron gate across the street from where they work, they made as toothsome a ninesome as could ever be glimpsed anywhere.
ref: 1958 October 13, LIFE:
text: On that day, representatives from each country's business community presented their fifty-one detailed recommendations to an impressive trinational ninesome.
ref: 2008, Stephen Clarkson, Does North America Exist?: Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11, page 441:
glosses: A group of nine persons or things.
ninesomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ninesome
facadectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: facadectomies
Etymology: From facade + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The retention of a building's facade for use in a new construction after the rest of the original building is demolished.
topics: architecture
glosses: The removal and replacement of a building's facade.
facadectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facadectomy
fakeaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪkəweɪ/
Forms: form: fakeaways
Etymology: Blend of fake + takeaway.
Senses: examples: text: Forget fine dining: even fairly foul dining courtesy of the humble takeaway will seem extravagant. Hence the arrival of the fakeaway.
ref: 2009 January 5, Jasper Gerard, “Eating out in 2009: the highs and the lows”, in The Telegraph:
synonyms: word: fakeout
glosses: A homemade meal intended to replicate takeaway food ordered from a restaurant.
fakeaways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fakeaway
housewall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housewalls
Senses: examples: text: […] To any later judgment this "Mercury Street" (so named from a local temple) is very narrow, not over fifteen feet from housewall to housewall.
ref: 1959, William Stearns Davis, A day in old Rome: a picture of Roman life, page 17:
text: A comparison between ancient rock pictures and modern housewall pictures often discloses strong stylistic […]
ref: 1993, Erwin Neumayer, Lines on stone: the prehistoric rock art of India, page 270:
text: But we obviously do not attribute the activity of seeing to a housewall because there are in the housewall the colors whose likenesses are in the sense of sight […]
ref: 1997, Richard J. Regan, The Human Constitution (translation of selected passages by Thomas Aquinas), page 19
glosses: Alternative spelling of house wall.
house-wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house-walls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of house wall.
housewalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housewall
house-walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house-wall
house wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house walls
form: housewall
form: house-wall
Senses: glosses: An interior or exterior wall of a house.
house walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house wall
officewall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: officewalls
Senses: examples: text: The way had suddenly opened up to him when Jean Jacques had brought home in hard cash, and had locked away in the iron-doored cupboard in the officewall, his last, his cherished, eight thousand dollars.
ref: 1915, Gilbert Parker, The Money Master, page 123:
text: I'm on for 4 hours now - the big clock on the officewall shows 2:38
ref: 1998 July 16, "Rumpelstilz" (username), best post I ever read here:, in soc.culture.thai, Usenet
text: The Juve scarf hanging on my officewall reminds me every day, actually.
ref: 2001 May 30, someone, quoted by "Rach", “Big anniversary”, in alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative spelling of office wall.
office-wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: office-walls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of office wall.
office-walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of office-wall
officewalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of officewall
office wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: office walls
form: officewall
form: office-wall
Senses: glosses: An office wall: one of the walls of an office.
office walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of office wall
Chineseman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinesemen
Etymology: A compound of Chinese + -man, or a compression of the words "Chinese man" into a single word, which may have been influenced by Chinaman or by similar words such as Englishman, Frenchman and Dutchman.
Senses: examples: text: When speaking of the Chinese individually we should undoubtedly say a Chinese or a Chineseman.
ref: 1878, in Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Volume 243, p. 760 (Google Books view)
text: They saw the Chineseman, her grandfather, was broken in pieces. He was an ornament too and had fallen off the table
ref: 1977, Country life, volume 162:
text: Brook asked the actors to find a way of communicating the idea of this picture to a blind Chineseman.
ref: 1995, Albert Hunt, Geoffrey Reeves, Peter Brook, page 129:
text: In the same book, Ku judges, "In fact, in order to understand the real Chineseman and the Chinese civilization, […]."
ref: 2006, Wei-Bin Zhang, Hong Kong: the pearl made of British mastery, page 176:
text: I asked the three Chinesemen as I exited Uncle Bernie's building. I could have taken a subway to Pettigrew's for the meeting, but I wanted to get there early so I could speak to the knowledgeable Mrs. Christopher.
ref: 2007, Nancy Fairbanks, Turkey Flambé:
text: And who, despite all that, sat next to her, deferential and friendly — not attempting to impress her with his heroic status. Modest, Jade thought, a quality that was as rare among Englishmen as Chinesemen and, in fact, might be a rarity among all men.
ref: 2008, Sarah A. Hoyt, Heart and Soul, page 344:
glosses: A Chinese man, a Chinaman.
Chinesemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chineseman
inbalance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inbalances
Etymology: From in- + balance.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of imbalance.
inbalances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inbalance
chemical imbalance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical imbalances
Etymology: The sense "mental illness" is due to the fact that some mental illnesses are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chemical, imbalance.
examples: Warden, Rob and Drizin, Steven (2009), True Stories of False Confessions, →ISBN, page 28: “Anyone who knew him well would suspect he had a chemical imbalance. He had been unhappy recently. And there was a history of suicide in the family; his mother had tried to kill herself.”
glosses: Mental illness.
Related terms: chemically imbalanced
mental disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mental disorders
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
synonyms: mental illness
glosses: A behavioral or mental pattern that may cause suffering or a poor ability to function in life.
wikipedia: mental disorder
Derived terms: mental-disordered
Related terms: mentally disordered
behavioral crisis
mental disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mental disorder
behavioral crisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behavioral crises
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An episode of mental disorder in a person that is considered unacceptable by the community, friends, family, or the person themselves.
behavioral crises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of behavioral crisis
dogfur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogfurs
Etymology: From dog + fur.
Senses: examples: text: She took him into a little restaurant, but two Rumanian policemen in heavy winter coats with dogfur collars were having their breakfast there and she was afraid that without identification papers she would be arrested […]
ref: 1947, in a collection of Soviet short stories published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House, page 301
text: we will put horsemeat and flesh of decayed animals and then tree roots and dogfur.
ref: 1975, Michael Borich, The Black Hawk songs, page 21:
text: In a Chinese factory, piles of dogfurs (right) are turned into coats and jackets.
ref: 1997, HSUS news, volume 42/44, issue 1, page 105:
text: […] condensed milk, condoms, newspapers of varied dates, and bottles with misspelled English outside and stolen industrial alcohol inside. Leather miniskirts in mink berets stepped over drunk quilted peasant jackets in dogfur hats […]
ref: 2000, Dale Pesmen, Russia and Soul: An Exploration, page 290:
text: Clay recognized him by his dogfur goatee.
ref: 2006, Stephen King, Cell: a novel, page 11:
qualifier: often used attributively to modify other nouns
glosses: Alternative spelling of dog fur.
dog fur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Holonyms: coat, pelt
related: word: dogfur
hypernyms: fur#Noun
coordinate_terms: doghair#Noun
hair#Noun
glosses: The fur of a dog.
Related terms: hair of the dog
hamsandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamsandwiches
Senses: examples: text: carefully folded hamsandwich
ref: 1929, Samuel Beckett, Dante...Bruno. Vico...Joyce, quoted in 1992 in Samuel Beckett 1970-1989 (edited by Marius Buning, Sjef Houppermans), page 70
text: The hamsandwich men and pig-trotter women will give you notice when the time is come, for with the first clatter of the descending footsteps they commence their cries.
ref: 1949, [Henry] Mayhew's London: being selections from 'London labour and the London poor' (which was first published in 1851), page 48:
text: That's why the waitress or intern would probably not use the hamsandwich / gallbladder construction within earshot of the patron's or patient's spouse.
ref: 2008, Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature:
glosses: Rare spelling of ham sandwich (“sandwich made with ham”).
ham-sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ham-sandwiches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ham sandwich (“sandwich made with ham”).
pushing daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push daisies
pushing daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pushing up daisies (“dead”).
Jewman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jewmen
Etymology: From Jew + man.
Senses: examples: text: "There were other Jewmen — Mr Wolfson over to Bride Street, Mr Taylor of Fumbally Lane, Mr Tolkin of Mount Pleasant Place and then Benny Coleman in Tailors Lane."
ref: 2000, Kevin Corrigan Kearns, Dublin tenement life: an oral history:
glosses: A (male) Jew.
Related terms: english: offensive term for a Chinese man
translation: offensive term for a Chinese man
word: Chinaman
Jewmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jewman
house floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house floors
form: housefloor
Senses: glosses: A floor of a house.
housefloor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housefloors
Senses: examples: text: A significant event is taking place in housefloor construction as Rackham Harding Precast, […]
ref: 1984, in Concrete (journal of the Concrete Society), volume 18
text: Most are simple interments of a single infant or child, some buried with one or more ceramic vessels, and most burials are located in domestic contexts, either in midden areas or else under the housefloor.
ref: 1992, Michael Ernest Smith, Archaeological Research at Aztec-period Rural Sites in Morelos, page 253:
text: For example, in our Area A excavations we recovered a well-preserved housefloor with numerous postmolds atop a housemound 1 m high; the roofed-over floor space measured 6.2 m by 4.5 m or 27.9 square meters. By contrast, our Area D excavations exposed a housefloor with postmolds on a housemound just 55 centimeters in height; […]
ref: 2003, Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, John W. Fox, Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of house floor.
housefloors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housefloor
house floors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house floor
fakester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fakesters
Etymology: From fake + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: And congrats to KROQ-FM deejay the Poorman, who nabbed a fakester passing himself off as comic-pitchman Joe Piscopo.
ref: 1990 October 7, Patrick Goldstein, “Pop eye”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: A person who seeks to deceive others.
examples: text: These "fakesters" portray themselves as everything from inanimate objects like the World Trade Center to celebrities like Paris Hilton to historical forces like War (which lists its profession as "resolving disputes").
ref: 2003 August 13, Lessley Anderson, “Attack of the Smartasses”, in SF Weekly:
glosses: A user account on a social networking site with a profile containing information of a false, satirical, or promotional nature.
examples: text: She was preppy. Seriously preppy. And not in a fakester way, like an Abercrombie Zombie or a Polo-poser.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Solow, The Aristobrats, Sourcebooks Jabberworky, →ISBN, pages 17–17:
glosses: A person who affects a behavior, style, or attitude.
Synonyms: sense: one who seeks to deceive others
word: con artist
sense: one who seeks to deceive others
word: fraudster
sense: one who seeks to deceive others
word: imposter
sense: one who seeks to deceive others
word: trickster
sense: one who affects a behavior, style, or attitude
word: poseur
fakesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fakester
inverted pentagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverted pentagrams
Senses: examples: text: a symbol of Satanism– the sigil of Baphomet, inverted pentagram,
ref: 1972, Anton LaVey, chapter 3, in The Satanic Rituals:
glosses: A pentagram (a religious pagan or Wicca star) with the odd point directed downward; a religious symbol of Baphomet and Satanism.
Billyjean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Billy + Jean.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
familymoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: familymoons
Etymology: Blend of family + honeymoon.
Senses: examples: text: “We didn't want Conner to feel excluded,” said New Yorker Craig Linden, whose 5-year-old stepson joined the couple for their wedding and honeymoon in Hawaii. “It was a familymoon.”
ref: 2001 August 19, Eileen Ogintz, “Encore brides include their children and his in honeymoon plans”, in Ventura County Star:
text: These familymoons can be a valuable transition time for merging families Brady-Bunch style, and they're a powerful way of conveying to all that life is about to become a joint venture.
ref: 2005, Marcy Blum, Laura Fisher Kaiser, Wedding Planning For Dummies, unnumbered page:
text: Although most families see quality bonding time as important, most are also limited in the amount of financial resources they can devote to a vacation or familymoon.
ref: 2005, David Frisbie, Lisa Frisbie, Happily Remarried, page 105:
text: 2007, Travel & Leisure, Volume 37, American Express Publishing, page 92,
Thinking of planning a familymoon or babymoon? Couples celebrating second marriages and honeymooning with kids enjoy the luxuriously spacious suites of the oceanfront ResortQuest Waikiki Beach Tower.
glosses: A honeymoon in which the newlywed couple bring along their children.
familymoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of familymoon
Billybob
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Billy Bob.
ice dams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice dam
poltron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poltrons
Senses: examples: text: Be not a Hercules furens abroad, and a poltron within thyself.
ref: 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 35:
text: She shall find I am not the clay, but the potter. I will mould, not be moulded. Poltron as I was, to think of sinking into the docile, domesticated, timid animal called husband!
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, London: Shepperson & Reynolds, Volume 4, Letter 71, p. 127:
text: We were regarded as a nation of poltrons, without the spirit to resent insult, or the power to resist aggression.
ref: 1823, Edward Dillingham Bangs, An oration pronounced at Springfield, Mass., on the Fourth of July, 1823:
glosses: Alternative form of poltroon.
poltrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poltron
mushroom bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mushroom body
perirhinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + rhinal.
Senses: examples: text: Prompted by this, neuroscientists have gradually narrowed down the search for the most vital of all memory organs to one principal structure, the perirhinal cortex.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 229:
glosses: Situated around the nose.
shrinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps, in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of shrink
sharkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑɹkɪʃ/
Forms: form: more sharkish
form: most sharkish
Etymology: From shark + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Pious harpooneers never make good voyagers—it takes the shark out of 'em; no harpooneer is worth a straw who aint pretty sharkish.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “His Mark”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 101:
glosses: Having shark-like characteristics, such as fierceness or agility.
skrimmage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skrimmages
Senses: examples: text: But nothing about that thing that happened to him off Cape Horn, long ago, when he lay like dead for three days and nights; nothing about that deadly skrimmage with the Spaniard afore the altar in Santa?
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 19, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of scrimmage.
skrimmage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skrimmages
form: skrimmaging
form: skrimmaged
form: skrimmaged
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scrimmage.
Bogotan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bogotans
Etymology: From Spanish bogotano.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Bogota, Colombia.
Bogotan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bogotan
form: most Bogotan
Etymology: From Spanish bogotano.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Bogota, Colombia.
nappishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nappish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy were we; when, at last, by reason of our confabulations, what little nappishness remained in us altogether departed, and we felt like getting up again, though day-break was yet some way down the future.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 11, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Slight tiredness, sleepiness
nappish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nappish
form: most nappish
Etymology: From nap + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: word: drowsy
word: sleepish
word: adrowse
word: bedroomy
word: dozy
word: dopey
word: dragging one's tail
word: drowsy
word: eyelids at half-mast
word: nodding off
word: oscitant
word: out of steam
word: sleepbound
word: sleepish
word: sleepy
word: slombry
word: snoozy
word: slumberful
word: slumberous
word: slumbersome
word: slumbery
word: somniculous
word: somnolent
word: somnolescent
word: tired
glosses: Slightly tired; somewhat sleepy.
Derived terms: nappishness
bamboozlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bamboozlingly
form: most bamboozlingly
Etymology: From bamboozling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bamboozling manner.
crackest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: crack + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of crack
biobanker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biobankers
Etymology: From bio- + banker.
Senses: glosses: A scientist who works in a biobank.
fictomercial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fictomercials
Etymology: Blend of fiction + commercial.
Senses: glosses: A work of fiction featuring product placement or commissioned to promote a product.
fictomercials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fictomercial
VFP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Visual FoxPro.
filmanthropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of film + philanthropy.
Senses: glosses: Filmmaking that aims to raise awareness of an issue and/or money for a charitable cause.
fluidifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluidification
gynie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynies
Etymology: From gynaecologist or gynaecology + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: 2006, Sally Miall, Night and Day, New Media Foundry, UK, page 26,
Anyway, I told her, the gynie woman, how I absolutely adore Charles and I do want his children. And Celia, she said he should come for tests! Can you believe it?
2009, Sherie Posesorski, Shadow Boxing, Coteau Books, Canada, page 183,
I had never been on this side of the floor. The fertility clinic was at the far right of the floor, and the gynies seeing women without fertility problems on the far left, with the labs in the middle.
glosses: Diminutive of gynaecologist.
examples: text: “When I came, well I am trained as a gynie [gynecologist], and I came to provide services to my gynie patients,” she said, fighting the fatigue weighing down her eyelids.
ref: 2011, Pardis Mahdavi, Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai, Stanford University Press, page 173:
glosses: Diminutive of gynaecology.
gynies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynie
glosses: plural of gyny
bejuco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bejucos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish bejuco.
Senses: glosses: Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liana; in the Philippines, especially any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.
bejucos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bejuco
fiscalamity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiscalamities
Etymology: Blend of fiscal + calamity.
Senses: glosses: An economic or budgetary crisis, especially one attributed to poor fiscal management by a government.
fiscalamities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiscalamity
acequias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acequia
fleshmeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleshmeets
Etymology: From flesh + meet.
Senses: examples: text: With 40 or so active participants scattered across at least a dozen states and three continents, and many more lurkers, members have organized two official group "fleshmeets," and several members have attended the opera together in various cities.
ref: 2001 October 4, Amy Harmon, “In an Online Colloquy, an Absent Voice”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An in-person meeting, particularly between people whose regular communication is exclusively or primarily online.
fleshmeets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleshmeet
floordrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɔːdɹəʊb/
ipa: /ˈflɔɹdɹoʊb/
Forms: form: floordrobes
Etymology: Blend of floor + wardrobe.
Senses: examples: text: Pity about the suit being covered in cat fur when I retrieved it from the floordrobe, but it was dark anyway.
ref: 2002, Gideon Haigh, The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season, Victory Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: Clothing strewn on the floor.
saponines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saponine
sarbacanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarbacane
mezquites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mezquite
flunami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flunamis
Etymology: Blend of flu + tsunami.
Senses: examples: text: The H1N1 flunami crested in Lincoln late last month, according to Friday's weekly report.
ref: 2009 November 6, Mark Andersen, “Flu activity declining in Lincoln after peak”, in Lilcoln Journal Star:
glosses: An extreme influenza outbreak.
flunamis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flunami
set points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of set point
foodoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foodoirs
Etymology: Blend of food + memoir.
Senses: examples: text: These foodoirs have become a successful subset, one part chick lit mixed with one part chicken lit.
ref: 2009 December 3, Christine Muhlke, “Kiss the Cook”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A memoir that focuses on food or includes recipes.
foodoirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foodoir
interfuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interfuse
interfusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interfuse
interfusing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interfusings
Senses: examples: text: In that moment the interstices of matter were his, and the interfusings and intermating transfusings of matter and force.
ref: 1918, Jack London, The Red One:
glosses: interfusion
frohawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frohawks
Etymology: Blend of (a)fro + Mohawk.
Senses: examples: text: Thousands of black rock fans use Afropunk.com’s message boards to discuss bands, commiserate about their outsider status and share tips on how to maintain their frohawk hairstyles.
ref: 2007 January 28, Jessica Pressler, “Truly Indie Fans”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A Mohawk hairstyle worn by someone with afro-textured hair, with the crest generally standing up naturally.
frohawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frohawk
quarterlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterlights
Etymology: From quarter + light.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of quarter light.
sporopollenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporopollenins
Etymology: From sporo- + pollen + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Spores and pollen, collectively known as sporomorphs, are the tiny reproductive structures of land plants, and have a highly resistant outer wall made of a biopolymer called sporopollenin.
ref: 2017 January 4, Susannah Lydon, “Bring me sunshine in your spores”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A combination of biopolymers, observed in the exine layer of the spore and pollen wall.
Related terms: sporopolleninous
funemployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of fun + unemployment.
Senses: examples: text: Aubrey Howell, who'd tweeted about funemployment shortly after being laid off as the manager of a Nashville tea shop in 2009, and was featured in a Los Angeles Times story soon afterward, told me half a year later that she initially saw the layoff as an opportunity to clear her head, refocus, and "go after what I'm really passionate about" — music and graphic design.
ref: 2011, Don Peck, Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures & What We Can Do About It, Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: A period of unemployment spent pursuing recreational activities or hobbies.
aroar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: From a- + roar.
Senses: examples: text: Her quip set the dinner table aroar.
text: […] scarcely five minutes had passed since Captain Ransome’s guns had broken the truce of doubt before the whole region was aroar: the enemy had attacked nearly everywhere.
ref: 1893, Ambrose Bierce, “One Kind of Officer”, in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, and Other Stories, page 90:
text: The great room, ordinarily aroar with life, was still and gloomy as a tomb.
ref: 1903, Jack London, “Too Much Gold”, in The Faith of Men, and Other Stories, New York: Macmillan, page 105:
text: A ground swell set in; the beach was aroar with incoming waves;
ref: 1956, Yukio Mishima, chapter 8, in Meredith Weatherby, transl., The Sound of Waves, Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, page 64:
synonyms: roaring
glosses: Abounding with noise; abounding with laughter.
Schwarzeneggerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Schwarzeneggerian
form: most Schwarzeneggerian
Etymology: From Schwarzenegger + -ian, derived from the eight-time Mr. Olympia and movie actor Arnold Schwarzenegger who was renowned for his impressive physique. The word was first coined in 1989 in The Indoctrination of Cassie, a short story by Joel Jenkins.
Senses: glosses: imposing, large, and muscular
wikipedia: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Related terms: Schwarzeneggeresque
iland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ilands
Etymology: From Middle English iland, yland, from Old English īġland, īeġland (“island”). Cognate with Scots iland, yland (“island”). More at island.
Senses: examples: text: No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]
ref: 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416:
text: This vast iland seems to have been first peopled by Fins and Laplanders, whom Ihre thinks the first inhabitants of the whole.
ref: 1790, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical review, or, Annals of literature:
text: […] and there came against him king Marsill, that had in gift an iland of sir Galahalt the haute prince, and this iland had the name Pomitaine.
ref: 1858, Thomas Wright, La mort d'Arthure:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of island.
glosses: Misspelling of island.
self-killing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From self-kill + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of self-kill
self-killing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-killings
Etymology: From self- + killing.
Senses: glosses: The killing of oneself; suicide.
Koestlerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Koestlerian
form: most Koestlerian
Etymology: From Koestler + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Arthur Koestler (1905–1983), Hungarian-British author and journalist.
holarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holarchies
form: holoarchy
Etymology: Blend of holon + hierarchy, coined by Arthur Koestler.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A connection between holons (things that are both a part and a whole).
holarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holarchy
holoarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holoarchies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of holarchy.
holoarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holoarchy
homebaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From home + baked.
Senses: examples: text: Have you tried the homebaked bread at this restaurant?
glosses: Baked at home, or on the premises.
Bloomerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bloomer + -ism, after women's-rights advocate Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–1894).
Senses: examples: text: A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land. A sort of shemale dress you call Bloomerism; a fashion of Sister Jonathan's.
ref: 1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:
glosses: Support for equal rights for women; an early form of feminism, especially in relation to dress.
wikipedia: Amelia Bloomer
Related terms: bloomer
bloomers
couraged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From courage + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: She's the highest-couraged thing we've got in the stables. Her name's Brown Molly, sir; and she'll go till she drops.
ref: 1859, William Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:
text: the wordy warfare of lukewarm, weak-couraged men
ref: 1925, Andrew Herbert Dakers, Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658):
glosses: Having a specified form or amount of courage.
colourpuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colorpuncture.
haemoglobinometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemoglobinometers
Etymology: From haemoglobin + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for measuring the amount of haemoglobin in a fluid by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal colour
haemoglobinometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemoglobinometer
pinnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪnɪt/
Forms: form: pinnets
Senses: examples: text: Blazed battlement and pinnet high ,
Blazed every rose - carved buttress fair
ref: 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Trusting therefore in his portents and in their might they sought to break the great wall of the Achaeans. The pinnets of the fortifications they dragged down and overthrew the battlements, and pried out the supporting beams that the Achaeans had set first in the earth as buttresses for the wall.
ref: 1924, Augustus Taber Murray, The Iliad, Book XII:
glosses: A pinnacle.
pinnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinnet
presterna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presternum
presternum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presterna
Etymology: From pre- + sternum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The anterior or upper part of the sternum; the manubrium.
Related terms: presternal
exotheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exothecae
Etymology: From exo- + theca (“the calcareous wall of a corallite”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The tissue that fills the interspaces between the costae of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.
Derived terms: exothecal
endotheca
exothecae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exotheca
subseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subseries
Etymology: From sub- + series.
Senses: glosses: A series forming part of a larger series.
Related terms: superseries
superseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superseries
Etymology: From super- + series.
Senses: glosses: A series that contains one or more subseries.
euplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eu- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: Describing an organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal body are renewed..
rhonchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rhonchial.
disheir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: disheirs
form: disheiring
form: disheired
form: disheired
Etymology: From dis- + heir.
Senses: examples: text: dis-heir the crown
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To disinherit.
disheired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disheir
disheiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disheir
disheirs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disheir
crocketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crocketings
Etymology: From crocket + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: There is no lace work , no crocketing , no tracery , no construction to speak of
ref: 1869, John Ruskin, Flamboyant Architecture in the Valley of the Somme:
text: And there, in the centre of the picture, with its carved back scarcely three feet below the soil, is the throne of the ancient king, with the lines of its strange crocketing fresh and unchipped.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 2:
topics: architecture
glosses: ornamentation with crockets
crocketings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crocketing
eunuchate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eunuchates
form: eunuchating
form: eunuchated
form: eunuchated
Etymology: Latin eunuchatus, perfect participle of eunucho.
Senses: examples: text: That camphire eunuchates or begets in men an impotency unto venery, observation will hardly confirm; and we have found it to fail in cocks and hens, though given for many daies; which was a more favourable triall then that of Scaliger, when he gave it unto a bitch that was proud.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia epidemica:
text: I have enveavored to show, neither do they condemn Polygamy, Eunuchating, the Metempsychosis, and I might have added, the atrocious cruelties of the ancient Circus or Amphetheater, though St. Paul obtains some of his most striking Metaphors from that source.
ref: 1863, Vindex, Rattlesnakes and Copperheads: Or, Rhymes for the Times:
text: The first draft's definition of indecency, which would have eunuchated literature entirely, was changed to read: "the word 'indecent' shall be construed as including suggestive of, or inciting to sexual immorality or unnatural vice or likely in any other similar way to corrupt or deprave."
ref: 1938, Mary Cogan Bromage, “The Irish Literary Censorship”, in Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives, page 80:
glosses: To make a eunuch of; to castrate (a man).
eunuchated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eunuchate
eunuchates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eunuchate
eunuchating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eunuchate
techily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛtʃɪli/
Forms: form: more techily
form: most techily
Etymology: From techy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tetchily.
techily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛtʃɪli/
ipa: /ˈtɛkɪli/
ipa: /ˈtɛtʃɪli/
Forms: form: more techily
form: most techily
Etymology: From techy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a techy (technical) way; technically
bangle ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bangle ears
Senses: glosses: A loose hanging ear of a horse.
bangle ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bangle ear
Cimbrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cimbrian
insessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insessors
Etymology: See Insessores.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Any of the former taxonomic order Insessores, which included many songbirds.
insessors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insessor
Friesish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Friesish
form: most Friesish
Etymology: Compare Friesic; see -ish.
Senses: glosses: Frisian
Friesish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Friesic; see -ish.
Senses: glosses: Frisian
seniories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seniory