cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fuckslave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuckslaves
Etymology: From fuck + slave.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Somebody who is obligated to serve the sexual desires of somebody else.
fuckslaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckslave
fuckslut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucksluts
Etymology: From fuck + slut.
Senses: glosses: A sexually promiscuous person; usually a woman.
fucksluts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckslut
predative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more predative
form: most predative
Etymology: From predat(ion) + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Her face was pale, yellowish, with a clear, transparent skin, she leaned forward rather, her features were strongly marked, handsome, with a tense, unseeing, predative look.
ref: 1914, D. H. Lawrence, The Wedding Ring:
glosses: Pertaining to predation or a predator; predatory.
Derived terms: predatively
concern-troll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concern-trolls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of concern troll.
concern-troll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: concern-trolls
form: concern-trolling
form: concern-trolled
form: concern-trolled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of concern troll.
predatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more predatively
form: most predatively
Etymology: From predative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Over the course of a day's driving in the vicinity of South Lake Tahoe, white and green law enforcement vehicles appear frequently — in our wake, in the oncoming lane, stationed predatively on the side of the road.
ref: 1998, Andrew Todhunter, Fall of the Phantom Lord: Climbing and the Face of Fear:
glosses: In a predative manner.
talk jockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talk jockeys
Etymology: Invented in the 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1970s, the term talk jockey was invented, meaning "host of a radio talk show," later shortened to the rhyming talk jock and instigating the coinage of shock jock for the host of a "shock" talk show of the 1990s.
ref: 1999, Allan Metcalf, David K. Barnhart, America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America:
glosses: A host of a radio talk show.
Synonyms: talk jock
Related terms: shock jock
talk jock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talk jocks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of talk jockey.
synonyms: word: talk jockey
talk jockeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talk jockey
talk jocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talk jock
quiverness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quiver + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: With every shake, tremble and quiverness of body, you are home more than you are on Earth.
ref: 2007, Nadia Khalil Bradley, Origins of Truth:
glosses: agility
counterdistinctive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + distinctive.
Senses: glosses: contradistinctive
fairy liquid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the brand name Fairy.
Senses: glosses: Washing-up liquid.
wikipedia: Fairy (brand)
blackmaily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blackmaily
form: most blackmaily
Etymology: From blackmail + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “I wonder what the blackmaily part was about,” Suki said.
ref: 2012, Esri Allbritten, The Portrait of Doreene Gray: A Chihuahua Mystery:
glosses: Of or related to blackmail.
high strangeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Introduced by the astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek in the 1970s.
Senses: examples: 2011, Wm. Michael Mott, Pulp Winds
Also included is an article on Fortean matters along the lines of the research presented in Caverns, Cauldrons, and Concealed Creatures, Mott's definitive non-fiction opus on high strangeness, hidden beings, and real-life mysteries.
glosses: A quality of being peculiar, bizarre, utterly absurd.
wikipedia: J. Allen Hynek
Celtophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Celtophobes
Etymology: From Celto- + -phobe. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: One who hates the Celtic peoples.
azamethiphos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular organothiophosphate insecticide, used to control parasites in salmon.
Celticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Celticities
Etymology: From Celtic + -ity. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Celtic.
linear logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear logics
Senses: examples: text: Gentzen also wrote down inference rules suitable for the intuitionistic propositional and predicate calculi. These rules lack the mirror symmetry of the classical case. But in the 1980s, this symmetry was restored by Girard’s invention of ‘linear logic’ [43].
ref: 2009 February 3, John C. Baez with Mike Stay, “Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 39:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A logic in which two structural rules are missing from its sequent calculus: those for weakening and contraction; which has some extra logical connectives, so that it has both "additive" and "multiplicative" versions of the typical binary connectives and truth constants; and which has a pair of modal, "exponential" operators for resource management, to help make up for the loss of the two structural rules.
Hypernyms: substructural logic
ecclesiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecclesiologic
form: most ecclesiologic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ecclesiological.
synonyms: word: ecclesiological
docilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more docilly
form: most docilly
Senses: examples: text: They were not additions which she desired to make, but she had come prepared to listen docilly.
ref: 1904, New England Magazine; an Illustrated Monthly, Volume 31, Making of America Project:
glosses: Alternative form of docilely.
pull to pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls to pieces
form: pulling to pieces
form: pulled to pieces
form: pulled to pieces
Senses: examples: text: To stand consistently by his criticisms of theories of race would have been to pull to pieces his partisan teachings, and this he would not do.
ref: 1897, John Mackinnon Robertson, The Saxon and the Celt: A Study in Sociology:
glosses: To thoroughly refute something.
Synonyms: pick to pieces
Celtophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Celtophobic
form: most Celtophobic
Etymology: From Celtophobia + -ic. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Thus we find the Duke of Argyll, who might have been supposed to be committed to the rejection of the Celtophobic view of the Irish question, whether or not he considers himself a Celt, and who in his work on Irish Nationalism makes at times a profession of disclaiming any assumption as to race tendencies, nevertheless lapsing repeatedly into expressions which set down Irish troubles to “ineradicable” vices of primeval Irish character.
ref: 1897, John Mackinnon Robertson, The Saxon and the Celt: A Study in Sociology:
glosses: Despising Celtic peoples.
oversignify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversignifies
form: oversignifying
form: oversignified
form: oversignified
Etymology: From over- + signify.
Senses: examples: text: It is one thing for woman to offer her body to man's scopophilic gaze, but quite another to oversignify male desire by covering her nature and her sexual being with a masquerade of femininity.
ref: 1992, Valeria Finucci, The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto:
glosses: To have or be ascribed too much meaning or importance.
oversignifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversignify
oversignifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversignify
oversignified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversignify
Celtophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Celto- + -phobia. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: But it is the hard fate of those who stand on the side of the party of prejudice; and I have seen Celtophobia developed by contagion in men who once seemed incapable of it.
ref: 1897, John Mackinnon Robertson, The Saxon and the Celt: A Study in Sociology:
glosses: Hatred against Celtic peoples.
Teutomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Teutomania + -ac. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: Obsessed with Germanic cultures or peoples.
Teutomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Teutomaniacs
Etymology: From Teutomania + -ac. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: I am well aware that I have against me not only Teutomaniacs and Celtomaniacs in turn, but much cultured opinion, and that I shall be opposed by many who are not only incapable of race animosity in the ordinary sense, but highly cosmopolitan in feeling.
ref: 1897, John Mackinnon Robertson, The Saxon and the Celt: A Study in Sociology:
glosses: Somebody obsessed with Germanic cultures or peoples.
Celtomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Celtomania + -ac. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: Obsessed with Celtic cultures or peoples.
Celtomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Celtomaniacs
Etymology: From Celtomania + -ac. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: I am well aware that I have against me not only Teutomaniacs and Celtomaniacs in turn, but much cultured opinion, and that I shall be opposed by many who are not only incapable of race animosity in the ordinary sense, but highly cosmopolitan in feeling.
ref: 1897, John Mackinnon Robertson, The Saxon and the Celt: A Study in Sociology:
glosses: Somebody obsessed with Celtic cultures or peoples.
extinctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extinctic
form: most extinctic
Etymology: From extinct + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: At the three major extinctic points in Paleozoic time, the increase in the rate of extinction of […]
ref: 1974, Society of America Bulletin, Volume 85, Issues 4-6:
glosses: Of, or related to extinction.
Iberic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Iberic
form: most Iberic
Etymology: From Latin Ibericus (“Iberian”). Attested since the 18th century as Iberick.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Iberian.
synonyms: word: Iberian
dispossessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more dispossessive
form: most dispossessive
Etymology: From dispossess + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Work for hire is a way of making these workers submit to the kind of routine, dispossessive, political, and legal alienation to which most other working people have been long accustomed.
ref: 2012, Matt Stahl, Unfree Masters: Popular Music and the Politics of Work:
glosses: That dispossesses.
Derived terms: dispossessively
dispossessively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dispossessively
form: most dispossessively
Etymology: From dispossessive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dispossessive manner.
unweighty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unweighty
form: most unweighty
Etymology: From un- + weighty. Attested since the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: […] the instances and arguments given by him are very unweighty and trivial to conclude the nature of man to be so full of jealousie and malignity, as he would have it believed to be, from that common practice of circumspection and providence, which custom and discretion hath introduced in human life.
ref: 1676, Edward Earl of Clarendon, A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to Church and State in Mr Hobbes's Book entitled Leviathan:
glosses: Not weighty.
Synonyms: unconvincing
unpersuasive
Lochnerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Lochnerize
Lochnerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Lochnerize
Lochnerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Lochnerize
scare stories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scare story
apathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apathic
form: most apathic
Senses: examples: text: The chronic pains provoke a nauseous condition, loss of appetite and an apathic state resembling that in the wake of intestinal intoxication.
ref: 1910, Archives of Diagnosis:
text: The "unmoved mover" was an apathic God (Fiddes 1988). By contrast, the process paradigm understands God as a communicative God who can be enriched by the world.
ref: 2008, Roland Faber, God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies, page 189:
glosses: Synonym of apathetic.
synonyms: word: apathetic
millionty
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From million + -ty.
Senses: examples: text: When I looked out at the empty auditorium, I could see it filled up with a millionty people, cheering and clapping and calling my name.
ref: 2012, AJ Stern, Rocking Out!:
text: Whatever, before you all reach for the Basildon Bond to say 'it's all right for some' and you don't have a millionty pounds to spend on a set of wheels, I should point out that cars do not have to be expensive to be handsome.
ref: 2012, Jeremy Clarkson, Round the Bend:
text: I've seen Star Wars a millionty times in my life, but never here, and never with Luke.
ref: 2015, Eliza Gordon, Neurotica:
glosses: A very large number.
re-marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-mark
re-marks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-mark
copulater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copulaters
Etymology: From copulate + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of copulator.
intranode
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + node.
Senses: glosses: Within a single node.
copulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copulator
copulaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copulater
anisomyope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anisomyopes
Etymology: From aniso- + myope.
Senses: glosses: A person who has anisomyopia.
anisomyopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anisomyope
anisomyopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anisomyopic
form: most anisomyopic
Etymology: From anisomyopia + -ic or aniso- + myopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, anisomyopia.
circumcellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + cellular.
Senses: examples: text: Circumcellular buildup of a foreign substance is typically not healthy for the cell.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Around a cell.
noncycloplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cycloplegic.
Senses: glosses: Not cycloplegic.
tiliroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A potent tyrosinase inhibitor found in the raspberry plant.
nonhysteretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hysteretic.
Senses: glosses: Not hysteretic.
loglinearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From loglinear + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a loglinear manner.
surjectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From surjective + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a surjective manner.
quasitopological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + topological.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Semitopological, and such that the function mapping elements to their inverses is also continuous.
raw_tags: of a group
semitopological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + topological.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a topology such that, for each c in G, the two functions G → G defined by x↦xc and x↦cx are continuous.
raw_tags: of a group G
sessioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of session
sessioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of session
apothecarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apothecarists
Senses: examples: text: Only time will tell if Logan’s gift for spotting a loser is a trustworthy one, and he freely acknowledges that future generations may well view his demolitions of whomever in the same spirit that we now read Francis Jeffrey’s ad hominem attack on Wordsworth or John Wilson Croker’s sneering dismissal of a first volume by a jumped-up Cockney apothecarist, one John Keats.
ref: 2009 April 26, Mark Ford, “Samurai Critic”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of apothecary.
synonyms: word: apothecary
apothecarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apothecarist
mezcalero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezcaleros
Etymology: From Spanish mezcalero.
Senses: examples: text: But mezcaleros roast the piñas in earthen mounds over pits of hot rocks.
ref: 2009 April 22, Dan Saltzstein, “Hoping Mezcal Can Turn the Worm”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who distills mezcal.
mezcaleros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mezcalero
noncarbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncarb
nonrace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + race.
Senses: glosses: Not relating to race (groups of people with common ancestry).
nonrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonraces
Etymology: From non- + race.
Senses: examples: text: The reporter in me that was bored to tears by last year’s nonrace is inclined to be thrilled by the introduction of something, anything, to stir things up.
ref: 2009 June 29, David Carr, “Oscars Need Less, Not More”, in New York Times:
glosses: An event that is not a race (competitive run).
nonraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrace
midspring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mid-spring.
midspring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: His guests at Table 1, at the Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic, were in fact still smiling brightly, though it might have been less the prince’s sense of humor than the ravishing midspring day.
ref: 2009 June 18, Alan Feuer, “After the Polo Match, in the Tented Pavilion”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of mid-spring.
washugyu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Washington + wagyu, after the US state.
Senses: examples: text: The austere appearance of Japanese Premium Beef’s first retail outlet belies the richness of what it purveys: beef called washugyu, a Black Angus/wagyu cross raised in Oregon.
ref: 2009 June 10, Florence Fabricant, “An Oregon Trail for Beef”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wagyu cattle crossbred with Black Angus to make them hardier.
jackelope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackelopes
Senses: examples: text: A buzzer opens a secret door, revealing a strange, twilight world where artisanal cocktails are consumed under the watchful eyes of a stuffed jackelope and raccoon, and a bear wearing a bowler hat.
ref: 2009 June 3, William Grimes, “Bar? What Bar?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of jackalope.
jackelopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackelope
toastless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From toast + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without toast.
pitta breads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitta bread
decision maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decision makers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decisionmaker.
oilskinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oilskin + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He let the left side of his face fall on an oilskinned sleeve and his eyes were shut — not screwed up but lightly closed.
ref: 1956, William Golding, Pincher Martin:
glosses: Wearing an oilskin.
uncapsized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + capsized.
Senses: glosses: Not capsized.
situatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From situate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being situated.
dirty weekends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirty weekend
Acœtes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Acoetes.
puke one's guts out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pukes one's guts out
form: puking one's guts out
form: puked one's guts out
form: puked one's guts out
Senses: glosses: To vomit intensely, prolongedly, or both.
activistly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more activistly
form: most activistly
Senses: glosses: In an activist fashion.
Futuna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From East Futuna Futuna, from Proto-Oceanic *putun₁, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *butun (Barringtonia spp.); cognate with Malay butun and Maori hutu (i.e. in pōhutukawa).
Senses: glosses: An island in the Pacific that is part of Wallis and Futuna.
glosses: An island of Tafea, Vanuatu.
shut up and take my money
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From a scene in the Futurama episode "Attack of the Killer App" (2010) where Fry demands to buy an eyePhone in front of a store clerk who is talking about the product's features.
Senses: glosses: Said about something that the speaker wants to buy immediately.
wikipedia: Attack of the Killer App
Futurama
Philip J. Fry
Related terms: burn a hole in one's pocket
tileworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tileworks
Etymology: From tile + works.
Senses: glosses: A factory that manufactures tiles.
Coordinate terms: brickworks
works § Hyponyms
Related terms: tilework
unbedecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bedecked.
Senses: glosses: Not bedecked.
bedecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedeckers
Etymology: From bedeck + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who bedecks or adorns.
bedeckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedecker
submirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submirrors
Etymology: From sub- + mirror.
Senses: glosses: A secondary or subsidiary mirror.
submirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submirror
aws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aw
three bags full, sir
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθɹiː bæɡz ˈfʊl ˌsɜː/
ipa: /ˌθɹi bæɡz ˈfʊl ˌsɝ/
ipa: [- ˌsɚ]
Forms: form: three bags full, Sir
Etymology: Referencing the nursery rhyme Baa, Baa, Black Sheep with the lyrics "Have you any wool? / Yes, sir, yes, sir, / Three bags full".
Senses: examples: text: Because, if he speaks his truth, he may no longer have a job and so, instead of living his truth, he says: “Yes, Sir; of course, sir. Three bags full, Sir.” He gives his power away.
ref: 2001, Barbel Mohr, translated by Heike Müller, “How Do I Learn to Listen to My Inner Voice?”, in The Cosmic Ordering Service, Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 31:
text: Some managers took 50% of the income, some even paid the artist nothing but a weekly salary, and still the majority of those artists said, yes sir, no sir and three bags full sir. To a great degree, Epstein changed all of that ...
ref: 2004, Paul Charles, The Complete Guide to Playing Live: A Survival Guide to the Rock Circuit, Music Sales Group, →ISBN:
text: Get forensic on to it right away.' 'Yes, sir,' Hatchley said through clenched teeth as he left. Banks could almost hear the 'three bags full, sir'
ref: 2014, Peter Robinson, DCI Banks: The first three novels, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: Intensifies a statement of agreement, indicating that the speaker is craven or obsequious.
gacaca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gacacas
Etymology: From Rwanda-Rundi.
Senses: glosses: A system of community justice inspired by Rwandan tradition, used more recently in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
glosses: A court operating according to this system.
gacacas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gacaca
nonfinale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + finale.
Senses: examples: text: Last week, viewers cast 64 million votes, the most ever for a nonfinale episode.
ref: 2009 May 11, Edward Wyatt, “No Slowing in Cash Flow for ‘Idol’”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not being or relating to a finale.
chiconomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chic + -o- + -nomics.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The struggle to appear chic on a budget
bleakonomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bleak + -nomics.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The struggle to maintain a reasonable lifestyle during a time of bleak economics.
littoralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From littoral + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The tendency for economic development, urbanization etc to cluster along a coastline
fauxcest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊsɛst/
ipa: /ˈfəʊsɛst/
Etymology: From faux + -cest.
Senses: examples: text: Even when sites get their targeting right, they might still have a financial interest in drawing in a demographic that is not you. If Pornhub is targeting more women (as they say they are), they might try pushing more story-heavy movies — which today often means fauxcest.
ref: 2016 July 14, Mark Hay, “Datagasm”, in Aeon:
text: The field of nominees for “Best Taboo Relations Movie” was teeming with fauxcest films, and Keep It in the Family — a series of explicit vignettes directed by Jacky St. James that feature stepfamily members getting it on — come out on top.
ref: 2016 February 9, Lynsey G, “Why Women Watch “Fauxcest” Porn”, in Refinery29:
text: Leading adult content providers GameLink.com reported a 178 percent average increase in the consumption of “family role-play porn,” while 1 in 10 purchases made by young adults on the site were for fauxcest titles.
ref: 2017 May 5, Aurora Snow, “‘Fauxcest’: The Disturbing Rise of Incest-Themed Porn”, in The Daily Beast:
text: "Fauxcest" porn is taboo — but it goes much deeper than that.
ref: 2020 August 10, Anna Iovine, "The disturbing underbelly of the 'step' porn trend" on Mashablehttps://mashable.com/article/step-porn-incest-videos-pornhub/
text: Further, after news outlets began reporting on the rise of fauxcest porn in 2015, 39 images suggesting fauxcest began to appear in mainstream media.
ref: 2023, Bernadette Barton, The Pornification of America, page 76:
synonyms: PI
pseudoincest
glosses: Incestuous sex, especially in pornography, wherein the participants are not actually related, but are merely engaging in roleplay.
booping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boop
booped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boop
retousle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retousles
form: retousling
form: retousled
form: retousled
Etymology: From re- + tousle.
Senses: examples: text: As always, Mr. McCartney was boyish onstage, making faces and tousling and retousling his hair.
ref: 2009 July 19, Jon Pareles, “For McCartney, a New Stage to Call His Own”, in New York Times:
glosses: To tousle again.
retousled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retousle
retousles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retousle
retousling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retousle
peri-urbanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peri- + urbanization, from French périurbanisation.
Senses: glosses: The piecemeal urbanization of the rural areas around a city
aronias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aronia
lewes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lew
prebuilts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prebuilt
cellulose acetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: celluloid
cellophane
glosses: A biopolymer material of diverse uses including as photographic film stock, as a component in some coatings, as a frame material for eyeglasses, and as a synthetic fiber in the manufacture of cigarette filters and playing cards and in various textiles.
fissban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissbans
Etymology: Blend of fissile + ban
Senses: glosses: A ban on the production of fissile material.
fissbans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fissban
mercadito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercaditos
Etymology: From Spanish mercadito.
Senses: examples: text: Julia owns a mercadito, an old-fashioned grocery store that she set up in her garage.
ref: 2009 July 7, Roger Mar Neda, “Who Cares About Zelaya?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A minimarket in Latin America.
mercaditos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercadito
nonhandicap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + handicap.
Senses: examples: a nonhandicap race
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Not involving a handicap.
whip snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whip snakes
Senses: glosses: Any of the slender snakes of diverse genera and species:
genus Ahaetulla native to southern Asia and parts of Oceania.
glosses: Any of the slender snakes of diverse genera and species:
genus Demansia, native to Australia, Papua New Guinea, and nearby islands
glosses: Any of the slender snakes of diverse genera and species:
genus Hemorrhois, native to the western Mediterranean, west, central, and southern Asia
glosses: Any of the slender snakes of diverse genera and species:
genus Hierophis, native to southern Europe
glosses: Any of the slender snakes of diverse genera and species:
genus Masticophis, native to the Americas
glosses: Any of the slender snakes of diverse genera and species:
species Suta dwyeri, found in Australia from New South Wales to South Queensland
glosses: Any of the slender snakes of diverse genera and species:
white-lipped snake (Drysdalia coronoides), found in Tasmania and southeastern Australia.
glosses: Any of the slender snakes of diverse genera and species:
Caspian whipsnake (Dolichophis caspius), found in the Balkans and Eastern Europe
glosses: Any of the slender snakes of diverse genera and species:
red whip snake (Platyceps collaris), found in Bulgaria and the Levant
Synonyms: sense: Ahaetulla spp
word: vine snake
Derived terms: reticulated whipsnake
striped whipsnake
Timbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Diminutive + -o.
Senses: glosses: Shoes made by The Timberland Company.
voguism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voguisms
Etymology: From vogue + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being in vogue; trendiness.
examples: text: Only last month, The Guardian in Britain referred to “Deep Throat” as “a porn movie that came to be seen as a defining moment in America’s cultural and sexual revolution,” but that collocation has been shouldered aside by the voguism “tipping point.”
ref: 2009 July 5, William Safire, “On Aha and Senior Moments”, in New York Times:
glosses: Something trendy; a fad.
voguisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voguism
lowerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lowerable
form: most lowerable
Etymology: From lower + -able.
Senses: glosses: that can be lowered
unmealy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmealy
form: most unmealy
Etymology: From un- + mealy.
Senses: examples: text: My last trip to the market barely yielded enough unmealy heirlooms for a couple of salads.
ref: 2009 August 19, Melissa Clark, “Plums Rescue a Seasonal Favorite”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not mealy.
cottonness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cotton + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The few clothing items that are made of cotton make a sincere point of being cotton and tell you earnestly about their 100-percent cottonness with faux-hand-scribbled labels so obviously on the Green bandwagon they practically spit pine cones.
ref: 2009 August 13, Cintra Wilson, “Playing to the Middle”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being cotton.
hydrocar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocars
Etymology: From hydro- + car.
Senses: examples: text: Several hydrocars have been manufactured since then — nifty little things with a price tag of several hundred thousand dollars that can be fueled at one of the 63 hydrogen stations throughout the country.
ref: 2009 August 9, “A Dream of Hydrogen”, in New York Times:
glosses: A hydrogen-powered automobile.
hydrocars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrocar
mavericky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mavericky
form: most mavericky
Etymology: From maverick + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Palin is still obsessed with the blogosphere, which recently lit up with a rumor started by a fellow mavericky Alaskan, who also no longer has his job — that she and Todd were Splitsville.
ref: 2009 August 9, Maureen Dowd, “Livin’ La Vida Loca”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characteristic of a maverick.
scripty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scripty
form: most scripty
Etymology: From script + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It was taken by Flip Schulke at the Fifth Street Gym in Miami, where the fighter was training; he was wearing a T-shirt with “Cassius Clay,” his name at the time, rendered with a big, scripty “C” reminiscent of Coca-Cola lettering.
ref: 2009 August 9, Rob Walker, “Boxers, Not Briefs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of script, or handwriting.
unboyfriend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unboyfriends
Etymology: From un- + boyfriend.
Senses: glosses: A man who is not one's boyfriend (but who might be desirable boyfriend material).
unboyfriends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unboyfriend
Shipman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Either from sheep + man, or from shipman.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Derived terms: Shipman effect
mazgouf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of masgouf.
mazquf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of masgouf.
masquf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of masgouf.
redrag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redrags
form: redragging
form: redragged
form: redragged
Etymology: From re- + drag.
Senses: glosses: To drag again.
redragged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redrag
redrags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redrag
redragging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redrag
rajmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rajmatas
Senses: examples: text: Nonetheless, for many years afterward, she was often referred to as maharani, though that eventually gave way to the less glamorous but more respectful title of rajmata, the equivalent of queen mother.
ref: 2009 July 31, Bruce Weber, “Gayatri Devi, 90, a Maharani and a Lawmaker, Dies”, in New York Times:
glosses: queen mother
rajmatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rajmata
shortcutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortcutters
Etymology: From shortcut + -er.
Senses: examples: text: With all due respect to Aaron, every era seems to have had its legion of wrongdoers and shortcutters who used whatever science was available to get an edge.
ref: 2009 July 31, William C. Rhoden, “Baseball Players’ Silence Led to Loud Drip of Names”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who takes shortcuts.
shortcutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shortcutter
microraptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microraptors
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: A small, four-winged paravian dinosaur of the genus Microraptor.
microraptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microraptor
foodier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of foody: more foody
kyabakura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kyabakura
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese キャバクラ, itself from English cabaret club.
Senses: glosses: A kind of Japanese club where hostesses are paid to entertain and drink and talk with customers.
mislocution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mislocutions
Etymology: From mis- + locution.
Senses: examples: text: Though distinctly restrained, Sethi’s prose evokes the comic mislocutions of Jonathan Safran Foer and the vertiginous mania of Zadie Smith.
ref: 2009 July 26, “Fiction Chronicle”, in New York Times:
glosses: incorrect locution
mislocutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mislocution
nonbloodsucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bloodsucking.
Senses: examples: text: Many wore cardboard Burger King crowns emblazoned with “Team Edward,” referring to Edward, the nonbloodsucking vampire at the franchise’s center.
ref: 2009 July 24, Brooks Barnes, “Studios Bring Another Dimension to Comic-Con”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not bloodsucking.
cellphoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cellphone + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I collected my bags and joined the crowd that pushed its way through the exit, a narrow, sinuous valley of speed-walking laptopped and cellphoned executives.
ref: 2004, Swati Kaushal, chapter 18, in Piece of Cake, New Delhi: Penguin Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 137:
text: “Why do I shop for produce here?” I asked myself, as I do every time I find myself fighting for cart space with cellphoned students.
ref: 2006 July 24, Courtney Jane Kendrick, “She Wore Lemon”, in Enjoy It! Greatest Hits from the Blog of Courtney Jane Kendrick, volume 1 (2005–2008), [Provo, Ut.], published 2008, →ISBN, page 72:
text: With their rowdy 24/7 lagered clientele, undraped beer-bellies lobstering in the sun, gobbing at the stationary traffic four feet from the table they are waiting to throw at the Man U chara-convoy which cellphoned pickets have told them is just coming off the M1?
ref: 2007, Alan Coren, “Beyond Our Ken”, in 69 for 1, London: JR Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Outside, the suited and cellphoned elite and the insufferably gorgeous businesswomen in tight tube skirts and stiletto heels drifted by in a rushed cloud.
ref: 2016 May 4, Grant Patterson, “Alameda Santos, São Paulo”, in Southern Cross (A Will Bryant Thriller), Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 81:
text: Now cellphoned tourists, constantly alerted, chase relaxation in the Baltic sun.
ref: 2016 July 7, Michel Faber, “Since You Last Visited Sopot”, in Undying: A Love Story, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, →ISBN:
glosses: With a cellphone or cellphones.
cellphoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cellphone + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cellphone
cellphoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cellphone
pillowside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pillow + -side.
Senses: examples: text: One judge actually went to his pillowside to arraign him on tax charges in December 1968.
ref: 2009 April 11, Peter Edwards, “An offer you can't refuse”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Synonym of bedside.
synonyms: word: bedside
pulpability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pulp + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: "There's a slight difference in the pulpability of hot drink cups and milk cartons, so you end up having to pulp one too long or the other not enough," says Rathbone.
ref: 2009 April 11, Ellen Moorhouse, Toronto Star:
glosses: The quality or degree of being pulpable.
pulpable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pulp + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This paper cup is pulpable: it can be recycled in the normal paper-recycling stream.
glosses: Suitable for being pulped.
Related terms: pulpability
soundwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundwalks
Etymology: From sound + walk; first used by members of the World Soundscape Project under the leadership of composer R. Murray Schafer in Vancouver in the 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: Although there is a classical component to Open Ears, there's a lot more on offer on the high-quality, eclectic bill, including the Turtle Island String Quartet playing the music of Coltrane, Vancouver's Hard Rubber Orchestra, an outdoor soundwalk with Schafer, Persian improv and art installations.
ref: 2009 April 11, John Terauds, “Unexpected will help Open Ears”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: An excursion for the purpose of listening to the environment.
soundwalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soundwalk
emasculatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more emasculatingly
form: most emasculatingly
Etymology: From emasculating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Both characters are strangely, and emasculatingly, dependent on the objects of their fixation. Both bow rather mechanically to the pressures of "duty" at the expense of emotional and sexual fulfillment.
ref: 1998, Deborah Vlock, Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre, page 35:
text: "By whom?" Elspeth demanded in a tone so emasculatingly terrifying every Y chromosome in ear shot grafted on an extra leg in desperate hope not to be noticed.
ref: 2016, Andrew Mitchell, Furious Tales:
glosses: So as to emasculate.
cameoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cameo
outcurl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outcurls
form: outcurling
form: outcurled
form: outcurled
Etymology: From out- + curl.
Senses: glosses: To curl outward.
examples: text: As long as we're still shooting good numbers I am more than happy to accept a loss if they outcurl us.
ref: 2009 April 8, Bill Graveland, “Canadian skip has killer instinct”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: To surpass in curling.
outcurled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outcurl
outcurls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outcurl
outcurling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outcurl
persecutorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more persecutorial
form: most persecutorial
Senses: glosses: Synonym of persecutory.
synonyms: word: persecutory
undriveable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undriveable
form: most undriveable
Senses: examples: text: The first rain fell during the 22nd lap, but 10 laps later the track was undriveable.
ref: 2009 April 6, “Button presses through storm to earn victory”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of undrivable.
mistressdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mistress + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm or sphere of mistresses (female partners in extramarital relationships).
undersole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undersoles
Etymology: From under- + sole.
Senses: glosses: The underside of the sole of a shoe.
undersoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undersole
yersinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Yersinia + -osis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of yersiniosis.
synonyms: word: yersiniosis
kidneyshell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidneyshells
Etymology: From kidney + shell.
Senses: examples: text: Canada's species at highest risk — caribou, spotted owls and the freshwater kidneyshell mussel — remain under threat because the federal government is failing to use its own laws to protect them, says a coalition of environmental groups.
ref: 2009 May 1, Moira Welsh, “Ottawa `ducking its own laws' on protecting wildlife, study says”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Any of various freshwater mussels in the genus Ptychobranchus.
kidneyshells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kidneyshell
unwalkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwalkable
form: most unwalkable
Etymology: From un- + walkable.
Senses: examples: text: What's it like to live in the shadow of the unwalkable Highway 401?
ref: 2009 May 1, “Get out and walk”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: That cannot be traversed by walking.
overdirected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + directed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdirect
overdirected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdirected
form: most overdirected
Etymology: From over- + directed.
Senses: examples: text: This Pulitzer- and Tony-winning one-man show looked pretty enervated here, ponderously overdirected by Robin Phillips.
ref: 2009 April 30, Richard Ouzounian, “Lost in transportation: When hit theatre turns sour”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2010:
glosses: Of a film: directed with too much effort or embellishment.
handwipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handwipes
Etymology: From hand + wipe.
Senses: examples: text: Then, she prescribed super-strength Cipro tablets as an anti-biotic for serious intestinal distress (as a former foreign correspondent, I've probably taken crates of Cipro) and recommended an antidiarrheal and rehydration salts, as well as handwipes and face masks.
ref: 2009 April 29, Toronto Star:
glosses: A moist towelette for cleaning the hands.
handwipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handwipe
facewipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facewipes
Etymology: From face + wipe.
Senses: glosses: A moist towelette for cleaning the face.
facewipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facewipe
defendership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From defender + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: I suppose that is based on the fact that if somebody put something in writing, they have some sort of a pride or a defendership of a written document.
ref: 1994, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session ... July 20, 21, 22, and 23, 1993:
glosses: The quality or state of being in defense of something.
nimbyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nimbyists
form: Nimbyist
Etymology: From nimby + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: It has overcome the nimbyists and the naysayers to build a successful airline operation.
ref: 2009 April 29, “Porter a rare good news story”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Synonym of nimby.
synonyms: word: nimby
nimbyist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nimbyist
form: most nimbyist
form: Nimbyist
Etymology: From nimby + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nimby.
synonyms: word: nimby
nimbyists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nimbyist
free-marketism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From free market + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The economic policy of having a free market.