cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
merchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchildren
Etymology: From mer- + child.
Senses: examples: text: The fish-tailed merchild carved in crumbling stone
Wreathed with loose straggling roses, reigns alone...
ref: 1904, Thomas Bird Mosher, The Bibelot, page 160:
text: There were mermaids with gold chains around slinky long tails, swimming along with little merchildren.
ref: 2003, Liz Kessler, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 57:
text: He shuddered as he thought about all the stories he had heard as a young merchild.
ref: 2003, Debbie Viguié, Midnight Pearls, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: The young of either sex of a legendary creature, human from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.
Synonyms: merkid
Hyponyms: merbaby
merteen
nerdishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nerdishly
form: most nerdishly
Etymology: From nerdish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nerdish manner.
greenmailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenmailers
Etymology: From greenmail + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who greenmails.
greenmailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenmailer
unsoundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsoundable
form: most unsoundable
Etymology: From un- + soundable.
Senses: synonyms: soundless
;
more at unfathomable
glosses: Impossible to sound; whose depth cannot be gauged.
merchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merchild
Gilliamesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gilliamesque
form: most Gilliamesque
Etymology: From Gilliam + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Terry agreed because he felt it was a little far out and, as I was reminded, Terry wanted to stay clear of things that seemed too Gilliamesque.
ref: 1991, Richard LaGravenese, The Fisher king: the book of the film:
text: Brazil is quintessentially Gilliamesque, in blurring the distinction between real and dream-states, sane and mad, inside and outside...
ref: 1999, I. Q. Hunter, British science fiction cinema:
glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Terry Gilliam (born 1940), American-born British animator and film director, characterised by surreal imaginative fantasy.
Maileresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maileresque
form: most Maileresque
Etymology: From Mailer + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Norman Mailer (1923-2007), American writer and film director.
Related terms: Mailerian
quasitriangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + triangular.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting quasitriangularity.
Derived terms: coquasitriangular
acroyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical CH₂=CH-CO- derived from acrylic acid
Synonyms: acryloyl
acryloyldimethyltaurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acryloyl + dimethyl + taurate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acryloyl ester of the N-dimethyl derivative of taurine; it is used in some cosmetics
ambulacral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an ambulacrum
Derived terms: adambulacral
antambulacral
ambulacral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambulacrals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ambulacrum.
aporetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæpəˈɹɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more aporetic
form: most aporetic
form: aporetical
Etymology: From French aporétique, from Ancient Greek ἀπορητικός (aporētikós), from ἄπορος (áporos).
Senses: glosses: Tending to doubt.
Derived terms: aporetically
Related terms: aporia
sit-up-and-beg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪtʌp(ə)n(d)ˈbɛɡ/
ipa: /ˌsɪtˌəpənˈbɛɡ/
text: -
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: sit-up-and-begs
Etymology: From sit up + and + beg, likening the position to a dog sitting up on its hindquarters and begging by holding its front paws out.
Senses: examples: text: I hadn't even found a proper bike shop – the one I did come across was full of the equivalent of our sit-up-and-begs.
ref: 2001, Charlie Woods, “From Sepia to Vivid Colour”, in Bikie: A Love Affair with the Racing Bicycle, Edinburgh; London: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, page 58:
text: Studying my bike in detail he then said, 'That's a good sit-up you've got.' For a moment I thought he thought I was riding a sit-up-and-beg when really I had a touring steed complete with drop handlebars. And then I realised my stumbling block. He had pronounced a very Kiwi sit-up for set-up.
ref: 2007, Josie Dew, “Dannevirke, 12 February [2004]”, in Long Cloud Ride: A Cycling Adventure across New Zealand, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 97:
text: Bicycles over many years have been bought / Something the inventor would never have thought! / From the sit up and begs that left you all shaken / From the old penny farthings did cycles awaken!
ref: 2013, Pete Barry, “The Art of Cycling”, in You’re Having a Larf! Fun Poetry for All the Family, [London]: New Generation Publishing, →ISBN, stanza 1, page 52:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: high nelly
glosses: A bicycle having handlebars that are rather high and curve backwards, so that the rider sits upright rather than hunching forward; a roadster.
arthrodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arthrodia + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to arthrodia or to an arthrosis
Derived terms: amphiarthrodial
affixational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From affixation + -al.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to affixation
Related terms: affixal
sightscreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sightscreen
muscle women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscle woman
sigless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sig + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Incidentally, the recent sigless posts were mine, not forgeries. I just had to reinstall Agent and forgot to enable them.
ref: 1997, Robert Pfeifer, “Sigless posts”, in alt.fan.elite (Usenet):
text: Fred, stay sigless until you decide what to do. I'd far rather have someone put their name at the end of their post rather than a broken 'thingy'.
ref: 2000, Jim Crowther, “Another Satisfied Customer? & other info.”, in alt.internet.providers.redhotant (Usenet):
glosses: Without a sig (electronic signature appended to one's messages).
amusement arcade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amusement arcades
Senses: glosses: A leisure establishment, freely open to the public, containing a variety of coin-operated devices, some of which are for amusement only, while others may offer the possibility of winning small prizes.
Related terms: pinball machine
slot machine
enamelwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enamelware
softcopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softcopies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soft copy.
softcopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of softcopy
musclewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musclewomen
Etymology: From muscle + -woman.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muscle woman.
musclewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musclewoman
boothlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boothlike
form: most boothlike
Etymology: From booth + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a booth.
nonwobbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + wobbly.
Senses: examples: text: Often, we can convert a wobbly hinged assemblage to be a nonwobbly one by cutting one of the pieces into two pieces and connecting them with a hinge.
ref: 2002, Greg Norman Frederickson, Hinged dissections: swinging & twisting:
text: It stabilizes the vocal instrument, thereby providing extended capacity for high notes as well as nonwobbly, audible low notes.
ref: 2006, Shirlee Emmons, Constance Chase, Prescriptions for choral excellence: tone, text, dynamic leadership:
glosses: Not wobbly.
witnessless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From witness + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without witnesses.
knockingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more knockingly
form: most knockingly
Etymology: From knocking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The boy dragged on his rope reins, stirred a bit painfully in his seat, and drove slowly and knockingly away.
ref: 1958, Paul Green, Drama and the weather:
text: As the ship rocked, Silkie went flying across the room and came knockingly hard into a set of wooden water barrels.
ref: 1983, Claudette Williams, Song of Silkie:
glosses: With a knocking sound or motion.
unseemlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unseemlily
form: most unseemlily
Etymology: From unseemly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My eyes glisten unseemlily I know, and I grab and pounce with disgusting greed. But my husband is a small clerk in a bank; I have only fifteen pounds a year […]
ref: 1931, Virginia Woolf, The London scene:
glosses: In an unseemly manner.
Helmholtzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Helmholtzian
form: most Helmholtzian
Etymology: From Helmholtz + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821–1894), German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to modern science.
Woolfian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊlfi.ən/
homophone: Wolfean
homophone: Wolffian
Forms: form: more Woolfian
form: most Woolfian
Etymology: From Woolf + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English modernist writer.
Synonyms: Woolfesque
Woolfish
Woolfian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊlfi.ən/
homophone: Wolfean
homophone: Wolffian
Forms: form: Woolfians
Etymology: From Woolf + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Scholar or enthusiastic reader of Virginia Woolf’s writings.
unfooled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fooled.
Senses: examples: text: Chuff is trying to pass off a flimsy reproduction as the real thing. When snobby Margaret — unfooled, her aesthetic sense offended — calls Chuff's house "ticky-tacky", she means to say not only that it's not the real thing but also that it's done in poor taste.
ref: 2007, Jerry L. Walls, Gregory Bassham, Basketball and philosophy: thinking outside the paint:
glosses: Not fooled.
Synonyms: unduped
unduped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He only denies that sincere attention to moral considerations has any place in politics as far as the unduped are concerned.
ref: 1976, William R. Shea, John King-Farlow, Contemporary issues in political philosophy:
synonyms: unfooled
glosses: Not duped.
unduped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undupe
what-ifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of what-if
what-ifs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of what-if
lights out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lights-out.
examples: text: There had been one almighty BANG and then it had been lights out.
ref: 2007, Kathryn Deans, Glow:
text: It's lights out as Bruno is whacked on the back of his head with a black jack.
ref: 2012, Anthony C. TriparI, Butchie, page 112:
text: Instant nausea, impaired vision, and the feeling of impending death, all prior to lights out.
ref: 2012, Jeni Decker, I Wish I Were Engulfed in Flames:
glosses: Unconsciousness.
lights out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of light out
lighting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of light out
lit out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of light out
swansdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swansdown
Kaserne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kasernes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kaserne (“barracks”), ultimately from Latin quaterna through French caserne.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A United States Military barracks or installation in Germany.
inheriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inheriters
Etymology: From inherit + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inheritor.
inheriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inheriter
Terah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew תֶּרַח (téraḥ, “Terah”).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: the father of Abraham
examples: And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
sweetsmelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweetsmelling
form: most sweetsmelling
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sweet-smelling.
reinstill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinstills
form: reinstilling
form: reinstilled
form: reinstilled
form: reinstil
Etymology: From re- + instill.
Senses: glosses: To instill again or anew; to cause a quality to become part of the nature of someone or something again.
reinstilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinstill
growest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: grow + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of grow
reinstilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinstill
uncatlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncatlike
form: most uncatlike
Etymology: From un- + catlike.
Senses: glosses: Not catlike.
Synonyms: unfeline
reinstills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinstill
grass up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grasses up
form: grassing up
form: grassed up
form: grassed up
Etymology: From grass (“informer”) + up.
Senses: examples: text: My sister grassed me up to the caretaker! She thought she was doing me a favour — by grassing me up she was sure he'd let me off.
ref: 1999, Angela Devlin, Bob Turney, Going Straight: After Crime and Punishment, →ISBN:
glosses: To betray by informing on.
Synonyms: drop a dime
name names
snitch
Related terms: supergrass
grass on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grasses on
form: grassing on
form: grassed on
form: grassed on
Senses: examples: text: What I was pissed off about, though, was him telling everyone that he'd only grassed on me because I'd grassed on him first, which was a total lie.
ref: 2008, Danny King, School for Scumbags:
glosses: To betray by informing on.
Greenpeacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greenpeacers
Etymology: From Greenpeace + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A gnawing worry that I would be taken for a Greenpeacer, or that someone would point me out as a fraud and throw me off the ship unnerved me.
ref: 1986, Guy Wright, Sons and Seals: A Voyage to the Ice:
text: The Soviets, who first saw the Greenpeacers as some sort of nutty California excursion boat, saw no reason to fear this misguided troop of whale-lovers...
ref: 1992, Richard Ellis, Men and Whales:
text: Also coming home for the weekend was his eighteen-year-old Greenpeacer, who was threatening not to vote for him.
ref: 2009, William Deverell, Snow Job, page 304:
glosses: A member of the environmental organisation Greenpeace.
Greenpeacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Greenpeacer
sleepdriving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sleep + driving.
Senses: examples: text: These risks in addition to the more serious problems of sleepwalking and even sleepdriving (see below) raise serious concerns about these drugs.
ref: 2008, J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take That Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health:
text: She hoped she had a sleepdriving problem, too, or else it would be a long walk back to her car, which could only be back at the Lotti.
ref: 2008, Kat Duarte, Rise of the Wolf:
text: In 2007, the FDA requested that manufacturers of all benzodiazepines include language on the medication label about risks for allergic reactions and complex sleep behaviors including sleepdriving.
ref: 2009, Tekoa L. King, Mary C. Brucker, Pharmacology for Women's Health:
glosses: The act of driving a vehicle while asleep and unaware of one's actions.
automatistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more automatistic
form: most automatistic
Senses: examples: text: Plainly, automatistic acts are concomitants of mental disturbance of some kind.
ref: 1962, Monrad G. Paulsen, Sanford H. Kadish, Criminal law and its processes: cases and materials:
glosses: Exhibiting, or pertaining to, automatism.
sexsomniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexsomniacs
Senses: glosses: One who exhibits sexsomnia.
sexsomniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexsomniac
S-expressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of S-expression
nonprecipitating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + precipitating.
Senses: glosses: Not precipitating.
arthralgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arthralgic
form: most arthralgic
Etymology: From arthralgia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or suffering from arthralgia
antigoglin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /æntɪˈɡɒɡln̩/
/æntɪˈɡɒɡlɪn/
/æntəˈɡɒɡln̩/
Forms: form: more antigoglin
form: most antigoglin
form: antigogglin
Etymology: See sigogglin.
Senses: glosses: Not straight; crooked, askew, out of line
Synonyms: sense: crooked
word: sigogglin
Related terms: antigodlin
communitywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From community + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of communities.
communitywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From community + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of communities.
midcall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + call.
Senses: examples: text: This midcall rapport detour saved the day. At the end of the call, they went to lunch and soon they were doing business.
ref: 1997, Linda Richardson, Stop Telling, Start Selling: How to Use Customer-Focused Dialogue to Close Sales:
text: In order to support midcall mobility, we need to add the ability to move while a session is active.
ref: 2004, Jian-Guo Ma, Third generation communication systems: future developments and advanced topics:
text: The contents may be signaling information, a midcall event, or some sort of stimulus.
ref: 2009, Alan B. Johnston, SIP: understanding the Session Initiation Protocol:
glosses: During a call.
ill-fatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ill-fatedly
form: most ill-fatedly
Etymology: From ill-fated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bad fated, foreordained or predetermined manner; in a way established in advance by bad fate.
embola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embolon
emboldener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emboldeners
Etymology: From embolden + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, emboldens.
emboldeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emboldener
properness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒ.pə.nəs/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒ.pɚ.nəs/
Forms: form: propernesses
Etymology: From proper + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The kind of women who put papers on shelves and had little towels like that instinctively distrusted and disliked Mack and the boys. Such women knew that they were the worst threats to a home, for they offered ease and thought and companionship as opposed to neatness, order, and properness.
ref: 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:
glosses: The state or condition of being proper; propriety.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The state or condition of being proper (of a proper fraction, proper subset, etc.).
examples: text: Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits […] betook himself to his beads, and by those means got more honour than ever he should have done with the use of his limbs and properness of person […]
ref: , II.3.2
glosses: Excellence, quality.
Manchego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manchegos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish manchego (“from La Mancha”).
Senses: glosses: A firm, compact cheese made in the La Mancha region of Spain, aged for between 60 days and two years and made from the milk of Manchega sheep.
glosses: A North American, industrialized cheese made from cow's milk that melts and is similar in taste to Monterey Jack common in Mexico and Spanish-speaking regions in the US.
Kharkov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːkəv/
ipa: /ˈxɑːkəv/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹkəv/
ipa: /ˈxɑɹkəv/
Etymology: From Russian Ха́рьков (Xárʹkov). See Kharkiv.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kharkiv.
examples: text: As a schoolboy in the Soviet Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv, (it was then spelled Kharkov in line with the all-permeating 'Russification'), I was a railway buff.
ref: 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of Kharkiv.
Synonym of Kharkiv (city).
synonyms: word: Kharkiv
extra: city
limpetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more limpetlike
form: most limpetlike
Etymology: From limpet + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a limpet.
bull ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bull ant
bullet ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullet ant
sick call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sick calls
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A daily lineup of military personnel requiring medical attention.
examples: text: Ten prisons have sick call twice a day and three handle such complaints three times a day .
ref: 1940, Wayne Lyman Morse, The Attorney General's Survey of Release Procedures:
text: In the health care system in corrections, periodically we will find people who will want to go to sick call, and correctional officers will say, "You just want to goof off, you don't need medical care." In the correctional setting we need that kind of [serological] information so that this person can go to sick call without having a confrontation with the local officer.
ref: 1985 December 7, Christine Guilfoy, Bailus Walker, “Quarantine Is No Way To Fight AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 21, page 9:
glosses: The opportunity that allows prisoners to request medical attention.
sick calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sick call
Euroregion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euroregions
Etymology: From Euro- + region.
Senses: glosses: A transnational cooperation structure, usually without political power, between contiguous territories located in different European countries.
raw_tags: in European politics
Euroregions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euroregion
bumboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumboat
-soft
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From software.
Senses: examples: text: ViewStore is a general purpose data base management system for Acorn microcomputers. It is supplied by Acornsoft and it is compatible with the word processing package View, the spreadsheet package ViewSheet and the rest of the View range.
ref: 1989, David J. Maguire, Computers in geography:
text: Catsoft Assets is a complete PC-based fixed asset management system designed specifically for use by the accountancy profession.
ref: 1995, Charter, volume 66, numbers 1-5, page 34:
text: After getting no response from the Mirrorsoft people, I got angry and called London to get the number for Maxwell Communications.
ref: 1998, Chris Andrews, The education of a CD-ROM publisher:
text: Even in a painstakingly designed application like Microsoft Word, automatic features for capitalizing text and applying formatting often confound users of all levels.
ref: 2005, Matthew MacDonald, Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and custom controls in C#:
text: For six years Thomas exploited the prize and his fame, using the jewel as collateral to found the video game company Haresoft and its 1985 two-part release, Hareraiser, a puzzle game featuring the Masquerade hare as the prize.
ref: 2015, Geoff Hamilton, Brian Jones, Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction:
glosses: Used in the names of software houses.
nontransnational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + transnational.
Senses: glosses: Not transnational.
bumper crops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumper crop
bustas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busta
busy beavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busy beaver
b-words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of b-word
taraf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarafs
form: tarf
form: tarruf
form: taruf
form: terf
form: teruf
Etymology: From Hindi तरफ़ (taraf).
Senses: glosses: A division of land in India, usually a (small) subdivision of a pargana.
Related terms: tarafdar
cage compounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cage compound
cakewalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cakewalk
camelopards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camelopard
canopic jars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canopic jar
firestop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firestops
form: fire stop
Etymology: From fire + stop.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A fire block.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Any multi-component system designed to stop fire and smoke from migrating through openings around piping, wiring, ductwork, cable trays, bus ducts, etc., as well as through movement joints in walls and floors that are required to have a fire-resistance rating.
Synonyms: sense: fire block
word: draft stop
fire stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire stops
Senses: examples: text: If you own or are building a frame house, make sure that it is adequately fire stopped. Fire stops are blocks of wood, brick or gypsum board placed between the walls and partitions at each floor level and at the eaves level. These blocks retard the upward passage of fire between the studs in hollow walls.
ref: 1951 March 11, “Nation's Owners Can Expect 400,000 Fires Every Year”, in Milwaukee Journal, page 12:
glosses: Alternative spelling of firestop.
draft stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draft stops
Senses: glosses: Synonym of firestop.
synonyms: word: firestop
fire block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire blocks
Senses: glosses: A wooden block built into the interior of a wall or floor, running perpendicular to stud and joist cavities, especially in balloon-frame construction, intended to inhibit the spread of fire within stud and/or joist cavities.
Synonyms: fire stop
fire-stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-stops
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of firestop.
have a few
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a few
form: having a few
form: had a few
form: had a few
Senses: examples: text: 'Course, once he's had a few, the old man'll gab the hind leg off a donkey.
ref: 1983, Jaan Kross, The Rock from the Sky,, page 118:
text: "Are you drunk?"
"I've had a few."
"You sound drunk," Maria said.
ref: 1999 John Kaye, Stars Screaming, Atlantic Monthly Press, p119
text: I drink to be exciting. It seems I say the funniest things when I've had a few.
ref: 2004, Robert W. Wood, The Weeds of God, Omonomany, page 68:
text: The phone at the lake house rings and rings, until my father's voice, very groggy — it's the way he sounds once he's had a few — is finally heard.
ref: 2007, James D. McCallister, King's Highway, Screecher Creature, p28:
glosses: To drink enough alcohol to be slightly or moderately drunk.
Synonyms: have a couple
Related terms: have a few too many
Amour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
have a couple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a couple
form: having a couple
form: had a couple
form: had a couple
Senses: examples: text: He's kind of funny and likes to play the guitar when he's had a couple.
ref: 1992, Wesley Gibson, Shelter, Harmony Books, page 144:
text: It's like he sees me as a woman once he's had a couple.
ref: 2005, Fay Freimuth, A Multitude of Mercies, iUniverse, page 155:
text: For even the puniest, wouldn’t know a muscle if it shook his hand at a party and said ‘Hello, I’m Mister Bicep,’ foul-mouthed, inconsiderate, insensitive, ‘isn’t a feeling what you do with your hands?’ oaf– once he's had a couple (and he is dreaming of coupling) – voila!
ref: 2008, Andrew Fusek Peters, Polly Peters, The Rock from the Sky, Evans Brothers, page 41:
glosses: To drink enough alcohol to be slightly or moderately drunk.
Synonyms: have a few
equipable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more equipable
form: most equipable
form: equippable
Etymology: From equip + -able.
Senses: glosses: capable of being equipped (with)
nug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nugs
form: nudge
form: nugg
form: nogg
form: nog
form: knog
Etymology: From dialectal nug, nog, knog (“a knot, lump, block, a misshapen mass of anything, peg, linchpin”), also found in Scots nug, nugg, nogg (“small block of wood, peg, pin”), of uncertain origin. Probably from earlier *knug, *knugg, *knogg, related to dialectal Norwegian knugg (“knot, knob”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *knuk- (“to ball up, mass together”), making it further related to English knock and knuckle.
Senses: glosses: A lump; a block.
nug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nugs
form: nugg
Etymology: Clipping of nugget, from the sense above.
Senses: examples: text: A deep inhalation of a fresh ground-up nug leaves you with a giant smile and a tingly nose.
ref: 2006, Jason King, The Cannabible 3,, page 25:
synonyms: bud
glosses: A piece of marijuana.
examples: text: A lotta times I grabbed bags of frozen chicken nuggets to take home. “You know what they say,” Ricky would be like. “Dude's gotta have nugs.”
ref: 2012, Mike Lacher, On the Bro'd: A Parody of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, page 71:
synonyms: nuggie
glosses: A chicken nugget.
nug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noog (“Guizotia abyssinica”).
nugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nug
coner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ̯.nəɹ/
rhymes: -əʊnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: coners
Etymology: From cone + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When I lit my spliff
Just met my cat with the fattest coner
ref: 2021 October 12, AC-130, “Bell It X2”, 0:26–0:27:
text: Just wanna go home and smoke coners
ref: 2023 June 3, Wee Joe, “Fun & Games”, 1:17–1:18:
glosses: A marijuana cigarette tapered to a conical shape.
apotemnophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “away”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”) + -phobia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A fear of amputation (afraid that one will lose appendages), fear of amputations (fear of amputations on others), fear of amputees (persons with amputations).
anchoveta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌantʃəʊˈvɛtə/
enpr: ăn'chō-vĕtʹə
ipa: /ˌænt͡ʃoʊˈvɛtə/
enpr: ăn'chō-vĕtʹə
rhymes: -ɛtə
Forms: form: anchovetas
form: anchovetta
Etymology: From Spanish anchoveta, diminutive of anchova (“anchovy”). Compare anchovette.
Senses: glosses: An anchovy of species Engraulis ringens, from the southern Pacific.
raspberry ripples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raspberry ripple
raspberry ripples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: January 24 2008, Sexy stars who need a bra, The Sun
Cue stiff nipples and a flurry of camera bulbs to broadcast her raspberry ripples to the world.
Dozens of stars been caught looking like they're smuggling peanuts like this.
glosses: Nipples (of a woman)
bicolour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bicolor
Etymology: From Latin bicolor; also analyzable as bi- + colour.
Senses: synonyms: bichrome
bicoloured
dichromatic
duocolor
two-tone
qualifier: Commonwealth spelling
glosses: Having two colours
bicolour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicolours
form: bicolor
Etymology: From Latin bicolor; also analyzable as bi- + colour.
Senses: qualifier: Commonwealth spelling
glosses: A flower, cat etc., that has two colours.
examples: text: The national flags of Algeria, Bahrain, Indonesia, Malta, Monaco, Poland, Portugal, Ukraine and the Vatican City are all bicolours.
qualifier: Commonwealth spelling
glosses: A flag with such colours, consisting of two stripes that are either vertical or horizontal.
chafer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chafers
Etymology: From Middle English chaufour, chafour, from Anglo-Norman chaufour, from Latin calefactōrium; equivalent to chafe + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who chafes.
examples: text: A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons.
ref: 1643, Richard Baker, Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans' Government unto the Death of King James:
glosses: A vessel for heating water; hence, a dish or pan.
examples: text: Enter Mephoſtophilis with the Chafer of fire. / Meph. See Fauſtus here is fire, ſet it on.
ref: 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Mar[lowe], The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. […], London: […] Iohn Wright, […], published 1616 (1631 reprint), →OCLC, page [21]:
glosses: A vessel for holding burning coals or hot water used as a warmer.
chafer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chafers
Etymology: From Middle English chafur, chavere, from Old English ċeafor, from Proto-West Germanic *kefrō (“beetle”). Cognate with German Käfer and Dutch kever.
Senses: examples: text: He who torments the Chafers sprite
Weaves a Bower in endleſs Night
ref: c. 1803, William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence” in the Pickering Manuscript
glosses: Any of several scarab beetles, including the cockchafer, leaf chafer, and rose chafer.
Derived terms: European chafer
flower chafer
goatchafer
noble chafer
chaprasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaprasis
form: chaprassi
form: chaprassie
form: chuprassi
form: chuprassie
form: chuprassy
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चपरासी (caprāsī).
Senses: examples: text: A servant in scarlet interrupted him; he was the chuprassy of the Civil Surgeon, and he handed Aziz a note.
ref: 1924, E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 13:
text: Two clerks who had witnessed the scene, and a chaprassi, were sent along to Mr Macgregor's office to corroborate the story. They lied in perfect unison.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 22, in Burmese Days:
text: Liveried chaprasis were bringing in wreaths to be placed on Mattoo's body, from the Governor General, Prime Minister, cabinet ministers, heads of industrial houses.
ref: 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 78:
glosses: An official of some kind, especially an important attendant or messenger in the household of an Indian landowner.
culturati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkʌlt͡ʃəˈɹɑti/
Forms: form: culturatus
Etymology: Blend of culture + literati
Senses: examples: text: The Club became like town meetings for the entire New York art scene, attracting dealers, collectors, uptown curators like Alfred Barr, critics, and just about any other culturati who could wrangle their way in.
ref: 1975, Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word:
text: Instead of letting WQXR disappear into the maw of sports talk or a top-40 juggernaut, the transaction ensures that New York City — so often pointed to by its culturati as a music capital — will have at least one classical outlet.
ref: 2009 July 17, Daniel J. Wakin, “Amid Changes at WQXR, Music Stays”, in New York Times:
glosses: Well-educated people who are interested in cultural activities.
heteromerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteromerous
form: most heteromerous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having different types or numbers of parts (within the same or similar structure).
Crown Vic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Crown Vics
Senses: examples: text: He stood up, wasting precious seconds and knocking his chair over as he continued to stare upward through the window at the Crown Vic.
ref: 2003, Ed Howdershelt, An Encounter in Atlanta:
text: When the Crown Vic rammed the Lincoln's rear fender, they were spun around facing back the way they'd come.
ref: 2007, Michael Beres, Final Stroke:
text: As soon as I appeared, the Crown Vic fired up its engine, and the driver of the van started talking into a walkie-talkie.
ref: 2010, Moxie Mezcal, Concrete Underground:
glosses: A Ford Crown Victoria motor car.
octastyle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From octa- + -style.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having eight columns in the front row (of a portico etc.)
octastyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octastyles
Etymology: From octa- + -style.
Senses: glosses: A portico with eight columns.
recriminative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recriminative
form: most recriminative
Senses: glosses: recriminatory
reformational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reformational
form: most reformational
Etymology: From reformation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to reformation
religionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more religionless
form: most religionless
Etymology: From religion + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Picture to yourself, oh fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig.
ref: 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair:
glosses: Lacking religion.
rhynchosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhynchosaurs
Etymology: From rhyncho- + -saur on the basis of their prominent beak-like structures.
Senses: glosses: Any of several diapsid reptiles, of order Rhynchosauria, from the Triassic period
rhynchosporium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhynchosporia
Etymology: From rhyncho- + spore + -ium.
Senses: glosses: Any of several fungi, of the genus Rhynchosporium, that are pathogenic to cereals.
rosaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of needlepoint.
examples: text: Rosaline thulite (pink zoisite). Rose quartz […]
ref: 1920, Minerals Yearbook, page 160:
glosses: Thulite.
rosariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosarium
rosaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosarium
rosebay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosebays
Senses: glosses: oleander
glosses: rosebay willowherb
Derived terms: rosebay rhododendron
therianthropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having both human and animal forms.
Related terms: therianthrope
therianthropism
therianthropy
vastation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: O the vvoful deſolations of that ſelect people [Israel]! VVhat is it, to tell of the ſuffoſſion of her vineyards? vaſtation of her tents? the devouring of her land?
ref: 1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter XXXI, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, pages 98–99:
glosses: Devastation, laying waste.
yarborough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yarboroughs
Etymology: After the second Earl of Yarborough (b. 1809), who supposedly bet 1,000 to 1 that such a hand would not occur.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A hand, in bridge or whist, that has no card with a value greater than nine (and no aces), though in some circles it is no card above a ten.
wikipedia: Earl of Yarborough
toothbrushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toothbrush
toothbrushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toothbrush
toothbrushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothbrushings
Senses: examples: text: Dentists recommend several toothbrushings per day.
glosses: An act of brushing the teeth.
what-iffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of what-if
what-iffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of what-if
biofiltration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + filtration.
Senses: glosses: A technique for pollution control using living material to capture and biologically degrade process pollutants.
Related terms: biofilter
bioswale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioswales
Etymology: From bio- + swale.
Senses: glosses: A type of biofilter designed to remove silt and pollution from surface runoff, consisting of a swaled drainage course with gently sloped sides and filled with vegetation, compost and/or riprap.
Related terms: rain garden
bioswales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioswale
won't've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: We're still safe. They won't've seen us yet.
glosses: will not have
mustn't've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: mustn't + 've
Senses: examples: text: He isn't here. He mustn't've realised we'd be arriving so early.
glosses: must not have
oughtn't've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːt(ə)n(t)ə(v)/
Etymology: oughtn't + -'ve.
Senses: examples: text: "Hell, mebbe we oughtn't've done that." Tony was regretful.
ref: 2000, Richard Wright, The long dream:
glosses: ought not to have
Related terms: couldn't've
shouldn't've
wouldn't've
olay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊleɪ/
homophone: olé
Forms: form: olays
form: ola
form: ollah
form: ollay
Etymology: From Tamil ஓலை (ōlai).
Senses: examples: text: In the Peninsula of India, the Olay are prepared from the leaves of the palmyra palm.
ref: 1885, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India:
glosses: palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a steel-tipped stylus
cap and trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: China is implementing a cap and trade system in five cities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Shenzhen) and two provinces (Guangdong and Hubei). These pilots are intended to be up and running in 2013 in order to provide a learning experience that will be used to implement a nationwide cap and trade system by 2015.
ref: 2013, Al Gore, “The Edge”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 348:
glosses: A market-based approach to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in emissions, participating companies being assigned an emissions quota that can be traded with others if not used.
nectarean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛkˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /nɛkˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more nectarean
form: most nectarean
Senses: examples: text: He opens all the Magazins above, / Of boundleſs Goodneſs and Eternal Love, / From theſe rich Stores of Heav'n, theſe ſacred Springs / Of everlaſting Joy and Peace, he brings / Ambroſial Food, and rich Nectarean Wine, / Which chear pure Souls, and nouriſh Life Divine.
ref: 1695, Richard Blackmore, “Book I”, in Prince Arthur. An Heroick Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Awnsham and John Churchil […], →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: Of or pertaining to nectar; nectareous; sweet.
Related terms: nectar
nectareal
nectarell
nectareous
nectarian
nectarine
nectarious
nectarous
pollutionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pollution + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without pollution.
nectareal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛkˈtɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /nɛkˈtɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Forms: form: more nectareal
form: most nectareal
Senses: examples: text: First of all we will treat of Honey, that immortal, nectareal, pleasant, wholsome juice.
ref: 1658, John Rowland, The Theater of Insects, section 4:
glosses: Of or pertaining to nectar; nectareous; sweet.
Related terms: nectar
nectarean
nectarell
nectareous
nectarian
nectarine
nectarious
nectarous
Khasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Khasis
form: Khasi
Senses: glosses: A member of an Indian tribe, the majority of whom live in Meghalaya.
Khasi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Austroasiatic language of the Khasi people.
Khasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Khasi
nectarell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nectarell
form: most nectarell
Senses: examples: text: For your breaths too, let them smell Ambrosia-like, or Nectarell.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides: or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of R. H.:
glosses: Of or pertaining to nectar; nectareous; fragrant.
Related terms: nectar
nectareal
nectarean
nectareous
nectarian
nectarine
nectarious
nectarous
samizdats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samizdat
nectarless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nectar + -less.
Senses: examples: text: nectarless flowers
glosses: Without nectar.
Derived terms: nectarlessness
Bieber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːbə/
ipa: /ˈbibɚ/
Forms: form: Biebers
Etymology: Jewish and German surname, from the name Bieber, itself from an old form of modern Biber (“beaver”). Doublet of Beaver. Compare Beaber, Beeber.
Senses: examples: text: Justin Bieber
translation: (name of a singer)
english: (name of a singer)
glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A census-designated place in Lassen County, California, United States.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from Bieber (surname)
word: Belieber
sense: terms derived from Bieber (surname)
word: Belieberism
sense: terms derived from Bieber (surname)
word: Bieber fever
sense: terms derived from Bieber (surname)
word: Bieberite
sense: terms derived from Bieber (surname)
word: bieberite
sense: terms derived from Bieber (surname)
word: Biebermania
retrainee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrainees
Etymology: From retrain + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who undergoes retraining.
retrainees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrainee
agribiotechnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agribiotechnologies
Etymology: From agri- + biotechnology.
Senses: glosses: The application of biotechnology to agriculture
Kt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Abbreviation of knight.
glosses: post-nominal letters for knight bachelor
reflexmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflexmates
Etymology: From reflex + mate.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A chess puzzle in which white, moving first, must force black to deliver checkmate within a specified number of moves.
reflexmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflexmate
anisomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aniso- + -mycin.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An antibiotic, produced by Streptomyces griseolus, which inhibits protein synthesis
Synonyms: flagecidin