cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
make a pig of oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a pig of oneself
form: making a pig of oneself
form: made a pig of oneself
form: made a pig of oneself
form: make a pig out of oneself
Senses: examples: text: As the intoxicating aroma of hot bread wafted around her, and it was all she could do to keep herself from diving in and making a pig of herself.
ref: 2002, Jeff Hoy, Martian Romance, iUniverse, published 2002, →ISBN, page 156:
text: Sloan had made a pig of himself with the caviar, accompanied by multiple shots of vodka, which had also been my poison for the evening in the spirit of welcoming 2011.
ref: 2012, Mickie B. Ashling, Cleave, Dreamspinner Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Happy grinned broadly, entirely unmoved, put his feet up on the opposite seat, and made a pig of himself with free food and drink from the complimentary trolley.
ref: 2012, Simon R. Green, Ghost of a Dream, Ace Books, published 2012, →ISBN:
glosses: To eat to excess; to overeat; to gorge.
cavezon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavezons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cavesson.
cavezons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavezon
¼ h
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of quarter-hard (reference to alloy strength, as in between dead soft and half hard).
siloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silo
siloes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: A word of warning is not to go for more than three columns if you can help it; using four or more columns begins to look disjointed and siloes the information.
ref: 2012, Mark William Bell, Build a Website for Free:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of silo
pillarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillarists
Etymology: From pillar + -ist.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A stylite.
pillarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillarist
rabatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabato
rebatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebato
unbrave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbrave
form: most unbrave
Etymology: From un- + brave.
Senses: glosses: Not brave.
uncourageously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncourageously
form: most uncourageously
Etymology: From uncourageous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without courage; in a cowardly manner.
unbraved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + braved.
Senses: glosses: Not braved.
Javas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Java
Frenchpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frenchperson
Frenchpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frenchperson
yeardays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yearday
Kashan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɑːʃɑːn/
Etymology: From Persian کاشان (kâšân).
Senses: glosses: A city in Isfahan Province, Iran.
Kashan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɑːʃɑːn/
Forms: form: Kashans
Etymology: From Persian کاشان (kâšân).
Senses: examples: text: I napped in the pile
of the brushed and bruised
Kashan on our living room floor
ref: 1985, Peter Balakian, “The Oriental Rug”, in Robert Pack, Jay Parini, editors, Introspections: American poets on one of their own poems, Hanover and London: University Press of New England for Middlebury College Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: A kind of decorative flat carpet.
Meshkat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Esfahan Province, Iran.
unsimplistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsimplistic
form: most unsimplistic
Etymology: From un- + simplistic.
Senses: glosses: Not simplistic.
olfactory nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olfactory nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
coordinate_terms: optic nerve
oculomotor nerve
trochlear nerve
trigeminal nerve
abducens nerve
facial nerve
vestibulocochlear nerve
glossopharyngeal nerve
vagus nerve
accessory nerve
hypoglossal nerve
glosses: Either of the first of twelve paired cranial nerves which arise in the olfactory neurosensory cells of the nasal mucous membrane and carries information of the sense of smell from the nasal cavity to the brain.
old soldier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old soldiers
Senses: examples: text: For almost 90 years, the dependable 350hp diesel-electrics and their predecessors have given loyal service to Britain's industrial and main line railways, but even these old soldiers can't go on forever.
ref: 2022 February 9, Ben Jones, “Batteries included for future shunters”, in RAIL, number 950, page 54:
glosses: A former soldier, or one who has served for a long time.
glosses: Someone with a lot of experience in something; an old hand.
glosses: The butt of a smoked cigar, or an empty bottle of liquor.
glosses: A bottle whose contents are drunk at a single sitting.
Derived terms: come the old soldier
old soldiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old soldier
wauchting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waucht
wauchted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of waucht
coke dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coke dicks
Senses: examples: text: Half the time we went to bed, he'd get coke dick and we'd just sit around talking.
ref: 1997, Michael Stone, The Low End of Nowhere, Penguin, published 1997, →ISBN, page 77:
text: “He's got coke dick,” says Tia Lee flatly.
ref: 2007, Annie Oakley, Working Sex: Sex Workers Write about a Changing Industry, Seal Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Another perk of fucking a nice guy is that he was never too drunk or too fucked up on drugs, so he never got whiskey or coke dick.
ref: 2012, Heather Rutman, The Girl's Guide to Depravity: How to Get Laid Without Getting Screwed, Running Press, published 2012, →ISBN:
glosses: Erectile dysfunction caused by cocaine use.
examples: text: Anyways, how does Stephan fuck all his groupies with a coke dick?
ref: 2000 August 4, justin_sane22, “Re: Are VNV Aethiests?”, in rec.music.industrial (Usenet):
text: I really wanted to get fucked but I could see that wasn't going to happen, not with a coke dick, but he really loved giving oral, I discovered.
ref: 2006, Suzanne Portnoy, The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker, Virgin Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 106:
text: You'd look down and see your horribly shriveled coke dick and think, “Maybe coke's not so great.”
ref: 2010, Paul Provenza, Dan Dion, ¡Satiristas!: Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs & Vulgarians, HarperCollins, published 2010, →ISBN, page 264:
glosses: A penis that is flaccid as a result of cocaine-induced erectile dysfunction.
Synonyms: erectile dysfunction
coke dicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coke dick
limp-dickedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From limp-dicked + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: When I finally look up Alpha is there, curling his index finger as an illustration of my limp-dickedness.
ref: 2008, Adam Davies, Mine All Mine, link:
glosses: The condition of cowardice, impotence, or erectile dysfunction
whiskey dicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiskey dick
annulets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annulet
Alu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Shortland Island
aluminothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aluminothermy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or employing, aluminothermy.
Derived terms: aluminothermically
digital footprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital footprint
artisanality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From artisan + -ality or possibly artisanal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The spirit of artisanality is captured in the nineteenth-century “arts and crafts” movement, which “emphasized the human touch — the care, craftsmanship and attention to detail that go into a piece of furniture or a decorative object that is crafted by hand. The art of creating something, it was thought, should be a joyful, exhilarating experience, not just a way of earning money.”¹⁸
ref: 1995, Richard A. Posner, Overcoming Law, page 46:
text: He gave off an aura not of romance or woolly artisanality but rather of canny commercial nous.
ref: 2010, Matthew Fort, Eating Up Italy: Voyages on a Vespa, page 45:
text: The printed editions of Drebbel′s works thus allow us to trace circulation between a culture of artisanality sure enough of its own authority to stake claims to knowledge in print, and an academic culture appreciative enough of artisanality to support those claims through both erudition and elegance.
ref: 2011, Vera Keller, “How to Become a Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosopher: The Case of Cornelis Drebbel (1572-1633)”, in Sven Dupré, Christoph Lüthy, editors, Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries, page 125:
glosses: The state or quality of being an artisan.
examples: text: Aspects such as links to the territory, artisanality and the size and sustainability of producer organizations are evaluated, and if the product meets the necessary requirements, it is then ready to join the Ark of Taste[…].
ref: 2004, Anya Fernald, A World Of Presidia: Food, Culture & Community, page 13:
text: With early films, the viewer could not but be conscious of the artisanality of the work; with narrative film, as Belton (1985) and others have shown, the cinematic project was to disguise the artisanality of the work as much as possible so as to seduce the viewer′s complivity and engagement; further, the increasingly elaborate mechanism of studio production from 1930 onward meant that artisanality was also being hidden by—indeed, transformed into—the systematic mechanical operation of well-organized and interlocking parts.
ref: 2008, Murray Pomerance, The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory, page 29:
text: The identity dovetails with images of environmental purity, artisanality, adaptability, competitiveness, creativity, and sophistication.
ref: 2008, Christina Stringer, Agri-Food Commodity Chains and Globalising Networks, page 115:
glosses: The state or quality of being artisanal (made by artisans or involving the work of artisans, with comparatively little reliance on machinery).
Related terms: artisan
artisanal
sperm donors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sperm donor
Olivenstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Steines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Steineses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Steines or, perhaps, a variant of Staines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
HPMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of high proper motion star.
ash bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ash breads
Etymology: From ash + bread.
Senses: examples: text: […] either lime water or other sodium solutions, which is exactly what Native Americans did in making hominy or ash breads wherever maize was their mainstay.
ref: 1998, Anne Calcagno, Italy: true stories of life on the road, page 378:
glosses: Bread (sometimes specifically cornbread) baked in hot ashes.
Coordinate terms: ash cake
ash breads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ash bread
ash cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ash cakes
Etymology: From ash + cake.
Senses: glosses: A bread (cake), usually specifically of cornmeal (thus, a cornbread), baked in hot ashes.
Coordinate terms: ash bread
Related terms: ashcake
ash cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ash cake
gergelim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sesame oil
Jedi Knights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jedi Knight
Quaoar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɑːwɑɹ/
Forms: form: Kwawar
form: Qua-o-ar
Etymology: From the Tongva IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈkʷaʔuwar/
Senses: glosses: the Tongva god of creation.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a dwarf planet orbiting between Haumea and Makemake in the Kuiper belt. Its moon is Weywot.
Synonyms: sense: celestial body
word: 🝾
Body
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bodie
Etymology: * As an English surname, from Middle English body, probably a nickname for a corpulent person; and occupational surname from Middle English bode (“messenger”) + -y (diminutive ending). Equivalent to bode (“messenger, herald”) + -y.
* As a French surname, variant of Bodin.
* As a Hungarian surname Bódy, variant of Bódi, Bodi.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
Body
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Body
form: Bodie
Etymology: * As an English surname, from Middle English body, probably a nickname for a corpulent person; and occupational surname from Middle English bode (“messenger”) + -y (diminutive ending). Equivalent to bode (“messenger, herald”) + -y.
* As a French surname, variant of Bodin.
* As a Hungarian surname Bódy, variant of Bódi, Bodi.
Senses: qualifier: Cambridge University slang
glosses: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Related terms: Bode
Bodey
seapunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seapunks
Etymology: From sea + -punk; compare earlier cyberpunk, steampunk. Coined by Brooklyn-based DJ Lil Internet, who tweeted about a surreal dream he had in June 2011 ("Seapunk leather jacket with barnacles where the studs used to be"), and later popularized as a Twitter hashtag.
Senses: examples: text: Seapunk's aqueous adherents, mostly in the Midwest but spreading fast […] have been characterized as goth mermaids, which certainly captures the look and feel: think turquoise-dyed hair and an embrace of all things oceanic, yay for steampunk jellyfish outfits.
ref: 2012 January 10, Marke B., “Mermaids vs. unicorns”, in San Francisco Bay Guardian:
text: Many thought this understandably short-lived meme had died a watery death in 2011, but when Rihanna took to Saturday Night Live to perform Diamonds recently, with a full-on seapunk-influenced production, it got a new lease of life.
ref: 2012 December 14, Lucy Stehlik, “Seapunk: scenester in-joke or underground art movement?”, in The Guardian:
text: She also lashed out at Azealia Banks, who dropped an explicitly seapunk video the same week, but Azealia's fine in my books. She’s always been into seapunk stuff, she “came from the internet” unlike Rihanna, she actually commits to and genuinely engages with the seapunk visuals (e.g riding dolphins) and they at least somewhat fit her song and attitude.
ref: 2013, Cameron Welch, "That's That Shit I Don't Like: The Year in Wackness", The Phoenix (UBCO), 7 January 2013, page 11 (online version)
qualifier: aesthetic
glosses: A fashion and visual art style, characterized by aquatic themes and colours, rave culture, and the digital aesthetic of the 1990s.
qualifier: aesthetic
glosses: A fashion and visual art style, characterized by aquatic themes and colours, rave culture, and the digital aesthetic of the 1990s.
A follower of the seapunk style.
lefty loosey, righty tighty
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of righty tighty, lefty loosey.
apertometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apertometers
Etymology: From aperture + -o- + -meter.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: microscopy
glosses: An instrument designed to measure the numerical aperture of a lens or objective of a microscope.
apertometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apertometer
anaphylaxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anaphylaxis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to anaphylaxis; anaphylactic.
Synonyms: anaphylactic
accuminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accuminate
form: most accuminate
form: acuminate
Senses: examples: text: In both species the anthers show a shade more color than the petals. The flowers differ further in the sepals, which in Canadeuse are more accuminate, and in the bractlets of the calyx, which are rather larger in flavum.
ref: 1897, Columbia University. Dept. of Botany, Contributions from the Department of Botany of Columbia University:
glosses: Tapering to a point.
accuminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accuminates
form: accuminating
form: accuminated
form: accuminated
form: acuminate
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the bevelling planes stretch so far towards the apex of the crystal that the accuminating planes are scarcely visible.
ref: 1810, The American mineralogical journal, volume 1:
text: The merus joints are oblong, shorter than the ischium, with the distal fourths quickly accuminating to obtuse median apices, beneath which the carpal joints are articulated, only a portion of them being exposed.
ref: 1906, Royal Society of South Australia, Transactions, volume 30:
glosses: To taper to a point.
accuminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accuminate
accuminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accuminate
accuminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accuminate
azurophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azurophiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of azurophil.
azurophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azurophile
azygoesophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of the azygos vein and the esophagus.
tuckeroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuckeroo
Metropolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See English metropolis.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Massac County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, United States.
glosses: A classical city site in Anatolia (Turkey).
examples: text: My city need a hero, so I treat it like Metropolis / And it's a few bad Lois Lanes I can't name
ref: 2012, “Higher”, in Detroit, performed by Big Sean:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A fictional city serving as the primary setting for the Superman franchise, published by DC Comics.
glosses: Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States.
Metropolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Metropolis
Etymology: See English metropolis.
Senses: examples: text: The journey from our town to the metropolis, was a journey of about five hours.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Nickname for London: the capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England, within Greater London.
open-chain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more open-chain
form: most open-chain
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having carbon atoms arranged in a linear rather than cyclical chain.
Related terms: straight-chain
single-chain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more single-chain
form: most single-chain
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having only a single chain of carbon atoms.
dhokla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhoklas
Etymology: From Gujarati ઢોકળું (ḍhokaḷũ).
Senses: glosses: A food, visually similar to cake and compositionally similar to khaman, made from a batter of gram flour (from chickpeas), cooked by steaming, and typically eaten in India.
khaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Gujarati ખમણ (khamaṇ).
Senses: glosses: An Indian food, visually similar to cake and compositionally similar to dhokla, made from a batter of gram flour (from chickpeas), cooked by steaming.
dhoklas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dhokla
chana dahl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chana dal.
chana dal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: channa dal
form: chana dhal
form: channa dhal
form: chana daal
form: channa daal
form: chana dahl
form: channa dahl
Etymology: From Hindi चना दाल (canā dāl). See chana + dal.
Senses: glosses: An Indian dish of chickpeas cooked with onion, garlic, tomatoes and spices.
channa dal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chana dal.
dalmatique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dalmatiques
Senses: examples: text: Richard, poſſeſſed with a reſolution to perform a treaty made by his father, to join with the king of France in the holy war, directed his precepts to Henry de Cornhill, ſheriff of London, to provide a certain number of helmets, ſteel caps, ſhields, ſpears, pavilions, and other military accoutrements, together with ſilken habits, mitres, caps, dalmatiques, coats, and wine for the king’s uſe.
ref: 1766, John Entick, A New and Accurate History and Survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Places Adjacent; […], volume I, London: […] Edward and Charles Dilly, […], page 110:
text: But one or two, who nourished in their bosoms respect for the downfallen hierarchy—casting first a timorous glance around, to see that no one observed them—hastily crossed themselves—bent their knee to sister Magdalen, by which name they saluted her—kissed her hand, or even the hem of her dalmatique—received with humility the Benedicite with which she repaid their obeisance; […]
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 266:
text: The revelry from the tent grew at last so boisterous, the wailings and cries of help from the tower so terrible, that, unable to bear the heartrending emotion any longer, Queen Elizabeth stole forth alone, amid the darkness, to carry beneath the rich dalmatique she wore, a whole lapful of the millet loaves, crisp, russet and fresh baked, which had been just brought from the oven for the table of the King, and threw them to the famishing inmates of the tower.
ref: 1888 November 24, “Holy November. The Month of Miracles.”, in Charles Dickens [Jr.], editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal., volume XLIII, number 1043, London: […], page 488:
glosses: Archaic spelling of dalmatic.
dalmatiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dalmatique
pitch pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitch pines
Senses: glosses: Any of various other pine trees from which pitch can be obtained, or which have very resinous wood, including members of species:
especially, Pinus rigida, of the eastern US.
glosses: Any of various other pine trees from which pitch can be obtained, or which have very resinous wood, including members of species:
Pinus palustris (longleaf pine)
glosses: Any of various other pine trees from which pitch can be obtained, or which have very resinous wood, including members of species:
Pinus caribaea (Caribbean pine)
pitch pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitch pine
Donaustadt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Donaustadt.
Senses: glosses: The district of Vienna, Austria which currently covers the eastern quarter of that city.
Soviets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Soviet
mommy porn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now, as she turned the page of her book, a “mommy porn” title on every national bestseller list, she sneaked a peek at her in-flight neighbor's face.
ref: 2012, Emily Ryan-Davis, Tangled & Bound, Ellora's Cave Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN:
text: The sadomasochistic antics in EL James's 'mommy porn' book Fifty Shades of Grey have made it a phenomenon, despite the appalling writing.
ref: 2012 April 13, Laura Barnett, “Mommy porn?: Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James: review”, in The Telegraph:
text: Countless newspapers across the country reported on this “mommy porn” trend, since the majority of its audience seemed to be suburban housewives.
ref: 2013, Nicole Cammorata, Words You Should Know 2013: The 201 Words from Science, Politics, Technology, and Pop Culture That Will Change Your Life This Year, Adams Media, published 2013, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: A genre of mainstream erotic literature that primarily appeals to the sensibilities of mothers and housewives.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mommy, porn. (pornography featuring "mother" characters)
Hypernyms: ladyporn
Related terms: bodice ripper
bonnet ripper
Elbian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Elbe + -ian.
Senses: examples: Elbian estate, Elbian area, Elbian Slavs, Elbian metropolis
glosses: From, residing or located by, or pertaining to the Elbe.
Rhenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Rhine + -ian (with the first element taking a Latinate form; see Rhēnus).
Senses: examples: text: Rhenian area
glosses: Rhenish.
Rhenane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: the Rhenane provinces of Prussia
glosses: Rhenish
Derived terms: cisrhenane
transrhenane
Related terms: Rhenish
Rhenic
Rhenian
Rhenan
Rhine
ragman roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragman rolls
Senses: glosses: Any of a collection of legal documents in which the nobility and gentry of Scotland subscribed allegiance to Edward I of England.
Derived terms: rigmarole
rigamarole
perma-boner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perma-boners
Senses: examples: text: “So. You ever have a patient with a perma-boner before?”
ref: 2008, Jill Shavis, Flashpoint, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Now, he was like an eighteen-year-old boy with a "perma-boner."
ref: 2012, Heather Rainier, Divine Phoenix, Siren Publishing, →ISBN, page 132:
text: “That's not necessary. I can't imagine how hard this must be for you. I would be insanely jealous if my boyfriend suddenly had a perma-boner for someone else. […]
ref: 2012, Jayne Rylon, Devon's Pair, Samhain Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Alternative form of permaboner.
perma-boners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perma-boner
investment casting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: investment castings
Senses: glosses: A form of fine casting of metal parts based on the lost wax method
auxlanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔksˌlæŋɚ/
ipa: /ˈɑksˌlæŋɚ/
ipa: /ˈɔːksˌlæŋə/
Forms: form: auxlangers
Etymology: From auxlang + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Artlangers invent languages for the joy of it. They follow their whims and freely admit that they have done so. You vile auxlangers will not admit that you have yielded to whims, choosing instead to concoct elaborate webs of rationalization about your imaginary future users. You auxlangers use your projects as clubs to whack each other on the head; the only joy you get out of glossopoeia is in the argumentation that you hope to incite. Shame on you.
ref: 1997 February 18, Richard K Harrison, “Naturalismo e schematicismo, un problema in linguas auxiliar”, in sci.lang (Usenet):
text: Of course this isn't really a newsgroup of auxlangers. It is a newsgroup that includes some auxlangers. Many of us are more interested in artlangs than auxlangs.
ref: 2003 July 11, Theodore Kloba, “The Solution: Modlanging”, in alt.language.artificial (Usenet):
text: Well, they both have different goals in mind. Artlangers are out to create an atmosphere for literary purposes. Variations and illogic demonstrate something about the culture.
An auxlanger is creating something practical that's designed to be used by humans for communicating.
ref: 2003 April 29, Dana Nutter, “anticipating language change”, in alt.language.artificial (Usenet):
glosses: Someone who creates auxiliary languages (auxlangs).
Coordinate terms: conlanger
auxlangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auxlanger
Broads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: The Broads
Senses: glosses: A network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.
broiler house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broiler houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of broilerhouse.
broiler chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broiler chickens
Senses: glosses: A chicken, bred in a broilerhouse, specifically for meat production
Synonyms: broiler
broken wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A respiratory disease or chronic condition of horses involving an allergic bronchitis characterised by wheezing, coughing and laboured breathing.
glosses: Flatulence.
broken wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of break wind
broughtupsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Diminutive of brought up.
Senses: glosses: good manners
browallia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: browallias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the flowering plants of the genus Browallia.
brown paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown papers
Senses: examples: text: “I believe, Miss Howard, that it was you who found this sheet of brown paper?” He held up the same dusty piece which Poirot and I had examined in the morning-room at Styles.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 155:
glosses: A strong, coarse, brown-coloured paper, not heavily bleached and retaining more of the natural components of wood (especially lignin); commonly used in packaging.
brown thrasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown thrashers
Senses: glosses: A songbird found in eastern USA, taxonomic name Toxostoma rufum, known for its large song repertoire
b'steeya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: b'steeyas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pastilla.
buckhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckhorns
Etymology: From buck + horn.
Senses: glosses: A horn of a buck.
glosses: The royal fern, Osmunda regalis.
synonyms: narrowleaf plantain
English plantain
ribleaf
ribwort plantain
lamb's tongue
glosses: The flowering plant Plantago lanceolata.
Derived terms: buckhorn plantain
buck's fizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buck's fizzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Buck's Fizz.
buddhahead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buddhaheads
Etymology: From Buddha + -head.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese-Hawaiian person.
buddy movie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buddy movies
Senses: glosses: A buddy film.
targeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of targeter
RNR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Royal Naval Reserve.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Royal Newfoundland Regiment.
RNR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ribonucleotide reductase
astroseismological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astro- + seismological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to astroseismology.
astrostatistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astro- + statistical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to astrostatistics.
astrotrackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrotracker
astrotheological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astro- + theological.
Senses: examples: text: This, to the gnostic and the adept, is the simple statement that the 12 elements of the nurturing process outlined in the Bible, taken directly from much older astrotheological cults, must come together to achieve illumination.
ref: 2005, Philip Gardiner, Gnosis: The Secret of Solomon's Temple Revealed:
glosses: Relating to astrotheology.
astrotails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrotail
astropauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astropause
Ruthenians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ruthenian
Hamman's sign
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Johns Hopkins clinician Louis Hamman.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A crunching, rasping sound, synchronous with the heartbeat, heard over the precordium in spontaneous mediastinal emphysema produced by the heart beating against air-filled tissues.
wikipedia: Louis Hamman
adactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + dactyly or a- + dactyl- + -y.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Congenital absence of the digits (the fingers or toes).
Synonyms: adactylism
Coordinate terms: alt: syndactylism
word: syndactyly
tetradactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + dactyly.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having four digits on a limb, as in many amphibians, birds, and theropods.
zygodactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zygo- + dactyly.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having two toes facing forward and two backward, as in some birds and chameleons.
pamprodactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having all four toes pointing forward, characteristic of swifts.
grimdark
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪmdɑːk/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪmˌdɑɹk/
Forms: form: more grimdark
form: most grimdark
Etymology: From grim (adjective) + dark (adjective), inspired by the tagline of the tabletop strategy game Warhammer 40,000 (its rulebook first published in September 1987): “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.”
Senses: examples: text: If your character is a more-or-less ordinary little girl fighting for her life as a usual thing, that's a fairly GRIMDARK setting; it implies that there isn't any Good authority with both the power and the will to protect them.
ref: 2008 May 16, Galen, “[OT] Necro-loli”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
text: Most original. Brilliantly so! What's not to like? "Jarringly non-grimdark," carpers will sneer. Oh, yeah? What's not Grimdark about – / * Droids? / * Vagina heads? / * Gundam suits (desu)?
ref: 2012 January 6, Playa, “[40k] [Tau] Roundup”, in rec.games.miniatures.warhammer (Usenet):
text: The thought once occur[r]ed to me, that for a while they had the silver age Legion as the actual past of a grimdark iron age Legion. Which meant that in theory the grimdark adult legion could have traveled back to silver age Smallville, or the silver age Legion could have travelled back to the iron age DC "present" of the 90s.
ref: 2012 April 24, David Johnston, “Everybody Enables Superman?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
text: [T]here is a more violent ‘barbarian’ tradition of fantasy – sometimes called ‘sword and sorcery’, to distinguish it from Tolkienian ‘heroic fantasy’ – […] This in turn leads through to modern ‘Grimdark’ writing, where nobody is honourable and Might is Right. George R. R. Martin’s ongoing fantasy sequence A Song of Fire and Ice^([sic – meaning A Song of Ice and Fire]) is surely the most successful and popular Grimdark fantasy.
ref: 2014, Adam Roberts, “What are Science Fiction and Fantasy? (And What does that Mean about How You Write Them?)”, in Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (Teach Yourself), London: John Murray Learning, →ISBN, page 39:
topics: lifestyle
antonyms: hopepunk
noblebright
glosses: Of a film, television programme, video game, written work, etc.: having a gloomy, dystopian atmosphere.
grimdark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪmdɑːk/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪmˌdɑɹk/
Etymology: From grim (adjective) + dark (adjective), inspired by the tagline of the tabletop strategy game Warhammer 40,000 (its rulebook first published in September 1987): “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.”
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: The literary genre of speculative fiction that is amoral, dystopian, or violent.
Derived terms: grimderp
Related terms: dead dove
nobledark
pubofemoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pubo- + femoral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the pubis and femur.
pubocapsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pubo- + capsular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the pubis and capsule.
polycephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + -cephaly.
Senses: glosses: The condition of having more than one head
Related terms: polycephalic
bicephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /baɪˈsɛfəli/
Etymology: From bi- + -cephaly.
Senses: glosses: The condition of having two heads.
Synonyms: bicephalism
dicephaly
Related terms: bicephalic
bicephalous
dicephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛfəli
Etymology: From di- + -cephaly.
Senses: glosses: The condition of having two heads.
Synonyms: bicephaly
backreacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backreact
Morgagni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Italian
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: columns of Morgagni
foramina of Morgagni
hydatid of Morgagni
Morgagnian
Morgagni hernia
Morgagni's hernia
Morgagni-Stewart-Morel syndrome
sinus of Morgagni
ventricle of Morgagni
Millard-Gubler syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after two French physicians: Auguste Louis Jules Millard (1830–1915), who first identified the disorder in 1855, and Adolphe-Marie Gubler (1821–1879), who described it one year later.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A lesion of the pons, leading to diplopia, strabismus, and contralateral hemiplegia of the extremities.
apple-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple-boxes
Senses: examples: text: They look better and ship better in the half apple-box.
ref: 1910, British Columbia Fruit-Growers' Association, Annual Report - Issues 20-27, page 56:
text: An old cook stove, a few cracked dishes, an apple-box cupboard on the wall, two cots and mattresses, a table, and a couple of chairs.
ref: 1985, Lora Wood Hughes, No Time for Tears, page 132:
text: I'd seen it all fifty times or more (and sometimes wondered how many butts were piled up beneath that box), but this time, instead of lifting the apple-box, he just went right on leaning.
ref: 2014, Stephen King, Joyland:
glosses: Alternative form of apple box.
antipromotion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + promotion.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inhibiting the promotion of a disease.
antipromotional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + promotional.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inhibiting the promotion of a disease.
Waardenburg syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Dutch ophthalmologist Petrus Johannes Waardenburg (1886–1979), who described the syndrome in detail in 1951.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
hyponyms: Klein-Waardenburg syndrome
Shah-Waardenburg syndrome
glosses: A rare genetic disorder most often characterized by varying degrees of deafness, minor defects in structures arising from the neural crest, and pigmentation anomalies.
Synonyms: There are many synonyms
the Wikipedia article for a list
bugfucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bugfuckers
Etymology: From bug + fucker.
Senses: examples: text: "Hear she's bangin' that science teacher." "Elliott? That needle-dicked little bugfucker? Nah."
ref: 1996, Adam Barrow, Flawless, page 132:
glosses: One who has a very small penis; an inadequate male lover.
underpinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpinners
Etymology: From underpin + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, underpins.
underpinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpinner
undockings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undocking
chromophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromophiles
Etymology: From chromo- + -phile.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any cell that can be easily stained.
Related terms: chromophilic
chromophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromophile
cloit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cloits
form: cloiting
form: cloited
form: cloited
Senses: examples: James Kennedy, The Droukit Pedlar
Dazed was he, an’ fairly doitit,
Kack’d wi’ anguish o’ despair,
Sprauchled up, then owre he cloited,
Cowpit catmaw doun the stair.
glosses: To fall heavily
Synonyms: clyte
gamesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamesmen
Etymology: From games + -man.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in gamesmanship.
Related terms: brinksman
game
gamesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamesman
torsoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From torso + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a specified kind or number of torsos.
mussamun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of massaman.
extorsively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more extorsively
form: most extorsively
Etymology: From extorsive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an extorsive manner; extortionately.
cow-pilot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow-pilots
form: cowpilot
form: cow pilot
Senses: glosses: A fish, the mojarra.
cow-pilots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow-pilot
peludoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peludo
relaxin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of relaxing.
screaming hairy armadillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screaming hairy armadillos
Senses: glosses: Chaetophractus vellerosus, a burrowing armadillo of South America which squeals when handled or threatened.
Synonyms: sense: Chaetophractus vellerosus
word: small screaming armadillo
sense: Chaetophractus vellerosus
word: crying armadillo
sense: Chaetophractus vellerosus
word: small hairy armadillo
screaming hairy armadillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screaming hairy armadillo
horsebreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsebreakings
Etymology: From horse + breaking.
Senses: glosses: The training, or breaking in, of horses.
Related terms: horsebreaker
gentilitial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gentilitial
form: most gentilitial
Etymology: From Latin gentīlitius + -al. See gentile.
Senses: glosses: specific to a people; national
glosses: hereditary; entailed on a family
examples: text: Occasionally – as for example in the paintings of the Tomb of the Inscriptions at Tarquinii – members of the gentilitial class to which the family of the dead man belonged may also be seen dancing.
ref: 1955, Massimo Pallottino, The Etruscans, Penguin Books, published 1956, page 184:
text: The tribe, as its name (phyle) shows, had an ethnical or gentilitial origin.
ref: 1965, François Chamoux, The Civilization of Greece, page 312:
text: Now, as Perikhanian observes, and as Khorenats‘i’s tradition confirms, the Is-pahbudhān were probably the original holders of the office of spāhbed, and as a result came to use the title of the office as their gentilitial name.
ref: 2008, Parvaneh Pourshariati, Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran, I.B. Tauris & Co., published 2017, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of gentilicial.
synonyms: word: gentilicial
Synonyms: gentilitian
gentilitious
gentilitial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentilitials
Etymology: From Latin gentīlitius + -al. See gentile.
Senses: examples: text: The easy to remember and pronounce disyllabic gentilitials such as “Aztec,” “Toltec,” “Olmec,” and “Mixtec,” were readily accepted and have become so deeply entrenched that any attempt to replace them with putatively technically more correct terms would seem hopelessly doomed.
ref: 1982, H. B. Nicholson, “The Mixteca-Puebla Concept Revisited”, in The Art and Iconography of late Post-Classic Central Mexico: A Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 22nd and 23rd, 1977, Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, →ISBN, page 232:
text: The suffix -it was most likely added originally to root morphemes ending in -ī (e.g., Palaeosyrian ’à-rí-tum /harītum/, “pregnant”; Hebrew bəkīt, “crying”) and to gentilitials in -iy > ī (§29.41) in order to form their feminine (e.g. Mō’ābīt, “Moabite”) , although a formation with addition of -at > -ā(h) is also attested (e.g. Mō’ăbiyyā).
ref: 1997, Edward Lipiński, Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta), Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 226:
text: On the abdication of Diocletian and Maximian (May 1st 305) Maximinus Daia, nephew of the eastern caesar Galerius, became his Caesar and assumed upon himself his uncle’s gentilitials, Galerius Valerius.
ref: 2001, Auction 21: Bronzes and fractions of Magna Graecia and Sicily Roman and Byzantine Coins, Editrice Compositori:
text: Ahout toponyma, the praedial Latin suffix -anus is frequent and recalls the gentilitials of the owners. But also “the suffix of Celtic origin - together with Roman gentilitials - -āko (and -ago as Romance derivative).”
ref: 2003, Claudio Beretta, The Names of Rivers, Mounts, Sites: Prehistoric linguistic Structures, Ulrico Hoepli Editore S.p.A., →ISBN, page 112:
text: Finally, the presence of aristocratic tumuli (e.g. in the Monteroni necropolises) together with the existence, already in the Archaic period, of gentilitials associated with the local toponym (Alsaia) suggest that an aristocratic component was directly involved in the dynamics of territorial occupation.
ref: 2017, Maria Cecilia D’Ercole, “Economy and trade”, in Alessandro Naso, editor, Etruscology, volume 1, De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 148–149:
glosses: Synonym of gentilicial.
synonyms: word: gentilicial
sanguinaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanguinary
relaxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relaxin
apple-boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple-box
dowset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dowsets
Senses: examples: text: [they]amused themselves with broiling the umbles, or dowsets, of the deer, upon the glowing embers
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of doucet.
dowsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dowset
plastide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastides
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of plastid.
Derived terms: heteroplastide
plastides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plastide
sinopis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The pigment sinopia.