cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
celesbian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celesbians
Etymology: Blend of celebrity + lesbian.
Senses: examples: text: Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are well known celesbians.
text: The weekend parties, which feature thong-clad girls writhing on stripper poles, are hip enough to pull in a mix of faux-hawks, bridge-and-tunnel singles, celesbians, and even a spattering of boys.
ref: 2006 March 13, “Best Lesbian Bar”, in New York, volume 39, numbers 8–14, page 84:
text: I might've been able to get by with the whole gay thing had Gait been a "celesbian," like Ellen DeGeneres or Sheryl Swoopes.
ref: 2008, Linda Villarosa, Passing for Black, page 180:
text: Marie Claire got lucky in November with Lindsay Lohan talking openly about her "celesbian" affair, and InStyle struck gold in April with the freshly bobbed Katie Holmes.
ref: 2009, Sally Jackson, “Stand out and sell”, in The Australian, page 14:
text: Some clients will think that the life of celesbians (celebrity lesbians visible in movies and television) represent the life that all lesbians will have — leading to disappointment, confusion, and, in some, despair.
ref: 2010, Geoffrey L. Greif, Paul H. Ephross, editors, Group Work with Populations at Risk, 3rd edition, page 364:
glosses: A celebrity who is also famous for being a lesbian.
gradations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gradation
calibrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calibration
erogenous zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erogenous zone
Apollon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Apollo.
synonyms: word: Apollo
headshrinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headshrinkers
Etymology: From head + shrinker.
Senses: examples: text: The headshrinkers, they want my everything / My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon
ref: 1994, “My Iron Lung”, performed by Radiohead:
glosses: Alternative form of head-shrinker.
hectowatt-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hectowatt-hours
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of energy, one hundred watt-hours, or one-tenth of a UK "unit" of electricity.
palacsinta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palacsinta
form: palacsintas
Etymology: From Hungarian palacsinta.
Senses: examples: text: Americans tend to think of pancakes as relatively thick rounds. The worldwide range goes from the thin, light French crepes, Hungarian palacsinta and Austrian palatschinke to a thick, hearty cake made from bran.
ref: 2001 March 21, Beth Van Horn, “Pancakes come in a world of variety”, in Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3C, column 1:
text: Even though she’s half Hungarian, Mom calls these thin pancakes crepes instead of “palacsinta.” And perhaps they are crepes; most palacsinta are prepared with carbonated water to lighten the batter. Mom omits this trick, instead relying on an overnight rest to make a silkier batter. Like magic, all the lumps are gone in the morning.
ref: 2015, Sasha Martin, “Overnight Crepes”, in Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISBN, part 1 (Conflict of Heritage), chapter 1 (Living Room Kitchen), pages 21–22:
text: CC joined Ingrid in the kitchen and started pulling out bowls. She whisked batter together. “I’m making ham palacsintas.” / “Palacsintas? I thought we were having crepes.” / “They are Hungarian crepes. These are similar to ones I had in Budapest when I reported on the international steel conference. The chef gave me a tour of his kitchen and shared his recipe with me.”
ref: 2017, Vicki Vass, “Lindsey Kelly, Spoon Sisters Blog”, in Dressed to Kill (An Antique Hunters Mystery; 5), Tedeschi Publishing, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Synonym of palatschinke in Hungarian cuisine.
synonyms: word: palatschinke in Hungarian cuisine
ski run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ski runs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A trail or slope used for skiing
Related terms: runout
hoit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔɪt/
rhymes: -ɔɪt
Forms: form: hoits
form: hoiting
form: hoited
form: hoited
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from Old Norse, or a native Old English term. Perhaps somehow from Middle English hote (“to promise, etc.”).
Compare Welsh hoetian (“to dally, dandle”), as well as Scots hoit (“to move awkwardly or clumsily, especially of a stout person or animal, to waddle”), which may be more plausible (especially in sense 2).
Senses: examples: text: Let none condemn them [girls] for Rigs, becauſe thus hoiting vvith boys, ſeeing the ſimplicity of their age vvas a Patent to priviledge any innocent paſtime, and fevv mo[r]e years vvill make them bluſh themſelves into better manners.
ref: 1650, Thomas Fuller, “Of the Clothes and Ornaments of the Jews”, in A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon, London: […] J. F. for John Williams […], →OCLC, book IV, section VI (The Habits of Girles, Virgins, Brides, Wives, and Widows amongst the Jews), paragraph 2, page 110:
glosses: To behave frivolously and thoughtlessly; to play the fool.
examples: text: Hark, my husband! he's singing and hoiting; and I'm fain to cark and care, and all little enough
ref: 1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv:
glosses: To romp noisily; to caper, to leap.
Derived terms: hoity
hoity-toity
hoit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔɪt/
rhymes: -ɔɪt
Forms: form: hoits
form: hoiting
form: hoit
form: hoit
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hurt.
spazm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of spasm.
dualistic development
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An extension of the dualism concept in development economics.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The concept that the relationship between the rich and the poor countries is just a global version of the dualism that we see in every aspect of life; a concept that in interrelations the superior elements do little or nothing to pull up the inferior elements, and may serve to push them down.
punch bowl waterfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punch bowl waterfalls
Senses: glosses: A waterfall formed when a stream is forced through a constricted channel and descends outward into a plunge basin forming a plunge pool.
Synonyms: plunge waterfall
steering arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steering arms
Senses: glosses: A bar connecting the steering wheel to the torsion bars to steer a car or vehicle.
hanging chad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanging chads
Senses: examples: text: The Gore campaign hopes there are enough ballots with unattached or “hanging” chads next to Gore’s name to give him the lead in Florida — and with it, the presidency.
ref: 2000 November 14, “Presidency Hinges on Chad”, in ABC News:
text: They were introduced to the mysteries of the 'hanging chad' and left wondering at the absence of both a federal electoral agency and a uniform ballot paper and the fact that the electoral processes in the vital State of Florida appeared to be in the partisan hands of a brother of one of the two candidates.
ref: 2002, Prisoners as Citizens: Human Rights in Australian Prisons, page 308:
text: But, I mean, for me here's the basic thing. How plausible is it that a woman would fix an election because she's obsessed with me? I mean, where's the hanging chad?
ref: 2006, 01:44:42 from the start, in Man of the Year:
text: Even that number, of course, is open to argument: How do we count a partially punched ballot, the so-called hanging chad?
ref: 2014, Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, page 401:
glosses: A piece of punch-through paper on a voting ballot that has not fully detached from the card-stock.
Related terms: pregnant chad
passee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passees
Etymology: From pass + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: To keep the people who are doing the passing sensitive to the pesron being passed […], you might want to ask them to hum or chant or whisper sweet nothings. The passee, aside from worrying about being dropped, might also spend a lot of her time worrying, more rightfully, about being touched, as they say, “inappropriately.”
ref: 2013, Bernard De Koven, A Playful Path, page 121:
glosses: One who is passed.
low and behold
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lo and behold.
Leck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Ireby with Leck Parish Council) in Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6476).
glosses: A municipality in Nordfriesland district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Dickenson County, Virginia, United States, derived from the given name Elexius.
eyesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪsəm/
rhymes: -aɪsəm
Forms: form: more eyesome
form: most eyesome
Etymology: From eye + -some. Its meaning is likely influenced by handsome.
Senses: examples: text: Between the blooms where the sod basked bright,
By the bobbing fuchsia trees,
Was another and yet more eyesome sight—
The sight that richened these.
ref: 1919, Thomas Hardy, “The Background and the Figure (Lover's Ditty)”, in Moments of Vision:
text: Get a load of the "eyesome femininity" at the International Casino, as the Times put it.
ref: 2004 June 13, David W. Dunlap, “The Crossroads of the Crossroads”, in New York Times, page CY3:
glosses: Visually attractive.
Lares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lar
form: lares
form: Lars
form: Lares
Etymology: From Latin Lares, plural form of lār, from Etruscan [Term?].
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: lemures
glosses: The household deities watching over one's family and tutelary deities watching over some public places.
glosses: The idols representing these deities.
Coordinate terms: penates
Derived terms: lares and penates
blubberous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blubberous
form: most blubberous
Etymology: From blubber + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Compare New York Magazine theater critic John Simon's description of Liza Minnelli whom he once said was beagle-faced with lips that were "blubberous and unable to resist the pull of gravity."
ref: 2003 January 26, Robyn E. Blumner, “Hirschfeld and Broadway”, in St. Petersburg Times:
text: They are slow-moving and blubberous and thus were an abundant source of oil for a world not yet addicted to petroleum.
ref: 2006, Arline and Sam Bleecker, "Holland American Has a Whale of a Program," Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep.
glosses: Blubbery.
jumping-jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumping-jacks
Senses: examples: text: In the beheaded frog the legs twitch as fatally when we touch the skin with acid as do a jumping-jack's when we pull the string.
ref: 1879, William James, Are We Automata?:
text: "Because you are built as absurdly as a jumping-jack," sneered the horse, rolling his knotty eyes in a vicious manner. "Even your head won't stay straight, and you never can tell whether you are looking backwards or forwards!"
ref: 1904, L. Frank Baum, chapter 13, in The Marvelous Land of Oz:
text: "I have a jumping-jack!" came from Freddie, and he began to work the toy up and down in a most comical fashion.
ref: 1904, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 14, in The Bobbsey Twins, Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out:
glosses: Alternative form of jumping jack.
amygdale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amygdales
Etymology: From French amygdale. Doublet of almond, amygdala, and mandorla.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An almond-shaped inclusion in igneous rock or lava
amygdale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of amygdala.
agrometeorology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From agro- + meteorology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of meteorology that studies the effect of weather and climate on agriculture
Related terms: agrometeorological
agrometeorologist
ghibli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪbli/
rhymes: -ɪbli
Forms: form: ghiblis
Etymology: From Italian ghibli, from the Libyan Arabic form of Standard Arabic قِبْلِيّ (qibliyy, “coming from the qibla”), pronounced with an initial [ɡ] in Libyan Arabic. Distant doublet of cabal.
Senses: examples: text: Strong the Ghiblee wind is blowing, / Strange and large the world is growing!
ref: 1895, John Greenleaf Whittier, “Song of Slaves in the Desert”, in The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 301:
glosses: sirocco
kra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The letter Κʻ or ĸ, formerly used to write the Kalaallisut language of Greenland, replaced in 1973 by the letter q.
kra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A long-tailed macaque of India and Sumatra, reddish-olive in colour with black spots and tail.
esne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esnes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English esne, from Proto-West Germanic *asnī, from Proto-Germanic *asnijaz (“day labourer, hireling”), from Proto-Germanic *asniz, *asunz (“reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *os(e)n-, *es(e)n- (“summer, harvest, harvest-time”). Related to Old English earnian (“to labor for, strive after, deserve as the reward of labor, merit, earn, win”). More at earn.
Senses: examples: text: To an esne, therefore, I refer the entry in Doomsday-book, that at Chester, if a male or female slave shall do any […]
ref: 1818, Samuel Heywood, A dissertation upon the distinctions in society:
text: […] of British extraction captured or purchased, — or of the common German stock descended from the slaves of the first colonists: the esne or slave who works for hire; […]
ref: 1875, William Stubbs, The constitutional history of England, in its origin and development:
text: […] insist that in the event of the death of an esne his full value had to be paid.
ref: 2011, David Anthony Edgell Pelteret, Slavery in Early Mediaeval England:
qualifier: Anglo-Saxon
glosses: A hireling of servile status; slave.
Related terms: theow
phenological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phenology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phenology
Derived terms: microphenological
phenologically
Adelie penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adelie penguins
form: Adélie penguin
Etymology: Named after Adélie, the wife of explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville
Senses: synonyms: Adelie
glosses: Pygoscelis adeliae, a species of penguin with distinctive white rings surrounding the eyes.
Galaxia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In new age mythology, the mother goddess corresponding to Gaia, but on a higher, galactic, level
little penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little penguins
Senses: glosses: The smallest species of penguin, Eudyptula minor, found in New Zealand, southern Australia, and the Chatham Islands.
Synonyms: sense: Eudyptula minor
word: fairy penguin
sense: Eudyptula minor
word: little blue penguin
sense: Eudyptula minor
word: blue penguin
fairy penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy penguins
Senses: examples: text: 1970, Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Wildlife in Australia, Volumes 7-9, page 40,
Captain James Cook and party on 31st March, 1773, first discovered the fairy penguins at Duskey Bay, New Zealand.
text: The Fairy Penguin, for example, teaches us to picture in our mind′s eye a desired outcome, and coaches us to physically and abundantly bring it to fruition.
ref: 2007, Scott Alexander King, Animal Dreaming: The Symbolic & Spiritual Language of the Australasian Animals, 2nd edition, page 151:
text: ‘Bluey’ is a fairy penguin (more widely known as ‘little penguins’). Bluey is one of the 70000 who make their home on Phillip Island, near Melbourne.
ref: 2011, Ute Wegmann, Wild Whiskers and Tender Tales: Close Encounters with Australian Wildlife Rescue and Conservation, page 60:
glosses: The little penguin, Eudyptula minor.
Synonyms: word: blue penguin
word: little blue penguin
chinstrap penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinstrap penguins
Senses: glosses: A species of penguin, Pygoscelis antarcticus, with a distinctive black strip under the head.
Humboldt penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Humboldt penguins
Etymology: Named for Alexander von Humboldt, an explorer.
Senses: glosses: Spheniscus humboldti, a species of penguin which live in coastal Peru and Chile.
wikipedia: Alexander von Humboldt
jackass penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackass penguins
Etymology: Refers to its call, which sounds similar to that of a donkey, even though most other penguins produce a similar sound.
Senses: glosses: African penguin.
wikipedia: South African National Biodiversity Institute
African penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African penguins
Senses: glosses: A species of penguin, Spheniscus demersus, which live on the south-west coast of Africa.
Synonyms: blackfooted penguin
jackass penguin
rockhopper penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockhopper penguins
Senses: glosses: Any of three closely related crested penguins, in genus Eudyptes.
royal penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal penguins
Senses: glosses: A species of white-faced penguin, Eudyptes schlegeli, which breed on Macquarie Island, in the south-west Pacific.
phytopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + pathology.
Senses: glosses: The study of plant diseases; plant pathology
Related terms: phytopathological
phytopathologist
diphenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diphenol
benzenediols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzenediol
phytopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phytopathological
form: most phytopathological
Etymology: From phyto- + pathological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phytopathology
Derived terms: phytopathologically
phytopathologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytopathologists
Etymology: From phyto- + pathologist.
Senses: glosses: A scientist who specializes in phytopathology; a plant pathologist
cyclohexanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclohexanones
Etymology: From cyclohexane + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The alicyclic ketone obtained from cyclohexane by the replacement of a methylene group by a carbonyl group.
urethanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urethane
carbamates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbamate
polyurethanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyurethane
polyurethanes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of polyurethane
ethyl carbamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline substance (NH₂-COOC₂H₅), structurally it is an ester of carbamic acid.
Synonyms: urethane
epoxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epoxy
epoxies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of epoxy
Pepto-Bismol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pepto Bismol
Etymology: From pepsin + -o- + bismuth + -ol.
Senses: examples: text: See all those Pepto-Bismol colored housing developments to your right. They're cluttering up this beautiful section of the Sonoran Desert.
ref: 2003, Lani Robson Remender, Casino to Die For: The Hunt for Tears of the Sun, page 224:
text: The worst part was the bathroom. He insisted I paint it Pepto-Bismal ^([sic]) pink. His tastes could be extreme, but it was his bathroom. I still can't chug Pepto-Bismol, though.
ref: 2007, Jude Barnes, Missing The Laughter, page 39:
text: Just before he'd slipped into a coma, he'd had the strong urge to run to a pharmacy and slug down some Pepto-Bismol.
ref: 2004, Wendy Etherington, If The Stiletto Fits..., page 127:
text: You go swig some Pepto-Bismol and I'll pop a couple of aspirin and I'll take you to the movies over on Nineteenth Street."
ref: 2003, Caroline Slate Fractured Truth, page 136:
text: To Nicki, who was wearing the mini-est of minidresses, barely more than a ruffle of Pepto-Bismol pink.
ref: 1998, Susan Isaacs, Red, White, and Blue, page 246:
text: He would get some Pepto-Bismol and force Tom to drink it when he woke up, whether Tom wanted to or not.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, The Stand, page 408:
text: Arming himself with Pepto-Bismol he took off in one of the new Pan American Clippers.
ref: 1960, Henry Ringling North, Alden Hatch, The Circus Kings: Our Ringling Family Story, page 298:
text: [We] thought he was going to get up from the table and get some Pepto-Bismol and not worry about his breakfast because we had certainly ruined his digestion.
ref: 1952, Proceedings, Regular Meeting, Ohio Valley Transportation Advisory Board, Pacific Northwest Advisory Board, page 17:
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A brand of medicine used to treat nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach and diarrhea, and having a bright pink color.
wikipedia: Los Angeles Times
Related terms: bismuth subsalicylate
daft as a brush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Tending to do or say foolish or silly things.
macaroni penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macaroni penguins
Etymology: Compound of macaroni (“dandy, fop”) + penguin.
Senses: glosses: A species of penguins, Eudyptes chrysolophus, with distinctive yellow and black plumes on the top of their heads.
Synonyms: macaroni
hydrologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydrology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hydrology.
Synonyms: hydrological
Derived terms: geohydrologic
palaeohydrologic
paleohydrologic
hydrological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydrology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hydrology.
Synonyms: hydrologic
Derived terms: agrohydrological
archaeohydrological
dendrohydrological
ecohydrological
geohydrological
hydrologically
palaeohydrological
paleohydrological
ego-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin ego (“I”).
Senses: glosses: self
Derived terms: egocentric
egomaniac
egorotation
egosurfing
ego-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: goats
Derived terms: egophony
white-flippered penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-flippered penguins
Senses: glosses: A subspecies of small penguin, Eudyptula minor albosignata, with distinctive white marks on the flippers, which breed on South Island.
fellow feeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellow feelings
form: fellow-feeling
Senses: examples: text: But here my heart is wrung with pity and fellow feeling, when I reflect what miseries must have been their lot, and how bitterly so refined a people must have smarted, to have forced them upon the use of it.
ref: 1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC:
text: [I]s the character and property of the man, who labours for our intellectual pleasures, less entitled to a share of our fellow feeling, than that of the wine-merchant or milliner?
ref: 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter 2, in Biographia Literaria:
text: “Besides, I was always interfering in the details. Being myself one of the laziest of mortals, I had altogether too much fellow-feeling for the lazy; […]
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter XIX, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume II, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
text: "[H]ow kindly we reciprocate each other's little delicacies, don't we? What better proof, now, that we are kind, considerate fellows, with responsive fellow-feelings—eh, barber?"
ref: 1857 April 1, Herman Melville, chapter 43, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, New York, N.Y.: Dix, Edwards & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: “Well, I couldn’t do my duty as a clergyman, any more than you could do yours as a governess. You ought to have a little fellow-feeling there, Mary.”
ref: 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XIV, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II:
text: A magic thread of fellow-feeling united his own life with theirs.
ref: 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC:
text: But, mixed with her rage, a sort of unwilling compassion and fellow feeling kept rising for that girl, that silly, sugar-plum girl, brought to such a pass by—her husband.
ref: 1917, John Galsworthy, chapter 15, in Beyond:
text: Even when the wind blew cold, the fine sportsmanship and fellow feeling that is traditional to the Winter Games, lifted last week to an absurd height by the love-everybody snowboarders, the new let's do-right IOC and the continuing sympathy for the U. S. of A., was lovely to see — and to join.
ref: 2002 February 16, Robert Sullivan, “Week One: A Warm Winter Olympics”, in Time:
synonyms: word: empathy
word: sympathy
word: bowels
word: commiseration
word: compassion
word: empathy
word: fellow feeling
word: mercy
word: pity
word: remorse
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sympathy
word: tenderheartedness
word: loving-kindness
glosses: A sense of sympathy for, consideration of, or shared interests with one or more other human beings.
serenatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serenata
yellow-eyed penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-eyed penguins
Senses: glosses: Any of a species of small penguin, Megadyptes antipodes, with a distinctive yellow band around its eyes, native to New Zealand.
Synonyms: hoiho
hypsometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypsometry + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the hypsometric curves (Text-fig. 9) and the talwege (Text-fig. 6) are not so unstable as their form might lead one to believe.
ref: 1935, Reprints, University of Sydney, page 138:
glosses: Of or pertaining to hypsometry (measuring elevation relative to sea level)
Related terms: hypsometer
erect-crested penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erect-crested penguins
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized species of penguin, Eudyptes sclateri from New Zealand.
hypsometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪpˈsɒm.ə.tɹi/
ipa: /hɪpˈsɑm.ə.tɹi/
Etymology: From hypso- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of elevation relative to sea level.
Derived terms: hypsometrical
Related terms: hypsometric
hypsometer
crested penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crested penguins
Senses: glosses: Any penguin of the genus Eudyptes, which all have in common a crest atop their heads.
glosses: A small penguin from New Zealand and the Falkland islands
polygam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygams
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A polygamous plant.
gentoo penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentoo penguins
Senses: glosses: Any of species Pygoscelis papua of penguins, that have a distinctive wide white stripe extending like a bonnet across the top of the head.
Synonyms: Gentoo
gentoo
atchoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of achoo.
atchoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atchoos
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of achoo.
gentoo penguins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentoo penguin
rechew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rechews
form: rechewing
form: rechewed
form: rechewed
Etymology: From re- + chew.
Senses: examples: text: Nor could He (as some Beasts rechew their meat,
To cause the same the better to disgest)
Rechew this Bread,
ref: 1609, John Davies, The Holy Roode, London: N. Butter:
text: When nibbling Sheep at large pursue their Food,
And unmolested Kine rechew the Cud;
ref: 1713, Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, “A Nocturnal Reverie”, in Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions, London: J.B, page 292:
text: The sailor now drew from the receptacle just named a dirty piece of folded paper, deeply impregnated with the perfume of stale and oft rechewed quids of coarse tobacco;
ref: 1832, John Richardson, chapter 12, in Wacousta, volume 2, London: T. Cadell, page 316:
text: The harder Small sang, the harder the cow chewed and the faster she twiddled her ears around as if stirring the song into the food to be rechewed in cud along with her breakfast.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Singing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
glosses: To chew again.
examples: text: His mind insisted on rechewing its doubts, rather than engage in constructive thought.
ref: 1941, Robert A. Heinlein, “They”, in Rod Serling’s Other Worlds, New York: Bantam, published 1978, page 17:
text: […] his disease is mostly impatience with contemporary trends in art and literature that have passed him by. And so he rechews the classics, “which those ignorant fellows never bothered to read,” […]
ref: 1989, Claire Nicolas White, chapter 17, in Fragments of Stained Glass, San Francisco: Mercury House, page 168:
text: By noon on that first day, the networks had run out of new information. Drained of every fresh fact, they went right on reporting anyway, chewing and rechewing the same small chunks of news.
ref: 2012, Karen Thompson Walker, chapter 3, in The Age of Miracles, New York: Random House, page 14:
glosses: To go over or ponder again.
Synonyms: remasticate
Related terms: cud
ruminate
microphysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + physical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microphysics
Derived terms: microphysically
paleoclimatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + climatology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palaeoclimatology.
Derived terms: paleoclimatologist
souk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: souks
Etymology: Borrowed from French souk, from Arabic سُوق (sūq, “market”). More at souq.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of souq.
schlicht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From German schlicht.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: univalent (analytic and one-to-one) in a given region, sometimes qualified with the stipulation that the function is 0 at 0 and has a slope there equal to 1 (see Koebe function)
parameterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parameterizations
form: parametrization
form: parameterisation
form: parametrisation
Etymology: From parameter + -ization.
Senses: topics: arts
design
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The representation of physical characteristics or properties by parameters rather than as sui generis instances; usually and especially
topics: arts
computing
design
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The representation of physical characteristics or properties by parameters rather than as sui generis instances; usually and especially:
Such parameterized representation in a computer model.
glosses: The representation of a curve or surface in terms of a parametric equation.
Derived terms: hyperparameterization
overparameterization
reparameterization
superparameterization
underparameterization
Related terms: word: parameterisable
word: parameterise
word: parameterised
word: parameterizable
word: parameterize
word: parameterized
word: parametric
word: parametrical
word: parametricality
word: parametrically
word: parametricity
word: parametrisable
word: parametrise
word: parametrised
word: parametrizable
word: parametrize
word: parametrized
haggises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haggis
frostnip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɒst.nɪp/
ipa: /ˈfɹɔst.nɪp/
ipa: /ˈfɹɑst.nɪp/
Forms: form: frostnips
Etymology: From frost + nip.
Senses: glosses: The first stage of frostbite.
Related terms: frostnipped
merguez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛəˈɡɛz/
ipa: /mɛɹˈɡɛz/
Etymology: From French merguez, from Algerian Arabic مرقاز (margāz).
Senses: glosses: A red, spicy sausage from North Africa, made with lamb or beef.
radarmeteorology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radar meteorology
Etymology: From radar + meteorology.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The use of radar in meteorology, especially to track water and ice in clouds
radiale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radialia
Senses: glosses: The carpal bone in the tetrapod forelimb that corresponds to the scaphoid bone in humans
sexuale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexuales
Senses: examples: text: Incidentally, it may be stated that beside the sexuale mentioned above, no other sexuale of any aphid species had been known to occur in Bihar.
ref: 1976, The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, page 417:
text: Early mating individuals in a population producing sexuales late are more likely to mate with members of a population producing sexuales early and vice versa.
ref: 2012, A. F. G. Dixon, Aphid Ecology: An optimization approach, page 56:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A bisexual aphid.
Galápagos Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Galapagos Islands.
acre foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acre feet
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A unit of measure, used for volumes of water, equal to one acre times one foot (that is, to the amount of water required to cover one acre of land to a depth of one foot), which is 43,560 cubic feet, 325,851 gallons, 1,233 cubic meters.
Galápagos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈlæpəɡoʊs/
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Galápagos Islands.
glosses: Alternative form of Galapagos, a province of Ecuador comprising the islands.
Derived terms: Galápagos albatross
Galápagos bullhead shark
Galápagos cormorant
Galápagos dove
Galápagos finch
Galapagos fur seal
Galápagos giant tortoise
Galápagos green turtle
Galápagos hawk
Galápagos heron
Galápagos land iguanas
Galápagos martin
Galápagos mockingbord
Galápagos penguin
Galápagos petrel
Galápagos rice rat
Galápagos sea lion
Galápagos shark
Galápagos sheepshead wrasse
Galápagos syndrome
Galápagos tortoise
Galápagos turtle
Galapagos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish islas Galápagos and provincia de Galápagos.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Galapagos Islands.
glosses: A province of Ecuador comprising the islands.
Hyponyms: sense: province
word: Isabela
sense: province
word: Santa Cruz
sense: province
word: San Cristobal
Derived terms: Galapagos albatross
Galapagos bullhead shark
Galapagos cormorant
Galapagos dove
Galapagos finch
Galapagos fur seal
Galapagos giant tortoise
Galapagos green turtle
Galapagos hawk
Galapagos heron
Galapagos land iguanas
Galapagos martin
Galapagos mockingbord
Galapagos penguin
Galapagos petrel
Galapagos rice rat
Galapagos sea lion
Galapagos shark
Galápagos syndrome
Galapagos tortoise
Galapagos turtle
acre feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acre foot
Samanthas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Samantha
Bobs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bob
Bobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bob
Tonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tony
Jeffs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Geoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Geoff
Barts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bart
Dicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
homophone: dicks
Senses: glosses: plural of Dick
Dicks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
homophone: dicks
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name derived from Dick.
voiden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: voidens
form: voidening
form: voidened
form: voidened
Etymology: From void + -en.
Senses: examples: text: So, it is temporarily voidened on account of stay granted by court.
ref: 1989, Lok Sabha Debates - Volume 52, Issues 20-21, page 21:
text: Public consciousness seems to be voidening of meaning and purpose in life.
ref: 2014, Stefan Sorin Muresan, Social Market Economy: The Case of Germany, page 144:
glosses: To make or become void.
Magellanic penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magellanic penguins
Etymology: Named for Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer.
Senses: glosses: A species of penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus, found in coastal South America.
wikipedia: Ferdinand Magellan
Ridgen's penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ridgen's penguins
Etymology: The remains were found in 1968 by schoolboy Alan Ridgen.
Senses: glosses: An extinct species of penguin (†Aptenodytes ridgeni), from New Zealand during the Pliocene epoch.
Snares penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Snares penguins
Etymology: From The Snares, the group of islands on which they live.
Senses: glosses: A species of crested penguin, Eudyptes robustus, which breed on The Snares, an island group off South Island, New Zealand.
wikipedia: The Snares
Fiordland penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fiordland penguins
Etymology: From Fiordland, the coast along which it breeds.
Senses: glosses: A species of crested penguin, Eudyptes pachyrhynchus, with distinctive blue-grey upperparts, which breed on the Fiordland coast and on nearby islands.
wikipedia: Fiordland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊˈnaɪtɪd ˈkɪŋdəm əv ˌɡɹeɪt ˈbɹɪtən ən ˌnɔː(ɹ)ðə(ɹ)n ˈaɪə(ɹ)lənd/
Forms: form: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
form: UKGBNI
form: UKoGBaNI
form: UKOGBANI
Etymology: Derived from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, following the Irish Independence and the Partition of Ireland in 1922, leaving Northern Ireland to stay in the United Kingdom.
Senses: glosses: Official name of the United Kingdom: a country in Northern Europe.
Related terms: Britain
England
England and Wales
Great Britain
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Great Britain
Kingdom of Ireland
Kingdom of Scotland
Kinrick o Scotland
United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Chatham Islands penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chatham Islands penguins
Senses: glosses: Eudyptes warhami, an extinct species of crested penguins, which lived on the Chatham Islands.
dimmen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dimmens
form: dimmening
form: dimmened
form: dimmened
Etymology: From dim + -en.
Senses: examples: text: BTW, if you are planning to tape, i would be careful. The security is being very tight. They are checking the sweet spot in the middle carefully, people in Buffalo got booted even before the lights dimmened. I think everyone in Rochester got nailed.
ref: 1993 November 10, pau...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu, “syracuse grovel”, in rec.music.gdead (Usenet):
text: On sunnier days—the air was steadily dimmening as the autumn progressed—Stephanie would take down an enormous iron key, big and heavy enough to bludgeon to death Professor Plum in the parlour, from the last hook on the coat-rack behind the front door, and we would cross the road and open the ancient little gate, so rickety it seemed held together only by immemorial layers of glittering knobbly black paint.
ref: 2016, John Banville, Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: To become less bright; to dim.
dimmest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪmɪst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of dim: most dim
festoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of festoon
festoons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of festoon
festooning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of festoon
festooning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: festoonings
Senses: examples: text: The second tier of boxes, still with the red festoonings and the luxuriance of creeping vines, had, as its chief adornment, holly, laurel, and cypress trees of irregular height[…]
ref: 1890, Chauncey Depew, Titled Americans:
glosses: Material with which something is festooned.
examples: text: To construct chains and give the appearance of a festoon, bees engage in a process known as festooning.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Willie Oosthuizen, Smiley Honey, What is Festooning?:
glosses: The act of honeybees to join together in a chain.
festooned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more festooned
form: most festooned
Derived terms: overfestooned
unfestooned
festooned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of festoon
dogwatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒɡwɒt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: dogwatches
form: dog watch
form: dog-watch
Etymology: From dog + watch, perhaps a calque of German Hundewache.
Senses: examples: text: […] in the last dog-watch when the drawing near of twilight induced revery […]
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Aboard a ship, either of the two short two-hour watches that take place between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
examples: text: The girls we knew were all on the dogwatch, from four to twelve in the morning.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 22:
glosses: A night shift, or other very late or early period of duty.
examples: text: At that time, Captain Thomas G. Peyton, U.S. Navy, who had only served a dog watch as Captain of the Port at Noumea, New Caledonia, reported for this important billet.
ref: 1972, George Carroll Dyer, The Amphibians Came to Conquer, page 265:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A very brief period of naval service.
House of Parliament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Houses of Parliament
form: house of parliament
Senses: glosses: A legislative body in a government with a parliamentary system of government.
asstunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asstunnels
Etymology: From ass + tunnel.
Senses: glosses: Rectum.
administerial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more administerial
form: most administerial
Etymology: From administer + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: His administerial duties were minimal.
synonyms: administratorial
glosses: Of or pertaining to administering or administration.
Related terms: administrative
ministerial
administratrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ədˌmɪnɪˈstɹɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of administratrix
backbites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backbite
backbites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backbite
selfe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selves
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of self.
selfe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of self.
owne
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of own.
owne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of own.
whiche
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of which.
speake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speakes
form: speaking
form: speakeing
form: spoke
form: spake
form: spaken
Senses: examples: text: It is my Lady, O it is my Loue, O that ſhe knew ſhe were,
 She ſpeakes, yet ſhe ſayes nothing, what of that?
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 59, column 2:
text: And againe You ſaw that I ſpake to you from Heauen, therefore yee ſhall make no Gods of Golde nor ſiluer: as if he ſhould haue ſaide, my practiſe in ſpeakeing to you by voyce and not by Image ſhoulde teach you that by my word and not by image, I am be remembred.
ref: 1596, Geruase Babington, A Very Fruitfull Exposition of the Commaundements by Way of Questions and Answeres for Greater Plainnesse, R. Robinson, for Thomas Charde, page 45:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of speak.
vnder
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Early Modern spelling of under.
tyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tymes
Senses: examples: text: in the ſaid Leafe did promyſe and Covenante to and wᵗʰ the ſaid Giles Allen to build in & vpon the demiſed [premiſſes 4-3] buildings for Tenementes to be errected vpon the premiſſes the ſome of two hundrethe poundes and the ſame to be done and fyniſhed by a certain tyme [5-9]
ref: 1588, Ffraunces Morgan, Chancery Procedings, Series II, 222/83:
text: the saide John Combe, his heires and assignes, shall and will, from tyme to tyme, and at all tymes herafter, well and sufficientlie save and keepe harmles and indempnified as well the saide fowre yardes of errable lande
ref: 1602, William Combe, John Combe, “The original Conveyance of over a hundred acres of land from William and John Combe to Shakespeare”, in Shakespeare Estate Records:
text: And the newe elected Deputie Governor and Assistants, and all other officers to be hereafter chosen as aforesaide from Tyme to Tyme, to take the Oathes to their places respectivelie belonging, before the Governor of the said Company for the Tyme being, vnto which said Governor, Deputie Governor, and assistants
ref: 1629, Charter of Massachusetts Bay, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2012:
text: While Pan slept, the tyme machine was communicating with Skyn regarding Pan.
ref: 2000, Heather J. Kintyre, A Future History: The Tanner Chronicles, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: Archaic spelling of time.
Derived terms: olde tyme
leaue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaues
form: leauing
form: left
form: left
form: leaft
form: leaft
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of leave.
keepe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of keep.
looke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lookes
form: looking
form: looked
form: looked
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of look.
looke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lookes
Senses: examples: text: A griefy shape of Famine mought we see, / With greedy lookes, and gaping mouth that cryed, […]
ref: 1868, John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew, Poets' Corner: A Manual for Students in English Poetry, page 90:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of look.