cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
perspective glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perspective glasses
Senses: examples: text: The instrument was at first called Galileo's tube; the double eye-glass; the perspective; the trunk; the cylinder.
ref: 1896, Thomas Nathaniel Orchard, The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost', London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 124:
text: He mounted, carrying the only perspective glass the vessel possessed. The captain watched him anxiously as he took a long look.
ref: 1906, Herbert Strang, In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India, Illustrated, India: Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 115:
glosses: A kind of early telescope.
glosses: An instrument for viewing an enlarged image of engraved prints or maps http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/perspective-glass.
perspective glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perspective glass
Hammettian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hammettian
form: most Hammettian
Etymology: From Hammett + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, a screenplay writer, and political activist.
Chandlerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chandlerian
form: most Chandlerian
Etymology: From Chandler + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007), professor of business history who wrote extensively about the scale and management structures of modern corporations.
glosses: Of or relating to Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), American novelist and screenwriter, known for hard-boiled detective fiction.
clip it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clips it
form: clipping it
form: clipped it
form: clipped it
Senses: examples: text: Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed, / And, with her eagerness the quarry missed, / Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.
ref: 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
text: That we better glide out of this before three in the morning, and clip it down the river with what we've got.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: The little boy ran after him as fast as he could clip it,
ref: 1890, Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales/Johnny-Cake:
glosses: To move swiftly.
recures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recure
recuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recure
traprock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traprocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trap rock.
traprocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traprock
catchbasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catchbasins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catch-basin.
catchbasins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catchbasin
criterias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criteria.
unnettled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnettled
form: most unnettled
Etymology: From un- + nettled.
Senses: glosses: Not nettled.
unnetted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + netted.
Senses: glosses: Not netted.
squeeziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of squeezy: most squeezy
squeezier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of squeezy: more squeezy
squeeziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squeezy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being squeezy.
uncreasable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncreasable
form: most uncreasable
Etymology: From un- + creasable.
Senses: examples: a new uncreasable fabric for shirts
glosses: That cannot be creased.
creasable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more creasable
form: most creasable
Etymology: From crease + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being creased.
Derived terms: noncreasable
uncreasable
reserveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reserveless
form: most reserveless
Etymology: From reserve + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The mastiff, listening to the lover's tread,
With wakeful yell the list'ning maid alarms,
Who, loosely rob'd, forsakes the downy bed,
And springs reserveless to his longing arms.
ref: 1773, James Graeme, Poems on Several Occasions, Edinburgh:
glosses: Without reserve; freely and openly.
defeatless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From defeat + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without defeat.
throeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throe
square-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square-ups
Senses: glosses: A message shown before an exploitation film, indicating what social or moral issue the film attempts to address.
square-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of square-up
millineries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millinery
Carline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)lɪn/
/ˈkɑː(ɹ)laɪn/
Senses: examples: text: A blur of motion passed him, and he turned to find Carline standing in the room, a heavy cloak wrapped around her.
ref: 1982, Raymond Feist, Magician, page 88:
glosses: A female given name, variant of Caroline.
Carline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)lɪn/
/ˈkɑː(ɹ)laɪn/
Forms: form: Carlines
Etymology: Probably an altered spelling of Carlin or an Americanized spelling of German Kärlein.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
unpalsied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + palsied.
Senses: glosses: Not affected by palsy.
unfissionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fissionable.
Senses: glosses: Not fissionable.
hyperconnectedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyperconnected + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hyperconnected.
ermahgerd
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From a humorously altered pronunciation of oh my God. Popularized by an image macro meme in 2012, which features the text "ermahgerd, Gersberms" overlaid on a photo of a teenage girl making a silly face and holding several Goosebumps books. The girl in the photo has a visible orthodontic retainer. The pronunciation spelling is intended to mimic the speech of a wearer of this device.
Senses: examples: text: PLUS (please brace yourselves, fangirls) he's coming to play at the Perth Arena in a few months – ermahgerd.
ref: 2012 October 24, “Livin' A Teenage Dream”, in X-Press Magazine, number 1341, page 11:
text: Here's a scary thought: I'm a Canadian citizen over 18 years of age and I have lived in Saskatoon for more than three months and in Saskatchewan for more than six months. What does this mean? I can run for mayor. Ermahgerd!
ref: 2012 October 25, Travis Homenuk, “Let's all run for mayor”, in The Sheaf, volume 104, number 8, University of Saskatchewan, page 16:
text: Is that an Alber Elbaz pink-bubblegum macaron you're eating? Ermahgerd! You are so last year.
ref: 2013 March 3, Robert Epstein, “Being Modern: Macarons”, in The Independent:
glosses: Alternative form of oh my God.
wikipedia: Goosebumps
Hurricane Irma
hyperconnection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperconnections
Etymology: From hyper- + connection.
Senses: glosses: hyperconnectivity; excessive connections between neurons in the brain
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any overlapping group of sets that are elements.
hyperconnections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperconnection
expropriative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expropriative
form: most expropriative
Etymology: From expropriate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Tending to expropriate.
effluxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of efflux
effluxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of efflux
fourses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourses
Etymology: See four and elevenses.
Senses: examples: text: The harvestmen who board in the farm-houses fare sumptuously during the month of harvest.— […] at eleven o'clock in the morning, and four in the afternoon, they have each a large light plum-bun, with a pint of ale a piece, carried into the field, to encourage them to work cheerfully. These extra refreshments they call, in their provincial language, their "elevenses" and "fourses." I could not at first imagine what the servants meant by talking of carrying the harvestmen their elevenses and fourses, till Mrs. Henley explained that it was a vulgar abbreviation of the four-o'clock and eleven o'clock meals.
ref: 1837 February, Anna Lee, “The Pinch of Salt”, in The Ladies’ Companion: A Monthly Magazine, Embracing Literature and the Arts, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: Published by William W. Snowdon, →OCLC, page 162, column 2:
glosses: A light meal taken out to agricultural labourers in the afternoon.
Coordinate terms: elevenses
unforecast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + forecast.
Senses: examples: text: Motorists were left stranded after an unforecast fall of snow.
glosses: Not having been forecast.
friendsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more friendsome
form: most friendsome
Etymology: From Middle English frendsome, equivalent to friend + -some (adjective). Compare Scots friendsome (“friendly”), Dutch vriendzaam (“friendly”), German freundsam (“friendly”).
Senses: examples: text: Everyone outside my mother called father Eben. Father looked up and smiled. He and Miss Bet had been terrible friendsome ever since the day when, as a tiddleliwinkie snip o' a child [...]
ref: 1901, Gwendoline Keats, Tales of Dunstáble Weir - Page 130:
text: He was long-married hisownself, real friendsome, and his smile wasn't aimed at me, it was to match my own.
ref: 2000, Randall Beth Platt, The 1898 Baseball Fe-As-Ko - Page 156:
text: […] maybe Yanagi b'liefed us an' maybe he din't, but he bartered us fungusdo' for rockfish an' warned us Waimea Town weren't so friendsome as it'd been once, nay, Kona say-soed'n'knucklied ficklewise an' you cudn't guess their b'havin's.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Indicating or characterised by friendship; in manner, like or befitting a friend; friendlike; friendly.
Derived terms: friendsomeness
friendom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frienddom
Etymology: From friend + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: ... wife was there... but i didn't see her our definite roads crossed again this time wife and i became i and i feelings from ago-long time he was an associate going into friendom only i wouldn't and couldn't let it evolve because i felt a plan because ...
ref: 2007, Ari Meier, KaChiza Books, The Screambed Chronicles - Page 57:
text: Fandom, friendom, and familydom all run on a gradient line in my brain. There's no hard shift between the “doms”; they just bleed into each other like watercolors on cheap paper.
ref: 2007, Allyson Beatrice, Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby? - Page 12:
glosses: The state or condition of being friends; friendhood.
Related terms: best-friendom
best-frienddom
friendhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friendhoods
Etymology: From friend + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: This is fully and quickly intelligible, but what it says is that the process of turning out to be a friend began, not with a set of properties that inconclusively indicated friendhood, but with a set that in fact inconclusively indicated unfriendliness.
ref: 1993, John McCumber, The Company of Words:
text: Now, if you may remember, until this point both girls had not been truly friends, not in any lasting way that is. It was only that they had just recently, and painfully, forsaken enemyship, and were only just beginning the first processes of friendhood, which was now coming into fruition; And it was here, at this memory, that I believe both girls would recount as their true beginning.
ref: 2011, Steven J. Carroll, In the Window Room - Page 75:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being a friend or friends.
examples: text: This reform was a most drastic one, carried out with genial simplicity: his Friendhoods of warriors were commanded to go everywhere and to see that the population of the land should be assembled in each district, driven into the rivers, [...]
ref: 1917, Nadine Jarintzov, Russian Poets and Poems:
glosses: A society or band of friends.
enemyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enemiship
Etymology: From enemy + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the cultural grounding of relationship is evident in features of research that do consider personal enemyship, as well as in the relative absence of research about personal enemyship.
ref: 2009, Harry T. Reis, Susan Sprecher, Susan K. Sprecher, Encyclopedia of Human Relationships - Volume 1 - Page 529:
text: Now, if you may remember, until this point both girls had not been truly friends, not in any lasting way that is. It was only that they had just recently, and painfully, forsaken enemyship, and were only just beginning the first processes of friendhood, which was now coming into fruition; And it was here, at this memory, that I believe both girls would recount as their true beginning.
ref: 2011, Steven J. Carroll, In the Window Room - Page 75:
text: It hath lately been asserted in parliament, that the colonies have no relation to each other but through the parent country, i.e., that Pennsylvania and the Jerseys, and so on for the rest, are sister colonies by the way of England; this is certainly a very roundabout way of proving relation ship, but it is the nearest and only true way of proving enemyship, if I may so call it. France and Spain never were, nor perhaps ever will be our enemies as Americans, but as our being the subjects of Great Britain.
ref: 1776, Thomas Paine, Common Sense - Chapter 3 - Page 18-19:
glosses: The state or condition of being an enemy or enemies; enmity.
Related terms: fiendship
schwaless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From schwa + -less.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Without a schwa.
paid up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pay up
paid up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paid-up.
paid-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a paid-up member of the organization
text: A local Chrysler dealer had 68 paid-up back orders for cars.
ref: 1964 January 3, “Canada: Spreading Wealth”, in Time:
glosses: Fully paid (for).
examples: text: Among Wall Street economists, Mr. Roach has not been a paid-up member of the alarmist camp.
ref: 1991 October 6, Floyd Norris, “Services: A Boom Area Goes Bust”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Jul 2013:
text: Makoni […] had a reputation as a technocrat who tended toward moderation and pragmatism, but one who was also a fully paid-up member of the Mugabe machine.
ref: 2008 February 22, Alex Perry, “A New Challenge to Mugabe”, in Time:
text: While [Alister] McGrath is a paid-up believer of a familiar type—albeit with an unusual hinterland in biophysics and Marxism—the others really aren't.
ref: 2025 May 31, Tanjil Rashid, “Finding their religion”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:
qualifier: sometimes preceded by fully
glosses: Full-fledged, wholehearted.
topics: business
insurance
glosses: Of an insurance policy, still in force but with the policyholder no longer paying any premiums (typically resulting in a reduced sum assured).
paid-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paid up.
tubectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubectomy
sleeps around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleep around
sleeping around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleep around
slept around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleep around
narrative verdict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrative verdicts
Senses: glosses: A verdict, given by a coroner, in which the cause of death is described, but not attributed to a named individual.
beach nourishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The artificial replenishment of sand washed away from a beach by coastal erosion
Derbent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Derbend
form: Darband
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish دربند (Derbend, Derbent), from Persian دربند (darband, literally “bar of a door, bolt; a barrier”), from در (dar, “door, gate, passage”) + بند (band, “band, tie, fastening”).
Senses: glosses: A city in Dagestan, Russia.
glosses: Various places in Turkey
glosses: Various places in Turkey:
A town and district of Konya Province, Turkey.
tarator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Turkish tarator, from Ottoman Turkish تراتور (tarator, terator). See it for more.
Senses: glosses: A nut- or tahini- based sauce made with lemon juice and garlic that is found in Middle Eastern cuisine
glosses: A cold summer soup, usually consisting of yoghurt, oil, water and various vegetables such as cucumber and garlic, popular in the Balkans.
banitsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banitsas
form: banica
Etymology: Borrowed from Bulgarian баница (banica).
Senses: glosses: A Bulgarian baked good consisting of layers of whisked eggs, pieces of cheese and phyllo.
aerothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + thermal.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to the heating of surfaces due to their contact with the flow of air or other gases
untactile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untactile
form: most untactile
Etymology: From un- + tactile.
Senses: glosses: Not tactile.
clamless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clam + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without clams.
unclammy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unclammy
form: most unclammy
Etymology: From un- + clammy.
Senses: glosses: Not clammy.
bioliquid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioliquids
Etymology: From bio- + liquid.
Senses: glosses: Any liquid biofuel made from biomass
biomethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + methane.
Senses: glosses: A biogas composed mostly of methane
bioliquids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioliquid
cogenerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + generative.
Senses: glosses: That produces both heat and power.
examples: text: The second concern will be with how much and in what ways non-academic communities will be part of the organizational communication conception and research process—that is, how cogenerative the enterprise might be.
ref: 2013, Linda L. Putnam, Dennis K. Mumby, The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Communication:
glosses: Generating together or jointly; cocreative.
Related terms: cogeneration
infuseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: infuse + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of infuse
co-incineration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + incineration.
Senses: glosses: The incineration of waste using some of the waste as fuel
case-based reasoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of solving new problems based on the known solutions of similar problems encountered in the past.
Synonyms: word: CBR
coincineration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of co-incineration.
alcyonarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæl.si.əˈnɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌæl.si.əˈnɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: alcyonarians
Etymology: Alcyonaria + -n
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Alcyonaria, a subclass of the Anthozoa.
alcyonarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcyonarian
cryoconcentration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryoconcentrations
Etymology: From cryo- + concentration.
Senses: glosses: The concentration of a material in the solid or liquid parts of a partially frozen mixture
cryoconcentrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cryoconcentrates
form: cryoconcentrating
form: cryoconcentrated
form: cryoconcentrated
Etymology: From cryo- + concentrate.
Senses: glosses: To concentrate by means of cryoconcentration.
endopolygeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + polygeny.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: division into several organisms at once by internal budding
endodyogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of asexual reproduction, favoured by parasites such as Toxoplasma gondii, in which two daughter cells are produced inside a mother cell, which is then consumed by the offspring prior to their separation.
preconditional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-conditional
Etymology: From precondition + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a precondition.
postconditional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + conditional or postcondition + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a postcondition.
gigman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigmen
Etymology: From gig + -man.
Senses: glosses: One who operates a gig (a kind of carriage).
glosses: One who exhibits gigmanity; a person with petty pride in his or her status.
Derived terms: gigmanic
gigmanism
gigmanity
gigmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigman
gigmanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigmanities
Etymology: From gigman + -ity, coined by Thomas Carlyle, derived from a definition once given in a court of justice by a witness who, having described a person as respectable, was asked by the judge in the case what he meant by the word, and replied, "One that keeps a gig."
Senses: glosses: Narrow concern about, and pride in, one's respectability; a petty sense of decorum.
wikipedia: Thomas Carlyle
merpentan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A chelator used to attach the antibody nofetumomab to a radioisotope of technetium.
vitreoretinopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitreoretinopathies
Etymology: From vitreo- + retinopathy.
Senses: glosses: Any of various eye diseases affecting the retina and vitreous humor.
vitreoretinopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitreoretinopathy
synarthroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synarthrosis
synarthrodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsɪnɑː(ɹ)ˈθɹəʊdiəl/
Senses: glosses: Relating to synarthrosis.
gising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gise
gised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gise
drabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drab
unboasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + boasted.
Senses: examples: text: He sometimes felt as if, betwixt the one and the other, not to mention the more unseen and unboasted but scarce less certain influence of Lady Blackchester, his affair, simple as it had become, might have been somehow accelerated.
ref: 1822, The Fortunes of Nigel, Walter Scott:
glosses: Not boasted.
unboasting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unboasting
form: most unboasting
Etymology: From un- + boasting.
Senses: glosses: Not boasting; modest.
fruiteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: fruit + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fruit
revolteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: revolt + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revolt
revileth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: revile + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revile
expostulateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: expostulate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expostulate
heedeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: heed + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heed
collareth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: collar + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collar
latcheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: latch + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of latch
wingette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingettes
Etymology: From wing + -ette.
Senses: synonyms: flat
coordinate_terms: drumette
tip
glosses: The middle segment of a chicken wing, which is less meaty than the drumette and contains two bones, the radius and the ulna.
wingettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wingette
Popperians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Popperian
pulleyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pulley + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The drawing-room of the tenement mentioned just now, with its pictures, and pulleyless windows, and lockless doors, was tenanted by a friend who lodged there with a sick wife and a couple of little children, one of whom was an infant in arms.
ref: 1843, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “Cork”, in The Irish Sketch Book, London; Glasgow: Collins’ Clear-type Press, →OCLC, pages 101–102:
glosses: Without a pulley.
brustling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brustle
brustled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brustle
uncoddled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + coddled.
Senses: glosses: Not coddled.
overthrowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From overthrow + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being overthrown.
Republic of Yemen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Yemen
Senses: glosses: Official name of Yemen: a country in West Asia, on the Arabian Peninsula.
Related terms: Yemen
Countries of the world
firekeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firekeepers
Etymology: From fire + keeper.
Senses: glosses: One who tends a ceremonial fire.
firekeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firekeeper
point-devise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of point-device.
point-devise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more point-devise
form: most point-devise
Senses: examples: text: I abhor ſuch phanaticall phantaſms, ſuch inſociable and poynt deuiſe companions, […]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 136, column 1:
text: You are rather point-devise in your accoutrements.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Thus he grew up, in Logic point-device, / Perfect in Grammar, and in Rhetoric nice; […]
ref: 1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] The Student’s Tale. Emma and Eginhard.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: Particular; precise; finicky.
dorr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dorrs
Senses: glosses: A dor, or dorbeetle.
examples: text: […]live idle themselves, lyke dorres
ref: 1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A drone or idler; a lazy person.
dorrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorr
mulleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulley
thermochemolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + chemolytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to thermochemolysis.
thermochemolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + chemolysis.
Senses: glosses: A form of chemolysis that also involves the use of heat, or pyrolysis.
enemyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enemyhoods
Etymology: From enemy + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: In order to further reconstruct the local history of violence and enemyhood, I now turn to one of these other neighborhoods in the Udahenagama area.
ref: 2003, Alex Argenti-Pillen, Masking Terror:
text: So Wendt's contention can be restated as follows: no state identity of enemyhood without the Hobbesian international culture and no Hobbesian international culture without the state identity of enemyhood, logically.
ref: 2005, Stefano Guzzini, Anna Leander, Constructivism and International Relations:
text: And there are many other things; we tell tales to one another, sing, dance. Cultivate friendships, and enemyhoods, too.
ref: 2006, M. A. Foster, The Book of The Ler:
glosses: The state, condition, or quality of being an enemy; enmity; enemyship.
Related terms: enemydom
enemyship
enemylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enemylike
form: most enemylike
form: enemy-like
Etymology: From enemy + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A friendlike hero or protagonist emerges in the former condition, an enemylike villain or antagonist in the latter.
ref: 2000, Dolf Zillmann, Peter Vorderer, Media Entertainment: The Psychology of Its Appeal - Page 36:
text: A should then categorize C as “enemy”, and exhibit enemy-like behavior towards C.
ref: 2009, Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change - Page 57
glosses: Like, resembling, or characteristic of an enemy; unfriendly; hostile.
enemy-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enemy-like
form: most enemy-like
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of enemylike.
hyperpure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + pure.
Senses: glosses: Highly pure
fiendom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fienddom
Etymology: From fiend + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Here all is confusion worse confounded: the multitude opens its thousand throats of brass; the steeds are frantic; the jockeys (born and bred devils from their cradle) practise every conceivable stratagem ever hatched in Fiendom; [...]
ref: 1855, Donald Walker, John William Carleton, Walker's manly exercises:
text: [...] written in a sort of imaginary astral alphabet, to preserve the said Gudaika from the assaults of the whole crew of implacable fiendom, and from every possible ailment, which can better be imagined than I dare describe, from every species of evil eye.
ref: 1871, Carl Schwartz, The Scattered Nation and Jewish Christian Magazine - Page 205:
text: Only now and then the spirits (who, as I understand it, occupy a rank in fienddom definitely below that of the devils) stir up trouble.
ref: 1984, Patricia Ledyard, Friendly Isles: a tale of Tonga - Page 146:
glosses: The state, sphere, realm, or world of fiends; fiends, collectively.
fienddom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fiend + -dom.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fiendom.
unbeneficial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbeneficial
form: most unbeneficial
Etymology: From un- + beneficial.
Senses: glosses: Not beneficial.
unabatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unabatingly
form: most unabatingly
Etymology: From unabating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without abating; ceaselessly; relentlessly.
bandyball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandy ball
Etymology: From bandy + ball.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An old game resembling hockey.
glosses: The ball used in that sport.
labba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labbas
form: labba
Senses: examples: text: During the last three months, of my stay, labba meat (Cœlogenys paca), which is justly looked upon as the caviare of the bush, was fairly plentiful. This was due to a small black and white dog, belonging to one of the boat hands, which hunted labba excellently; sometimes killing four or five in a morning, and once even six.
ref: 1888, H. I. Perkins, “Seven months up the Puruni River”, in Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana:
text: Game included accouries (a kind of guinea pig), water-dogs (otters), labbas (hollow cheek pacas), deer, wild hogs, mypouris (tapirs), monkeys, sloths, water haas (capybaras), armadillos, snakes, tigers, jaguars, iguanas, manatees (sea cows), etc.
ref: 1995, Brian L. Moore, Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism: Colonial Guyana, 1838-1900, McGill-Queen's Press:
text: Labba was my favourite meat. I say “was”, because that came to an end on one of my visits to Guyana.
ref: 2011, Helena Martin, Walk Wit’ Me...: All Ova Guyana, BalboaPress, page 54:
glosses: A paca (large rodent) or its meat.
fiendkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiendkins
Etymology: From Middle English feondeken, equivalent to fiend + -kin (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: And then I shall come as king, with crown and with angels, And have out of hell all men's souls. Fiends and fiendkins shall stand before me And be at my bidding, of bliss or of pain.
ref: 1996, William Langland, George D. Economou, William Langland's Piers Plowman:
glosses: A little fiend; an imp.
Synonyms: fiendling
fiendkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiendkin
jpegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jpeg
fiendling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiendlings
Etymology: From fiend + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A miniature fiend; fiendkin.
examples: text: For should its faint pulsations cease Ere he had coated it with grease, His God would clutch it, and condemn The fiendling to eternal flame.
ref: 1880, George Marshall Sloan, The telephone of labor - Page 114:
glosses: A subordinate or underling spirit; imp.
noncaffeine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + caffeine.
Senses: glosses: Without caffeine or not being caffeine.
nonamenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-amenable
Etymology: From non- + amenable.
Senses: glosses: Not amenable.
chechaquo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chechaquos
Senses: examples: text: He was a newcomer in the land, a chechaquo, and this was his first winter.
ref: 1908, Jack London, “To Build a Fire”, in Their Call of the Wild and Selected Stories, Signet Classics, published 1998, page 140:
glosses: Alternative form of cheechako.
recircle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recircles
form: recircling
form: recircled
form: recircled
Etymology: From re- + circle.
Senses: examples: text: He unhitched his blaster and blaster strap and recircled it about his naked waist.
ref: 1953, Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel:
glosses: To circle again.
recircling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recircle
recircles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recircle
recircled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recircle
chechaquos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chechaquo
catspaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catspaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cat's-paw.
tuakana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuakanas
form: tuakana
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori tuakana.
Senses: examples: text: Among those who followed were, as might have been expected, Tāmati Wāka Nene and his older brother and tuakana, Patuone.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 152:
glosses: In Maori contexts, the elder brother of a male or the elder sister of a female; also, a same-sex cousin of a more senior branch of the family; (loosely), a mentor.
brotha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brothas
Etymology: From a non-rhotic pronunciation of brother.
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular or Jamaica
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of brother.
unitarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unitarian
hauntee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hauntees
Etymology: From haunt + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is haunted by a spirit.
hauntees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hauntee
five-knuckle shuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: masturbation
Janetian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Janetian
form: most Janetian
Etymology: From Janet + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Pierre Janet (1859–1947), pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory.
parentification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From parent + -ification.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
synonyms: parentization
glosses: A process of role reversal whereby a child is obliged to act as a parent to its own parent or sibling.
Related terms: parentify
gypsyweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gipsyweed
Etymology: From gypsy + weed.
Senses: glosses: Speedwell, Veronica officinalis.
nalebinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nalbinding.
multicombustible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + combustible.
Senses: glosses: That can employ a variety of fuels
odorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odourisation
Etymology: From odor + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The addition of an odorant to a gas (so that leaks can be more easily detected)
pyrogasification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + gasification.
Senses: glosses: Combined pyrolysis and gasification.
Related terms: gasworks
data controller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data controllers
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A nominated person who determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data is to be processed. (under the Data Protection Act)
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A clerk who scheduled batch jobs on a mainframe computer, and who distributed printed output
regurge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regurges
form: regurging
form: regurged
form: regurged
Etymology: A shortening of regurgitate.
Senses: examples: text: A river girds the city west and south,
The main north channel of a broad lagoon,
Regurging with the salt tides from the mouth;
ref: 1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
glosses: To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
regurge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regurges
Etymology: A shortening of regurgitate.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Regurgitation, resurging or reflux (of something, e.g. a fluid, through a suture, a valve, etc).
txakoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Basque txakolin.
Senses: glosses: A Basque white wine.
antiscalants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiscalant
stemheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stemhead
netbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netback
univocities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of univocity
superplasticizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superplasticizer
teraparsec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teraparsecs
Etymology: From tera- + parsec.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An astronomical unit of distance equal to 10¹² parsecs.
Synonyms: Tpc
unslept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + slept.
Senses: examples: text: As you stagger in, your eyes struggling to focus, your throat claggy with sleep unslept, you might expect it to be more or less deserted, save for the odd bomb-disposal squad blowing up someone's lost suitcase.
ref: 2010, Marcus Berkmann, Zimmer Men: The Trials and Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer:
text: And in the midst of the mirror-like stillness through which it was impossible to see the great machineries grinding, my mother, the brand-new Amina Sinai, who also looked still and unchanging although great things were happening beneath her skin, woke up one morning with a head buzzing with insomnia and a tongue thickly coated with unslept sleep and found herself saying aloud, without meaning to at all, "What's the sun doing here, Allah? It's come up in the wrong place.'
ref: 2011, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, pages 82 - 83:
text: My eyes burn from sleep unslept and from tears unshed. I long for oblivion. I am impossibly tired.
ref: 2011, Donvé Lee, An Intimate War, page 116:
glosses: Not having been slept.
examples: text: The high-tension wires were lightning held forever, blazing, a threat above the unslept houses.
ref: 1957, Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine:
text: Tom's room was empty, the bed unslept in.
ref: 1972, Monica Dickens, World's End in Winter:
text: For a whole lifetime With no guaranties And promises not kept How ever hard you try to please All the nights unslept
ref: 2008, Marie Hilton, Eye of the Soul:
text: Awakened to the lighted room by the rining telephone beside her bed, she reached across the vacant unslept pillow and glanced automatically at the clock—the book she'd been reading slid sideways off the coverlet in a spill of pages onto the floor.
ref: 2009, H.L. Humes, The Underground City: A Novel, page 721:
glosses: Not having been slept (in, on, with, etc.); usually with a preposition.
examples: text: Dawn of a new day, me unslept from the old, a refugee from the night.
ref: 2010, Aidan Chambers, The Toll Bridge:
text: Hollow-eyed, unslept and unshaven, I was by no means my usual neatly groomed self when the following day Virgilio, my friend in the carabinieri, arranged for a helicopter to fly me over the scene.
ref: 2012, James Hamilton-Paterson, Rancid Pansies:
text: In recent years, Mathieu has risen to prominence in ASO. He is the unshaven, unslept, pastis-guzzling chain-smoking doyen of the press.
ref: 2012, Ned Boulting, How I Won the Yellow Jumper: Dispatches from the Tour de France:
text: He received his room key from the owner, a shambling, unslept oaf named Ali, and as he passed he offered the young Japanese a rough acknowledgement the way the young men do —"Auss" — on the way to his double room with its two single beds and ants all over the floor.
ref: 2013, Carl Shuker, Anti Lebanon: A Novel, page 183:
glosses: Not having slept; sleep-deprived.
unslept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + slept.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsleep
Plutonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pluːˈtɒnɪk/
ipa: /pluˈtɑnɪk/
Forms: form: more Plutonic
form: most Plutonic
form: plutonic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “Pluto, Greek and Roman god of the underworld”) (from πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “riches, wealth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to fly; to flow; to run”)) + -ων (-ōn)) + -ic (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). The English word is cognate with Middle French plutonique (modern French plutonique (“of or pertaining to Pluto, the underworld, or the interior of the Earth”)).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Plutonian (“of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld; demonic, infernal”).
synonyms: word: Plutonian
extra: of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld; demonic, infernal
examples: text: a dark, handsome lady, of no little majesty, and rather like a plutonic Madonna
ref: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Sins of Prince Saradine”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:
glosses: Synonym of Plutonian (“of, relating to, or having characteristics associated with the underworld; dark, gloomy; mournful”).
synonyms: word: Plutonian
extra: of, relating to, or having characteristics associated with the underworld; dark, gloomy; mournful
examples: text: These cliffs, I may remark, are basaltic, and therefore plutonic.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: abyssal
intrusive
Plutonian
glosses: Of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust, rather than by volcanoes at the surface of the Earth.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: Plutonian
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or supporting plutonism (“the theory that the rocks of the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again”).
teraparsecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teraparsec
stounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stound
stounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stound
New Criticism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It is not just these works that are to be explicated as texts, it is the workings of a political and literary culture that can strengthen the present. For this point of view, Matthiessen was attacked. In the heyday of formalist New Criticism, itself a way of going about the study of literature that could only serve the interests of depoliticizing public culture, any wider interests in the interrelation of the work to society and times and the most fundamental provisions of the history of ideas are all to be expunged.
ref: 1983 August 13, Denis M. Sweet, “A Scholar For Our Democracy”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 13:
text: One could argue that it is precisely this lack of self-awareness or self-reflexivity that so easily renders environmentalists the butt of jokes, that makes them "vulnerable," to use that language of New Criticism.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 14:
coordinate_terms: New Humanism
glosses: A movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle of the 20th century, emphasizing close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work functions as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.
iotated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of iotate
iotated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: iotified
iotized
glosses: Subject to iotation.