cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
xantholysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xantholysins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of antimicrobial and antifungal lipopeptide present in Pseudomonas
xantholysins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xantholysin
yinpterochiropteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yinpterochiropterans
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any bat of the suborder Yinpterochiroptera
yinpterochiropterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yinpterochiropteran
zeroings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeroing
zonosaurine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the lizard subfamily Zonosaurinae, the zonosaurs.
nostral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nostral
form: most nostral
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the inside of the nose, specifically nostrils
Related terms: nasal
dragonné
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French dragonné.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Like a dragon in the hinder part, and a lion or other creature in the fore part.
Related terms: dragony
colloquying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of colloquy
colloquied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colloquy
pome-citron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pome-citrons
Senses: glosses: The citron (fruit of Citrus medica).
pome-citrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pome-citron
purchase shears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A very strong kind of shears, having removable cutters, and a strong spring at the back.
Calibans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caliban
tonsilitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tonsillitic.
Bridport dagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bridport daggers
Senses: examples: text: Bradshaw has a welcome habit of lobbing in the odd bit of local folklore, and he excels here with "He was stabbed with a Bridport dagger was an old saying for a man that was hung".
ref: 2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 53:
synonyms: word: hempen cravat
word: Bridport dagger
word: collar
word: halter
word: hangman's knot
word: hangman's noose
word: hempen collar
word: hempen cravat
glosses: A hangman's noose.
Bridport daggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bridport dagger
oecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The household common to the individuals of a compound organism.
Derived terms: androecium
gynoecium
meadow hays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meadow hay
meadow grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meadow grass
Jew's stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jewstone.
Blomer's rivulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blomer's rivulets
Etymology: Named in 1832 after Charles Blomer, who had discovered the species in Britain.
Senses: glosses: Venusia blomeri, a geometrid moth.
Blomer's rivulets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blomer's rivulet
elf-bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elf-bolts
Etymology: From the folk belief that they were used by elves.
Senses: examples: text: A proof much ſtronger of the diſtance at which the firſt poſſeſſors of this iſland lived from the preſent time, is afforded by the ſtone heads of arrows which are very frequently picked up. The people call them Elf-bolts, and believe that the fairies ſhoot them at the cattle.
ref: 1775, Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, volume I, Dublin: A. Leathley et al., page 141:
glosses: A belemnite
examples: text: [A] bow, in order that they may discharge little arrows at men, and tease them, as they otherwise do with small pebbles; for the dangerous Elf-bolt of the Scotch tradition hath doubtless its counterpart in one that is harmless.
ref: 1828, Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South or Ireland, volume III, London: John Murray, page 130:
text: The Elf-bolt is associated with many rustic fancies not yet altogether eradicated from the popular mind. It occupied no unimportant part among the paraphernalia of Scottish witches of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and the occurrence of any sudden disease amongst cattle was ascribed until a comparatively recent period, to their having been shot by the fairies with Elfin arrows.
ref: 1851, Daniel Wilson, The Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox, page 125:
topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A magical bolt used by elves as a weapon.
elf-bolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elf-bolt
take-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪkˌɪn/
ipa: /ˈtæɪkˌɪn/
ipa: /ˈtæɪkˌən/
Forms: form: take-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from take in.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Ma'am,’ cried Mr Sheridan, turning to me abruptly, ‘you should send and order him not, – it is a take in, and ought to be forbid […].’
ref: 1779, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 108:
synonyms: word: Abraham work
word: deception
word: deceit
word: dupery
word: fiddle
word: hocus-pocus
word: jugglery
word: list
word: mislead
word: Punic faith
word: rinky-dink
word: ruse
word: subterfuge
word: swack
word: trickery
glosses: A fraud or deception.
Related terms: intake
takeout
take-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of take-in
piece up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pieces up
form: piecing up
form: pieced up
form: pieced up
Senses: examples: text: [...] and the agrieved person shall doe more manly, to be extraordinary and singular in claiming the due right whereof he is frustrated, then to piece up his lost contentment by visiting the Stews, or stepping to his neighbours bed, which is the common shift in this mis-fortune, or els by suffering his usefull life to wast away and be lost under a secret affliction of an unconscionable size to humane strength.
ref: 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
glosses: Synonym of patch up.
synonyms: word: patch up
bear away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bears away
form: bearing away
form: bore away
form: borne away
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To steer away from the wind
fife major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fife majors
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The chief fifer in a regiment.
fife majors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fife major
give-away
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: give-aways
Etymology: Deverbal from give away.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of giveaway.
gaieté de cœur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French gaieté de cœur.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, he […] attended me in all my excursions, and particularly in an expedition to Antwerp, with two other gentlemen, where in downright gaietè de cœur, we sat for our pictures, which were drawn in one piece […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Emily […] in youthful gaieté de cœur had got a little tired of her.
ref: 1886, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Chantry House:
glosses: Lightheartedness; playfulness.
sweet mother of God
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Used to express alarm or anger.
I'll be danged
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An expression of surprise.
Synonyms: wow
harmonic progression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmonic progressions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A sequence of numbers whose reciprocals form an arithmetic progression.
harmonic progressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmonic progression
give-aways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of give-away
gaming house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaming houses
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: A residence shared by video gamers, especially professional ones.
glosses: A casino or other place for gambling.
dice box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dice boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dicebox.
gobetween
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gobetweens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of go-between.
plenty as blackberries
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Mr. [Percy Bysshe] Shelley, your reason? Were this pressed hard upon you, you would probably with [John] Falstaff exclaim, "If reasons were as plenty as black-berries, I would not give you one upon compulsion!"
ref: 1938, Newman Ivey White, “Queen Mab [A Radical Seeks Shelter (William Clark’s Reply to … Queen Mab, 1821)]”, in The Unextinguished Hearth: Shelley and His Contemporary Critics, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →OCLC, chapter I (Anti-matrimonial Thesis of Queen Mab), page 73:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very plentiful, very abundant.
cross cheque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross cheques
Senses: glosses: Dated form of crossed cheque.
cross cheques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross cheque
cross as two sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A pun on cross (“angry”) and cross (“to lay one thing over another”).
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Particularly ill-natured and disagreeable.
stercorarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stercorarian
lossiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lossy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being lossy.
sarcodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sarcode + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to sarcode.
adverbial particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adverbial particles
Senses: examples: text: In the phrasal verbs 'set up', 'throw away', 'shut down', 'carry out' and 'take over', the words 'up', 'away', 'down', 'out' and 'over' are the adverbial particles.
text: The sentence 'He turns on everyone he meets' has very different meanings depending on whether the word 'on' is parsed as a preposition (i.e. turn on as "to attack or criticise suddenly") or as an adverbial particle (i.e. turn on as "arouse").
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The adverbial component of a phrasal verb; a word, typically a short one, which functions as an adverb accompanying and qualifying the verb component of a phrasal verb.
bring to pass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings to pass
form: bringing to pass
form: brought to pass
form: brought to pass
Senses: glosses: To cause to happen.
rice stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice stitches
Senses: glosses: An embroidery stitch resembling grains of rice.
rice stitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice stitch
bursch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burschen
Etymology: From German Bursche.
Senses: examples: text: A student's day's work usually begins late. During the half year previous to his final examination he is perhaps up and at work betimes, but a bursch who rises early and studies hard in the first half year is a rare exception to the general rule.
ref: 1879, Henry Vizetelly, Berlin Under the New Empire: Its Institutions, Inhabitants, Industry, Monuments, Museums, Social Life, Manners, and Amusements, volume 2:
glosses: A German university student.
burschen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bursch
waste paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waste papers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wastepaper.
flower of the flock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowers of the flock
Senses: examples: text: None of the Pontifexes were deficient in good looks; they were a well-grown shapely family enough, but Alethea was the flower of the flock even as regards good looks, while in respect of all other qualities that make a woman lovable, it seemed as though the stock that had been intended for the three daughters, and would have been about sufficient for them, had all been allotted to herself, her sisters getting none, and she all.
ref: 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh:
glosses: Something exceedingly good or the best of its type.
above par
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Certainly, sir, that will be an excellent method of trial."
"Ay, ay, know the way! soon find if they are above par. Be sure don't mind gold waistcoats; nothing but tinsel, all shew and no substance; better leave the matter to me; take care of you myself; know where to find one will do."
ref: 1782, Daniel Taylor, Frances Burney, Cecilia:
coordinate_terms: up to par
below par
glosses: Better than the average or normal standard.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: (of a score) More than par for the hole or course.
glosses: Having a price below its face value.
raw_tags: of a financial instrument
Related terms: above average
call a halt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls a halt
form: calling a halt
form: called a halt
form: called a halt
Senses: info_templates: extra_data: words: to
‘something’
expansion: [with to ‘something’]
synonyms: put an end to
put a stop to
put the kibosh on
bring an end to
glosses: To force (something) to stop.
undersill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + sill.
Senses: examples: text: A vinyl undersill trim or finish trim should be used under windowsills to receive the cut edges of the siding.
ref: 1975, Robert Scharff, The complete book of home remodeling, page 292:
glosses: Beneath a sill.
undersill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undersills
Etymology: From under- + sill.
Senses: glosses: A sill placed underneath something.
undersills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undersill
bring an end to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings an end to
form: bringing an end to
form: brought an end to
form: brought an end to
Senses: synonyms: bring to an end
put an end to
put a stop to
put the kibosh on
glosses: Cause to stop.
passthroughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passthrough
wrenchful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrenchful
form: most wrenchful
Etymology: From wrench (verb) + -ful. Compare Middle English wrenchful (“crafty, deceitful”).
Senses: examples: text: However, recommendation is often as effective as charity, of which it is a minor form, neither so rare nor wrenchful, nor so perturbing for both parties.
ref: 1899, The English Illustrated Magazine:
glosses: Causing great pain, suffering, or agony; painful
Related terms: wrenching
bring to an end
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings to an end
form: bringing to an end
form: brought to an end
form: brought to an end
Senses: synonyms: bring an end to
bring to a close
put an end to
put a stop to
put the kibosh on
glosses: To cause to stop or complete.
staticizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staticizers
Etymology: From staticize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device or process that makes something static.
staticizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staticizer
nanosmooth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nanosmooth
form: most nanosmooth
Etymology: From nano- + smooth.
Senses: glosses: smooth at the nanoscale
Izod test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Izod tests
Etymology: Named after the English engineer Edwin Gilbert Izod (1876–1946), who described it in his 1903 address to the British Association, subsequently published in Engineering.
Senses: glosses: A standard test for determining the impact resistance of materials, using a pivoting arm that is released from a specific height to strike a sample.
Izod tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Izod test
wrenchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛn.t͡ʃi/
Forms: form: more wrenchy
form: most wrenchy
Etymology: From wrench + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Gents, that was sure the zeal distress, nothing soft and sloppy, but hard, wrenchy, deep ones, like you hear at a melodrayma^([sic]).
ref: 1904, McClure's Magazine, volume 24, page 66:
text: Quill turned a key with a loud, wrenchy sound and dragged the door open.
ref: 1981, Manly Wade Wellman, The lost and the lurking, page 123:
glosses: Indicative of wrenching
westernish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more westernish
form: most westernish
Etymology: From western + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of occidental countries or culture.
examples: text: It was a westernish film, but with robots instead of cowboys.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Characteristic of the western genre of action films.
canalman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canalmen
Etymology: From canal + -man.
Senses: glosses: A boatman who works on a canal.
canalmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canalman
wide-wasting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wide-wasting
form: most wide-wasting
Senses: glosses: Causing widespread devastation.
daunder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: daunders
form: daundering
form: daundered
form: daundered
form: dauner
form: dawner
form: dawnder
form: donder
form: daunther
Senses: examples: text: I daunder'd about till my back turned sair, When I met wi' some neighbours, and then did repair To Farries's inn, where some whisky we got, And talked of harvest, and horses, and stots.
ref: 1831, Robert Shennan, Tales, songs, and miscellaneous poems, page 80:
text: I'll tak my staff and daunder: west, For nature age is grand to me;
ref: 1890, Canadian horticulture and home magazine - Volume 13, page 150:
text: There's more for him to do than daunder about the hillside with a trout-wand over his shoulder.
ref: 1892, Robert Leighton, The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands, page 26:
glosses: To stroll; to meander.
examples: text: He must do one of these two things: in the first case, his ministry may daunder on till there is another strike of half-a-dozen, like the present ; in the latter, it will be blown about his ears, from without.
ref: 1828, The London Magazine, page 449:
text: I have always pitied people whose engagements daundered on year after year without coming to anything.
ref: 1880, The Sunday at Home - Volume 27, page 406:
text: And so. beguiled by feathered pen, I daunder on.
ref: 1925, The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly - Volume 30, page 71:
glosses: To go on without reaching a conclusion.
raw_tags: with 'on'
daunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daunders
form: dauner
form: dawner
form: dawnder
form: donder
form: daunther
Senses: examples: text: "Takin' a bit daunder, Laird?" said Davy with the assurance of an old servant.
ref: 1913, Aylmer Keith Fraser, A Garden of Spices, page 232:
text: I tak an occasional daunder roond the lawn, near every five minutes in fact, and throw lumps o sile at oor cat stalkin birds in the flooer beds.
ref: 2006, Duncan Glen, Collected poems, 1965-2005, →ISBN, page 87:
text: Old folks out for a wee daunder might, through force of habit, find themselves wandering into this kinematic museum to watch the breakdowns and odd snippets of film.
ref: 2012, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, →ISBN:
glosses: A stroll.
daunders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of daunder
daunders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daunder
daundering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of daunder
daundered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of daunder
Carmencita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of President Roxas, Capiz, Philippines.
gerundival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Etymology: From gerundive + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The whole is concluded by the addition of the noun suffix gna, which itself carries a gerundival force.
ref: 1941, Journal of the Polynesian Society - Volume 50, page 10:
text: Nominal declensions, verbal case endings, gerundival constructions, in short, the full range of grammatical alterations—for which Sanskrit has a particular genius and meticulous order—announce language itself as a field of alterity.
ref: 2014, Dan Lusthaus, Buddhist Phenomenology, →ISBN:
text: The process of 'gerundival attraction' is a sort of conjuring trick whereby a gerund is turned into a gerundive.
ref: 2017, John Taylor, Latin Beyond GCSE, →ISBN, page 76:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the gerundive form of a word.
weak point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weak points
Senses: examples: text: Their soft skills are great, but their technical knowledge is a weak point that needs remedial help.
glosses: Something (such as a skill, talent, characteristic, or property) at which someone, or something, is substandard.
examples: text: probing the perimeter for the weak point
qualifier: literal
glosses: Synonym of weakest link.
synonyms: word: weakest link
Related terms: weak sauce
weak tea
Achilles heel
liability
dust hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dust holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dusthole.
dusthole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustholes
Etymology: From dust + hole.
Senses: examples: text: The kitchen was paved with off bits of stone, close to the dust-hole, which was infested with rats […].
ref: 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 231:
glosses: A hole or other receptacle for rubbish; a dustbin.
in health
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: healthy
malarial fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: malaria
feeding tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feeding tubes
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a device used to feed people who cannot eat or swallow, normally in the form of a tube passed through the nose or straight into the abdomen.
preventative medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preventative medicines
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: medicine given to prevent illness, rather than treat it.
snow tyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow tyres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of snow tire.
spy plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spy planes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spyplane.
chiefry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiefries
Etymology: From chief + -ry.
Senses: glosses: A rent paid to a chief or supreme lord.
glosses: A chief's territory.
snub post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snub posts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of snubbing post.
synonyms: word: snubbing post
snub posts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snub post
deep-felt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deep-felt
form: most deep-felt
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deepfelt.
graywether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graywethers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of greywether.
graywethers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graywether
greywether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greywethers
form: graywether
Etymology: From grey + wether; see wether (“a ram”).
Senses: glosses: A large block of hard sandstone found sporadically over south and southeast England.
greywethers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greywether
mental gymnasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mental gymnast
trife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Etymology: A conceptual and phonetic blend of tripe and trifle
Senses: examples: text: Trife is trife even, in a reform synagogue.
ref: 1991, Richard M. Elman, Tar Beach, page 259:
text: l thought niggahs was trife, but bitches ain't no joke.
ref: 2003, Ed McNair, My Time to Shine: A Novel, page 232:
text: This life is trife!
ref: 2014, Keough Collins, My Surrender is Never II, →ISBN, page 29:
text: You may refurbish your life But, you can't avoid trife
ref: 2014, The Hidden Stairwell, page 138:
topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A trivial matter or matters.
trife
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Forms: form: more trife
form: most trife
Etymology: A conceptual and phonetic blend of tripe and trifle
Senses: examples: text: Okay, you wanna act trife and flip the script / With your Wonderama drama slash coma riff.
ref: 1991, Pete Rock, C.L. Smooth, Mecca and the Soul Brother:
text: My life is as trife as your favorite rap record.
ref: 2002, Atmosphere, Onemosphere:
text: This shit is trife!
ref: 2007, KaShamba Williams, Thomas Long, La Jill Hunt, Around the Way Girls 2, page 31:
text: He bought her that drug, Satan's so trife, Now she addicted to the needle, A friend done ruined her life,
ref: 2008, Tyrone Purcell Roundtree Sr., Soapbox, page 35:
text: Just get out of my crib with your trife ass!
ref: 2012, Braya Spice, Dear Drama:
topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Unforgiveable; reprehensible.
staff system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staff systems
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A block system in use on single-line railways, in which the stationmaster gives the driver a staff authorizing the driver to proceed over a given portion of track.
staff systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staff system
fa-la
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fa-las
Senses: glosses: An old kind of madrigal.
fa-las
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fa-la
recitationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recitationists
Etymology: From recitation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who gives a recitation; a public reciter.
recitationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recitationist
trollopish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trollopish
form: most trollopish
Etymology: From trollop + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a trollop.
scramb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrambs
form: scrambing
form: scrambed
form: scrambed
Etymology: The verb, especially sense 2 (“to scratch with the claws or fingernails”), is possibly related to Dutch schrammen (“to graze, scratch”) and German schrammen (“to scratch, scrape”), from Late Middle High German schramm, schramme (“a graze, scratch”); further etymology unknown.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: glosses: To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw, to scram.
glosses: To pull down or rip off (something) with force.
glosses: To scrape (something) together with the hands.
Related terms: scramble
scramp
scram
scramb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrambs
Etymology: The verb, especially sense 2 (“to scratch with the claws or fingernails”), is possibly related to Dutch schrammen (“to graze, scratch”) and German schrammen (“to scratch, scrape”), from Late Middle High German schramm, schramme (“a graze, scratch”); further etymology unknown.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: glosses: A handful of something scraped together.
scrambed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scramb
scrambs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scramb
scrambing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scramb
first fiddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first fiddle
unpasteurizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pasteurizable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be pasteurized.
underpasteurized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underpasteurized
form: most underpasteurized
Etymology: From under- + pasteurized.
Senses: glosses: Not adequately pasteurized.
Indian berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian berries
Senses: glosses: Anamirta cocculus, a climbing plant of India and southeast Asia.
glosses: The fruit of this plant.
Synonyms: Levant nut
Indian berries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian berry
Injen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Injens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of injun.
Injens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Injen
pollening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pollen
cedrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cedrate
common goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common good
Fjäll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cow or bull of a traditional Swedish breed of polled mountain cattle.
home console
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home consoles
Senses: glosses: A video game console designed for domestic use in a fixed location, as opposed to handheld consoles or arcade consoles.
acidiphilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acidophilic.
handheld console
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handheld consoles
Senses: glosses: A portable video game console, designed to be easily carried, as opposing to home consoles.
adenomectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: adenomectomies
Etymology: From adenoma + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Removal of an adenoma
Derived terms: transsphenoidal adenomectomy
adenomectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adenomectomy
allohaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + haploid.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a single set of unpaired chromosomes derived from two different species
allohaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allohaploids
Etymology: From allo- + haploid.
Senses: glosses: Such a cell or organism
allohaploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allohaploid
alvinoconchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alvinoconchids
Senses: glosses: Any sea snail of the genus Alviniconcha.
alvinoconchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alvinoconchid
aminocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of amniocyte.
aminomonosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminomonosaccharides
Etymology: From amino- + monosaccharide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aminosugar derived from a monosaccharide
aminomonosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminomonosaccharide
amphihaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + haploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a haploid set of chromosomes from each of its parents
anecdotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anecdotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anecdotally.
synonyms: word: anecdotally
anomanolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anomanolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A withanolide present in the red pepper Tubocapsicum anomalum
anomanolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anomanolide
mountain pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain pines
Senses: glosses: Pinus mugo, mugo pine.
Synonyms: sense: Pinus mugo
word: creeping pine
sense: Pinus mugo
word: dwarf mountain pine
sense: Pinus mugo
word: scrub mountain pine
sense: Pinus mugo
word: Swiss mountain pine
Derived terms: mountain pine beetle
anorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + organic.
Senses: glosses: inorganic
antirestenotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + restenotic.
Senses: glosses: That counters restenosis
antivasospastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + vasospastic.
Senses: glosses: That counters vasospasm
philip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philips
Senses: glosses: English sparrow, house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Synonyms: sense: Passer domesticus
word: Indian sparrow
sense: Passer domesticus
word: Indian house sparrow
sense: Passer domesticus
word: sparr
sense: Passer domesticus
word: sparrer
sense: Passer domesticus
word: spadger
sense: Passer domesticus
word: spadgick
sense: Passer domesticus
word: spuggy
sense: Passer domesticus
word: spur
sense: Passer domesticus
word: sprig
sense: Passer domesticus
word: spatzie
sense: Passer domesticus
word: spotsie
arachnomelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arachno- + -melia.
Senses: glosses: A congenital malformation of limbs, back and head in cattle
ascocarpic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an ascocarp
astriogliosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of astrogliosis.
summings up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summing up
asymptomatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + symptomatical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of asymptomatic.
atheroembolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atheroemboli
Etymology: From athero- + embolus.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An atheromatous embolus
Related terms: atheroembolic
atheroembolism
atheroemboli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atheroembolus
atheroembolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From athero- + embolic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to an atheroembolus
preventive service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preventive services
Senses: glosses: Work done by the coastguard to prevent smuggling.
preventive services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preventive service
magnoflorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aporphine alkaloid isolated from the rhizome of Sinomenium acutum and from Pachygone ovata.
insularine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual insularis + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amorphous alkaloid found in Cyclea insularis.
corytuberine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aporphine alkaloid found in the family Hernandiaceae of flowering plants.
besom-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: besom-heads
Senses: glosses: A fool; a blockhead.
besom-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of besom-head
scription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: handwriting
stallinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stallingers
Senses: glosses: A stallkeeper.
stallingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stallinger
spark test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spark tests
Etymology: From spark + test, due to the production of sparks in order to test for the character of a steel.
Senses: glosses: An instance of spark testing.
spark test
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spark tests
form: spark testing
form: spark tested
form: spark tested
Etymology: From spark + test, due to the production of sparks in order to test for the character of a steel.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To test for the general character of a steel, when testing a piece of steel, by grinding it, producing sparks, and using the color of the sparks to determine its general classification.
Related terms: word: spark testing
spark tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spark test
spark tests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spark test
spark tested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spark test
coralwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coral + wood.
Senses: glosses: Adenanthera pavonina (red-beard tree), a leguminous tree native to tropical Asia and Australasia.
glosses: Guibourtia spp., native to Africa and South America, source of a high-quality timber.
pride and joy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A possession that is very highly valued.
wolly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wollies
Senses: examples: text: I looked at the small stack of books in my room […] Stringfellow would say they were written by women who really ought to straighten their dreadlocks and stop complaining.
“Bloody wolly,” I said.
ref: 2005, Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come, Arris Books, page 77:
glosses: Alternative form of wally.
wollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolly
torpedoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torpedomen
Etymology: From torpedo + -man.
Senses: glosses: A person in charge of the torpedoes on a military vessel.
torpedomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torpedoman
Wood family
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Wood family
Etymology: A pun on wood, the material that may be seen when benches are empty.
Senses: examples: text: In spite of their efforts to avoid it, members of the "Wood Family" were constantly in evidence. In the slang of the circus, the phrase simply meant empty seats.
ref: 1958, Reginald Taylor, Circus Triumphant, page 177:
text: […] we trucked last week's show sixteen miles to the coastal village of Lynton for a single performance in the village hall, a performance attended largely by the “Wood Family”—theatrical gallows humor for the rows of empty wooden seats.
ref: 2010, Ivor Noël Hume, A Passion for the Past: The Odyssey of a Transatlantic Archaeologist:
text: We learned to despise the 'Wood' family, that is, the empty seats. We lived off the Scotch eggs the landladies put out for late supper, after the show.
ref: 2012, Angela Carter, Wise Children, page 77:
glosses: Empty seats at a theater, circus, etc., corresponding to tickets that the venue failed to sell.
low-paid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lower-paid
form: lowest-paid
Senses: antonyms: high-paid
glosses: Of a worker: earning poor pay, less than the average wage.
work-place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work-places
Senses: examples: text: Suffice it to say that they served as a means of uniting all workers in a work-place at a time when craft unions were split by politics and unable to cope with large-scale industry, that they won recognition from governments in many cases as an emergency measure to head off revolutionary unrest, and that in both Czechoslovakia and Poland they laid claim to a compulsory contribution from employers for welfare purposes.
ref: 1972, Dorothy W. Douglas with Lynn Turgeon, chapter XI, in Transitional Economic Systems, The Polish-Czech Example, New York and London: Monthly Review Press, page 204:
glosses: Alternative spelling of workplace.
Emesenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Emesene
anarkid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.ə.kɪd/
ipa: /ˈæn.ɑɹ.kɪd/
Forms: form: anarkids
Etymology: Blend of anarchist + kid.
Senses: examples: text: It is politically more costly to club a clown on camera than a demonstrator. Or a masked black bloc anarkid.
ref: 2016, Larry Bogad, chapter I, in Tactical Performance: Serious Play and Social Movements, London and New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 137:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: anarkiddie
anarchild
glosses: An immature or uninformed anarchist.
Homsi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒmsi/
Etymology: From North Levantine Arabic حمصي (ḥomṣi). By surface analysis, Homs + -i.
Senses: synonyms: Emesene
glosses: Of or pertaining to Homs.
Homsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒmsi/
Forms: form: Homsis
Etymology: From North Levantine Arabic حمصي (ḥomṣi). By surface analysis, Homs + -i.
Senses: synonyms: Emesene
glosses: A person from, or an inhabitant of, Homs.
Homsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Homsi
baroinhibit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: baroinhibits
form: baroinhibiting
form: baroinhibited
form: baroinhibited
Etymology: From baro- + inhibit.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: To inhibit by means of pressure
Related terms: baroinhibition
baroinhibition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baro- + inhibition.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: inhibition by means of pressure
Related terms: baroinhibit
baroinhibited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of baroinhibit
benthoscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benthoscape
benzodihydrofuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzodihydrofurans
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic heterocycle composed of fused benzene and dihydrofuran rings
benzodihydropyran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzodihydropyrans
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic heterocycle composed of fused benzene and dihydropyran rings
benzodihydropyrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzodihydropyran
benzodihydrofurans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzodihydrofuran
biallelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biallelisms
Etymology: From bi- + allelism.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A biallelic mutation
bideficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Etymology: From bi- + deficient.
Senses: glosses: Lacking two essentials
Related terms: bideficiency
bideficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bideficiencies
Etymology: From bi- + deficiency.
Senses: glosses: A lack of two essentials
Related terms: bideficient
bifunctionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bifunctionalizes
form: bifunctionalizing
form: bifunctionalized
form: bifunctionalized
Etymology: From bifunctional + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To become, or to make something, bifunctional
Related terms: bifunctionalization
bifunctionalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bifunctionalize
Woolworth gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Woolworth guns
Etymology: In reference to Woolworth's, a chain of inexpensive stores.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The FP-45 Liberator, a crude, cheaply-made single-shot pistol.
Woolworth guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Woolworth gun
biopurification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + purification.
Senses: glosses: biological purification (typically of a water supply)
biospeleological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + speleological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to biospeleology
bonegraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonegrafts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bone graft.
bone graft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bone grafts
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The replacement of missing bone by grafting from another part of the body
bifunctionalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bifunctionalize
bifunctionalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bifunctionalize
brachauchenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachauchenines
Senses: glosses: Any pilosaurid of the subfamily Brachaucheninae
brachauchenines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brachauchenine
pilosaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilosaurids
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Pliosauridae of extinct marine reptiles.
pilosaurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilosaurid
variable geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the ability to adjust the shape / configuration of its wings whilst in flight
raw_tags: of an aircraft
bracoviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the bracoviruses
inside work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Anything built into dice for the purpose of loading them and cheating at games.
breakwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakwalls
Etymology: From break + wall.
Senses: glosses: A wall, typically built outside of a harbour, that diminishes damage due to battering by the waves.
Related terms: breakwater
breakwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakwall
burenorphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of buprenorphine.
burkholderial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to proteobacteria of the genus Burkholderia.
spiriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more spiriferous
form: most spiriferous
Etymology: From spirifer + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to spirifers.
Emesenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːniən
Forms: form: more Emesenian
form: most Emesenian
Etymology: From Emesene + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Emesene.
synonyms: word: Emesene
Emesenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːniən
Forms: form: Emesenians
Etymology: From Emesene + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Emesene.
synonyms: word: Emesene
freak folk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The wide array of artists that grew out of the freak folk or indie folk scene of the early 2000s were indeed as much inspired by the Anthology as they were by the loose musical forms of experimental jazz and avant-garde music and Induist and […]
ref: 2016, Ross Hair, Thomas Ruys Smith, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music: America changed through music, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 250:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of psychedelic folk.
synonyms: word: psychedelic folk
psychedelic folk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psych folk.
Emesenians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Emesenian
embound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embounds
form: embounding
form: embounded
form: embounded
Senses: glosses: To bound or enclose.