cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pranksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: prăngk'səm
ipa: /ˈpɹæŋksəm/
rhymes: -æŋksəm
Forms: form: more pranksome
form: most pranksome
Etymology: From prank + -some.
Senses: examples: text: It bore reference to the first detention on mere postal technique, but a man's nose is placed between his eyes that he may smell out what he cannot see into, and knowing "the ways of such people" (Boccacio's phrase in speaking of the pranksome devils depicted by Dante in the Inferno, and quite apropos of Messrs. Stevens, Tobey, Comstock, and the rest), and suspecting the true mischief, I at once wrote to Mr. Chainey, personally a stranger to me, asking the particulars.
ref: 2006, Gary Schmidgall, Horace Traubel, Conserving Walt Whitman's fame:
glosses: Characterised by pranks or pranking; mischievous; prone to pull pranks.
Derived terms: pranksomeness
pozzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒ.zi/
rhymes: -ɒzi
Etymology: Unclear, perhaps from a southern African language; from late 19thC, revived during World War I.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Could you pinch a tin of pozzy out of stores?’
ref: 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 136:
text: The Turco used to say: 'Tommy, give Johnny pozzy,' and a tin of plum and apple jam used to be given him.
ref: 1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XVII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 237:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Jam (“fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar”).
Derived terms: pozzy-wallah
pozzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒ.zi/
rhymes: -ɒzi
Forms: form: pozzies
form: possie
Etymology: From position + -y (“diminutive suffix”), with spelling shift; variant of possie.
Senses: examples: text: 1916, various ANZAC soldiers, The Anzac Book, page 10,
[…] and Jerry O′Dwyer had shot two crows from the new sniper′s pozzy down at the creek-—and so on.
text: 1942, Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume III: The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916, 13th(?) Edition, page 340,
Brown himself, unaware even that there was an officer among his captives, picked up his rifle, went back to his “pozzy,” and dismissed the incident from his mind […]
text: They had also wonderful confidence in their leaders — they knew the best pozzy would be taken up.
ref: 1975, William D. Joynt, Saving the Channel Ports, 1918, page 84:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: Digger slang
glosses: A firing position.
examples: text: So I says to him, no, I can′t go back to the pozzy I′m sharing with Snowy Fisher and the late Pap.
ref: 1971, Herman Charles Bosman, Cold Stone Jug, page 36:
text: Stretching his legs has been good for him, and this Pitt-street pozzy near the GPO is a splendid spot for a sandwich and a good book.
ref: 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 62:
glosses: A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.
powfagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: exhausted
Synonyms: cream crackered
knackered
pupigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Etymology: From pupa + -gerous.
Senses: glosses: Containing a pupa.
nudzh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nudzhes
Etymology: From Yiddish נודזש (nudzh, “annoying, bothersome person”), from Polish nudzić (“to bore”).
Senses: glosses: A whiner; a complainer.
nudzh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nudzhes
form: nudzhing
form: nudzhed
form: nudzhed
Etymology: From Yiddish נודזש (nudzh, “annoying, bothersome person”), from Polish nudzić (“to bore”).
Senses: glosses: To pester.
glosses: To whine; to complain.
hiphugger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hip + hugger.
Senses: glosses: Descriptive of a type of jeans which are tight around the hip.
Related terms: hiphuggers
hiphuggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hip + huggers.
Senses: glosses: Jeans which have a tight waistline.
hypophysectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: hypophysectomies
Etymology: From hypophysis + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of the hypophysis (pituitary gland).
Derived terms: cryohypophysectomy
hypophysectomize
cliquy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cliquier
form: cliquiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cliquey.
government takes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of government take
fatwahed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fatwah
pickaninnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickaninny
glosses: plural of pickaninnie
dreidl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreidls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dreidel.
dreidls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dreidl
demanganizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demanganization
flagless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæɡləs/
Etymology: From flag + -less.
Senses: examples: text: On the edge of a grassy field is a low, whitewashed house, with nothing to announce it as a Brotherhood branch. There is a rustic gym behind, and a flagless pole in front.
ref: 2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 143:
glosses: Without a flag.
Derived terms: flaglessness
ginglymus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪŋɡlɪməs/
ipa: /ˈdʒɪŋɡlɪməs/
Forms: form: ginglymi
Etymology: From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek γίγγλυμος (gínglumos, “hinge”).
Senses: examples: text: The Bones of the Fingers are articulated by Ginglymus, and are fifteen in each Hand.
ref: 1702, de La Vauguion, A Compleat Body of Chirurgical Operations, Containing The Whole Practice of Surgery, 2nd edition, page 408:
text: The Ginglymus is, when a Bone receives and is received; and the Property of this Sort of Articulation is to admit only of the Motions of the Flexion and Extension: It is called by Tradesmen Charnall, and it is commonly used in Hinges.
ref: 1723, James Keill, The Anatomy of the Human Body Abridg'd, or A Short and full View of all the Parts of the Body, 7th edition, pages 224–225:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A hinge joint.
Derived terms: ginglymoid
gingkos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gingko
devs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛvz/
rhymes: -ɛvz
Senses: glosses: plural of dev
foureyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of four-eyed.
gooily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gooily
form: most gooily
Senses: glosses: In a gooey manner.
huzzahing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of huzzah
huzzahed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of huzzah
hobbledehoyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hobbledehoy + -hood.
Senses: synonyms: hobbledehoydom
hobbledehoyism
glosses: The period or time of being a hobbledehoy; awkward adolescence.
horoeka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoɹoʊˈikə/
Forms: form: horoekas
Etymology: From Maori [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: Horoekas inch their way skyward like this for as many as 20 years before maturing, flowering profusely, and bearing black berries.
ref: 2000 December 12, Fodor's, New Zealand: Where to Stay, Eat, and Explore, Smart Travel Tips from A to Z Plus Maps and Color Photos, Fodor's, →ISBN:
glosses: The lancewood tree, Pseudopanax crassifolius.
green plover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green plovers
Senses: glosses: The lapwing.
examples: text: The Green PLOVER is about the bigness of a Lapwing, the colour of the whole upper side is black, thick set with yellowish green spots; the breast brown, spotted with yellowish green; the belly white.
ref: 1795, Thomas Boreman, A description of above three hundred animals, page 141:
text: THE GREEN PLOVER (Plate 72.)
Is rather larger than a Lapwing, and weighs about nine ounces.
ref: 1810, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, page 131:
glosses: Synonym of golden plover.
synonyms: word: golden plover
red-breasted merganser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-breasted mergansers
Senses: glosses: A species of diving duck, Mergus serrator.
Lewesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lewesians
Etymology: From Lewes + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: He's a proud Lewesian by nature.
glosses: Someone from the town of Lewes.
Lewesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lewesian
form: most Lewesian
Etymology: From Lewes + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the town of Lewes.
chappo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chappos
Etymology: From chap + -o.
Senses: examples: text: 'Did you see those chubby old chappos with their medallions at the discotheque last night?'
ref: 2006, Tyne O'Connell, Dumping Princes:
glosses: Diminutive of chap (“man”).
mi casa, su casa
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: /ˈmiː ˌkɑːsə ˈsuː ˌkɑːsə/
Etymology: From the Spanish mi casa es su casa (“make yourself at home”, literally “my house is your house”).
Senses: examples: text: Girl, why is you lying? Girl, why you Mufasa? / Yeah, mi casa su casa, got a strip there like Gaza / Got so high off volcanoes, now the flow is so lava
ref: 2013, Childish Gambino, “V. 3005”, in Because the Internet, Glassnote Records:
text: Udo's entire body still itched. "We look like homeless people."
ref: 2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
glosses: What is mine is yours; a friendly expression of sharing.
one can't hold two watermelons in one hand
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: one hand can't hold two watermelons
form: one can't carry two watermelons under one arm
Senses: glosses: One should not attempt to take on more than one can handle.
Related terms: bite off more than one can chew
monticule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monticules
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monticle.
monticules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monticule
hollaback girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollaback girls
Etymology: Originally appeared in Gwen Stefani's song Hollaback Girl, released in 2004, based on the phrasal verb holla back.
Senses: examples: text: A few times I've been around that track / So it's not just gonna happen like that / 'Cause I ain't no hollaback girl / I ain't no hollaback girl
ref: 2004, “Hollaback Girl”, in Gwen Stefani, Pharrell Williams (lyrics), Love. Angel. Music. Baby., performed by Gwen Stefani:
text: While she might have been accused of being a hollaback girl, she ain't from the holler.
ref: 2007, Appalachian Journal - Volume 35, page 24:
text: As a white-bread suburbanite, I must admit, I was a little intimidated to trade out my wholesome Charlie Brown for a green-haired hollaback girl showing a mile of tattooed midriff.
ref: 2008, Geek Monthly - Volumes 17-22, page 249:
glosses: A woman who responds readily to a come-on; a promiscuous woman.
dyor
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: DYOR
Etymology: Coined by conspiracy theorist Milton William Cooper
Senses: glosses: Initialism of do your own research.
red-throat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-throats
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The red-throated diver.
black-throat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-throats
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The black-throated diver (Gavia arctica).
Slavonian grebe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Slavonian grebes
Senses: glosses: A freshwater grebe of Europe, Podiceps auritus.
Synonyms: horned grebe
gangas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganga
brasero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braseros
Senses: glosses: A brazier.
souples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of souple
balisong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balisongs
Etymology: Popularly believed to derive from the Tagalog phrase baling sungay (literally "broken horn"), since the original balisongs were made from carved animal horns.
Senses: glosses: A folding pocket knife with two handles counter-rotating around the tang such that, when closed, the blade is concealed within grooves in the handles.
Synonyms: butterfly knife
Batangas knife
Derived terms: balisword
circle jerking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circle jerk
circle jerked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circle jerk
circle jerks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circle jerk
butterfly knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterfly knives
Etymology: Compound of butterfly + knife from the opening motion of the knife.
Senses: synonyms: balisong
Batangas knife
glosses: A folding pocket knife with two handles counter-rotating around the tang such that, when closed, the blade is concealed within grooves in the handles.
balisword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baliswords
Etymology: Blend of balisong + sword, to indicate the extensive length of the tool.
Senses: glosses: An exceptionally large balisong knife.
lividities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lividity
antinovelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antinovelists
Etymology: From antinovel + -ist or anti- + novelist.
Senses: examples: text: The difference between a modern novelist like Roth and an eighteenth-century moralist and antinovelist like Rousseau […]
ref: 1995, Dennis Porter, Rousseau's legacy: emergence and eclipse of the writer in France:
text: But for Augustine, as for the harsher Puritans who followed him, there is no real point in saying what some humanist antinovelists very much wished to say […]
ref: 1997, Margaret Anne Doody, The True Story of the Novel:
text: At no point in her writing does Mary Lee Settle become an antinovelist or a player of literary games.
ref: 2000, Roger Shattuck, Candor and perversion: literature, education, and the arts:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A writer of antinovels.
antinovelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antinovelist
antigalactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigalactic
form: most antigalactic
Etymology: From anti- + galactic.
Senses: glosses: Preventing or reducing lactation.
antigalactic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigalactics
Etymology: From anti- + galactic.
Senses: glosses: An antigalactic drug or remedy.
antigalactics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antigalactic
balisongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balisong
unwormed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wormed.
Senses: examples: text: The mouth, in some cases of madness, may become so swelled, that the dog cannot close his jaws ; but this may happen in a wormed or unwormed dog equally.
ref: 1810, Delabere Pritchett Blaine, A domestic treatise on the diseases of horses and dogs:
glosses: Not wormed; not treated for worms.
raw_tags: of an animal
glosses: Not having had the lytta removed.
raw_tags: of a dog
examples: text: Its wooden substructure is solid, its timber unwormed, its royal blue cloth lining unfretted by the worm.
ref: 1906, Oliver Elton, Frederick York Powell, Frederick York Powell: A Life and Selection from His Letters:
glosses: Not spoiled by worms.
raw_tags: of wood
unfretted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fretted.
Senses: glosses: Not fretted or rubbed.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Not fretted; without frets.
raw_tags: of a musical instrument
Megleno-Romanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Megleno-Romanian
Bauhaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊhaʊs/
ipa: /ˈbaʊˌhaʊs/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bauhaus (“house of architecture”), from Bau (“building, construction”) + Haus (“house”). The word is derived from the Staatliches Bauhaus (State School of Construction), an art school in Weimar, Germany, founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969).
Senses: examples: text: [J]une 22 unanimous approval of the projected bauhaus building, the first of the bauhaus books appears.
ref: 1968, 50 Years Bauhaus: German Exhibition; Royal Academy of Arts, September 21 – October 27 1968, Stuttgart: Württembergischer Kunstverein; Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, →OCLC, page 26:
text: Not until the 1930's was the American public aware of the significance of the Bauhaus. Several factors contributed to this: American Bauhaus students were returning from Germany; Bauhaus design, as tubular steel chairs and lighting fixtures, were being imported from Germany; […]
ref: 1974, Barbara Ann Henriksen, The Bauhaus and American Art Education (unpublished M.A. dissertation), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin, →OCLC, page 17:
text: While the direct impact of the iconoclastic Bauhaus typography on bookwork is limited, its indirect influence, encouraging designers such as Jan Tschichold to re-examine the whole tradition of typography and its relationship to twentieth-century life, is difficult to overestimate.
ref: 2004, Alan Bartram, Bauhaus, Modernism and the Illustrated Book, London: British Library, →ISBN, page 49, column 2:
text: The Bauhaus has long been celebrated as the most influential art school of the twentieth century. The word Bauhaus means many things to many people: some are inspired by so-called ‘Bauhaus style’ – from tubular-steel furniture to the strict geometry of primary-coloured triangles, circles and squares; others worship its position as one of the greatest emblems of the Modern movement’s ambitious desire to change the world.
ref: 2012 May 3, “Exhibition in focus: Bauhaus: Art as Life, Barbican Art Gallery”, in The Daily Telegraph, London:
text: Two sites with cultural treasures separated by more than 40,000 years – caves with art dating to the Ice Age and buildings designed by a Bauhaus master less than 100 years ago – highlight Germany's submissions for the prestigious World Heritage Site designation by the U.N.'s cultural agency, UNESCO. […] The Bauhaus buildings in northeastern Germany were designed by the school's second director, Hannes Meyer.
ref: 2017 July 3, Michael Faulhaber, David Rising, “Ice Age Art, Bauhaus Buildings Highlight German UNESCO Hopes”, in U.S. News & World Report, [Washington, D.C.]:
topics: architecture
arts
design
glosses: A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design.
wikipedia: Fritz Lang
Isokon
Isokon Long Chair
Marcel Breuer
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Thea von Harbou
Walter Gropius
Derived terms: Bauhausian
winebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winebags
Etymology: From wine + bag.
Senses: glosses: A leather bag formerly used to carry wine.
winebags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winebag
Athabaskan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Athabascan.
Athabaskan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Athabascan.
Derived terms: Southern Athabaskan
Athabaskan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Athabaskans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Athabascan.
Derived terms: Southern Athabaskan
lisinopril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈsɪn.əˌpɹɪl/
ipa: /laɪˈsɪn.əˌpɹɪl/
Etymology: From lysine + -o- + -pril (“angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug of the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor class (trademark Prinivil, Zestril), primarily used in the treatment of hypertension, congestive heart failure, heart attacks, and certain complications of diabetes.
omapatrilat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antihypertensive agent that inhibits both neutral endopeptidase and angiotensin converting enzyme.
pindolol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪn.də.lɒl/
ipa: /ˈpɪn.dəˌlɔl/
Etymology: From (iso)p(ropyl) + ind(olyl) + -olol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A β-adrenergic blocking agent used to treat cardiac arrhythmia and hypertension.
Derived terms: cyanopindolol
iodocyanopindolol
usines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of usine
lymphadenectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphadenectomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of lymph nodes, usually performed as part of the management of cancer
Derived terms: lymphadenectomize
lymphadenectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphadenectomy
cyanopindolol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyano- + pindolol.
Senses: glosses: A drug related to pindolol which acts as both a β1 adrenoreceptor antagonist and a 5-HT1A receptor antagonist.
Derived terms: iodocyanopindolol
azodicarbonamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azodicarbonamides
Senses: examples: text: To protest the sandwich chain’s use of azodicarbonamide in its bread, Ms. Hari posted a video of herself chewing another item in which the chemical is found: a yoga mat.
ref: 2015 March 13, Courtney Rubin, “Taking On the Food Industry, One Blog Post at a Time”, in The New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic chemical, a yellow to orange red, odorless, crystalline powder, used in food industry as a food additive, flour bleaching agent and improving agent, and in foaming plastics.
Synonyms: azobisformamide
E927
iodocyanopindolol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iodo- + cyano- + pindolol.
Senses: glosses: A drug, related to cyanopindolol, whose radiolabelled derivative has been widely used in mapping the distribution of beta adrenoreceptors in the body.
azodicarbonamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azodicarbonamide
coryzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coryza
azobisformamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azobisformamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: azodicarbonamide
Synonyms: E927
coryzal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coryza + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to coryza.
azobisformamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azobisformamide
bombyx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombyxes
Etymology: From translingual Bombyx, from Latin bombyx, from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux). Compare bombast.
Senses: examples: text: Most mammifera exhale, in the rutting season, peculiar emanations serving to annouce to the male the presence of the female, and excite in him the sexual desire. This situation is true also in the case of insects, for example, in the female of the bombyx butterfly[.]
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 80:
glosses: Any member of the genus Bombyx of true silkmoths, whose caterpillars often feed on mulberries.
bombyxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombyx
bombax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombaxes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Bombax of tropical trees in the mallow family.
Synonyms: sense: tree in Bombax
word: cotton tree
bombaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombax
subsumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsumers
Etymology: From subsume + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, subsumes.
antibug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bug.
Senses: examples: text: The vegetables when they started to grow in this plot seemed pretty sickly until one day a group of medical students doused them with antibug powder...
ref: 1961, Felix Greene, Awakened China: the country Americans don't know:
text: Use it with an antibug candle and it wards off pests while it lights your patio.
ref: 1972, The Popular Science Monthly:
text: Replace your outdoor porch lights with antibug lights, which have a special yellow coating...
ref: 2009, Terra Wellington, The Mom's Guide to Growing Your Family Green:
glosses: Serving to kill or repel bugs (insects).
examples: text: The infinity mike and the harmonica bug have the great advantage of being undetectable by an antibug detector.
ref: 1975, Alan LeMond, Ron Fry, No place to hide:
text: Also, bugs are subject to malfunction and discovery, especially as sophisticated antibug devices have been developed.
ref: 1991, John C Klotter, Jacqueline R Kanovitz, Constitutional Law, 1992 Supplement:
text: Breaking antibug commercial phones was no problem for the intercepting devices of the government.
ref: 1998, Robert Ludlum, The Matarese Countdown:
glosses: Serving to counteract bugs (surveillance devices).
chervonets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chervontsy
form: chervonetz
form: tchervonets
form: tchervonetz
Etymology: From Russian черво́нец (červónec), derived from черво́нное зо́лото (červónnoje zóloto), "red gold".
Senses: glosses: Any of several former currencies of Russia: applied to various foreign gold coins prior to the reign of Peter I of Russia, then to a Russian gold coin of 1701-1757, and finally to a 1922 currency of the Soviet Union.
chervontsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chervonets
tchervonets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tchervontsy
Etymology: See under chervonets.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chervonets.
tchervontsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tchervonets
larges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of large
apogeic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apogeic
form: most apogeic
Etymology: From apogee + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the apogee.
glosses: Climactic.
catafalcoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catafalco
coky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coky
form: most coky
Etymology: From coke + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or containing coke (coal residue).
repagination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repaginations
Etymology: From repaginate + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of repaginating.
repaginations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repagination
deev
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deevs
Senses: examples: text: In the opposite kingdom of darkness Aherman is supreme, and his throne is encompassed by the six Arch-Deevs, and the numerous hosts of inferior Deevs.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 26:
glosses: Alternative spelling of daeva.
deevs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deev
elmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elmy
form: most elmy
Etymology: From elm + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The appearance is such that I might compare it to that of the checkered moonlight admitted through an elmy overarching grove...
ref: 1842, Knickerbocker:
text: Strange faint hushes / Rose slowly round him / And an elmy breeze / Sighed as waters of day / Far away.
ref: 1918, Austin Clarke, The vengeance of Fionn:
text: Here amidst an elmy dale arose an imposing Gothic pile...
ref: 2001, Marguerite Van Die, Religion and public life in Canada: historical and comparative perspectives:
glosses: Pertaining to elm trees; in which elms grow.
duxelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dukˈsɛl/
Forms: form: duxelles
Etymology: French d' + Uxelles; the dish is said to have been named for Nicolas Chalon du Blé, marquis d'Uxelles, maréchal de France.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A finely chopped mixture of mushrooms, onions, shallots and herbs sautéed in butter and reduced to a paste, used in stuffings and sauces (as in beef Wellington) or as a garnish.
canvaslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canvaslike
form: most canvaslike
Etymology: From canvas + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling canvas (the fabric).
Synonyms: canvassy
canvassy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canvassy
form: most canvassy
Etymology: From canvas + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of canvas (the fabric).
Synonyms: canvaslike
countercry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercries
Etymology: From counter- + cry.
Senses: glosses: A cry raised in opposition to another.
Synonyms: countercall
countercries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercry
countercall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercalls
Etymology: From counter- + call.
Senses: glosses: A call raised in opposition or response to another call.
Synonyms: countercry
countercalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercall
decrepitly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /dɪˈkɹɛpɪtli/
Forms: form: more decrepitly
form: most decrepitly
Etymology: From decrepit + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a decrepit way.
camanachd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camanachds
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic camanachd, from caman (“shinty stick”). Cognate with Irish camánacht.
Senses: glosses: The game of shinty.
cumecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cumec
forwhy
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: From Middle English forwhy, forwhi, from Old English forhwī, forhwȳ (“why, wherefore”). Equivalent to for + why.
Senses: examples: text: Then did he cast to steale her thence away, / And with him beare where none of her might know: / But all in vaine, for-why he found no way / To enter in […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.12:
text: But of the day—and of the weeks bygone, and of many other things—this deponent saith nil, whereby and forwhy he is going to bed.
ref: 1863 February 22, Edward Lear, Letter from Edward Lear to Fortescue:
glosses: Because; for the reason that.
Synonyms: as
given that
since
because
Related terms: for why
extatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extatic
form: most extatic
Senses: examples: text: [W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his vveapon, tho' it vvas not as yet in above half its length.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 194:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that extatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; […]
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 80:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of ecstatic.
glosses: Misspelling of ecstatic.
Derived terms: extatical
damfool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: While the Irish in me finds it entertaining, the Yankee thinks it’s a damfool waste of time.
ref: 1993 July 29, Cecil Adams, “Who are the “black Irish”?”, in The Straight Dope:
glosses: Alternative spelling of damnfool.
damfool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damfools
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of damnfool.
fryable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: homophone: friable
Etymology: From fry + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Olestra is a thermally stable, fryable fat substitute that can substitute for all of the oil in a product, contributing essentially no fat and no calories […]
ref: 2001, Lyn O'Brien Nabors, Alternative Sweeteners:
glosses: That can be fried.
evadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evadable
form: most evadable
Etymology: From evade + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be evaded.
Synonyms: evadible
evasible
Derived terms: unevadable
evadible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evadible
form: most evadible
Etymology: From evade + -ible.
Senses: glosses: That can be evaded.
Synonyms: evadable
evasible
Derived terms: unevadible
evasible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evasible
form: most evasible
Etymology: From evade + -ible.
Senses: glosses: That can be evaded.
Synonyms: evadable
evadible
Derived terms: inevasible
bitchlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bitchlike
form: most bitchlike
Etymology: From bitch + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like a bitch (malicious woman).
Synonyms: bitchy
flapless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flap + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a flap or flaps.
forcepslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forcepslike
form: most forcepslike
form: forceps-like
Etymology: From forceps + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a forceps.
forcipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forceps
forcepses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forceps
hypersexually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypersexually
form: most hypersexually
Etymology: From hypersexual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hypersexual way.
faunlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faunlike
form: most faunlike
Etymology: From faun + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Little Sea grumbled in her sleep, while Desire, with wide-open, faunlike eyes, stared queerly at me.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 118:
text: WASPy GWM, impractically educated, clever but uncynical, slender physique but good torso (otherwise mildly unprepossessing) — 30ish but the skinny beardless faun-like demeanor is initially deceptive.
ref: 1977 April 30, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a faun.
deerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deerlike
form: most deerlike
Etymology: From deer + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a deer.
floodlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more floodlike
form: most floodlike
Etymology: From flood + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a flood.
doelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doelike
form: most doelike
Etymology: From doe + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a doe; submissively tender.
shoelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shoelike
form: most shoelike
Etymology: From shoe + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a shoe.
bootlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bootlike
form: most bootlike
Etymology: From boot + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a boot (footwear).
chairlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chairlike
form: most chairlike
Etymology: From chair + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, Liliana Dirks-Goodman’s “house/home” was based on solid objects of beauty: a woven blanket, a chairlike sculpture.
ref: 2012 November 20, Brian Seibert, “The Truth Changes, and Sometimes Chairs Do, Too”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a chair.
druglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more druglike
form: most druglike
Etymology: From drug + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a drug.
Derived terms: druglikeness
nondruglike
waterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waterlike
form: most waterlike
Etymology: From water + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling water.
milklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more milklike
form: most milklike
Etymology: From milk + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling milk.
Synonyms: milky
broadspectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of broad-spectrum.
untendered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tendered.
Senses: glosses: Not tendered.
unlicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + licked.
Senses: glosses: Not licked.
examples: text: I am now at liberty to confess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases.
ref: 1833, [Charles Lamb], “Preface. By a Friend of the Late Elia.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page v:
glosses: Naive or ignorant, like an unlicked cub.
doom-and-gloomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doom-and-gloomers
Senses: glosses: A person who predicts doom and gloom; a pessimist, naysayer, or Cassandra.
Synonyms: gloom-and-doomer
flexihours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of flexible + hours.
Senses: glosses: Flexitime.
virusoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virusoids
Etymology: From virus + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A circular single-stranded RNA, similar but not identical to a viroid, dependent on plant viruses for replication and encapsidation.
Related terms: viroid
virus
virusoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virusoid
gheraoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gherao
hudibrastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hudibrast + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The use of the Hudibrastic style.
harpylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harpylike
form: most harpylike
Etymology: From harpy + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a harpy; ravenous or shrewish.
Synonyms: harpyish
shrewishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shrewishly
form: most shrewishly
Etymology: From shrewish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shrewish way.
harpyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harpyish
form: most harpyish
Etymology: From harpy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a harpy; ravenous or shrewish.
Synonyms: harpylike
hieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hie
jamlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jamlike
form: most jamlike
Etymology: From jam + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling jam (the sweet spread).
jammily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jammily
form: most jammily
Etymology: From jammy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a jammy or jamlike way.
glosses: Luckily, flukily.
flukily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flukily
form: most flukily
Etymology: From fluky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fluky way; with unexpected luck.
Synonyms: jammily
jamminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jammy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being jammy or jamlike.
glosses: Unexpected luck; flukiness.
gorefest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorefests
Etymology: From gore + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: This horror novel is a real gorefest: everybody gets decapitated.
glosses: An event, situation, film, novel, etc., that is characterised by a copious amount of gore.
gorefests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorefest
miaous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miaou
miaous
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miaou
miaouing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miaou
miaoued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miaou
mazeltov
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mazel tov.
loveworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loveworthy
form: most loveworthy
Etymology: From love + -worthy.
Senses: glosses: lovable, worthy or deserving of love.
lowlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lowlily
form: most lowlily
Etymology: From lowly + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lowly way.
leakily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more leakily
form: most leakily
Etymology: From leaky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a leaky way.
doom-and-gloomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doom-and-gloomer
unformulaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unformulaic
form: most unformulaic
Etymology: From un- + formulaic.
Senses: glosses: Not formulaic; original.
creamlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more creamlike
form: most creamlike
Etymology: From cream + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling cream.
Synonyms: creamy
crumblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crumblike
form: most crumblike
Etymology: From crumb + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a crumb or crumbs.
breadlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more breadlike
form: most breadlike
Etymology: From bread + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling bread.
Synonyms: bready
towerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more towerlike
form: most towerlike
Etymology: From tower + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A small group of warriors, some of them in the line of battle, with only head and feet showing above and below a line of tall, tower-like shields locked close together.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 38:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a tower.
dessertlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dessertlike
form: most dessertlike
Etymology: From dessert + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a dessert.
waxlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waxlike
form: most waxlike
Etymology: From wax + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling wax.
Synonyms: waxy
visorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: vizorless
Etymology: From visor + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a visor.
no-life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-lifes
form: no-lives
Senses: glosses: One who does not have a social life.
no-life
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more no-life
form: most no-life
Senses: examples: text: Think you have to be a no-life brainiac to launch your career into the stratosphere?
ref: 1999 March, Megan Fitzmorris McCafferty, “Will you hit the big time?”, in Cosmopolitan, volume 226, number 3, page 159:
glosses: Having no social life.
no-life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: no-lifes
form: no-lifing
form: no-lifed
form: no-lifed
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To spend most or all one's time on.
science-fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: science-fictions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of science fiction.
science-fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of science fiction.
opinion poll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opinion polls
Etymology: From opinion + poll.
Senses: synonyms: opinionaire
hypernyms: canvass
poll
survey
glosses: A poll organized in an attempt to quantify public opinion on a subject.
Related terms: referendum
iPhones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iPhone
media players
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of media player
dictat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of diktat.
◌̆
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The breve, used to mark a vowel letter as having its 'short' sound: ⟨ă⟩ /æ/, ⟨ĕ⟩ /ɛ/, ⟨ĭ⟩ /ɪ/, ⟨ŏ⟩ /ɒ/, ⟨ŭ⟩ /ʌ/.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is short. Also used alone to mark a syllable without stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨˘⟩.
obtundation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obtundations
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Decreased level of alertness or consciousness
Related terms: obtundent
paralympic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Paralympic
Etymology: From Paralympic Games.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paralympic; Pertaining to the Paralympics and their participants, staff etc.
glosses: Pertaining to disability sport in general.
Derived terms: para-
Related terms: Olympic
Cainamero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: English adaptation from Spanish Los Gallinomeros, from Gallina (nickname for a chief, chicken, coward).
Senses: examples: text: Since there were hundreds of Cainamero and other southern Pomo residents at Mission San Rafael, Pixpixuecas/Toribio most likely persuaded the Santa Rose Cainamero that he could help them smooth things over with Vásquez del Mercado in order to prevent reprisals against the Cainamero and southern Pomo mission Indians.
ref: 2023, Rose Marie Beebe, Robert M. Senkewicz, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo:
synonyms: Cainameros
glosses: A Southern Pomo people who lived in the region around Santa Rosa, California.
Cainameros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cainamero
Pomo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Used in English since 1877, Pomo derives from the Pomo language words /pʰoːmoː/ and /pʰoʔmaʔ/, meaning "those who live at red earth hole". It was once the name of a village in Southern Potter Valley, possibly referring to the red mineral magnesite used for beads, or to the reddish earth and clay such as hematite mined in the area.
At the same time in the Northern Pomo dialect, -pomo or -poma was used as a suffix after the names of places for subgroups of people of that place.
Senses: synonyms: Cainameros
glosses: An indigenous population native to Northern California.
Pomo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Used in English since 1877, Pomo derives from the Pomo language words /pʰoːmoː/ and /pʰoʔmaʔ/, meaning "those who live at red earth hole". It was once the name of a village in Southern Potter Valley, possibly referring to the red mineral magnesite used for beads, or to the reddish earth and clay such as hematite mined in the area.
At the same time in the Northern Pomo dialect, -pomo or -poma was used as a suffix after the names of places for subgroups of people of that place.
Senses: synonyms: Kulanapan
glosses: The family of languages of this people.
Derived terms: Pomoan
zoonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnəmi
Etymology: From zoo- + -nomy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The physiology of animals
carretas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carreta
pirana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piranas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piranha.
seal ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seal rings
Etymology: From seal + ring.
Senses: glosses: A finger ring with an engraved (often heraldic) seal, fit for sealing documents by pressing it in sealing wax or a similar substance
Synonyms: english: wider
translation: wider
word: signet ring