cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
craftsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more craftsy
form: most craftsy
Etymology: From crafts + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Small custom shop in So NH sks exp F-T cabinetmaker. Work in hard & soft woods, veneers, & formica. Rough carpenters & craftsy romantics need not apply.
ref: 1983 April 9, Elizabeth Regan, “Woodworker (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
text: This look — contemporary spaces peppered with antiques and craftsy pieces, bespoke furnishings that tweak traditional forms with unusual materials — has filtered into the mainstream consciousness, thanks largely to TV makeover programs, magazines and blogs.
ref: 2007 December 27, Julie Scelfo, “Marketing Décor for a Conflicted Era”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suggesting traditional handicraft.
Related terms: artsy-craftsy
semiclad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + clad.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the Midway also allowed American men to play at being masculine barbarians themselves, savoring the visual pleasures of semiclad exotic dancers while simultaneously and inconsistently relishing their sense of superior, civilized, white manliness.
ref: 1996, Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization, page 40:
glosses: Partly clothed.
learnedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: learnednesses
form: learnèdness
Etymology: From learned + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Born in 1717, the son of a cobbler, Carmontelle insinuated himself into French society through his learnedness and charisma, traits that were in high demand in a culture rife with ignored wives and ennui.
ref: 2007 December 27, Kathryn Shattuck, “Long Before Video Cameras, a French Artist Brought Motion to His Images”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being learned.
Derived terms: overlearnedness
miniprinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniprinters
Etymology: From mini- + printer.
Senses: examples: text: Many of Centronics' problems can be traced to its line of miniprinters.
ref: 1981, Datamation, volume 27:
text: For those who are still creating paper trails in the digital age, a new miniprinter might help.
ref: 2007 December 27, Marty Katz, “A Small Label Printer for Stickers on the Spot”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small, compact computer printer.
miniprinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniprinter
nelumbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nelumbos
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Although almost all nelumbos are rated hardy to zone 5, or according to some optimists, zone 4, that rating assumes enough water and soil to protect the tubers from freezing.
ref: 2007 December 27, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Nelumbo of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers resembling water lilies, the lotuses.
nelumbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nelumbo
preattack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-attack
Etymology: From pre- + attack.
Senses: examples: text: White House complaints that homeland defense would be threatened are, in fact, contradicted by the history of 9/11 and the F.B.I. field agent whose preattack warnings to superiors went unheeded.
ref: 2007 December 27, “Protection for Endangered Whistle-Blowers”, in New York Times:
text: In contrast to cyberprotection, cyberresilience anticipates that a cyberattack will succeed. It has in place methods for rapid detection, cushioning the effects and quickly restoring systems to their pre-attack state.
ref: 2022 September 30, Michael Coden, “Letters: Against Cyberattacks”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Before an attack.
ambe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄμβη (ámbē, “raised edge”), Ionic form of ἄμβων (ámbōn, “crest, edge”).
Senses: glosses: An old mechanical contrivance, ascribed to Hippocrates, for reducing dislocations of the shoulder.
scriptwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From script + writing.
Senses: examples: text: Written by Mr. Sippy's favorite scriptwriting team, Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, Sholay was loosely styled on The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven, and has been called India's first curry western.
ref: 2007 December 27, Haresh Pandya, “G. P. Sippy, Indian Filmmaker Whose Sholay Was a Bollywood Hit, Dies at 93”, in New York Times:
text: Weeks of editing were combined with scriptwriting and studious fact-checking.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 51:
glosses: The writing of scripts, usually for film or television.
Related terms: scriptwriter
zoogoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoogoers
Etymology: From zoo + goer.
Senses: examples: text: Still, in the New York area, plenty of zoogoers seemed unperturbed by the dreadful and extremely unusual episode.
ref: 2007 December 27, Ken Belson, “Tiger on the Loose: Can It Happen Here?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A visitor to a zoo.
zoogoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoogoer
ladened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laden
ladened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: laden; loaded
multiride
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + ride.
Senses: examples: text: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will raise fares on its bridges and tunnels in New York City, and while the base fare on city subways and buses will remain $2, MetroCard users will pay more for multiride tickets and see their discounts shrink.
ref: 2007 December 29, Ken Belson, “Port Authority to Vote Friday on Proposal to Increase Tolls and Fares”, in New York Times:
glosses: Valid for, or pertaining to, more than one ride on transportation.
pockmarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Save for a rusty, seatless swing set, the Brinket-Hibbard Playlot resembles many vacant lots pockmarking Detroit's hardscrabble east side.
ref: 2007 December 29, Susan Saulny, “Detroit Considers Sale of City's Small Parks”, in New York Times:
glosses: present participle and gerund of pockmark
playlot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playlots
Etymology: From play + lot.
Senses: glosses: A plot of ground allocated for children's recreation; a playground.
playlots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playlot
CAPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of N-cyclohexyl-3-aminopropanesulfonic acid.
glosses: Acronym of catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome
recessionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recessionlike
form: most recessionlike
Etymology: From recession + -like.
Senses: examples: text: That's because even optimistic growth forecasts — about 1.5 percent for this quarter and next — are too tepid to counter recessionlike conditions in which job growth slows, unemployment rises and paychecks shrink or disappear.
ref: 2007 December 29, “Cash-Strapped Consumers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a financial recession.
showbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showband
archmodernist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archmodernists
Etymology: From arch- + modernist.
Senses: examples: text: Thomas Mann was an archmodernist, and this was his favorite story:
ref: 2007 December 30, Lee Siegel, “The Blush of the New”, in New York Times:
glosses: A leading modernist.
archmodernists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archmodernist
celebrityhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celebritihood
Etymology: From celebrity + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: For the first time ever, foodies achieved the celebrityhood of rock stars and movie stars.
ref: 2007 December 30, Betty Fussel, “Food Edenist”, in New York Times:
glosses: The role or status of a celebrity.
counterculturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterculturalists
Etymology: From countercultural + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Chandralekha, a choreographer from Madras, India, has been described as a counterculturalist who draws on elements of classical Indian dance like Bharata Natyam and on Western modern dance.
ref: 1994 December 9, Jennifer Dunning, “DANCE REVIEW; Merging Body and Spirit To Produce a Single Essence”, in The New York Times:
text: The Hesses were an odd pair of counterculturalists.
ref: 2007 December 30, Betty Fussel, “Food Edenist”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: counterculturist
glosses: One who engages in counterculture.
counterculturalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterculturalist
ironizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ironize
ironizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ironize
ironized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ironize
missilelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more missilelike
form: most missilelike
Etymology: From missile + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Frozen on the distant movie screen is an airplane that points, missilelike, toward the passing train.
ref: 2007 December 30, Ken Johnson, “A Happy Accident, Carefully Planned”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a missile.
outreport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outreports
form: outreporting
form: outreported
form: outreported
Etymology: From out- + report.
Senses: examples: text: For the next three decades, she wrote for wire services from Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines and India, living outside the usual expat neighborhoods, learning the languages, outreporting many of her younger colleagues and using her own modest income to supplement the salaries of in-country wire-service staff.
ref: 2007 December 30, Maggie Jones, “She Was Supposed to Be Dead”, in New York Times:
glosses: To surpass in reporting.
outreporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outreport
outreported
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outreport
segregationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From segregation + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Rollins, for his part, traced Mr. Huckabee's political lineage back to George Wallace in 1968 (without the segregationism). Mr. Wallace and, later, Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot appealed to the same blocs of working-class voters and socially conservative white Southerners that the Republican Party began trying to court in Senator Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign.
ref: 2007 December 30, David D. Kirkpatrick, “Shake, Rattle and Roil the Grand Ol' Coalition”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A belief in (usually racial) segregation.
truckish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more truckish
form: most truckish
Etymology: From truck + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: We may look back on 2007 as the year public opinion shifted toward greener cars and trucks, a result of heightened concern about climate change and oil imports, coupled with high gas prices and a shift away from truckish S.U.V.s. Interestingly, though, this wasn't a year when a lot of notable green cars came to market.
ref: 2007 December 30, James G. Cobb, “Giant Rises, and Shines”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a truck.
forgottens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forgotten
rescrambles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rescramble
rescrambling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rescramble
rescrambled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rescramble
bioprospector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioprospectors
Etymology: From bio- + prospector.
Senses: examples: text: So-called bioprospectors can make their fortunes by bringing those advantages to the attention of companies who identify the plant’s active compound and use it as a base ingredient for new products that they patent.
ref: 2008 January 1, Andrew Downie, “On a Remote Path to Cures”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who engages in bioprospecting.
bioprospectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioprospector
counterthought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterthoughts
Etymology: From counter- + thought.
Senses: examples: text: His thoughts and their counterthoughts are bent and curled, snail-like, inside the whorls of fiction.
ref: 2008 January 1, Richard Eder, “A Writer, a Muse, Their Laundry”, in New York Times:
glosses: A thought that counters or opposes another thought.
counterthoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterthought
counterphilosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterphilosophies
Etymology: From counter- + philosophy.
Senses: examples: text: Espinas, in his rebellion against one philosophy, constructed a counterphilosophy as much as a social science. In doing so, he remained involved with academic philosophy more than he would ever admit.
ref: 1998, John I. Brooks, The eclectic legacy, page 99:
glosses: A philosophy that counters or opposes another philosophy.
counterphilosophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterphilosophy
myopericarditis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myo- + pericarditis.
Senses: examples: text: Though surprised, I quickly explained that the problem was probably myopericarditis, where inflammation of the surrounding membrane can partially involve the heart muscle.
ref: 2008 January 1, Sandeep Jauhar, M.D., “Explain a Medical Error? Sure. Apologize Too?”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A combination of myocarditis and pericarditis.
noncaptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-captive
Etymology: From non- + captive.
Senses: examples: text: Jaguars may not yet be in such desperate shape as Asian tigers, whose noncaptive breeding population has plummeted below 2,500, or African lions, of which there are perhaps only 20,000 to 30,000 left in the wild.
ref: 2008 January 1, J. Madeleine Nash, “Can They Stay Out of Harm’s Way?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not captive.
honey badger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey badgers
form: honeybadger
Etymology: From their badger-like appearance and their liking for honey.
The slang sense was inspired by the 2011 viral video The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger, for which original narration (including variations of "honey badger don't care") was dubbed over preexisting footage of a honey badger fending off various dangerous situations.
Senses: examples: text: Not only is the honey badger fond of hunting and eating venomous snakes and stealing honey from angry bees, it is also disregarding of animals many times its own size. Lions and leopards have been known to kill and eat honey badgers, but on the whole, they will give them a wide berth.
ref: 2007, Ross Piper, Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals, page 48:
text: There are in fact records of Honey badgers being stung to death in their quest for this much-relished source of food. Reptiles are also a major food source. Venomous snakes are neither ignored nor respected by the honey badger.
ref: 2008, Lee Gutteridge, The South African Bushveld: A Field Guide from the Waterberg, page 97:
text: Co-operative relationships between mammals and birds are unusual, but the honey badger enjoys two. Its association with the greater honeyguide is well known. This small bird uses a distinctive song to lure the honey badger to a bee′s nest, whereupon it feasts on the grubs after the badger has ransacked the nest and had its fill of honey.
Less well known is the honey badger′s association with the pale chanting goshawk.
ref: 2010, Chris McIntyre, Botswana: Okavango Delta, Chobe, Northern Kalahari, page 201:
glosses: Mellivora capensis, a badger-like mustelid native to Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.
examples: text: For years, Bitcoin has been called "the honey badger of money," and "antifragile." The "Bitcoin don't care" meme is perhaps most applicable of all right now. Bitcoin simply doesn't care what China does, or what bank CEOs say, or what central bankers think. The only thing Bitcoin cares about, apparently, is increasing in price and adoption.
ref: 2017 October 20, David Dinkins, “Bitcoin Breaks $6,000 Barrier, Market Cap Now Exceeds $100 Billion”, in Cointelegraph:
text: The documentarian told the New York Times' Frank Bruni last month he made the movie because he "wanted to contribute something to the political debate ongoing." He said Bannon was willing to cooperate because he is a honey badger, and "honey badgers don't care," referring to the viral meme.
ref: 2018 September 5, Sonia Rao, “Here's what early critics think of Errol Morris's Steve Bannon movie, 'American Dharma'”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A person who displays indifference or disregard for others' opinions.
Synonyms: beejoo
biju
honey weasel
Indian badger
ratel
presexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + sexual + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Stan Laurel, who as a young comic was much influenced by Langdon (and later collaborated with him as a writer), was able to instill an endearing sense of presexuality in the character he created in his teamwork with Oliver Hardy.
ref: 2008 January 1, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being presexual.
untrammel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untrammels
form: untrammeling
form: untrammelling
form: untrammeled
form: untrammeled
form: untrammelled
form: untrammelled
Etymology: From un- + trammel.
Senses: glosses: To free or release from obstacles or hindrances.
untrammels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untrammel
untrammelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untrammel
untrammeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untrammel
wettable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wettable
form: most wettable
Etymology: From wet + -able.
Senses: examples: text: But in other species, including Nepenthes rafflesiana, the one studied by Dr. Federle in northern Borneo, the outer part of the lip is covered in tiny ridges that make it extremely wettable.
ref: 2008 January 1, Henry Fountain, “A Slippery Slope Is the Secret Weapon of Some Pitcher Plants”, in New York Times:
glosses: Capable of being wetted.
guitaristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guitaristic
form: most guitaristic
Etymology: From guitar + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Rossini’s themes remain resolutely Italianate, for the most part, but every now and then a decidedly guitaristic effect offered a reminder that the work takes place in Seville.
ref: 2008 January 2, Allan Kozinn, “Guitar x Four = Flexible Sound to Fill a Hall”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the guitar or the way it is played.
payloader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: payloaders
Senses: examples: text: He was behind the wheel of a 9-ton payloader ferrying job debris.
ref: 2008 January 2, Glenn Collins, “In Winds of Winter, Midair Park Takes Shape”, in New York Times:
glosses: A front-end loader.
payloaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of payloader
queenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more queenish
form: most queenish
Etymology: From queen + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: “These clothes give a queenish posture because they are long, have a lot of textile and are traditional,” she said at her home in northern Tehran.
ref: 2008 January 2, Nazila Fathi, “Designer’s Rainbow Brightens Iranian Women’s Look”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a queen; regal.
glosses: Like a drag queen.
Related terms: drag-queenish
drama queenish
heliconia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛlɪˈkəʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /ˌhɛlɪˈkoʊ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Forms: form: heliconias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Heliconia.
Senses: examples: text: Royal palms flank a long rectangular pool, a great fallen tree forms a bridge across the water, and heliconias bloom among the elephant ears and banana shrubs.
ref: 2008 January 3, Anne Raver, “No Need to Fly South to See Blossoms in Winter”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Heliconia of flowering plants.
heliconias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliconia
hypersaturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypersaturated
form: most hypersaturated
Etymology: From hyper- + saturated.
Senses: examples: text: The hypersaturated media and political attention we take for granted today depends on a system of communication that is fast, reliable and far-reaching.
ref: 2008 January 3, Mildred Armstrong Kalish, “Iowa Then...”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely saturated.
lachenalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lachenalias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: “I have 60 different lachenalias, 10 different freesias, 25 moraeas,” Mr. Canning said, naming a few of his beauties, which, mixed in with big pots of camellias, will bloom from now through March.
ref: 2008 January 3, Anne Raver, “No Need to Fly South to See Blossoms in Winter”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Lachenalia of bulbs.
lachenalias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lachenalia
lithops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithops
Etymology: From the genus name, translingual Lithops.
Senses: examples: text: Lithops are self-sterile, so that seed will only be produced if the plant is pollinated from another specimen from a different clone or group. Yellow flowers will not fertilize white and vice-versa. There is not the same range of flower colour as shown by the conophytums; lithops’ flowers are either white or yellow.
ref: 1978, Margaret J. Martin, Peter Richard Chapman, Succulents and Their Cultivation, Schribner, page 86:
text: And the succulents house, which is kept a cool 60 degrees during the day and 50 to 55 degrees at night, holds aloes and lithops (which look like small stones), just beginning to bloom.
ref: 2008 January 3, Anne Raver, “No Need to Fly South to See Blossoms in Winter”, in New York Times:
text: Lithops (‘Lithops’ singular) are easily one of Earth's weirdest plants making them highly popular with succulent lovers. They're also infamous for being easy to kill. In fact, I bet we'd be hard pressed to find someone who has never killed a Lithops unless they've just never had one, and that doesn't count.
ref: 2018, Andrea Afra, The Succulent Manual, unnumbered page:
glosses: Any of the genus Lithops of succulent plants resembling stones.
corkwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corkwood
midranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midrange
overrested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overrested
form: most overrested
Etymology: From over- + rested.
Senses: examples: text: “I feel overrested, in a sense,” Garcia said Wednesday during a conference call.
ref: 2008 January 3, John Branch, “Well-Rested Buccaneers to Face Surging Giants”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having had too much rest and too little activity.
picaresques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picaresque
villalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more villalike
form: most villalike
Etymology: From villa + -like.
Senses: examples: text: An eclectic art collector, traveler and gardener, she had started the tradition of planting cascading nasturtiums over the central court shortly after building the villalike museum, which opened to the public in 1903.
ref: 2008 January 3, Anne Raver, “No Need to Fly South to See Blossoms in Winter”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a villa.
deterritorializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deterritorialization
X-Verse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the X-Verse
form: X-verse
Etymology: From X + -verse.
Senses: examples: ref: 2009, Rebecca Housel, Jeremy Wisnewski, editors, X-Men and Philosophy: Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse, John Wiley & Sons.:
text: First and most common is the charge that numerous characters in Heroes have powers of preexisting comic book characters, especially from the X-Men.[…]Even Isaac Mendez's power to paint the future predates him in a character from the X-verse—Nemesio from District X.
ref: 2009, David Kyle Johnson, Heroes and Philosophy: Buy the Book, Save the World, page 50:
text: And if Parfit is right, it should make you think twice about how quickly you judge all of the characters in the X-Verse (and the real world).[…] In the X-Verse we should be less dubious of Emma Frost working with the X-Men; […].
ref: 2010, William Irwin, David Kyle Johnson, Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture: From Socrates to South Park, page 88:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fictional world, or universe, which serves as the setting for the Marvel Comics and film series featuring the characters the X-Men.
centerstage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From center + stage.
Senses: examples: text: For this scene, four horses pulling two full-size chariots were led onto a massive treadmill at centerstage.
ref: 2008 January 4, Roger Mummert, “Stage Doors and Rail Stops”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of center stage.
deckhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deckhouses
Etymology: From deck + house.
Senses: examples: text: Flinging himself on hands and knees he dragged the girl down with him. As he did so two of her companions came sliding down to their assistance, and the four glissaded back to the deckhouse as the following roll began.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 5, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: Then, through his web of contacts, he was told that the Nightingale’s original deckhouse was being used as a cottage on a private island outside of Kragero, Norway, a shipbuilding port.
ref: 2008 January 4, Wendy Moonan, “The Auction Block Is the Next Stop for a Well-Traveled Lady”, in New York Times:
glosses: A cabin that protrudes above a ship's deck.
Related terms: wheelhouse
which may and may not be the same
living cabin
which may be the same on some vessels
deckhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deckhouse
goatherder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goatherders
Etymology: From goat + herder.
Senses: examples: text: Senator Obama’s father, a goatherder turned economist, grew up in Nyangoma-Kogelo and was buried there in 1982 after a fatal car crash.
ref: 2008 January 4, Reuben Kyama, “For Some Kenyan Villagers, the Action Is in Des Moines”, in New York Times:
glosses: A herder of goats.
Synonyms: goatherd
goatkeeper
goatherders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goatherder
hypermuscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌskjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more hypermuscular
form: most hypermuscular
Etymology: From hyper- + muscular.
Senses: examples: text: Its fusion of mundane domestic tragedy, dark-night-of-the-soul emoting and hypermuscular camerawork suggests Robert Altman’s “Short Cuts” on jet-propelled roller skates.
ref: 2008 January 4, Matt Zoller Seitz, “One Filmmaker’s Vivid Tales of Fathers and Other Strangers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely muscular.
integrationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of integrationist
X-verse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the X-verse
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of X-Verse.
nonadvocacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + advocacy.
Senses: examples: text: Currently, 29 states allow some option of mail-in absentee voting that does not require the voter to explain the request for a mail ballot, according to Electionline.org, a nonpartisan, nonadvocacy Web site.
ref: 2008 January 4, Kirk Johnson, “With Few Options, Colorado Considers All-Mail Vote”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Lack of advocacy.
superenergized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superenergized
form: most superenergized
Etymology: From super- + energized.
Senses: examples: text: MSNBC offers viewers the luxury of letting its experts do the work. Mr. Matthews sat in dark suit and white shirt in a New York studio, against a presidential-like backdrop of waving American flags, and sounded off like a superenergized ESPN commentator revving up for a bowl game kickoff.
ref: 2008 January 4, Alessandra Stanley, “For Happy Warrior of Political Coverage, Another Joyous Night”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly energized.
writerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From writer + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. O’Brien, who also sported a beard, didn’t try to go on as usual, but gave a sober speech in defense of the writers, then turned his show into a long comic riff on his writerless state, spinning his wedding ring for laughs and giving a show-and-tell tour of his office at NBC.
ref: 2008 January 4, Alessandra Stanley, “Letterman Kvetches, Leno Gets By”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a writer.
nondisparagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + disparagement.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Negroponte said eliminating the comparisons was required as part of a nondisparagement clause in the partnership agreement the two companies had signed.
ref: 2008 January 5, John Markoff, “Intel Quits Effort to Get Computers to Children”, in New York Times:
topics: law
coordinate_terms: nondisclosure
glosses: Not disparaging (a competitor, former employer, etc. as part of an agreement).
barside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːsaɪd/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹ.saɪd/
Etymology: From bar + -side.
Senses: examples: text: It was the Just for Men advertisement with Keith Hernandez and Walt Frazier as barside analysts of Miss Hottie’s brush-off of poor Mr. Graybeard.
ref: 2008 January 6, Richard Sandomir, “Just for Men Just Right for Former Stars”, in New York Times:
glosses: Beside a bar (counter or building that serves alcoholic drinks).
chatless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chat + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, the iPhone itself doesn't have any chat programs, like AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Yahoo Messenger, or MSN Messenger. But that doesn't mean you have to remain chatless.
ref: 2007, David Pogue, iPhone: the missing manual:
text: At a hangar in Nashua, with chatty Bill and chatless Chelsea, Hillary tried to purloin more of the Obama message.
ref: 2008 January 6, Maureen Dowd, “Voting for a Smile”, in New York Times:
glosses: Devoid of chat.
feel someone's collar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feels someone's collar
form: feeling someone's collar
form: felt someone's collar
form: felt someone's collar
Etymology: From the image of an arresting police officer holding a suspect by the collar.
Senses: examples: text: If you carry on like that, the law will soon be feeling your collar.
glosses: To arrest someone.
girlfriendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more girlfriendly
form: most girlfriendly
Etymology: From girlfriend + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I'd guessed right about my sister, for, glowing with girlfriendly pride, she began to tell Julie about Jack...
ref: 2004, Melanie Jackson, The Mask on the Cruise Ship, page 22:
text: It’s called ... or rather, it’s about ... see, it describes ... well, let’s just say it’s about a girlfriend who suspects her boyfriend of infidelity, and who proposes to conduct an investigation before committing herself to any girlfriendly activity.
ref: 2008 January 6, Kelefa Sanneh, “The Anticipated, the Indie and the Overlooked”, in New York Times:
glosses: In the manner of a girlfriend.
outperformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outperformers
Etymology: From outperform + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “They tend to be the outperformers when times are really good and underperformers when things turn south,” he said.
ref: 2008 January 6, Vivian Marino, “A Defensive Strategy for REIT Investors”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who outperforms.
outperformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outperformer
plasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From plasma + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to plasma.
Derived terms: exoplasmic
extraplasmic
hydroplasmic
periplasmic
synaptoplasmic
powderhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powderhounds
Etymology: From powder + hound.
Senses: examples: text: But it's the rare chance for above-tree line skiing that draws backcountry powderhounds to the gulf again and again.
ref: 1992, “Gulf of New Hampshire”, in Backpacker, volume 20, number 119, page 84:
text: Miramartian Geiger, the powderhound, has never been married.
ref: 2008 January 6, Allen Salkin, “Oh, My Poor Arthritic Ski Club”, in New York Times:
glosses: A skiing enthusiast.
powderhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powderhound
pretechnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + technological.
Senses: examples: text: He frequently set his stories in a pretechnological past and was easily enthralled by the authority of ancient texts.
ref: 2008 January 6, Noam Cohen, “Borges and the Foreseeable Future”, in New York Times:
glosses: Prior to the advent of modern technology.
shebeens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shebeen
shebeens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shebeen
trinkety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trinkety
form: most trinkety
Etymology: From trinket + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Goodbye to Word’s prim rulers, its officious yardsticks, its self-serious formatting toolbar with cryptic abbreviations (ComicSansMS?) and trinkety icons.
ref: 2008 January 6, Virginia Heffernan, “An Interface of One’s Own”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a trinket; gaudy and worthless.
twerpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)pi
Forms: form: more twerpy
form: most twerpy
Etymology: From twerp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: My twerpy little brother is throwing books down the stairs.
text: Twenty five seconds on the twerp's clock, twenty five seconds on the twerpy, twerpy clock.
ref: 2021 February 4, 15:10 from the start, in No More Jockeys, season 3, episode 13, spoken by Alex Horne:
glosses: Like a twerp; puny and obnoxious.
ultracontemporary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultracontemporary
form: most ultracontemporary
Etymology: From ultra- + contemporary.
Senses: examples: text: The 2,000 examples range from the historic to the ultracontemporary, from stately to quirky, ornate to austere.
ref: 2008 January 6, Robin Pogrebin, “Classic Revival”, in New York Times:
glosses: Thoroughly modern and up to date.
boozefest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boozefests
Etymology: From booze + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: David Morse, the only American in the otherwise all-Irish cast of “The Seafarer,” Conor McPherson’s dark and glinting boozefest of a play now on Broadway after an acclaimed run in London, had a choice of roles.
ref: 2008 January 7, Charles Mcgrath, “Discovering Irishness, Recovering Niceness”, in New York Times:
glosses: An event where a great deal of alcohol is consumed.
boozefests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boozefest
overfinance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfinances
form: overfinancing
form: overfinanced
form: overfinanced
Etymology: From over- + finance.
Senses: examples: text: Daniel Halperin implies that we are overfinancing AIDS and underfinancing other key health and development priorities.
ref: 2008 January 7, “When Illnesses Vie for Our Dollars”, in New York Times:
glosses: To finance too much.
overfinances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overfinance
overfinancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfinance
overfinanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overfinance
entrencher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entrenchers
Etymology: From entrench + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I’m a professional entrencher of management.
ref: 2008 January 8, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Questioning an Adviser’s Advice”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, entrenches.
entrenchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entrencher
fexinidazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phe(no)xy + -nidazole (“metronidazole derivative”).
Senses: examples: text: By 2014, he hopes to have evidence that another drug, fexinidazole, is better.
ref: 2008 January 8, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “Jump-Start on Slow Trek to Treatment for a Disease”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug being investigated for the treatment of sleeping sickness.
greaseboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greaseboards
Etymology: From grease + board.
Senses: examples: text: Its outdated technology is obvious in the emergency room, where patients are tracked not by computer but by hand on a greaseboard and on forms passed from tray to tray.
ref: 2008 January 8, Shaila Dewan, “A Safety-Net Hospital Falls Into Financial Crisis”, in New York Times:
glosses: A whiteboard.
greaseboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greaseboard
melarsoprol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛˈlaː.sə(ʊ).pɹɒl/
ipa: /məˈlɑɹ.səˌpɹɔl/
Etymology: From mel(amine) + ars(enic) + -o- + pro(pylene) + -ol.
Senses: examples: text: They still use the drug melarsoprol, which, Dr. Pécoul said, “is not effective and sometimes kills.”
ref: 2008 January 8, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “Jump-Start on Slow Trek to Treatment for a Disease”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An organic arsenic compound, C₁₂H₁₅AsN₆OS₂, administered intravenously to treat late-stage African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness).
noncalcifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + calcifying.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, the tanks had more filamentous and other noncalcifying algae.
ref: 2008 January 8, Henry Fountain, “More Acidic Ocean Hurts Reef Algae as Well as Corals”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not calcifying.
patentholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patentholders
Etymology: From patent + holder.
Senses: examples: text: The advantage of adopting an abandoned drug is that the former patentholder has usually done the chemical analyses, animal studies and, sometimes, early human trials, saving millions of dollars.
ref: 2008 January 8, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “Jump-Start on Slow Trek to Treatment for a Disease”, in New York Times:
glosses: The holder of a patent.
patentholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patentholder
pretassel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + tassel.
Senses: examples: text: The fall armyworm, scourge of young pretassel corn, grows up to be a nondescript brown moth about the length of a long finger’s knuckle.
ref: 2008 January 8, Guy Gugliotta, “To Raise Armyworms and Corn Borers, Study Insect Husbandry”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before the appearance of the tassels (pollen-producing flowers) on corn.
detassels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detassel
detasseling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detassel
detasseled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detassel
detasselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detassel
detasselled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detassel
uneconomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uneconomically
form: most uneconomically
Etymology: From uneconomical + -ly or un- + economically.
Senses: examples: text: So he went, uneconomically but expectantly, to the emergency room.
ref: 2008 January 8, Elissa Ely, M.D., “Homeless, With a New Loss: Identity”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2015:
glosses: In a manner that is not economical.
eclipsable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eclipse + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being eclipsed.
Derived terms: uneclipsable
uneclipsable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + eclipsable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being eclipsed.
Bisiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dialect of Venetan spoken in parts of Slovenia and Friuli
asnarl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsnɑː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Etymology: From a- + snarl.
Senses: examples: text: The furious dog leapt at them with jaws asnarl.
glosses: snarling
doublecheck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doublechecks
form: doublechecking
form: doublechecked
form: doublechecked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double check.
doublechecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doublecheck
doublechecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doublecheck
doublechecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doublecheck
kitschiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kitschy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: These also included not canceling the Christmas display, whose kitschiness drove him bonkers but which endured because people love it and because he is a populist and showman, despite his elitist veneer, and because he has a heart.
ref: 2008 January 9, Michael Kimmelman, “The Legacy of a Pragmatic Custodian of Human Civilization”, in New York Times:
synonyms: kitschness
glosses: The quality of being kitschy.
nonchef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonchefs
Etymology: From non- + chef.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Vrinat, a nonchef who was known for his wine expertise, devoted almost all his life to Taillevent, which had been founded by his father, André, in 1946, just as Paris began its long recovery from the privations of the German occupation in World War II. The elder Vrinat opened his restaurant in the modest Hotel Worms, on the Rue St.-Georges, in the commercial Ninth Arrondissement.
ref: 2008 January 9, Frank J. Prial, “Jean-Claude Vrinat, Owner of Famed Paris Restaurant, Is Dead at 71”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a chef.
nonchefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonchef
oversecretion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oversecretions
Etymology: From over- + secretion.
Senses: examples: text: Gigantism or acromegaly — in which a tumor on the pituitary gland causes an oversecretion of growth hormone — may be the cause of his condition.
ref: 2008 January 9, Anna Katherine Clemmons, “7 Feet 7 and 360 Pounds, With Bigger Feet Than Shaq’s”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessive secretion.
Related terms: oversecrete
oversecretions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oversecretion
preregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + regulation.
Senses: examples: text: There were those who said the city was seeking to prevent demonstrations against the Iraq war and those of a more nostalgic bent who simply remembered a time preregulation when the Great Lawn played host to Simon and Garfunkel concerts and large-scale papal Masses.
ref: 2008 January 9, Alan Feuer, “Antiwar Groups Claim Victory in Settlement Over Great Lawn”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before the introduction of a regulation.
unabating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + abating.
Senses: examples: text: "The unabating sushi boom has driven up nori consumption in the United States," said Ken Imamura, vice president of the importer Yamamotoyama of America.
ref: 2008 January 9, J. J. Goode, “Nori Steps Away From the Sushi”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not abating; ongoing, continuing.
glandules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glandule
bankerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bankerly
form: most bankerly
Etymology: From banker + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There are suit vests, in bankerly worsteds and pinstripes, and “odd vests,” in solid colors, checks and suede.
ref: 2008 January 10, David Colman, “Ditching the Suit, the Vest Struts Its Stuff”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characteristic of a banker.
continuers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continuer
continuest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: continue + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of continue
discombobulatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discombobulatingly
form: most discombobulatingly
Etymology: From discombobulating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The visitor fresh off a discombobulatingly long flight and a two-hour, traffic-choked journey from Narita Airport is ushered into a quiet, softly lighted cocoon where every contingency seems to have been anticipated.
ref: 2008 January 10, Tom Vanderbilt, “You Can Go Home Again, but Why?”, in New York Times:
glosses: So as to discombobulate; perplexingly.
nonfiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfilers
Etymology: From non- + filer.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Olson added that despite promises and the creation of a high-level committee, the I.R.S. had failed to enact policies that would bring more nonfilers into the system.
ref: 2008 January 10, David Cay Johnston, “Taxpayer Advocate Urges ‘Apology Payments’”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who neglects to file a tax return.
nonfilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonfiler
postboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postboys
Etymology: From post + boy.
Senses: examples: text: It is fitting that the vest should convey athleticism, since it was born as a warm but not constraining garment for postboys on horseback in 19th-century England (hence the high armhole and traditional wool front).
ref: 2008 January 10, David Colman, “Ditching the Suit, the Vest Struts Its Stuff”, in New York Times:
glosses: A male postilion.
glosses: A boy who carries letters from the post.
postboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postboy
skewerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skewering
slotlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slotlike
form: most slotlike
Etymology: From slot + -like.
Senses: examples: a slotlike opening
glosses: Resembling a slot.
book lungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book lung