cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
LLM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LLMs
Senses: topics: education
law
glosses: Alternative form of LL.M. (“Master of Laws”).
examples: text: Some skeptics argue that the software is capable only of blind mimicry — that it’s imitating the syntactic patterns of human language but is incapable of generating its own ideas or making complex decisions, a fundamental limitation that will keep the L.L.M. approach from ever maturing into anything resembling human intelligence.
ref: 2022 April 15, Steven Johnson, Nikita Iziev, “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Currently, large language models (LLM) are the base model for creating more specific natural language producers, like chatbots or personal assistants. BERT, GPT-3, and other LLM can be used to program all kinds of “semantic machines”, to create machines for almost any kind of linguistic purpose.
ref: 2022, Hendrik Kempt, Synthetic Friends: A Philosophy of Human-Machine Friendship, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 22:
text: We design WikiChat (Figure 1) to ground LLMs using Wikipedia to achieve the following objectives. While LLMs tend to hallucinate, our chatbot should be factual.
ref: 2023, Sina J. Semnani, Violet Z. Yao, Heidi C. Zhang, Monica S. Lam, “WikiChat: A Few-Shot LLM-Based Chatbot Grounded with Wikipedia”, in arXiv:
text: Modern LLMs are fine-tuned for safety and instruction-following, meaning they are trained to refuse harmful requests. […] In this example, we'll use mlabonne/Daredevil-8B, a mega-merge created with DARE TIES (see my article about model merging) that has the highest MMLU score on the Open LLM Leaderboard in the 8B category.
ref: 2024 June 13, Maxime Labonne, “Uncensor any LLM with abliteration”, in Hugging Face Blog, retrieved 29 May 2025:
text: “In addition to the post’s content, LLMs were provided with personal attributes of the OP (gender, age, ethnicity, location, and political orientation), as inferred from their posting history using another LLM,” they write.
ref: 2025 April 28, Karissa Bell, “Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments”, in Engadget:
hypernyms: LM
language model
<
model#Noun
coordinate_terms: SLM
small language model
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: Initialism of large language model.
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: Initialism of logic learning machine.
glosses: Initialism of local linear model.
lakins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lakin
leaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leach
leaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: leachings
Senses: examples: text: The leachings were performed in a controlled atmosphere chamber in four different steps […]
ref: 2012, Brian Morse, Cold Regions Engineering 2012:
glosses: The process by which something is leached.
examples: One set of plants was watered with distilled water, while to the other set was added in addition small amounts of leachings, containing only a trace of nitrogen, from a cultivated field.
glosses: Liquid that leaches.
Derived terms: bioleaching
leaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leach
leaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leach
leached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: [T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.
ref: 2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new techniques [print version: Gardening is always ready to teach even the hardiest of us a few new tricks, 19 April 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), page G7:
glosses: simple past and past participle of leach
doyenne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: doyennes
Etymology: Borrowed from French doyenne.
Senses: glosses: A female doyen.
examples: text: Helen Thomas is frequently referred to as "the doyenne of the White House press corps".
text: The French, who celebrated her as the doyenne of humanity, had their own theories about why she lived so long, noting that she used to eat more than two pounds of chocolate a week and treat her skin with olive oil, rode a bicycle until she was 100, and only quit smoking five years ago.
ref: 1997 August 5, Craig R. Whitney, “Jeanne Calment, World's Elder, Dies at 122”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: There were encouraged and facilitated by Anna Wintour, doyenne of the fashion industry, who decided with [Hillary] Clinton that the couple should have a bigger wedding while attending their engagement bash.
ref: 2025 June 21, Jo Ellison, “The Bezos merger we all want a piece of”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 22:
glosses: The senior or eldest female member of a group, especially one who is most or highly respected.
glosses: A woman who is highly experienced and knowledgeable in a particular field, subject, or line of work; expert.
Synonyms: grande dame
looking glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: looking glasses
Senses: examples: text: Many sorts of glass were in the market, called Lambeth or Ratcliffe, Normandy, German, white and green, Dutch, Newcastle, Staffordshire, and Bristol glass, looking glass and jealous glass. […] Looking glass plates were sometimes used in windows.
ref: 1845, Walter Bernan [pseudonym; Robert Meikleham], “Essay VIII”, in On the History and Art of Warming and Ventilation Rooms and Buildings […], volume I, London: George Bell, […], →OCLC, footnote †, page 225:
text: 17th Drew in the dead body in the corrected sketch in Pen & Ink. It is rather dreary. Worked at sundries from Self in the looking glass (8 hours). / 18th worked all day from self in looking glass in shirts & draws. […]
ref: 1856 March 17–18, Ford Madox Brown, “1856 [chapter title]”, in Virginia Surtees, editor, The Diary of Ford Madox Brown (Studies in British Art), New Haven, Conn.; London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, published 1981, →ISBN, page 167:
text: It has been quite a week in politics. […] I know that some Republicans feel as if they've fallen through the looking glass.
ref: 2016 July 29, Paul Krugman, “Who loves America?”, in The New York Times:
text: It feels like I've stepped through the looking glass and am wandering in a topsy-turvy world where the fixpoints we have lived with for decades have gone. Not just moved... gone.
ref: 2020 June 3, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: The recovery starts here”, in Rail, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of looking-glass.
looking-glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of looking-glass
MOAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of mine and obstacle avoidance sonar.
glosses: Initialism of mother of all surgeries: a drastic cancer treatment involving intensive surgery with chemotherapy.
ellagic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyphenol antioxidant found in many fruits and vegetables including raspberries, strawberries, cranberries, walnuts, pecans, pomegranates and other plant foods.
Related terms: ellagitannin
boysenberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boysenberry
treacheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treachery
superbo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superbo
form: most superbo
Etymology: From superb + -o.
Senses: glosses: superb, excellent
chatti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chattis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chattee (“Indian clay pot”).
big fat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪɡ.fæt/
Forms: form: big-fat
form: big phat
Senses: examples: text: He's a big fat idiot.
glosses: Complete, utter, total.
examples: text: I know a society who will pay you a big fat sum if you'll sign over them eyes for post-mortem laboratory work.
ref: 1918, Fannie Hurst, "A Petal on the Current" (collected in Humoresque, 1919), in Cosmopolitan, vol. 65, p. 42
text: [Porkypine:] Why, it's a big fat honor... They'll speech at you an' feed you chicken foot stew an'...
[Pogo:] But I don't like to listen to them speeches an' I don't care for chicken foots.
[Porkypine:] If yo' public is gone give you honor, son, they isn't gone let yo' personal taste stand in the way.
ref: 1952, Walt Kelly, Pogo, 25 August 1952 strip
text: As Jürgen Klopp took Sadio Mané in his arms and spun him like a beloved ballroom partner, there was a moment of sing-song communion with the Kop. They love these big fat emotional notes here.
ref: 2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, The Guardian:
glosses: Huge, colossal.
Synonyms: sense: huge
word: jumbo
sense: huge
word: king-sized
sense: huge
word: mammoth
nameling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namelings
Etymology: From name + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Eveline Hill, the protagonist of the Dubliners story "Eveline," for example, successfully extricates herself from the confines of her "Eve" name since, like her nameling in the Garden of Eden who was tempted by promises of knowledge, Eveline, too, is tempted: […]
ref: 1994, Claire A. Culleton, Names and Naming in Joyce:
text: […] namelings, people having the same name when […]
ref: 2014, Barbara Ann Kipfer, 14,000 Things to Be Happy About:
glosses: Any of a group of people sharing the same name
sigma bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigma bonds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A covalent atomic bond that is rotationally symmetric about its axis.
Related terms: pi bond
centzontle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centzontles
form: centzontlé
form: cenzontli
form: sensonte
form: sinsonte
form: sinsontle
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cenzontle, from Classical Nahuatl centzontleh, shortened form of centzontlahtōleh (“mockingbird”, literally “possessor of four hundred words”), from centzontli (“four hundred, a count of four hundred”) + tlahtōlli (“language, word, statement”) + -eh (“possessor of”).
Senses: examples: text: He had bought young centzontles and it was Roberto's and Manuel's job to whistle at them until they learned to sing. But the birds picked at the cane and made an opening through which a dozen and a half escaped.
ref: 1961, Oscar Lewis, The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family:
glosses: A mockingbird.
centzontlé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Both wept aloud, their voices being audible to the centzontlé, on a neighbouring tree—that catching up the mournful tones repeated them to the ear of night.
ref: 1861: Luis de Bellemare (French), Mayne Reid (trans.), A Hero in Spite of Himself, vol. 3, p. 204
glosses: Alternative spelling of centzontle.
cenzontli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cenzontlis
Senses: examples: text: likening thee to some huge condor of the Cotopal peak making love to the singing cenzontli.
ref: 1845, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Montezuma, the Serf, or the Revolt of the Mexitli, volume 2, page 18:
text: Or shall the soft cenzontli hush its song
ref: 1855, Alice Cary, Poems, page 373:
glosses: Alternative spelling of centzontle.
Dakotan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Dakota + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, North Dakota or South Dakota or their culture
Dakotan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dakotans
Etymology: From Dakota + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of the state of North Dakota or South Dakota.
Related terms: North Dakotan
South Dakotan
Dakotan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dakota + -an.
Senses: glosses: The language of the native Dakota people.
Iowan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Iowan
form: most Iowan
Etymology: From Iowa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Iowa.
Iowan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iowans
Etymology: From Iowa + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the state of Iowa in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
Kansan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kansas + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Kansas or its culture.
Kansan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kansans
Etymology: From Kansas + -an.
Senses: examples: text: A couple of decades ago, Thomas Frank published “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” based on befuddlement that Kansans were apparently voting against their economic self-interest. Doesn’t economics drive voting behavior?
ref: 2025 September 5, Dave Brooks, “Why I Am Not a Liberal”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A native or resident of the state of Kansas in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
Nebraskan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Nebraska + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Nebraska or its culture
Nebraskan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nebraskans
Etymology: From Nebraska + -an.
Senses: synonyms: cornhusker
hypernyms: American
U.S. American
<
North American
<
person
glosses: A native or resident of the state of Nebraska in the United States of America.
Ottowan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ottowans
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Ottawan.
Ottowans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ottowan
Tennesseean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Tennessean
Etymology: From Tennessee + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Tennessee or its culture.
Tennesseean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tennesseeans
form: Tennessean
Etymology: From Tennessee + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of the state of Tennessee.
Hypernyms: American
Missourian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mɪˈzʊɹi.ən/
Forms: form: more Missourian
form: most Missourian
form: Missouran
Etymology: From Missouri + -an.
Senses: glosses: From, of or pertaining to Missouri.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Of or relating to the Missouri Synod, a Lutheran denomination.
Missourian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪˈzʊɹi.ən/
Forms: form: Missourians
form: Missouran
Etymology: From Missouri + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the state of Missouri in the United States of America.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A supporter of the Missouri Synod.
Hypernyms: American
Washingtonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɒʃɪŋˈtəʊnɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌwɑʃɪŋˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Washington + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: His concern for the cause of environmental protection was very Washingtonian of him.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the U.S. state of Washington or its culture.
examples: text: Good jazz music has long been held up as a hallmark of authentic Washingtonian culture.
text: I thought of the old joke: What do you call two black men trying to get a cab in Washington, D.C.? Pedestrians. I raised my arm again and this time a car stopped [...] They looked back at me after I gave them my address, one saying, ‘Are you Ethiopian?’ and the other, ‘You look Ethiopian.’ I said, ‘No, I’m just Washingtonian.’
ref: 2001, Percival Everett, Erasure, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 159:
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Washington, D.C., or its culture.
examples: text: By appearing in uniform, Jackson was able to convey his strong character through these images. Jackson had seized on one element of the Washingtonian myth and clung to it.
ref: 2005, John W. Matviko, The American President in Popular Culture, page 4:
text: Demonstrating that maritime defense, the protection of trade, and the providing of a national revenue were fundamental objectives of the Union, and directing attention to the departures which the Democrats had made from the sound Washingtonian policies in these matters, the orator went on to insist that this there must be a war, the depleted navy should be at once reconstituted...
ref: 1914, Frederic Austin Ogg, Daniel Webster, page 78:
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the life, values, or presidential administration of George Washington.
Washingtonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɒʃɪŋˈtəʊnɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌwɑʃɪŋˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Washingtonians
Etymology: From Washington + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Any real Washingtonian will be quick to tell you that "Washington state" is a university.
glosses: A native or resident of the state of Washington in the United States of America.
examples: text: Many a hardworking Washingtonian have expressed their frustrations at the influx of rich Marylanders moving into their city.
glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of Washington, D.C.
glosses: A member of the Washingtonian movement, a 19th-century sobriety support group.
Hypernyms: American
Arizonan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Arizona + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Arizona or its culture.
Arizonan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arizonans
Etymology: From Arizona + -n.
Senses: examples: text: Many Arizonans speak Navajo.
text: There is a great value and even a life lesson in the story of a native Arizonan.
ref: 2009 May 21, Stephen Des Georges, “Oral history class preserves history, promotes community”, in Arizona State University:
glosses: A native or resident of the state of Arizona in the United States of America.
Synonyms: word: Arizonian
word: Zonie
Vermonter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vermonters
Etymology: From Vermont + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Vermont Central—Central Vermont. By Edward Hungerford, David W. Sargent, Jr., Lawrence Doherty and Charles E. Fisher, Boston, Massachusetts: The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Inc., Baker Library, Harvard Business School. [...] These natural obstacles increased the difficulty of providing transport, but the intrepid Vermonters determined to have a railway linking the Great Lakes with Boston, independent of New York—and they achieved it.
ref: 1943 March and April, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 126:
text: But April is a whimsical month when Vermonters and Hampshirites alike are disposed to antic adventures such as trekking to Boston to get married or to New York to see the sights.
ref: 1959, Charles Morrow Wilson, The Magnificent Scufflers: Revealing the Great Days when America Wrestled the World, Stephen Greene Press, page 60:
glosses: A native or resident of the state of Vermont in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
North Dakotan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From North Dakota + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, North Dakota or its culture
North Dakotan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: North Dakotans
Etymology: From North Dakota + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the state of North Dakota in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
South Dakotan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: South Dakotans
Etymology: From South Dakota + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the state of South Dakota in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
campest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of camp: most camp
shouldest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shouldst.
dinna
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪnə/
Senses: glosses: do not
Ohioan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ohioans
Etymology: From Ohio + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the state of Ohio in the United States of America.
Ohioan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ohioan
form: most Ohioan
Etymology: From Ohio + -an.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or from Ohio.
Hypernyms: American
Idahoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.də.həʊ.ən/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.dəˌhoʊ.ən/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.dəˈhoʊ.ən/
Forms: form: more Idahoan
form: most Idahoan
Etymology: From Idaho + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Idahonian
glosses: Of or relating to the state of Idaho.
Idahoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.də.həʊ.ən/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.dəˌhoʊ.ən/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.dəˈhoʊ.ən/
Forms: form: Idahoans
Etymology: From Idaho + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Rachel Baxa was tending to her infant daughter, Georgia, when “the horrific phrase said by President Trump ran through my mind,” the Idahoan said.
ref: 2018 January 21, Holly Yan and Amanda Jackson, “Mother and daughter highlight why today’s marches are so important”, in CNN:
text: Oregon’s uptick in marijuana sales along the Idaho border doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s all Idahoans who are lighting up, Lehner said.
ref: 2020 January 20, Harmeet Kaur, “Marijuana sales on the Oregon-Idaho border are 420% higher than average, an analysis finds. Yes, you read that right”, in CNN:
synonyms: Idahonian
glosses: A native or resident of the state of Idaho in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
Rhode Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rhode Islanders
Etymology: From Rhode Island + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the state of Rhode Island in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
man's best friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Refers to the millennia-long history of close relations, loyalty, friendship, and companionship of dogs with humans.
Senses: glosses: An affectionate term for a dog, or dogs in general.
shoeshiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoeshiners
Etymology: From shoe + shiner.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, with the help of a group of shoeshiners, everything is clarified, the police arrest the criminals; Arlindo is set free.
ref: 2012, E. Bueno, Amácio Mazzaropi in the Film and Culture of Brazil:
synonyms: bootblack
shoeblack
shoeshine boy
glosses: A person who shines shoes and other footwear, usually for a fee.
Jockland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From jock (“(derogatory) a Scotsman”) + land.
Senses: examples: text: This rozzer might be from Jockland, but he was every bit as oily as an East End old-timer.
ref: 1992, Ian Rankin, Wolfman, page 50:
text: Did the cunt think Darren was in some nationwide guild of criminals, that he could put an ad in the newsletter and find a good operator up in fucking Jockland, just like that?
ref: 1996, Christopher Brookmyre, Quite Ugly One Morning, page 40:
text: And it ain't like he's had me up stayin at his Jockland shithole, so a little bit of respect is called for.
ref: 2012, Irvine Welsh, Skagboys, page 237:
glosses: Scotland
Related terms: Jock
apodictic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /apəʊˈdɪktɪk/
ipa: /apəʊˈdaɪktɪk/
ipa: /æpəˈdɪktɪk/
ipa: /apoʊˈdɪktɪk/
Forms: form: more apodictic
form: most apodictic
form: apodeictic
Etymology: From the Latin apodīcticus (“proving clearly”, “demonstrative”), from the Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτικός (apodeiktikós, “affording proof”, “demonstrative”), from ἀποδείκνυμι (apodeíknumi, “I demonstrate”). In turn, from ἀπο- (apo-, “separate, without”), and δεικτικός (deiktikós, “capable of proof”).
Senses: examples: text: No religion has ever yet owed its prevalence to ‘apodictic certainty’.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 331–332:
text: The orca spoke in the odd grammatical tense used either to describe dreams, or to make statements so true they were apodictic, such as "All things die" or "Before my conception I did not exist."
ref: 1992, Alexander Jablokov, A Deeper Sea, Avon Books, page 250:
glosses: Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
examples: text: Don’t be so apodictic! You haven’t considered several facets of the question.
glosses: Being a style of argument in which a person presents their reasoning as categorically true, even if it is not necessarily so.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
qualifier: Biblical studies
glosses: Absolute and without explanation, as in a command from God like "Thou shalt not kill!"
Derived terms: apodict
apodictical
apodictically
apodicticity
apodictism
Indie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Indy (“the Independent newspaper”).
nonmetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + metrical.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Without the constraints of a metronome; not played or sung with a strict underlying rhythmic method.
sportif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportifs
Etymology: From French sportif.
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of cyclosportive.
synonyms: word: cyclosportive
geometrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dʒiˌɒməˈtrɪʃən/
Forms: form: geometricians
Etymology: From geometric + -ian, presumably by analogy with other words in -ician, such as mathematician.
Senses: glosses: A geometer; a mathematician specializing in the study of geometry.
glosses: An erebid moth, Grammodes stolida, of Africa, Eurasia, and Australia.
Derived terms: metageometrician
pass the buck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes the buck
form: passing the buck
form: passed the buck
form: passed the buck
Etymology: May have originated with the game of poker, in which a marker or counter, frequently in frontier days a knife with a buckhorn handle, was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal. If the player did not wish to deal he could pass the responsibility by passing the "buckhorn" or "buck", as the marker came to be called, to the next player.
Senses: examples: text: McLean was quoted in the Austin American Statesman as saying that although he had expected the guidelines to be ruled illegal, an attorney general's opinion […] was required in order to clarify the law. But critics say Bernstein and McLean simply passed the buck to the attorney general in order to placate the small group of fundamentalist Christians who had been lobbying them.
ref: 1990 February 4, David Morris, “Attorney General Sides With Texas Gay Groups”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 3:
text: He closes the foreword by acknowledging that his proposals would have far-reaching impacts on railway staff, communities and industry - and passes the buck onto government to ensure that these consequences are managed appropriately.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 44:
coordinate_terms: weasel out
glosses: To transfer responsibility or blame from oneself onto another; to absolve oneself of concern for a given matter by claiming to lack authority or jurisdiction.
Related terms: buck-passing
buck-passer
the buck stops here
passing the buck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pass the buck
Related terms: buck-passing
the buck stops here
yeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛlə/
ipa: /ˈjɛlɚ/
Forms: form: yellers
Etymology: From yell + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who yells.
yeller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛlə/
ipa: /ˈjɛlɚ/
Forms: form: more yeller
form: most yeller
form: yaller
Etymology: Eye dialect.
Senses: examples: text: Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yellow.
menuet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menuets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of minuet (“type of dance”).
raw_tags: in French contexts
pyramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyramides
Senses: examples: text: To measure a Pyramide. You may observe here, That a Pyramide differs from a Cone in this respect, […]
ref: 1678, Henry Phillippes, A Mathematical Manual, page 59:
glosses: Obsolete form of pyramid.
slapshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slapshots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of slap shot.
suscitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/
Forms: form: suscitates
form: suscitating
form: suscitated
form: suscitated
Etymology: From Latin suscitatus, past participle of suscitare (“to lift up, to rouse”), from sub- + citare (“to rouse, excite”). Compare excite, incite, and resuscitate.
Senses: synonyms: word: exsuscitate
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To rouse; to excite; to call into life and action.
Derived terms: suscitability
pisco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piscos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pisco, from the name of the city Pisco, from Quechua pishku, pisqu.
Senses: glosses: A liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing regions of Peru and Chile. It is the most widely consumed spirit in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
Derived terms: pisco sour
boiloff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boiloffs
Etymology: From boil + off.
Senses: examples: text: One would not be able to return from an extended holiday and drive off in the family car in view of the boiloff from even the best insulated tank.
ref: 1970, Lawrence William Jones, Toward a Liquid Hydrogen Fuel Economy, page 11:
text: "Boiloff" of the tungsten from the filament that adheres to the inside of a tungsten-standard bulb blade
ref: 1991, Verne Carlson, Sylvia Carlson, Professional Lighting Handbook, page 209:
text: BOILOFF The vaporization or gasification of liquefied natural gas […]. Boiloff occurs when the holding vessel's insulation fails to maintain the temperature to keep the gas in liquid form.
ref: 1994, R. D. Langenkamp, Handbook of Oil Industry Terms and Phrases, page 40:
glosses: The vaporization of a liquid (or solid) whose boiling point is lower than that of the environment in which it is stored.
affixe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: affixes
form: affixing
form: affixed
form: affixed
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of affix.
right-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more right-footed
form: most right-footed
Senses: glosses: Of one who plays sports with their right foot in preference to, or more skillfully than their left.
examples: text: Foley scored with a right-footed volley from ten metres.
glosses: Played using the right foot.
left-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more left-footed
form: most left-footed
Senses: glosses: Of one who plays sports with their left foot in preference to, or more skillfully than their right.
examples: text: Poised link-up play between Essien and Lampard set the Ghanaian midfielder free soon after but his left-footed shot from outside the box was too weak.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
glosses: Played using the left foot
centre-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centre-backs
form: centre back
form: centreback
form: center back
form: center-back
form: centerback
Senses: examples: text: Ferguson was incensed as referee Martin Atkinson pointed to the spot - and United's sense of injustice deepened when Nemanja Vidic was sent off in stoppage time after receiving a second yellow card for a foul on Ramires, ruling the centre-back out of the visit to Liverpool on Sunday.
ref: 2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A central defender, a player who plays in the centre of defence, just in front of the goalkeeper
Related terms: full-back
wingback
full-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full-backs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fullback.
raw_tags: in US
wing-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wing-backs
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A player who plays on the wing, and acts as both a defender and an attacker depending on the team's situation.
Related terms: centre-back
fullback
yelve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yelves
Senses: glosses: A fork used to carry dung; such a fork used as a garden tool.
yelves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yelve
recategorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recategorizes
form: recategorizing
form: recategorized
form: recategorized
form: recategorise
Etymology: From re- + categorize.
Senses: glosses: To categorize again, to put in a new or different category.
volgivagant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin vulgivagus (“vagabond”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the uneducated masses.
vacivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin vacivitas.
Senses: examples: text: The vacivity occasioned by the resignation of col. Logan presented a prospect pleasing to the aspiring or ambitious […]
ref: 1792 September 1, Kentucky Gazette, number 51:
text: 2005, Christan Probasco, Highway 12, Logan: Utah State University Press, p. 16,
You top a rise and there’s a wide vacivity where the earth should be, with the main draw below: an immense, pink basin, not a canyon at all, that seems to have been burned out of the flank of the plateau by acid, filled with thousands of rock needles big as church spires.
glosses: Emptiness; vacancy.
Synonyms: vacuity
void
art imitates life
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: The observation that a creative work was inspired by true events; based on a true story.
Related terms: life imitates art
life imitates art
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Expresses the notion that an event in the real world was inspired by a creative work.
Related terms: art imitates life
truth is stranger than fiction
straight out of Black Mirror
predictive programming
aquabib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪk.wə.bɪb/
Forms: form: aquabibs
Etymology: Based on Latin aqua (“water”) + bibere, infinitive of bibō (“to drink”)
Senses: examples: text: Hydropots and aquabibs are epithets bestowed by the champions of alcohol in London upon the temperance folk.
ref: 1883, The Louisville Medical News: a weekly journal of medicine and surgery: Volumes 15-16:
text: Dwight L. Moody and John B. Gough, the great aquabib, had commanded attention […]
ref: 1949, Julia Cooley Altrocchi, The spectacular San Franciscans:
text: While its more sober counterpart was directed to quite different ends by a pugnacious aquabib, William Henry Draper
ref: 1966, Robert Arnold Aubin, Topographical poetry in XVII-century Eng:
glosses: A teetotaler; one who does not consume alcohol.
libertines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libertine
muzzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of muzzle
muzzled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Wearing a muzzle
glosses: Forcibly restrained from speaking or publishing an unwelcome or dangerous opinion.
Kartveli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kartvelis
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ქართველი (kartveli).
Senses: glosses: A Georgian (person from country in the Caucasus).
gluts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glut
gluts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glut
liturgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liturgy
idolatries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idolatry
trilogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trilogy
oneirologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oneirology
celeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celery
mercenaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercenary
technicalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technicality
gratuities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gratuity
synonymies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synonymy
necropsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necropsy
prosties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosty
glosses: plural of prostie
antinomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antinomy
immoralities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immorality
tammies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tammy
glosses: plural of tammie
nellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nelly
biodiversities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biodiversity
jerry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛɹi/
Forms: form: jerries
Etymology: Probably an abbreviation of jeroboam.
Senses: examples: text: We used chamber-pots a good deal – ‘jerries’ – cause of much hilarity doe to the hostilities.
ref: 1976, Angela Carter, “The Mother Lode”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 3:
glosses: A chamber pot.
Synonyms: sense: chamber pot
word: chamber pot
jerry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛɹi/
Etymology: Short for jerry-built.
Senses: examples: text: If a man builds a jerry-house, he has a jerry conscience; and there are a lot of consciences of that description going about.
ref: 1889, Alfred Thomas Story, A book of vagrom men and vagrant thoughts, page 57:
glosses: Jerry-built.
jerry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛɹi/
Forms: form: jerries
Etymology: Alternative forms.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Jerry (“a German”).
Synonyms: sense: a German
word: German
jerry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛɹi/
Forms: form: jerries
Senses: examples: text: Watch stealing, or jerry getting, as the thieving fraternity designate the operation, is carried on to a considerable extent all the year round.
ref: 1883 November 17, Tit-Bits:
text: R. Austin Freeman, A Savant's Vendetta
'Do you know a jerry when you sees one — a red 'un, mind you?' […] The fellow looked furtively at the door and then, diving into an inner pocket, pulled out a handsome gold watch with a massive chain attached, exhibited it for a moment and then dropped it back.
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A watch (timepiece).
Related terms: sense: possibly etymologically related
word: jerry-build
sense: possibly etymologically related
word: jerry-builder
sense: possibly etymologically related
word: jerry-building
sense: possibly etymologically related
word: jerry built
sense: possibly etymologically related
word: jerry-can
sense: possibly etymologically related
word: jerry can
sense: possibly etymologically related
word: jerry curl
sense: possibly etymologically related
word: jerry-rig
sense: possibly etymologically related
word: jerry-rigged
sense: possibly etymologically related
word: jerry-shop
sense: possibly etymologically related
word: jerry to
jerries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jerry
New Hampshirite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Hampshirites
Etymology: From New Hampshire + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Wentworth may have been an employee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but he lived in New Hampshire and was a devoted New Hampshirite.
ref: 2006, Fletcher Haulley, A Primary Source History of the Colony of New Hampshire, page 35:
glosses: A native or resident of the state of New Hampshire in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
nasopharynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æɹɪŋks
Forms: form: nasopharynxes
form: nasopharynges
Etymology: From naso- + pharynx.
Senses: examples: text: Occasionally she gasped out "Joe!" — a flat animal cry that her slack vocal cords made unfemininely deep, that her nasopharynx, choked with mucus, robbed of all resonance.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 506:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The nasal part of the pharynx, lying behind the nose and above the level of the soft palate.
Synonyms: epipharynx
rhinopharynx
tartare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /tɑːɹˈtɑːɹ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /tɑːˈtɑː/
ipa: /ˈtɑː(ɹ)tɛə(ɹ)/
note: Aus/NZ, as in tartare sauce
Etymology: French tartare (literally “Tartar”).
Senses: examples: steak tartare; salmon tartare
glosses: Chopped fine and served raw.
tartare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /tɑːɹˈtɑːɹ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /tɑːˈtɑː/
ipa: /ˈtɑː(ɹ)tɛə(ɹ)/
note: Aus/NZ, as in tartare sauce
Forms: form: tartares
Etymology: French tartare (literally “Tartar”).
Senses: examples: text: We ordered two steak tartares.
glosses: A foodstuff chopped fine and served raw.
glosses: Ellipsis of tartare sauce.
pulmonary alveolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulmonary alveoli
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small air sac in the lungs, where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged with the blood.
spets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spet
bazin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bazins
form: bazeen
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic بازين (bāzīn).
Senses: glosses: An unleavened bread in the cuisine of Libya prepared with barley, water and salt
WBN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WBNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of whole blood number.
adhocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ad-hocracies
form: ad hocracies
Senses: glosses: plural of adhocracy.
amoralities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amorality
armouries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armoury
armories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armory
bendies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bendy
buffaloberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffaloberry
chapelries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapelry
cockies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocky
concessionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concessionary
consistories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consistory
cowberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowberry
dories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: John Wesley Powell ... the one-armed Civil War veteran led nine men in four wooden dories down the untamed and uncharted Colorado River and into the equally untamed and uncharted Grand Canyon.
ref: 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: plural of dory
eventualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eventuality
Excellencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Excellency
flunkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flunkey
glosses: plural of flunky
flunkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flunkey (alternative spelling of flunkies).
skum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Senses: examples: text: […] by keeping the Water a certain time heating without boiling — the Meat swells — becomes tender — its fibres are dilated — and it yields a quantity of Skum, which must be taken off as soon as it appears.
ref: 1825, William Kitchiner, The Cook's Oracle:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of scum (“surface impurities”).
skum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: skums
form: skumming
form: skummed
form: skummed
Senses: examples: text: two ounces of Hony of Roses well skummed
ref: 1674, John Starkey, The Chyrurgeons Store-House:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of scum (“remove surface impurities”).
frumenties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frumenty
gitties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gitty
grand larcenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand larceny
hurdy-gurdies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hurdy-gurdy
grannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granny /grannie
grannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And there I was, standing in the middle of the room, in my bra and undies, wearing a Burger King crown, balancing on one leg and praying. A peal of laughter arose from the rest of the girls, who were all clothed. ‘I knew she’d be wearing grannies!’ I heard someone say.
ref: 2007, Karen Yampolsky, Falling out of Fashion, Headline Publishing Group, published 2009, →ISBN:
text: “I’m just a little shocked.” / Monica laughs. “Shocked! You should have seen his face when he pulled down my shorts! He looks at me and says, ‘I wasn’t expecting a hot number like you to wear grannies.’ Then we have hot wild sex in the parking lot of the gym!” […] “What did Jena say?” / Monica laughs. “I guess you didn’t expect me to catch you climbing out of a Ford wearing grannies!’”
ref: 2011, Lexi Michaels, Time for a Fresh One, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 19:
text: “See, you’ve been enhancing yourself all along. A thong serves a specific purpose as does a balconette, or demicup, otherwise you’d just be wearing grannies all the time, right? I mean, if all you wanted to do was cover your ass and support your boobs.”
ref: 2012, Quincy Poaches, Dismal: The Maria Patterson Memoirs, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: Granny panties.
Grammies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grammy
incendiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incendiary
mockumentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mockumentary
medflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medfly
olallieberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olallieberry
lubricities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lubricity
inhospitalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inhospitality
intangibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intangibility
Related terms: intangibles
pardners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pardner
pardner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pardners
Etymology: Variant pronunciation of partner.
Senses: glosses: A friend or companion.
glosses: A partner.
glosses: A local community banking co-op, often set up as an initiative for a social group unable to get formal credit or bank accounts, notably West Indians in Britain.
Derived terms: sward