cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bowl over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bowls over
form: bowling over
form: bowled over
form: bowled over
Senses: examples: text: This tribe lived largely upon the smaller animals which they bowled over with their stone hatchets after making a wide circle about their quarry and driving it so that it had to pass close to one of their number.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: The Celtic midfielder appeared to be bowled over by Milorad Pekovic but Italian referee Luca Banti waved play on.
ref: 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
text: There was only one more guard between her and her goal, and despite her preparation, it almost all went south. The woman walked out of a door Fina hadn't even known was there, nearly bowling her over, and it was all she could do to bring the butt of the rifle up to smash the insurgent's nose in. She cried out, and Fina brought the butt 'round again, and this time the bone must have pierced the brain because the body went limp with a final, plaintive gurgle.
ref: 2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024:
glosses: To overwhelm; to cause to fall to the ground.
glosses: To overwhelm with astonishment or wonder; to flabbergast.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bowl, over.
rhetor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rhetors
Etymology: From Middle English rethor, from Old French retor and Latin rhētor, rētor, rēthor (“teacher of rhetoric, rhetorician”), from Ancient Greek ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr).
Senses: examples: text: Schir, ye have mony servitouris, / And officiaris of dyvers curis, / Kirkmen, courtmen, and craftismen fyne, / Doctouris in jure and medicyne, / Divinouris, rethoris, and philosophouris, / Astrologis, artistis, and oratouris, / Men of armes and vailyeand knychtis, / And mony uther gudlie wichtis, / Musicianis, menstralis, and mirrie singaris, / Chevalouris, cawandaris, and flingaris, / Cunyouris, carvouris, and carpentaris, / Beildaris of barkis and ballingaris, / Masounis lyand upon the land, / And schipwrichtis hewand upone the strand, / Glasing wrichtis, goldsmythis, and lapidaris, / Pryntouris, payntouris, and potingaris, / And all of thair craft cunning, / And all at anis lawboring, / Quhilk pleisand ar and honorable, / And to your hienes profitable, / And richt convenient for to be, / With your hie regale majestie, / Deservand of your grace most ding, / Bayth thank, rewarde, and cherissing.
ref: early 16th c., William Dunbar, Remonstrance to the King:
text: Your hearing , which is mostly the fairest part of you , what is it but as of a rhetor at a desk , to commend or dislike , the same which you have as well for the stage as the pulpit , a plaudit or an hiss
ref: 1643, Henry Hammond, Christ and Barabbas (a sermon)
glosses: A rhetorician.
pubertal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: pubertal dip in performance
synonyms: puberal
pubertic
glosses: Of or pertaining to puberty.
Related terms: puberty
pubescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pjuːˈbɛsəns/
Forms: form: pubescences
Etymology: From Latin pūbēscentia, from pūbēscō.
Senses: glosses: The state of being in or reaching puberty.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A covering of fine, soft hairs.
Related terms: pubescent
speach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: speaches
Senses: examples: text: And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speach.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 11:1:
glosses: Obsolete form of speech.
public-spirited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more public-spirited
form: most public-spirited
Senses: examples: text: For the young this device has proved most excellent under the wise management of the United Hebrew Charities, an organization that gathers to its work the best thought and effort of many of our most public-spirited citizens.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 134:
synonyms: public-hearted
glosses: Having personal motivation toward the betterment of the public.
Derived terms: public-spiritedly
public-spiritedness
puckishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more puckishly
form: most puckishly
Etymology: From puckish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At the start of lockdown, some puckishly predicted that all those couples locked away together would set off a pandemic baby boom.
ref: 2021 April 13, Tom Whyman, “Why, Despite Everything, You Should Have Kids (if You Want Them)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Mischievously; playfully.
mischievously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mischievously
form: most mischievously
Etymology: From Middle English mischevously, myschevously, equivalent to mischievous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mischievous manner.
pupal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjuːpəl/
rhymes: -uːpəl
homophone: pupil
Etymology: From pupa + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the pupa stage of insect metamorphosis.
platy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: plāʹtē
ipa: /ˈpleɪti/
rhymes: -eɪti
Forms: form: platier
form: platiest
Etymology: From plate + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling plates.
examples: text: Alternative form: platé
text: Gules, a saltire argent within a bordure sable bezantée (sic C., but Papworth cites, p. 1069, from A., per saltire gules and sable, a saltire argent, and a bordure of the 2nd platy).
ref: 1877, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, page 19:
text: [...] fretty gules besanty / here the besants are placed at the intersection of the pieces of the fretty. A similar coat, Or, fretty gules platy, is an old coat of VERDON; and Or, fretty sable platy is the canting coat of PLATT.
ref: 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 97:
text: Or, a fess dancetty of two points gules masoned argent; on a chief azure a representation of Maidenhead Bridge over water barry wavy in base. 212. Argent, a fess gules between 3 astral crowns azure. 213. Sable platy, a pile barry[…]
ref: 1965, R. H. Wilmott, Discovering Heraldry:
text: Sable platy, two flaunches argent - Spelman (159). Gules, five lozenges conjoined in bend argent - Raleigh (160).
ref: 1983, Charles Boutell, Boutell's Heraldry, Frederick Warne Publishers:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Semy of plates (roundels argent).
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Composed of thin plate-like pieces of rock or mineral.
Related terms: plate
plated
platy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: plāʹtē
ipa: /ˈpleɪti/
rhymes: -eɪti
enpr: plătʹē
ipa: /ˈplæti/
rhymes: -æti
enpr: plāʹtē
ipa: /ˈpleɪti/
rhymes: -eɪti
Forms: form: platys
form: platies
form: platy
Etymology: ]
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Translingual: Platypoecilus (“former genus of platys”)
Senses: examples: text: I had a mixed community aquarium with several tetras, two mollies, some corydoras catfish, and a platy from a previous tank.
glosses: Any of two species (and hybrids) of tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (which also includes the swordtails).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Xiphophorus maculatus
word: common platy
word: moon platy
word: platyfish
taxonomic: Xiphophorus maculatus
word: southern platy
word: variatus platy
word: variegated platy
taxonomic: Xiphophorus variatus
word: variable platy
thabilitho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A wooden slab, covered with a cloth, placed on the altar in the Syrian Orthodox Church, and symbolizing the Cross.
old wives' tales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old wives' tale
old wives' tale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔld ˈwaɪvz teɪl/
Forms: form: old wives' tales
Etymology: In this context, the word “wives” means “women” and not “married women,” retaining the original sense of Old English wīf, which meant “woman” as well as “wife”. The phrase could be a reformation of Old English ealdra cwēna spell or a calque of Latin anīlis fābula, both literally “old women’s story.”
Senses: glosses: A supposed truth that has been passed down by word of mouth
examples: text: According to the old wives' tales that are related about this race of genii who inhabit Iceland and its vicinity, they have a political form of government modelled after the same pattern as that which the inhabitants themselves are under.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 253:
synonyms: anility
glosses: A rumour, myth or superstition; something which is almost certainly untrue, despite acceptance by many.
Related terms: old wife
urban legend
urban myth
abecedarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.bi.siˈdɛəɹ.i.əm/
Forms: form: abecedaria
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abecedārium. Doublet of abecedary.
Senses: glosses: A book used to teach the alphabet; alphabet book; primer.
glosses: An inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet, almost always listed in order.
Synonyms: abecedary
pencil boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pencil box
pencil cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pencil case
sleeping bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeping bag
clothes shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothes shop
worktop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worktops
Etymology: From work + top.
Senses: examples: text: The cupboards were oak and the worktop was granite.
glosses: A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers that can be used to work on. Usually in a kitchen.
Related terms: countertop
desktop
tabletop
worksurface
worksurface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worksurfaces
Etymology: From work + surface.
Senses: examples: The cupboards were oak and the worksurface granite.
glosses: A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers in a kitchen, that can be used to work on.
Related terms: worktop
moisturizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moisturize
moisturizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of making something moist; especially, of a cosmetic, making the skin or hair less dry.
moisturizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moisturizing
form: most moisturizing
Senses: glosses: That moisturizes.
Derived terms: nonmoisturizing
hydromassage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydromassages
form: hydro massage
Etymology: From hydro- + massage.
Senses: glosses: A therapeutic massage in which bubbles of air and jets of water are pumped through a bath in which the recipient lies.
hydromassage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hydromassages
form: hydromassaging
form: hydromassaged
form: hydromassaged
form: hydro massage
Etymology: From hydro- + massage.
Senses: glosses: To massage in this way.
Related terms: jacuzzi
Tasbeha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tasbehas
Etymology: From Arabic تَسْبِيحَة (tasbīḥa).
Senses: glosses: A worship service in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, consisting of praises glorifying God taken from the Psalms and other Biblical sources and often chanted with a simple musical accompaniment of cymbals and triangle.
Enrico
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Enricos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Enrico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
burnous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burnoose.
burnous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burnou
cake-slice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cake-slices
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cake slice.
cake slice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cake slices
form: cake-slice
Senses: synonyms: cake server
pie server
glosses: A knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpenedblade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake.
examples: text: The cake slices were toppled and mushed, mostly uneaten.
ref: 2021, Hermione Hoby, Virtue, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cake, slice.
calvados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calvadoses
Etymology: From the department of Calvados.
Senses: glosses: An apple brandy made in Normandy, France.
glosses: A glass of this spirit.
canaliculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canaliculus
canaliculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkænəˈlɪkjələs/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊləs
Forms: form: canaliculi
Etymology: From Latin canāliculus (“small channel, pipe or gutter”), diminutive of canālis (“channel; pipe, gutter”), from canna (“cane, reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: canalicule
glosses: Any of many small canals or ducts in the body, such as in the bone, or in some plants.
Derived terms: canalicular
canaliculitis
lacrimal canaliculus
candiru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkændɪˈɹuː/
Forms: form: candirus
form: candirú
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese candiru, from Nheengatu kandirú.
Senses: synonyms: canero
cañero
toothpick fish
vampire fish
glosses: A small parasitic catfish, Vandellia cirrhosa, native to the Amazon river, rumored to swim up male urethras.
carriage clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carriage clocks
Senses: examples: text: It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Cheshire-based Cottrills has decided to drop carriage clocks from its range. It sold 200 in 2004 but this year has only seen one order.
ref: 2006 February 24, “Time runs out for carriage clock”, in BBC News:
glosses: A small clock with a carrying handle, originally designed for travelling.
case clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: case clocks
Senses: glosses: A clock with a case: one with its clockwork and clock face encased in a case.
Meronyms: clockcase
Derived terms: tall-case clock
tall-case clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tall-case clocks
Senses: glosses: A longcase clock.
longcase clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longcase clocks
Senses: glosses: A freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock, having the pendulum and weights in a tall case.
Synonyms: grandfather clock
tall-case clock
cess-pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cess-pits
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cesspit.
charlady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑːˌleɪ.di/
Forms: form: charladies
Etymology: From char (“chore”) + lady.
Senses: examples: text: "Then we'll move." And Peter, watching the car resignedly from the window, saw the American grip his seat with both hands, and then raise them suddenly in silent prayer, while an elderly charlady fled with a scream to the safety of the area below.
ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, “In Which He Has a Near Shave”, in Bulld-dog Drummond:
text: MOST of the charladies to be met with in novels and plays are comic characters. […] This ridicule of a whole class does not mean that novelists and dramatists hate charladies, but only that the novelist and dramatist is never quite master of his own book or his own play.
ref: 1949, Frank Swinnerton, “Charladies”, in Tokefield Papers, Old and New, page 163:
text: He is shown choking back tears as he discovers that his great, great, great grandmother was a charlady in Scotland who died in her thirties of tuberculosis and exhaustion.
ref: 2005 December 8, Owen Gibson, “Past lives bring Paxman to tears”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation.
Synonyms: sense: woman who cleans
word: char
sense: woman who cleans
word: charwoman
sense: woman who cleans
word: Mrs Mop
Mrs Mop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mrs Mops
Etymology: From Mrs Mopp, a character played by Dorothy Summers in the wartime radio series It's That Man Again.
Senses: glosses: A charlady.
wikipedia: It's That Man Again
cheval glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheval glasses
form: cheval-glass
Etymology: From French cheval (“horse, supporting frame”) (see chevalet) + glace (“mirror”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a large room, […] furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table, and looking out upon the court by three dusty windows barred with iron.
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 45:
text: Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to the cheval-glass, into whose depths they looked with an involuntary horror. […]
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 86–87:
text: Next to the cheval-glass, Kit noticed a pale dressing-gown, of all-but-insubstantial chiffon, not draped over a chair but standing erect, […].
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 542:
glosses: A long mirror, mounted on a swivel in a frame, allowing it to be tilted.
Synonyms: cheval mirror
coetaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkoʊ.ɪˈteɪn.i.əs/
ipa: /-iˈteɪn-/
Forms: form: more coetaneous
form: most coetaneous
form: coaetaneous
form: coætaneous
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin coaetaneus (“one of the same age”).
Senses: examples: text: The beginning of [Theodore] Parker's own perplexities was almost coetaneous with the establishment of Brook Farm, for his 'Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Religion,' which was preached at the ordination of Mr. Shackford in South Boston, on May 19, 1841, occasioned the division of the religious community for and against him.
ref: 1900, Lindsay Swift, Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors, New York: Macmillan, page 251:
glosses: Belonging to the same age, era or period; coeval or contemporary.
Synonyms: contemporaneous
contemporary
commissionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˌmɪʃəˈnɛː/
ipa: /kəˌmɪʃəˈnɛɹ/
ipa: /kəˌmɪsjəˈnɛɹ/
ipa: /kəˌmɪsjəˈneɪɹ/
Forms: form: commissionaires
form: commissionnaire
Etymology: Borrowed from French commissionaire, from Latin commissio. Doublet of commissioner.
Senses: glosses: One entrusted with a (small) commission, such as an errand; especially, an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, etc.
examples: text: When the day came Nick turned up early at the bank and waited under a palm tree in the atrium. People hurried in, nodding to the commissionaire, who still wore a tailcoat and a top hat.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: A uniformed doorman.
topics: law
glosses: An undisclosed agent under European civil law.
Derived terms: commissionairess
cordiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cordiform
form: most cordiform
Etymology: From Latin cor (“heart”) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: The "Pawang" also inflicts death from a distance, by burning the cordiform top of a newly opened bunch of bananas on the tree.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 176:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: cordate#Adjective
glosses: Heart-shaped.
raw_tags: of a leaf
Derived terms: cordiform projection
cordiform uterus
obcordiform
subcordiform
curundum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of corundum.
geography fair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geography fairs
Senses: examples: text: Spelling bees, science fairs, and geography fairs can also be organized through a support group.
ref: 1998, Christine M Field, A field guide to home schooling:
glosses: an education activity in which students create geography-related projects and present to the class using displays, posters, written and oral reports, and other methods.
Related terms: science fair
cyclostyled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cyclostyle
cyclostyled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It's just a sheet of paper, whose still visible creases attest to its having been folded in four, fixed by a paperclip to a thick cyclostyled volume -- the terms of co-ownership relating to the flat this woman is about to visit.
ref: 1978, Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos, Life a User's Manual:
glosses: copied using a cyclostyle
raw_tags: of a document
topics: architecture
glosses: having a cyclostyle
descaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of descale
descaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: descalings
Senses: glosses: The removal of scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc.
descale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: descales
form: descaling
form: descaled
form: descaled
Etymology: From de- + scale.
Senses: glosses: To remove scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc.
synonyms: scale
unscale
glosses: To remove the scales from a fish etc.
Derived terms: descaler
undescaled
dishstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishstands
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dish stand.
dish stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dish stands
Senses: glosses: Any of several devices for supporting a dish; but especially a wooden tripod used in parts of the Middle East
disjunctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disjunctors
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small, temporary body between the conidia of some fungi.
examples: text: The next thing that we must turn our attention to is the disjunctor, or apparatus for breaking both the circuits simultaneously. This consists of a hinged frame, which can be given a sudden movement by means of an electro-magnet […]
ref: 1891, The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, volume 41, number 2, page 18:
glosses: A kind of electrical circuit breaker.
Djakarta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: KLM, on 12 September 1929, had inaugurated a fortnightly proving service to Djakarta from Amsterdam, a distance of 8540 miles and the longest air route in the world.
ref: 1985 John Gunn - The Defeat of Distance: Qantas 1919-1939
text: Many cities from Shanghai to Djakarta are badly polluted.
ref: 2002, Hilde Heynen, Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movement:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Jakarta.
jingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ
Forms: form: jingos
form: jingoes
Etymology: From the minced oath by jingo, which was used in a music hall song, written ca. 1878 by G. W. Hunt, that supported Britain's then belligerent attitude towards Russia. In this context, a euphemism for Jesus, influenced by the meaningless presto-jingo used by conjurors. A connection with the Basque jainko (“god”) has been suggested, but evidence is lacking.
Senses: examples: text: 1897 June 19, Carl Schurz, editorial: Armed or Unarmed Peace in Harper's Weekly, reprinted in 1913, Frederic Bancroft (editor), Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz,
The fact is that Mr. Roosevelt has always with perfect frankness confessed himself to be what is currently called a Jingo.
text: He is the jingo of the universe; he will say, "My cosmos, right or wrong."
ref: 1908, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy:
text: "We are all jingoes now," the New York Sun wrote immediately after the 1898 war, "and the head jingo is the Hon. William McKinley."
ref: 1995, Bradford Perkins, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913:
text: Spare me all the outrage and "pseudo jingo stuff" about Iran's imprisonment of our troops, said Peter Hitchens in The Mail on Sunday.
ref: 2007, The Week, April 7, 2007, no. 608, p. 5
glosses: One who supports policy favouring war.
Derived terms: jingoish
jingoism
jingoist
jingoistic
jingoize
Related terms: by jingo
by the living jingo
narwal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narwals
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of narwhal.
domino costume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domino costumes
Senses: examples: text: […] but there were many ladies, he remarked, in ample domino costume, whose cloak and short black mask, with its border of crape, could not conceal a stray tress or dimpled chin.
ref: 1845, John Henry Mancur, The Palais Royal:
glosses: A loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask, worn especially at masquerades
econometrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: econometricians
Etymology: From econometrics + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: [Hal Varian] hired an entire team of “econometricians,” who combined neoliberal theory, mathematical ideas, and data to help Google make as much money as possible, […]
ref: 2019, Rana Foroohar, Don't Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone who studies, uses or works in econometrics.
Hyponyms: macroeconometrician
microeconometrician
Related terms: econometrics
econometric
econometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From econo- + -metric.
Senses: examples: an econometric study
glosses: Combining economics and mathematics; relating to measurement of an economy
Derived terms: econometrically
noneconometric
Related terms: econometrics
econometrician
macroeconometric
microeconometric
draisienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draisiennes
Etymology: Borrowed from French draisienne. Named after Karl Drais.
Senses: examples: text: I looked to the right, where velocipedes with huge art-nouveau wheels and draisiennes with their flat, scooterlike bars evoked gentlemen in stovepipe hats, knights of progress pedaling through the Bois de Boulogne.
ref: 1989, William Weaver, transl., Foucault's Pendulum, Random House, translation of Il pendolo di Foucault by Umberto Eco, page 10:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: dandy-horse, hobby horse
Related terms: draisine
dustcover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌstˌkʌvɚ/
Forms: form: dustcovers
form: dust cover
Etymology: From dust + cover.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dust jacket.
synonyms: word: dust jacket
dust jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dust jackets
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The detachable paper cover of a book; used to protect the binding, and to provide a blurb.
Synonyms: bookjacket
dustcover
redingote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdɪŋɡəʊt/
Forms: form: redingotes
Etymology: From French redingote, itself from English riding-coat.
Senses: examples: text: In the corner of certain drawing are to be seen Adam himself and his French assistant, Clérisseau, sketching away in their dashing tricornes and redingotes, very much as one might imagine the two young men in Così fan tutte.
ref: 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 140:
text: I came upon a darkly looming building, from the dungeon-like basement of which there emerged a caretaker called Bartoloměj Smečka, a veteran, it seemed, of long-lost campaigns, clad in a crumpled redingote and a flowered fancy waistcoat with a gold watch-chain draped over it […]
ref: 2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 199:
glosses: A long coat or greatcoat for men.
examples: text: Mrs. Hobby, dressed in a brown and white silk redingote, blinked back tears as the President recalled their first meeting in London in 1942, when Oveta was commander of the WAAC (later the WAC).
ref: 1955 March 25, ‘Farewell with Fanfare’, Time:
glosses: A women's dress coat or long fitted coat with a flared skirt.
dwarf tossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dwarf tossing is an activity that has engendered significant opposition. This "sport" originated in 1985 when bouncers at an Australian night club decided it would be entertaining for customers to compete by seeing who could throw a dwarf the farthest.
ref: 2005, Betty M Adelson, Dwarfism: Medical and Psychosocial Aspects of Profound Short Stature:
text: 2004 Richard Burchill et. al. - Defining Civil and Political Rights: The Jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
The circular said that dwarf tossing should be banned on the basis of, among other things, article 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights . . .
glosses: A "sport" in which contestants compete to throw a small person the farthest.
Synonyms: midget tossing
elucubrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of elucubrate
frock coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frock coats
form: frock-coat
form: frockcoat
Senses: examples: text: From behind that structure came out an impression of pale plumpness in a frock-coat.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:
text: In the parlance of the times, this is a peddler. A rather fanciful-looking little man in a black frock coat.
ref: 1959, “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” (3:35 from the start), in The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Narrator (Rod Serling):
glosses: A coat with long skirts, worn by men, now only on formal occasions.
Hyponyms: Prince Albert coat
Derived terms: frock-coated
emerised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emerise
encephalum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encephala
Etymology: See encephalo-.
Senses: glosses: The brain of an insect
entrains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of entrain
ex-libris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ex libris.
ferrocerium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferro- + cerium.
Senses: glosses: A pyrophoric alloy of iron and cerium that is used to make the flints for cigarette lighters
flatlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatlets
Etymology: From flat + -let.
Senses: examples: text: The flat, which he was ushered into by Terry, was no more than a flatlet, with kitchenette, bathroomette, and a bed-sitting-room with hideaway bed.
ref: 2006, Robert Barnard, Dying Flames:
glosses: A very small flat (apartment).
floortile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floortiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of floor tile.
fluidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluˈɪ.dɪk/
Forms: form: more fluidic
form: most fluidic
Etymology: From fluid + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a fluid.
glosses: Of or pertaining to fluidics.
Synonyms: word: fluent
word: fluid
word: fluidal
word: fluidic
word: fluidical
word: liquid
word: liquidlike
word: moist
Hyponyms: word: effervescent
word: ichorous
word: juicy
word: lacteous
word: molten
word: liquefied
word: sappy
word: serous
word: succulent
word: unctuous
word: viscous
word: watery
Derived terms: biofluidic
elastofluidic
electrofluidic
ferrofluidic
fluidical
fluidically
geofluidic
magnetofluidic
mesofluidic
microfluidic
millifluidic
multifluidic
nanofluidic
neurofluidic
nonfluidic
optofluidic
thermofluidic
Related terms: word: flowing
word: running
word: wet
fluidics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluˈɪ.dɪks/
Etymology: From fluidic + -s.
Senses: glosses: The branch of engineering and technology that is concerned with the construction of devices that use the flow and pressure of a fluid in circuits analogous to electronic ones
Derived terms: biofluidics
elastofluidics
mesofluidics
microfluidics
millifluidics
nanofluidics
neurofluidics
optofluidics
Related terms: fluerics
fluidic
fly-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fly box.
fly box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly boxes
Senses: glosses: A box in which a fly fisherman keeps his flies
flyleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyleaf
foot-slog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foot-slogs
form: foot-slogging
form: foot-slogged
form: foot-slogged
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of footslog.
fruitarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fruitarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of being a fruitarian
Galalith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Trade name, from Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”) + -lith.
Senses: glosses: A product, resembling celluloid and made from casein, that was an early substitute for ivory.
glam band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glam bands
Etymology: From glam + band.
Senses: glosses: A glam rock band.
glory-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glory-holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of glory hole.
glory-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glory-holes
form: glory-holing
form: glory-holed
form: glory-holed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of glory hole.
glomerulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡləˈmɛɹ.jəl.əs/
Forms: form: glomeruli
Etymology: From the diminutive of the Latin glomus (gen. glomeris) meaning "ball of yarn" or "ball-shaped mass".
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small intertwined group of capillaries within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A structure in the olfactory bulb central to olfactory sensory transduction, composed of receptor neuron axons and mitral neuron dendrites and organized by odor type.
glosses: Any of several other similar intertwined masses of things
Derived terms: glomerulitis
glomeruloid
macroglomerulus
microglomerulus
protoglomerulus
Related terms: glomerule
glomerulate
glomerulation
groschen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groschens
form: groschen
Etymology: From German Groschen, from Middle High German grosse, from Medieval Latin (denarius) grossus (“thick (penny)”).
Senses: examples: text: […]old women are seeking to earn a few groschen by carrying home the purchases of buyers,[…]
ref: 1884 Christmas, Mrs. Alexander [pen name; Anne French Hector], “Mrs. Vereker’s Courier Maid”, in The Gentleman’s Annual, chapter III, page 75:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: Any of several obsolete European silver coins.
gunflint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunflints
Etymology: From gun + flint.
Senses: glosses: The piece of flint or other suitable natural stone that is used in a flintlock weapon to generate a spark
gunflints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunflint
groschens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groschen
glomeruli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glomerulus
fly boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly box
attention deficit disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attention deficit disorders
form: attention-deficit disorder
Senses: glosses: A syndrome formerly thought to affect children only, but now known also to affect adults, that is characterized by frequent, chronic distractibility, and either inattentiveness or hyperactivity (fidgeting).
Related terms: alt: ADHD
word: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
naughtier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of naughty: more naughty
buck for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bucks for
form: bucking for
form: bucked for
form: bucked for
Senses: glosses: To strive for persistently; to try hard to obtain (a promotion, raise, etc.).
Related terms: buck
buck general
buck private
buck up
rôles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rôle
broasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of broast
broasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Cooked by broasting; fried under pressure.
pacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pacers
Etymology: From pace + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who paces.
glosses: In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter.
glosses: A pacemaker (one who sets the pace in a race).
glosses: A timer in an electric toothbrush that indicates how long the user should spend brushing in each part of the mouth.
Derived terms: medium pacer
Narragansett pacer
pacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pacers
Etymology: From the brand name Pacer.
Senses: glosses: A mechanical pencil.
pacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pacer
lamb's bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lamb's Bread
Senses: examples: text: We don't want no hash, we don't want no dope, we just want the Lamb's bread collie
ref: 1979, Prince Far I, Free from Sin:
text: This one maybe grow to be the Lamb's Bread. Dat be strong weed.
ref: 1984, Steve Katz, Stolen Stories:
text: For a change of pace we might smoke some Kona gold, Jamaican Lamb's Bread, or a competitor's Sonoma coma, indica, or […]
ref: 2003, Don Henry Ford, Jr., A Cowboy's Observations on Drugs:
text: Lamb's bread a special herb a hard for get eet, seen?
ref: 2004, Hank Bordowitz, Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader:
text: Marley: It lamb's bread.
High Times: What's lamb's bread?
Marley: De ability what de herb 'ave ya call lamb's bread. Some a dem ya call Bethlehem's bread.
ref: 2004, Annie Nocenti, Ruth Baldwin, The High Times Reader:
glosses: A strain of Jamaican cannabis.
Synonyms: Lamb's Breath
miz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪz/
homophone: mizz
homophone: Miz
homophone: Ms
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: more miz
form: most miz
Senses: examples: text: But when I finally left the pub, it must have been about five minutes later, beginning to feel a bit miz, there he was outside, leaning against the pillar at the corner, one foot raised behind him - very rent-looking, actually, which should have made me wonder, but I found I was talking to him.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 222:
glosses: Clipping of miserable.
Aarush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi आरुष (āruṣ).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hindi, of Indian usage.
beauty school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauty schools
Senses: glosses: A trade school which offers training in cosmetology.
Keelin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Caoilfhionn, from caol (“thin, slender”) + fionn (“light, fair”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish.
Keelin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Keelins
Etymology: Variant of Keeling.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Prerna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?] (“inspiration”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hindi used in Hindi-speaking nations.
Trenewan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From trenew- (new town or dwelling), plus eyn (cold), or newyn (famine).
Senses: glosses: A Cornish place name, that means either "the cold dwelling" or "famine".
squinny
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squinnies
form: squinnying
form: squinnied
form: squinnied
Senses: examples: text: Those who had equipped themselves with a price list were forced into the crude necessity of asking the drinkers to move so as to get some distance on the martyrs or to squinny at the numbered labels.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 230:
glosses: To squint.
squinny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squinnies
Senses: glosses: a chipmunk.
raw_tags: from Des Moines
longanimity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒŋɡəˈnɪmɪti/
Etymology: From Late Latin longanimitās, from longanimus, translating Ancient Greek μακροθυμία (makrothumía).
Senses: examples: text: It had overcome the patience of Job, as it did the meekness of Moses, and would surely have mastered any, but the longanimity, and lasting sufferance of God [...].
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
glosses: Patience or tolerance in the face of adversity; forbearance, long-suffering.
Joe's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possessive -’s as though owned or run by Joe.
Senses: examples: text: You sit round in the evening talking, or you study, or you go to Joe's for a beer.
ref: 1941, Henry Mills Alden et al., Harper's Magazine, page 336:
text: You go to Joe's grill or Doc's for cokes not because those places are charming, or the food good—but because the crowd goes.
ref: 1991, Loyd E. Lee, World War II: Crucible of the Contemporary World : Commentary and Readings, page 289:
glosses: Any local eatery.
Derived terms: Eat at Joe’s
Joe’s Diner
fiercer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: George comes over to work the doors while you swing well-broken coal into flame fiercer than ever, at pure white heat that drives you back scorched and blind from each quick shot.
ref: 1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 94:
glosses: comparative form of fierce: more fierce
loftier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Brunel took a site-specific approach - for example, using stone piers for many of the longer and loftier spans, but timber piles for muddier environs that called for lighter-weight structures.
ref: 2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 57:
glosses: Comparative form of lofty: more lofty.
couch grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊt͡ʃˌɡɹæs/
ipa: /ˈkuːt͡ʃɡɹɑːs/
Forms: form: couch
form: couch-grass
form: couchgrass
Senses: examples: text: The roots of plants, disengaged from the soil in the process of tilling and cleaning it, are also employed as a vegetable manure. Some of these, however, as the couch grass, being very vivacious, would readily spring again: and therefore it is necessary that their vegetative powers be destroyed, which may be done by mixing them with lime, and forming in this way a compost. Many farmers, however, to save time, or to prevent the risk of the plants springing again, burn them in little heaps upon the ground at the time of their being collected, and spread the ashes upon the surface. This may be sometimes convenient, but the effect is, that the principal nutritive part of the plant is dissipated, and nothing left but the carbonaceous, earthy, and other insoluble matter. —Low's Elements of Practical Agriculture.
ref: 1841, Jesse Buel, The Farmers' Instructor. Consisting of Essays, Practical Directions, and Hints for the Management of the Farm and the Garden. Originally Published in the Cultivator; Selected and Revised for the School District Library, volume 1, Harper and Brothers, page 134:
text: But the trouble was pervasive and deep-rooted as couch-grass.
ref: 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 145:
text: The old couple who had lived there hadn't been able to do much and the garden was a wilderness of couch-grass and dandelion.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 82:
synonyms: word: dog grass
word: quackgrass
word: quicken
alt: Britain, regional
word: quick grass
word: quitch
word: quitch grass
word: scutch grass
word: twitch
word: witchgrass
glosses: A grass of species Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
Derived terms: sea couch grass
dasyure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæsiˌjʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dasyures
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).
Senses: synonyms: dasyurid
glosses: Any of various Australasian carnivorous marsupials, of the family Dasyuridae, which include the marsupial equivalent to cats
Derived terms: dasyurine
Tate's three-striped dasyure
fingerwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of finger work.
finger work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The movement or play of the fingers in executing something, especially in playing a musical instrument.
masterstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masterstrokes
Etymology: From master + stroke.
Senses: examples: text: The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice. As it turned out, it was a masterstroke. The striker was full of running, played with a more direct shoot-on-sight approach than normal and finished with two goals and an assist.
ref: 2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian:
text: Paddington dates to 1838, although much of today's main line station is from 1854. And it is, of course, a Brunellian masterstroke.
ref: 2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 74:
glosses: An action which demonstrates great skill or artistry.
hand-over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-overs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of handover.