cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lullay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͞oʹlā
ipa: /luˈleɪ/
enpr: ʹlo͞olā
ipa: /ˈlu.leɪ/
enpr: lo͞oʹlī
ipa: /luˈlaɪ/
Forms: form: lulla
form: lully
Etymology: Imitative or onomatopoeic sounds to lull a child to sleep. See also lull and lullaby. Compare Icelandic lúlla, German lullen.
Senses: examples: text: ...in "Ludus Coventriæ", of the 15th century, we find a specimen of a Lullaby Song ... lully, lullay, Thou little tiny CHILD,
ref: 1866, Edmund Sedding, “Lullaby Carols”, in The Gentlemen's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, page 89:
text: Lullay moon princess, goodnight sister mine, rest now in moonlight's embrace
ref: 2012, ponyphonic, Lullaby for a Princess (song)
glosses: Used to soothe or urge someone to sleep.
lully
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lullay.
lully
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lullies
Senses: glosses: Wet or drying linen.
glosses: A shirt.
lulla
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lullay.
Related terms: ulla-lulla
Twitterbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Twitterbots
Etymology: From Twitter + -bot.
Senses: examples: text: Automated Twitterbots collected all tweets related to the trial – marked by the posters with the tag '#spectrial' – and distributed them as a central feed for anyone who wished to follow the debate in real time.
ref: 2013, James Allen-Robertson, Digital Culture Industry: A History of Digital Distribution, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Even better, they've set up a Twitterbot: Just send a tweet with a bike's serial number to @ISITSTOLEN and the bot will check both sites, and report back!
ref: 2014 July, Pax Rasmussen, “News and ideas for a healthier, more sustainable future”, in Catalyst Magazine, volume 33, number 7, page 12:
text: That was flagged up by a Twitterbot, @RuGovEdits, an automated Twitter account that crawls the online encyclopedia for such edits.
ref: 2014 July 24, Toby Manhire, “The Wikipedia editors rumbled as government staffers”, in New Zealand Listener:
glosses: A program used to produce automated posts on the microblogging service Twitter; by extension, a Twitter account featuring posts produced by such a program.
Twitterbots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Twitterbot
taxocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxocrats
Etymology: From tax + -o- + -crat.
Senses: examples: text: "What we don't want is government by "taxocrats", continually meddling with the competitive practices that brought us the highest living standards and the capacity to outfight and outproduce all regimented peoples" he declared.
ref: 1944, Tax Topics: The National Magazine of Tax Accounting, volumes 4-5, page 25:
text: To the old adage that nothing is certain in life except death and taxes, a new one can be added: If the taxocrats continue unchecked, we will all soon be taxed to death!
ref: 1979, Gary Allen, Tax Target: Washington, '76 Press (1979), page 157
text: A federal balanced budget sounds good in political speeches, but in reality the idea is simply a taxocrat's dream, as it would become a constitutional order to cover all spending, even the unnecessary, deficit kind.
ref: 1997 March 24, “Budget Amendment Would Raise Taxes”, in The Record, Bergen County, New Jersey:
glosses: A politician or bureaucrat supporting excessive taxes or spending.
Related terms: spendocrat
taxaholic
taxocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxocrat
spendocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spendocrats
Etymology: From spend + -o- + -crat.
Senses: examples: text: While Washington "spendocrats," of both parties, have spent and wasted more than 100 billion dollars in so-called foreign aid, […]
ref: 1963, Martin Dies, Martin Dies' Story, Bookmailer, page 17:
text: Not AT&T, nor even our governmental spendocrats, can afford to toss satellites into space indefinitely and write them off when a faulty transistor or a coy contact puts them out of commission.
ref: 1963, Telephone Engineer & Management, volume 67, page 47:
text: Spendocrats, I mean Democrats, are willing to pass bills that will cause economic hardship just so that they can show their base that they did it — pandering for votes.
ref: 2012, James Liberty, F. R. E. E. D. O. M.: Essays on America's Fight for Freedom, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: A politician or bureaucrat supporting excessive spending.
Related terms: taxocrat
spendocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spendocrat
lemmatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemmatization
lemmatisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemmatisation
cuban prime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuban primes
Etymology: Punningly on cube (mathematical sense) and Cuban, though there is no meaningful connection with the country of Cuba.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A prime number that is a solution to one of two specific equations involving third powers of x and y. The two equations are p=(x³-y³)/(x-y),x=y+1,y>0 and p=(x³-y³)/(x-y),x=y+2,y>0.
cuban primes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuban prime
driplines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dripline
smartboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smartboards
Etymology: From smart + board, originally a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: With a handful of notable exceptions, most urban classrooms in the United States operate just as they did a century ago: a chalkboard where a smartboard should be, a nicked desk instead of a multifunction workstation, and rows of students segregated in their schools and neighborhoods by class and race.
ref: 2009, Margaret C. Hagood, New Literacies Practices: Designing Literacy Learning, page 8:
text: Smartboards sound like a great idea until you work out how much time and money they tie up. The boards themselves cost thousands of dollars and they must be linked to a computer and an LCD projector.
ref: 2010, Michael Howell, Resistance Is Fertile, page 74:
text: Smartboards make slides easier to display and manipulate, but teachers have been showing pictures to students for centuries.
ref: 2013, Frederick M. Hess, Bror Saxberg, Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age, page 65:
glosses: interactive whiteboard
smartboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smartboard
demonly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demonly
form: most demonly
Etymology: From demon + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “And you might invoke your demonly talent to find us something useful, such as ripe pie trees so we can eat while traveling.”
ref: 2013, Piers Anthony, Luck of the Draw - Page 146:
glosses: Of, relating to, or like a demon; demonic.
demonly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more demonly
form: most demonly
Etymology: From demon + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She looked a goddess, but of a dark power — the livid hue of the cheek enhanced by the bold, wild light of the eye. He had never seen her look so ill, and yet so demonly superb!
ref: 1857, Rose Foot, Good in Everything:
glosses: In a manner befitting or like a demon.
taking in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take in
cardice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originally a trademark, perhaps a shortening of carbon dioxide/dry ice.
Senses: glosses: solid carbon dioxide
Synonyms: dry ice
live over the brush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives over the brush
form: living over the brush
form: lived over the brush
form: lived over the brush
Etymology: Possibly ultimately derived from broomstick wedding, with broomstick meaning ersatz or sham. Often said to be derived from early British or Romani wedding practices, in which a couple could become married outside the Church by leaping a broom or brush, but no evidence exists for such a ceremony.
Senses: examples: text: I know what people think about the North. They think it's all muck and living over the brush with women like Elsie Tanner.
ref: 1982, Peter Tinniswood, The Home Front, page 10:
text: After the birth of their son, Stanley, the couple moved to Bradford and "lived over the brush" in West Bowling in a back-to-back terraced house.
ref: 1991, Punch, volume 300, page 134:
text: I was saying to my Albert, I wouldn't be surprised if him and that so-called wife of his was living over the brush.
ref: 2013, Gilda O'Neill, Just Around the Corner, →ISBN:
glosses: To cohabit without being married.
Synonyms: live in sin
lives over the brush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of live over the brush
living over the brush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of live over the brush
lived over the brush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of live over the brush
elseward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: elsewards
Etymology: Univerbation of else + ward.
Senses: examples: text: Thy Eyes, can they turn from that infant face elseward than to […]
ref: 2002, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas McFarland, Nicholas Halmi, Opus Maximum:
glosses: To another place; in a different direction; somewhere else.
elsewards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Univerbation of else + wards.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of elseward.
graduate thesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graduate theses
Senses: glosses: A master's thesis or (doctoral) dissertation.
whorely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whorely
form: most whorely
Etymology: From whore + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] the family spawned two kinds of women, the womanly woman and her negation, the whorely whore: the pure and the impure.
ref: 2013, Martha Vicinus, Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age - Page 168:
text: So, since she had thrown away all her whorely jewels, she turned the umbilical cord into a necklace and wore it around her alabaster neck.
ref: 2013, Daniel Arasse, Take a Closer Look - Page 81:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or befitting a whore; whorelike; whorish.
shithook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shithooks
Etymology: From shit + hook.
Senses: glosses: Term of abuse.
varia lectio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vâʹrĭə-lĕkʹtĭō
ipa: /ˈvɛəɹɪəˈlɛktɪəʊ/
Forms: form: variae lectiones
form: variæ lectiones
form: var. lect.
form: v.l.
Etymology: Latin: varia (feminine singular form of varius, “different”; whence various) + lectiō (“a reading”; whence lection) = “a different reading”
Senses: qualifier: textual criticism and interpretation
glosses: Any one of the interpretations or readings of a given passage in a text which differ from copy to copy, from edition to edition, from manuscript to manuscript, or from translation to translation.
variae lectiones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vâʹrĭē-lĕktĭōʹnēz
ipa: /ˈvɛəɹɪiː.lɛktɪˈəʊniːz/
Forms: form: vv.ll.
Etymology: Latin: variae (feminine plural form of varius, “different”) + lectiōnēs (“readings”, plural form of lectiō, “a reading”) = “different readings”
Senses: glosses: plural of varia lectio
variæ lectiones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varia lectio
pikols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pikol
avi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin avis (“bird”).
Senses: synonyms: ornitho-
glosses: bird
glosses: flight
foster home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foster homes
form: foster-home
form: fosterhome
Etymology: From foster + home.
Senses: examples: text: The group placed him in a foster home with a woman and two little girls, then advertised in the local paper.
ref: 2003, Marilyn Cochran Mosley, Dachshund Tails Rescued and Other Tales:
text: Pete's foster home placements were never successful.
ref: 2007, Geraldine M Humphrey, David G Zimpfer, Counselling for Grief and Bereavement:
text: For a long time, as they shifted him from foster home to foster home, his records lost somewhere, he believed he was an orphan; but slowly it came to him that this was not true: he was a bastard.
ref: 2014, Ernest Hebert, The Dogs of March:
glosses: A household in which a child or animal is raised by someone other than their natural or adoptive parent or owner (respectively), especially, in the case of a child, when that caregiver is otherwise unrelated to the child.
Related terms: foster care
foster child
foster family
foster father
foster mother
foster parent
fell-field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fell-fields
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fellfield.
sunket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunkets
Senses: glosses: A dainty or delicacy.
Farkas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Farkases
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Farkas.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
taxaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more taxaholic
form: most taxaholic
Etymology: From tax + -aholic.
Senses: examples: text: As the taxaholic Clinton administration struggles to govern this taxaphobic nation, it is provoking protests not quite as stirring as the dean's, but which should be heeded.
ref: 1993 May 17, George F. Will, “The Energy-Tax Doily”, in The Baltimore Sun:
text: These taxaholic spendocrats see no end to your money.
ref: 2005, Alan S. Ferguson, The Dummy, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 299:
text: What protects citizens against "taxaholic" local legislative bodies is the state requirement that local tax hikes must be approved by the voters in a referendum.
ref: 2012, Ann O'M. Bowman, Richard C. Kearney, State and Local Government: The Essentials, Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 241:
glosses: Having or supporting excessive taxes.
taxaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxaholics
Etymology: From tax + -aholic.
Senses: examples: text: The reason Canadians put us here was to voice their concerns and frustrations over the weight of a central government that is a tax and spend fanatic, a taxaholic.
ref: 2000, House of Commons Debates, numbers 75-84, page 5849:
text: If you watch commercial television this month, you likely have seen a Bush-Cheney positive ad, possibly the one touting President Bush's No Child Left Behind education program, or a negative one that attacks Sen. John Kerry as either a flip-flopper, a taxaholic, or as soft on military issues.
ref: 2004 May 23, “'... and I approved this message'”, in Star Tribune:
text: The majority of taxaholics are particularly addicted to the most destructive taxes, being the taxes on capital.
ref: 2010 May 11, Richard W. Rahn, “Taxaholics”, in The Washington Times:
glosses: A person or government which institutes or supports excessive taxes.
Related terms: taxocrat
taxaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxaholic
spendicitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of spend + appendicitis.
Senses: examples: text: If you have spendicitis, put a padlock upon your purse, for it is better to starve to death than to live a spendthrift.
ref: 1904, Official Journal of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, volume 18, page 493:
text: The way taxes, licenses and truck fees have been boosted in California the past year, it appears our representatives have been afflicted with a very bad case of spendicitis.
ref: 1949, We, the People: The Yearbook of Public Opinion, Paebar Company, page 174:
text: This can cause spendicitis. This disease warps your brain into thinking that if your credit card still clears a transaction, you'll probably have enough money to cover it . . . someday.
ref: 2006, Lyman Rose, Winning the War Againist Debt: Managing Your Personal Finances to Eliminate Debt, CFI, →ISBN, page ix:
glosses: Excessive spending viewed as a medical disorder.
shepherd satellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shepherd satellite
donburis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donburi
taxaphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more taxaphobic
form: most taxaphobic
Etymology: tax + -a- + -phobic
Senses: examples: text: Today Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, from Illinois, has the challenging task of selling a taxaphobic nation on the rationality of spending much more on infrastructure.
ref: 1992, George F. Will, Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home 1986-1990, Free Press, →ISBN, page 173:
text: The complicated U.S. taxation systems, the bureaucratic madness of the April 15th deadline, drive honest taxpayers insane and most have become taxaphobic.
ref: 2009, A. Semed Atick, Oh America!: Through The Eyes of an Immigrant, Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: Taxes drove the American Revolution, for we were a taxaphobic people who believed in severely limited government.
ref: 2011, Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Fearing or opposing taxes.
mizuhiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 水引 (mizuhiki, “decorative cord”).
Senses: examples: text: This is tied with the mizuhiki, a type of paper-twine, and a folded piece of paper called noshi is attached to the upper right-hand corner.
ref: 1964, Nihon Yunesuko Kokunai Iinkai, Japan: It's Land, People, and Culture, page 758:
text: In fact the string colors may indicate further divisions in types of gifts. According to Ekiguchi, this mizuhiki (Fig. 1.5), as it is called in Japanese, comes in eight different combinations of colors.
ref: 1993, Joy Hendry, Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation and Power in Japan and Other Societies, pages 15-16:
glosses: Japanese cord made from paper and used to decorate gifts.
examples: text: At a recent fundraiser for Nikkei Concerns, Ohno and his father Yuki received this ‘mizuhiki’ artwork by Haruko Shimizu
ref: 2006 July 28, Chad Pata, “Apolo Ohno’s Golden Years”, in Midweek:
text: Follow these instructions by Karen Thomas to learn how to make a mizuhiki Christmas tree card.
ref: 2014 November 25, Carol Duvall, “How to Make a Mizuhiki Christmas Tree Card”, in HGTV, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2017:
glosses: Handicraft or artwork made from Japanese paper cord or similar material.
Related terms: mizuhiki-maku
breedists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breedist
ancestorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ancestor + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The emphasis of the importance of one's foremothers, forefathers or lineage.
glosses: ancestor worship.
incestophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incest + -o- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: Children show erotic ties to parents and brothers and sisters, though not before 4–6 years of age. Infantile incestophilia is manifested by sensations and phantasies; incestuous acts, even sexual acts, may occur among brothers and sisters.
ref: 1922, International Medical and Surgical Survey: Urology:
text: For example, there seems to actually be a disinclination to mate with a near relative (given alternatives) (and yes, various forms of incestophilia abound, but still). But it also seems not to be based on any perception of relatedness, at least not in humans, but rather on whether you were brought up together.
ref: 2005, Dave Goldman, “Incest & genetics (was Re: Well-written good to evil conversions?)”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
glosses: The love of incest.
ancestorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ancestorists
Senses: examples: text: 1991 John Wilber, Re: Ancestrism (was Re: invitation to NativeNet) Group: alt.individualism
This certainly seems to be an ancestorist point of view. They weren't forced to submit to a lifestyle involving a very different view of their relationship with their world, if they wanted to be able to move about?
text: However, maybe some people – emphasising that it is not moral status racism – will accept that the ancestorist principle entails a form of racism, perhaps arguing that it is a relatively ...
ref: 2011, Friedel Weinert, Evolution, 2.0, p 158:
text: Encyclopedically unfolded, the characteristic interaction or production norm taxonomies, and the practice classifications, which chapters two or three show as consequent on the Secret Society's ancestorist macro-norm with its value ...
ref: 1992 Schweizerische Ethnologische Gesellschaft, Information S.E.G./S.S.E. - Page 37
glosses: A proponent of ancestorism
ancestorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancestorist
serpentinine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: serpentina (as in the species Rauwolfia serpentina) + -ine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An indole alkaloid found in plants of the genus Rauwolfia.
kafirize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kafirizes
form: kafirizing
form: kafirized
form: kafirized
form: Kafirize
Etymology: From kafir + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make or become kafir.
examples: text: The practice of Islamists to kafirize their opponents (that is, to declare them unbelievers or pagans) further widens the gap between the radicals and the mainstream
ref: 2004, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Ray Takeyh, The Receding Shadow of the Prophet, Westport, Connecticut; London: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:
text: 1999, Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding Georgetown University John L. Esposito Professor of Religion and International Affairs, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?: Myth or Reality?
In particular, many are challenged to avoid, in their zeal to Islamize state and society, a tendency to “kafirize.”
text: No intention to kafirize 'non-believers'.
ref: 1993 August 20, Uma Ramamurthy, “India-D Digest”, in bit.listserv.india-d (Usenet):
glosses: To accuse another person of being a heretic against Islam.
Related terms: takfir
oenaphile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of oenophile.
rascaille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rascailles
Etymology: See rascal
Senses: glosses: A rascal.
glosses: A rabble or mob.
kafirizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kafirize
kafirizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kafirize
kafirized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kafirize
kafirness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kafir + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ... accepted their kafirness without comment, and their money. They had seen him only a few days before in the bazaar ...
ref: 2014 Francis Connell, With One Fool Left in the World, No One is Stranded, p 166
text: I felt glad for my goatee: along with Herry's company, it made my kafirness less apparent.
ref: 2013, Sedanand Dhume, My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist:
text: 2009 Faizur Rahman, re: [progressive interactions217] re: intelligence squared debate: catholics humiliated by ... Group: Progressive interactions
... our ulema must stop playing god and let him decide on the muslimness or the kafirness of a person
glosses: The quality of being kafir
bedaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedaws
form: bedawing
form: bedawed
form: bedawed
Etymology: From Middle English bedauen, bedaghen (“to become day, dawn”); equivalent to be- + daw (“to dawn, to awake”). More at daw.
Senses: examples: text: That one halt and that other draweth, There is no day which hem bedaweth, […]
ref: 1857, original 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins:
glosses: To awake.
Related terms: adaw
wonder-bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wonder-bearing
form: most wonder-bearing
form: wonderbearing
Etymology: From wonder + bearing. Compare Saterland Frisian wunderboar (“wonderful”), Dutch wonderbaar (“miraculous”), wonderbaarlijk (“fantastic, amazing”), German wunderbar.
Senses: glosses: Bearing or carrying a sense of awe, surprise, or wonder; wonderful; miraculous.
finoki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: finocchi
Forms: form: finoki
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hinoki.
seedbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seedbearing
form: most seedbearing
form: seed-bearing
Etymology: From seed + bearing.
Senses: examples: text: seedbearing plants
synonyms: spermophytic
glosses: Capable of producing or bearing seeds.
wonderworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wonderworthy
form: most wonderworthy
form: wonder-worthy
Etymology: From wonder + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: [...] it was possible for these [Homeric] hymns to be disfigured by so many large additions.” Niebuhr described the Prolegomena in 1827 as “those wonderworthy investigations in which the higher branch of criticism reacht [sic] its perfection.
ref: 2014, Friedrich August Wolf, Prolegomena to Homer, 1795 - Page 28:
glosses: Worthy of wonder, amazement, admiration, or awe; worthy of being admired or of holding status as a wonder.
Kletsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Belarus.
hill to die on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hills to die on
Etymology: An allusion to the instances where a military doggedly pursues a goal or defends a position no matter the cost or (lack of) benefit, typically involving a hill (high ground). Examples include Battle of Hamburger Hill, Battle of Thermopylae, and Last Stand Hill.
Senses: examples: text: "I'm sorry, Alisha. I can't overrule the European director's decision to move you out of her arena. This isn't a hill to die on. […]
ref: 2006, Cate Dermody, The Firebird Deception, Silhouette Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 113:
text: Is correct laundry folding really a hill to die on?
ref: 2009, Kevin Leman, Under the Sheets: The Secrets to Hot Sex in Your Marriage, Revell, published 2009, →ISBN, page 179:
text: Though I simply apologized and told him his ranting wasn't necessary. He made a bad decision. I made a good one. As livid as I was, I realized this situation was not a hill to die on.
ref: 2010, Deborah Smith Pegues, Ricky Temple, Why Smart People Make Dumb Choices, Harvest House Publishers, published 2010, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: An issue to pursue with a wholehearted conviction or a single-minded focus, with little or no regard to the cost and no intent of equivocation or compromise.
wikipedia: Battle of Hamburger Hill
Battle of Little Big Horn
Battle of Thermopylae
Related terms: pick your battles
hills to die on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hill to die on
Lumberton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From lumber + -ton.
Senses: glosses: A city in Lamar County and Pearl River County, Mississippi.
glosses: A township in Burlington County, New Jersey.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Robeson County, North Carolina.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Clinton County, Ohio.
glosses: A city in Hardin County, Texas.
Surf City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A borough of New Jersey.
glosses: A town in North Carolina.
Burgaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of Pender County, North Carolina, United States.
Topsail Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in North Carolina.
Watha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in North Carolina.
Manteo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of Dare County, North Carolina.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Virginia.
kompromat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kompromats
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian компрома́т (kompromát), short for компромети́рующий материа́л (komprometírujuščij materiál, “compromising material”). KGB slang from the Stalin era.
Senses: examples: text: Many observers have commented that, with so many Russian newspapers and TV channels now controlled by oligarchs or powerful organisations, kompromat is now a regular feature in the supposedly independent press.
text: If your car has a bunch of data that's useful to stalkers, it's only because the car manufacturers have turned cars into rolling surveillance platforms that spy on their drivers constantly […] If Big Car is worried that used vehicles are full of nonconsensually collected kompromat, maybe they could, you know, just stop collecting all that data?
ref: 2020 September 3, Cory Doctorow, “Big Car says Right to Repair will MURDER YOU”, in Pluralistic:
text: This could mean that the most powerful men involved in the scandal are good at intimidating accusers. But it could also mean Epstein really was just following his own perversions, not catering to (or gathering kompromat on) his wealthy friends.
ref: 2025 September 9, Ross Douthat, “Can Trump Deflate the Epstein Birthday-Book Scandal?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Compromising material, blackmail material, (real or fabricated) evidence that a person does not want revealed, dirt.
Kannapolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in North Carolina.
Landis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Landises
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in North Carolina.
glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
unplace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unplaces
form: unplacing
form: unplaced
form: unplaced
Etymology: From un- + place.
Senses: glosses: To remove from one's place; displace.
unplace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unplaces
Etymology: From un- + place.
Senses: examples: text: More fundamental even than the paradox of dying to live is the paradox of being enclosed in a narrow place to gain access to the limitless unplace which is Heaven: my cell is so narrow,' you may say, but oh, how wide is the sky!
ref: 2014, Bonnie Wheeler, Medieval Mothering - Page 164:
glosses: Lack or absence of place; placelessness; displacement.
Beauval
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Beauval.
Senses: glosses: Beauval (a town in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France).
glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Cabri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Craik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A rural municipality in Saskatchewan, which includes the town; in full, the Rural Municipality of Craik No. 222.
glosses: A hamlet in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3408).
glosses: A surname.
Eston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛstən/
rhymes: -ɛstən
Forms: form: Estons
Etymology: From Old English ēast (“east”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A town in Redcar and Cleveland district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ5518).
glosses: A placename:
A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Nokomis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Florida.
glosses: A city in Illinois.
glosses: A community in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
glosses: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Dafoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Related terms: Defoe
Foe
Frontier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Koochiching County, Minnesota, United States, located on the Canadian border.
glosses: A city in North Dakota.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Wyoming.
glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A rural municipality on the US border in south-west Saskatchewan, which includes the village; in full, the Rural Municipality of Frontier No. 19.
Tessier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Teissier
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Eyebrow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Neudorf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Neudorf, from neu- (new) + Dorf (village).
Senses: glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Derived terms: neudorfite
Related terms: Graben-Neudorf
islamophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: islamophobes
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Islamophobe.
islamophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of islamophobe
islamophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more islamophobic
form: most islamophobic
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Islamophobic.
Islamophobias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Islamophobia
extrovertist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrovertists
Etymology: From extrovert + -ist.
Senses: glosses: extrovert
introvertist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: introvertists
Etymology: From introvert + -ist.
Senses: glosses: introvert
introvertists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of introvertist
extrovertists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extrovertist
mosqueing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mosque + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Both in the morning and the afternoon we broke the monotony of mosqueing by going into the shops of some of the jewellers and embroidery merchants, who have been tormenting the lives out of us since we have been here […]
ref: 1934, Clara Kathleen Rogers, Henry Munroe Rogers, Journal-letters from the Orient, page 180:
text: P.L. gave me an inferior dressing gown and Mary bought one that suits her fairness, otherwise no purchases. Next morning we did some mosqueing and souking […]
ref: 2014, Diana Cooper, Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Son John Julius Norwich, 1939-1952:
glosses: The practice of visiting or attending a mosque.
examples: text: No Islamist entity has seized upon the message sent by The Bow more than the Muslim Brotherhood—the first modern Islamic terrorist group and the Saudis' steadfast ally in the mosqueing of America.
ref: 2011, Erick Stakelbeck, The Terrorist Next Door:
glosses: The introduction of Islam to a place.
alkoxys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkoxy
gamergate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæm.ə.ɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡæm.əɹˌɡeɪt/
Forms: form: gamergates
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γάμος (gámos, “union, marriage”) + ergate.
Senses: examples: text: Recent studies indicate that queenless societies can have either one or several gamergates per colony, which reveals that reproductive inhibition can occur despite the absence of the queen caste.
ref: 1990, Christian Peeters, “Monogyny and Polygyny in Ponerine Ants Without Queens”, in Social Insects and the Environment: Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of IUSSI, 1990, Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 234:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A worker insect that can become capable of reproducing when the queen has died.
Related terms: dinergate
ergate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergates
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐργάτης (ergátēs, “workman”).
Senses: examples: text: The worker (ergates) is characterized by the complete absence of wings and a very small (stenonotal) thorax, much simplified in the structure of its sclerites.
ref: 1910, William Morton Wheeler, Ants: Their Structure, Development and Behavior, Columbia University Press, page 97:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A worker ant.
Derived terms: dinergate
gamergate
macrergate
micrergate
ergates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergate
gamergates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamergate
brake fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brake fluids
Senses: glosses: A special fluid for operating hydraulic brakes and clutches, which are linked by pipe to a master cylinder.
glosses: Sedative drugs used to calm down a prisoner.
rain forests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rain forest
fanficcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanficcers
form: fanficker
form: fan-ficcer
Etymology: From fanfic + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Shh! Quiet now, or you'll attract evil fanficcers who fancy they can wring a good psychodrama out of this. You don't want to attract evil fanficcers, do you?
ref: 2000 December 24, Namek-Lady Cegi, “Re: Is Piccolo His Own Uncle/Father?”, in alt.fan.dragonball (Usenet), message-ID <92545t$107$1@nnrp1.deja.com>:
text: LOL! Gotta admire you for sticking by your man, Eve. And look at the bright side of things: Every fandom has a canon whore, the one that fanficcers write into every compromising kama sutra sexual position paired with absolutely /everybody/ all the way down to the scum of the galaxy. And in the Stargate uni, the canon whore isn't Jack; it's Daniel.
ref: 2004 August 26, Pitcher Catcher, “Re: Jack is the one (Was: Daniel and Dunlap's disease....)”, in alt.tv.stargate-sg1 (Usenet), message-ID <KWnXc.13445$sf3.8890@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>:
text: Many fanficcers were career professionals — lawyers, professors, scientists and teachers. Most of the ficcers participating in the study noted at the beginning of this chapter 'shipped at least one 'special' relationship, which they referred to as their OTP (One True Pairing). Still others challenged themselves to write stories without 'ships, and to write stories about many different 'ships.
ref: 2013, Mary Kirby-Diaz, “Ficcers and 'Shippers: A Love Story”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: A writer of fan fiction.
Synonyms: ficcer
fanficcers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanficcer
hemisemidemiquaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemisemidemiquavers
Etymology: From hemi- + semidemiquaver.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A sixty-fourth note.
overconform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overconforms
form: overconforming
form: overconformed
form: overconformed
Etymology: From over- + conform.
Senses: glosses: To conform to a greater extent than necessary or desirable.
underconform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underconforms
form: underconforming
form: underconformed
form: underconformed
Etymology: From under- + conform.
Senses: glosses: To conform to a lesser extent than necessary or desirable.
overconforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overconform
overconforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overconform
overconformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overconform
underconforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underconform
underconforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underconform
underconformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underconform
antherless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anther + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without anthers.
booging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boog
supravitally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supravital + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a supravital manner.
architype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: architypes
Senses: examples: text: […] an architype applicable to nothing that is really typified by it […]
ref: 1754, Henry-Saint-John Bolingbroke, The Philosophical Works (volume 1, page 188)
text: The Jews considered the empyral heavens as the architype of the temple of Jerusalem.
ref: 1833, The Evangelist, volume 2, page 11:
glosses: Obsolete form of archetype.
rhizomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizomorph
undervolted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undervolted
form: most undervolted
Etymology: From under- + volt + -ed.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having the voltage reduced from that originally supplied by the manufacturer.
undervolted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From under- + volt + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undervolt
Related terms: undervoltage
undervolting
midorbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midorbits
Etymology: From mid- + orbit.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The middle of an orbit.
Derived terms: midorbital
midorbital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Etymology: From mid- + orbital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the midorbit.
frontonasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɹʌn.toʊˈneɪ.zəl/
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Etymology: From fronto- + nasal.
Senses: examples: text: frontonasal duct, frontonasal prominence
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: nasofrontal
glosses: relating to the frontal bone and the nose
Related terms: craniofrontonasal
remailings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remailing
killstreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪlˌstɹik/
Forms: form: killstreaks
Etymology: From kill + streak.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: An unbroken streak (continuous series) of kills.
topics: video-games
glosses: An award or an advantage that a player obtains by achieving an unbroken streak of kills (as sense 1) of a given length.
killstreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killstreak
Kimjongilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kim Jong Il + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Juche; the political thesis formed by the former North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, as subsequently influenced by Kim Jong Il.
Related terms: Kimilsungism
kilowattage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilowattages
Etymology: From kilo- + wattage.
Senses: glosses: An amount of power expressed in kilowatts.
kilowattages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilowattage
plurennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /plʊəˈɹɛnɪəl/
Etymology: From New Latin plūrennis + English -ial, after -ennial (compare pluriennial).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:plurennial.
glosses: Spanning several years in duration or interval.
plurennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /plʊəˈɹɛnɪəl/
Forms: form: plurennials
Etymology: From New Latin plūrennis + English -ial, after -ennial (compare pluriennial).
Senses: glosses: A plurennial plant; a plant that lives for several years.
plurennials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plurennial
police village
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlɪdʒ
Forms: form: police villages
Senses: glosses: Part of a township in Ontario, Canada, not incorporated by the provincial government, and having its own elected governing body of trustees.
police villages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police village
police tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Tape used as a police barricade, typically in order to restrict access to the scene of a crime.
polystylist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polystylists
Etymology: From poly- + stylist.
Senses: examples: text: Other similarities include both these artists' brilliance as polystylists, their scope, their personal conservatism and refinement, plus the technical innovations that melded expression and tradition.
ref: 1992, Walter Sorell, The Dance Has Many Faces, page 168:
glosses: A polystylistic artist.
polystylism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + style + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A polystylistic approach in art or music.
polystylists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polystylist
Little Gem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Little Gems
Senses: glosses: A small variety of cos lettuce.
plutey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plutey
form: most plutey
Etymology: From plute + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] Rice Rees, Art Chamberlain, and Butch Nicholson; a select GD crowd, we were told, a rather plutey bunch.
ref: 1933, The Commercial Telegraphers' Journal:
text: She'd been posing as a journalist and had joined a plutey Bangkok tennis club to get close to a general in the government.
ref: 2010, Mark Abernethy, Second Strike:
glosses: plutocratic
Godself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑdˈsɛlf/
ipa: /ɡɒdˈsɛlf/
rhymes: -ɛlf
Senses: examples: text: This is so, Barth claims, because reflection on revelation actually leads to the realization that the God who reveals Godself as Godself is in fact the trinitarian God.
ref: 2016 [2009], Hannah Bacon, What's Right with the Trinity? Conversations in Feminist Theology, Routledge:
glosses: Non-gendered form of God himself.
examples: text: In the songs praising God’s goodness beats the praise for the wondrous promises of God’s kingdom, of the new heaven and the new earth on which justice prevails, of fellowship with God when Godself will wipe away all tears from the eyes, where there will be no affliction any more, no longer any violence and injustice.
ref: 2024, Dirk J. Smit, edited by Sipho Mahokoto, Essays on the Real Church: Collected Essays, volume 8, African Sun Media, page 21:
glosses: Non-gendered form of God himself.
Related terms: word: Ime
word: me
word: myselfmemysen
word: mine
word: mymineme
word: we
word: us
word: ourselvesourselfoursen
word: oursourn
word: our
word: you
word: yourselfyoursen
word: yoursyourn
word: your
word: thou
word: thee
word: thyselftheeselfthysen
word: thine
word: thythine
word: youye
word: yourselves
word: you ally'all you guys
word: y'allselves
word: all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
word: all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
word: he
word: him
word: himselfhisselfhissen
word: hishisn
word: his
word: she
word: her
word: herselfhersen
word: hershern
word: ithit
word: itselfhitself
word: itshis
word: itshishits
word: they
word: them
word: themself
word: themselves
word: theirs
word: their
word: one
word: oneself
word: –
word: one's
word: themhem
word: 'em
word: themselvestheirsen
word: theirstheirn
word: The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
word: including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
word: archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
Barthian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Barthian
form: most Barthian
Etymology: From Barth + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Karl Barth (1886–1968), Swiss Reformed theologian.
glosses: Of or relating to John Barth (1930–2024), American writer known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction.
MacNab cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MacNab cypresses
form: McNab's cypress
Senses: glosses: Cupressus macnabiana, a cypress found only in California.
Synonyms: Shasta cypress
Macnab cypresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Macnab cypress
mercury switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: mercury switches
Senses: glosses: A switch that opens and closes an electric circuit through a small amount of liquid mercury.
telementational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From telementation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to telementation.