cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stereotypable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stereotypable
form: most stereotypable
Etymology: From stereotype + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be stereotyped.
stertoriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stertoriously
form: most stertoriously
Etymology: From stertorious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stertorious manner.
Stesichorean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Stesichorean
form: most Stesichorean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Stesichoran.
Stevensoniana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Stevenson + -iana.
Senses: glosses: Items related to the author Robert Louis Stevenson, especially collectibles.
stichometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stichometrical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stichometrical manner.
stillish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈstɪlɪʃ/
Forms: form: more stillish
form: most stillish
Etymology: From still + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat still.
stimulogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Giving rise to a stimulus.
stocktaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stocktakers
Etymology: From stock + taker.
Senses: glosses: One who stocktakes.
stocktakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stocktaker
fax numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fax number
quoddity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quoddities
Senses: examples: text: They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the Codes, Provincials, Decretals, Pandects, Councils, Canons ; are Maſters of all the Schoolmen, not to fill their Heads and ſtuff their Writings with Quiddities and Quoddities, and far-fetched unintelligible Diſtinctions, but to be able to reaſon cloſely, to argue ſolidly, to rebuke, to confute, to reply, to rejoind, to ſyllogize, to criticize, to apologize, to advertize, to ſermonize, to decypherize, to――
ref: 1744, A Dialogue Between the Rev. Mr. Jenkin Evans and Mr. Peter Dobson, concerning Bishops., London: M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noſter-row, →OCLC, page 37:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: thatness
coordinate_terms: quiddity
glosses: The individual identity of something.
stokerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stoker + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a stoker.
quodlibetificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quodlibetificates
form: quodlibetificating
form: quodlibetificated
form: quodlibetificated
Senses: glosses: To debate by means of quodlibets
stoloniferously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stoloniferous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stoloniferous manner.
quodlibetificates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quodlibetificate
quodlibetificated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quodlibetificate
quodlibetificating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quodlibetificate
stradametrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the measurement of streets.
quotatious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: tending to use quotations
stramineously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stramineous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stramineous manner.
stratagematist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stratagematists
Senses: glosses: strategist
stratagematists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stratagematist
stratagematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stratagematic
form: most stratagematic
Senses: glosses: strategic
stratagematical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stratagematical
form: most stratagematical
Senses: glosses: strategic
quotidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: quotidian, daily
quotidially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quotidial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a quotidial manner
discry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discries
form: discrying
form: discried
form: discried
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of descry.
discried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discry
discries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discry
discrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discry
qwertyuiop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of QWERTYUIOP.
luminaphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luminaphones
Etymology: From Latin lūmen (“light”) + -phone.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A kind of organ whose keys project light beams through perforated revolving disks onto selenium cells in order to produce electrical vibrations that generate the sound.
luminaphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luminaphone
stretches the envelope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stretch the envelope
stratoplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stratoplanes
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical airplane capable of travel in the stratosphere.
stratoplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stratoplane
Mow Cop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Odd Rode parish, Cheshire East district, Cheshire and Kidsgrove parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8557).
strengthlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more strengthlessly
form: most strengthlessly
Etymology: From strengthless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without strength.
strepitantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more strepitantly
form: most strepitantly
Etymology: From strepitant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a strepitant manner.
bussin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌsɪn/
Forms: form: bussin
Etymology: Respelling of busting (or bursting, as in "bursting with flavor") to reflect pronunciation with consonant cluster reduction and g-dropping. Compare chirren, chil'ren.
Senses: examples: text: “Her cake and brownies be bussin.” Swan never looked up from what he was doing or he would have seen a look of total longing on Shay's face.
ref: 2017, Y Blak Moore, Heartless, →ISBN, page 85:
text: They all sucked their teeth and started fixing my plate. The food was bussin', they knew what they were doing in the kitchen.
ref: 2018, King Vance, L's Angels:
text: “Uhh, Georgetown is not around the corner, but I feel cupcakes do be bussin.” “Yoooo, that's what I'm saying. Especially that maple creme and bacon one[…]”
ref: 2018, “Diary of the Plug's Daughter 3”, in Sol, Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN:
text: I hope at SC State dem boi food be bussin like how e iz down ya. Fo real.
ref: 2020, Travis Lamar, Memoirs of a Kuntri Boi, page 81:
glosses: Delicious.
glosses: Delicious.
Really good.
bussin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌsɪn/
Forms: form: bussin
Etymology: Respelling of busting (or bursting, as in "bursting with flavor") to reflect pronunciation with consonant cluster reduction and g-dropping. Compare chirren, chil'ren.
Senses: examples: text: “Reckon I'll be bussin' tables over t the L and L.” “You don't have civil service protection?” Edgar shook his head.
ref: 1998, Richard Parrish, Defending the Truth, Onyx Books, →ISBN:
text: "Before too long, they'll be bussin' 'em up from Seattle to take my fish."
ref: 2000, Barbara Bretton, The Bride Came C. O. D., Harlequin Books, →ISBN:
text: “I'd still be bussin' dishes an' Rebecca here would still be workin' in the galley. Shit.” Bill went on.
ref: 2018, Timothy J Amerine, Hell in a Handbasket, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of bussing.
examples: text: “I be bussin' these niggas asses in Scrabble, so that shit is gon' help my game, you feel me?” “No doubt, I know damn well you be bussin' them niggas' asses, […]”
ref: 2006, Tina Brooks McKinney, B.L.U.N.T., Meisha Camm, Around the Way Girls 8, Urban Books, →ISBN:
text: “Well, at least the partners know we're the ones who are bussin' our butts to make the campaigns happen.” “That's just it,” Vincent said. “They don't know, […]"
ref: 2018, G. Modele Clarke, Stories from the Pews, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of busting.
stultiloquently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stultiloquently
form: most stultiloquently
Etymology: From stultiloquent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stultiloquent manner.
stumpless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stump + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without stumps.
subalternately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subalternate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a subalternate manner.
subgenerical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: subgeneric
subglobosely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subglobose + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a subglobose manner.
subhemispherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + hemispherical.
Senses: glosses: Almost hemispherical.
sublettable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sublet + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be sublet.
subsartorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + sartorial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Under the sartorius muscle.
subscapulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of subscapular.
subschedule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subschedules
Etymology: From sub- + schedule.
Senses: glosses: A schedule forming part of a greater schedule.
subschedules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subschedule
subsinuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + sinuous.
Senses: glosses: Almost sinuous.
substratospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + stratospheric.
Senses: glosses: Below the stratosphere.
subsulfid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsulfids
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of subsulfide.
subsulphid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsulphids
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of subsulphide.
subsulfids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsulfid
subsulphids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsulphid
suburbanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suburbanly
form: most suburbanly
Etymology: From suburban + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a suburban manner.
Scholar Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally Scholehalc (late 13th century), from Old Norse skáli + Old English halh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Odd Rode parish, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8357).
suicidalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From suicidal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: suicidality
suitoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suitoresses
Etymology: From suitor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female suitor.
suitoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suitoress
suggestivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: suggestiveness
sulfasuxidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: succinylsulfathiazole
arctolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːkˈtɒlətɹi/
Forms: form: arctolatries
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”) + λάτρις (látris, “worshipper”)
Senses: glosses: the worship of bears
superalkalinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being superalkaline.
superbungalow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbungalows
Senses: glosses: An especially large or luxurious bungalow.
superbungalows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superbungalow
bestuccoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Covered in stucco.
superchivalrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superchivalrous
form: most superchivalrous
Etymology: From super- + chivalrous.
Senses: glosses: Very chivalrous.
superbrave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superbrave
form: most superbrave
Etymology: From super- + brave.
Senses: glosses: Very brave.
the double O
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the double o
form: the double-O
form: the double-o
Etymology: By visual analogy with a pair of eyes or spectacles.
Senses: examples: text: So then I and Bishop knocked the street-car service and President Wilson and give each other the double O.
ref: 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
glosses: A thorough look or inspection.
kadin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kadins
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish قادین (kadın, “lady, matron, materfamilias; lady consort”).
Senses: glosses: A woman of a sultan's harem
kameeldoorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kameeldoorns
Senses: glosses: camelthorn
ka pai
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori ka pai
Senses: glosses: good, fine
Odd Rode
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Rode was recorded in the Domesday Book, possibly from Old English rodu (“clearing”). The origin of the affix Odd is not known.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England.
Related terms: North Rode
karabe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: amber; bitumen
kareau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kareaus
Senses: glosses: kareao
kazachoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kozachok.
kebby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kebbies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kebbie.
kebbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kebby
glosses: plural of kebbie
keelful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keelfuls
Etymology: From keel + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a keel (type of vat) will hold
keely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From keel + -y.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of keel (ruddle)
supercynical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supercynical
form: most supercynical
Etymology: From super- + cynical.
Senses: glosses: Very cynical.
superdelicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superdelicate
form: most superdelicate
Etymology: From super- + delicate.
Senses: glosses: Very delicate.
superdifficult
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superdifficult
form: most superdifficult
Etymology: From super- + difficult.
Senses: glosses: Very difficult.
supereloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supereloquent
form: most supereloquent
Etymology: From super- + eloquent.
Senses: glosses: Very eloquent.
superexquisite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superexquisite
form: most superexquisite
Etymology: From super- + exquisite.
Senses: glosses: Very exquisite.
superfriendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superfriendly
form: most superfriendly
Etymology: From super- + friendly.
Senses: examples: text: “Take it easy” was the watchword of these superfriendly young men, the token of their overfamiliarity, the false reassurance that enabled them to ignore the filth they worked in.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Very friendly.
superignorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superignorant
form: most superignorant
Etymology: From super- + ignorant.
Senses: glosses: Very ignorant.
supervigilant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supervigilant
form: most supervigilant
Etymology: From super- + vigilant.
Senses: glosses: Very vigilant.
superzealous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superzealous
form: most superzealous
Etymology: From super- + zealous.
Senses: glosses: Very zealous.
supportlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supportless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without support.
supportingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supporting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to provide support.
Aldrin cycler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aldrin cyclers
Etymology: From Aldrin + cycler. After Buzz Aldrin, who developed the concept and its mathematical basis. From being a cycler, a space vehicle which cycles between intercepts of two celestial bodies in their own orbits, with little or no orbital adjustments needed, on as close to pure ballistics as practicable.
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A spacecraft which cycles between Earth and Mars, in its own orbit which intercepts both their orbits at times when the planets are at those points in their orbits; which allows transport from Earth to Mars, or vice versa.
wikipedia: Buzz Aldrin
Synonyms: Earth-Mars cycler
Mars cycler
Mars-Earth cycler
Hypernyms: cycler
spacecraft
spaceship
space station
space vehicle
space vessel
Related terms: english: an Earth-Venus cycler
translation: an Earth-Venus cycler
word: Hollister cycler
Aldrins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aldrin
syncretistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more syncretistical
form: most syncretistical
Senses: glosses: syncretistic
systemizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more systemizable
form: most systemizable
Etymology: From systemize + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be systemized.
wire wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire wheels
form: wire-wheel
Senses: examples: text: If they hadn't been payin' him all them millions for pitcher plays, he could of got a job in a wire wheel.
ref: 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
glosses: A wheel having a central hub connected to the rim by wire spokes, formerly in common use on automobiles.
glosses: An abrasive tool consisting of a rotary wire brush that is run on an angle grinder, on a bench grinder, in the chuck of a handheld power drill, etc.
wire wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wire wheels
form: wire wheeling
form: wire wheeled
form: wire wheeled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wire-wheel (verb).
Naevian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈniːvɪən/
Forms: form: more Naevian
form: most Naevian
form: Nævian
Etymology: From the Latin Naeviānus.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Latin poet Gnaeus Naevius.
Related terms: Naevius
Nævian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nævian
form: most Nævian
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Naevian.
Postema
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Postemas
Etymology: Borrowed from West Frisian Postema.
Senses: glosses: A surname from West Frisian.
umbrella cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbrella covers
form: umbrella-cover
Senses: examples: text: On coming to himself after the shock he found the umbrella cover completely burnt off its steel framework, the steel itself being twisted into every sort of shape. The wooden handle had no doubt saved his life[…]
ref: 1894, Scientific American:
text: Her dress was as plain as an umbrella-cover, and she turned round without a word and preceded me into a waiting-room.
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 199, column 2:
text: A umbrella cover would of made him a year's pyjamas.
ref: 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
text: Tendon sheaths are the smooth coverings of tendons analogous to an umbrella cover.
ref: 1928, A Text-book of Orthopedic Surgery for Nurses:
glosses: The waterproof material that forms the protective upperpart of an umbrella (separate from the stick and ribs).
glosses: A protective sheath used to contain a folded-up umbrella when not in use.
Tolsma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tolsmas
Etymology: Borrowed from West Frisian Tolsma.
Senses: glosses: A surname from West Frisian.
beach body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach bodies
Senses: examples: text: Spend one perfect hour at the gym twice a week — and keep your beach body all the way through sweater season
ref: 2007, Women's Health, volume 4, number 8:
text: Keep your beach body — or get it to begin with — using the exclusive shape-up plan women love
ref: 2007, Glamour, volume 105, page 206:
text: There's no need to go to extremes to get your beach body back. Not when you can fine dine your way to a slimmer, healthier you.
ref: 2008, New York, volume 41, numbers 20-24, page 199:
glosses: The body of a person that has been developed to a state of physical attractiveness for display in swimwear at the beach.
beach bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beach body
Yaghan dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yaghan dogs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Fuegian dog.
synonyms: word: Fuegian dog
Yaghan dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yaghan dog
Fuegian dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fuegian dogs
Senses: synonyms: Yaghan dog
glosses: An extinct domesticated canid (not a true dog), similar to the culpeo, of species †Lycalopex culpaeus.
Fuegian dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fuegian dog
Merthyr Vale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Merthyr Tydfil borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0799).
bak kwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bakkwa.
bakkwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbɑ(ʔ)˦˨ k˭wɑ̃˦]
Forms: form: bak kwa
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 肉乾 /肉干 (bah-koaⁿ, “dried meat”).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese salty-sweet dried meat product similar to jerky.
cookset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooksets
Etymology: From cook + set.
Senses: glosses: A set of cooking utensils.
cooksets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cookset
Meker burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Meker burners
Etymology: Introduced by French chemist Georges Méker in an article published in 1905.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: Meker-Fisher burner
coordinate_terms: Bunsen burner
Teclu burner
glosses: A laboratory burner that produces multiple open gas flames, used for heating, sterilization, and combustion.
gastric balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastric balloons
Senses: examples: text: This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.
ref: 2025 May 11, Imogen West-Knights, “‘I lost so much weight, my husband thought I was terminally ill’: why do people lie about taking Ozempic?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: gastroenterology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: IGB
intragastric balloon
stomach balloon
glosses: An inflatable medical device temporarily placed in the stomach to aid weight loss.
gastric balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastric balloon
Teclu burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Teclu burners
Etymology: Named after the Romanian chemist Nicolae Teclu.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: Meker burner
Bunsen burner
glosses: A variant of the Bunsen burner that produces a hotter flame by means of a conical lower section that regulates the influx of air.
wikipedia: Nicolae Teclu
Teclu burners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Teclu burner
septans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septan
chopsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chopse
chopses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chopse
defundings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defunding
deliriated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deliriated
form: most deliriated
Senses: glosses: In a state of delirium.
Troedyrhiw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Troed-y-rhiw
Etymology: From Welsh troed + y + rhiw.
Senses: glosses: A village in Merthyr Tydfil borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO0702).
servingware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From serving + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of serveware.
synonyms: word: serveware
Millerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Miller + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The religious beliefs of the Millerites.
sofa surfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sofa surfers
form: sofasurfer
Senses: glosses: Synonym of couch surfer.
synonyms: word: couch surfer
sofa surfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sofa surfer
bell miners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bell miner
Troed-y-rhiw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Troedyrhiw, Merthyr Tydfil.
glosses: A community in Merthyr Tydfil borough county borough, Wales.
kehoeite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kehoe + -ite, from a Henry Kehoe, its discoverer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft, microcrystalline, hydrated phosphate of aluminium, zinc and calcium.
service lifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of service lift
keller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kellers
Senses: glosses: A beer cellar in Germany or Austria
Derived terms: keller synth
beer cellar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer cellars
Senses: glosses: A cellar in which beer is kept.
synonyms: bierkeller
glosses: An underground bar, typically in German-speaking countries, that specialises in beers.
hutung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hutungs
form: hutung
Senses: examples: text: These great streets are crossed by many broad streets, and these again by an infinite number of narrow streets, called Hutungs, or lanes.
ref: 1866 April 23, W[illiam] Lockhart, “VIII.—Notes on Peking and Its Neighbourhood”, in W[illiam] S[weetland] Dallas, editor, The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, volume XXXVI, London: John Murray; […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 137:
text: In the afternoon a party of us strolled out to the Chinese city [Peking], through the Great Meridian Gate, to examine the curiosity shops. The narrow streets or hutungs in this quarter reminded me of Canton.
ref: 1881, Samuel Pasfield Oliver, chapter III, in On and Off Duty, being Leaves from an Officer’s Note-book, London: W[illiam] H[oughton] Allen & Co., […], →OCLC, page 59:
text: We opened two dispensaries [in Peking] in November last; one at An Ting, where we lived and which was open every day, Sabbath excepted; and one in the other compound at Ya'rh Hutung, which was open about three days in the week.
ref: 1891 January, “Letters from the Front. China. Medicine in Missions.”, in Woman’s Work for Woman. A Union Illustrated Magazine, volume VI, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Woman’s Foreign Missionary Societies of the Presbyterian Church, […], →OCLC, page 18, column 2:
text: Banks, pawn-shops, and large stores were pillaged and burned, the buildings on either side of the Ta Hutung being almost completely destroyed by fire.
ref: 1924, “Tientsin”, in Decennial Reports on the Trade, Industries, etc., of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on the Condition and Development of the Treaty Port Provinces. 1912–21 (China, The Maritime Customs, I (Statistical Series); no. 6), volumes I (Northern and Yangtze Ports), 4th issue, Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs, →OCLC, section 22 (The Revolution and the Fall of the Manchus), page 170:
glosses: Dated spelling of hutong.
hutungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hutung (alternative spelling of hutongs)
kempas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kempases
Senses: glosses: A Malaysian tree Koompassia malaccensis; the hardwood of this tree
postdynastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-dynastic
Etymology: From post- + dynastic.
Senses: examples: text: The synergy between this enduring spirit and Sun’s program, they believed, could resolve China’s postdynastic sociopolitical crises, recoup masculine authority, restore the nation to its rightful position of world leadership, and more generally allow for everything and nothing about the nation to change simultaneously.
ref: 2017, Maggie Clinton, Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937, Durham and London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 5:
glosses: After the rule of a dynasty.
keneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kenemes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ceneme.
Dizangue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Dizangué.
Senses: glosses: A village in Sanaga-Maritime department, Cameroon.
serve-self
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of self-serve.
synonyms: word: self-serve
post-dynastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: postdynastic
Etymology: From post- + dynastic.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: After the dynasties.
kennetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɛˈnɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From Blend of ken + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the acquisition of knowledge
kenoticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The doctrine of kenosis
Related terms: kenotic
kenotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: kenoticism
Newlay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area near Horsforth, Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2336).
kentallenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kentallenites
Etymology: From Kentallen + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monzonite containing olivine.
Kentallen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village on the shore of Loch Linnhe, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN0158).
Derived terms: kentallenite
keora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keoras
Senses: glosses: An Asian plant, Pandanus odoratissimus, that yields an essential oil
quinining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quinine
shelled out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shell out
shells out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shell out
shelling out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shell out
Piccadilly butcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Piccadilly butchers
Etymology: In reference to their savage onslaught upon the crowd on the occasion of the arrest of Sir Francis Burdett at his house in Piccadilly.
Senses: examples: text: The mob in the meantime holloaed out, "No Corn Bill!" While they were proceeding in this manner, a cry was raised that "the Piccadilly butchers were coming."
ref: 1875, The Law Magazine and Review, page 554:
text: "In 1810, my father very nearly had his head cloven by a Piccadilly butcher when merely looking on to see Sir Francis Burdett taken to the tower."
ref: 1913, Ash's Monthly, page 532:
glosses: A member of the regiment of Horse Guards, or "Royal Blues".
wikipedia: Francis Burdett
Piccadilly butchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Piccadilly butcher
mollygrubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mulligrubs.
monkey boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey boats
Senses: glosses: A long, narrow kind of half-decked canal boat.
monkey boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey boat
jazey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jasy.
Stinkomalee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by Theodore Hook, apparently Blend of stink + Trincomalee, perhaps because some cow-houses and dunghills stood on the original site.
Senses: glosses: The University of London.
wikipedia: Theodore Hook
muckinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muckingers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muckender.
Derived terms: neckinger
muckingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muckinger
neckinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neckingers
Etymology: Blend of neck + muckinger
Senses: glosses: A neckerchief.
neckingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neckinger
muckenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muckengers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muckender.
muckinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muckinders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muckender.
muckengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muckenger
muckinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muckinder
piece of goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieces of goods
Senses: examples: text: 'Well, upon my word,' exclaimed the father, taking the pipe from his mouth, and staring aghast at his daughter in a stupor of indignant surprise, 'you're a pretty article; you're a nice piece of goods for a man to bring up and waste his substance upon […]
ref: 1871, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Fenton's Quest:
hyponyms: piece of work
glosses: A person, especially one with undesirable flaws or other notable characteristics.
examples: text: Usually a silk salesman, a man is accustomed to take his piece of goods and handle them, and roll them out and show them to his customers, […]
ref: 1889, N.Y. Supreme Court General Term, page 34:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, goods.
Related terms: piece goods
pieces of goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piece of goods
carry me out
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: carry me out and bury me decently
glosses: Exclamation of pretended astonishment on hearing news too good to be true, or a story too marvellous to be believed.
carry me out and bury me decently
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carry me out (“exclamation of pretended astonishment”).
haramzadeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haramzadehs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haramzada.
haramzadehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haramzadeh
uncrossexamined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In its Memorandum Decision dated November 3, 1977, the District Court found that the testimony of Mr. Mannion and Officer Boyle was without probative force because their hearsay statements were uncrossexamined. And yet just such uncrossexamined hearsay statements were used by the Court in Roviaro v. United States, […]
ref: 1978, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Thomas V. Brierton, page 14:
glosses: Not having undergone a cross-examination.
schism-shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schism-shops
Senses: glosses: A Dissenters' meetinghouse.
schism-shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schism-shop
cocktail sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocktail sandwiches
Senses: glosses: A small sandwich served as a canapé.
cocktail sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocktail sandwich
snake and pygmy pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake and pygmy pies
Etymology: From the similar sound of the words.
Senses: glosses: steak and kidney pie
Paddy's Goose
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "Paddy's Goose," or the "White Swan," as it is called by its owner, is perhaps the most frightful hell-hole in London. The very sublimity of vice and degradation is here attained, […]
ref: 1870, Daniel Joseph Kirwan, Palace and Hovel, Or, Phases of London Life, page 633:
text: To-day the White Swan, better known as Paddy's Goose, once one of the vilest dance-houses in Ratcliff Highway, is to be opened as a Mission Hall by the Wesleyan Methodist Home Mission, […]
ref: 1890, Francis Edward Smiley, The Evangelization of a Great City, page 209:
glosses: The White Swan, a celebrated public house in Ratcliff Highway, east London, England.
swatchways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swatchway
lorarius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lorarii
Senses: glosses: An attendant who whips reluctant gladiators or animals into fighting.
Newnham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Newnhams
form: Newingham
Etymology: From Old English nēowan, weak dative form of nēowe (“new”), + hām (“village, hamlet”).
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
A council ward in Bedford, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref (approx) TL0749).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A western suburb of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4357).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish (served by Newnham on Severn Parish Council) in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO6911).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7054).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish (served by Caldecote and Newnham Parish Council) in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL2437).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Swale borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ9557).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP5759).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Aston Cantlow parish, Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP1560).
glosses: A suburb of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
qualifier: Cambridge University
glosses: Ellipsis of Newnham College, Cambridge.
Derived terms: Newnham Bridge
puckerow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puckerows
form: puckerowing
form: puckerowed
form: puckerowed
Etymology: Borrowing from Hindustani پکڑو / पकड़ो (pakṛo, “catch [it]!”).
Senses: glosses: To seize; to take hold of.
puckerowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of puckerow
puckerows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of puckerow
puckerowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of puckerow
Hindostanee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hindostanees
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Hindustani.
Hindostanee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Hindustani.
Hindostanees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hindostanee
Gulf of Lion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gulf of Lions
Senses: glosses: A gulf of the Mediterranean Sea, reaching from Catalonia to Toulon.
Newgate knocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Newgate knockers
Etymology: Supposed to resemble the knocker on the prisoners' door at Newgate.
Senses: synonyms: aggravator
number six
glosses: A lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear.
Newgate knockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Newgate knocker
never trust me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Pet[ruchio]. Now for my life Hortentio feares his Widow.
Wid[ow]. Then neuer truſt me if I be affeard.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 227, column 2:
text: Never trust me if I had not a suspicion from the first that 'twas that ill-looked fellow B— who made that story Mr. D— told you.
ref: 1888, Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-1654:
glosses: Used in oaths, suggesting that one should never be trusted again if what one says now is not true.
in the arms of Murphy
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Humorous corruption of in the arms of Morpheus.
Senses: glosses: Asleep.
muffin worry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muffin worries
Senses: examples: text: But Benedict has not only changed his manner and his habits, he has got new duties, and where his wife goes he may go, and ought to go. He can no longer claim exemption from solemn dinners, from weary muffin-worries, […]
ref: 1864, The Habits of Good Society, page 99:
text: I wish she was at the bottom of the sea, or else having muffin worries in her musty old London lodgings — anything but coming here and turning everything into gall and vinegar.
ref: 1874, Eliza Stephenson, Hope Meredith, page 118:
glosses: An elderly lady's tea party.
Related terms: bun fight
tea fight
muffin worries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muffin worry
tiffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tiffy
form: most tiffy
Etymology: From tiff + -y.
Senses: glosses: Easily offended; apt to be annoyed.
Tiffani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Fanciful respelling of Tiffany.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
miniature scarlet fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A transitory form of scarlet fever resulting from administration of an excessive immunizing dose of the toxin.
Hob Collingwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: card-games
games
qualifier: North Country
glosses: The four of hearts, considered an unlucky card.
breedability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being breedable.
misgloss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈɡlɒs/
ipa: /ˈmɪsɡlɒs/
rhymes: -ɒs
Forms: form: misglosses
form: misglossing
form: misglossed
form: misglossed
Etymology: From mis- + gloss.
Senses: examples: text: Upis taught, Misunderstood, misgloss'd, the tale how brought Harmonia was to Cadmus — higher than Her mate in race, a dæmon, he mere man;
ref: 1876, Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford, Argo: Or The Quest of the Golden Fleece, page 68:
text: But the definition is anachronistic and misglosses the citation it was presumably devised to explain.
ref: 1981, Catherine Slater, Defeatists and Their Enemies, page 139:
text: Both its traditional subject matter and the concision of its form have recommended it to this very day as a promise of "infinite riches in a little room” (=stanza) , to misgloss Marlowe's phrase.
ref: 1992, Lowry Nelson, Poetic Configurations: Essays in Literary History and Criticism, page 41:
text: In a scheme that involves material possessions in huge quantity and counts on Calchas's thrice-invoked greed (1369, 1377–78, 1399), Criseyde claims that she will convince Calchas that it was his cowardice that caused him to misgloss "goddes text" (1409-11).
ref: 1996, Michaela Paasche Grudin, Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse, page 67:
text: It means 'white tip' and not 'white of the eye' as Krämer misglosses it.
ref: 2002, Ward Hunt Goodenough, Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk, page 208:
glosses: To provide an incorrect translation or synopsis of
misgloss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈɡlɒs/
ipa: /ˈmɪsɡlɒs/
rhymes: -ɒs
Forms: form: misglosses
Etymology: From mis- + gloss.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, this misgloss has led to an impossible interpretation of the Beowulf poet's allusion to "beornas on blancum" [warriors on white horses] (856a) and their racing on "fealwe mearwas" [fallow horses] (865b) in the episode of the Danes and Geats coming back from the mere.
ref: 2003, Earl R. Anderson, Folk-taxonomies in Early English, page 152:
text: Starostin's sisi 'deer' is a misgloss, the word can refer to 'deer' as an 'animal for consumption' but does not necessary do so.
ref: 2005, Martine Irma Robbeets, Is Japanese Related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic?, page 100:
text: Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.
ref: 2006, Folia orientalia - Volumes 42-43, page 467:
glosses: An incorrect translation or synopsis.
misglosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misgloss
misglosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misgloss
misglossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misgloss
misglossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misgloss
overpermissiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + permissive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The results (Klatskin, Jackson, and Wilkin, 1956 ) showed that sleep disturbances were related to maternal overpermissiveness in the sleep area.
ref: 1965, Edward J. Murray, Sleep, Dreams, and Arousal:
text: Among the reactions with which the child must learn to cope are overprotectiveness, overpermissiveness, anger or embarrassment, and rejection by society.
ref: 1982, Rita Beck Black, Bruce P. Hermann, Jean Thatcher Shope, Nursing Management of Epilepsy, page 97:
text: Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.
ref: 2006, Folia orientalia - Volumes 42-43, page 467:
glosses: Excessive permissiveness; the quality of being overpermissive.
overpermissive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpermissive
form: most overpermissive
Etymology: From over- + permissive.
Senses: examples: text: It is the overpermissive parent who raises the well known spoiled brat.
ref: 1975, Thomas D. Gnagey, How to Put Up with Parents: A Guide for Teenagers, page 90:
text: The most common type of owner I see with Yorkies are the overpermissive owners. Overpermissive owners want to spoil their dogs and usually freely admit they spoil their dogs.
ref: 2003, Liz Palika, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Yorkshire Terriers:
text: The Mongolic proposal for 'strap, tether' is semantically overpermissive.
ref: 2005, Martine Irma Robbeets, Is Japanese Related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic?, page 136:
glosses: Excessively permissive; allowing too much leeway.