cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
there is no spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From The Matrix (1999), in which a boy appears to be able to bend a spoon with his mind. The boy says: "There is no spoon.", referring to the fact that he and others are actually in a large-scale computer simulation.
Senses: examples: text: [the phrase "there is no spoon" appears in the page title]
There is no wall. It's all in your mind. Keep trying.
ref: 2003 December 28, Hannes Brunner, “There is no spoon ... ehrm wall :)”, in alt.games.diablo2 (Usenet), message-ID <bsmqba$e871i$1@ID-199901.news.uni-berlin.de>:
text: Let me apply neo therapy.
There is no spoon(migraine).
After 20 minutes I am almost normal.
Was it due to pill or neo therapy, I don't know.
Should I dare to take just neo therapy next time? Haa haa haa
ref: 2007 March 1, neo, “There is no spoon.”, in alt.support.headaches.migraine (Usenet), message-ID <1172765712.686536.308230@8g2000cwh.googlegroups.com>:
glosses: A certain problem or obstacle only exists if one believes in it; therefore, it is possible to overcome it by denying its existence.
wikipedia: The Matrix
odorsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more odorsome
form: most odorsome
form: odoursome
Etymology: From odor + -some.
Senses: examples: text: To say they were hot, tired, dirty, odorsome, and in pain would be like saying that boars had bad breath...a large understatement.
ref: 2007, Sandra Hill, Down and Dirty:
text: The tent parted, and the plump woman took a step inside, wrinkling her nose. “Oh, it is odorsome, isn't it?
ref: 2015, Ramona K. Cecil, Lena Nelson Dooley, Darlene Franklin, A Texas Christmas:
text: “Take him away. Remove his rags and hose him down. Feed him. Dress him in something less odoursome. Yet confine him while I consider how best he might serve us.”
ref: 2015, Frank P. Ryan, The Tower of Bones:
glosses: Characterised or marked by odor(s)
odoursome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more odoursome
form: most odoursome
Etymology: From odour + -some.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of odorsome.
tailswing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail swing
Etymology: From tail + swing.
Senses: examples: text: The authorities provided the boats, and Smalley mounted machines on them that could dredge and clear weed, working in shallow waterways under low, narrow bridges, unhindered by a counterweight tailswing.
ref: 1994, David Needham, Robert Dransfield, Business Studies, →ISBN, page 133:
text: The tailswing radius may encroach over an active traffic lane or face interference from an obstruction.
ref: 1999, Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro, Cranes and derricks, →ISBN, page 268:
text: Still, spookiness is a contextual matter, and with a zero-tailswing excavator to clear a larger patio, there'd be nothing to stop an enterprising self-builder taking advantage of the fundamentally sound Cotswold stonework to knock up an attractive, if isolated, starter home or holiday cottage.
ref: 2011, Nat Segnit, Pub Walks in Underhill Country, →ISBN:
text: ...they wouldn't be able to employ the 911's tailswing characteristics with the neutral handling 914/6, and none of them challenged the Alpine Renaults for outright supremacy.
ref: 2014, Johnny Tipler, Porsche Carrera: The Air-Cooled Era, 1953-1998, →ISBN:
glosses: When turning a heavy vehicle, the movement of the rear portion of the vehicle in the opposite direction from the direction the front end turns.
tail swing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The command steer system increased the amount of entry tail swing to 0.61m while the CT-AT system eliminated tail swing altogether.
ref: 2013, Brian Jujnovich, Richard Roebuck, Andrew Odhams, David Cebon, “Implementation of active rear steering of a tractor - semi-trailer”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Heavy Vehicles, →ISBN:
text: If necessary, a Condor model that has zero tail swing is available.
ref: 2013, Michael G. Uva, The Grip Book: The Studio Grip’s Essential Guide, →ISBN:
text: To prevent this type of emergency, the pilot had to anticipate the tail swing with rudder movements.
ref: 2013, Bert Frandsen, Hat in the Ring: The Birth of American Air Power in the Great War, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of tailswing.
glosses: The swing of a tail.
broodsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broodsome
form: most broodsome
Etymology: From brood + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The forest highway was as empty, broodsome, and silent as any spirit grove in a fanciful Deadman's Land; [...]
ref: 1903, Ernest A. Treeton, The Instigator:
text: I con the energy of each and all, I am myself a broodsome cognisance, Watching how this and that by bulb and stem then Leans forth, [...]
ref: 1908, Gerda Dalliba, An Earth Poem, and Other Poems:
text: Impatient, perhaps, for the child to be born, over the next weeks I was more “broodsome” than ever, as Randall put it — some word he'd picked up in the village.
ref: 2010, Elizabeth Bunce, Elizabeth C. Bunce, A Curse Dark As Gold:
glosses: Characterised or marked by brooding
superjump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superjumps
Etymology: From super- + jump.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The jump operator for type two functionals.
examples: text: The paradox with these words arises because, with the exception of this class, all the descendants of aer and er words became /ihr/ and ar class words became /ehr/. The notion of a superjump is not very useful here.
ref: 1999, David L. Cooper, Linguistic Attractors: The Cognitive Dynamics of Language, →ISBN, page 101:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A hypothetical phonological change in which a phoneme shifts to another realization, skipping over an intermediate phonetic value that is left unchanged.
examples: text: Most television and film executives in America still have little understanding of the real martial arts. Like children fascinated by the phony superjumps of stunt men in Chinese boxing pictures, many executives see only the violence on the surface and are incapable of looking beyond it.
ref: 1974, Alex Ben Block, The Legend of Bruce Lee, Mayflower, →ISBN, page 163:
text: Civilised man whether in London, Johannesburg or Nairobi is wrestling with our cultural superjump causing many unsolved urban social problems, but the rural peasant peoples of Africa I was travelling among had not yet acquired those problems.
ref: 2010, Denis Montgomery, The Reflected Face of Africa, →ISBN, page 199:
text: No, superjump is about the timing in her dip.
ref: 2021 January 27, tinytom08, Leilanee, “Does superjump go higher if you look up?”, in reddit.com:
glosses: An extremely large or powerful jump.
superjumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superjump
clawsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clawsome
form: most clawsome
form: claw-some
Etymology: From claw + -some.
Senses: examples: text: I'm acutely aware that this lovely blond beast, if properly provoked, could rip my lungs out with a single swipe of clawsome paw.
ref: 1997, David Petersen, The Nearby Faraway:
text: Elvis had turned his back on the Church of the Almost-Here End, sold his soul to MOR, but Jerry Lee kept pumping—Holiness! Tongues!—and with each new clawsome, wild wife, with every new midnight violence, every extravagance of face, he slid further from grace.
ref: 2009, Nick Tosches, Country:
text: It was a very clawsome hug.
ref: 2014, Maggie Stiefvater, Spirit Animals:
text: [...] he paused, leaning into the table, eyebrows raised expectantly, “claw-some.”
ref: 2016, RC Boldt, Laws of Attraction:
glosses: Characterised or marked by having claws
coolsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coolsome
form: most coolsome
Etymology: From cool + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Ferny dells; wide uplands, dappled with rays of golden light; intense depths of coolsome shadowy boughs heavy with leafiness, and ringing with music; stately “pillared aisles” of glorious trees, which in the olden time lent life and vigour to the scene […]
ref: 1869, John Greville Fennell, The Rail and the Rod, Or, Tourist-angler's Guide to Waters and Quarters Thirty Miles Around London:
text: I din't say yay, I said, coolsome'n'stony, Grazin' goats ain't int'restin' for folks with so much Smart as you.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
text: Well, by morning the little girl was coolsome, but plumb wore down to nothing.
ref: 2014, Bruce Thorstad, Deadwood Dick and the Code of the West:
glosses: Characterised or marked by coolness.
neck in neck
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of neck and neck.
dearsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dearsome
form: most dearsome
Etymology: From dear + -some.
Senses: examples: text: See, if you don't cut that rope, inside o' three moons your dearsome fam'ly be dead, I vow it!
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
text: Standing, a dearsome almond tree [...]
ref: 2014, Rita Joyce Singh, Not Done with Loving Yet:
glosses: Characterised or marked by dearness; precious; costly
USMJP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: USMJ
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of United States Marijuana Party.
elex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elexes
Etymology: Clipping of election + -x (abbreviation marker).
Senses: examples: text: I agree, but all that means is that the people can wait for the next election to boot out an unsatisfactory leader. And it looks like the elex will be held on time.
ref: 1996 May 3, M. Emily Cummins, “Re: Boris Yeltsin”, in alt.current-events.russia (Usenet):
text: [see title]
ref: 2016 October 20, Cameron Joseph, “Denial of democracy: Paranoid Trump won't commit to elex result”, in New York Daily News:
text: “Contrary to #disinfo floating around, CISA doesn’t print or audit ballots! We offer cyber support to state and local elex officials. Don’t fall for these efforts to confuse and undermine confidence in the election,” Chris Krebs, director of DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, tweeted.
ref: 2020 November 6, Zachary Cohen, “Top Homeland Security official knocks down disinformation about DHS ballot audit”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of election.
elex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Clipping of electric, electronic, electrics or electronics + -x (abbreviation marker).
Senses: examples: text: Some minor metalworking required, and you'd need to stick 3 or 4 electronic parts together. […] The elex parts might be the little Hall sensor, a 5-volt regulator as LM78L05 (about 40 cents), a small cap and a 9-volt battery. You'd measure the output voltage with an ordinary DVM.
ref: 2008 March 29, Don Foreman, “Re: Checking welding current”, in rec.crafts.metalworking (Usenet):
glosses: Abbreviation of electric or electronic.
elex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of electric, electronic, electrics or electronics + -x (abbreviation marker).
Senses: examples: text: I was just at a local elex store looking for a conductive pen. none in stock, but they had this 6 foot long thing of copper circuit tape, 1/16th of an inch big, still too big for the cpu, but if i cut it in the middle making it 1/32nd of an inch, it will fit and not cross other bridges!
ref: 2001 April 16, FREE!!_id4rox@stny.rr.com Brian, “A little problem with unlocking...”, in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (Usenet):
glosses: Abbreviation of electrics or electronics.
Grn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grn.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of Green (Green Party).
glosses: Abbreviation of green.
raw_tags: in street addresses
LIB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of Liberal Party.
Abbreviation of Liberal Party.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of Liberal Party.
Abbreviation of Liberal Democrat Party.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of Libertarian Party.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of Libertarian Party.
Abbreviation of Libertarian Party.
Related terms: Liberal
Libertarian
LIB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LIBs
Senses: coordinate_terms: SIB
NIB
glosses: Abbreviation of lithium-ion battery.
Prog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prog.
form: PROG
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of Progressive Party.
Prog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Progs
form: Prog.
form: PROG
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of Progressive.
Pescheur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pescheurs
Etymology: From French Pescheur and Middle French Pescheur.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Coordinate terms: english: equivalent surname of English-language origin
translation: equivalent surname of English-language origin
word: Fisher
super class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super classes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Alternative form of superclass.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Alternative form of superclass.
super classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of super class
solvatofluorochromism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The effect of solvent on the colour and fluorescence of dyes
Related terms: solvatofluorochromic
solvatofluorochromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting solvatofluorochromism
sortag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sortags
form: sortagging
form: sortagged
form: sortagged
Senses: glosses: To employ, or to undergo, sortagging.
sortagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sortag
sortagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sortase-mediated transpeptidation
sortagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sortag
stannene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of stanene.
tetracationic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + cationic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to tetracation(s)
boohoohoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: boohoohoo!
Senses: examples: text: 1987, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Wednesday night alone in bed was the first time I really broke down & had a boo-hoo-hoo cry.
text: [a wild boar is laughing and Obelix is crying]
Wild boar classified a protected species
First reaction from dismayed costumers:
“Boohoohoo! Sniff!”
ref: 2009, Asterix and Obelix's Birthday: The Golden Book, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of boohoo.
outstupid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outstupids
form: outstupiding
form: outstupided
form: outstupided
Etymology: From out- + stupid.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in stupidity.
Tsumiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Tsuyako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Nozomi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese のぞみ (Nozomi).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Botan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Yoshie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
X0 system
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The system that determines the sex of offspring among grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches, and some other insects, in which females have two sex cells (XX) and males have only one sex cell (X0, or simply X; the 0 signifies the lack of another X).
Related terms: XY system
ZW system
Yomiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese よみこ (Yomiko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Waka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
static language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: static languages
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A programming language that analyses code without executing the code itself.
Hypernyms: language
programming language
dynamic language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamic languages
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A programming language that analyses code also when executing the code itself.
Hypernyms: language
programming language
dynamic languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynamic language
static languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of static language
Trumpettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trumpette
curly-brace language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curly-brace languages
form: curly brace language
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Synonym of curly-bracket language.
synonyms: word: curly-bracket language
curly-brace languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curly-brace language
class-based language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: class-based languages
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A programming language in which behaviour reuse (or inheritance) is performed via cloning classes instead of using objects as prototypes.
Hypernyms: language
programming language
β-lactamases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of β-lactamase
β-lactams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of β-lactam
β-pleated sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of β-pleated sheet
class-based languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of class-based language
object-oriented language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: object-oriented languages
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Any programming language that encapsulates the state and operations inside objects that support inheritance.
Hypernyms: object-based language
language
object-oriented languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of object-oriented language
'earts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'eart
'fridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'fridge
'Gaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'Gater
'hoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'hood
'its
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'it
'ospitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'ospital
δ-boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of δ-box
μ-scopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of μ-scope
μ-waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of μ-wave
σ-finite measures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of σ-finite measure
guttersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guttersome
form: most guttersome
Etymology: From gutter + -some.
Senses: examples: text: ...orientation of dichotomous hauling strange ambiverance...telltale of strangling ululating guttersome fiction out of still lack of hauling intelligence to cap on smooth march of freedom parade...skillful narration,...navigators persistence invincible ...
ref: 2001, Yang-Un Moon Eiman, Yang-Un Moon, Guillotine and Elopement:
text: Two rivers ran, and met, and became one big old thing, the Gross Tar, guttersome and groaning as it passed out of city limits through the stubs of a bridge, through shantytowns in New Crobuzon's orbit, looking for the sea.
ref: 2004, China Miéville, Iron Council:
glosses: Characteristic or indicative of a gutter
Brexited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Brexit
wandersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wandersome
form: most wandersome
Etymology: From wander + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Though the sky is fogged with the wildfires south of this location, dulling the sun's piercing ultraviolet punishment, still, my mind is wandersome.
ref: 2010, Sam Flakus, Dark Horse:
text: So with heels chafed and sore, a now empty walnut sized bladder and a Booker Prize for best newcomer, I once again girded my rapidly diminishing loins and headed squeakily back to bed with my wandersome companion.
ref: 2010, John Fee, The Anaemic Leukaemic:
text: If the patient is hyperactive and wandersome, then the intravenous route may be hazardous, and prolonged one-to-one attention to get medication and fluids delivered is probably the best choice.
ref: 2013, Tom Dening, Alan Thomas, Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry:
text: It was most unusual to have her strong, restless, wandersome father ensconced at home even if it was only temporarily.
ref: 2013, Lynny Harris, Midbar I:
glosses: Characterised or marked by wandering
idlesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more idlesome
form: most idlesome
Etymology: From idle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: His other girl was pretty to look at, but lazy and idlesome. She wouldn't do a hand's turn of work.
ref: 2000, Marie Campbell, Tales from the Cloud Walking Country:
text: The older heads with idlesome ideas are thinning out, consequently with each new generation will come more and greater accomplishments.
ref: 2012, Jennifer Jensen Wallach, John A. Kirk, Arsnick:
glosses: Characterised or marked by idleness
teapotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From teapot (from Russell's teapot) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Then we might have to talk about what it means to be 'foolish'. If believing in a teapot half-way between jupiter and mars is consolidating, fine with me, but if I have to fear for my life because of openly doubting about 'teapotism', then it starts to become foolish... not so?
ref: 2007 December 10, jonasand..., “Re: Still at it?”, in talk.origins (Usenet), message-ID <1be88d5a-c545-4f6f-ba2c-b437659ad664@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com>:
glosses: Belief in the existence of Russell's teapot (an undetectable teapot orbiting between Earth and Mars).
rattlesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rattlesome
form: most rattlesome
Etymology: From rattle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: You know the ones. A finger drawn menacingly across the throat, probably severing the vocal chords. This is unsettling, for the presenter. Forefinger twirling impatiently in the air, indicating “Hurry up, you're running long.” Again, that's rattlesome.
ref: 2014, Ron Hoff, I Can See You Naked:
text: Oh, two little devils with rattlesome chains, / She up with the poker, she knocked out their brains.
ref: 2015, Bertrand Harris Bronson, The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, Volume 4:
glosses: Characterised or marked by rattling
prattlesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prattlesome
form: most prattlesome
Etymology: From prattle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Unusually, Sibelius himself turned prattlesome, offering first one explanation and then another for Night Ride and Sunrise.
ref: 2009, Glenda Dawn Goss, Sibelius:
glosses: Characterised or marked by prattling
frecklesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frecklesome
form: most frecklesome
Etymology: From freckle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: He was the most frecklesome kid I ever saw in my life. He was so homely that he was attractive.
ref: 1911, The Philistine, volumes 33-34, page 157:
text: A cheek like a rose, / A frecklesome nose.
ref: 1915 (original 1912), Arthur Guiterman, The Laughing Muse - Page 145
glosses: Characterised or marked by freckles
warsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warsome
form: most warsome
Etymology: From war + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Since Michel's days, however, many barbarian invasions had subdivided the Three Gauls into a melange of warsome states and tribes, all, nevertheless, acquiring a vaguely similar grace, if not a petite grandeur.
ref: 2003, Lawrence Murray, The Kassandra Complex:
glosses: Characterised or marked by war
Related terms: battlesome
periegete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.əˌd͡ʒiːt/
ipa: /ˈpɛ.ɹi.əˌd͡ʒit/
Forms: form: periegetes
Etymology: Borrowed from Koine Greek περιηγητής (periēgētḗs, “a writer of periegeses; a guide”), from Ancient Greek περι- (peri-, “around, surrounding”) + ἡγητής (hēgētḗs, “a guide”) (from ἡγέομαι (hēgéomai, “to lead”) + -τής (-tḗs, suffix forming agent nouns)), from περιηγεῖσθαι (periēgeîsthai, “to lead around”).
Senses: glosses: A writer of a periegesis.
Related terms: periegesis
periegetic
periegetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periegete.
bickersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bickersome
form: most bickersome
Etymology: From bicker + -some.
Senses: examples: text: In a colonial setting, moreover, they are particularly revealing of the bickersome process of constructing a new social structure out of a diverse population of natives and newcomers.
ref: 2007, Richmond F. Brown, Coastal Encounters:
text: This emphasis underscores Louis XIV's rejection of bickersome Paris for the tranquil countryside of Versailles, but also symbolized the expansion of absolute power outside of the capital and into the most remote rural corners of the realm.
ref: 2008, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Building the Devil's Empire:
text: And once you become a bickersome couple it's a short ride to bitter and trapped.
ref: 2012, Grace Grant, P.J. MacAllister, Flyover States:
glosses: Characterised or marked by bickering
flickersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flickersome
form: most flickersome
Etymology: From flicker + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And Martha thought these fine ladies were that flickersome, all milk o' human kindness when it wahn't no use, and stones o' granite when takin' trouble might come handy.
ref: 1920, Greville Macdonald, The North Door:
text: The kemenche had started shrieking like a thing possessed, the oud was going bananas, and now Zenzational Zenaide was zooming to her big finish, “then a crazed madness enters in,” where the maiden flung herself at the bars, and the bars flung her back, and she flung herself again, and again, “flickersome like a firefly she whorls within the crudest cage, O woe! The tender flesh of the pulchrous girl is torn by vile bonds infernal.
ref: 2012, Nik Cohn, Need:
text: Even so, burning days were flickersome.
ref: 2014, Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things:
glosses: Characterised or marked by flickering
prettysome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prettysome
form: most prettysome
Etymology: From pretty + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “Is a prettysome name, is Wachanga,” he croons.
ref: 2013, Walter Wangerin, The Third Book of the Dun Cow:
text: “I live on the isle of my dreams, and it's prettysome,” Beryl says, weaving her fingers together, pushing them away from her small breasts with a crack.
ref: 2014, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Love and Ordinary Creatures:
text: “Obviously, my dear sir, you are not one of those wearisome, prettysome cottage gardeners, but, whether by luck or no, here is.
ref: 2016, H. F. Heard, A Taste for Honey:
glosses: Characterised or marked by prettiness
mattersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mattersome
form: most mattersome
Etymology: From matter + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Which is (as “Izzy” pointed out a while back at some length indeed) to “craft” the thing, as they say nowadays: to put it through its dramaturgical paces, goose it along through serial/incremental complications to its climax and denouement, possibly enlightening but at least enter- taining you: “holding [your] attention,” says the dictionary, between your presumably more mattersome affairs.
ref: 2006, John Barth, Where Three Roads Meet:
text: As a not okay continually affects the person in a mattersome way, some level of botheration continues—as in the case of an unresolved issue.
ref: 2012, Russ Hoover, Demand Healing:
text: All lives be mattersome to him. Not a one oughtn't to be mattersome to us, same way.
ref: 2014, Lisa Wingate, The Story Keeper:
glosses: Characterised or marked by mattering; material; important
drilling fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drilling fluids
Senses: glosses: A fluid used to aid the drilling of boreholes, serving to provide hydrostatic pressure, to keep the drill bit cool and clean, and to suspend the drill cuttings.
drilling fluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drilling fluid
Astaroth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ashtaroth
form: Astarot
form: Asteroth
Etymology: Named after the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar.
Senses: glosses: The great duke of Hell, in the first hierarchy with Beelzebub and Lucifer.
Ashtaroth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Astaroth.
Asteroth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Astaroth.
Astarot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Astaroth.
circular economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular economies
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An industrial economy that aims to reduce waste and pollution by means of reuse, recycling, etc.
circular economies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circular economy
teruahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teruah
slandersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slandersome
form: most slandersome
Etymology: From slander + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “You're a slandersome rascal, an' I'll no stand to ca' quarrels wi you; I tell you, sir, you're potchin'an' trespassin' upo' my property, whare you've nae right to set a fit without my leave.”
ref: 1823, The Foundling of G., Or the Smugglers' Cave:
text: I hope Dell Thompson won't find it out, for she's awful slandersome; but,” she added, coming to the gate, and speaking in a whisper, “I'm glad on't, and mebby she'll draw in her horns, […]
ref: 1857, Mary Jane Holmes, Meadow-Brook:
text: In course it air ter yer credit ye kin be ez good ez ter keep yer hands off'n the critter when he air so aboosive to yer face an' so slandersome ter yer back.
ref: 1887, John Alexander Steuart, A millionaire's daughters:
glosses: Characterised or marked by slander.
Baptista
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baptistas
Etymology: From Romance ( Spanish Baptista and Portuguese Baptista ).
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Romance languages, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Related terms: Batista
Bautista
tremblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tremblesome
form: most tremblesome
form: tremble-some
Etymology: From tremble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: She let some of the tension out of her body, starting to feel a bit tremblesome, the shock of the attack, the weight of her weapons.
ref: 2014, Stephen Jones, Fearie Tales:
text: The resultant distress in his lower tract was so volcanic and draining that his tremblesome progression out of the dry, litter-chipped bushes which saw his evacuata was slower and less hopeful than the mechanics that powered the 87 year old [...]
ref: 2014, Brian Paul Bach, Busted Boom:
text: To make matters worse to the unseen clogging-up-of-things coming on – just as the days of Dominic's upliftment to feet-up Don status bore on her old Dad was given to standing on the hour and shouting in his most tremble-some voice of new augury, going: [...]
ref: 2016, Bill Reed, Lankan 1001 Nights book 1:
glosses: Characterised or marked by trembling
tremblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tremblesome
form: most tremblesome
form: tremble-some
Etymology: From tremble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Juke was scrutinizing the tufty rugs on the floor as if the pointy head bowed in camouflage, tiny animal might be crouching tremblesome, front paws prayerfully clasped together like foetal hands.
ref: 2011, Ian Watson, The Fallen Moon: Mana - Book 2:
glosses: In a tremblesome manner
stumblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stumblesome
form: most stumblesome
Etymology: From stumble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: He walked over, although somewhat stumblesome in his drunkenness and effortlessly slid a cabinet of fine wine bottles over on smoothly oiled tracks revealing an ironclad safe.
ref: 2010, Zach Lawrence, Reclaiming the Soul of Halbert Halburt - Book 2:
text: The stumblesome little character at the front of the pack would be none other than good ol' Charlie Brown.
ref: 2015, Stephen J. Lind, A Charlie Brown Religion:
glosses: Characterised or marked by stumbling
shrinkflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of shrink + inflation. Popularized by British economist Pippa Malmgren.
Senses: examples: text: Chocolate bars are just the thin end of the wedge, though, and shrinkflation is happening in products right across the board.
ref: 2016, Andy Dawson, Get in the Sea!: An Apoplectic Guide to Modern Life, page 106:
text: According to the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), shrinkflation most commonly affects food, drink and household products such as toilet rolls, nappies, tissues and washing-up liquid.
ref: 2021, Rosalind Masterson, Nichola Phillips, David Pickton, Marketing: An Introduction, page 489:
text: Major cereal brand Kelloggs has also been accused of shrinkflation. Since 2019, the company had moved from selling 670 gram Crunchy Nut boxes for $6 to selling 640 gram boxes at $9 a pop, Choice found.
ref: 2022 May 18, Caitlin Cassidy, “Shrinkflation bites: popular food brands quietly downsize while charging same price or more”, in The Guardian:
text: Consumer groups say shrinkflation is a widespread practice, which supermarkets like Carrefour are also guilty of in their own-label products.
ref: 2023 September 14, “Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands”, in The Guardian, sourced from Reuters, →ISSN:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The practice of making products smaller while continuing to market them at the same price.
wikipedia: Pippa Malmgren
Related terms: cheapflation
grocery shrink ray
skimpflation
hackday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackdays
Etymology: From hack + day.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The day when a hackathon is held.
hackdays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackday
moldmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mouldmaking.
moldmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moldmakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mouldmaker.
moldmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moldmaker
mouldmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouldmakers
form: moldmaker
Senses: hypernyms: maker#Noun
;
tradesman#Noun
tradesperson#Noun
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worker#Noun
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person#Noun
coordinate_terms: diemaker#Noun
toolmaker#Noun
patternmaker#Noun
modelmaker#Noun
glosses: A tradesman who makes moulds; a manufacturer of moulds.
Related terms: mouldmaking
moldmaking
mouldmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moldmaking
Senses: examples: Holonym: tool and die
coordinate_terms: diemaking
toolmaking
glosses: The manufacture of moulds: the trade of the mouldmaker.
Related terms: mouldmaker
mouldmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouldmaker
Naumannites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Naumannite
skate key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skate keys
Senses: glosses: A small wrench used to adjust old-fashioned roller skates of the kind that were fitted to the wearer's shoes.
glosses: A small, sometimes key-shaped wrench used to adjust skateboards.
keep telling yourself that
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Said to someone who has ill-conceived, false beliefs.
skate keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skate key
Ottomanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ottoman + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Over the course of Seferberlik, the immense hardships and Istanbul's heavy-handed administration could very well have disillusioned Arabs who had been loyal to the ideals of Ottomanism.
ref: 2015 October 23, The Great War: From Memory to History, →ISBN:
glosses: A nation-building ideology, put forward in the late days of the Ottoman Empire, that afforded equal status to Muslims and non-Muslims.
Derived terms: neo-Ottomanism
preserving pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preserving pans
Senses: glosses: A large pan for making preserves such as marmalade.
Synonyms: maslin pan
preserving pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preserving pan
maslin pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maslin pans
Senses: glosses: A preserving pan.
maslin pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maslin pan
physical geographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physical geographers
Senses: glosses: A specialist in physical geography.
physical geographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physical geographer
crumblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crumblesome
form: most crumblesome
Etymology: From crumble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Odor of earth and moss, the old brick dark and crumblesome.
ref: 2010, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree:
glosses: Characterised or marked by crumbling
zincwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zinc + -work.
Senses: glosses: metalwork done in zinc.
Related terms: zincworker
zincworks
QALYs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QALY
schlonging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of schlong
schlonged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of schlong
schlonged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Eighteen months, he said, and in return I'd get out of the draft. Really? So Captain Dankbloom declared. No having to undress with men, older and longer schlonged.
ref: 1986, Ben Sonnenberg, A Grand Street Reader, page 279:
text: Her big break into journalism had come 20 years ago when she was selling real estate, and a hot-schlonged Cuban client of hers, who'd somehow become her lover, had made her editor of Teenybopper Magazine to sweeten her, stop her exposing their scorching affair to his wife.
ref: 1994, Amy Auden, Wow!, page 73:
text: Long-schlonged Vince Harrington lets us see what the gods have under their robes.
ref: 2006, Nicole Kristal, Mickey Skee, Mike Szymanski, The Bisexual's Guide to the Universe, page 182:
text: Non-too-thrilled was I, when on showing up one day at the house, to find a wunder-schlonged, local Black stud, in my bed no less.
ref: 2007, Dwight S. Huggins, Dream Magus of Babylon, page 420:
glosses: Having a penis with a specified attribute.
Sjögren-Larsson syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rare form of ichthyosis accompanied by spastic paraplegia and delayed mental development.
Hasid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈxɑːsɪd/
/ˈhɑːsɪd/
Forms: form: Hasids
form: Hasidim
form: Chasid
form: Chassid
form: Hassid
form: Ḥasid
form: Ḥassid
Etymology: From Hebrew חָסִיד (khasid).
Senses: examples: text: At Mulberry Central he got off and asked two passing Hasidim for directions to the progressive synagogue.
ref: 2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 400:
glosses: A follower of Hasidism.
Related terms: Hasidic
Hasidism
Hasidim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hasid
Hasids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hasid
quiversome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quiversome
form: most quiversome
form: quiver-some
Etymology: From quiver + -some.
Senses: examples: text: A stroke had paralyzed her and twisted her face so that her lips did not meet evenly, making her kisses quiversome and unpleasant on my cheek.
ref: 1990, Pablo Medina, Exiled memories: a Cuban childhood, page 66:
text: She turned towards the door, leaving Mr Sweetley face to face with that bustle, more quiversome than ever.
ref: 2012, Edwina Preston, The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer:
text: Ig would have lived in the trough tub, but her lips went blue and quiversome after only a few minutes in even tepid water.
ref: 2016, Claire Vaye Watkins, Gold Fame Citrus:
glosses: Characterised or marked by quivering.
shiversome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
enpr: shĭv'ərsəm
ipa: /ˈʃɪvəɹsəm/
note: rhotic
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈʃɪvəsəm/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)səm
Forms: form: more shiversome
form: most shiversome
Etymology: From shiver + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The Mourning After brings you a shiversome story from a suicidal teenager.
ref: 2015, Celina Grace, Sanctuary: A Kate Redman Mystery:
text: My best subject was the nature table, because I brought in the shiversome newts with their uterine flanged backs. I was moderately bullied. There were kids more noticeably tormentable than me.
ref: 2016, A. A. Gill, Pour Me a Life:
glosses: Characterised or marked by shivering.
Cassandra complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cassandra complexes
Etymology: After the prophetess Cassandra of Greek mythology.
Senses: glosses: The situation where a person's valid warnings or concerns are dismissed or disbelieved.
Cassandra complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cassandra complex
tunku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunkus
Senses: glosses: A Malay prince.
tunkus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunku
Cheget
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Чегет (Čeget), named after Mount Cheget in Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia.
Senses: coordinate_terms: football
glosses: A "nuclear briefcase" held by the Russian president and used to control Russia's nuclear forces.
beautisome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beautisome
form: most beautisome
Etymology: From beauty + -some.
Senses: examples: text: … and the Duchess, she is main kind too, and though she be so mortal beautisome and young, she be as free and as considerate to us poor folks as—…
ref: 1823, Catherine George Ward Mason, The Cottage on the Cliff: a Sea Side Story
text: De exterior may appear remarkably exemplary and beautisome, while de interior is totally negative.
ref: 1836, The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine:
text: [...] leaving his beautisome daughter without dependants against the very man who had impoverished her house, and robbed her, by falsified brutation, of her mother.
ref: 1841, The Monthly magazine, page 10:
text: “This here's my pard, Wilbur Coleman.” Wilbur opened his mouth to say something, but all that came out was a nervous squeak. “You got to pardon ol' Wilbur,” Stovepipe went on. “He ain't much for talkin', especially around beautisome ladies.
ref: 2011, William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, Arizona Ambush:
text: You know what is meant by, “Hello, beauti—” It would not be “beautisome” or “beautiwhole” or “beautiable.” It has to be “beautiful.” That is the one ending we are used to. It is part of our language, part of our culture.
ref: 2014, Clarence Whetstone, Help Me Understand the Bible:
glosses: Characterised or marked by beauty
feathersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feathersome
form: most feathersome
Etymology: From feather + -some.
Senses: examples: text: I've watched in the azure the eagle's proud wing, / His soaring majestic, and feathersome fling—— / Careening in liberty higher and higher—[...]
ref: 1922, I.C. Tomlinson, The Revelation of Saint John:
text: With the rise of writing 'leaf' was taken over as a reasonable word for the piece of material on which to write and 'quill' for the instrument with which to write, though the quill gradually became less and less feathersome.
ref: 1992, Clive Sutton, Words, Science And Learning:
text: Furthermore, the birds orientate themselves carefully with regard to the sun and gently flap their feathersome wings to increase convective cooling.
ref: 1993, Shatrughna P. Sinha, Instant encyclopaedia of geography - Volume 9:
text: They didn't have to move to the east with the more feathersome Arapaho in '75 because they chose to be self- supporting and law-abiding residents of this here state capital.
ref: 1999, Tabor Evans, Longarm 244: Longarm and the Devil's Sister:
text: "Nothing to worry about. Just a bit of dungeon work — does a man good to do an honest day's work now and then. Mind you, I do miss the royal, um, you know . . . plumpy-feathersome- spring-'n'-bounce?"
ref: 2007, Angela McAllister, Ian Beck, Digory and the Lost King:
glosses: Characterised or marked by feathers
nagsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nagsome
form: most nagsome
form: nag-some
Etymology: From nag + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “In Oslac's defense,” Steven said, “I must say that Girda was more than nagsome. She nigh begged to have her tongue slit to stop her incessant criticisms, just as Boris the Braggart did with his wife.”
ref: 2010, Sandra Hill, Dark Viking:
text: “Better the iarball of a bull than a nagsome gnat,” Kieran called after them, making a whining sound.
ref: 2011, Linda Windsor, Riona:
text: “But I ain't. I got a nagsome memory. [...]”
ref: 2015, Elmer Kelton, The Pumpkin Rollers and The Buckskin Line:
text: Twelve, and she nagged him like she was his mother, a mini version, but every bit as nagsome.
ref: 2016, Alex Scarrow, Remade:
glosses: Characterised or marked by nagging
oh, you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -uː
Forms: form: !
Senses: examples: text: Woman: What if magic isn't real?
Man: Then how would you explain that sparkle in your eye?
Woman: Oh you.
ref: 2015 March 16, Reza Farazmand, “Real Magic”, in Poorly Drawn Lines, retrieved 09 Nov 2016:
glosses: Used as an affectionate reproof, often in response to flattery.
hasslesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hasslesome
form: most hasslesome
Etymology: From hassle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Different people respond to individual Astro-Weather energies differently. Just as some people like rainy days while most people do not, some people will enjoy challenging energies that most people consider to be hasslesome.
ref: 2008, Guy Spiro, Astro-Weather 2009 Pacific Time Edition:
text: Why on earth would any man leave one hasslesome and unsatisfactory relationship for another equally hasslesome one, especially when doing so comes at such a high price as divorce, financial disadvantages, getting estranged from his children, losing his home and more than likely a number of his friends.
ref: 2009, Petra Falk, Being the Other Woman:
glosses: Characterised by hassle, or marked by hassling