cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
turgescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɜː(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒɛsəns/
Forms: form: turgescences
form: turgescency
Senses: examples: text: the instant turgescence is not to be taken off
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.
ref: 1842, Gibbons Merle, John Reitch, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper’s Manual: Comprising Everything Related to Cookery, Diet, Economy and Medicine. By Gibbons Merle. The Medical Portion of the Work by John Reitch, M.D., London: William Strange, 21, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 360, column 2:
glosses: The act of swelling, or state of being swollen or turgescent.
examples: text: A marked tendency to affectation, to turgescence.
ref: 1813, Monthly Review:
glosses: Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity.
Synonyms: tumescence
tumidity
turgidity
turgor
-verse
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəːs/
ipa: /vɚs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Etymology: Extracted from universe.
Senses: examples: text: Quite simply, a feed reader lets you stay up to date with all your friends in the blogiverse, without forcing you to surf back to every blog 94 times a day to check if anything's new.
ref: 2006, Matthew MacDonald, Creating Web Sites: the Missing Manual:
text: The “Twitterverse” was alive with eyewitness accounts, but CNN was silent about the disputed election and those coming out to support the Iranian presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi.
ref: 2010, Yahya Kamalipour, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age:
glosses: Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element.
examples: text: Women's lib in the BSGverse.
ref: 2008, Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, Hillary Robson, Finding Battlestar Galactica, page 150:
text: This is Uhura's – and Uhura's fans' – big moment, the moment in which she blazingly comes alive as a member of the Trekverse.
ref: 2009, David Greven, Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek, page 216:
glosses: Forming compound nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Forming compound nouns denoting an alternative universe.
turgescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turgescence
actineon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of actinon (“radon-219”), an isotope of radon.
Coordinate terms: alt: radon-222
word: radeon
alt: radon-220
word: thoreon
radeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of radon (“radon-222”); an isotope of radon.
Coordinate terms: alt: radon-219
word: actineon
alt: radon-220
word: thoreon
aerochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + chemical.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to the chemical composition of the air
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Relating to the delivery of chemical weapons by air
hidoku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hidokus
form: hidoku
Etymology: See hidato.
Senses: topics: games
qualifier: puzzles
glosses: a puzzle where a diagram is filled with numbers between 1 and the number of cells of the diagram, each number is used exactly once, and consecutive numbers must be orthogonally or diagonally adjacent.
Synonyms: hidato
Related terms: sudoku
hidokus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hidoku
bioreceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioreceptors
Etymology: From bio- + receptor.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound, such as a protein, that binds to a particular specific compound when part of a biosensor
colmatage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French colmatage
Senses: glosses: The deliberate introduction of silty water over low-lying land to build it up by deposition.
baharat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic بَهَارَات (bahārāt), plural of بَهَار (bahār, “spring”). Derived from Persian بهار (bahâr) in the sense of blossoms and foliage, as a great many spices are cultivated from the leaves of various plants and herbs.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of spices commonly used in Middle Eastern cuisine.
maintainence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of maintenance.
Black English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Sranan-Tongo is a New World Black language form produced by the same processes that gave rise to Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean Black English.
ref: 1977, David Ola Oke, “The genesis of New World Black English”, in Caribbean Quarterly, volume 23, page 65:
text: There is little doubt that an African variety of English is very much part of the communicative economy of the new South Africa (for which I shall use the conventional label South African Black English, in short SABE).
ref: 1997, Rajend Mesthrie, “A sociolinguistic study of topicalisation phenomena in South African Black English”, in Manfred Görlach, Edgar W. Schneider, editors, Englishes Around the World, volume 2, page 119:
glosses: Any of several varieties of English spoken by or associated with Black people, especially people of African origin or in Africa.
examples: text: Perhaps Black English will yield a new neutral term for wokeness.
ref: 2021 November 16, John McWhorter, “‘Woke’ Went the Way of ‘P.C.’ and ‘Liberal’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Any of several varieties of English spoken by or associated with Black people, especially people of African origin or in Africa.
Synonym of African-American English (“AAE”), sometimes specifically African-American Vernacular English (“AAVE”).
synonyms: word: African-American English
extra: (“AAE”), sometimes specifically African-American Vernacular English (“AAVE”)
glosses: Any of several varieties of English spoken by or associated with Black people, especially people of African origin or in Africa.
Synonym of Multicultural London English (“MLE”).
synonyms: word: Multicultural London English
extra: MLE
glosses: Any of several varieties of English spoken by or associated with Black people, especially people of African origin or in Africa.
Synonym of Greater Toronto English (“MTE”).
synonyms: word: Greater Toronto English
extra: MTE
Related terms: blaccent
Black British
Black English Vernacular
Ebonics
Black English Vernacular
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A vernacular subset of any of the varieties of Black English.
glosses: A vernacular subset of any of the varieties of Black English.
Synonym of African-American Vernacular English.
synonyms: word: African-American Vernacular English
estd.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: estd
form: est'd
form: est
form: est.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of established.
glosses: Abbreviation of estimated.
cake server
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cake servers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cake slice.
synonyms: word: cake slice
unprobeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + probeable.
Senses: glosses: Which cannot be probed.
dioxygenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dioxygenyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation O₂⁺
foretimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foretime
lead times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lead time
Old Father Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Father Time.
synonyms: word: Father Time
set-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of set-up
encagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encagements
Etymology: From encage + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of incagement.
exactinio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ex actīniō (“out of actinium”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of actinon (“radon-219”).
synonyms: word: actinon
extra: radon-219
Coordinate terms: alt: radon-222
word: exradio
alt: radon-220
word: exthorio
exthorio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ex (“out of”) + thōriō (“thorium”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thoron (“radon-220”).
synonyms: word: thoron
extra: radon-220
Coordinate terms: alt: radon-219
word: exactinio
alt: radon-222
word: exradio
hydrokryptoacetylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acetylene derivative of krypton, HKrC≡CH
moskovium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moscovium.
oxytetrafluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxytetrafluorides
Etymology: From oxy- + tetrafluoride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ternary compound containing one oxygen atom and four fluorine atoms
Derived terms: tungsten oxytetrafluoride
xenon oxytetrafluoride
picocurie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picocuries
Etymology: From pico- + curie.
Senses: examples: text: Payne, then on loan to the tribal government, agreed to help a National Park Service ranger work on his water sampling technique. They tested 48 water sources around a national monument near Cameron. What they found appalled them. Uranium levels in the water at Cameron were as high as 139 picocuries per liter in wells and up to 4,024 in abandoned pits like the ones where Lois Neztsosie watered her sheep and filled her drinking bottles.
ref: 2006 November 20, Judy Pasternak, “Oases in Navajo Desert Contained 'A Witch's Brew'”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: The unit of radioactivity equal to 10⁻¹² curie: symbol pCi.
encagements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encagement
picocuries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picocurie
multiplicatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiplicative
what's that
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: What is that?
glosses: What was that? Synonym of say again.
what was that
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: what's that
Senses: glosses: What did you just say? Synonym of say again.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see what, was, that.
murr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mûr
ipa: /mɜːɹ/
ipa: [mɜː]
ipa: [mɝ]
ipa: [mʌr]
ipa: [møː]
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: [meː]
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: [mɛː]
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: [mɜː(ɹ)]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: murre
homophone: myrrh (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: mare (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: murrs
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps imitative.
Senses: examples: text: The woodhacke, that syngeth ‘chur’,
Horsly, as he had the mur; […]
ref: c. 1505, John Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 82, lines 418–419:
text: [...] I like not his countenance; I am afraid he labours of the venereall murre.
ref: 1597, Don Richardo de Medico Campo [pseudonym; Richard Lichfield], The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman, London: […] [Edward Allde] for Philip Scarlet, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman (Miscellaneous Tracts, Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n.], 1870, →OCLC, page 7:
text: With them a Phthysique or consumption of the lungs is but an ordinary cough: A dysentery or bloody flux but a distemper of the stomacke; A pleurisie but a cold or murre; and as they gently name them so they easily endure them.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12:
glosses: A catarrh.
murr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mûr
ipa: /mɜːɹ/
ipa: [mɜː]
ipa: [mɝ]
ipa: [mʌr]
ipa: [møː]
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: [meː]
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: [mɛː]
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: [mɜː(ɹ)]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: murre
homophone: myrrh (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: mare (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: murrs
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Raion let out a contented murr, […]
ref: 2003 March 30, "NallTWD" (username), FUR: "Boston Blues" (M/F- Lions), in fur.stories.erotica, Usenet
text: Cathy rroww'ed like a cat in heat as her tom mated her, her breasts pressed deeply into the mattress, orgasming with a contented murr as the tom fertilized her […]
ref: 2004, Claudia, “STORY: The Three Sisters, part 8 ( Transform, Girl into Horse )”, in alt.sex.stories (Usenet):
text: The hyena let out a soft murr as the fox's paw gently rubbing in small circles across his forehead and down his neck. The gentle scratching felt good, so the hyena leaned into the paw.
ref: 2007, Teiran, The Hero, page 150:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A purr (produced by any animal).
murr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mûr
ipa: /mɜːɹ/
ipa: [mɜː]
ipa: [mɝ]
ipa: [mʌr]
ipa: [møː]
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: [meː]
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: [mɛː]
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: [mɜː(ɹ)]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: murre
homophone: myrrh (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: mare (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: murrs
form: murring
form: murred
form: murred
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: The cat murred and purred and tried to lick his face and David was filled with such happiness. All the doubts and misgivings of the past few hours fled and all that he knew was that Kate, his love and his life, was back with him.
ref: 1989, Dawn Borrelli, Kate, page 101:
text: She murred in satisfaction.
ref: 1995 January 5, Anne-Lise Pasch, “STORY: Retribution”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
ref: 2002 September 2, sahd_ryoken, “*murrs* no shirt, jean shorts, and one hot dragon”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To purr.
raw_tags: of a person or animal
murr
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mûr
ipa: /mɜːɹ/
ipa: [mɜː]
ipa: [mɝ]
ipa: [mʌr]
ipa: [møː]
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: [meː]
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: [mɛː]
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: [mɜː(ɹ)]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: murre
homophone: myrrh (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: mare (fair–fur merger)
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Nice picture. I love the details on everything, and the shading is wonderful. He's very murr.
ref: 2002 November 14, "Khaki Wolf" (username), FUR Genengineering Tank (M/ Direwolf) - garmtank_work.jpg (1/1), in fur.artwork.erotica, Usenet
text: Yew rox0rs....p.b. and Jay are murr. DO P.B.!
Lukos
"Darkan" […] wrote in message […]
> A little fanart of Jay from Daria McGrain's 'Genus Male' comic. I like P.B.
> better tho, and will draw him soon.
ref: 2002 November 3, Lukos, “FuRe: Jay (Male/Tame/Fanart)”, in fur.artwork.erotica (Usenet):
text: Great pics, very murr :)
ref: 2003 October 12, Darkone, “Fur: Teeming with Vermin(m/2 pics/not really tame)”, in fur.artwork.erotica (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Having sexual appeal, sexy.
raw_tags: of a person or animal
Derived terms: murrsuit
govi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: govis
form: govi
Etymology: From Haitian Creole [Term?], from Fon [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: In due course of time, the parent in the govi becomes grandparent and the grandparent becomes ancestor.
ref: 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 28:
text: So these govi used to sit on your father's family altar, but now they are on yours?
ref: 1995, Mama Lola & Karen McCarthy Brown, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 232
text: The importance and significance of the govi can hardly be overstressed because it enables as well as brings to light the Voduists' reverence for their ancestors, a ubiquitous and fundamental feature of African religion in general.
ref: 2009, Ama Mazama, Encyclopedia of African Religion, volume 1, page 297:
glosses: A sacred urn or pitcher in Haitian voodoo, used to hold the spirit of an ancestor.
argoletier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑː(ɹ)ɡələˈtɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: argoletiers
Etymology: Alteration of argolet, after chevalier etc.
Senses: examples: text: And he that shall enquire of our Argolettiers or Free-booters, what experiences they have had in these our late civil wars, shal no doubt find effect and examples of patience, of obstinacy and stif-neckednes […].
ref: , II.32
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A light mounted soldier; a mounted bowman.
argoletiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of argoletier
flogworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flogworthy
form: most flogworthy
Etymology: From flog + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Marples with drunken motorists, Sir David Eccles with middle-class undergraduates, Mr. Vosper with flogworthy delinquents, Mr. Macleod with defederating Rhodesians, [...]
ref: 1778, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, The Spectator:
glosses: Worthy of flogging or to be flogged; (by extension) deserving of punishment; punishable.
blogworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blogworthier
form: more blogworthy
form: blogworthiest
form: most blogworthy
Etymology: From blog + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: This incident was definitely blogworthy; she was already curious about Sparrowhawk's take on it.
ref: 2008, Mitali Perkins, First Daughter: White House Rules:
text: It was a good list, to which she was prepared to add from time to time, but it was the only blogworthy one in her notebook.
ref: 2009, Jincy Willett, The Writing Class:
text: Problems for the opposition, particularly scandals involving opposition political figures, are particularly blogworthy.
ref: 2009, Richard Davis, Typing Politics: The Role of Blogs in American Politics:
glosses: Worthy of being blogged or blogged about.
Synonyms: bloggable
khatchkar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khatchkars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khachkar.
khachqar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khachqars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khachkar.
grassy ass
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: grassy arse
Senses: examples: text: "Grassy-ass, amigos! Mooch-ass grassy-ass!" Ha ha, de nada, jefe
ref: 1977, Robert Coover, The public burning, page 20:
text: 2007, Louis Gerard Mendoza, Toni Marie Nelson Herrera, Telling tongues: a Latin@ anthology on language experience, link
Grassy ass Maggie.
text: The joke “Grassy-Ass” for “Gracias” (diversely realized in images on humorous greeting cards
ref: 2011, Jane H. Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism, page 140:
glosses: Alternative form of gracias.
Related terms: mooch ass grassy ass
mercy bucket
silver plate
muchos gracias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Spanish muchas gracias (“many thanks”) but with muchos in the more familiar (and grammatically incorrect) masculine form.
Senses: examples: text: Muchos gracias, my friend. —The girls are in the kitchen, Bimbo told Vera.
ref: 1993, Roddy Doyle, The Van, link:
glosses: Thank you very much.
Related terms: much grass
Romney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒmni/
ipa: /ˈɹʌmnɪ/
ipa: /ˈɹɑːmni/
Forms: form: Rumney
Etymology: From a name of a village in Kent (see Old Romney), from a compound of Latin rumen (“gullet”) and Old English ēa (“river”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Randolph Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Eastland County, Texas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Hampshire County, West Virginia, named after Romney in Kent.
glosses: An English earldom.
Derived terms: New Romney
Romney hut
Romney Marsh
Romney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒmni/
ipa: /ˈɹʌmnɪ/
ipa: /ˈɹɑːmni/
Forms: form: Romneys
form: Rumney
Etymology: From a name of a village in Kent (see Old Romney), from a compound of Latin rumen (“gullet”) and Old English ēa (“river”).
Senses: glosses: One of a particular English breed of small sheep with long wool and horns.
remplissage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French remplissage.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The use of part of the infraspinatus tendon to fill in a humeral defect.
fox caller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox callers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fox whistle.
synonyms: word: fox whistle
chairwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chair + work.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A technique in which the patient moves between chairs, acting as a different person in each one, so as to understand the point of view of others.
qualifier: Alexander technique
glosses: A form of physical therapy that involves repeatedly sitting and standing so as to gauge one's posture.
Related terms: deskwork
seatwork
tablework
judgmentless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more judgmentless
form: most judgmentless
Etymology: From judgment + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of judgment; undiscerning.
bluffingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bluffingly
form: most bluffingly
Etymology: From bluffing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: As a bluff; with intent to deceive.
streamingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more streamingly
form: most streamingly
Etymology: From streaming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her long hair moved streamingly in the wind.
glosses: So as to stream or flow.
urgingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more urgingly
form: most urgingly
Etymology: From urging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I say it beseechingly, urgingly - Always obey your parents.
ref: 1882, Mark Twain, Advice to Youth (speech)
glosses: So as to urge.
sniffingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sniffingly
form: most sniffingly
Etymology: From sniffing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: All during the night the riding ponies had grazed in close proximity to the house, had stamped about it, and occasionally had put their noses to its cracks, sniffingly to satisfy either curiosity or a desire for human companionship.
ref: 1997, Philip Ashton Rollins, The Cowboy, page 191:
glosses: With a sniffing sound or action.
examples: text: Philip Hone sniffingly noted in his diary that "they increase our taxes, eat our bread and encumber our streets, and not one in twenty is competent to keep himself."
ref: 2004, Edward Robb Ellis, The Epic Of New York City: A Narrative History, page 232:
text: Mrs. Chow down the street, for instance, why did she look so sniffingly upon him when she heard the children, in the harmless uproar of their play, cry him aloud as Daddy?
ref: 2007, Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins, page 27:
glosses: With haughty disapproval.
dissemblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dissemblingly
form: most dissemblingly
Etymology: From dissembling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to dissemble or deceive; with dissimulation.
peltingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more peltingly
form: most peltingly
Etymology: From pelting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The rain fell peltingly for days.
glosses: So as to pelt or bombard.
fidgetingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fidgetingly
form: most fidgetingly
Etymology: From fidgeting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With fidgeting motions; with impatient inability to keep still.
hectoringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hectoringly
form: most hectoringly
Etymology: From hectoring + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to hector or bully.
loungingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more loungingly
form: most loungingly
Etymology: From lounging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to lounge; in a lazy or relaxing way.
doctor's office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doctors' offices
Senses: glosses: A clinic where one or more doctors receives patients for their medical care.
Synonyms: word: surgery
waggingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more waggingly
form: most waggingly
Etymology: From wagging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a wagging motion.
subdefinition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdefinitions
Etymology: From sub- + definition.
Senses: examples: text: In the four-volume supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary (hereafter, OED), its editor, Burchfield, supplied a separate subdefinition stating that Hobson-Jobson was ‘[u]sed as the title of a famous collection of Anglo-Indian words’ [...] Thus, along with the Bible and the Koran, Hobson-Jobson, the book, has been elevated to the special status of being defined in the OED.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 486:
glosses: A lesser or secondary definition.
subdefinitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdefinition
resistingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more resistingly
form: most resistingly
Etymology: From resisting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to resist; with resistance; without accepting or yielding.
trailingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more trailingly
form: most trailingly
Etymology: From trailing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The woman's long dress went trailingly through the mud.
glosses: In a way that trails.
writhingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more writhingly
form: most writhingly
Etymology: From writhing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 1822, uncredited author, “The Nightmare” (Review of Smarra, ou les Démons de la Nuit by Charles Nodier (1821), including free translations of passages from the novella), The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 4, p. 524,
[…] the monster sprang from her burning hand, turned writhingly and rapidly in the air, outspread his wildly-fashioned wings, uprose, sank down, expanded, shrunk […]
text: And now, just as he crossed the threshold of the closet, he writhingly strove to assume an expression intended to be not uncheerful […]
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, New York: Harper, Book 25, Chapter 5, p. 473:
text: […] Mr. Wrenn writhingly admitted that he had never heard of Shelley […]
ref: 1914, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 6, in Our Mr. Wrenn, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 71:
text: Heroically, the man at the stake now overcame the will of his antenna, spoke rapidly, writhingly.
ref: 1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 4, in The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, published 2006, page 102:
text: […] the most glaring problem about gauging the influence that van Mander’s rules had on subsequent generations is that they so very obviously describe his own output: classically statuesque at the beginning; elastically, writhingly mannerist at the end.
ref: 1999, Simon Schama, Rembrandt’s Eyes, New York: Knopf, Part 3, Chapter 5, p. 218:
glosses: With a writhing motion.
freezingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more freezingly
form: most freezingly
Etymology: From Middle English freesyngly, equivalent to freezing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is freezing; with intense cold.
examples: text: It was on the tip of her tongue to call her a poll parrot (Mrs. Kingdom had said nothing but 'dear me' repeatedly and freezingly).
ref: 1902, Country Life, volume 11, page 636:
glosses: With intense emotional coldness; dispassionately.
gossipingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gossipingly
form: most gossipingly
Etymology: From gossiping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With gossip; while gossiping.
conformingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conformingly
form: most conformingly
Etymology: From conforming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that conforms.
oppressingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more oppressingly
form: most oppressingly
Etymology: From oppressing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to oppress; with or by means of oppression; oppressively.
scrawlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scrawlingly
form: most scrawlingly
Etymology: From scrawling + -ly.
Senses: examples: scrawlingly joined words
glosses: In a way that scrawls or scribbles.
unaspiringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unaspiringly
form: most unaspiringly
Etymology: From unaspiring + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without aspirations.
unbudgingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unbudgingly
form: most unbudgingly
Etymology: From unbudging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without budging or moving; in a way that is steadfast.
Latvianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latvian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being Latvian.
snubbingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snubbingly
form: most snubbingly
Etymology: From snubbing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to snub, slight, or belittle.
demeaningness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demeaning + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being demeaning.
commiseratingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more commiseratingly
form: most commiseratingly
Etymology: From commiserating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to commiserate; in a way that offers commiseration.
evadingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more evadingly
form: most evadingly
Etymology: From evading + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to evade; evasively.
perspiringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perspiringly
form: most perspiringly
Etymology: From perspiring + -ly.
Senses: glosses: While perspiring; with perspiration or sweat.
leadingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more leadingly
form: most leadingly
Etymology: From leading + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "She has to be thin, correct?" Vijay's father continued, asking the question leadingly.
ref: 2002, Ajay A. Patel, Arranged Love, page 70:
text: The only snag in the proceedings occurred when the prosecution cross-examined Allison: the defense objected vigorously when the state leadingly asked if it was true that Milam had "been charged and pleaded guilty on quite a number of charges."
ref: 2008, Davis W. Houck, Matthew A. Grindy, Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press, page 102:
glosses: In a way that leads; as a leading question.
Justin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪn/
rhymes: -ʌstɪn
Etymology: Name of early saints, Latin Iūstīnus, from Iūstus + -īnus, from iūstus (“just”).
Senses: examples: text: What is there, I wonder, about the name Justin that gives its bearer the quality of leadership? Justin Morrill was a leader of men. Justin Morgan was a leader of horses.
ref: 1892, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook, Outlook Publishing Co., published 1925, page 43:
text: 'It says here his name was Justin Summers. Now, if that ain't the whitest white-guy name of all time, then I don't know what. It's just a damn shame.'
ref: 1996, Sherman Alexie, Indian Killer, →ISBN, page 102:
text: After Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in April 2017, the two sides offered vastly different accounts of what was discussed.
ref: 2018 July 24, Kaitlan Collins, “Exclusive: White House stops announcing calls with foreign leaders”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Latin, popular in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Denton County, Texas, United States, named after Justin Sherman of the Santa Fe Railway.
Related terms: Justice
justice
justify
Justine
Justinian
Justus
timeboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: management
glosses: A method of planning an activity, by allocating specific timeboxes for a task, which is a distinctive feature of several project management approaches.
timeboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of timebox
timeboxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of timebox
seducingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more seducingly
form: most seducingly
Etymology: From seducing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to seduce; seductively.
Lithuanianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lithuanian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Lithuanian.
extollingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more extollingly
form: most extollingly
Etymology: From extolling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to extol; with praise.
preachingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preachingly
form: most preachingly
Etymology: From preaching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] the country maiden, who mounts her horse so adroitly, waits on table so sweetly, and talks morality so preachingly?
ref: 1867, Frances Dana Gage, Elsie Magoon:
glosses: In a way that preaches.
unreturningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unreturning + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: What seeks he? All that others seek / He casts away, like a vile weed / Which the sea casts unreturningly.
ref: 1818 August, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Rosalind and Helen”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 36:
glosses: Without returning or coming back.
thinkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thinkingly
form: most thinkingly
Etymology: From thinking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With thought or thinking.
flotson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flotsons
Senses: glosses: Dated form of flotsam.
flotsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flotson
flotsams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flotsam
aphoristical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aphoristical
form: most aphoristical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aphoristic.
Frederician
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛdɹɪʃən/
/ˈfɹɛdəɹɪsi.ən/
Etymology: From Frederick + -ian.
Senses: examples: two pavilions built in a Frederician style
Frederician Rococo
glosses: pertaining to Frederick the Great or to the time of his rule
definites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of definite
dimmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dimmy
form: most dimmy
Etymology: From dim + -y.
Senses: examples: text: dimmy clouds
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: somewhat dim; dimmish
incircling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incircle
incircled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incircle
leatherettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leatherette
Keatonesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Keatonesque
form: most Keatonesque
Etymology: From Keaton + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Buster Keaton (1895–1966), American comic actor, filmmaker, and producer, best known for silent films with deadpan slapstick.
vivific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vivific
form: most vivific
Etymology: From Latin vivificus. Compare French vivifique. See vivify.
Senses: glosses: Giving life or vigor; reviving; enlivening.
purlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purling
pharisaicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pharisaical + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Romanticism fumes against what it sees as the puritanism and pharisaicalness of mainstream culture, while ultimately remaining blind to the fact that it's entirely dependent upon embodying the very thing it ridicules.
ref: 2014, Mark Sayers, Facing Leviathan: Leadership, Influence, and Creating in a Cultural Storm:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The quality of being pharisaical.
Related terms: pharisaic
pharisaical
pharisaically
pharisaism
niggerishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From niggerish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Too many of us have escaped through the eye of the needle and when we look back we see only niggerishness, which spurs us to put even more distance between ourselves and our people.
ref: 1997, Dewayne Wickham, Thinking Black:
text: I have continued in this vein by arguing that even when the black subject turns pathological, becomes the bad black, his antisociality, his niggerishness, once again does the important work of demonstrating that he is removed from the main currents of modern society […]
ref: 2007, Robert Reid-Pharr, Once you go Black: choice, desire, and the Black American intellectual, page 131:
glosses: The quality of being niggerish.
longlisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of longlist
longlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of longlist
feldspathose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feldspathose
form: most feldspathose
Etymology: From feldspath + -ose.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing feldspar.
Synonyms: feldspathic
immaterialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immateriality
Reinhardtian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Reinhardtian
form: most Reinhardtian
Etymology: From Reinhardt + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Max Reinhardt (1873–1943), Austrian-born American stage and film actor and director.
glosses: Of or relating to Adolph Frederick "Ad" Reinhardt (1913–1967), abstract painter.
Gerhardtian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gerhardtian
form: most Gerhardtian
Etymology: From Gerhardt + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856), French chemist.
Burckhardtian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Burckhardtian
form: most Burckhardtian
Etymology: From Burckhardt + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), historian of art and culture.
Oxford tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oxford ties
Senses: glosses: A kind of shoe, laced on the instep, and usually covering the foot nearly to the ankle.
Hindoostanee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hindoostanees
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Hindustani.
Hindoostanee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Half his native English had now given way to bad Hindoostanee.
ref: 1829, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register, page 701:
glosses: Dated form of Hindustani.
Hindoostanees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hindoostanee
homaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of homage
homaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of homage
overfondly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overfondly
form: most overfondly
Etymology: From overfond + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With excessive fondness.
antiequality
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiequality
form: most antiequality
Etymology: From anti- + equality.
Senses: glosses: Opposing social equality.
anticensus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticensus
form: most anticensus
Etymology: From anti- + census.
Senses: glosses: Opposing a census.
connivingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more connivingly
form: most connivingly
Etymology: From conniving + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conniving manner.
dissentingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dissentingly
form: most dissentingly
Etymology: From dissenting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With dissent or disagreement.
unbeseemingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unbeseemingly
form: most unbeseemingly
Etymology: From unbeseeming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unbeseeming manner.
supersmooth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + smooth.
Senses: examples: a supersmooth jazz composition
glosses: Very smooth.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a distribution that has derivatives of all orders.
mesotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- (“middle”) + -trophy (“nutrition”).
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: the quality of having an intermediate level of nutrient productivity
raw_tags: of a body of water
Related terms: mesotrophic
eutrophy
oligotrophy
hypereutrophy
plottingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plottingly
form: most plottingly
Etymology: From plotting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a plotting manner; engaging in plots or schemes.
mesotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mesotrophic
form: most mesotrophic
Etymology: From meso- + -trophic.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: providing intermediate (right) level of nutrients and minerals, nor eutrophic (too high), nor oligotrophic (too low level).
raw_tags: of a body of water
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: describing organisms that inhabit such water
Derived terms: oligomesotrophic
Related terms: mesotroph
mesotrophy
hypereutrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + eutrophy.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
qualifier: a body of water
glosses: The quality of being extremely rich in nutrients and minerals.
Related terms: hypereutrophic
eutrophy
oligotrophy
mesotrophy
hypereutrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + eutrophic.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Extremely rich in nutrients and minerals.
raw_tags: of a body of water
Related terms: hypereutrophication
hypereutrophy
triforia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triforium
Engle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sierra County, New Mexico.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Texas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
examples: text: The Engle or English man absorbed the Saxon, absorbed the Jute, but himself remained English.
ref: 1907, Joseph Pomeroy Widney, The Old World, page 255:
glosses: Synonym of Angle (“member of the tribe of Angles”).
synonyms: word: Angle
extra: member of the tribe of Angles
mycoremediations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycoremediation
stuprous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stuprous
form: most stuprous
Etymology: From Latin stuprōsus, from stuprum.
Senses: examples: text: seeing himselfe engaged in so stuprous a necessitie, [he] resolved upon an haughty enterprize[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 33, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: With the cry of a tigress bending over her cub, he disengaged Guidon, who lay there unconscious, bruised, his clothes in rags and stained with stuprous filth; kissed him and raised him in his arms.
ref: 2008, trans. Georges Eekhoud, A Strange Love, Olympia Press, 2008
glosses: Filthy, dirty; debauched.
stuprous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Variant forms.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stuporous.
dryfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dry-foot.
tetraxenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + xenon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Four xenon atoms in a molecule
Derived terms: tetraxenonogold
tetraxenonogold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + xenon + -o- + gold.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation AuXe₄²⁺
ventilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ventilation
megadont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megadont
form: most megadont
Etymology: From mega- + -odont.
Senses: examples: text: Australopithecus garhi is certainly megadont, at least relative to craniofacial size.
ref: 1999 April 23, Berhane Asfaw et al., “Australopithecus garhi: A New Species of Early Hominid from Ethiopia”, in Science, volume 284, number 5414, →DOI, pages 629–635:
text: Molar enamel thickness is a morphological trait that differentiates African apes from hominins, being manifested most dramatically in the megadont hominins (Paranthropus spp.) with hyperthick enamel.
ref: 2012, Justin D. Yeakel et al., “Stable isotopes, functional morphology, and human evolution: a model of consilience”, in arXiv:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having large teeth
Derived terms: megadontia
megadonty
melanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: melanizes
form: melanizing
form: melanized
form: melanized
form: melanise
Etymology: From melanin + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: At the extreme, the mosquito does not permit survival and transmission of the parasite: in genetically selected refractory mosquito strains, the parasites may be lysed as they traverse the midgut, or may be encapsulated and melanized at the early oocyst stage.
ref: 1999 May 21, Jules A. Hoffmann et al., “Phylogenetic Perspectives in Innate Immunity”, in Science, volume 284, number 5418, →DOI, pages 1313–1318:
glosses: To convert into melanin, or to deposit melanin in.
Derived terms: demelanize
eumelanize
hypermelanize
hypomelanize
melanization
meliorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melioration
menkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From men + -kind.
Senses: examples: text: She had anticipated passionate reproaches, tears even, for an attractive women who has been consistently spoiled by her menkind is, of all her sex, the least prepared to bow to the force of circumstances.
ref: 1920, Margaret Pedler, The Hermit of Far End:
text: In the wildcat's eyes, however, as in the eyes of all the wild kindreds, he seemed a treasured possession of the menkind, and an especially objectionable expression of all their most objectionable characteristics.
ref: 1904, Charles G. D. Roberts, The Watchers of the Trails:
text: "To think that here you live, all the menkind belongin' to me, and I never to have seen it!
ref: 1895, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Wandering Heath:
text: If "all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical," presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well for the luckless Arab who is to live beneath their sway.
ref: 1924, Nesta H. Webster, Secret Societies And Subversive Movements:
glosses: menfolk