cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
umbracious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more umbracious
form: most umbracious
Senses: synonyms: umbrageous
glosses: Shady; shaded.
Related terms: umbra
umbrageous
umbrella
umpirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umpirers
Senses: examples: text: […] and were to that end appointed by God, that they might be keepers of humane Society, the Umpirers of Difference among the Nations of the World, the preservers of the Laws, Judgments, and Peace, &c.
ref: 1675, John Smith, Christian religion's appeal from the groundless prejudices of the sceptick to the bar of common reason, page 97:
text: The subject selected by the umpirers for competition for this prize for the year 1850 is, […]
ref: 1847, The Magazine of Science, page 48:
glosses: An umpire.
umpirers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umpirer
unaccidentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unaccidental + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Not by accident; intentionally.
unaccommodable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaccommodable
form: most unaccommodable
Etymology: From un- + accommodable.
Senses: glosses: Not accommodable.
unabridgable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + abridgable.
Senses: glosses: Not abridgable.
unaccumulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unaccumulates
form: unaccumulating
form: unaccumulated
form: unaccumulated
Etymology: From un- + accumulate.
Senses: examples: text: Now, this accumulation thing that people are going through — you accumulate — you're going to find out it's very difficult now to unaccumulate, unaccumulate.
ref: 2015, Arthur Fanning, The Comprehension of the Holy Spirit within the Human Condition:
text: “You cannot imagine,” she was saying, “what a joy it has been to unaccumulate! To get rid of things! To select.”
ref: 2020, David Grayson, Great Possessions, page 101:
glosses: To get rid of something previously accumulated.
unaccumulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unaccumulate
unaccumulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unaccumulate
unacceptant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unacceptant
form: most unacceptant
Etymology: From un- + acceptant.
Senses: examples: text: A teacher often feels that being genuine will inevitably conflict with being acceptant, for at times he may feel unacceptant.
ref: 2017, David H. Hargreaves, Interpersonal Relations and Education:
glosses: Not acceptant.
unconventionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unconventionalizes
form: unconventionalizing
form: unconventionalized
form: unconventionalized
Etymology: From un- + conventionalize.
Senses: glosses: To make unconventional.
unconventionalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unconventionalize
unconventionalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unconventionalize
unconventionalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unconventionalize
uncoronated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + coronated.
Senses: glosses: Not crowned.
uncorresponding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + corresponding.
Senses: glosses: That does not correspond or match up with something else.
uncraving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncraving
form: most uncraving
Etymology: From un- + craving.
Senses: glosses: That does not crave.
uncravingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From uncraving + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without craving.
sinologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a sinological manner.
uncriminally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncriminally
form: most uncriminally
Etymology: From uncriminal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncriminal manner.
uncriticising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncriticising
form: most uncriticising
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncriticizing.
uncriticisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncriticisingly
form: most uncriticisingly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncriticizingly.
uncudgelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cudgelled.
Senses: glosses: Not cudgelled.
uncudgeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cudgeled.
Senses: glosses: Not cudgeled.
soapboxy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soapboxy
form: most soapboxy
Etymology: From soapbox + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He's tough and can be opinionated, and gets a little soapboxy about the environment, but he's actually a pretty great teacher.
ref: 2013, Michael P. Spradlin, Killer Species #1: Menace From the Deep:
glosses: Tending to soapbox or lecture people.
feedbacky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feedbacky
form: most feedbacky
Etymology: From feedback + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The Black Crowes' intention to rock is clearly stated by the half-minute blast of feedbacky guitar that unfurls at the opening of "Midnight From The Inside Out."
ref: 2001, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 94, page 79:
text: Just don't break the stupid feedbacky fucker. We'll set up and rehearse. Bring a notebook so you can write down the chords.
ref: 2014, Stephen King, Revival, page 105:
glosses: Characterized by the kind of sound distortion called feedback.
multiapp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + app.
Senses: examples: text: Some people can find the multiapp approach in Windows 8.1 confusing at first, but I will explain in this section how easy it is to use.
ref: 2013, Mike Halsey, Beginning Windows 8.1, page 241:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Involving or relating to several software applications.
legal gender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legal genders
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person's sex or gender which is recognized under the law.
Synonyms: legal sex
Related terms: sex
gender
sex change
gender recognition
gender identity
goldweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldweights
Etymology: From gold + weight.
Senses: glosses: A brass weight used for measurement among the Akan people.
goldweights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldweight
undabbled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dabbled.
Senses: examples: text: Of the crowds in the street as they jostled and swore,
Not a beggarly rag was undabbled with gore; […]
ref: 1880, William Pitt Palmer, Echoes of Half a Century: Poems, page 93:
glosses: Not dabbled.
hysterical realism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by English critic James Wood in 2000 to describe Zadie Smith's White Teeth.
Senses: examples: text: This is not magical realism. It is hysterical realism. […] The conventions of realism are not being abolished but, on the contrary, exhausted, and overworked.
ref: 2000 July 24, James Wood, “Human, All Too Inhuman”, in The New Republic, →ISSN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other.
wikipedia: White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Related terms: magic realism
uncurdle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncurdles
form: uncurdling
form: uncurdled
form: uncurdled
Etymology: From un- + curdle.
Senses: examples: text: The thing with milk is that you can't uncurdle it. It can't ever go back to what it was.
ref: 2011, Karen Rivers, What is Real, page 24:
glosses: To reverse the process of curdling.
uncurdles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncurdle
uncurdling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncurdle
uncreaturely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncreaturely
form: most uncreaturely
Etymology: From un- + creaturely.
Senses: glosses: Not creaturely.
unctorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unctoria
Senses: glosses: A room in which people were anointed, in ancient public baths.
Related terms: unction
unguent
unctoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unctorium
uncuckold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncuckolds
form: uncuckolding
form: uncuckolded
form: uncuckolded
Etymology: From un- + cuckold.
Senses: examples: text: […] tho' one man can make you a cuckold, a hundred men cannot uncuckold you […]
ref: Quoted in 1983, Narindar Saroop, Gardner of Gardner's Horse, 2nd Lancers, Indian Army (page 104)
text: By destroying her, he can, as it were, “uncuckold” himself—rid himself and the world of the influence undermining his identity.
ref: 2015, Matthew N. Proser, Heroic Image in Five Shakespearean Tragedies, page 134:
glosses: To undo the cuckolding of.
uncuckolds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncuckold
uncuckolding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncuckold
undemonstrably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From undemonstrable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Such that it cannot be demonstrated.
undemised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + demised.
Senses: glosses: Not demised.
undetermine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undetermines
form: undetermining
form: undetermined
form: undetermined
Etymology: From un- + determine.
Senses: examples: text: The antithetical features of atomist doctrine are no longer seen as undetermining the principle of the atom, or negating sensuous appearance, but rather as intrinsic to both. Nature is full of contradictions […]
ref: 2000, Daniel Tiffany, Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric, page 173:
text: In such cases, even the licence conferred by strict speaking is powerless to 'undetermine' the statement—to make any and every context seem admissible.
ref: 2014, Rupert Crawshay-Williams, Methods and Criteria of Reasoning, page 148:
glosses: To undo the determining of; to make uncertain.
undetermines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undetermine
undetermining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undetermine
undefaulted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + defaulted.
Senses: examples: an undefaulted loan
glosses: Not defaulted upon.
task-positive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
antonyms: task-negative
glosses: Of a brain region: active while the person is carrying out a goal-oriented task.
task-negative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
antonyms: task-positive
glosses: Of a brain region: not active while the person is carrying out a goal-oriented task.
Related terms: default mode network
undispatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undispatches
form: undispatching
form: undispatched
form: undispatched
Etymology: From un- + dispatch.
Senses: examples: text: It reduces I/O latency, for selected eligible I/Os, to the point that z/OS no longer needs to undispatch the running task.
ref: 2021, Peter Kimmel, Sherri Brunson, Lisa Martinez, IBM DS8900F Performance Best Practices and Monitoring, page 22:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cancel a process of dispatching.
undispatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undispatch
undispatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undispatch
I/Os
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of I/O
redigitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redigitize
redigitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redigitize
redigitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redigitize
recognizitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recognizition
redigitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redigitizations
Senses: glosses: The process of redigitizing.
redigitizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redigitization
undissoluble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undissoluble
form: most undissoluble
Etymology: From un- + dissoluble.
Senses: glosses: Not dissoluble.
undissuadably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undissuadably
form: most undissuadably
Etymology: From undissuadable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undissuadable manner.
private enterprise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private enterprises
Senses: glosses: enterprise owned by private owners, investors or shareholders
undispersing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dispersing.
Senses: glosses: That does not disperse.
undowered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dowered.
Senses: glosses: Not given a dowry.
undularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From undular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undular manner.
undominical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undominical
form: most undominical
Etymology: From un- + dominical.
Senses: glosses: Not dominical.
unduplicability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Inability to be duplicated.
unelaborately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unelaborately
form: most unelaborately
Etymology: From unelaborate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unelaborate manner.
uneffectually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uneffectually
form: most uneffectually
Etymology: From uneffectual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uneffectual manner.
undragoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dragon + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: 1868-1869, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book
The officious priest would personate Saint George / For a mock Princess in undragoned days.
text: After this there is a big battle: armies converging on the mountain and its now undragoned hoard.
ref: 2013, Adam Roberts, The Riddles of The Hobbit, page 95:
glosses: Without a dragon or dragons.
social movement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social movements
Senses: glosses: An effort by a group of people to achieve a social or political goal.
unelating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unelating
form: most unelating
Etymology: From un- + elating.
Senses: examples: text: It was certainly unelating as an architectural composition; but then we know, by the story, that the plain pear is often the most luscious.
ref: 1906, Bernard Capes, A Rogue's Tragedy, page 117:
text: But there is something unthrilling, unelating, passionless about Black and Blue: a good many commendable details, a great deal of savoir-faire (it comes to us from Paris, after all), but not much heart.
ref: 1989, New York, volume 22, page 8:
glosses: Not inspiring elation.
uneffused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + effused.
Senses: glosses: Not effused.
uneminently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uneminently
form: most uneminently
Etymology: From uneminent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uneminent manner.
unthrillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unthrillable
form: most unthrillable
Etymology: From un- + thrillable.
Senses: glosses: Not thrillable.
unchillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchillable
form: most unchillable
Etymology: From un- + chillable.
Senses: glosses: Not chillable.
thrillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thrillable
form: most thrillable
Etymology: From thrill + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being thrilled.
unelemental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unelemental
form: most unelemental
Etymology: From un- + elemental.
Senses: examples: text: By contrast, unelemental philosophy no longer has as its focal point humanity's relation to the world. Man (I use this term advisedly) becomes an analysing spectator of his existence, as opposed to a participant in it.
ref: 2021, David Lorimer, A Quest for Wisdom:
glosses: Not elemental.
unentire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unentire
form: most unentire
Etymology: From un- + entire.
Senses: glosses: Not entire; incomplete.
unepiscopally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unepiscopally
form: most unepiscopally
Etymology: From unepiscopal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unepiscopal manner.
unerroneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unerroneously
form: most unerroneously
Etymology: From unerroneous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unerroneous manner.
unexamining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexamining
form: most unexamining
Etymology: From un- + examining.
Senses: examples: text: […] seen through the mist of tradition, surrounded by the awe and reverence of the unexamining, the uncritical, and the morally undeveloped, […]
ref: 1920, Henry Clay Sheldon, Pantheistic Dilemmas and Other Essays in Philosophy and Religion, page 326:
glosses: That does not examine.
sausage wallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sausage wallets
Senses: examples: text: No adultery, no sex before marriage, no bestiality, no homosexuality, no incest, no ejaculation anywhere besides your wife's sausage wallet.
ref: 2014, Frances Kuffell, Love Sick: A Memoir of Searching for Mr. Good Enough, unnumbered page:
text: "Told ya. The bloke wants in your sausage wallet.”
ref: 2018, Christine Besze, Badcock Tour 2: A Coxsister Cruise, unnumbered page:
text: […] But put me in horny jail because if I were you, I'd let Kyle rummage my sausage wallet anytime."
ref: 2021, Kat Addams, WANTED: Emma Jean, Heartbreak Queen, unnumbered page:
glosses: The vagina.
unexorcisably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unexorcisably
form: most unexorcisably
Etymology: From unexorcisable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Such that it cannot be exorcised.
sausage wallets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sausage wallet
unexpectingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unexpectingly
form: most unexpectingly
Etymology: From unexpecting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without expecting; unexpectantly.
unextendedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unextendedly
form: most unextendedly
Etymology: From unextended + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unextended manner.
unexterminable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexterminable
form: most unexterminable
Etymology: From un- + exterminable.
Senses: synonyms: inexterminable
glosses: Not exterminable.
unexcepting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexcepting
form: most unexcepting
Etymology: From un- + excepting.
Senses: glosses: Not making exceptions; universal.
unexcluding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexcluding
form: most unexcluding
Etymology: From un- + excluding.
Senses: glosses: That does not exclude; inclusive.
unexcluding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unexclude
unfagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fagged.
Senses: glosses: Not exhausted; not tired out.
unfarming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + farming.
Senses: examples: text: The village grocer was "the only unfarming person and the only merchant in the village."
ref: 2001, Bernard S. Phillips, Beyond Sociology's Tower of Babel, page 19:
glosses: Not engaged in farming.
unfederal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfederal
form: most unfederal
Etymology: From un- + federal.
Senses: glosses: Not federal.
unformulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unformulable
form: most unformulable
Etymology: From un- + formulable.
Senses: glosses: Not formulable.
unfoundered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + foundered.
Senses: glosses: Not having foundered.
unfurcate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + furcate.
Senses: glosses: Not furcate.
uke-e
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuːkeɪˌeɪ/
ipa: /ˈukeɪˌeɪ/
Etymology: Transliteration of Japanese 有卦絵 (うけえ, ukee), from 有卦 (うけ, uke, “streak of luck”) (有 (う, u, “to have, possess”) + 卦 (け, ke, “divination symbol or sign”)) + 絵 (え, e, “picture”).
Senses: examples: text: This print uses letters as part of the picture but is also an example of an uke-e (lucky print). […] On entering a good luck phase a person would receive gifts such as this print containing seven words beginning with the syllable fu (from fuku = happiness).
ref: 2006, Rebecca Salter, “Leisure, Pleasure, Play”, in Japanese Popular Prints: From Votive Slips to Playing Cards (A Latitude 20 Book), Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, figure 138 caption, page 134:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A kind of ukiyo-e (“Japanese painting or woodblock print showing a scene of everyday life”) depicting an auspicious subject, which was popular in Japan during the late 1800s.
wikipedia: Utagawa Yoshifuji
undemolishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undemolish
undemolishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undemolish
whisker biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whisker biscuits
Senses: examples: text: The bad news was his whisker biscuit—the part that guided the arrow—as well as his sight and stabilizer had been snapped, shattered, and otherwise removed.
ref: 2016, Jason Kassab, Strays, page 211:
text: This is most easily seen on your arrow rest if you're using a recurve, but you can also see erosion on a containment rest and/or a whisker biscuit.
ref: 2019, Dawson Albert, Archery: The #1 Beginner's Guide for Everything an Archer Needs to Know About Recurve and Compound Bows, unnumbered page:
text: The whisker biscuit is the most typical rest, but it can slightly reduce the arrow's speed.
ref: 2021, Miguel Rocha, HowExpert Guide to Archery, page 6:
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Whisker Biscuit.
examples: text: I am destined to keep my nose eternally buried in a book instead of a tightly trimmed whisker-biscuit.
ref: 2010, Phil Torcivia, Nice Meeting You, page 141:
text: This is generally speaking—sometimes being around a whisker biscuit is unavoidable. There is a certain type of woman who may think showing you her naked crotch is funny or even just a normal thing to do.
ref: 2012, Tracie Egan Morrissey, Rich Juzwiak, Pot Psychology's How to Be: Lowbrow Advice from High People, unnumbered page:
text: “Oh my God, right in the whisker biscuit!” Tori cried out, her eyes growing wide.
ref: 2017, Michaela Lynn, Fire Dancer, unnumbered page:
glosses: The vagina.
ungalling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungalling
form: most ungalling
Etymology: From un- + galling.
Senses: glosses: Not galling.
unfurrowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfurrowable
form: most unfurrowable
Etymology: From un- + furrowable.
Senses: glosses: Not furrowable.
furrowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more furrowable
form: most furrowable
Etymology: From furrow + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being furrowed.
Derived terms: unfurrowable
unganged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ganged.
Senses: glosses: Not ganged (attached to form a larger unit).
backgroundy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more backgroundy
form: most backgroundy
Etymology: From background + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Trees perhaps in the foreground — just budding — spring motif and morning motif. See? All a little faint and backgroundy.
ref: 1924, H. G. Wells, The Dream:
text: There is some kind of backgroundy jazz music playing, which I know for a fact Francis can't stand, but which definitely suits the occasion more than anything he owns.
ref: 2015, Brendan Halpin, Long Way Back:
glosses: Suitable for, or resembling, a background.
whisker biscuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whisker biscuit
Whisker Biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whisker Biscuits
Senses: examples: text: It might seem that a Whisker Biscuit's nylon bristles, which surround the shaft, would affect arrow flight.
ref: 2004 August, Scott Bestul, “The No-Nonsense Bow”, in Field & Stream, unnumbered page:
text: I pulled my quiver off my bow, ran an arrow through my Whisker Biscuit, and leaned back on my leg.
ref: 2006, Jimmy Sites, Jason Cruise, Into the High Country, unnumbered page:
text: I draw, sure that he can hear the sound of the arrow as it touches each fiber of my Whisker Biscuit rest.
ref: 2008, Bill Heavey, If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?: Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of Suburbia, page 139:
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A branded arrow rest with synthetic bristles with a hole in the middle to stabilize the arrow shaft while allowing the fletching to pass smoothly.
unfronted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fronted.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Not fronted.
ungenerical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungenerical
form: most ungenerical
Etymology: From un- + generical.
Senses: glosses: Not generical.
unglossily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unglossily
form: most unglossily
Etymology: From unglossy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unglossy manner.
ungentlemanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ungentlemanizes
form: ungentlemanizing
form: ungentlemanized
form: ungentlemanized
Etymology: From un- + gentlemanize.
Senses: glosses: To make ungentlemanly.
ungentlemanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ungentlemanize
ungentlemanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ungentlemanize
ungentlemanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ungentlemanize
unglandular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + glandular.
Senses: glosses: Not glandular.
ungloriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ungloriously
form: most ungloriously
Etymology: From unglorious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unglorious manner.
Russosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russo- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: Russia and other countries in its sphere of influence, including former territories under the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
Related terms: Eastern Bloc
Second World
Warsaw Pact
Commonwealth of Independent States
Slavosphere
near abroad
Russian world
ungradually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ungradually
form: most ungradually
Etymology: From ungradual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ungradual manner.
groyned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative form of groined (“built with groins/groynes”).
ungroyned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ungroined (“not built with groins/groynes”).
ungroined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + groined.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Not built with groins.
unhabitually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unhabitually
form: most unhabitually
Etymology: From unhabitual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unhabitual manner.
unhastily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unhastily
form: most unhastily
Etymology: From unhasty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unhasty manner.
unhatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unhatingly
form: most unhatingly
Etymology: From unhating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Young, pretty, an orphan — and under such circumstances, she told her weeping tale so pathetically, so mildly, and so unhatingly towards the prisoners at the bar, that all admired, praised, loved her.
ref: 1838, Littell's Spirit of the Magazines and Annuals, page 486:
glosses: Without feeling or expressing hatred.
ungrimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + grimed.
Senses: glosses: Not covered in grime; not made dirty or grubby.
ungross
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungross
form: most ungross
Etymology: From un- + gross.
Senses: glosses: Not gross.
unhermetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhermetic
form: most unhermetic
Etymology: From un- + hermetic.
Senses: glosses: Not hermetic.
unheritable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + heritable.
Senses: glosses: Not heritable.
unheuristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unheuristic
form: most unheuristic
Etymology: From un- + heuristic.
Senses: glosses: Not heuristic.
unhooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hooted.
Senses: examples: text: […] even in an age when a Rochester could walk the streets unhooted and unscourged […]
ref: 1831, The Law Magazine: Or Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, page 64:
glosses: Not hooted at.
unblowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unblowable
form: most unblowable
Etymology: From un- + blowable.
Senses: glosses: Not blowable.
untooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tooted.
Senses: examples: an untooted horn
glosses: Not tooted.
nonhalting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + halting.
Senses: glosses: That does not halt; ceaseless.
penis fly trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penis fly traps
Etymology: Blend of penis + Venus flytrap.
Senses: examples: text: She wasn't Patricia, she wasn't a Patricia substitute, she was just a body, without spirit, without love or romance, just an exposed body with a pale valley of flesh, a penis fly trap, glowering at me in the harsh light.
ref: 1997, Colin Bateman, Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men, page 82:
text: "Yeah, I'm gonna go." He edged into the hall. "We won't mention the subject of your juice box again."
Stone faced, she asked, "My what?"
His hand curled around the knob. "Penis...fly trap?" It was like he had some sort of Tourette's.
ref: 2016, Lydia Michaels, La Vie en Rose, unnumbered page:
text: […] You need a real live date with a real live penis—your penis fly trap needs a snack! No offense.”
ref: 2018, Sylvie Stewart, The Fix, unnumbered page
glosses: The vagina.
unhusbandly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhusbandly
form: most unhusbandly
Etymology: From un- + husbandly.
Senses: glosses: Not husbandly.
unhustling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hustling.
Senses: glosses: That does not hustle.
unjostling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + jostling.
Senses: glosses: That does not jostle.
uniangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + angular.
Senses: glosses: Having or involving a single angle.
unicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unicist
unicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The belief that syphilis and gonorrhea have the same viral origin.
Related terms: unicist
fancy-schmancy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fancy-schmancier
form: fancier-schmancier
form: fancy-schmanciest
form: fanciest-schmanciest
form: fancy schmancy
form: fancy-shmancy
Senses: examples: text: The keys you use to move around are all grouped together. If you have the fancy-schmanciest kind of keyboard, they’re between the alphabet keys and the number keypad, with the arrow keys arranged in an upside-down T at the bottom and Insert, Delete, Home, End, PageUp, and PageDown, lumped together at the top.
ref: 1993, Christian Crumlish, “Using the Arrow Keys”, in Murphy’s Laws of WordPerfect 6 for DOS (The Murphy’s Laws Computer Book Series), Alameda, Calif.: SYBEX, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Getting Around Your Document), page 32:
text: First of all, the garden party usually takes place on a Saturday, so you can make a fashion statement in your fancy-schmanciest clothes and stun the opposite sex by emerging like the “After” instead of the “Before” part of a “Dump that Frumpy Look” makeover.
ref: 2003, Grace Dent, “Banging the Drum of Love”, in It’s a Girl Thing (LBD; 1), 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, pages 29–30:
text: “Wait, you have a radio in your collar?” “Of course, what kind of an idiot would strap his only means of emergency communication to his wrist? They always tie you up.” “Oh, well, fancy schmancy.”
ref: 2006 August 6, Jackson Publick, “Twenty Years to Midnight” (16:13 from the start), in The Venture Bros., season 2, episode 5, spoken by Dr. Rusty Venture (James Urbaniak):
text: And Pink, one of the few clubs left in the city devoted to house music — remember that? — closed Jan. 4. I disagreed with some of the fancy-schmancier aspects of Pink’s approach, but I still loved it in occasional doses.
ref: 2009 January 14–20, Marke B., “Fair game”, in Bruce B. Brugmann, editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 43, number 16, San Francisco, Calif.: Bay Guardian Co. Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, columns 2–3:
glosses: Synonym of schmancy.
synonyms: word: schmancy
girlmoders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girlmoder
boymoders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boymoder
wizard's sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wizard's sleeves
Etymology: From a likening of the vagina (especially one enlarged by childbirth) to the stereotypical billowing sleeves of a wizard's robe.
Senses: examples: text: "I'm telling you, it is," Coop says. "I've seen enough closeup shots of the wizard's sleeve to know one when I'm looking at one. And if you don't acknowledge receipt of this wonderful gift, you'll be insulting her.”
ref: 2013, Don Calame, Call the Shots, unnumbered page:
text: 'Henry, me old mate,' he'd said drunkenly once, 'losin' it all for the sake of a wizard's sleeve is bloody crass stupidity.'
ref: 2013, Nick Oldham, Psycho Alley, unnumbered page:
text: "Oh, how was your girlie appointment? Everything okay with the old wizard's sleeve?"
ref: 2016, Lydia Michaels, La Vie en Rose:
glosses: The vagina.
unidirection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uni- + direction.
Senses: examples: text: The use of a fiber to deliver the laser energy to tissue caused the laser beam to lose its collimation (unidirection).
ref: 1991, John Jacob Ballenger, Diseases of the Nose, Throat, Ear, Head, and Neck, page 780:
glosses: The property of being unidirectional.
unimbellished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unimbellished
form: most unimbellished
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of unembellished.
unembellishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + embellishing.
Senses: glosses: That does not embellish.
nonimmanent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + immanent.
Senses: glosses: Not immanent.
unillumination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + illumination.
Senses: glosses: Absence of illumination.
unimmergible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + immerge + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Of a boat: resistant to capsizing.
unimpenetrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unimpenetrable
form: most unimpenetrable
Senses: examples: text: Those whom he most persecuted with his despatches were Sir John Burgoyne, Lord Panmure, Lord Palmerston, Sir George Grey, and that ancient and unimpenetrable tribune, the commissioners of Chelsea Hospital.
ref: 1859, Thomas William J. Connolly, The Romance of the Ranks, page 357:
text: Trees and shrubs growing on the muddy shores, where they form almost unimpenetrable barriers on low coasts.
ref: 1886, Frank S. Plant, Notes on the Philippines, page 45:
glosses: Synonym of impenetrable.
synonyms: word: impenetrable
uningenuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Disingenuousness.
uninnocence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Lack of innocence.
uninstructedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uninstructedly
form: most uninstructedly
Etymology: From uninstructed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uneducated manner.
Remak fiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Remak fibers
Etymology: Named after Robert Remak, who discovered them.
Senses: glosses: Any non-myelinated nerve in the peripheral nervous system.
wikipedia: Robert Remak
unionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ionic.
Senses: glosses: Not ionic.
hangs loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hang loose
hanging loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang loose
hung loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hang loose
remakable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: remakeable
Etymology: From remake + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being remade.
remakeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of remakable.
unkembed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + kembed.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of uncombed.
unirritant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unirritant
form: most unirritant
Etymology: From un- + irritant.
Senses: examples: text: The diet must be plain, simple, and unirritant.
ref: 1866, Samuel David Gross, A System of Surgery, volume 1, page 626:
glosses: Not irritant.
uniperiodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + periodic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to a single period.
uninterrogable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + interrogable.
Senses: glosses: Not interrogable.
integro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: an integro-differential equation
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to integration
Quislings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quisling
screamedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of scream
Dujardins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dujardin
Duteils
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Duteil
Spiegelmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Spiegelman
Pogranichny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pəʊɡɹəˈnɪt͡ʃni/
Senses: examples: text: Beginning where the road crosses the Sino-Soviet frontier at Man-chou-li, it passes through Hailar and Ha-erh-pin (Harbin) and ends when it crosses back into Soviet territory at Sui-fen-ho (Pogranichnaia). During its history it has been known as the Trans-Manchurian Railway, the North Manchurian Railway, the Chinese Changchun Railway and the Harbin Railway. The main line from Man-chou-li to Sui-fen-ho is 950 miles in length.
ref: [1978, “CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY”, in Joseph L. Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, volume 7, Academic International Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49:
glosses: A district of Primorsky Krai, Russia.
Silecroft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Whicham parish, Copeland borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD1281).
Korsakoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Korsakoff
Jestices
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jestice
Whicham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref SD1382).
Old Czech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A historical form of the Czech language, spoken between the 12th and 15th centuries.
Related terms: Middle Czech
Early Modern Czech
Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Czech terms
Buckleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Buckley
Brimley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brimleys
Etymology: From Old English brōm (“broom”) + lēah (“wood”). Equivalent to broom + -ley and doublet of Bromley.
Senses: glosses: A village in Bovey Tracey parish, Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7977).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Chippewa County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Gluth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gluths
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gluth.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Brimleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brimley
Gluths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gluth
Marsolek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marsoleks
Etymology: Americanized spelling of Polish Marszołek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Isbills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Isbill
Marsoleks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Marsolek
Manes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Manēs, from Ancient Greek Μάνης (Mánēs).
Senses: glosses: Mani, Manichaeus.
Manes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mane
Marters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Marter
Manneses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mannes
Manetta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Manettas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Manetta.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Mansels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mansel
Manettas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Manetta
Langsam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Langsams
Etymology: Borrowed from German Langsam, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname, from the adjective langsam (“slow”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Tonypandy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A town and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9992).
Kyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kynes
Etymology: Variant of Coyne.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Kynes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kyne
Langsams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Langsam
Kosh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Koshes
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Kosch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Klugh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Klughs
Etymology: Variant spelling of German Klug.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Klughs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Klugh
Koshes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kosh
Puttgarden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and port for ferries to Denmark on the island of Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Mahābhārata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mahabharata.
McHenery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McHenerys
Etymology: Variant of McHenry.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Ouston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oustons
Etymology: From an unclear first element + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2554).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Plenmeller with Whitfield parish, near Ninebanks, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY7752).
glosses: A placename:
A village in Stamfordham parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ0869).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Oustons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ouston
McHenerys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McHenery
Edensors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Edensor
grand seigneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡrɑn seɪˈnjɜː/
ipa: /-sɛnˈjɜː/
ipa: /ˌɡrɑn seɪˈnjɚ/
ipa: /-sɛnˈjɚ/
ipa: /-ˈjʊɹ/
Forms: form: grand seigneurs
form: grands seigneurs
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French grand seigneur (literally “great lord”).
Senses: glosses: true gentleman, dignified man
Tinsleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tinsley
autoanthropology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoanthropologies
Etymology: From auto- + anthropology.
Senses: examples: text: For this reason, some anthropologists prefer to do one or another form of autoanthropology, in which you use yourself as your informant—perhaps abetted by a few close colleagues as interlocutors.
ref: 2007, Daniel Dennett, “Philosophy as Naive Anthropology: Comment on Bennett and Hacker”, in Maxwell Bennett et al., editors, Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language, Columbia University Press, page 82:
text: Actually, the way in which my ‘autoanthropology’ complements other approaches to material culture of the recent past, including the archaeology of the contemporary, might reflect the kind of regularity—theoretical point, if I dare say—I want to stress.
ref: 2013, Pierre Lemonnier, “Autoanthropology, Modernity, and Automobiles”, in Paul Graves-Brown et al., editors, The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World, Oxford University Press, →DOI, page 14:
text: According to Ellis and Bochner (2000), 'autoethnography includes those studies that have been referred to by other similarly situated terms, such as "personal narratives," "lived experience," "critical autobiography," "autobiographical ethnography," "personal sociology," and "autoanthropology"'...
ref: 2018, Hyesun Cho, Critical Literacy Pedagogy for Bilingual Preservice Teachers: Exploring Social Identity and Academic Literacies, Springer, page 51:
glosses: An approach to anthropology in which the author's own anecdotal or personal experience is foregrounded.
Related terms: autoethnography
Jakins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jakinses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
autoanthropologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoanthropology
Simnett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.