cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
watchet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wăch'ət
ipa: /ˈwæt͡ʃɪt/
homophone: watch it
Forms: form: watchets
Etymology: From Middle English wachet, waget; compare French vaciet (“whortleberry”), Latin vaccīnium (“blueberry”).
Senses: examples: text: I was going by his Highneſs's order to my Lady Iſabellas chamber: She lies in the watchet'-coloured chamber, on the right-hand, one pair of ſtairs.
ref: 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter V, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, pages 175–176:
text: On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle, inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews.
ref: 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: A light blue colour.
examples: text: They him disarm'd, and spredding on the ground / Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round, / They softly wipt away the gelly blood […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Cloth or clothes of this colour.
watchet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wăch'ət
ipa: /ˈwæt͡ʃɪt/
homophone: watch it
Forms: form: more watchet
form: most watchet
Etymology: From Middle English wachet, waget; compare French vaciet (“whortleberry”), Latin vaccīnium (“blueberry”).
Senses: examples: text: Firſt, the hethermoſt, in the changeable blew, and greene robe, is the commendably-faſhioned gallant, Evcosmos; […] The fourth, in watchet tinſell, is the kind, and truly benefique, Evcolos.
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act V, scene ix, page 260:
text: Shee, in a watchet weed, with manie a curious wave / Which as a princelie gift great Amphitrite gave
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “The Fifth Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 75:
text: Who stares, in Germany, at watchet eyes?
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixteenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of the color watchet.
voussoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vuˈswɑːr/
Forms: form: voussoirs
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French voussoir, from Old French vosoir, from Vulgar Latin *volsorium, from *volsus, from Latin volvō (“I roll”).
Senses: examples: text: It is the voussoir depth in a real arch which enables the arch to carry wider ranges of loading; a large number of different idealized centre-line arches can be contained within a given practical profile. ...[T]his must be so, or no mediaeval bridge would have survived its decentering.
ref: 1977, Jaques Heyman, Equilibrium of Shell Structures, Clarendon Press, Oxford, page 2:
text: Other areas have mortar joints missing, including between the voussoir blocks forming the edge of the arches on either side of the pier.
ref: 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in RAIL, page 26:
topics: architecture
glosses: One of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault.
Derived terms: voussoired
trowse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trouse.
trouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trouses
Etymology: From Middle English trouse.
Senses: glosses: brushwood
trouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trouses
Etymology: Apparently partly a variant of trews, and perhaps partly from Irish triús.
Senses: glosses: trousers (or similar garments)
gentlelady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentleladies
Senses: glosses: A form of address for a woman. Also a reference to a female member of a legislature.
Related terms: gentlewoman
gentleman
tentering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tenter
tentering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The stretching of cloth on tenters
Related terms: tenterhook
tailrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailraces
Etymology: From tail + race.
Senses: glosses: The part of a millrace that carries water away from a water wheel.
glosses: The part of a hydropower facility that carries water away from a turbine.
millrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millraces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mill race.
tacksmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tacksman
tacksman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaksmən/
Forms: form: tacksmen
Etymology: From tack + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: ... a numerous class of occupiers who cultivated what would now be considered fair-sized crofts, have entirely disappeared, as well as the tenants and tacksmen who were still higher in the scale.
ref: 1885, Lord Colin Campbell, The Crofter in History:
text: MacLeod from Dunvegan, his tacksmen big with vengeance, caught up with the raiders by Ardmore Bay, and none of the MacDonalds was spared.
ref: 2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 13:
glosses: A person who holds a tack from another; a tenant.
tacksman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaksmən/
Forms: form: tacksmen
Etymology: See taxman.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of taxman.
stockman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stockmen
Etymology: From stock + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who raises or looks after livestock.
glosses: A person who works in a stockroom.
Related terms: stockperson
stocker
stockboy
stockgirl
stockwoman
souter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsu.tɚ/
ipa: /ˈsuːtə/
rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
homophone: suitor
Forms: form: souters
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soutere, from Old English sūtere, from Latin sūtor (“shoemaker, cobbler”).
Senses: examples: text: There is no work better than another to please God : to pour water , to wash dishes , to be a souter (cobbler) , or an apostle
ref: 1527, William Tyndale, The Parable of the Wicked Mammon:
text: He was a shoemaker, the creature, and called himself the Sutor, an old-fashioned name that folk laughed at.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 31:
glosses: A shoemaker or cobbler.
solander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solanders
form: Solander
Etymology: From D. C. Solander, Swedish botanist.
Senses: examples: text: Among the many unmatted drawings in the solander box was a large, colorful chalk and pastel Christ Child on greenish-blue laid paper ...
ref: 1991, Museum studies, Volumes 17-18, Digitized edition, Art Institute of Chicago, published 2011, page 93:
glosses: A box, in the form of a book, used for keeping botanical specimens etc; drop-spine or clamshell box
cousin-sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cousin-sisters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cousin sister.
disbars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disbar
Islāmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Islāmic
form: most Islāmic
Etymology: From Islām + -ic.
Senses: examples: ref: 2003, Jaʻfar Subḥānī, The Islāmic Moral System: Commentary of Sūrah Al-Hujarāt:
text: For many Muslim scholars and mystics, however, the Ṣūfism of al-Ḥallāj clearly steps out of the bounds of Islāmic orthodoxy, entering the abode of heterodoxy and even heresy.
ref: 2012, John Andrew Morrow, Religion and Revolution, page 212:
text: I was born into a Muslim family, and my ancestors were described as well learned in Islāmic jurisprudence.
ref: 2012, Allama Dr. Sani Salih Mustapha, A Contemporary, Rational Examination of the Sciences of the Holy Qur’ān, page xxv:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Islamic.
headpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headpins
Etymology: From head + pin.
Senses: qualifier: ten-pin bowling
glosses: The kingpin.
coordinate_terms: eyepin
glosses: A straight metal wire with a flat end, used for beads in jewelry making.
headstall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdstɔːl/
Forms: form: headstalls
Etymology: From head + stall.
Senses: examples: text: Why, Petruchio is coming […] his horse hipp’d […] with a half-cheek’d bit, and a head-stall of sheep’s leather which, being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often burst, and now repaired with knots […]
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Another, that would seeme to have more wit, / Him by the bright embrodered hed-stall tooke […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: He turned back, slipped the bit in Dox’s mouth, and laced the big flop ears into the headstall.
ref: 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Penguin, published 2003, Chapter 15, Part 4, p. 172:
text: Then the smith Ilmarinen / the everlasting craftsman / out of steel formed a bridle / forged a headstall [translating päitset] of iron […].
ref: 1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XIX:
glosses: The part of a bridle that fits over a horse's head and supports other elements.
glosses: A phorbeia.
Synonyms: headpiece
headcollar
helpmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helpmates
Etymology: A folk-etymological alteration of helpmeet, by reanalysis as help + mate.
Senses: synonyms: aide
helper
tutor
glosses: A person who supplies help or companionship.
examples: text: The host himself was one of those very quiet men whom we usually see linked to the most active helpmates.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 191:
synonyms: word: helpmeet
word: spouse
word: better half
word: consort
raw_tags: of royalty
word: helpmate
word: helpmeet
word: mate
word: other half
word: partner
word: wedder
glosses: A wife or spouse.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A recreational problem in chess in which both sides cooperate to achieve a specific goal.
hockshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hockshops
Etymology: From hock + shop.
Senses: glosses: A pawnshop.
Homburg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒmbəɡ/
ipa: /ˈhɑmbɚɡ/
Forms: form: Homburgs
form: homburg
Etymology: From the town of Bad Homburg, Germany, where it was first worn.
Senses: examples: text: The man was about thirty-five, very handsome, extremely well-dressed, with striped trousers, a black Homburg and a Burberry raincoat.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35:
text: He was a tall lean man with a voice like a rasping crow. Impeccably dressed and hatted with a dark Homburg.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1066:
text: Harold Gould as Kid Twist (with a great mustache) wore the best Homburg in recent memory, and Redford always kept his fedora atilt at just the right, rakish angle.
ref: 2020 August 28, Thomas Vinciguerra, “Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘The Sting’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A type of men's felt fedora; a stiff felt hat similar to a trilby.
Synonyms: Homburg hat
Homburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒmbəɡ/
ipa: /ˈhɑmbɚɡ/
Forms: form: homburg
Etymology: From the town of Bad Homburg, Germany, where it was first worn.
Senses: glosses: A town, the administrative seat of Saarpfalz-Kreis district, Saarland, Germany.
homeopath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeopaths
form: homoeopath
form: homœopath
Etymology: From homeo- + -path, related to German Homöopath.
Senses: glosses: A person who practices homeopathy.
Synonyms: homeopathist
Related terms: naturopath
branches of government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of branch of government
incunabula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incunabulum
glosses: Early printed books.
glosses: Collectively, the early works of a writer; juvenilia.
Bloody Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A 1905 event in St Petersburg in which as many as 4,000 unarmed citizens were killed by state forces.
examples: text: Mr. Nelson covered the Selma-to-Montgomery freedom marches, including Bloody Sunday, on March 7, 1965, when 600 marchers were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas.
ref: 2009 October 21, Dennis Hevesi, “Jack Nelson, Journalist, Dies at 80”, in The New York Times, retrieved 12 Jun 2014:
text: So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”
ref: 2015 March 5, Douglas Brinkley, “Selma’s historic bridge deserves a better name”, in CNN:
glosses: A 1965 event in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful civil rights protesters were brutally beaten by police.
examples: text: We eat and drink while tomorrow they die / Sunday, Bloody Sunday / The real battle just begun / Sunday, Bloody Sunday
ref: 1983, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, in War, performed by U2:
glosses: A 1972 event in Northern Ireland in which 14 civil rights protesters were shot and killed by a British Army regiment.
glosses: Any of many similar events; see Bloody Sunday on Wikipedia for a complete list.
Coordinate terms: english: Sunday 7 March 1965 in Selma, Alabama
translation: Sunday 7 March 1965 in Selma, Alabama
word: Selma
Related terms: Black Sunday
Bloody Friday
Bloody Monday
Bloody Saturday
Bloody Thursday
Bloody Tuesday
Bloody Wednesday
industrialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: industrialisms
Etymology: From industrial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The socioeconomic system based upon the industrial production of manufactured goods, rather than on agriculture.
Related terms: industrialist
branch of government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branches of government
Senses: glosses: A part of a whole governing body which is assigned specific powers; examples include the legislature, the judiciary, the executive, the military, and, in non-secular states, the church.
Related terms: organ of state
non-scientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scientific.
Senses: glosses: Not scientific, or lacking scientific rigor.
jack in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jacks in
form: jacking in
form: jacked in
form: jacked in
Senses: examples: text: I've had enough of working nights, so I'm going to jack in my job.
text: I'm going to jack my job in.
text: And when I came round, after a couple of months of darkness, I found to my surprise that I had jacked in my course and was working in Record and Tape Exchange in Camden.
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: To stop doing a regular activity, such as a job or studying.
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
qualifier: music recording
glosses: To insert an electronic coupling into a receptacle; to connect to something, whether involving a physical medium or not.
examples: text: Watchman replaced him in the linkup seat. He jacked himself into the computer.
ref: 1970 June, Robert Silverberg, “The Tower of Glass”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 30, number 3, page 141:
text: Seven days and he'd jack in. If he closed his eyes now, he'd see the matrix.
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 37:
text: She couldn't move, not without that extra skeleton, and it was jacked straight into her brain, myoelectric interface.
ref: 1986, William Gibson, “Winter Market”, in Burning Chrome, page 129:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To connect a brain directly to a computer.
Derived terms: jack it in UK
beauty mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauty marks
form: beauty-mark
Etymology: From beauty (noun) + mark (mark).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of beauty spot (“a natural mark on a person's skin, especially a freckle or mole on a woman's face; a patch or spot drawn or placed on the face in order to heighten beauty”).
synonyms: word: beauty spot
extra: a natural mark on a person's skin, especially a freckle or mole on a woman's face; a patch or spot drawn or placed on the face in order to heighten beauty
beauty marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beauty mark
sensory overload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensory overloads
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
qualifier: autism; mental health; autism; mental health
glosses: Receipt of too much information or stimulation at once, leading to an inability to process it.
Related terms: sensory hypersensitivity
information overload
sensory overloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensory overload
Einstellung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Einstellung.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Development of a mechanized state of mind.
hair styling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hairstyling.
pedestrianise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pedestrianises
form: pedestrianising
form: pedestrianised
form: pedestrianised
Etymology: From pedestrian + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pedestrianize.
Related terms: pedestrianisation
disadvantaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪs.ədˈvɑːn.tɪd͡ʒd/
ipa: /ˌdɪs.ədˈvæn.tɪd͡ʒd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disadvantage
disadvantaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪs.ədˈvɑːn.tɪd͡ʒd/
ipa: /ˌdɪs.ədˈvæn.tɪd͡ʒd/
Forms: form: more disadvantaged
form: most disadvantaged
Senses: examples: text: Devon's economy may be more broadly based, but like Cornwall it is still disadvantaged compared with other counties of southern England.
ref: 2023 June 14, Anthony Lambert, “A vision for transport in the South West”, in RAIL, number 985, page 38:
glosses: Lacking an advantage relative to another.
examples: text: And it gets better. If 10% of those 17,000 new jobs employ people from a disadvantaged background, the value rises to £8.3bn.
ref: 2020 December 2, Nigel Harris, “Comment: The UK's worst crisis since 1709”, in RAIL, page 3:
glosses: Poor; in financial difficulties.
Derived terms: academically disadvantaged
disadvantagedness
nondisadvantaged
previously disadvantaged
undisadvantaged
disadvantaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disadvantage
boys' toys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The property is littered with giant flat-screen TVs and expensive boys' toys, with lacquered sliding panels hiding any mess.
ref: "The richest Rothschild of them all", Daily Mail, 2nd April 2007
glosses: Products such as mechanical and electronic gadgets and gizmos, games, fast cars, motorbikes etc., targeting adult male consumers.
examples: text: Huge excitement in the world of boys’ toys! Britain has launched a nuclear submarine called HMS Astute.
ref: "Tale of a willow that’s enough to make you weep", The Times, June 13, 2007
glosses: Non-consumer products involving high-tech engineering, such as rockets, submarines, helicopters etc., that are likely to interest men.
Related terms: big boys' toys
boys toys
coruscates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coruscate
coruscating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coruscate
coruscated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coruscate
cenobites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cenobite
eremetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was in the cenobitic rather than the eremetic form that monachism was first introduced into the west, at Rome and in northern Italy by Athanasius, in Africa by St. Augustine, and afterwards in Gaul by St. Martin of Tours.
ref: 1873, Chambers's Encyclopædia:
text: After the fifth century the most noticeable feature of all Oriental monasticism is that the eremetic and cenobitic forms exist side by side.
ref: 1932, The Quest of Solitude, page 30:
text: Its practical outcome was the eremetic and monastic mode of life.
ref: 1945, Henry Herman Schloesser, Order and Disorder: (a Study of Mediaeval Principles), page 37:
text: Recapitulating the pattern of the prologue, he initially displays eremetic distance as he seems resigned to the unhealthy state of the Restoration Court.
ref: 1974, Conference on the Theory of Chinese Narrative - Volume 2, page 21:
text: Although one still may detect respect for the utterances of holy men, the saying as a dominant feature of the monk's life suffered an eclipse in the monasteries, where the communal rather than eremetic life was stressed.
ref: 1988, Michigan Academician - Volume 20, page 194:
glosses: Misspelling of eremitic.
horndog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horndogs
form: horn dog
form: horn-dog
Etymology: From the sexual sense of horn (late 18c. slang expression to have the horn, from which came horny) + dog (“sexually aggressive man”).
Senses: examples: text: In addition, lest we forget, Clinton’s reputation as the world’s biggest horndog was by this time well known to all of us.
ref: 2003, Eric Alterman, What Liberal Media?:
text: She jumped in his face and shouted, “Fuck off, horndog!” with such viciousness that he screamed and leaped back into the doorway, then meekly called “Sorry” after her as she passed.
ref: 2004, Christopher Moore, Bloodsucking Fiends:
text: He’s not a horndog. And he’s not gonna be anybody’s white man if he doesn’t pay attention.
ref: 2005, Bill Pronzini, Nightcrawlers:
text: “I wanted to explore the sexiness and fun of that world and show that some gay lives thrived and flourished,” says Kijak. “Let’s be frank about it: he was a horndog!”
ref: 2023 October 6, Ryan Gilbey, quoting Stephen Kijak, “The double life of Rock Hudson: ‘Let’s be frank, he was a horndog!’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
hypernyms: hornball
glosses: A person (particularly a man) who is fixated on sex.
Derived terms: horndoggery
horn-dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horn-dogs
Senses: examples: text: The right wing insisted President Clinton was the anti-Christ because he broke the commandment “Thou shall not commit adultery.” And it’s true that Clinton was a cheating, lying horn-dog.
ref: 2001, Susan Jane Gilman, Kiss My Tiara:
text: “There’s nothing wrong with me or my abilities other than the fact that I’m not a horn-dog. I would rather get to know a woman first before I take my clothes off in front of her.”
ref: 2004, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night:
text: “Eighty-something, and he’s even more of a horn-dog since Pfizer foisted Viagra on the world.”
ref: 2004, Kelly Lange, Dead File:
glosses: Alternative spelling of horndog.
horn dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horn dog
horndogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horndog
horn-dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horn-dog
young bucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of young buck
sedilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sedilias
Etymology: Latin, plural of sedile (“seat, bench”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A series of seats, typically three, often recessed into the wall, on the south side of the chancel or choir, reserved for the use of officiating clergy.
sedilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin, plural of sedile (“seat, bench”).
Senses: glosses: plural of sedile
glosses: plural of sedilium
disconnectedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disconnected + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being disconnected.
scrog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɒɡ/
ipa: /skɹɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: scrogs
form: scroag
Etymology: Compare scrag, or Scottish Gaelic sgrogag (“anything shriveled”), from sgrag (“to compress, shrivel”).
Senses: glosses: A stunted or shrivelled bush.
glosses: Brushwood.
examples: text: Argent, a Palm-tree growing out of a Mount in base proper, surmounted of S. Andrews-cross Gules, on a chiet azur [...]. Azur, a Cheveron Or, betwixt two Scrogs or starved branches in chief, and a mans heart in base argent.
ref: 1680, George Mackenzie, Observations Upon the Laws and Customs of Nations, as to Precedency, page 59:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The branch of a tree, especially one used as a charge in Scottish heraldry.
glosses: The crab-apple tree.
glosses: A blackthorn.
scroag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scroags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scrog.
scrag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrags
Etymology: Perhaps related to Norwegian skragg (a lean person), dialectal Swedish skragge (old and torn thing), Danish skrog (hull, carcass); perhaps related to shrink.
Senses: examples: text: In any event he might have wakened the long scrag by so doing.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan:
glosses: A thin or scrawny person or animal.
examples: text: The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
ref: 2007, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Penguin, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end.
glosses: The neck, especially of a sheep.
glosses: A scrog.
glosses: A chav or ned; a stereotypically loud and aggressive person of lower social class.
examples: text: The large guy said that he couldnt sit down the front because of an eye condition, and she said, out loud, "too bad, go down the front".
This was all heard by most of the crowd, 1 guy called her a bitch, i spoke out loud "what a scrag" which her boyfriend heard, he turned around agro like to defend her, when another guy yelled out "if you get agro about that son, ill be over there to show your girlfriend some manners", to which he promplty sat down :-), but after that she put her feet up on the seat in front of her !!
ref: 1998 June 9, Shane, “feed up with noise in cinemas”, in aus.films (Usenet):
text: Post scrag fight, Buffy is sweetness and light in her cardy and teeny tiny handbag (plus blonde hair) contrasting with Faith who is lying in bed with her kill-me-thrill-me cutoff shorts (plus brunette hair).
ref: 1999 December 18, Kenny, “The Observer AND the Times: Episode 3.7 Revelations”, in aus.tv.buffy (Usenet):
text: Get a life, you stupid scrag.
ref: 2003 June 2, Peter Lucas, “The Chief takes a hit”, in alt.ozdebate (Usenet):
glosses: A rough or unkempt woman.
glosses: A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
Derived terms: scrag whale
scrag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrags
form: scragging
form: scragged
form: scragged
Etymology: Perhaps related to Norwegian skragg (a lean person), dialectal Swedish skragge (old and torn thing), Danish skrog (hull, carcass); perhaps related to shrink.
Senses: examples: text: An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out.
ref: 1899, Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne, “Atoms of Empire”, in Pall Mall Magazine:
glosses: To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle.
examples: text: '...I urged him ... to ... try the Ickenham System ... a little thing I knocked together in my bachelor days ... it has a good many points in common with all-in wrestling and osteopathy. I generally recommend it to diffident wooers and it always works like magic...'
Johnny stared.
'You mean you told McMurdo to … scrag her?'
ref: 1958, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 15, in Cocktail Time:
glosses: To harass; to manhandle.
examples: text: [...] I went out lookin' for a line of retreat for my men. A man found me. I abolished him—privatim—scragged him.
ref: 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Slaves of the Lamp. Part II.”, in Stalky & Co., London: Macmillan & Co., published 1899, →OCLC, page 258:
text: But they'll scrag you for it, you know, if you do. They scrag anyone who speaks to me.
ref: 2009, Steve Augarde, Celandine, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: To destroy or kill.
salvator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvators
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English salvatour, from Latin salvātor.
Senses: glosses: A savior.
abortuary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɔɹt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/
ipa: /əˈbɔːt͡ʃʊəɹi/
ipa: /əˈbɔːt͡ʃwəɹi/
Forms: form: abortuaries
Etymology: Blend of abort + mortuary.
Senses: qualifier: anti-abortion
glosses: A place where abortions are performed.
remembrancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remembrancers
Etymology: From remembrance + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I wonder, Dick, you did not put me in mind of sending for my own mattresses - But, if I had not been an ass, I should not have needed a remembrancer.
ref: 1771, Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, Penguin Classics, published 1985, page 77:
text: Tribal chieftains in Africa had had official remembrancers about them; I was Ulick's remembrancer.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 387:
glosses: A person who reminds someone.
examples: text: Near a fortnight had passed before I attempted to restrain their affliction; for premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 3, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
glosses: A memento or souvenir.
glosses: A recorder, or municipal judge.
glosses: An officer of exchequer.
examples: text: In one respect at least the Corporation acts as the superior body: it imposes on the House of Commons a figure called the remembrancer: an official lobbyist who sits behind the Speaker's chair and ensures that, whatever our elected representatives might think, the City's rights and privileges are protected.
ref: [2011 October 31, George Monbiot, “The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London is ripe for protest”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Remembrancer: an official of the City of London Corporation.
militancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlɪtənsi/
Forms: form: militancies
Senses: glosses: The quality of being militant.
Derived terms: antimilitancy
Remembrancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Remembrancers
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Any of several former officials in the Court of Exchequer.
examples: text: “Thank you. Tuesday evening, in four days’ time, Daedra West hosts a gathering, the venue yet to be announced. Possibly one of the guildhalls. Her guest list, so far, is interesting.” She looked at Lev. “The Remembrancer himself may be there. Lesser faces from the City.[…]
ref: 2014, William Gibson, The Peripheral, G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 222:
text: In particular, Harkaway told him about the unelected offices of the Lord Mayor and the City Remembrancer, who can be mistaken for figureheads but, in fact, have extensive powers.
ref: 2014 November 16, Ned Beauman, “William Gibson: ‘We always think of ourselves as the cream of creation’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A similar official of the City of London Corporation.
Derived terms: King's Remembrancer
Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer
Queen's Remembrancer
Remembrancer of the First Fruits
reconveyance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconveyances
Etymology: From re- + conveyance.
Senses: glosses: The conveyance of a property back to a former owner
newsworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From newsworthy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being newsworthy.
nerviness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nervy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being nervy.
nervelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nerveless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being nerveless; cowardliness.
neighborliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neighbourliness
Etymology: From neighborly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being neighborly.
Derived terms: good-neighborliness
neglectfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neglectfulnesses
Etymology: From neglectful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being neglectful.
Derived terms: self-neglectfulness
negativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negativenesses
Etymology: From negative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being negative; negativity.
nefariousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nefarious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the eye of Justice may not be said to have winked upon the nefariousness now under its vision.
ref: 1899, Booth Tarkington, chapter 7, in The Gentleman From Indiana:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being nefarious.
neediness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈniː.di.nəs/
Forms: form: needinesses
Etymology: From Middle English nedynesse; equivalent to needy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The kind of family neediness experienced by homemakers differed between classes.
ref: 1982, Julie A. Matthaei, An Economic History of Women in America: Women's Work, the Sexual Division of Labor, and the Development of Capitalism, page 247:
glosses: The characteristic of being needy.
ragman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragmen
Etymology: From rag + man.
Senses: examples: text: For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 14:
text: Oh, the ragman draws circles / Up and down the block / I'd ask him what the matter was / But I know that he don't talk
ref: 1966, Bob Dylan, “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”, in Blonde on Blonde:
glosses: A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man.
ragman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragmans
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A statute issued by Edward I in 1276.
examples: text: He bonched hem with his breuet · & blered here eyes / And rauȝte with his ragman · rynges and broches […]
ref: c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, Prologue:
glosses: A document having many names or seals, such as a papal bull.
glosses: A game in which players compete to pull an object from out of a roll of writing.
Related terms: ragman roll
Ragman's Roll
needier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sophie was the needier of our two mutts―mother and son golden retrievers we'd brought with us from Connecticut.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.25
glosses: comparative form of needy: more needy
neediest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of needy: most needy
nerveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɜː(ɹ)vləs/
Forms: form: more nerveless
form: most nerveless
Etymology: From nerve + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking nerve: fearful; cowardly.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Lacking a nervous system.
examples: text: Little Sea and Desire, blessed, nerveless savages, were sound asleep.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 120:
text: There was no distracting Rosol's ice-calm as he killed the fifth set and match. Ace, cross-court forehand winner, ace, forehand winner – a blistering eighth game took him to 5-3 and informed Nadal precisely how nerveless the Czech was.
ref: 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Devoid of nerves: calm, controlled, cool under pressure.
Derived terms: nervelessly
nervelessness
nervy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɜː.vi/
ipa: /ˈnɝ.vi/
Forms: form: nervier
form: nerviest
Etymology: From nerve + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It takes a nervy man to promulgate such stuff, and Ted Nelson has made a career out of being nervy.
ref: 1988 April, David Gans, “Ted Nelson And The Ultimate Information Machine”, in MicroTimes, page 55:
glosses: Having nerve; bold; brazen.
examples: text: Blackpool continue to thrive on the adrenalin rush of the end-of-season shoot-out and are heading for a second Wembley date in two years after negotiating a nervy path past Birmingham.
ref: 2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in The Telegraph:
text: She has been asked on a date to see The Barber of Seville in the company of society’s wealthiest and most eligible bachelor, the Hon Jeremy Malcolm (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù) who is bored by her nervy and untutored chatter.
ref: 2022 August 24, Peter Bradshaw, “Mr Malcolm’s List review – Regency romcom served with cake-icing of irony”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.
examples: text: And, for those simple times, his garments were / A chieftain-king's: beneath his breast, half bare, / Was hung a silver bugle, and between / His nervy knees there lay a boar-spear keen […]
ref: 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Strong; sinewy.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: Jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.
Derived terms: nervily
nerviness
Related terms: nervous
nervier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of nervy: more nervy
Ragman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A statute of Edward I by which the Scottish gentry and nobility were compelled to swear allegiance to the English king
neglectful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neglectful
form: most neglectful
form: neglectfull
Etymology: From neglect + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Neglectful of her fine voice, she was obviously attending more to her companions than to her own singing;...
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 38–39:
text: The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had, in this case, been neglectful, and Charlie was looking, though that he did not know, where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began.
ref: 1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Finest Story in the World:
text: 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 243a-b,
That they were too neglectful of ordinary people like us and overlooked us.
glosses: Tending to neglect; failing to take care of matters which require attention; forgetful.
Derived terms: neglectful parenting
neglectfully
neglectfulness
nerviest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of nervy: most nervy
need-based
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more need-based
form: most need-based
Senses: topics: education
coordinate_terms: merit-based
glosses: Derived from need rather than earned by merit, regarding financial or other assistance.
sondage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒn.dɑːʒ/
Forms: form: sondages
Etymology: Borrowed from French sondage (“survey, sounding”).
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small test excavation or test pit to examine the stratigraphy of a site; a deeper investigation of a small part of a larger trench.
habitus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhæ.bɪ.təs/
Forms: form: habiti
form: habitus
form: habituses
Etymology: From Latin habitus (“habit”), from habeō (“have; maintain”). The plural habiti is a misconstruction, as the Latin plural is in fact habitūs. habiti may have been influenced by Latin habitī, the plural of the participle habitus; however, it is not the etymon of the English term.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Habitude; mode of life; bearing.
examples: text: [M]any species having eschariform zoaria in quiet water are able to assume the membraniporiform habitus in strongly agitated water.
ref: 1963, Alan H. Cheetham, Late Eocene Zoogeography of the Eastern Gulf Coast Region, page 30:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
qualifier: chiefly invertebrates
glosses: General appearance.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: habit
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: the general shape and appearance of the body, usually with reference to weight, adipose distribution, posture, and gait; most often called by the collocation body habitus.
examples: text: A wrestler could gain the rank of ōzeki based on his competitive achievements, but the promotion to yokozuna implied the presence of a certain habitus than embodied the quintessential traditional Japaneseness.
ref: 2019, Raúl Sánchez García, “Reformulation, expansion, and hybridisation of Japanese martial arts”, in The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part III (Martial artists):
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The lifestyle, values, dispositions and expectations of particular social groups that are acquired through the activities and experiences of everyday life.
glosses: The liturgical clothing of monks, nuns and the clerical community, metaphorically referring to the religious mode of life.
Derived terms: cleft habitus
nosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nose
nosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
glosses: Having some specific type of nose.
Derived terms: Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross
bloody-nosed beetle
blue-nosed
blunt-nosed viper
bottlenosed
bottle-nosed
bottle-nosed dolphin
broad-nosed weevil
bull-nosed
Burmese snub-nosed monkey
carrot-nosed
dog-nosed
double-nosed Andean tiger hound
hard-nosed
hard nosed
hawknosed
high-nosed
hog-nosed skunk
hook-nosed
hump-nosed
Kitti's hog-nosed bat
leaf-nosed
leaf-nosed bat
lesser spot-nosed monkey
long-nosed potoroo
lowlands hump-nosed pit viper
Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
narrow-nosed rhino
narrow-nosed rhinoceros
northern hairy-nosed wombat
nosedness
pig-nosed turtle
pug-nosed
rednosed
round-eared tube-nosed bat
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
Semon's leaf-nosed bat
sharp-nosed
shovel-nosed
snot-nosed
snotty-nosed
snub-nosed
snub-nosed monkey
soft-nosed
southern hairy-nosed wombat
star-nosed mole
toffee-nosed
unnosed
white-nosed coati
Wuyi sharp-nosed frog
nosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nose
nosing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊzɪŋ
Forms: form: nosings
Senses: examples: text: The hours of the day often follow such a beginning like a wagging tail follows through the nosings and affections and fireside dreamings of a happy dog.
ref: 1982, Dave Hughes, An Angler's Astoria:
glosses: An animal's pushing or exploration with the nose.
glosses: That part of the treadboard of a stair that projects over the riser.
glosses: Any similar projection, such as the projecting edge of a moulding.
valuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of valuate
valuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of valuate
hubbubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hubbub
rogue states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rogue state
edgeware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From edge + -ware (“software”).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Computer software that is noticeably cutting-edge, that is, significantly innovative.
edgeware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edgewares
Etymology: From edge + -ware (“items”).
Senses: topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pottery vessels with decorated rims.
Related terms: Edgware
siri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sirih (“plant”).
royal marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal marriages
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A king and a queen of the same suit as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em (see marriage)
Kojac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A king and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
king crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king crabs
Senses: synonyms: stone crab
hypernyms: crab
crustacean
fish
animal
eukaryote
organism
being
glosses: Any highly prized crab-like crustacean in the subfamily Lithodinae.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A king and a three as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
glosses: A horseshoe crab (Xiphosura spp.).
Derived terms: word: Alaska king crab
taxonomic: Paralithodes camtschaticus
word: Alaskan king crab
taxonomic: Paralithodes platypus
word: blue king crab
taxonomic: Neolithodes brodiei
word: Brodie's king crab
taxonomic: Lithodes aequispinus
word: brown king crab
taxonomic: Paralithodes californiensis
word: California king crab
taxonomic: Lithodes santolla
word: Chilean king crab
taxonomic: Paralomis granulosa
word: false king crab
taxonomic: Lithodes ferox
word: fierce king crab
taxonomic: Lithodes aequispinus
word: golden king crab
taxonomic: Paralithodes brevipes
word: Hanasaki king crab
taxonomic: Lithodes maja
word: Norway king crab
taxonomic: Paralomis zealandica
word: prickly king crab
alt: Echidnocerus cibarius
word: Puget Sound king crab
taxonomic: Paralithodes camtschaticus
word: red king crab
taxonomic: Lithodes couesi
word: scarlet king crab
taxonomic: Lithodes santolla
word: southern king crab
taxonomic: Paralithodes spp.
word: spiny king crab
royal marriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royal marriage
Alaska hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alaska hands
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
synonyms: king crab
glosses: A king and a three as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em (see king crab).