cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pinochle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiˌnʌk.l̩/
enpr: pēʹ-nŭk-əl
Forms: form: pinochles
form: pinocle
Etymology: Perhaps from German Binokel, French binocle (literally “pince-nez”), a related card game.
Senses: examples: text: He remembered all—every pinochle game, every woman, every sad night.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card game, similar to bezique.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A meld of the jack of diamonds and queen of spades in that card game.
Derived terms: pinochle rummy
motti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mottis
Etymology: From Finnish motti.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: encirclement; pocket, siege, entrapment
rapakivi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapakivis
Etymology: From Finnish rapakivi.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of granite found in southeastern Finland.
puukko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puukkos
form: puukot
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish puukko.
Senses: glosses: A type of sharp, pointed knife of Nordic heritage, with a short blade and flat back; normally worn in a sheath on the waist, and used for woodcrafts or as a hunting knife.
badass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbædæs/
ipa: /ˈbædˌæs/
note: older
ipa: /bædˈæs/
rhymes: (older) -æs
Forms: form: more badass
form: most badass
Etymology: From bad + ass (“buttocks; one's self or person”).
Senses: examples: text: Uncle Jr. was really quiet. Probably because he was a junior high school teacher and was around badass, hollerin' kids all day.
ref: 2005, Cupcake Brown, chapter 2, in A Piece of Cake: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Crown, →ISBN, page 21:
text: [There were] lots of really, really bad, badass people … I did not want to be a part of it.
ref: 2009 April, Gary C. King, chapter 2, in Butcher, New York, N.Y.: Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 26:
text: I worked at one bar on the Upper East Side that was owned by a famous Irish badass thug everyone was scared of.
ref: 2015, Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America, New York, N.Y.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
qualifier: sometimes considered vulgar; negative connotation; sometimes considered vulgar; negative connotation
glosses: Belligerent and troublesome.
examples: text: That tough guy looks badass.
text: "FAIRY WING GLITTER!!!" / *sparkle* / "It's hard to look bad-ass when using fairy powers..." *sigh*
ref: 2004 February 18, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Feb 18, 2004:
text: "Nice coat, lady!" he said. / I sat down across from him. "Not a good moment to start with me about it," I said. / "Who's starting with you? It's badass." It took me only half a second to see that he was serious. "Completely badass."
ref: 2011, Laura Dave, chapter 14, in The First Husband: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 2012, →ISBN, page 95:
text: I took another deep breath and plunged under the white caps again safe in the knowledge that these bad ass Thai boys weren't going to follow me anytime soon, out into the storm affected seas; […]
ref: 2012, Mark Jones, Fear and Loathing in Pattaya, [Phoenix, Ariz.]: Booksmango, →ISBN, page 161:
text: She's dressed in badass black and the barest amount of chrome that is acceptable. I love her, but she [a car] is not easy to drive.
ref: 2012, James R. Tuck, chapter 4, in Spider’s Lullaby, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN:
text: Yeah. So stop with the pity party. You really are pretty badass right about now.
ref: 2013, Katya Armock, chapter 15, in To Growl or to Groan (Hidden Lines; 2), [s.l.]: Etopia Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: awesome
cool
sick
wicked
qualifier: sometimes considered vulgar; positive connotation; sometimes considered vulgar; positive connotation
glosses: Having an extreme appearance, attitude, or behavior that is considered admirable.
Derived terms: badassery
badassness
boreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: boreens
form: bohereen
form: bohireen
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish bóithrín, diminutive of bóthar (“road”), see Irish -ín (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by.
ref: c. 1900, “Star of the County Down (traditional folk song)”:
text: A boy in a disguise nobody believed in, an actor playing a part he didn't understand, he would trudge every rocky field and quaking bog, every pot-holed road and tortuous boreen, each of the thirteen villages on his father's estate, speaking the Irish he had learned from his father's servants.
ref: 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 63:
glosses: A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland, often characterised by a ridge of grass growing in the middle.
boycott
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪkɒt/
ipa: /ˈbɔɪkɑt/
Forms: form: boycotts
form: boycotting
form: boycotted
form: boycotted
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Charles Boycott
English boycott
From Charles Boycott, an English evicting land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. For the surname see Boycott.
Senses: examples: text: There is probably not a citizen in the United States who wears a hat that has not heard of John Stetson, and does not know that the Stetson hat is one of if not the best made. For some cause the Knights [of Labor] have boycotted the Stetson hats, and have notified all dealers that if they sell them they also will be boycotted.
ref: 1886 April 1, “Knights of Labor”, in Railway Conductors' Monthly, volume 3, number 4, Chicago, page 214:
text: Unbowed after two years in jail, nine of the defendants boycotted the trial, refusing even to talk to their lawyers.
ref: 1998 July 3, James Brooke, “Anti-Government Freemen Are Found Guilty of Fraud”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Aug 2012:
text: But even if you weren't boycotting the film on the basis of its disgraceful necrobestiality theme, boycotting it on the basis of its vampires is reason enough.
ref: 2012, Charlie Brooker, I Can Make You Hate:
text: Omar has challenged Elliott Abrams’s record in Latin America, taken a firm line against Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, and advocated for—wait for it—the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine (even though the headlines have focused on her expressing support for the right to boycott as a tactic).
ref: 2019 September 10, Jonathan Guyer, The American Prospect, number Fall 2019:
text: Consumers are using boycotts as a tool to call corporations out for their support of Israel’s war on Gaza. Some companies have seen their sales decline as consumers continue to boycott them for their association with Israel.
ref: 2023 December 14, Al Jazeera, Are the boycotts against Israel making an impact?, number Israel-Gaza war aftermath:
glosses: To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.
Synonyms: word: blackball
word: blacklist
word: embargo
word: black
word: boycott
word: cancel
Hypernyms: word: abstain
word: ignore
word: protest
Hyponyms: word: embargo
word: girlcott
Derived terms: boycottable
boycottage
boycottee
boycotter
boycottworthy
buycott
girlcott
nonboycotted
secondary boycott
sex boycott
unboycotted
Related terms: word: ostracize
word: shun
word: prohibit
word: repudiate
word: sanction
boycott
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪkɒt/
ipa: /ˈbɔɪkɑt/
Forms: form: boycotts
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Charles Boycott
English boycott
From Charles Boycott, an English evicting land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. For the surname see Boycott.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hat has been the actual effects of the [UFW grape] boycott? As far as one can judge, it has cut down on the grape sales in a few big city outlets. But going into its second year, the boycott is losing steam. The middle class doesn't care.
ref: 1969 December 19, John Chamberlain, “The Boycott is a Boomerang”, in Meriden Journal:
text: UFW and Chile solidarity boycotts of grapes had very little contact with one another, despite the extensive connections between California and Chilean fruit industries.
ref: 2013 December 23, Heidi Tinsman, Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Labor movements are a primary arena in which the boycott has been used, most notably in the grape boycott from 1965 to 1978. The boycott has a long tradition in the United States that can be traced back to the Boston Tea Party, a boycott of English tea by settlers in the North American colonies. It is noteworthy that consumer boycotts can be used not only in the progressive spirit of social justice but also in the service of economic nationalism; for example, the various "Buy American" campaigns[.]
ref: 2018 January 31, Sunaina Maira, Boycott!: The Academy and Justice for Palestine, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: The act of boycotting.
Synonyms: embargo
taboo
sanction
Derived terms: antiboycott
boycottism
counterboycott
procott
sex boycott
brogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brōg
ipa: /bɹoʊɡ/
enpr: brōg
ipa: /bɹəʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
Forms: form: brogues
Etymology: From Irish bróg (“boot, shoe”), from Old Irish bróc (“shoe, greave, legging, hose, breeches”), likely from Old Norse brók (“breeches”), from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“breeches”). The "accent" sense may instead be derived from Irish barróg (“a hold (on the tongue)”).
Senses: examples: text: I had no doubt he knew where I was from, for I had the brogue, although not much of it.
ref: 1978, Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind, Bantam Books, page 62:
text: “No-man's-land.” The words were spoken in a deep voice filled with salt water and brogue.
ref: 2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest, Random House, page 187:
text: his brooding good looks and distinct Scottish brogue won him legions of fans worldwide.
ref: 2020 November 1, Alan Young, “Sean Connery obituary: From delivering milk in Fountainbridge to the definitive James Bond”, in The Scotsman:
glosses: A strong dialectal accent, usually Irish or Scottish.
examples: text: He had one pair of brogues and the soles were in a miserable state.
ref: 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 161:
synonyms: brogan
glosses: A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
glosses: A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
Derived terms: brogued
brogueing
broguery
broguey
broguish
brogue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brōg
ipa: /bɹoʊɡ/
enpr: brōg
ipa: /bɹəʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
Forms: form: brogues
form: broguing
form: brogueing
form: brogued
form: brogued
Etymology: From Irish bróg (“boot, shoe”), from Old Irish bróc (“shoe, greave, legging, hose, breeches”), likely from Old Norse brók (“breeches”), from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“breeches”). The "accent" sense may instead be derived from Irish barróg (“a hold (on the tongue)”).
Senses: glosses: To speak with a brogue (accent).
glosses: To walk.
glosses: To kick.
glosses: To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
brogue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brōg
ipa: /bɹoʊɡ/
enpr: brōg
ipa: /bɹəʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
Forms: form: brogues
form: broguing
form: brogued
form: brogued
Etymology: Possibly from French brouiller.
Senses: glosses: to fish for eels by disturbing the waters.
Colleen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈliːn/
ipa: /kɒˈliːn/
ipa: /kəˈlin/
ipa: /kɔˈlin/
ipa: /kɑˈlin/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From the word colleen, from Irish cailín (“girl”), not used as a name in Ireland. Colleen can also be interpreted as a variant of Coleen, which was a product of marketing by the Hollywood film industry (to promote a new starlet in the 1920s).
Senses: examples: text: Her name is spelled Coleen making her "Co" with a hard O and not Colleen by any stretch - I'm suspicious on her authority on the subject.
ref: 2007, Laurie Lindeen, Petal Pusher, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: A female given name from English or Irish.
drumlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈdɹʌmlɪn]
Forms: form: drumlins
Etymology: From Irish droim (“back, ridge”) + English diminutive suffix -lin (“variant of -ling”).
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: An elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift.
shebeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈbiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: shebeens
form: shibbeen
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish síbín.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Well, let's line,’ he said to Ben. ‘We can fill up at a shebeen.’
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 178:
text: On almost every corner there were shebeens, illegal saloons that were shacks where home-brewed beer was served.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 88:
text: […]while across Ladbroke Grove, on the mainly black side, the Rio cafe into which I self-consciously tiptoed occasionally became the Mangrove restaurant, and All Saints Road the shebeen and dope-dealing capital of London, under the hammer of the police.
ref: 2007 April 14, Ed Vulliamy, “Absolute MacInnes”, in The Guardian:
text: Every night and day there were bombs and gunshots and riots and roundups, and it didn't take long to gain access to the bars and shebeens where these things were discussed with a certain knowingness.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 146:
glosses: An unlicensed drinking establishment, especially in Ireland, Scotland, and South Africa.
shebeen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈbiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: shebeens
form: shebeening
form: shebeened
form: shebeened
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish síbín.
Senses: glosses: To operate an unlicensed drinking establishment.
Related terms: blind pig
blind tiger
speakeasy
smashing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmæʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Forms: form: more smashing
form: most smashing
Etymology: From smash + -ing. As a synonym for wonderful, the term first appeared in the United States in the early twentieth century, and possibly derives from the sense of smash used in smash hit and similar terms. Popular folk etymology connects the term to the broadly homophonous Irish is maith sin or Scottish Gaelic 's math sin ("that is good"), but this has been described as "improbable", and does not appear in the etymological dictionaries.
Senses: examples: text: The boxer delivered a smashing blow to his opponent's head.
glosses: Serving to smash (something).
examples: text: We had a smashing time at the zoo.
text: Um, the reason for this call is because I haven’t told you for seven hours that I love you, which is a scandal! And even if we weren’t getting married tomorrow, I’d ask you to marry me anyway. Yes I would, because you are smashing!
ref: 2010, Toby Whithouse, “The Vampires of Venice”, in Doctor Who, season 5, episode 6, spoken by Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill):
glosses: Wonderful, very good or impressive.
smashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmæʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Forms: form: smashings
Etymology: From smash + -ing. As a synonym for wonderful, the term first appeared in the United States in the early twentieth century, and possibly derives from the sense of smash used in smash hit and similar terms. Popular folk etymology connects the term to the broadly homophonous Irish is maith sin or Scottish Gaelic 's math sin ("that is good"), but this has been described as "improbable", and does not appear in the etymological dictionaries.
Senses: examples: text: Some Greek dance is traditionally accompanied by the smashing of crockery.
glosses: The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
glosses: The destruction or disintegration of something by being smashed.
glosses: The hitting of something extremely hard.
glosses: The complete and sudden ruin or ruination of something.
glosses: An overwhelming victory or success.
glosses: The deformation of something through continuous pressure.
glosses: An act of sexual intercourse.
glosses: A disastrous failure of something.
Derived terms: bone smashing
stack smashing
smashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmæʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Etymology: From smash + -ing. As a synonym for wonderful, the term first appeared in the United States in the early twentieth century, and possibly derives from the sense of smash used in smash hit and similar terms. Popular folk etymology connects the term to the broadly homophonous Irish is maith sin or Scottish Gaelic 's math sin ("that is good"), but this has been described as "improbable", and does not appear in the etymological dictionaries.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smash
tilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: tillies
Etymology: From Irish tuilleadh (“more”).
Senses: examples: text: Myles: "Indeed your Honour may safely say so : Iwas ploughing away […] when I bethought how I forgot to tell little Jem, when he'd be buying my pen'orth of snuff, to be sure to get it in two separate ha'porths, the way he'd have the two tillies. So what could Ido but run home, to […] go myself for the snuff, and be sure to get my tillies.
ref: 1855, Legends of mount Leinster, by Harry Whitney:
text: He watched her pour into the measure and thence into the jug rich white milk, not hers. […] She poured again a measureful and a tilly.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: A bakereen's dusind with tithe tillies to boot.
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:
text: At each door he poured from the can into a pint measure and into the house-wife's jug, always with a tilly for the cat, whether there was a cat or not, sometimes splashing the step with milk to the annoyance of the housewife.
ref: 2007, Patrick Semple, The Rector who Wouldn't Pray for Rain:
glosses: An extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.
Synonyms: english: America
translation: America
word: lagniappe
word: pasella
tilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: tillies
form: Tilly
Etymology: From WWII British Army usage Tilly (“name of a range of British Army vehicles”), from utility.
Senses: examples: text: After a fortnight's careful nursing my leg healed and I was packed off in a tilly (utility truck) with my kit-bag to join my comrades at Fairmilehead.
ref: 1978, Ada F Kay (A. J. Stewart), Died 1513-born 1929 / King's Memory, page 83
text: One night soon after our arrival in Belgium, four of us set off to a dance in a rest centre, behind the lines, for the forces. We drove across a snowy waste in a tilly truck, singing "Lilly Marlene".
ref: 1980, Once Upon a Ward: V.A.D.s' Own Stories and Pictures, page 119:
glosses: A small open-backed truck.
Synonyms: sense: small truck
word: ute
tilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: more tilly
form: most tilly
Etymology: From till + -y.
Senses: glosses: Containing till (unsorted glacial sediment).
Related terms: topics: etymology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: tilly-vally
amadawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amadawns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amadan.
sceach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sceaches
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish sceach.
Senses: examples: text: I'm in the county Offaly and I'm awfully sorry now. I broke the mirrors of me cab and I'd like to tell you how. With sceachs, boughs and bushes rubbing off me load, I wish the county council would trim along the road.
ref: 2019, “I love my juggernaut”, in The Pothole Song Album, performed by Richie Kavanagh:
glosses: A whitethorn, hawthorn or similar bush.
tintinnabulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɪntɪnˌnæbjəˈleɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌtɪntɪnˌnæbjʊˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: tintinnabulations
Etymology: Noun of action from tintinnabulate, from Latin tintinnabulum (“a bell”), from tintinō, a reduplicated form of tinniō (“ring, jingle”).
Senses: examples: text: Across the darkling meadows, from the heights of Hare, the tintinnabulation sounded mournfully, penetrating the curl-wreathed tympanums of Lady Parvula de Panzoust.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth (hardback), Duckworth, page 20:
glosses: A tinklingsound, as of a bell or of breaking glass.
examples: text: Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells —
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
ref: 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells:
glosses: The ringing of bells.
Related terms: tintinnabulate
tintinnabulum
lungo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lungos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian lungo (literally “long”). Doublet of long.
Senses: examples: text: Formerly used only in Italy and Seattle, it includes such tongue activators as latte, lungo, cappuccino, ristretto, macchiato, mochaccino and Americano.
ref: 1995 July 19, Suzanne Hamlin, “Coffee Drinks That Are Cool and Creamy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022:
glosses: An espresso drink with more hot water passed through the grounds than normal.
Coordinate terms: normale
swelter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɛl.tə/
ipa: /ˈswɛl.tɚ/
rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: swelters
form: sweltering
form: sweltered
form: sweltered
form: sulter
Etymology: From Middle English swelteren, frequentative form of Middle English swelten (“to die; faint”), from Old English sweltan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną (“to die”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to smolder; burn”), equivalent to swelt + -er (frequentative suffix).
Senses: synonyms: burn up
steam
stew
glosses: To suffer terribly from intense heat.
synonyms: sweat buckets
sweat like a pig
glosses: To perspire greatly from heat.
examples: text: It was so rare a piece of fun
To see the swelter'd cattle run
ref: 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fire, Famine, and Slaughter:
synonyms: sweb
swelt
glosses: To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
swelter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɛl.tə/
ipa: /ˈswɛl.tɚ/
rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: swelters
form: sulter
Etymology: From Middle English swelteren, frequentative form of Middle English swelten (“to die; faint”), from Old English sweltan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną (“to die”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to smolder; burn”), equivalent to swelt + -er (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The summer swelter did not relent until late in September, most years.
glosses: Intense heat.
Derived terms: sultry
sweltery
sweltry
bindi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪndi
Forms: form: bindis
form: bindhi
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बिंदी (bindī).
Senses: examples: text: Actually… a six-figure advance? What the hell, dudes, I'm donning a sari and bindi and penning a novel called, let's see, how about Manchesterstani? My old desi m8s the rude girls of Moss Side have never before been captured in fiction. Int dat da truth, rude girls?
ref: 2005 November 14, Anita Sethi, “The curse of being labelled the 'new Zadie'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: kumkum
pottu
sindoor
tika
tilak
tilakam
glosses: The “holy dot” traditionally worn on the forehead of Hindu women.
glosses: Makeup or jewellery worn in imitation of such a dot.
bindi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪndi
Forms: form: bindis
Etymology: Clipping of bindi-eye.
Senses: glosses: The common lawn weed, Soliva sessilis, introduced to Australia from South America.
glosses: A seed of this plant, having small sharp spines which stick painfully into bare feet.
glosses: Any of a number of plants of the genus Calotis which have small burrs with fine barbed awns.
glosses: Any of various plants of the genus Sclerolaena.
bindi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪndi
Forms: form: bindis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bhindi (“okra”).
birdo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dəʊ/
Forms: form: birdos
Etymology: From bird + -o.
Senses: examples: text: I encountered a few of these "birdos", as we call them in Australia, when I visited Oak Hammock Marsh[.]
ref: 2014, Rod Giblett, Canadian Wetlands: Places and People, page 182:
glosses: A birder or birdwatcher.
Related terms: twitcher
torture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtoɹt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈtɔːt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)
homophone: torcher
Forms: form: tortures
Etymology: From Middle English torture, from Old French torture, from Late Latin tortūra (“a twisting, writhing, of bodily pain, a griping colic;” in Medieval Latin “pain inflicted by judicial or ecclesiastical authority as a means of persuasion, torture”), from Latin tortus (whence also tort), past participle of torquēre (“to twist”).
Senses: examples: text: People confess to anything under torture.
text: Using large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture.
text: What new tortures await me?
text: If Cheney calls it enhanced interrogation, he argues, this still doesn’t change the meaning of the word torture, which Cheney and the public know perfectly well. But cognitive linguists like Lakoff (1996) remind us that the public can be manipulated into believing that torture is “merely” an enhanced interrogation technique and thus does not protest.
ref: 2014 January 24, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 35:
text: Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
ref: 2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:
synonyms: enhanced interrogation techniques
glosses: The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
synonyms: word: anguish
word: rend
word: difficulty
word: distress
word: grief
word: hardship
word: pain
word: smart
word: torment
word: torture
word: trouble
word: misery
word: pain
word: wark
glosses: Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
examples: text: Every time she says 'goodbye' it is torture!
text: Coventry City midfielder Josh Ruffels described his 11 months out injured as 'absolute torture' after the goalless draw with Derby County Under-21s. (http://www.ccfc.co.uk/news/article/eleven-months-of-absolute-torture-760652.aspx)
glosses: An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc.
raw_tags: in figurative or extended use
Synonyms: word: enhanced interrogation
word: torture
word: torment
Hyponyms: word: abacination
word: enhanced interrogation technique
word: forcipation
word: impalement
word: squassation
word: strappado
word: waterboarding
Derived terms: bamboo torture
breast torture
C & B torture
C&B torture
C and B torture
Chinese water torture
cock and ball torture
pussy torture
surf torture
torture chamber
torture-meister
torture stake
torture test
torture-test
torture warrant
Related terms: word: tart
word: torment
word: tort
word: torta
word: agony
word: agonize
torture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtoɹt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈtɔːt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)
homophone: torcher
Forms: form: tortures
form: torturing
form: tortured
form: tortured
Etymology: From Middle English torture, from Old French torture, from Late Latin tortūra (“a twisting, writhing, of bodily pain, a griping colic;” in Medieval Latin “pain inflicted by judicial or ecclesiastical authority as a means of persuasion, torture”), from Latin tortus (whence also tort), past participle of torquēre (“to twist”).
Senses: examples: text: 1 August 2014, Barack Obama, "Press Conference by the President"; transcript published online by the Obama White House Archives, [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/01/press-conference-president [1]].
With respect to the larger point of the RDI report itself, even before I came into office I was very clear that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values.
text: People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.
synonyms: word: afflict
word: torment
word: ache
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: dere
word: excruciate
word: hurt
word: irritate
word: pang
word: pine
word: rack
word: throe
word: torment
word: torture
word: wring
glosses: To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone), usually with the aim of forcing confessions or punishing them.
Derived terms: torturee
torturer
boli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊlaɪ/
ipa: /ˈbəʊli/
Senses: glosses: plural of bolus
boli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊlaɪ/
ipa: /ˈbəʊli/
Forms: form: bolis
Senses: glosses: Clipping of stromboli.
bona
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊnə/
rhymes: -əʊnə
homophone: boner (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: more bona
form: most bona
form: bonar
Etymology: Borrowed from Sabir bona (“good”), from Italian buono (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos (“good”), from Proto-Italic *dwenos (“good”). Doublet of bonus.
Senses: examples: text: SANDY: Oh, get him! The vanity of the man. Well, p'raps not Nelson then. How about reproductions of great masterpieces?
JULIAN: A bona idea. Now, let me see...
ref: 1966, Kenneth Horne, Bona Tattoos (Round the Horne), season 2, spoken by Julian and Sandy (Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams):
text: Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.
ref: 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:
text: Bona to vada you.
ref: 1997, Ian Lucas, “The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, in Anna Livia, Kira Hall, editors, Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, page 90:
glosses: Good.
Synonyms: good
Derived terms: bona omi
bona nochy
bona vardering
bona
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊnə/
rhymes: -əʊnə
homophone: boner (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: more bona
form: most bona
form: bonar
Etymology: Borrowed from Sabir bona (“good”), from Italian buono (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos (“good”), from Proto-Italic *dwenos (“good”). Doublet of bonus.
Senses: examples: text: Order lau your luppers on the strillers bona.
ref: 1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Guest House (Round the Horne), season 3, spoken by Julian (Hugh Paddick):
glosses: Well.
Related terms: bona fide
bona fides
bona peritura
bona roba
bona vacantia
nulla bona
boto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊtəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊtəʊ
Forms: form: botos
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese boto (“boto”), of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: But in a group where one boto puts on a display, there was much more tail-whacking, biting and other aggressive behavior among the males.
ref: 2008 April 1, Henry Fountain, “Carrying a Torch, or at Least Sprigs of Grass”, in New York Times:
synonyms: Amazon river dolphin
glosses: Inia geoffrensis, a species of freshwater dolphin endemic to the Amazon river system
session
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕshˈˈˈˈˈˈˈ -ən
ipa: /ˈsɛʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɛʃən
homophone: cession
Forms: form: sessions
form: sessioning
form: sessioned
form: sessioned
Etymology: From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).
Senses: examples: text: “I downloaded a clip from a drummer, who I now realize is Bernard Purdie, who has sessioned on all kinds of records,” he said.
ref: 2009 May 3, Virginia Heffernan, “World Music”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
outer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtə/
ipa: /ˈaʊtɚ/
ipa: [ˈaʊɾɚ]
homophone: outta (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: outermore
form: outermost
form: outmost
Etymology: From Middle English outre, outer, outter, uttre, from Old English ūtre, ūtera, ūterra (“outer”), equivalent to out + -er. Compare German äußere (“outer”), Danish ydre (“outer”), Swedish yttre (“outer”), Icelandic ytri (“outer”). Piecewise doublet of utter.
Senses: glosses: Outside; external.
examples: text: Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Farther from the centre of the inside.
Derived terms: outerchange
outercoat
outercourse
outering
outerly
Outer Manchuria
Outer Mongolia
outerness
outer phalangeal cell
outerplanar
outer semidirect product
outerside
outer space
outer totalistic
outerwear
outerweb
outer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtə/
ipa: /ˈaʊtɚ/
ipa: [ˈaʊɾɚ]
homophone: outta (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: outers
Etymology: From Middle English outre, outer, outter, uttre, from Old English ūtre, ūtera, ūterra (“outer”), equivalent to out + -er. Compare German äußere (“outer”), Danish ydre (“outer”), Swedish yttre (“outer”), Icelandic ytri (“outer”). Piecewise doublet of utter.
Senses: examples: text: 'Phil Cornish' [a snowdrop variety] is like a cross between a pixie hat and a pagoda, with elegant upswept outers [outer petals] marked in a green colour-wash at the top and warpaint slashes at the lower end.
ref: 2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:
glosses: An outer part.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
glosses: A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
examples: text: We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.
topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.
outer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtə/
ipa: /ˈaʊtɚ/
ipa: [ˈaʊɾɚ]
homophone: outta (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)
Etymology: From out (adjective) + -er (“comparative suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: And 'I like to wear a silly hat; I get camper by the hour. I'm Will Young and I'm gay. Did you know I was gay? I hid it for a while. But now I'm out, I'm outer than you would believe'.[…]
ref: 2020 September 3, Will Young, To be a Gay Man, Random House, →ISBN:
text: […] outer-than-out literary lions like Edmund White and David Ehrenstein would later note, this final proof that the[…]
ref: 2016 July 14, Telly Davidson, Culture War: How the '90s Made Us Who We Are Today (Whether We Like It or Not), McFarland, →ISBN, page 90:
text: John rightly deplores any sign of an "outer-than-thou❞ smugness in my occasionally critical attitude to his decision not to disclose his sexual identity to his parents. […] Outness, I've come to realize, is not an absolute state of public exposure or an immutable[…]
ref: 1996, Marion Lynn, Voices: Essays on Canadian Families, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: comparative form of out (“(more) open about one's sexuality, etc”): more out
setting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Forms: form: settings
Senses: glosses: The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
examples: the setting of the sun
the setting, or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris
glosses: The act of setting.
glosses: A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
examples: the volume setting on a television
glosses: A level or placement to which a knob or control is set.
glosses: The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
glosses: Hunting with a setter.
examples: text: Thou shalt set in it settings of stones.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 28:17:
glosses: Something set in, or inserted.
examples: Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem
Bach's setting of the Magnificat
glosses: A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
glosses: The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
glosses: The direction of a current of wind.
setting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of set
Derived terms: bonesetting
factory setting
final setting time
firesetting
gemsetting
hooksetting
imagesetting
initial setting time
nonsetting
pacesetting
pinsetting
scenesetting
settingless
setting time
stonesetting
subsetting
tasksetting
thermosetting
toolsetting
topsetting
trendsetting
undersetting
setting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: the setting sun
text: As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.
ref: 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:
glosses: That disappears below the horizon.
Hyponyms: record-setting
Derived terms: agenda-setting
goal setting
gypsy setting
jet setting
jet-setting
pace-setting
pin setting
place setting
quick-setting
setting coat
setting dog
setting-pole
setting pole
setting rule
stage setting
table-setting
table setting
type-setting
catchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæt͡ʃi/
ipa: /ˈkɛt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ætʃi
Forms: form: catchier
form: catchiest
Etymology: From catch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Eric wrote a catchy tune to play on his acoustic guitar while Alyssa plays the drums.
text: This hook is so catchy that I can't stop listening to it!
text: The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”
ref: 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Instantly appealing and memorable.
raw_tags: of a tune or phrase
examples: text: a catchy question
synonyms: tricky
glosses: Tending to catch or ensnare; entangling.
examples: text: a catchy wind
text: Encyc. of Sport
It [the fox's scent] is […] flighty or catchy, if variable.
glosses: Consisting of, or occurring in, disconnected parts or snatches; changeable.
examples: text: The catchy cold which has been transmitted to you directly or indirectly might have been avoided had you been in better physical condition.
ref: 1941, Florence LaGanke Harris, Hazel Hanna Huston, The New Home Economics Omnibus:
glosses: Contagious; catching.
Derived terms: catchily
catchiness
uncatchy
youthful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːθfəl/
rhymes: -uːθfəl
Forms: form: more youthful
form: most youthful
Etymology: From youth + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: a youthful butler
text: Southgate is presiding over a talented, youthful squad and there is enough attacking weaponry to test the best in the Euros
ref: 2021 March 31, Phil McNulty, “England 2-1 Poland: What shape are Gareth Southgate's side in?”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: word: lively
word: sprightly
word: spry
word: young
word: fresh-faced
word: baby-faced
word: juvenile
word: hebetic
word: young
word: youngling
word: youngly
word: youngsome
word: youngthly
word: youthful
word: youthly
word: youthsome
word: abuzz
word: agile
word: airy
word: alive
word: animate
word: animated
word: brisk
word: busy
word: busy as a bee
word: buxom
word: buzzing
word: diligent
word: driven
word: driving
word: dynamic
word: eager
word: effervescent
word: energetic
word: enthusiastic
word: expeditious
word: frisky
word: gay
word: glowing
word: happy
word: hearty
word: impetuous
word: industrious
word: keen
word: kinetic
word: lively
word: merry
word: mobile
word: motivated
word: moving
word: nimble
word: peppy
word: perky
word: restive
word: snappy
word: spirited
word: sprightly
word: sprunt
word: spry
word: vibrant
word: vigorous
word: vivacious
word: vivid
word: zealous
word: zestful
word: zippy
glosses: Young or seeming young.
examples: text: youthful vivacity
glosses: Characteristic of young people.
Derived terms: unyouthful
youthful indiscretion
youthfulize
youthfully
youthfulness
youthful offender
youthful river
yessir
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛsɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈjɛsɚ/
topics: military
war
government
politics
ipa: /ˌjɛsˈsɝ/
rhymes: (General American) -ɜː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: yessuh
form: yessiree
form: yessirree
Etymology: From yes + sir.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
antonyms: nossuh
nosuh
coordinate_terms: yessum
yes'm
yassum
yas'm
glosses: Used to express assent, especially to a male superior.
synonyms: hell yes
hells yeah
heck yeah
antonyms: hell no
heck no
hecks no
hell to the no
glosses: Used to express emphatic affirmation.
yessir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛsɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈjɛsɚ/
topics: military
war
government
politics
ipa: /ˌjɛsˈsɝ/
rhymes: (General American) -ɜː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)
Senses: qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: Term of address to a male; mate; buddy.
faklempt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faklempt
form: most faklempt
Senses: examples: text: "It was wonderful of you to go to such trouble. I want you to know how much it meant to me." / "Stop," she waved her hands in front of her eyes, trying to divert the conversation away from the uncomfortable road it was heading down, "you're making me all faklempt."
ref: 2012, Julie Ann Walker, chapter 6, in In Rides Trouble, Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks Casablanca, →ISBN; republished in Black Knights Inc. Boxed Set: Volumes 1–3 (Black Knights Inc.; 2), Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2013, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: Alternative form of verklempt.
ferklempt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ferklempt
form: most ferklempt
Senses: examples: text: Ferklempt Without You—Very pretty, sexy, fun, active, Jewish, 35, ad exec seeks handsome, funny guy for love and happiness. It'll be like buttah!
ref: 1994 July 25, “Strictly Personals”, in Kurt Andersen, editor, New York, volume 27, number 29, New York, N.Y.: K-III Magazine Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 101, column 4:
glosses: Alternative spelling of verklempt.
faclempt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faclempt
form: most faclempt
Senses: examples: text: "Oy, gevalt!" Mu-mu says. "Be a good bubula and get me some seltzer. I'm starting to feel faclempt."
ref: 2012 November 13, R. J. Feliciano, chapter 26, in Wally’s Christmas Odyssey: A Novel, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: Alternative spelling of verklempt.
township
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaʊnʃɪp/
Forms: form: townships
Etymology: From Middle English towneship, townschip, tounshipe, tunscipe, from Old English tūnsċipe (“the inhabitants of a town; township”), equivalent to town + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The train is usually crowded and half the township of Forres seems to turn out to watch it go off.
ref: 1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23:
text: Furthermore, everyone knows that the crops grown at Chou-Shui River are of high quality, like the rice of Siluo Township, watermelons of Erlun Township, garlic of Cihtong Township, flowers of Shijo Township, guava of Shetou Township, and so on.
ref: 2010, Rajib Shaw, Danai Thaitakoo, Water Communities, Emerald Books, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 252:
text: Tondop said the township of Mendi is slowly getting back to normal.
ref: 2018 June 18, Joshua Berlinger, “Papua New Guinea declares 9-month state of emergency due to riots”, in CNN:
glosses: The territory of a town.
glosses: A subdivision of a county.
examples: text: In addition, the council has completed the planning of a new Coloured township on the site of the existing African township.
ref: 1972, Daily Dispatch:
glosses: An area set aside for nonwhite occupation.
examples: text: Growing up in the township of Zwide, just outside Port Elizabeth, bed for Kolisi was a pile of cushions on the living-room floor and finding enough to eat was a daily struggle. […] So, the man from the townships can certainly empathize with the pain lockdown is inflicting on the less fortunate in his country.
ref: 2020 April 28, Christina Macfarlane, “‘There is nothing worse than hunger,’ says South Africa hero Siya Kolisi of helping townships during lockdown”, in CNN:
qualifier: post-1994
glosses: A nonwhite (usually subeconomic) area attached to a city.
glosses: A small town.
Derived terms: word: Eastern Townships
english: community in Wales
translation: community in Wales
word: Laugharne Township
word: paper township
word: township music
Related terms: squatter camp
anti
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.ti/
ipa: /ˈæn.taɪ/
rhymes: -ænti
homophone: auntie stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: more anti
form: most anti
Etymology: Conversion of the prefix anti- to an adjective.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to something.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°
Coordinate terms: topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: syn