cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rosiculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is not exactly a book for specialists, but the reference may be useful to many friends of roses who are interested in the pathological aspects of rosiculture.
ref: 1904, Royal Microscopical Society of Great Britain, Journal of Microscopy, page 528:
glosses: The cultivation of roses.
Whedonverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Whedonverse
Etymology: From Whedon + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: In the Whedonverse (among other places) institutions are dangerous; communities can be life-giving.
ref: 2005, Rhonda Wilcox, Why Buffy Matters: the Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 159:
text: Neither Joss Whedon nor any other writer in the Whedonverse harbors the misogyny that drove and characterized texts like the Hammer of Witches.
ref: 2009, AmiJo Comeford, “Cordelia Chase as Failed Feminist Gesture”, in Kevin K. Durand, editor, Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Text, page 159:
text: In the Whedonverse, who is willing and able to become a hero often defies two-dimensional thinking or traditional expectations.
ref: 2010, Lynnette Porter, Tarnished Heroes, Charming Villains, and Modern Monsters: Science Fiction in Shades of Gray in 21st Century Television, page 133:
text: Buffyspeak has also rhizomatically traversed into other shows, both within and beyond the Whedonverse; for example, the similar use of language by Topher in Dollhouse (2009–2010) and the teenagers of Caprica (2009–2010).
ref: 2019, Juliette C. Kitchens, Julie L. Hawk, Transmediating the Whedonverse(s), page 152:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The loosely-defined fictional universe encompassing the worlds forming the setting for the television and film works of Joss Whedon — notably the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly, and the film Serenity.
Synonyms: Jossverse
Hyponyms: Angelverse
Buffydom
Buffyverse
'verse
trades in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trade in
trading in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trade in
traded in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trade in
dekasecond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dekaseconds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decasecond.
dekametre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dekametres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decametre.
dekaampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dekaamperes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decaampere.
cœlomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is not so completely closed as to prevent communication between the cœlomata of the two individuals it separates.
ref: 1891, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, volume XXII, page 107:
glosses: plural of cœloma.
Pollyanish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pollyanish
form: most Pollyanish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pollyannish.
Pollyanna-ish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pollyanna-ish
form: most Pollyanna-ish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pollyannaish.
alphaphotographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alpha- + photographic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to alphaphotographics.
alphaphotographics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alphabetical and photographic, perhaps modelled on alphanumerics or similar.
Senses: examples: text: Photographic quality or alphaphotographics have arrived, and interaction with videodiscs and video images represent a next level. But it is a question of feasibility rather than technological breakthroughs.
ref: 1987, Jerome Aumente, New electronic pathways: videotex, teletext, and online databases:
glosses: A display made up of text characters combined with high-resolution photographic images (proposed as a future form of videotex).
Related terms: alphaphotographic
alphageometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alphabetical and geometric, perhaps modelled on alphanumerics or similar.
Senses: glosses: A display made up of text characters combined with vector graphics (once an advanced form of videotex, introduced by the Telidon system).
Related terms: alphageometric
alphageometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to alphageometrics.
zettampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zettamperes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zettaampere.
megampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megamperes
Etymology: From mega- + ampere.
Senses: glosses: A unit of electrical current, equal to a million amperes.
microhm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microhms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of micro-ohm.
squeezeboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squeezebox
syncretise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: syncretises
form: syncretising
form: syncretised
form: syncretised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of syncretize.
old pence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old penny
throw a party
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws a party
form: throwing a party
form: threw a party
form: thrown a party
Etymology: throw + a + party
Senses: examples: text: Let's throw a party this Friday.
text: We threw a big party for John's 8th birthday.
text: My roommates and I throw parties every weekend.
glosses: To organize and execute a party.
noncreationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-creationary
Etymology: From non- + creationary.
Senses: glosses: Not creationary.
Synonyms: noncreational
non-creational
non-creational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: noncreational
Etymology: From non- + creational.
Senses: glosses: Not creational.
Synonyms: noncreationary
non-creationary
non-creationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: noncreationary
Etymology: From non- + creationary.
Senses: glosses: Not creationary.
Synonyms: noncreational
non-creational
non-evolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-evolutionary
form: most non-evolutionary
form: nonevolutionary
Etymology: From non- + evolutionary.
Senses: glosses: Not evolutionary
Synonyms: nonevolutional
non-evolutional
nonevolutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonevolutional
form: most nonevolutional
form: non-evolutional
Etymology: From non- + evolutional.
Senses: glosses: Not evolutional
Synonyms: nonevolutionary
non-evolutionary
non-evolutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonevolutional
Etymology: From non- + evolutional.
Senses: glosses: Not evolutional
Synonyms: nonevolutionary
non-evolutionary
round robins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of round robin
derm-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dermo-.
hell week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hell weeks
form: Hell Week
Senses: examples: text: She was among a number of cadets taken to the infirmary with heat sickness on the first day of the rigorous drills called hell week.
ref: 1995 September 10, “Citadel's First Female Cadet Tells of the Stress of Her Court Fight”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Jun 2011:
glosses: The week during which new members are required to undergo undignified rites of initiation or gruelling discipline in order to be accepted into a fraternity, sorority, secret society, military group, etc.
examples: text: As a college freshman, this was vividly impressed on me during my first exposure to hell week. Hell week is the term many students use in reference to what professors and other college officials call final exam week.
ref: 1991, James K. Semones, Effective Study Skills: A Step-by-step System for Achieving Student Success, page xvii:
text: I finished my exam and handed it to the grad assistant at the front row. […] I had finished Hell Week! Winter break has officially begun.
ref: 2002, Paul Laska, Four Years, page 147:
glosses: In a college or university, the week leading up to final examinations.
Related terms: hazing
hell night
Hell Week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hell Weeks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hell week.
secret society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secret societies
Senses: examples: text: Ben had much fun out of it, assuring the other boys that those were the signs and password of a secret society to which he and Sam belonged.
ref: 1879, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 22, in Under the Lilacs:
text: But these Brothers of Pity were a secret society, known to no man except their spiritual head, who chose them in turn, and not knowing even each other.
ref: 1903, Joseph Conrad, chapter 6, in Romance:
text: Originally a secret society, B'nai B'rith came into the open in 1920 with publication of its ritual.
ref: 1937 May 3, “Germany: Hitler v. Everybody”, in Time:
text: In the opening scenes of "The Good Shepherd," the hero (played by Matt Damon) is initiated into Skull and Bones, Yale's iconic secret society, by lowering himself naked into a coffin to confess his deepest secrets.
ref: 2007 January 14, “Spycraft as Thespianage”, in Newsweek, retrieved 14 Jun 2011:
glosses: A club, fraternal organization, or other association which admits only selected individuals as members, whose meetings and practices are often ritualistic and not public, and which often has the purpose of furthering the social or economic opportunities of its members.
examples: text: […] obedience and loyalty were also 'important bywords' to the Ghee Hin, Ghee Hok and Ho Seng secret societies […]
ref: 2023, Narayanan Ganapathy, Gangs and Minorities in Singapore: Masculinity, Marginalization and Resistance, Bristol University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A criminal gang.
airigh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airighs
Senses: glosses: A shieling (area of summer pasture).
Feltre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town (and associated commune) in the province of Belluno in the Veneto, Italy
Russian Wolfhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russian Wolfhounds
Senses: glosses: borzoi (a breed of dog)
Russian Wolfhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Russian Wolfhound
prefinition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefinitions
Etymology: From Latin praefīnītiō.
Senses: examples: text: according to the prefinition of worldes, vvhich he made in Chriſt Iesvs our Lord.
ref: 1582, The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ: […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Rheims: Iohn Fogny, →OCLC, Epheſians 3:11, page 517:
glosses: a previous limitation or definition
ironings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: From his appearance I got the impression he wore his suits a number of times between ironings and didn't even bother to iron his shirts.
ref: 2010, John McCord, Sneak Attack, page 51:
glosses: plural of ironing
database administrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of database administrator
database analysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of database analyst
through line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: through lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throughline.
ancient history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A period of history generally seen as occurring before the Middle Ages, that is, before the fall of the Roman Empire. Includes Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
examples: text: Who cares if he said those things at the beginning of the year? That's ancient history now.
text: "I want to have a notion how we stand about the bankruptcy." / "Oh, that's ancient history," cried Jim.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “Cross-questions and Crooked Answers”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 276:
glosses: That which happened a long time ago and not worth discussing any more.
Related terms: bygones
water under the bridge
child bride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: child brides
form: child-bride
form: childbride
Etymology: Compound of child + bride.
Senses: examples: text: Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that allow minor girls to be child brides.
text: With a smile and baksheesh for the little fair-faced girl destined to be the child-bride of some unknown Egyptian
ref: 1878, Frank Leslie's Sunday magazine, Volumes 3-4, page 206
text: Alone in [he]r tent the frightened child-bride [w]aits her husband, who will see her... [sic] ...for the first time.
ref: 1912, Metropolitan, Volume 36, page 1
text: Ohio, where she had peddled with her parents until she became a child bride to Salem's brother Khalil, in 1896
ref: 1993 Alixa Naf, Becoming American, page 142
text: In this article she discusses the 1992 incident in which a Hyderabadi Muslim father sells his daughter as a child-bride to an Arab named Yahya Mohammed al-Sageih for Rs. 6000.
ref: 2008, Hafiza Nilofar Khan, The University of Southern Mississippi, Treatment of a wife's body in the fiction of Indian subcontinental women writers, page 46
coordinate_terms: child groom
glosses: A very young bride, usually coerced or pressured into nuptials with a much older man, as practiced in some cultures.
-tome
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek -τομον (-tomon, “that cuts”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”).
Senses: glosses: An instrument for cutting.
-tome
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τομή (tomḗ), τόμος (tómos, “a cutting”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”).
Senses: glosses: A section or segment.
Related terms: -tomy
dermat-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dermato-.
piedouche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piedouches
form: piédouche
Etymology: Borrowed from French piédouche, itself a borrowing from Italian peduccio (“console, corbel”).
Senses: glosses: A small pedestal used to support a bust, a vase, etc.
wikipedia: palace of Versailles
piedouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piedouche
phænotypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phænotypical
form: most phænotypical
Etymology: From phænotypic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Granting our inability to reason about genotypical constitution from the phænotypical, still, other things being equal, and in the long run and with great numbers of individuals an extremely high variant is more apt to belong to a genotype with a high mean than to one with a low or intermediate mean.
ref: 1912, C. B. Davenport, The American Naturalist, The Science Press, Volume XLVI, №. 543, page #134:
glosses: Archaic spelling of phenotypical.
phantastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phantastical
form: most phantastical
Etymology: From phantastic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: This he achieves by arguing for the ‘ phantastical ’ character of the remaining qualities.
ref: 1917, Mary Whiton Calkins, The Persistent Problems of Philosophy, Macmillan Company, fourth edition, Chapter III, page #62:
glosses: Dated form of fantastical.
phantasie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantasies
Senses: examples: text: Is not this ſomthing more then phantaſie?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of fantasy.
phantasie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phantasies
form: phantasying
form: phantasied
form: phantasied
Senses: examples: text: Firſt I phantaſied that if I liſt to take vpon me the crowne and imperiall Scepter of the realme, now was the time propice and conuenient.
ref: 1569, Richard Grafton, “Richarde the Thirde”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 816:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of fantasy.
lay-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lay-off
desirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desirements
Etymology: Blend of desire + requirement
Senses: glosses: Something that is desired, but not absolutely required.
Related terms: nice-to-have
phantastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more phantastically
form: most phantastically
Etymology: From phantastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of fantastically.
aquæous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aquæous
form: most aquæous
Senses: examples: text: In a part of the rock more or less removed from this specimen, the iron was taken into solution by slowly filtrating aquæous agencies as a carbonate.
ref: 1894, Josiah Edward Spurr, The Iron‐Bearing Rocks of the Mesabi Range in Minnesota, Harrison & Smith; Chapter IV, page 73
glosses: Obsolete spelling of aqueous.
Derived terms: subaquæous
yis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɪs/
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yes.
yis
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɪs/
ipa: /jiz/
ipa: /jɪs/
Senses: qualifier: especially Dublin
glosses: Alternative form of yous.
subaquæous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + aquæous.
Senses: examples: text: Later on, he devotes his attention to midges, and then to fair‐sized flies, until the winter again comes round, and his appetite can only be satisfied by subaquæous food.
ref: 1895, Fraser Sandeman, Angling Travels in Norway, Chapman & Hall, part I, Chapter X, page 64:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of subaqueous.
urethræ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urethra
areolæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By careful adjustment of the focus of the instrument, with a power proportioned to the size of the areolæ, the granules can be seen in the centre of the hexagons ; care must, however, be taken not to confound an optical effect with the appearance of the granules ; each areola is a minute lens, and so refracts the light as to give a bright or dark dot as the focus is changed, and the granules themselves contribute to this effect.
ref: 1865, Charles Stodder, Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, volume IX, page 4:
glosses: plural of areola
unfavorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfavorite
unfavorites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfavorite
unfavoriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfavorite
unfavorited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unfavorite
unfavorited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Space Saver's function is to mark all unused, unfavorited, or unkeyworded video in an Event as rejects, all in one fell swoop.
ref: 2009, David Pogue, Aaron Miller, iMovie '09 & iDVD: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual, page 109:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not marked as a favorite.
cash in one's chips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cashes in one's chips
form: cashing in one's chips
form: cashed in one's chips
form: cashed in one's chips
Senses: examples: text: "Looks like these grandees'll have to cash in their chips and quit, but it's a darned shame."
ref: 1913, B. M. Bower, chapter 13, in The Gringos:
text: Yesterday the polo-playing executive cashed in his chips at Harrah's to take a post with even higher stakes, agreeing to become president and chief executive of Resorts International Inc.
ref: 1988 October 25, Andrea Adelson, “Business People: Harrah's Officer Joins Resorts International”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Jun 2011:
text: "I am not going to stand by and watch this company bleed to death. If we can't make money, I will cash in my chips."
ref: 2005 June 21, Thomas McCarroll, “Corporate Raider on the Ropes”, in Time:
glosses: To discontinue an activity, accepting whatever gains or losses one has incurred; to give up.
examples: text: A tough old hombre, unregenerate to the last, cashed in his chips in Oklahoma City the other day.
ref: 1950 January 10, H. L. MacPherson, “Another Outlaw Dies With Boots Off”, in Windsor Star, Canada, retrieved 14 Jun 2011:
text: So what are trained readers of spy novels supposed to believe when Michael cashes in his chips and two strangers arrive to remove his body from the premises?
ref: 1982 January 24, Evan Hunter, “Spies and Moles and Other Entertainers”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Jun 2011:
text: Two years and one month ago I broke my neck in a car accident. I made it through but just barely. I came real close to cashing in my chips.
ref: 2007 Feb. 7, Cowboy Dan Lewis, "Two Birds, But No Stone," Julian News (California, USA), p. 6 (retrieved 14 June 2011)
glosses: To die.
Synonyms: die
Related terms: cut one's losses
dish washer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dish washers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dishwasher.
economiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economisers
Etymology: From economise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: These locomotives have now had their economisers removed, while retaining the boilers of smaller-than-standard diameter [...]. Trouble, however, is being experienced owing to the fact that, without the retarding and lowering effect of the economiser on the velocity and temperature respectively of the firebox gases, severe burning of the superheater elements is occurring.
ref: 1962 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “A new variant of the Crosti boiler”, in Modern Railways, page 272:
glosses: Alternative form of economizer.
stuck on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: McTeague had a vague idea that Marcus Schouler was stuck on his cousin Trina. They "kept company" a good deal.
ref: 1899, Frank Norris, chapter 1, in McTeague:
text: "You ain't a mush-head, you've got a girl there that's stuck on you. It's about time you think of her."
ref: 1914, Jack London, chapter 49, in Mutiny of the Elsinore:
text: Said Nieder: "I consider O'Brien conceited and stuck on himself."
ref: 1960 May 9, “Sport: The Angry Whales”, in Time:
glosses: Infatuated with; romantically attracted to; in love with.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: "I'm stuck on the way you sing that [Edvard] Grieg song," he declared.
ref: 1915 October, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter IV, in The Song of the Lark, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, part III (Stupid Faces), page 280:
glosses: Fascinated by; enchanted by.
examples: text: "I'm doing today's crossword puzzle, and I'm stuck on this one clue."
ref: 2007, Kate Morgenroth, They Did It with Love, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: Puzzled or stumped by.
lifts a finger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lift a finger
lifting a finger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lift a finger
lifted a finger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lift a finger
antaircraft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: ant- (prevocalic form of anti-) + aircraft
Senses: examples: text: The officers at the antaircraft school preferred Case I to Case III firing even when the modern Buffi equipment is employed.
ref: 1930, The Coast Artillery Journal, volume 73, page 75:
glosses: Rare spelling of antiaircraft.
Mansel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mansels
Etymology: Variant of Mansell.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
nonhighway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + highway.
Senses: examples: text: The motor fuel revenue data reported by the States may include small amounts of revenues generated from the nonhighway use of motor fuel.
ref: 2007, “Highway Statistics, 2005”, in U.S, Federal Highway Administration:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to highways.
highwayless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From highway + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Except for Lombard, Mont., on the CM St. P. & P. and the Northern Pacific, Pettigrew is probably unique in being a highwayless town, and it may be possible that a highway has been built into Lombard since this writer last was there...
ref: 1935, Railway age: Volume 98:
glosses: Without a highway.
passes muster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass muster
passed muster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass muster
passing muster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pass muster
dumber than a rock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Extremely stupid.
nystagmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nystagmic
form: most nystagmic
Etymology: From nystagmus + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to nystagmus (involuntary eye movement).
refujew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refujews
Etymology: Blend of refugee + Jew.
Senses: examples: text: […] Basque children, White Russians or refujews, but a whole empire in agony, a mastodon at bay, is beyond the limit of our imaginations.
ref: 1938, Anne Jackson Fremantle, Loyal enemy:
text: 'Fancy him having a refujew in his gang,' Gladstone said.
ref: 1990, Frederic Raphael, After the war:
glosses: A Jewish refugee.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865; often known as Alice in Wonderland), in which the protagonist changes size after consuming a potion and a cake.
Senses: examples: text: Three cases of "Alice in Wonderland" syndrome (metamorphopsia) are presented and described as a presenting symptom of infectious mono nucleosis in a preadolescent male and in two late teenage females.
ref: 1977 February, Stuart M. Copperman, “" Alice in Wonderland" Syndrome as a Presenting Symptom of Infectious Mononucleosis in Children: A Description of Three Affected Young People”, in Clinical pediatrics, volume 16, number 2, page 143:
text: Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) is characterized by visual hallucinations and bizarre perceptual distortions.
ref: 1998 August, Yung-Ting Kuo, Nan-Chang Chiu, Ein-Yiao Shen, Che-Sheng Ho, Ming-CheWu, “Cerebral perfusion in children with Alice in Wonderland syndrome”, in Pediatric neurology, volume 19, number 2, page 105:
text: After all, Alice in Wonderland syndrome was, until recently, believed to be so rare that most university courses in medicine, psychology and the neurosciences did not even bother to address it.
ref: 2019, Jan Dirk Blom, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A disorienting neurological condition involving micropsia, macropsia, or size distortion of other sensory modalities.
wikipedia: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Synonyms: Todd's syndrome
Related terms: macrosomatognosia
refujews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refujew
alicorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.lɪ.kɔɹnz/
ipa: /ˈæ.lɪ.kɔːnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of alicorn
refulgences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refulgence
ledës-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ledës-men
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of leadsman (obsolete lodesman sense).
cocktail sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocktail sauces
Senses: glosses: A sauce served with oysters and other seafood, typically ketchup mixed with horseradish or mayonnaise.
Related terms: prawn cocktail
cocktail sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocktail sauce
scurvies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scurvy
porphyroblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porphyroblast
nonporphyritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + porphyritic.
Senses: glosses: Not porphyritic.
uninsurability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + insurability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uninsurable.
newmodel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: newmodels
form: newmodeling
form: newmodelling
form: newmodeled
form: newmodeled
form: newmodelled
form: newmodelled
form: new-model
Etymology: Possibly from New Model Army (at Wikipedia) (1645-1660), equivalent to new- + model.
Senses: examples: text: He said however that the variances of opinion & indecision of Congress were alarming & required that something should be done; that it wd [sic] be better to newmodel the Confederation, or attempt any thing rather than do nothing.
ref: c. 1783, James Madison, "Notes on Debates 27 February 1783", in William Thomas Hutchinson, William Munford Ellis Rachal (editors), The papers of James Madison, Volume 6, (1969)
text: Congress newmodels the proposal, and sends it forth again.
ref: 1784, letter Hazard to Belknap, Philadelphia, January 24, 1784 in "The Belknap Papers" Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1877)
text: His brother, about the same time, having been sent to newmodel the Spanish government, and to complete the conquest of the French in that quarter, signalized his arrival by the exhibition of a splendid triumph over that people.
ref: 1810, Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Macvey Napier, The Edinburgh review: or critical journal: Volume 15:
text: When, on the eve of the Restoration, the general commenced his march from Scotland, a measure pregnant with such important consequences, he newmodelled his troops, and more especially those immediately about his person, in order that they might consist entirely of individuals devoted to himself.
ref: 1831, Sir Walter Scott, Tales of my Landlord: Volume 2:
glosses: Alternative form of new-model; to give a new form to; remodel; rearrange in a new way.
Derived terms: new modelize
newmodelling
lager top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lager tops
Senses: glosses: A shandy made from lager topped up with lemonade or lime juice.
lager tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lager top
newmodelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of newmodel
newmodelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Are our young men to take upon themselves the task of newmodelling their forms of government, and interfering with the established order of our seminaries?
ref: 1834, The North American magazine, volume 4:
text: I have no doubt, enough matter appeared to the judge of the court below to authorize his newmodelling the entry, and I must take it for granted that it did so appear, as the contrary is not shewn by an exception.
ref: 1902, Thomas Johnson Michie, Thomas Jefferson, Peachy Ridgway Grattan, Virginia reports: Jefferson--33 Grattan, 1730-1880:
text: "This treasure is, and must continue to be a sacred record for future ages; but it needs revising, and perhaps newmodelling before it can be made public. [...]"
ref: 1994, Stephen J. Stein, The Shaker Experience in America:
glosses: present participle and gerund of newmodel
muggees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muggee
discoverees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discoveree
discoveree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discoverees
Etymology: From discover + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: […] only the zeal of some fool friend more concerned for the glory of a discoverer than for the good of the discoveree.
ref: 1912, Ambrose Bierce, letter to Town Talk no. 1042:
text: […] to prove an initial recognition of native sovereignty, to raise awareness, to produce incontrovertible evidence that would return at least a fraction of the much-ballyhooed discovery back to the discoverees.
ref: 1991, Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, The crown of Columbus:
glosses: One who is discovered.
unemployeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unemployed
unemployee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unemployees
Etymology: From un- + employee.
Senses: glosses: An unemployed person.
unemployees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unemployee
newcreate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: newcreates
form: newcreating
form: newcreated
form: newcreated
form: new-create
Etymology: From new + create.
Senses: examples: text: […] unless you have some just sense of your dependence on the attendant special efficacy of God's holy spirit — unless you seek with great earnestness of heart the gift of that spirit to newcreate your soul […]
ref: 1832, Charles Jenkins, Sermons, by the late Rev. Charles Jenkins:
text: He only can enter into its secret chambers, analyze it, reveal its secret and hidden lineaments to its own view, control, newcreate, and sanctify it.
ref: 1835, Austin Dickinson, The national Preacher: Volume 10:
text: […] but because the things of the Spirit of God are foolishness to the natural man and only Divine power can create a spiritual eye in him, therefore the Holy Ghost is given to so newcreate the heart that it will see spiritual things spiritually.
ref: 1910, Frederick Kuegele, Country sermons. New series: Volume 5:
glosses: To create anew; recreate.
Derived terms: newcreated
plenaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plenary
autoreferentiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being autoreferential; self-reference.
voragoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vorago
exploitee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exploitees
Etymology: From exploit + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Gray's world is one consisting entirely of exploitees — apart from those who are in receipt of fixed money incomes.
ref: 1946, Alexander Gray, The socialist tradition: Moses to Lenin, page 295:
glosses: One who is exploited.
exploitees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exploitee
expelee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expelees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of expellee.
expelees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expelee
autoreferentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more autoreferentially
form: most autoreferentially
Etymology: From autoreferential + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an autoreferential fashion; with reference to itself.
antirobbery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + robbery.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or preventing robbery.
persuadee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persuadees
Etymology: From persuade + -ee or from French persuadée.
Senses: antonyms: persuader
convincer
hypernyms: person
;
audience
glosses: One who is persuaded.
Related terms: impersuasible
persuasible
persuasion
suasion
neglectee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neglectees
Etymology: From neglect + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is neglected.
persuadees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persuadee
neglectees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neglectee
nondimorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dimorphic.
Senses: glosses: Not dimorphic.
Xandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek of modern usage, a short form of Alexandra.
unisulcate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + sulcate.
Senses: examples: text: In both cases the histial dolon is united anteriorly with the velar dolon and both genera are also similar in being unisulcate.
ref: 2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 1045:
glosses: Having a single sulcus.
Synonyms: monosulcate
monosulcate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + sulcate.
Senses: glosses: Having a single sulcus.
Synonyms: unisulcate
autoflash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + flash.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A camera feature that automatically enables the flash in limited lighting conditions.
newcome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more newcome
form: most newcome
form: new-come
Etymology: From Middle English neowecomen, from Old English nīwcumen, nīwancumen (“newly come, just arrived”), equivalent to new- + come.
Senses: glosses: Just arrived; lately come.
newcome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newcomes
form: new-come
Etymology: From Middle English neowecomen, from Old English nīwcumen, nīwancumen (“new-comer, neophyte, novice”).
Senses: glosses: A stranger newly arrived; a newcomer.
glosses: The time at which any fruit comes into season.
leap to mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaps to mind
form: leaping to mind
form: leaped to mind
form: leaped to mind
form: leapt to mind
form: leapt to mind
Senses: synonyms: spring to mind
hypernyms: come to mind
glosses: To appear suddenly in one's thoughts.
Related terms: call to mind
bring to mind
noncartographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cartographic.
Senses: glosses: Not cartographic.
nonfacsimile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + facsimile.
Senses: glosses: Not being or pertaining to facsimile.
blastproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blastproof
form: most blastproof
Etymology: From blast + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: Army units sealed off the market, a parade of dilapidated shops where bloodstained feathers clung to broken cages and shop windows were secured with layers of thick blastproof wiring.
ref: 2008 February 2, Stephen Farrell, “Two Bombings Wreak Carnage in Iraqi Capital”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resistant to explosive blasts.
nontouristy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + touristy.
Senses: examples: text: Endymion is the krewe of merrymakers that puts on the biggest and most lavish Mardi Gras parade in this Mardi Gras-crazy town, the only parade that traditionally rolls through the decidedly nontouristy neighborhood known as Mid-City.
ref: 2008 February 2, Leslie Eaton, “Parade Returns, and New Orleans’s Heart Rejoices”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not touristy.
antialarmist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antialarmist
form: most antialarmist
Etymology: From anti- + alarmist.
Senses: examples: text: “Growing Up Online” — the evenhanded, ultimately antialarmist account of Internet kids — can be seen entirely online at PBS.org. It’s a public-TV courtesy: you don’t have to break your Internet habit to learn about it.
ref: 2008 February 3, Virginia Heffernan, “My Wired Youth”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing or countering alarmism.
antialarmist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antialarmists
Etymology: From anti- + alarmist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes alarmism.
antialarmists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antialarmist
countermeeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countermeetings
form: counter-meeting
Etymology: From counter- + meeting.
Senses: examples: text: Steven M. Lonegan, from the conservative wing of the Republican Party and a former candidate for governor, has started to organize countermeetings, and last week he convened a teleconference with Senate Minority Leader Thomas H. Kean Jr. and Assemblyman Michael J. Doherty to further his cause.
ref: 2008 February 3, David W. Chen, “As Corzine Lines Up Allies for Toll Plan, Republicans Push Back”, in New York Times:
glosses: A meeting organised in response to another meeting.
countermeeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counter-meeting
Etymology: From countermeet + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of countermeet
countermeetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countermeeting
dodgeballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodgeball
fistfighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fistfighters
Etymology: From fist + fighter.
Senses: glosses: One who fights using the fists.
fistfighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fistfighter
halfbreed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfbreeds
Senses: examples: text: Inevitably, the bishop himself strays from righteousness, and his oblique account of his downfall — a halfbreed girl accuses him of fathering her child — maintains a perfect pitch of cruelty and farce.
ref: 2008 February 3, Ligaya Mishan, “The Bishop’s Report”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of half-breed.
halfbreeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfbreed
humitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humita
measuringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more measuringly
form: most measuringly
Etymology: From measuring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He tossed the chunk of soft wood in his hand measuringly, then, humming something utterly tuneless to my ears, set to work.
ref: 2008, Allan Cole, Chris Bunch, The Warrior's Tale:
text: She was still watching him measuringly.
ref: 2008 February 3, Benjamin Black, “The Lemur”, in New York Times:
glosses: So as to measure or evaluate.
overpsychologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpsychologizes
form: overpsychologizing
form: overpsychologized
form: overpsychologized
Etymology: From over- + psychologize.
Senses: examples: text: Throughout, du Boucheron steers clear of overpsychologizing, staying true to the medieval worldview even as he slyly creates a modern morality tale.
ref: 2008 February 3, Ligaya Mishan, “The Bishop’s Report”, in New York Times:
glosses: To psychologize excessively.
overpsychologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpsychologize
overpsychologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpsychologize
overpsychologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpsychologize
predictableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From predictable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: What we look for in genre writing, Mr. Updike suggested, is exactly what the critics sometimes complain about; the predictableness of a formula successfully executed.
ref: 2008 February 3, Charles Mcgrath, “Great Literature? Depends Whodunit”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being predictable.
spookdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spook + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: In a 1967 article about Richard Helms, then the new director of Central Intelligence, Time made the linguistic jump to spookdom: “When he surfaced in 1952, it was as deputy to the chief of the plans division, the so-called ‘dirty tricks’ department, which handles espionage and other undercover operations.”
ref: 2008 February 3, William Safire, “Dirty Tricks”, in New York Times:
glosses: The realm or sphere of spies.
stoveside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stove + -side.
Senses: examples: text: The noise of the whizzing machine might disturb the calm of my stoveside reverie, but the satin texture makes the disruption worthwhile.
ref: 2008 February 3, Sara Dickerman, “Lovin’ Spoonfuls”, in New York Times:
glosses: Beside a stove.
superspook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superspooks
Etymology: From super- + spook.
Senses: examples: text: The former superspook confided to me that he planned to challenge Baker to a lie-detector test on what was labeled “Debategate.”
ref: 2008 February 3, William Safire, “Dirty Tricks”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very powerful or successful spy.
superspooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superspook
trolleyology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trolley + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Trolleyology . . . by now the philosophical commentary on these cases makes the Talmud look like Cliffs Notes, and is surely massive enough to stop any runaway trolley in its tracks.
ref: 2008 January 15, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Experiments in Ethics:
text: It used to be that the only people who had even heard of such dilemmas were professional philosophers, but now it seems as if everyone is doing trolleyology.
ref: 2008 February 3, Paul Bloom, “Morality Studies”, in New York Times:
text: Patients with damage to this area are overwhelmingly utilitarian in their moral judgments in the case studies presented to them – trolleyology and many others.
ref: 2010, Angela A. Stanton, Mellani Day, Isabell Welpe, Neuroeconomics and the firm, page 249:
glosses: An area of philosophy dealing with the kind of moral dilemma typified by the trolley problem of whether to sacrifice one person to save others.
Derived terms: trolleyological
trolleyologist
ungeeky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungeeky
form: most ungeeky
Etymology: From un- + geeky.
Senses: examples: text: At 13, Megan and I introduced our friends to the conference, and as early adapters she and I felt obliged to play the pros and make the whole thing look ungeeky.
ref: 2008 February 3, Virginia Heffernan, “My Wired Youth”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not geeky.
yakfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yakfests
Etymology: From yak + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: At any given moment, Pop would be having a yakfest with someone on the other side who would be diagnosing one of his patients or training him in some new form of healing.
ref: 2010, Philip Smith, Walking Through Walls: A Memoir, page 164:
text: As Burress said, he wasn’t guaranteeing, merely predicting, enlisting in the army of visionaries during this weeklong yakfest.
ref: 2008 February 3, Harvey Araton, “Prediction: Burress’s Projection Won’t Hurt”, in New York Times:
glosses: A session of chatter or gossip.
yakfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yakfest
dementing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He began to deteriorate rapidly from an ill-defined dementing illness, and his confusion and intermittent agitation did not respond to the standard treatments that were tried.
ref: 2008 February 5, Jane E. Brody, “A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit”, in New York Times:
glosses: Causing dementia.
examples: text: If one is caring for a dementing spouse then the first relationship to be affected is that with the spouse.
ref: 1987, Jim Orford, Coping with disorder in the family, page 146:
glosses: Undergoing dementia.
ecotopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecotopian
form: most ecotopian
Etymology: From ecotopia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Arcosanti, the ecotopian town in the Arizona desert, was started three decades ago.
ref: 2008 February 5, Andrew C. Revkin, “Car-Free, Solar City in Gulf Could Set a New Standard for Green Design”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to ecotopia.
impostorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɑstɚɪzm̩/
Etymology: From impostor + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Their findings have veered well away from the original conception of impostorism as a reflection of an anxious personality or a cultural stereotype.
ref: 2008 February 5, Benedict Carey, “Feel Like a Fraud? At Times, Maybe You Should”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: impostor syndrome
impostor phenomenon
fraud syndrome
glosses: The feeling of being an impostor.