cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
eightfoldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eightfold + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being eightfold.
fivefoldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fivefold + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being fivefold.
ninefoldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ninefold + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being ninefold.
tenfoldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tenfold + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being tenfold.
twelvefoldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From twelvefold + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being twelvefold.
nineness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nine + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Some day, let us hope, an architect will arise who will do justice to stairs, and who will design every step with an individuality of its own, so that we may climb delightedly from the oneness of the universe to the nineness of the Nine Muses[…]
ref: 1922, Robert Lynd, The sporting life and other trifles, page 186:
glosses: The property of being nine in number.
twelveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From twelve + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Or walk into a shop and you will see twelveness associated with whiteness and roundness and, I hope, freshness, in a box of eggs.
ref: 1932, Ernest Dimnet, What we live by:
text: The geometrical basis of materiality consists of the tetrahedron or 'fourness' of fire or light, the octahedrality of 'sixness' of the gaseousness of air, the icosahedrality or 'twelveness' of the liquidity of water, and the cubic 'eightness' of the solid earthiness.
ref: 1988, Keith Critchlow, "Forward", The Theology of Arithmetic, Phanes Press, pages 15-16
text: Even the proportions of everyday weights and measures were based on the natural twelveness evident in mathematics […]
ref: 1994, Michael S. Schneider, A beginner's guide to constructing the universe:
glosses: The property of being twelve in number.
zeroness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zero + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Second, the amount of zeroness and oneness that a qubit may have is arbitrary and takes on a continuum of values, but when we measure it, we obtain a 0 or a 1 […]
ref: 2000, Colin P. Williams, Scott H. Clearwater, Ultimate zero and one: computing at the quantum frontier:
glosses: The property of being zero.
office-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: office-houses
form: officehouse
Senses: examples: text: That gloomy spot they spoke of lay aside from the hamlet. In a dell, begirt with firs, you might behold a hut, and various ruined office-houses.
ref: 1827, Thomas Carlyle, Ludwig Tieck's "The Elves":
text: This Pallace ... hath neither outward walles nor gates ... save onely some office houses without.
ref: 1632, William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteen Yeares Travayles, section 10.444:
glosses: A building or outhouse on a farm, estate, manor, palace, etc. used for household work, storage, housing servants, etc; the office of the steward or bailiff on a manor or estate; a house of office.
fourteenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fourteen + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It was a demanding topic for fourteen-year-olds. However, not every kid presented the essence of fourteenness. Of the twenty or so youngsters eyeing me doubtfully, there were little and big ones, the bearded man and the childish boy […]
ref: 1997, Theodore R. Sizer, Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School:
glosses: The property of being fourteen in age or number.
fourteener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourteeners
Etymology: From fourteen + -er.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
related: word: 14er
coordinate_terms: thirteener
thousander
twelver
glosses: A mountain rising to more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.
examples: text: He writes in well filled fourteeners, with individual words used not only vitally to convey the sense but also as a kind of metrical polyfilla.
ref: 1984, Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts, Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A (usually iambic) line of fourteen syllables.
fourteeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourteener
spancelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spancel
spanceling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spancel
spanceled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spancel
spandexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spandex
fourness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From four + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There is such a thing as threeness, or fourness, and the threeness of three cannot be added to the fourness of four.
ref: 2005, John Dillon, The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC):
glosses: The property of being four in number.
Synonyms: word: quaternity
word: fourness
Hypernyms: word: manyness
nineteenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nineteen + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being nineteen in age or number.
fiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From five + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being five in number.
Synonyms: word: fiveness
word: quinity
Hypernyms: word: manyness
twentyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From twenty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being twenty in number.
sixness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From six + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For example, suppose that the quality or element to be abstracted is sixness. We display some group of six, say, six boys, and direct attention to the how-many-ness by such directions as: "How many boys are standing here? Are there more than four? Jack and Fred make two. Tom makes three. Dick makes four. Henry makes five. Bob makes six. There are six boys standing."
ref: 1966, Edward Lee Thorndike, Human learning:
glosses: The property of being six in number.
thirteenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thirteen + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being thirteen.
seventeenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seventeen + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It was the first time in all the largesse of her youth that such a tone had assailed Zoe. The very seventeenness of her revolted; she dropped her attitude.
ref: 1921, Fannie Hurst, Stardust: The Story of an American Girl:
text: None of these descriptions seems to give you a clue to the intrinsic seventeenness of 17 – the unique feature which makes it the very number that it is.
ref: 1999, Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope:
text: Might not some language somewhere offer a seventeenness category that would create immediate recognition of that many items? Such a category seems unlikely, of course, and we might see it as excluded by capacity limitations on focal consciousness, limitations that would be far exceeded by a display of seventeen items.
ref: 2013, Shannon Bischoff, Carmen Jany, Functional Approaches to Language, page 126:
glosses: The property of being seventeen.
fifteenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fifteen + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The fifteenness is unique to the icosahedron and probably valves the 15 great circles of the icosahedron.
ref: 1975, Richard Buckminster Fuller, E. J. Applewhite, Synergetics; explorations in the geometry of thinking, Volume 1:
text: In short, the number fifteen cannot in any manner be separated from its fifteenness.
ref: 1986, Shahidullah Faridi, Inner aspects of faith:
glosses: The property of being fifteen.
antiquest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of antique: most antique
eightness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eight + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being eight in number.
sevenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seven + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being seven in number.
T20
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I can ascertain that even in the present era where T20 cricket has redefined spin bowling and spinners have started bowling doosras and teesras and fire the deliveries in, you can expect Bishan Singh Bedi to stick to his original definition, and insist that, 'A spinner is one who turns the ball...'
ref: 2021, Neha Bedi, Sachin Bajaj, The Sardar of Spin:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Twenty20.
grandsonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From grandson + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a grandson.
grandchildless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From grandchild + -less.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Now we’re the childless, grandchildless couple! People our age are grandparenting, but our hands are empty.’
ref: 2019, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, “The Aftertaste of Success”, in Manchester Happened, Oneworld Publications (2020), page 234:
glosses: Without a grandchild.
Derived terms: grandchildlessness
accessless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From access + -less.
Senses: glosses: inaccessible
permissionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From permission + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And this is what makes FHE a great solution for blockchain privacy: By keeping the on-chain data encrypted, we can have decentralized, permissionless blockchains where everything is on-chain and auditable while not actually visible.
ref: 2023 May 26, Rand Hindi, “How Homomorphic Encryption Can Make Blockchain Private”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2023:
glosses: Without permission.
Derived terms: permissionlessness
permitless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From permit + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Utah has allowed for permitless open and concealed carry of weapons since 2021. But before the passage of HB 128, firearms had to be concealed when carried on college campuses.
ref: 2025 September 14, Abené Clayton, “Utah campus open carry law under fresh scrutiny after Charlie Kirk shooting”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Without a permit.
Derived terms: permitless carry
mistless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mist + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without mist.
Derived terms: mistlessness
Sawney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sawny
Senses: examples: text: Sawney Bean
text: But Sawney grew weary, and fain would be civil, / Being auld, and unfeary, and fail'd of his strength
ref: 1812, John Bell, Rhymes of Northern Bards, page 185:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, of Scots origin.
Sawney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sawneys
form: Sawny
Senses: examples: text: “They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another.
ref: 1874 July–December, W. Senior, “With the Herring Fleet”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 704:
text: He took the gibe and scowled at me--he spoke always like a Sawney, and could never pass for English; but in his pleasure at the discovery he had made he let the word pass.
ref: 1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter XIV, in Shrewsbury:
glosses: A Scotsman.
Related terms: Jock
Sawneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sawney
nonattitudinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + attitudinal.
Senses: glosses: Not attitudinal.
noncoincidental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coincidental.
Senses: examples: text: Any relationship to the sad and sordid Eliot and Silda spectacle of 18 months ago is purely noncoincidental.
ref: 2009 September 25, Clyde Haberman, “Feasting on the City and Its Foibles”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not coincidental.
Derived terms: noncoincidentally
whaddayathink
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: whatchathink
Etymology: From whaddaya + think.
Senses: glosses: Contraction of what do you think? (“What is your opinion?”).
whoopdee doo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whoop-de-doo.
whoopeedoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whoopee do.
nonbarricaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + barricaded.
Senses: glosses: Not barricaded.
limp dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limp dicks
form: limp-dick
form: limpdick
Senses: glosses: A weak person.
glosses: Erectile dysfunction.
glosses: A penis affected by erectile dysfunction.
myrrhlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more myrrhlike
form: most myrrhlike
Etymology: From myrrh + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of myrrh.
Synonyms: myrrhy
myrrhy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more myrrhy
form: most myrrhy
Etymology: From myrrh + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Warmed to the woman somewhat, I admit it. She holds forth like a man and smokes myrrhy cigarettes through a rhino-horn holder.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of myrrh.
Synonyms: myrrhlike
audiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From audio- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to audiometry
glosses: Measured using an audiometer
Derived terms: audiometrically
audiometrician
Related terms: sense: see
word: audiometry
audiovestibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From audio- + vestibular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the auditory functions of the inner ear and the vestibule of the ear
cosegregates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cosegregate
dystrophinopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dystrophinopathies
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A recessive form of muscular dystrophy
Synonyms: Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Related terms: dystrophinopathic
eigenanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenanalyses
Etymology: From eigen- + analysis.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: analysis using eigenvectors
fibronection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibronections
Etymology: From fibronectin + -ion.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of binding with fibronectin.
hyperinsulinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + insulin + -ism.
Senses: glosses: hyperinsulinemia
interstereocilia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + stereocilia.
Senses: glosses: Between stereocilia
interstereocilial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + stereocilial.
Senses: glosses: Between stereocilia
stereocilial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stereocilia + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to stereocilia
intraexon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + exon.
Senses: glosses: Within an exon
intraexonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + exonic.
Senses: glosses: Within an exon
kinocilial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to kinocilia
kinociliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kinocilia + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to kinocilia
kinociliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: With motion toward the kinociliary side of the cell, the longer stereocilia have the least resistance so that bending occurs near the distal end of the kinocilium as a distal arch of the ciliary apparatus.
ref: 1972, Basic Aspects of Central Vestibular Mechanisms, page 72:
text: The precisely organized staircase-like morphology of the hair bundle is maintained by a series of extracellular filaments between adjacent stereocilia: kinociliary links, ankle links, lateral links, and tip links.
ref: 2011, Colleen G. Le Prell, Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Scientific Advances, page 184:
text: The accessory structures (statoliths, statoconial layers, cupulae) are attached to the tips of these kinociliary groups; because of the inclination of the ciliary group, this attachment is only from the side opposite to the acute angle the group forms with the surface of the cell.
ref: 2013, David J. Lim, Cell and Molecular Biology of the Ear, page 5:
glosses: Of or pertaining to kinocilia.
neurosensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnsəɹi
Etymology: From neuro- + sensory.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the sensory functions of the nervous system
Derived terms: neurosensor
proneurosensory
normotension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normo- + tension.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Blood pressure that is within the normal range.
Related terms: normotensive
oversprinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversprinkle
oversprinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversprinkle
otoneurologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oto- + neurologic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to neurologic aspects of hearing and the ear
periciliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪliəɹi
-ɪliɛəɹi
Etymology: From peri- + ciliary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding a cilium
pseudoexon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoexons
Etymology: From pseudo- + exon.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sequence of nucleic acid bases that has the characteristics of an exon but takes no part in the splicing of genes.
pseudoexons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoexon
sphygmomanometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Formed as sphygmo- (“pulse”) + manometric on the pattern of sphygmomanometer.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sphygmomanometry
glosses: Measured using a sphygmomanometer
sphygmomanometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sphygmomano(meter) + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of blood pressure using a sphygmomanometer
Derived terms: electrosphygmomanometry
whirler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whirlers
Etymology: From whirl + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who, or thing that, whirls.
glosses: A whirling table; a potter's wheel.
whirlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whirler
hand saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand saws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handsaw.
hand saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand saw
missish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more missish
form: most missish
Etymology: From miss + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: You are not going to be Missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 267:
glosses: Prim and prudish.
Derived terms: missishly
missishness
spur on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spurs on
form: spurring on
form: spurred on
form: spurred on
Senses: examples: text: Initially spurred on by Sukarno himself, Indonesian women had participated actively in the national independence war.
ref: 2002, Saskia Wieringa, Sexual Politics in Indonesia, page 7:
synonyms: word: instigate
word: provoke
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
glosses: To spur or urge (someone) to do something.
ten-gallon hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten-gallon hats
form: 10-gallon hat
Etymology: Not certain. An earlier form without the number, gallon hat, comes by folk etymology from the Spanish galón (“braid”). It may also be a hyperbolic reference to the size of the hat, or a combination of the two.
Senses: glosses: A large cowboy hat, not holding ten gallons like the name would suggest but usually around three quarts.
ten-gallon hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ten-gallon hat
phonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phone + -able.
Senses: synonyms: phoneable
glosses: Contactable by telephone.
Synonyms: telephonable
telephonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From telephone + -able.
Senses: glosses: Contactable by telephone.
Synonyms: phonable
bandstop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of band-stop.
band-stop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bandstop
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Filtering out a specific range of electromagnetic frequencies.
argle-bargling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of argle-bargle
Argobbas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Argobba
unglorified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unglorified
form: most unglorified
Etymology: From un- + glorified.
Senses: glosses: Not glorified.
doctrine of foreign equivalents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A rule applied in United States trademark under which foreign words are translated into English to determine whether they are registrable as trademarks, or are either descriptive or confusingly similar with existing marks.
Related terms: doctrine of equivalents
an unrelated doctrine of patent law
attriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attriters
Etymology: From attrite + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, attrites.
examples: Attriters often experience lexical access problems, i.e. a discrepancy between what they would like to say, their communicative intention, and what they still know how to say in their L1. (Q52147493 (Q52147493) (2004), First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Methodological Issues, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 196)
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: One who has lost certain abilities in a language by learning and using a different language.
attriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attriter
dedimus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dedimuses
Etymology: From Latin dedimus (“we gave”), from do (“I give”). So called because the writ began "Dedimus potestatem […] ".
Senses: examples: text: A Dedimus was awarded to take the Conuſance of a Fine from Baron and Feme, and the Conuſance of Baron only was returned, and the Feme would not acknowledge it.
ref: 1742, Charles Viner, A General Abridgement of Law and Equity:
topics: law
glosses: A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, such as to examine a witness, etc.
bunya pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunya pines
Senses: glosses: A tree (Araucaria bidwillii) native to south-east Queensland in Australia.
Synonyms: bunya
bunya-bunya
plesiomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plesiomorphs
Etymology: From plesio- + -morph.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: An organism which represents a primitive state of evolution relative to another organism.
Derived terms: plesiomorphic
plesiomorphy
plesiomorphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From plesiomorphic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a plesiomorphic manner; in the manner of a plesiomorph.
plesiomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plesiomorph
clagnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clagnuts
Etymology: From clag + nut?
Senses: examples: text: Your^([sic]) a clagnut on the collective anus that is this NG...
ref: 1999, Purple People Eater, “Army Builder??”, in rec.games.miniatures.warhammer (Usenet):
text: Will Ikea be wanting those classy cloth chairs back after Ray and Scott's sweaty clagnut ridden hairy arses have pressed into them for 5 minutes?
ref: 2003, JoeTheBlow, “"Burn those seats!"”, in free.uk.tv.bigbrother (Usenet):
glosses: A dingleberry (clinging piece of feces).
clagnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clagnut
detur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deturs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin detur (“let it be given”).
Senses: qualifier: Harvard University
glosses: A prize consisting of a book given to a meritorious sophomore student. The official name is the Detur Prize or Detur Book Prize
public figures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public figure
ur-text
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ur-texts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of urtext.
red-to-red
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Describing the condition in which two sea-going ships travelling in opposite directions pass each other on their port sides, making their red navigation lights face each other.
glosses: Describing the connection between two batteries' positive terminals, for instance when jump-starting a car.
Related terms: black-to-black
green-to-green
danda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑndə/
rhymes: -ɒndə
Forms: form: dandas
Etymology: From Sanskrit दण्ड (daṇḍá, “stick”).
Senses: glosses: A punctuation character (।) used in the Devanāgarī script to mark the end of a sentence.
Derived terms: double danda
Related terms: english: different etymology
translation: different etymology
word: gilli-danda
dandis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandi
dandas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of danda
lentiginosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lentigines + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of lentigines on the skin in large numbers or in a distinctive configuration.
animastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more animastic
form: most animastic
Etymology: From Latin animasticus, from Latin animus + Latin -asticus. By surface analysis, animus + -astic.
Senses: examples: text: But we employ fables in an animastic mode, when we contemplate the energies of the soul.
ref: 1816, Thomas Taylor, “A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries,”, in The Pamphleteer, volume 8, number 15, page 66:
glosses: Pertaining to or possessing an animate nonphysical nature; having a mental or spiritual nature.
glosses: Relating to mind or spirit; spiritual.
power saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power saws
Senses: glosses: Any of various types of saw now usually powered by electricity.
Hyponyms: sense: powered saw
word: bandsaw
sense: powered saw
word: bench saw
sense: powered saw
word: chainsaw
sense: powered saw
word: chop saw
sense: powered saw
word: circular saw
sense: powered saw
word: cut-off saw
sense: powered saw
word: diamond saw
sense: powered saw
word: flush-cut saw
sense: powered saw
word: jigsaw
sense: powered saw
word: mitre saw
sense: powered saw
word: panel saw
sense: powered saw
word: radial arm saw
sense: powered saw
word: reciprocating saw
sense: powered saw
word: saber saw
sense: powered saw
word: scroll saw
sense: powered saw
word: table saw
sense: powered saw
word: tile saw
daturas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of datura
labidometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labidometers
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A specialized forceps or attachment to a regular forceps for measuring the size and curvature of the head of a fetus in the pelvis.
labidometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labidometer
labialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From labial + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of stammering characterized by confusion in the use of the labial consonants.
labionasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Etymology: From labio- + nasal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Labial and nasal; pertaining to both the upper lip and the nose, or to both lips and the nose.
lacerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lacerable
form: most lacerable
Senses: glosses: Susceptible to laceration; capable of being, or liable to be, torn.
changing of the guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changings of the guard
form: change of the guard
form: changing of the guards
Senses: synonyms: guard mounting
qualifier: usually preceded by the
glosses: A ceremony during which the soldiers or other officials guarding a major government building or state residence, especially Buckingham Palace in England, are replaced by a new shift.
examples: text: All the signs are right this time / You don't have to try so very hard / If you live in this world / You're feelin' the change of the guard
ref: 1972, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, “Change of the Guard”, performed by Steely Dan:
text: I've moved your mountains and marked your cards / But Eden is burning, either get ready for elimination / Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards
ref: 1978, Bob Dylan, “Changing of the Guards”, in Street-Legal:
text: At the same stressful time, Detroit's automakers will be going through a major changing of the guard: all three companies are expected to get new chief executives in the space of two years.
ref: 1989 November 20, S. C. Gwynne, “Running Low On Gas”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2010:
text: NBC has set a date for the changing of the guard at "The Tonight Show." After 17 years, Jay Leno will sign off as host of the venerated late-night talker.
ref: 2008 July 21, James Hibberd, “NBC finalizes its late shift”, in Hollywood Reporter, retrieved 25 Jul 2010:
text: The changing of the guard is set to ripple out beyond Amazon, which Mr. Bezos has personified for more than two decades.
ref: 2021 February 2, Karen Weise, “Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon C.E.O.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: At long last, the referee's whistle was mercifully blown. It had been a sobering and underwhelming tournament, but one that must now fuel the future, with a changing of the guard needed ahead of next year's Euro 2024 qualifying campaign.
ref: 2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline:
glosses: Any situation in which an individual or group charged with a task or responsibilities in an organization is replaced by another individual or group.
absitively posolutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: absotively posolutely
form: absotively posilutely
form: absitively posilutely
Etymology: Spooneristic blend of absolutely and positively.
Senses: examples: text: "She was absitively, posolutely nutty!"
ref: 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3):
text: 1988, Disney - Oliver and Company - http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/o/oliver-and-company-script-transcript.html
"And once you got the beat, you can do anything. "I can?" "Absitively posolutely."
text: "Well, thanks." "Could you validate my parking?" "Absitively posolutely."
ref: 1991, Jon Vitti, When Flanders Failed, season 3, episode 3, spoken by Ned Flanders (Harry Shearer):
text: "Ha ha! It's brilliant, inspired...absitively, posolutely electrified!"
ref: 2004, Disney - Springtime with Roo - https://web.archive.org/web/20110411052109/http://movie.subtitlr.com/subtitle/show/28805#line1571
glosses: Absolutely and positively; certainly; yes.
Related terms: posolutely
absitively
posilutely
positutely
absotively
guard mounting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guard mountings
Senses: glosses: A ceremony during which the soldiers or other officials guarding a major government building or state residence are replaced by a new shift.
Synonyms: changing of the guard
absotively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌæbsəˈtɪvli/
/ˈæbsəˌtɪvli/
Forms: form: absatively
form: absitively
Etymology: Blend of absolutely + positively
Senses: examples: text: That is one of the twelve reasons why Charlotte Diners are absotively the best little old dining chairs produced in this Land of the Free—and Prohibition has nothing to do with it.
ref: 1920 September, “Style and Stability (advertisement)”, in The Rotarian, volume 17, number 3, page 159:
text: “I is sad; absotively mis'able. What you reckon kind of pitcher they is takin' down there?”
ref: 1925, Octavus Roy Cohen, Bigger and Blacker, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →LCCN, →OL:
text: “Absotively, Admiral Dewey?” “Posilutely, General Grant.”
ref: 1994, Joseph Heller, Closing Time, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:
glosses: Absolutely and positively.
Derived terms: absotively posilutely
absotively posolutely
Related terms: absitively posolutely
absitively posilutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of absitively posolutely.
absotively posolutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of absitively posolutely.
absotively posilutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of absitively posolutely.
troughing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trough
troughing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troughings
Senses: examples: text: troughing for signalling cables
glosses: A system of troughs.
troughed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trough
maffia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maffias
Senses: glosses: Dated form of mafia.
waking dream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waking dreams
Senses: examples: text: I'll be the mirror where you are a queen / Your fellow magician of the waking dream / Hung with a hammer and a glass of wine / I'll be your woman and you can be mine
ref: 2007, “I'll Be Your Woman”, in Party Girl, performed by Michelle Gurevich:
glosses: A dream or dreamlike situation while one is awake or in the drowsy period before sleep.
Related terms: mirage
hypnagogia
daymare
waking dreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waking dream
for short
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: This is Ricardo, or Ricki for short.
text: Just as flamboyant as his wife, Mr. Joseph Martin, Joe for short, died of heart disease brought on by obesity the night of their fourteenth wedding anniversary.
ref: 2009, McKenzie MacLaine, Candy Skulls, page 241:
glosses: As an abbreviated form.
Related terms: short for
going away dress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: going away dresses
Senses: glosses: A semi-formal dress, worn by a bride when leaving the reception for her honeymoon
Deniz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Denizes
Etymology: Two possible origins:
* Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Deniz, from a variant of the personal name Denís.
* Borrowed from Turkish Deniz, an ornamental surname from deniz (“sea”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hot shit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɒt ˈʃɪt/
ipa: /ˌhɑt ˈʃɪt/
Senses: examples: text: There are some Jim Dandys in this business who think they are hot shit with their stay-pressed suits and their lifestyle research computer info, who will try to tell you what to do.
ref: 1982 Jun, “Three Generations of DJs”, in Cincinnati Magazine, volume 15, number 9, page 90:
text: I have been called hot shit before, never knew what hot shit was, better than cold shit I guess.
ref: 2005 T. E. Church, Where the Heart Lies, iUniverse.com, p221
text: Jolie knows she's hot shit right now and next year, at this time, she will probably be hotter shit.
ref: 2006 Gene Geter, Igene, iUniverse.com, p124
text: You think you're pretty hot shit, don't you?"
ref: 2007, C. Hyytinen, Pattern of Vengeance, Camille Hyytinen, page 280:
glosses: An exceptionally impressive person or thing
Related terms: hot poop
wingmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingmates
Etymology: From wing + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: That is why Player of the Match Pieter-Steph du Toit tackled his heart out. Deon Fourie, although losing quite a few lineouts, defended with grit. Kolbe, along with wingmate Kurt-Lee Arendse made critical tackles when needed.
ref: 2023 October 28, Leighton Koopman, “YES!!! The Springboks beat the All Blacks to win another Rugby World Cup title”, in Independent Online:
glosses: Synonym of wingman.
synonyms: word: wingman
intrinsic reward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrinsic rewards
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
antonyms: extrinsic reward
glosses: A reward, such as the mental satisfaction of completing a challenging task, that is intangible and unapparent to others.
Movement 2 June
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: movement + 2 + June
Senses: glosses: One of the militant groups of postwar West Germany, founded by former members of Kommune 1.
intrinsic rewards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrinsic reward
extrinsic rewards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extrinsic reward
asportation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asportations
Etymology: From Latin asportatio.
Senses: examples: text: Kidnapping usually includes the seizing, confining, and carrying away (asportation) of another by force, threat, or deception, and without consent.
ref: 2011, James W. H. McCord, Criminal Law and Procedure for the Paralegal, page 128:
topics: law
glosses: The illegal movement of goods or carrying away of a person.
bioclast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioclasts
Etymology: From bio- + clast.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fossil fragment used to date a rock stratum.
midhusband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midhusbands
Etymology: By analogy from midwife, where wife long ago meant any woman.
Senses: glosses: masculine equivalent of midwife: A male midwife.
Synonyms: word: accoucheur
word: midwife
word: man-midwife
Coordinate terms: word: accoucheuse
word: midwife
Related terms: obstetrician
obstetrics
midhusbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midhusband
shoot for the stars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots for the stars
form: shooting for the stars
form: shot for the stars
form: shot for the stars
Senses: glosses: To aim high; to set lofty goals.
Related terms: shoot the moon
dominium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dominiums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dominium.
Senses: glosses: The ownership of a thing.
examples: text: The MC was composed of agents from different separated Dominium like Bacteria (Lactobacillum) and Eukaria (yeast).
ref: 2012, Eduardo N. Esteban, Mirentxu Indart, Silvia Cerone, G. de Yaniz, Ana G. Inza, Herminia Landi, Silvina Mogni, Marcela Juliarena, Leticia Igarza, “Production and Biochemestry - Molecular Analysis of Microbial Community Fermenting Whey as a Potential Probiotic for Use Animals”, in Open Journal of Veterinary Medicine, volume 2, number 3, →DOI, page 104:
text: Extremophilic organisms may be located in all the three dominia and include prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells.
ref: 2013, Sara Carillo, phD Thesis in Chemical Sciences: XXV cycle: Extremophile bacteria glycolipids: structure and biological activity, University of Naples “Federico II”: Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, page 3:
text: Several aerobic and anaerobic, thermophilic, microorganisms belonging to the Eubacteria and Archaea dominia were isolated from thermal springs of the Eolian Islands.
ref: 2004, Extremophiles 2004: 5th International Conference on Extremophiles, Washington, USA: American Society for Microbiology, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: domain
glosses: The highest category in the classification of organisms, ranking above regnum.
examples: text: However, this does not mean that these are the only types of kingdoms, nor that only kingdoms are dominiums.
ref: 2009, Margaret R.L.L. Kelly, “Constitutions and the Classics: Sir John Fortescue”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: The Indian Sub-continent was partitioned in August 1947 to create two independent, sovereign dominiums, India and Pakistan.
ref: 2016, Tahir Ahmad Dhindsa, “Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges in Pakistan”, in Reorienting Educational Efforts for Sustainable Development, page 165:
synonyms: domain
glosses: Political unit
Related terms: dominate
dominion
drumfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌmfaɪə(ɹ)/
/ˈdɹʌmfaɪɚ/
Forms: form: drumfires
Etymology: From drum + fire, calque of German Trommelfeuer.
Senses: glosses: Heavy, continuous, rapid gunfire.
examples: text: The past year has seen a shart rise in the drumfire of attacks on one of management's most highly regarded methods of executive incentive payments — the stock option.
ref: 1960, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business, Operations of Small Business Investment Companies: Hearings... (page 120)
glosses: A sustained attack.
exercycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exercycles
Etymology: Blend of exercise + bicycle
Senses: examples: text: “It should say, "Top-quality exercycle for sale." and could you put "top-quality" in bold? You can't? Okay, whatever.”
ref: 2003 July 13, Ron Weiner, “Spanish Fry” (2:42 from the start), in Futurama, season 4, episode 17, spoken by Ranger Park (David Herman):
glosses: exercise bicycle
Mannlicher stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mannlicher stocks
Etymology: * From a 1903 carbine designed by Ferdinand Mannlicher.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A stock on a rifle that runs the full length of the weapon.
exsanguine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈsæŋɡwɪn/
Forms: form: more exsanguine
form: most exsanguine
Etymology: From ex- (prefix meaning ‘lacking, not possessing’) + Latin sanguinēs (a plural form of sanguī̆s (“blood”)) or sanguī̆s itself.
Senses: glosses: Lacking blood; anemic, bloodless.
hutment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hutments
Etymology: From hut + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: This involved the erection of hutments for sleeping quarters, canteen, ablution block, and so on, with temporary sidings for the tunnel train, all of which was contained in the sidings yard at Chapel-en-le-Frith Central station.
ref: 1957 June 24, “Relining Dove Holes Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 423:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An encampment of huts.
moderatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moderatisms
Etymology: From moderate + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A doctrine of moderation in any field.
palaeocurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeocurrents
Etymology: From palaeo- + current.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleocurrent.
paleocurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleocurrents
Etymology: From paleo- + current.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geological feature that indicates the direction of flow of water in the geologic past
poorwill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poorwills
Etymology: Imitative of its note.
Senses: glosses: nightjar (bird)
Related terms: whippoorwill
pooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pooters
Senses: synonyms: aspirator
glosses: A glass jar used for collecting small insects etc; it has two tubes, one (protected by a gauze) which is sucked, the other up which the insect is drawn.
pooter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pooters
form: pootering
form: pootered
form: pootered
Senses: glosses: To capture (insects) with a pooter.
pooter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pooters
form: pootering
form: pootered
form: pootered
Senses: glosses: To move about aimlessly; to potter around.
porphyroblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porphyroblasts
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively large crystal within a metamorphic rock
Derived terms: porphyroblastic
enemata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […John Woodall] was the firſt man who introduced the enemata fumoſa […]
ref: 1767, David Macbride, Experimental Essays on Medical and Philosophical Subjects, page 206:
text: The bowels should be kept well opened, and for this purpose warm abundant enemata are of great and special service.
ref: 1785, Sir Henry Morris, Surgical Diseases of the Kidney, page 396:
text: In some cases it may be advisable to render the enemata more irritating by the addition of compound extract of colocynth. Irritating injections are enjoined by Aretæus, Forestus, and many modern authors, particularly Thilenius. In cases following hæmorrhoids, they are more especially indicated, after leeches have been applied to the vicinity of the anus.
ref: 1859, James Copland, A Dictionary of Practical Medicine, page 101:
text: 1992, August 26th: the Crisco Kid, soc.bi (Google group): A de-muffinning, and a coming out, 12:26pm
About the only thing M&C is any use for is champagne enemata; ever tried? All those bubbles…
text: Some patients may need assistance with defaecation in the form of suppositories or enemata, whilst others may need a colostomy as a result of cancer of the colon.
ref: 2010, Ian Peate, Nursing Care and the Activities of Living, page 148:
glosses: plural of enema
wood-wroth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Then was Arthur wood wroth out of measure, when he saw his people so slain from him.
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, book XXI, chapter IV, in w:Ernest Rhys, editor, s:Le Morte d'Arthur, volume II, London: w:J. M. Dent, published 1906, page 385:
glosses: mad with anger
power saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power saw
reaccustom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaccustoms
form: reaccustoming
form: reaccustomed
form: reaccustomed
Etymology: From re- + accustom.
Senses: examples: text: He is on the disabled list with rotator cuff inflammation, and on Sunday he caught Ian Kennedy in the bullpen to get his legs reaccustomed to the feel of his demanding position.
ref: 2008 May 19, Tyler Kepner, “Posada Tests His Legs but Says He Worries More About His Arm”, in New York Times:
glosses: To accustom again.