cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
comether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kəmĕʹdhər
ipa: /kəˈmɛðə/
Forms: form: comethers
Senses: examples: text: How does ut come about, sorr, that whin a man has put the comether on wan woman he's sure bound to put ut on another?
ref: 1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Courting of Dinah Shadd:
text: There's a gossoon in me company that did be workin' in a dispinshary that's after tellin' me that bakin' sody in hot wather wid put the comether on yer pains, me poor frind.
ref: 1940, Sir James Elliott, The Hundred Years, Robert Hale Limited, page 125:
glosses: Alternative form of come-hither.
Derived terms: put the comether on
'aircuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'aircut
'alves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'alf
'ams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'am
'ammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'ammer
'arbours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'arbour
'arboured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of 'arbour
bastinade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastinades
form: bastinado
Etymology: From French bastonnade.
Senses: glosses: A blow with a stick or cudgel.
examples: text: Rudely forced to drink tea, Massachusetts in anger
Spills the tea on John Bull—John falls on to bang her;
Massachusetts, enraged, calls her neighbors to aid
And give Master John a severe bastinade.
Now, good men of the law, pray who is in fault,
The one who begins or resists the assault?
ref: 1775, Frank Moore, Diary of the American Revolution:
glosses: A sound beating with a stick or cudgel, specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.
bastinade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bastinades
form: bastinading
form: bastinaded
form: bastinaded
form: bastinado
Etymology: From French bastonnade.
Senses: glosses: To beat in this manner.
'eads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'ead
'ighnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'ighness
'ittin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of 'it
'olidays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'oliday
'omes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'ome
'oneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'oney
'orses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'orse
'phoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of 'phone
'phoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of 'phone
'prenticing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of 'prentice
'prenticed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of 'prentice
'tutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'tute
waitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waiting
snakeflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snakefly
nosegrinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosegrind
nonfrilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + frilly.
Senses: glosses: Not frilly.
unfrilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfrilly
form: most unfrilly
Etymology: From un- + frilly.
Senses: glosses: Not frilly.
unfrilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + frilled.
Senses: glosses: Not frilled.
FLAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæk/
rhymes: -æk
Senses: qualifier: file format
glosses: Initialism of Free Lossless Audio Codec.
paintathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paintathons
Etymology: From paint + -athon.
Senses: examples: text: The community organised a paintathon to create a wall mural.
glosses: An event where volunteers come together to paint.
paintathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paintathon
paintability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paint + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being paintable.
WAIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Total loss of the WAIS would cause 5 metres of sea level rise.
ref: 2022 August 10, Damian Carrington, “Fate of ‘sleeping giant’ East Antarctic ice sheet ‘in our hands’ – study”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
glosses: Initialism of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.
examples: text: Additionally, gateways exist so that WAIS users can retrieve information from non-WAIS data bases like Gopher, developed by university users of Next computers, and the World Wide Web, which makes available physicists' research from many locations.
ref: 1993 February 28, John Markoff, “A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services”, in New York Times:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Wide Area Information Servers.
pan bagnats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pan bagnat
nonfeature
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + feature.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to a feature (in various senses, but especially an item in the media).
nonfeature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfeatures
Etymology: From non- + feature.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a feature (in various senses).
nonfeatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonfeature
youthen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːθən/
ipa: /ˈjuθən/
Forms: form: youthens
form: youthening
form: youthened
form: youthened
Etymology: From youth + -en.
Senses: examples: text: It youthened her, melted the stark, hungry grip about her mouth.
ref: 1897, George Egerton, Symphonies, page 97:
text: Mr. Wilson can hardly be unaware that once a writer chooses to youthen or resurrect a word, it lives again...
ref: 1966, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Encounter, Volume 26, page 84:
glosses: To make younger or more youthful.
examples: text: He nods, time traveling to a point when there were no central lines, no low blood counts, no immunosuppressive drugs. His face youthens momentarily as he bridges back to a point on a timeline that has none of this devastation on it.
ref: 2008, Patrice Rancour, Tales from the Pager Chronicles, page 7:
glosses: To become younger or more youthful.
youthens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of youthen
youthening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of youthen
youthened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of youthen
mobileless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mobile + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I want to buy some to give to mobileless friends in Fiji, who would rather have a clunker that keeps its charge for 12 hours than nothing.
ref: 2000, Paul Edwards, “wtb [syd] (very) old mobile phones”, in aus.ads.forsale (Usenet):
glosses: Without a mobile phone.
Synonyms: phoneless
telephoneless
kapp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kapps
form: cap
Senses: examples: text: “It is a prayer kapp. Amish women cover their heads when they pray.” “But you wear it all the time?” “This is true. We are always ready to pray when our head is covered.” “I pray but perhaps not often enough,” Sarah admitted.
ref: 2018 April 1, Debby Giusti, Amish Rescue: Faith in the Face of Crime, Harlequin, →ISBN:
text: All three of the women were older with gray hair beneath white kapps. The Mennonite[…]
ref: 2021 December 28, Patricia Johns, Blended Amish Blessings, Harlequin, →ISBN:
glosses: A headcovering worn by many women of certain Anabaptist Christian traditions (especially Mennonites and Amish) for religious reasons.
Related terms: fedderdale
hinnerdale
sweariest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sweary: most sweary
swearier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sweary: more sweary
Biebermania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bieber + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: The last time she cozied up for a photograph alongside teen-dream Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian learned just how serious Biebermania could get when she received a rash of death threats.
ref: 2010, Ree Hines, Tabloid Tidbits:
text: Biebermania doesn't always result in injury, though. The outpouring of devotion from his fans comes in other ways, too.
ref: 2010, Sarah Parvis, Justin Bieber, page 65:
glosses: Enthusiasm for the Canadian singer Justin Bieber.
Related terms: Belieber
steakless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From steak + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without steak.
unenjoyability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + enjoyability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unenjoyable.
godfatherless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From godfather + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a godfather.
null modem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: null modems
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A means of directly connecting two pieces of equipment (computer, printer, etc.) using a serial cable.
parallel ports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parallel port
null modems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of null modem
rollover cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollover cables
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A particular type of cable used to connect consoles to computers.
rollover cables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollover cable
RAS syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by science magazine New Scientist in 2001.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Redundant acronym syndrome syndrome, a tautology in which one or more words that make up an acronym or initialism are used redundantly in conjunction with said abbreviation.
Related terms: Department of Redundancy Department
pleonasm
recursive acronym
paronychium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paronychia
Senses: glosses: perionychium
eponychium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛpəʊˈnɪkɪəm/
ipa: /ˌɛpəˈnɪkiəm/
Forms: form: eponychia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí, “on top of”) + ὀνῠ́χιον (onŭ́khion, “little claw”, diminutive of ὄνυξ (ónux)).
Senses: examples: text: The nail is replaced to provide a physiologic dressing and to splint open the eponychium so that a new nail will grow in place.
ref: 2008, Peter M. Antevy, Richard A. Saladino, “103: Management of Finger Injuries”, in Christopher King, Fred M. Henretig, editors, Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Procedures, page 947:
text: The cuticle (KYOO-tih-kul) is the crescent of dead, colorless tissue attached to the nail plate around the base of the nail. It forms a seal between the eponychium and the nail plate to prevent the entry of foreign materials and microorganisms and to help prevent injury and infection.
ref: 2011, Maura Scali-Scheahan, Milady Standard Professional Barbering, 5th edition, Cengage Learning, page 673:
text: Every nail has a lunula, but some lunulas are short and remain hidden under the eponychium.
ref: 2015, Milady (Cengage Learning), chapter I, in Milady Standard Cosmetology, page 200:
text: The eponychium overlies and protects the proximal portion of the nail and the germinal matrix.
ref: 2015, Nicole Z. Sommer, M. Colin Rymer, Ryan W. Schmucker, “3: Injuries to the Nail Apparatus”, in Leo M. Rozmaryn, editor, Fingertip Injuries: Diagnosis, Management and Reconstruction, page 69:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The thickened layer of skin adjoining fingernails and toenails, particularly at the base of the nail.
examples: text: The hooves are tipped with collagenous eponychia, which prevents damage to the amnion and beyond.
ref: 2012, Paul McGreevy, Equine Behavior: A Guide for Veterinarians and Equine Scientists, 2nd edition, page 163:
text: 2014, Kevin T. Corley, Jonna M. Jokisolo, Chapter 172: Evaluation of the Compromised Neonatal Foal, Kim A. Sprayberry, N. Edward Robinson, Robinson's Current Therapy in Equine Medicine, 7th Edition, page 720,
The presence of eponychium (also called “foal slippers”) on the feet (Figure 172-3) is indicative that the foal has not yet stood.
text: In ungulates, this is apparently exaggerated by the presence of the eponychia, or collagenous pads over the sole of the fetal hoof.
ref: 2015, Donald M Broom, Andrew F Fraser, Domestic Animal Behaviour and Welfare, 5th edition, page 196:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: The protective capsule that surrounds the hoof of foetuses and neonates of hoofed animals, which disappears soon after birth, but remnants of which remain as part of the permanent hoof.
Synonyms: sense: layer of skin
word: medial nail fold
sense: layer of skin
word: proximal nail fold
Related terms: eponychial
hyponychium
paronychium
perionychium
nail fold
hyponychium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyponychia
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The thickened epithelium beneath a nail or claw.
Related terms: onychium
IDE cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IDE cables
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A 40-pin parallel cable used between personal computers and storage devices.
SATA cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SATA cables
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A particular high-speed serial cable
floptical disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floptical disks
Etymology: Blend of floppy disk + optical
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of floppy disk whose head tracking was optically controlled (superseded by compact disc technology).
conventional memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The first 640 kilobytes of RAM in an IBM-compatible PC.
base memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The first 640 kilobytes of RAM (random access memory) in an IBM-compatible PC.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The amount of RAM installed on a new computer, before any optional upgrades.
Synonyms: sense: first 640 kilobytes of RAM
word: conventional memory
extended memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The extent of memory above the first megabyte in the address space of later PCs
impact printer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impact printers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: nonimpact
glosses: A printer in which each character is produced by part of the mechanism striking the paper (normally through an inked ribbon)
impact printers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impact printer
floptical disks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floptical disk
SATA cables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SATA cable
IDE cables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IDE cable
Gilgal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew גִּלְגָּל.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The site of Joshua's encampment before the siege of Jericho.
profligatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more profligatory
form: most profligatory
Etymology: From profligate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. K.M. Naidu pointed out that the present economic crisis was the result of profligatory behaviour of the government since 1985.
ref: 1991, The Indian economic journal: the quarterly journal of the Indian Economic Association, volume 39:
text: The adverse effect of profligatory fiscal policies pursued by successive governments on balance of payments disequilibrium and the consequent bungling of trade and payment plicies have seriously affected the efficiency of our trade and payments regime during the first forty years of our planned economic development.
ref: 2000, Bishwa Nath Singh, M. P. Shrivastava, Narendra Prasad, editors, Indian economy in the 21st century: problems and prospects:
glosses: Tending to or encouraging wastefulness.
examples: text: Cook was amazed by this procedure, but others, notably missionaries, viewed it in a more derogatory light, labelling it profligatory or the height of debauchery (Ellis, 1831).
ref: 1995, Igor de Garine, Nancy J. Pollock, editors, Social Aspects of Obesity:
text: They are only causing great harm to the country and human society, by this sort of wicked and profligatory ideas.
ref: 1997, Sri Nigamananda, translated by Bijoy Kumar Giri, The divine universal gospels of Sri Nigamananda, volume 1:
glosses: Tending to or encouraging immoral behaviour.
aerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: āîʹrĭən
enpr: âʹrĭən
ipa: /eɪˈɪəɹɪən/
ipa: /ˈɛːɹɪən/
enpr: ā'îʹrēən
enpr: âʹrēən
ipa: /ˌeɪˈɪɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˈɛɹi.ən/
Forms: form: aërian
Etymology: From the French aérien, from the Old French aerïen, from the Classical Latin āerius; compare aerial.
Senses: examples: text: Figure to yourself an extensive suite of rooms, long galleries and passages, the ceilings, or rather the beams, in such aërian perspective, as nearly to evade the sight; the walls literally bare and green, from damp; the pavement more rugged than Berkeley-Square, and I believe has not been cleaned for many years.
ref: 1776, Lady Anna Riggs Miller, Letters from Italy:
text: "We provoke cough," says Schwilgué, "to favour the expulsion of foreign bodies introduced from without into the aërian tube, and especially of liquids; we have recourse to it to favour the expectoration of mucus, of membraniform concretions, and of pus, which have accumulated in the aërian passages, whenever the local irritation is sufficiently great."
ref: 1842, Jonathan Pereira, The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics:
text: Wounds which, whatever their seat, are complicated with aerian or bacterial emphysema, and the gases from which are infiltrated to the scrotum.
ref: 1890, American Dermatological Association, Journal of cutaneous and genito-urinary diseases, volume 8, page 284:
text: 2001, Allen S. Weiss, translating an extract from page 113 of the 1979 Union Générale d’Éditions republication of Marcel Schwob’s “La Machine à Parler” (a short story which first appeared in his 1892 collection Le Roi au Masque d’Or), for “Narcissistic Machines and Erotic Prostheses”, essay 2 (occupying pages 51–74) of Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson (2003, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, edited by Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey; the quotation is from page 68 of Camera Obscura
The voice, which is the aerian sign of thought, whence of the soul, which instructs, preaches, exhorts, prays, praises, loves, through which the entire being is manifested in life, nearly palpable by the blind, impossible to describe because it is too undulating and diverse, in fact too alive and incarnate in too many sonorous forms, the voice that Théophile Gautier gave up trying to put into words because it is neither soft, nor dry, nor hot, nor cold, nor colorless, nor colorful, but has something of all that in another domain, that voice that one cannot touch, that one cannot see, that most immaterial of terrestrial things, that which most resembles a spirit, is stolen on the fly by science with a stylet and buried in small holes on a turning cylinder.
glosses: Of or belonging to the atmosphere or to the air; aerial.
membraniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From membrane + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: "We provoke cough," says Schwilgué, "to favour the expulsion of foreign bodies introduced from without into the aërian tube, and especially of liquids; we have recourse to it to favour the expectoration of mucus, of membraniform concretions, and of pus, which have accumulated in the aërian passages, whenever the local irritation is sufficiently great."
ref: 1842, Jonathan Pereira, The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a membrane; resembling a membrane.
cozener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭʹzənər
enpr: kŭzʹnər
ipa: /ˈkʌzənə/
ipa: /ˈkʌznə/
Forms: form: cozeners
form: cosener
form: cosiner
form: cousoner
form: coosener
form: cossoner
form: cousener
form: cousenor
form: cos’ner
form: couzener
form: coz’ner
form: cozoner
Etymology: From cozen (“cheat, defraud”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The usurer hangs the cozener.
ref: 1606, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear:
text: Yet the difference between players and cozeners was not always secure.
ref: 1993, Richard Burt, Licensed by authority: Ben Jonson and the discourses of censorship:
glosses: An imposter, a swindler.
Related terms: cozen
cozenage
Chinese chess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: xiangqi
glosses: A board game similar to chess, invented and traditionally played in China.
airish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more airish
form: most airish
Etymology: From air + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Hit's right airish out today.
glosses: Cool, breezy.
raw_tags: of the weather
glosses: Tending to put on airs.
shoulder devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder devils
Senses: coordinate_terms: shoulder angel
glosses: A devil representing a person's temptations in works of fiction, portrayed as sitting on one shoulder while a shoulder angel occupies the other.
Related terms: monkey on one's back
shoulder angel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder angels
Senses: glosses: An angel representing a person's conscience in works of fiction, portrayed as sitting on one shoulder while a shoulder devil occupies the other.
shoulder angels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulder angel
shoulder devils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulder devil
civilization-state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civilization-states
form: civilization state
Senses: examples: text: Although China has described itself as a nation-state for the last century, it is in essence a civilization-state. The longest continually existing polity in the world, it dates to 221 BC and the victory of the Qin. Unlike Western nation-states, China's sense of identity comes from its long history as a civilization-state.
ref: 2009, LA Times, 22 November, Martin Jacques http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/22/opinion/la-oe-jacques22-2009nov22
text: 2010, Newsweek, 25 January, Martin Jacques
China may call itself a nation-state (although only for the past century), but in essence it is a civilization-state dating back at least two millennia.
glosses: A political entity (a state) associated with a particular civilization.
Related terms: nation-state
evacuator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evacuators
Etymology: From evacuate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: In which words sure He doth not pitch on the name of scribes and Pharisees, peculiarly as those that were the greatest evacuators of the law by their own hypocritical practices or false glosses in some particulars […]
ref: 1644, Henry Hammond, Practical Catechism:
glosses: One who evacuates; a nullifier.
glosses: An agent for emptying, especially an instrument for removing fragments of stone from the bladder after litholapaxy.
enwrite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enwrites
form: enwriting
form: enwrote
form: enwritten
form: inwrite
Etymology: From Middle English inwriten (“to inscribe”), from Old English *inwrītan (“to inscribe”), suggested by Old English inwrītere (“writer, secretary”) and Old English inwritting (“inscription”), equivalent to en- (“in”) + write.
Senses: examples: text: It is the good fortune of those who lay foundations to so inwrite their names in the annals of the institutions that they found that the historian can neither overlook them nor ignore them.
ref: 1905, Iowa State Education Association, Proceedings of the Annual Session:
text: What wild heart histories seemed to lie enwritten / Upon those crystalline, celestial spheres!
ref: 1863, Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of Edgar Allan Poe:
glosses: To write upon something; inscribe; imprint.
love truncheon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love truncheons
Senses: glosses: The penis.
virile member
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virile members
Senses: glosses: A penis.
subintroduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭb'ĭntrŏdyo͞osʹĭz
ipa: /ˌsʌbɪntɹəʊˈdjuːsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subintroduce
odonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odonate
Aragon Strip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Western Strip
La Franja
glosses: The region of Aragon in Spain where Catalan is spoken; composed of the districts of Ribagorza/Ribagorça, La Litera/La Llitera, Bajo Cinca/Baix Cinca, Bajo Aragón-Caspe/Baix Aragó-Casp, Bajo Aragón/Baix Aragó and Matarraña/Matarranya.
Western Strip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Aragon Strip: The region of Aragon in Spain where Catalan is spoken; composed of the districts of Ribagorza/Ribagorça, La Litera/La Llitera, Bajo Cinca/Baix Cinca, Bajo Aragón-Caspe/Baix Aragó-Casp, Bajo Aragón/Baix Aragó and Matarraña/Matarranya.
luging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of luge
luged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːʒd/
rhymes: -uːʒd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of luge
doughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dought
spagoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spagoers
Etymology: From spa + goer.
Senses: examples: text: It will come as no surprise to spagoers that the majority of people trained to care for and touch clients’ bodies are women.
ref: 2007 March 8, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Masseuse or Masseur, Sir?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone who visits a spa
spagoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spagoer
trods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trod
trodding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trod
trodded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trod
yukking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yuk
yukked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yuk
kcalorie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kcalories
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of kilocalorie.
Synonyms: kcal
Catalan Countries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A cultural region in Western Europe where Catalan is spoken: Catalonia, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands, the Aragon Strip and Carche (in Spain); Northern Catalonia (in France); Alghero (on the island of Sardinia in Italy); and the independent country of Andorra.
glosses: A name given to the country that will be formed in a hypothetical and independent political union of all Catalan-speaking regions.
LUFC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of Leeds United Football Club.
kcalories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kcalorie
shitwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitwads
Etymology: From shit + -wad.
Senses: glosses: Someone unpleasant, annoying or rude.
shitwads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitwad
cals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cal
chuba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chubas
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan ཕྱུ་པ (phyu pa), from Arabic جُبَّة (jubba). Doublet of jupe and jubbah.
Senses: examples: text: DRESSED in a pale blue, floor-length chuba, Paige Wilson silently mouthed a paragraph-long greeting, in Tibetan, that she was about to deliver to the Dalai Lama.
ref: 2007 November 4, Shaila Dewan, “Emory's Little Tibet”, in New York Times:
glosses: A long sheepskin coat made of thick wool, worn by Tibetans.
chubas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chuba
corruptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From corrupt + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Three years later, Abigail was somewhat more positive: Tho wrong in Politicks, tho formerly an advocate for Tom Pains Rights of Man and tho frequently mistaken in Men and Measures, I do not think him an insincere or a corruptable Man. My Friendship for him has ever been unshaken.
ref: 2007 November 4, Mary Beth Norton, “Dear Abby”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of corruptible.
dishwashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dishwashable
form: most dishwashable
Etymology: From dishwash + -able.
Senses: examples: text: We buy these plates and cups from the Park Slope co-op, said one popular Brooklyn hostess ruefully, that are eco-correct and dishwashable.
ref: 2007 November 4, Alexandra Jacobs, “The Green Party”, in New York Times:
glosses: Able to be washed in a dishwasher without harm; dishwasher-safe
forbearingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːbɛːɹɪŋli/
Forms: form: more forbearingly
form: most forbearingly
Etymology: From forbearing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He shrugged forbearingly, and stared at a framed photograph of Monsieur Cordier on the mantelpiece.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 142:
text: The important point here is not so much that the British treated him forbearingly as that he was always able to command publicity, Orwell wrote.
ref: 2007 November 4, Richard Bernstein, “A Modern Buddhist Uprising Strikes a Quieter Chord”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a forbearing manner.
hiccuping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hiccup
hiccuping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hiccupings
Senses: glosses: The making of a hiccup noise.
hiccuped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hiccup
khakied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From khaki + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Then he unlaced his brown oxfords, folded up his khakied legs, adjusted his button-down collar, and proceeded to meditate for 20 minutes.
ref: 2007 November 4, Claire Dederer, “The Inner Scholar”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wearing khaki
multipocketed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + pocketed.
Senses: examples: text: Romans transition out of diapers spawned models like the multipocketed trooper tote (roomy enough to hold food, toys and clothes), which spawned the megatote (it holds several trooper totes).
ref: 2007 November 4, Alix Browne, “It Baggage”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having many pockets
phonofiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonofiddles
Etymology: From phono- + fiddle.
Senses: glosses: A Stroh violin.
phonofiddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonofiddle
Stroh violin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stroh violins
form: strohviolin
form: Strohviolin
Etymology: Named after its German designer, Johannes Matthias Augustus Stroh.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A violin that amplifies its sound through an attached metal resonator.
Synonyms: Strohviol
Stroviol
horn violin
horn-violin
phonofiddle
violinophone
posintang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While most of the Koreans he meets are quick to assure him that dog is a traditional dish, shunned by those with more refined palates, a taxi driver volunteers the basis for its enduring appeal: One bowl of posintang [dog soup] gives you long time sexy.
ref: 2007 November 4, Holly Brubach, “Reading About Eating”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bosintang.
bosintang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boshintang
form: poshintang
form: posintang
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 보신탕(補身湯) (bosintang, “bosintang”).
Senses: examples: text: The South Koreans we met on our trip sure seemed to love their local bosintang restaurants.
text: Perhaps John Feffer put it best when he identified the “greatest enemy” of bosintang to be not Brigitte Bardot but Colonel Sanders.
ref: 2013, Robert Ji-Song Ku, Dubious Gastronomy, page 143:
glosses: A soup from Korea, the main ingredient of which is dog meat
accessus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin accessus. Doublet of access.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: In electing a pope, a method by which cardinals could change their most recent vote to accede to another candidate in an attempt to reach the necessary two-thirds majority and end the conclave.
rechange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈtʃeɪndʒ/
Forms: form: rechanges
Etymology: From re- + change.
Senses: glosses: Another change; a subsequent change.
rechange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈtʃeɪndʒ/
Forms: form: rechanges
form: rechanging
form: rechanged
form: rechanged
Etymology: From re- + change.
Senses: glosses: To re-exchange (goods, money etc.).
examples: text: I have since I was borne, seene those [laws] of our neighbours the English-men changed and rechanged three or foure times[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To change again; to change back.
searchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of searching
speedskates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speedskate
speedskates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speedskate
speedskated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of speedskate
tristar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + star.
Senses: examples: text: The Luxury model has a hood ornament bearing the tristar emblem, like other Mercedes sedans.
ref: 2007 November 4, Keith Martin, “An Associate Makes Full Partner”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having three stars, or three star shapes.
untasty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untasty
form: most untasty
Etymology: From un- + tasty.
Senses: examples: text: Each year at Christmastime I feel I’m stuffed with a heavy, greasy, fluffy, enormous piece of untasty chocolate cake that I not only have a hard time swallowing but that I can definitely never digest.
ref: 2007 November 4, “Spreading Cheer, Doves and Transvestites”, in New York Times:
synonyms: nontasty
undelicious
unsavoury
unscrumptious
glosses: Not tasty.
Related terms: bad taste in one's mouth
untasteful
wattleseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wattleseeds
Etymology: From wattle + seed.
Senses: examples: text: For thousands of years, Australian Aborigines have relied on wattleseed.
ref: 2007 November 4, Merrill Stubbs, “The New Staples”, in New York Times:
glosses: The edible seeds of various Australian plants, traditionally eaten by the Australian Aborigines.
bushfood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushfoods
Etymology: From bush + food.
Senses: glosses: Traditional Aboriginal food gathered from the bush.
Synonyms: bush tucker
shopgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopgoers
form: shop-goer
Etymology: From shop + goer.
Senses: examples: text: They had been a high-profile curiosity on Oxford Street, London's shopping center, for months as they moved with vigor among the shopgoers and tourists.
ref: 1985, Caryl Matrisciana, Gods of the new age, page 12:
text: His warning — and the curious juxtaposition of food with literary genres — suddenly comes alive when we recall how widely the eighteenth-century shopgoer accepted what had been common knowledge among the Aztecs, who first cultivated and brewed the cocoa bean: chocolate acts as a quick, effective aphrodisiac.
ref: 1989, James Engell, Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge, page 151:
text: This was quite a common practice among the shopgoers, for somebody to guard the place while another person was checking what was on sale.
ref: 2008, Lina Zilionyte, Born for Freedom, page 271:
glosses: Someone who goes to a shop to make purchases.
molassine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more molassine
form: most molassine
Senses: examples: text: The melting ice cream made its molassine way down the cone.
glosses: Characteristic of molasses; viscous
shopgoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopgoer
zoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ).
Senses: glosses: In the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, bare life, as opposed to any particular mode of life (bios).
betwattled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more betwattled
form: most betwattled
form: betwaddled
Etymology: Late 18th century Dorset British slang for confused, bewildered. From be- + twattle (“to talk”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: But everybody—except Anwara, who was plainly betwattled—admitted the child was strange.
ref: 2007, Eloise McGraw, The Moorchild, page 39:
text: I'm betwattled about the twatty things this no name is saying.
ref: 2016 March 4, “Champions League does not need likes of Leicester, says US sports executive”, in Reddit, r/Soccer:
glosses: surprised, confounded, befuddled, to be in a distressed state of mind.
betwattled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betwaddled
Etymology: Late 18th century Dorset British slang for confused, bewildered. From be- + twattle (“to talk”) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of betwattle
betwattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betwattles
form: betwattling
form: betwattled
form: betwattled
form: betwaddle
Etymology: Possibly a back formation from betwattled, late 18th-century Dorset British slang for confused, bewildered.
Senses: examples: text: She would not let a man betwattle her with kisses... again.
ref: 1996, Jo Ann Ferguson, Miss Charity's Case (Zebra Regency Romance), →ISBN:
text: "No, you have tried to betwattle me by making the facts fit your assumption of who killed you and why."
ref: 2007, Jocelyn Kelley, Lost in Shadow:
glosses: To surprise, to confound, to befuddle, to put in a distressed state of mind.
glosses: To be in a distressed state of mind.
master spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master spirits
Senses: examples: text: The editor could have been William Davis, a man with the same Teutonic origins as Werner von Braun, although not as funny. Either way, Coren was the master spirit.
ref: 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 166:
glosses: The leading entity; the most important person, the controlling figure.
inwrite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inwrites
form: inwriting
form: inwrote
form: inwritten
form: inwrit
Etymology: From Middle English inwriten (“to inscribe”), from Old English *inwrītan (“to inscribe”), suggested by Old English inwrītere (“writer, secretary”) and Old English inwritting (“inscription”), equivalent to in- + write.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of enwrite.
inwrit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: […] Scultetus beginneth with a set Speech which he had inwrit lying before him […]
ref: 1825, Jacobus Arminius, Petrus Bertius, The works of James Arminius, D. D., formerly professor of divinity:
glosses: alternative past participle of inwrite
ingrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɡɹəʊ/
ipa: /ɪnˈɡɹoʊ/
Forms: form: ingrows
form: ingrowing
form: ingrew
form: ingrown
Etymology: Back-formation from ingrown, equivalent to in- + grow.
Senses: glosses: To grow in; grow inwardly.
examples: text: The toe nail should always extend to the end of the toe and it will never ingrow.
ref: 1911, The Medical Fortnightly:
glosses: To become ingrown.
Derived terms: ingrowing
Related terms: ingrowth
ingrown
come-hithers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of come-hither
comethers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comether
cozeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cozener
cum grano salis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: A New Latin coinage, derived from the phrase cum grānō salis (which was not used in Classical Latin).
Senses: examples: text: This observation, taken cum grano salis, applies more or less to all who are daily exposed to the temptations of a superfluous table.
ref: 1817, “Observations on Ill Health, Arising from Indigestion”, in The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 87, Part 1, p420:
text: The claim of Dr. Hodge that our standards sustain the view which he advocates, must be taken cum grano salis.
ref: 1861 "Imputation," The Danville quarterly review, Volume 3 (September, 1861), Richard H. Collins, p403
text: Perhaps the ascription of grammatical structure to Classical Chinese sentences must even more often be taken cum grano salis, with a pinch of salt.
ref: 1998, Joseph Needham, Christoph Harbsmeier, Science and civilisation in China, Cambridge University Press, page 142:
glosses: With a grain of salt; with a bit of common sense and skepticism.
prebendalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prebendalisms
Etymology: From prebendal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A system of political patronage employment.
Related terms: prebend
prebendary
Babbittry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of babbittry.
nonjuring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-juring
form: nonjurying
Senses: qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: Describing the bishops, clergy and congregations that refused to swear allegiance to William III of England.
glosses: Describing the bishops and clergy that refused to take the oath of fidelity to the French Nation required under the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
Related terms: nonjurable
nonjuror
put into effect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts into effect
form: putting into effect
form: put into effect
form: put into effect
Senses: glosses: To implement; to execute; to carry out.
SHH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SHHs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: shh
Shh
glosses: Initialism of sonic hedgehog homolog (protein).
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: shh
Shh
glosses: Initialism of sonic hedgehog gene (“the gene encoding for the protein "sonic hedgehog"”).
pos pron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pos prons
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of possessive pronoun.
compulsatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compulsatory
form: most compulsatory
Etymology: Latin compulsāt- (perfect passive participial stem of the Latin compulsō) + English -ory
Senses: examples: text: But to recover of us, by strong hand / And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands / So by his father lost: ...
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]:
text: Shall I patiently await the return of the guard destined to seize Father Brazilio, destined to conduct him a prisoner to Rome, and likewise destined to obtain the packet once written by Father Luitfrido, and deposited by him in the hands of the Abbot of St. Romuald, and which the absolution of a compulsatory vow no longer rendered sacred?
ref: 1810, Louisa Sidney Stanhope, Di Montranzo:
ref: 1951, UNESCO, Compulsatory education in Australia: a study by the Australian national co-operating body for education:
glosses: Enforced by or resulting from compulsion; employing force or constraint; compulsory.
Derived terms: compulsatorily
indignatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin indignātiō. Doublet of indignation.
Senses: glosses: A closing of a speech intended to arouse negative emotion toward an accused or an opponent and the actions or proposal at issue.
infructuose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infructuose
form: most infructuose
Etymology: Latin infructuosus.
Senses: glosses: Not yielding fruit.
examples: April 1864, Boskousa, "Music of the Future" and "Anticipations" (letter to the editor) in The Musical World
I am too irritable to listen to Wagner's music; in my opinion it is infructuose
synonyms: unfructuous
glosses: unfruitful; unprofitable
9-1-1
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The official form of the service's name in regulations and materials from the United States National Emergency Number Association and Federal Communication Commission.
Senses: examples: text: 9-1-1 is a phone number everyone knows growing up; its mention is associated with fear and disaster. If you’re dialing 9-1-1, something’s wrong. Using it in conjunction with another terrible event, then, isn’t a huge leap. If the events took place on March 11 (like the public information phone number 3-1-1), perhaps the metonym wouldn’t be “3/11,” since it isn’t similarly visceral. (It’s worth noting that the Madrid train bombings, which took place on March 11, are known in Spain as “11-M” due to the country’s use of the date-before-month method of date formatting.)
(This connection between “9/11” and 9-1-1 is made evident in the story of its initial usage.
ref: 2015 January 16, Rick Paulas, “The Linguistics of Tragedy”, in Pacific Standard, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2025:
glosses: Alternative spelling of 911.
9-1-1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 9-1-1s
Etymology: The official form of the service's name in regulations and materials from the United States National Emergency Number Association and Federal Communication Commission.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 911.
9-1-1
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: The official form of the service's name in regulations and materials from the United States National Emergency Number Association and Federal Communication Commission.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 911.
nine-one-one
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 9-1-1.
nine-one-one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nine-one-ones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 9-1-1.
claytonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪˈtəʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /kleɪˈtoʊ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Forms: form: claytonias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: We may harvest a salad of mache, endive hearts, and claytonia.
ref: 1999, Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch, Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long:
glosses: Any plant in the taxonomic genus Claytonia.
Synonyms: spring beauty