cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cocksucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cock + sucking.
Senses: examples: text: Anita Bryant says that cocksucking is a form of human cannibalism; she decries the loss of the child that is the sperm.
ref: 2011, Shannon Gilreath, The End of Straight Supremacy: Realizing Gay Liberation, page 20:
glosses: Fellatio.
cocksucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cock + sucking.
Senses: examples: text: “Twenty-five goddamn cocksucking years,” the old man said.
ref: 2010, Wolf Larsen, Unalaska, Alaska, page 164:
text: You all rap a story you tell me is glorious as Galahad's gallop is near, but your lies can't deceive me I know that you'll leave me crying these cocksucking tears.
ref: 1973, Patrick Haggerty, Cocksucking Tears (song lyric):
glosses: Used as an intensifier for something objectionable.
cocksucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cock + sucking.
Senses: glosses: present participle of cocksuck
Related terms: cocksucker
cocksucking cowboy
whadda
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌdə/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwʌdə/
Senses: examples: text: A month later, I'm still feeling its magic, although I no longer have the urge to stand up and movie theater and holler, "Whadda we want?!" ("Gay Rights" was the response of the hour, by the way.)
ref: 1987 December 6, Liz Nania, “A Momentous Event: The National Gathering Of Bisexuals At The March On Washington”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 21, page 5:
text: Whadda you want?
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what do.
scabbarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scabbard + -ed.
Senses: examples: a scabbarded sword
glosses: In a scabbard.
scabbarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From scabbard + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scabbard
humphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of humph
humphs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of humph
humphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of humph
sweatered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sweater + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a sweater.
sweatered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sweater + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sweater
prowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: proud
Etymology: From prow + -ed.
Senses: examples: a high-prowed boat
glosses: Having a (specified kind of) prow.
coshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cosh
coshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cosh
assessingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more assessingly
form: most assessingly
Etymology: From assessing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Gypsy stopped talking. She was breathing hard. Rico was just looking at her, far too assessingly, and she cursed herself for having said too much.
ref: 2010, Abby Green, In Christofides' Keeping:
glosses: So as to assess.
nonparaplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + paraplegic.
Senses: glosses: Not paraplegic.
nonmusculoskeletal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + musculoskeletal.
Senses: glosses: Not musculoskeletal.
garottings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garotting
therp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: therps
Etymology: Shortened from therapist.
Senses: glosses: psychotherapist
therps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of therp
slummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slummers
Etymology: From slum + -er (inhabitant suffix) or -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of a slum.
examples: text: “Tell me, Mr. Kingsblood, are you another white slummer, or a real friend of our race?” “You have no idea how real!” said Neil.
ref: 1947, Sinclair Lewis, Kingsblood Royal, New York: Random House, page 147:
glosses: One who slums.
slummers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slummer
moanings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moaning
visitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visiting
basinfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basinful
basinsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basinful
pyramided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pyramid
pyramided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Arranged like a pyramid.
stoppingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stopping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a heart-stoppingly beautiful man
text: Over a dirty hemp tunic he'd thrown a jerkin of goat's pelt in the manner of goatherds, two splints on the ankles were tied blood-stoppingly fast with leather thongs.
ref: 2000, Eva Bourke, Travels with Gandolpho, page 38:
text: Neither of them detracted from how traffic-stoppingly handsome he was, but they were enough to inspire questions and the ensuing jokes about how she'd beaten him up.
ref: 2011, Victoria Pade, It Takes a Family:
glosses: In a way that causes something to stop.
Related terms: heart-stoppingly
show-stoppingly
scufflings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scuffling
crashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæʃɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of crashing
slashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slashing
wrestlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrestling
flutings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluting
stammerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stammering
fictionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fictionalities
Etymology: From fictional + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: To be sure the anticipatory proleptics of the "historical survey in future-form" associated with pseudonymity rests upon the literary fiction of the pre-historicality of the revelation of these secrets; but this fictionality is intended to emphasize precisely by means of its esoteric quality that God will allow the elect righteous (cf. I Enoch 1:1) and wise persons (cf. I Enoch 100:6, 104:12) of the present day to participate already in his revelation that has proceeded from the mouths of the righteous and wise ones of pre-history, through the "literary" medium of the book.
ref: 1979, Erhardt Güttgemanns, Candid Questions Concerning Gospel Form Criticism, page 132:
text: But, of course, characters in postmodernist narrative fictions, too, can become aware of their own fictionality—characters such as Julia the policeman's wife, or the magazine-reader in Burroughs' Exterminator!, or the fictional author in Barth's "Life-Story."
ref: 1987, Brian McHale, Postmodernist Fiction:
text: As I discuss later, as well, authors within the realistic mode often encode their texts with markers of not only a self-conscious fictionality but also an irony regarding their projects that is, I would maintain, meant to be discovered.
ref: 1996, Katherine Kearns, Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism: Through the Looking Glass, page 257:
glosses: State or quality of being fictional.
fictionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fictionality
insurance contract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insurance contracts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of insurance policy.
synonyms: word: insurance policy
insurance contracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insurance contract
pooh-poohs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pooh-pooh
pooh-poohing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pooh-pooh
pooh-poohed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pooh-pooh
Transpadane Gaul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: As a proper noun, a calque of the Latin Gallia Trānspadāna; the common noun is probably a regularly formed demonym from the proper noun, although it is likely that its formation was prompted by the Latin Gallī Trānspadānī.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Cisalpine Gaul north of the river Po.
Transpadane Gaul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Transpadane Gauls
Etymology: As a proper noun, a calque of the Latin Gallia Trānspadāna; the common noun is probably a regularly formed demonym from the proper noun, although it is likely that its formation was prompted by the Latin Gallī Trānspadānī.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Transpadane Gaul.
Related terms: Cispadane Gaul
Transpadane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of transpadane.
Transpadan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of transpadane.
Transpadane Gauls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Transpadane Gaul
wedding shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedding showers
Senses: glosses: A bridal shower.
wedding showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedding shower
scabbarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scabbard
hengeyokai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hengeyokai
Etymology: From Japanese 変化妖怪.
Senses: examples: text: 1985, David Cook, Oriental Adventures, TSR Inc., →ISBN
Hengeyokai are intelligent, shape-changing animals. Several subraces exist, each a different type of animal. They are found throughout the Oriental world, usually on the fringes of human-settled lands.
text: 1998-01-28, Lee Gold, Re: B5 Filk: You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Us Sinclair, rec.music.filk
If a hengeyokai fails to concentrate (or perhaps gets distracted -- due to being beaten, seeing a mouse, fatigue), the human form's ears may get pointed or a tail may appear.
text: Hengeyokai transfer between forms almost instantly, though when in human form, they often retain some mark of characteristic of their true animal nature.
ref: 2001, Laurence C. Bush, Asian Horror Encyclopedia: Asian Horror Culture in Literature, Manga and Folklore, Writers Club Press, page 69:
text: 2013-10-12, Jasin Zujovic, Hengeyokai level adjustment, rec.games.frp.dnd
I've been watching Inuyasha yesterday (too bad that's a German dub and I can understand almost nothing) and that got me wanting to make myself a hengeyokai character... and then I remembered the level adjustment.
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A legendary Japanese animal with the ability to shapeshift into human form.
BDS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (academic qualification to practise dentistry in the UK and most of the Commonwealth except Canada)
examples: text: The BDS movement aims to pressure Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories and to respect the rights of Palestinians. The movement advocates for boycotts of Israeli products, divestment from companies operating in Israeli settlements, and sanctions against Israel.
ref: 2023 October 15, Julian Gen, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Comprehensive Introduction: The History, Politics, and Culture Behind the Ongoing Struggle, Red Dot Publications, page 208:
text: In the essay, Gessen, who uses they, criticised Germany’s unequivocal support of Israel, drawing attention to the Bundestag’s 2019 resolution condemning the Israel boycott movement BDS as antisemitic and quoting a Jewish critic of Germany’s politics of Holocaust remembrance as saying memory culture had “gone haywire”.
ref: 2023 December 14, Kate Connolly, “Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Bush Derangement Syndrome.
Derived terms: BDSer
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A global pressure group to end Israeli discrimination against Palestinians.
Synonyms: BDS
khums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic خُمْس (ḵums, “fifth”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Shi'ite tax of one-fifth of various profits (e.g. one's surplus income, or business profits).
khums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khum.
road bowling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: bulleting
word: hainching
word: long bullets
glosses: A game of skill where a heavy metal ball is thrown along a pre-determined course of rural roads, with the winner being the team with the fewest throws.
Related terms: road shower
sop
territorial integrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: international law
glosses: The principle that a state's borders are sacrosanct; the idea that nation-states should not promote secessionist movements or border changes in other nation-states.
Related terms: self-determination
combat drone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combat drones
Senses: glosses: An unmanned aerial military vehicle that is used for missile bombings and targeted killings
lead glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead glasses
Senses: synonyms: lead crystal
coordinate_terms: uranium glass
glosses: Glass containing lead oxide, used for its high refractive index (often in cut glass) or for its ability to block ionizing radiation.
lead crystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead crystals
Senses: glosses: glass that contains at least 24% lead oxide (PbO).
glosses: cut glass made of this material.
Crimean Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Crimean Peninsula
Senses: examples: 2014, Kevin Dooley, Why Politics Matters: An Introduction to Political Science, p. 155 (map).
2012, Amelia Glaser, Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands, p. xii (map).
2009, Central Intelligence Agency of the United States, CIA World Factbook 2009: Complete Unabridged Edition (map).
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Crimean peninsula.
to and froing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of to and fro
to and froed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of to and fro
selfconsciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more selfconsciously
form: most selfconsciously
Senses: glosses: In a self-conscious manner.
anti-goyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antigoyism.
anti-Goyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antigoyism.
humouredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ... humouredly
form: most ... humouredly
Etymology: From humoured + -ly.
Senses: qualifier: bad or ill
glosses: In the specified kind of humour. See good-humouredly, bad-humouredly, ill-humouredly.
raw_tags: with good
Related terms: naturedly
temperedly
humoredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more humoredly
form: most humoredly
Etymology: From humored + -ly.
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of humouredly.
almost surely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: With probability equal to one.
Synonyms: almost certainly
Related terms: almost everywhere
almost never
Quran thumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quran thumpers
Senses: examples: text: and defending muslims does dot make him a Quran thumper
ref: 2012, Moon Shine, “Re: PV as seen by Muslims”, in alt.activism.death-penalty: Usenet:
text: I wonder if the author was a quran thumper.
ref: 2010, Ouroboros Rex, “Re: The peaceful, serene, loving religion...”, in misc.news.internet.discuss: Usenet:
text: You Jews stirred up the Muzzies and I think we ought let them have you for a swap of keeping your head to being a Quran thumper.
ref: 2006, Don Ocean, “Re: You Might Be An Anti-Semite If...”, in alt.terrorism.world-trade-center: Usenet:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Koran thumper.
Koran thumping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Koran thumping
form: most Koran thumping
Etymology: Likely patterned after Bible thumping.
Senses: examples: 2003, Tim Murphy, ALL Orthodox Catholics are Fundamentalists Group: alt.recovery.catholicism
Mainstream orthodox Catholics are just as fundamentalist as any ranting Koran thumping […]
1998, Atomic, Re: Let the Nuclear Games Begin!!!!! Group: soc.culture.indian
In the recent couple of thousand years of recorded history Chinese have never attacked India as savagely as the Koran thumping Allahfreaks have.
2003, Hollywoodboy, Re: Info from BIC Group: alt.clubs.just-for-fun
We can thank the genius who appointed Tom "Duct Tape" Ridge to protect our homeland from the Koran thumping camel humpers.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Quran thumping.
asslifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asslifters
Etymology: From ass + lifter. Presumably from sujud, the deep bow done as part of the Muslim salat (daily prayers), which involves kneeling and lowering the upper body so that the hands, forehead, and nose touch the floor.
Senses: examples: text: Just because Putin is against Al Qaeda doesn't mean he doesn't support Islamic terrorist...Like any Islamic leader he is against anything that threatens his regime, like most Islamic leaders he is anti-American, like most Islamic he panders to Islamic terrorist.
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If it walks like a^([sic]) asslifter, talks like a asslifter, it is a MooSlime.
ref: 2006 May 17, Anonymous Infidel - The Koran Flusher, “Re: "Comrade Wolf" And The Mullahs”, in soc.culture.arabic (Usenet):
text: Are you an asslifter or just a "Useful Infidel"?
ref: 2006 September 5, Al Nakba, “Re: Hezbollah Targets U.S. Aid To Israel”, in alt.terrorism.world-trade-center (Usenet):
text: hussein obama is a closet asslifter, thus this is no surprise..
ref: 2009 April 11, william hubbard, “Re: B. HUSSEIN OBAMA WANTS TO GIVE $2 BILLION TO PAKISTAN”, in soc.culture.indian (Usenet):
glosses: A Muslim.
wikipedia: sujud
wendings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wending
Dome of the Rock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dome of the Rock
Etymology: Calque of Arabic قبة الصخرة (qubbat aṣ-ṣaḵra), from صخرة (ṣaḵra, “rock”) + قبة (qubba, “dome”).
Senses: glosses: A shrine, located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which contains the Foundation Stone.
all that glisters is not gold
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of all that glitters is not gold.
adracalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A component of nuclear pore complex implicated in Triple-A syndrome
alacrimia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Via New Latin; a- + lacrima + -ia
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A congenital inability to produce enough tears (absence or inadequacy of tear production).
Synonyms: alacrima
rem out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rems out
form: remming out
form: remmed out
form: remmed out
Etymology: From rem (a shortening of remark, used as a comment-marking keyword in some programming languages) + out.
Senses: examples: text: When Windows 98 is installed, it will "REM out" the MSCDEX statement, if there is one, since Windows has its own driver and doesn't need this one.
ref: 1998, Ralf Kober, Franck Buechel, Markus Baecker, Win 98 RX: Solve Your Own Windows 98 Computing Problems Easily, page 205:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: comment out
glosses: To temporarily disable (a portion of source code) by converting it into a comment.
ancylostoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ancylostomata
form: ancylostomas
Etymology: Borrowed from the translingual genus name Ancylostoma, eventually from Ancient Greek ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “curved”) and Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”). Analyzable as ancylo- + stoma.
Senses: glosses: Any hookworm of the genus Ancylostoma.
antihygienic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hygienic.
Senses: glosses: That is conducive to unhygienic conditions
auxotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of auxotype
baitcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bait + casting.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure)
baitwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baitwells
Etymology: From bait + well.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A water-filled container for preserving live bait until needed.
campshedding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of campshed
campshedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: piles and boards used to line the bank of a river
cerevis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerevises
Senses: glosses: A small cap, with no peak, worn by members of German student corps
clinomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clino- + -mania.
Senses: synonyms: dysania
glosses: An excessive desire to remain in bed; morbid sleepiness.
epifascicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + fascicular.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a fascicle
forclosure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forclosures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foreclosure.
geneflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geneflows
form: gene flow
Etymology: From gene + flow.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The transfer of alleles or genes between populations
histoneurology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From histo- + neurology.
Senses: topics: biology
histology
medicine
natural-sciences
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Synonym of neurohistology.
synonyms: word: neurohistology
neurohistology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + histology.
Senses: topics: biology
histology
medicine
natural-sciences
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Histology of the nervous system.
Related terms: neurohistologic
neurohistological
neurohistologist
hyperarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperarchies
Etymology: From hyper- + -archy.
Senses: glosses: excessive government
glosses: An government that interferes excessively in the affairs of its citizens
hyperheparinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + heparinemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An elevated level of heparin in the bloodstream
Derived terms: hyperheparinemic
heparinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heparin + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of heparin in the bloodstream.
Derived terms: hyperheparinemia
maschalephidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μασχάλη (maskhálē, “armpit”) + hidrosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Excessive sweating in the armpits.
monospermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The fertilization of an oocyte by a single spermatozoon.
Derived terms: monospermic
Related terms: oligospermy
tonelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tonelike
form: most tonelike
Etymology: From tone + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a tone.
musiclike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more musiclike
form: most musiclike
Etymology: From music + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of music.
pawings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pawing
rollings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rolling
suspicioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suspicion
suspicioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suspicion
watchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watching
mouthings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouthing
pistoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From piston + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of piston
pistoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From piston + -ed.
Senses: examples: a six-pistoned trombone
glosses: Having (a particular kind or number of) pistons.
locoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From loco + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The most serious mistake in connection with loco disease is made in allowing locoed sheep to remain with the rest of the band. The loco habit is apparently learned by imitation of locoed animals, and so long as locoed sheep are allowed to remain with other sheep the loco habit rapidly spreads.
ref: 1919, “Diseases of Sheep”, in Farmer's Cyclopedia: Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats, cats, dogs, page 615:
glosses: Intoxicated by eating locoweed.
raw_tags: of livestock
locoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From loco + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of loco
meetcha
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈmiːt͡ʃə/
Etymology: meet + -cha
Senses: examples: text: Pleased to meetcha.
glosses: meet you
bad humour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad humours
form: bad humor
Senses: glosses: irritability or surliness
glosses: a state of irritability or surliness
Synonyms: ill humour
bad mood
bad temper
crankiness
hump
spleen
bad humor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad humors
Senses: glosses: US spelling of bad humour.
good humour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good humours
form: good humor
form: good-humor
form: good-humour
Senses: examples: text: He said it in good humour.
glosses: A pleasant disposition or mood.
Related terms: good-humoured
good-humouredly
Stesichoran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Stesichoran
form: most Stesichoran
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Ancient Greek poet Stesichorus.
Herodotan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Herodotan
form: most Herodotan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Herodotean.
good humor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good humors
Senses: examples: text: No one could have helped being won by his smile and the truly royal manner in which he saluted the crowd in passing when he was in good humor [translating bonne humeur].
ref: 1866, Édouard [René de] Laboulaye, “King Bizarre and Prince Charming; or, The Art of Governing Men. A Tale of All Nations.”, in Mary L[ouise] Booth, transl., Laboulaye’s Fairy Book. Fairy Tales of All Nations., New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], section I (King Bizarre and Prince Charming), pages 164–165:
glosses: US spelling of good humour.
good-humouredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more good-humouredly
form: most good-humouredly
form: goodhumouredly
form: good-humoredly
form: goodhumoredly
Etymology: From good-humoured + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He had quite the sense that she knew things he didn't, and though this was a concession that, in general, he found not easy to make to women, he made it now as good-humouredly as if it lifted a burden.
ref: 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Challenger slapped his colleague good-humouredly upon the shoulder.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Time of Death”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 55:
text: The Glaswegians bore good-humouredly the mishaps which occasionally disrupted the services during the first month.
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: The Glasgow debacle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 66:
glosses: In an amiable, cheerful, or pleasant manner.
goodhumouredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more goodhumouredly
form: most goodhumouredly
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of good-humouredly.
machiolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Circular in form, loftier, and of greater dimensions than the other square towers flanking the sides of the Castle, it presented an exceedingly picturesque appearance, with its embattled and machiolated summit, its narrow slits of windows[…]
ref: 1867, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Spendthrift, page 62:
glosses: Rare spelling of machicolated.
everpresent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more everpresent
form: most everpresent
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ever-present.
opensource
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of open-source.
oldfashioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oldfashioned
form: most oldfashioned
Senses: examples: text: She began to feel that there was a great throbbing arclighted world somewhere outside and that only living in Georgetown where everything was so poky and oldfashioned, and Mommer and Popper were so poky and oldfashioned, kept her from breaking into it.
ref: 2000, John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel, page 119:
glosses: Rare form of old-fashioned.
blót
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bloʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: bloat
Forms: form: blóts
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old Norse blót.
Senses: examples: text: These show us the importance of verbal activity at a blót, specifically verbal activity aimed at producing a result, presumably by means of intervention by the deities.
ref: 2001, John Lindow, Handbook of Norse Mythology, ABC-CLIO, page 35:
text: In the past, before Christianity spread across Europe, the average blót would generally have involved some sort of animal sacrifice.
ref: 2005, Galina Krasskova, Exploring the Northern Tradition: A Guide to the Gods, Lore, Rites, and Celebrations from the Norse, German, and Anglo-Saxon Traditions, Career Press, page 151:
text: He soon comes back to land, makes a largely undescribed blót sacrifice to Óðinn, and receives confirmation of his god's approval in the flight of two cawing ravens.
ref: 2006, Anders Andrén, Kristina Jennbert, Catharina Raudvere, Old Norse Religion in Long-term Perspectives: Origins, Changes, and Interactions : an International Conference in Lund, Sweden, June 3-7, 2004, Nordic Academic Press, page 75:
text: Do you know how to blót? / Do you know how to slaughter?
ref: 2009, The Ásatrú Edda: Sacred Lore of the North, The Norroena Society, page 5
glosses: A Norse (and modern Heathen) ceremonial offering.
wikipedia: Carl Larsson
Midvinterblot
astacology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This view was ably summarised by Edgerton et al. (2004) who stated that such an “extreme emphasis on A. astaci has created inertia in European astacology, which has curtailed researchers, state fish-disease diagnosticians, and resource managers from fully assessing and considering the existence of other serious pathogens of freshwater crayfish and the ensuing consequences.
ref: 2016, Matt Longshaw, editor, Biology and Ecology of Crayfish:
glosses: The study of crayfish (Astacoidea).
Derived terms: astacological
Related terms: astacologist
astacologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astacologists
Etymology: From astacology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who practices astacology.
anandamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anandamide
astacological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astacology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to astacology.
astacologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astacologist
wimmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wimmin
Senses: examples: text: "But women," I suggested, when he had finished proclaiming booze the sole end of existence.
 "Wimmen!" He thumped his pot upon the bar and orated eloquently. "Wimmen is a thing my edication 'as learnt me t' let alone."
ref: 1903, Jack London, The People of the Abyss:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of women.
nimwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nimwits
Senses: glosses: A dimwit.
damndest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of damnedest.
nimwits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nimwit
torchlit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From torch + lit.
Senses: examples: a torchlit procession
synonyms: torchlighted
glosses: Lit by one or more torches.
gunsmoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gun + smoke.
Senses: examples: text: You can almost smell the horses, the high chapparal ^([sic]), the gunsmoke.
ref: 1990 April 14, Elizabeth Pincus, “Hot Blue Steel”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
text: A cloud of gunsmoke, well over a mile distant, indicated the presence of a battery of the huge cannons. After the wind blew the cloud away, he could spot the actual guns themselves.
ref: 2001, Eric Flint, David Drake, Destiny's Shield:
glosses: Smoke produced by the firing of a gun.
committally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more committally
form: most committally
Etymology: From committal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is even a convention in some quarters (which I shall not follow) to use "I will do x" as an intentive and "I shall do x" as an indicative; or at any rate, less committally, "I will" where there is, as Fowler's Modern English Usage puts it, "an implication of intention, volition, or choice".
ref: 1987, Robert Dunn, The Possibility of Weakness of Will, page 67:
glosses: In a committal manner.
semidark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + dark.
Senses: examples: text: We squinted around in the semidark.
glosses: semidarkness
semidark
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + dark.
Senses: examples: a semidark room
glosses: Moderately dark.
p'r'aps
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Contraction of perhaps.
highbacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From high + backed.
Senses: examples: text: A man resembling the baron sat in a highbacked chair. His long legs stretched out, and a cane rested against the side of the chair.
ref: 2007, Patricia Grasso, Tempting the Prince, page 18:
glosses: Having a high back.
longstemmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: long-stemmed
Etymology: From long + stemmed.
Senses: examples: text: He began to charge a longstemmed pipe busily and in silence, then, pausing with his thumb on the orifice of the bowl, looked again at me significantly.
ref: 2009, James Hamilton, Life and Art: The Creative Synthesis in Literature, page 70:
glosses: Having a long stem.
insincerities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insincerity
offwhite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of off-white.
offduty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of off duty.
tonguetied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tonguetied
form: most tonguetied
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tongue-tied.
bedstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedstands
Etymology: From bed + stand.
Senses: glosses: nightstand
nulla nullas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nulla nulla
bedstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedstand
moonglow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moon + glow.
Senses: examples: text: Her back arched, and in the moonglow she looked like a pagan offering, mysterious, delectable, irresistible.
ref: 1994, Susan Wiggs, Circle in the Water, page 221:
glosses: moonlight
soulsearching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soulsearching
form: most soulsearching
Senses: examples: text: Whatever one thinks of [Frederick Campbell] Crews's indictment, the issues he raises represent important challenges to psychoanalysis and should encourage serious, even soulsearching, thought on the part of psychoanalytic adherents.
ref: 1988 May, Morris N. Eagle, “Is Psychoanalysis a Fraudulent Doctrine?”, in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, volume 33, number 5, →DOI, abstract, page 404:
text: After a miscarriage, we went through considerable soulsearching and lifestyle changes.
ref: 1993 August, Lilibeth MacLean, “Theater Life”, in New Beginnings:
glosses: Alternative form of soul-searching.
soulsearching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There is a parallel between President Kennedy's election battlecry—"let's get America moving again"—and the soulsearching going on in Britain.
ref: 1961, “Soulsearching in Britain”, in International Management, volume 16, number 2, page 3:
text: To the militarists foreign conquest offered a solution to several problems at once: how to expand markets for Japanese products, how to guarantee sources of raw materials, how to restore national self-confidence at a moment of soulsearching, and how to consolidate political power at home.
ref: 1992, H[enry] W[illiam] Brands, “The Bottom Line: 1927–1934”, in Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144:
text: Yet there is little hint in this set of essays (formed mainly of English Catholic voices, though also receiving North American and European contributions) of the trauma or soulsearching with regard to the idea of vocation that this decline has induced in certain other contexts.
ref: 2015 July, Sam Hole, “The Disciples' Call: Theologies of Vocation from Scripture to the Present Day”, in Anglican Theological Review, volume 97, number 3:
glosses: Alternative form of soul-searching.
soulsearching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soulsearch
deeprooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deeprooted
form: most deeprooted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deep-rooted.
sidewhiskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of side whiskers.
stableyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stableyards
Etymology: From stable + yard.
Senses: examples: text: Mobile starting-gates and horse-boxes stand parked along the kerbs, and behind every large house, it seems, is a red brick stableyard, gleaming with fresh black-and-white paint and polished steel.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164:
glosses: A yard connecting horses' stables.
stableyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stableyard
kneehigh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kneehighs
Senses: examples: text: She was the innocent schoolgirl, all buttoned up in ribbons and bows. All that was missing was the white kneehighs and black patent, leather shoes.
ref: 2007, Elaine Balliet, Blue, page 212:
glosses: Alternative form of knee-high.
kneehighs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kneehigh
homecooked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From home + cooked.
Senses: examples: text: Dish out lots of homecooked foods like pot roast, meat loaf, Maine beans and franks, homestyle fries, fish chowder and fresh-baked breads[…]
ref: 1994, Vermont Life, volumes 49-50, page 7:
glosses: Cooked or prepared in a traditional manner as would be done at home.
candlewax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From candle + wax.
Senses: examples: text: Heat energy is being transferred from the heated hot plate to the saucepan and then to the candlewax where it causes the wax to liquify — to melt.
ref: 1975, J. W. George Ivany, Today's Science, page 309:
glosses: The wax of a candle.
defiances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defiance
earbob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earbobs
Etymology: From ear + bob.
Senses: glosses: earring
earbobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earbob
sidestreet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidestreets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of side street.
sidestreets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidestreet
postchaise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postchaises
Senses: examples: text: Where a landscape-gardener charges five guineas a day, and takes with him either a draughtsman or valet, or both, he is entitled to travel in a postchaise[…]
ref: 1839, The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement:
glosses: Alternative form of post chaise.
postchaises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postchaise
tearstreaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tearstreaked
form: most tearstreaked
Etymology: From tear + streaked.
Senses: glosses: streaked with tears
sweatstained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweatstained
form: most sweatstained
Etymology: From sweat + stained.
Senses: glosses: stained with sweat
sweatsoaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweatsoaked
form: most sweatsoaked
Etymology: From sweat + soaked.
Senses: glosses: soaked with sweat
fairminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fairminded
form: most fairminded
Etymology: From fair + minded.
Senses: examples: text: Look at it this way: when a country like Norway, which has a foreign policy that is as fairminded and morally commendable as any other country, stubbornly refuses to obey the policies recommended by the international whaling regime, we can be pretty sure that the assumption of fairminded preferences does not hold universally.
ref: 2003, Scott Barrett, Environment and Statecraft : The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fair-minded.
Derived terms: fairmindedly
fairmindedness
slackjawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slackjawed
form: most slackjawed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slack-jawed.
rainwashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rainwashed
form: most rainwashed
Etymology: From rain + washed.
Senses: examples: the rainwashed streets
glosses: washed by the rain
floodtide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floodtides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flood tide.
floodtides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floodtide
penny wise, pound foolish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of penny wise and pound foolish.
omnivoropteryx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omnivoropteryges
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any primitive bird of the genus Omnivoropteryx
chowki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chowkis
form: chauki
form: chawki
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चौकी (caukī).
Senses: glosses: The post of a watchman or policeman (chaukidar).
glosses: A custom house.
glosses: A kind of short stool or bench.
Related terms: chowk
chowkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chowki
cookfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookfires
Etymology: From cook + fire.
Senses: examples: text: “Next evening when he was picking up buffalo chips to make a cookfire, that ram got him.
ref: 1978 December 16, John Fischer, “Henry Quiller's Sheep”, in The New York Times:
text: "Well, we do need to keep some of it on hand, donchaknow. For fueling the cookfires and all that rot."
ref: 2005, Harry Turtledove, Alternate Generals III, unnumbered page:
glosses: A fire used for cooking food.
cookfires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cookfire
highminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more highminded
form: most highminded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high-minded.
declasse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more declasse
form: most declasse
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of déclassé.
ballicatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballicatters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ballicater.
pertussoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pertussis + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of whooping cough
saddlehorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddlehorns
Etymology: From saddle + horn.
Senses: glosses: A protruding part of a saddle to which a rope can be tied to control the neck of the animal.
saddlehorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddlehorn
take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
backtrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backtrails
Etymology: From back + trail.
Senses: examples: text: The path of renunciation has many sideroads. It is all the more tragic that the radiant Christina Light becomes so benighted in defeat as to pursue moral backtrails out of a bored self-abandon.
ref: 1975, Dale E. Peterson, The clement vision: poetic realism in Turgenev and James, page 100:
glosses: A small path or trail that is not used regularly.
examples: text: They waited there for some five minutes when, suddenly, on the backtrail, perhaps a half mile or more behind them, there were three flashes, sudden and bright, one after the other, brilliant in the cold, pure air.
ref: 2009, John Norman, The King, page 306:
text: When it was light enough we climbed a mesa, winding around the far side before coming up to watch our backtrail.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 41:
glosses: The path over which one has already traveled.
backtrail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backtrails
form: backtrailing
form: backtrailed
form: backtrailed
Etymology: From back + trail.
Senses: examples: text: If they didn't, they would then have to backtrail to try to pick it up
ref: 1990, Wesley Ellis, Lone Star 97/bounty, →ISBN:
text: He reshouldered his rifle. "Want to backtrail with me?"
ref: 1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 50:
text: I hoped Carson knew where he was going, because there was no room to backtrail here.
ref: 2013, Connie Willis, Uncharted Territory, →ISBN:
glosses: To backtrack along a trail.
backtrails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backtrail
backtrails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backtrail
mindnumbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mindnumbing
form: most mindnumbing
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mind-numbing.
unhiked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hiked.
Senses: examples: text: I lament that doing the trail in such a way means I often have little unhiked gaps to fill in, and that's what I'm doing on this day.
ref: 2000 June, Backpacker, volume 28, number 187, page 147:
glosses: Not having been hiked.
unbartered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bartered.
Senses: glosses: Not bartered.
gaptoothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gap-toothed.
midsectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From midsection + -al or mid- + sectional.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a midsection.