cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scale cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scale cubes
Etymology: From scale + cube.
Senses: topics: arts
geography
geology
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
photography
glosses: A reference cube of standard, unitary size, normally one centimetre long, or one inch long for older American versions, placed beside a rock or meteorite sample to show scale and orientation during photography. Four sides of the cube are marked N, S, E, and W, respectively, to indicate the cardinal points of the compass, and the other two sides are marked T and B, for top and bottom.
scale cubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scale cube
hummings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌmɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of humming
whistleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whistleable
form: most whistleable
form: whistlable
Etymology: From whistle + -able.
Senses: examples: a whistleable tune
glosses: Capable of being whistled.
whistlable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whistlable
form: most whistlable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whistleable.
unhummable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhummable
form: most unhummable
Etymology: From un- + hummable.
Senses: examples: text: A dull movie that is also tasteless, with a drunk scene, a seduction scene, Reynolds shaking her behind while Crosby and a nun watch, plus several songs that are unhummable, unwhistleable, and unmemorable.
ref: 1987, Jay Robert Nash, Stanley Ralph Ross, The Motion Picture Guide, volume 7, page 2753:
glosses: That cannot be hummed.
Shrove Sundays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shrove Sunday
whaleboning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whalebonings
Etymology: From whalebone + -ing.
Senses: glosses: reinforcement made from whalebone, as in a corset
whalebonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whaleboning
underrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underrobes
Etymology: From under + robe.
Senses: examples: text: But the next item, the underrobe, isn't really an undergarment at all. When a geisha performs a dance, or sometimes even when she walks along the street, she might raise the hem of her kimono in her left hand to keep it out of the way. This has the effect of exposing the underrobe below the knees; so, you see, the pattern and fabric of the underrobe must be coordinated with the kimono.
ref: 1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Random House, →ISBN:
text: The late-afternoon sun lit the expensive, brocaded silk of her overrobe and the almost equally expensive, fine-woven linen underrobe beneath it.
ref: 2005, Hilari Bell, Fall of a Kingdom, Simon Pulse, published 2003, →ISBN, pages 8–9:
text: Her fingers gathered up the clothing almost mechanically, stepping into silk trousers, tying the long strings of undergarments around her torso, wrapping over them first a cinnamon-colored underrobe, then one in rust, and over them both a heavy brocade garment in green and gold and black, hanging in swaying folds to trail across the floor behind her.
ref: 2012, Kari Sperring, The Grass King's Concubine, DAW Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A robe designed to be worn under other clothing, particularly another robe.
underrobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underrobe
wagger-pagger-baggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wagger-pagger-bagger
confiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confiner
preconcerting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preconcert
red ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red balls
Etymology: * ("high-profile high-priority" sense) From a routing system on the Santa Fe Railroad in the early 1900s. Fast freight trains which were to receive priority routing were marked with placards depicting a red disc, and were called "red ball" trains.
Senses: examples: text: A police-involved shooting is by definition a red ball and, by definition, a red ball requires every warm body.
ref: 1991, David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, →OL:
text: The only exception to that edict was the Eighth, the French Quarter district, since any homicide at the core of the tourist area was such a potential red ball.
ref: 2005, Eileen Dreyer, Sinners and Saints, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A high-profile high-priority case which draws political or media attention.
examples: text: Australia is scheduled to play five red ball matches in two weeks.
text: Or are the red-ball and white-ball games diverging to the extent that it is possible to envisage a future where they are, to all intents and purposes, different sports?
ref: 2017 January 28, Jonathan Liew, “To cling together or drift apart? Red and white-ball cricket facing a divided future”, in The Daily Telegraph, London:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
journalism
lifestyle
media
sports
glosses: First-class cricket, as distinct from limited overs cricket (or "white ball". Mainly used to play tests.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, ball.
red ball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: * ("high-profile high-priority" sense) From a routing system on the Santa Fe Railroad in the early 1900s. Fast freight trains which were to receive priority routing were marked with placards depicting a red disc, and were called "red ball" trains.
Senses: examples: text: Perishable freight, carloads of package freight or merchandise, oils, etc., are designated as Red Ball freight.
ref: 1905 August 18, “The Frisco System of Handling Time Freight”, in The Railroad Gazette, volume 39, number 7, page 158:
text: A special red ball card, which is a familiar sight to every employe—the large red ball on the white card—is attached to every car of red ball freight, one on each side, by the agent at the red ball billing station. A special red ball envelope accompanies each car to its destination.
ref: 1910 August, Chalmers L. Pancoast, “Red Ball System of Handling Freight”, in Santa Fe Employes' Magazine, volume 4, number 9, page 28:
text: The crack passenger trains average fifty-four miles an hour over that stretch, the "red ball" freights average twenty-seven, and the way freights eighteen miles an hour.
ref: 1939 November, “Keeping the Iron Horse on Time”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 72, number 5, →ISSN, page 157A:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Of or related to priority freight or the trains that carry it.
Zarathushtra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌzæ.ɹəˈθu(ː).ʃtɹə/
Etymology: Transliteration of Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬀 (zaraθuštra). Doublet of Zoroaster.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zarathustra.
gravings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪvɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of graving
pirots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pirot
Semele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛməli/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σεμέλη (Semélē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The mother of Dionysus.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 86 Semele, a main belt asteroid.
Sibilia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sibilias
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Sibilia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
underleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underlegs
Etymology: From under- + leg.
Senses: examples: the white underleg of a fox
glosses: The lower part of a leg.
Soldano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tanais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The river Don, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia.
glosses: An ancient city that, in antiquity, lay in the Don delta.
swimfin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swimfins
Etymology: From swim + fin.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swim fin.
swim fins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swim fin
dozenalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dozenalists
Etymology: From dozenal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Every dozenalist eventually encounters the question of new numerals~symbology. […] Many dozenalists have devised their own set of numerals, or they adopt the symbols prevalent in their dozenal society.
ref: 2010 (written 11↋6), The Duodecimal Bulletin, volume 58 (written 4χ), number 2, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2025, pages 3, 9:
glosses: A person who believes that the duodecimal system should be used instead of the decimal.
Tosto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tostos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Tosto.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Tully
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A place name:
A town in the Cassowary Coast Region, northern Queensland, Australia, named after the Tully River.
glosses: A place name:
A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.
glosses: A place name:
A village in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.
glosses: A place name:
A town and village therein, in Onondaga County, New York, United States.
glosses: A place name:
Two townships in Ohio, United States, in Marion County and Van Wert County.
glosses: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Related terms: Tullian
Vitaliano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vitalianos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Vitaliano.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
whisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whist
cuckleburr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckleburrs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cocklebur.
cucklebur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckleburs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cocklebur.
cuckleburrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuckleburr
cuckleburs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cucklebur
cockleburr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockleburrs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cocklebur.
cockleburrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockleburr
reconstructionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconstructionists
Etymology: From reconstruction + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who attempts to reestablish an ancient or historic religion in the modern era.
examples: text: As with biomechanics, the majority of traffic accident reconstructionists work primarily for insurance industry.
ref: 2005, Larry S. Nordhoff, Motor Vehicle Collision Injuries, page 34:
glosses: One who builds a reconstruction of a scene or event.
undergrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of undergrow
undergrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undergrows
form: undergrowing
form: undergrew
form: undergrown
Etymology: From under- + grow.
Senses: glosses: To grow to an inferior, or less than the usual, size or height.
examples: text: Descending the side of the levee, he penetrated the rank density of weeds and willows that undergrew the trees until the river's edge, shouting Victor's name.
ref: 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Strictly Business:
glosses: To grow underneath.
undergrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undergrow
undergrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undergrow
reconstructionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconstructionist
fundamentalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundamentalism
barned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barn
embarn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embarns
form: embarning
form: embarned
form: embarned
Etymology: From em- + barn.
Senses: examples: text: The harvest this year was very late, but having beautiful weather for it, we accomplished it in quick time; I began to reap on the 4th Sept. and finished 109 acres of wheat, together with other grain, which was embarned in 24 days.
ref: 1836, John Mockett, Mockett's Journal, page 69:
glosses: To lay up in a barn.
embarned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embarn
embarning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embarn
embarns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embarn
ring systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring system
ecomusicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecomusicologies
Etymology: From eco- + musicology.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The study of music, culture, and nature, related to ecology and the natural environment. A mixture of the fields of ecocriticism and musicology.
ecomusicologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecomusicology
redemising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redemise
redemised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redemise
take a ride to Tyburn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a ride to Tyburn
form: taking a ride to Tyburn
form: took a ride to Tyburn
form: taken a ride to Tyburn
Etymology: The phrase originated from Tyburn, an ancient village outside London, where from at least 1330 to the 18th century public executions took place. Prisoners would typically be led from the city of London in an open cart to the infamous "Tyburn Tree", a triple gallows, under which a noose would be placed around their neck and the cart, in which they had been transported to the site, would be driven away, causing them to strangle to death.
Senses: examples: text: He took a ride to Tyburn for stealing that purse.
synonyms: word: dance the Tyburn jig
word: dance on a rope
word: dance on nothing
word: dance the hempen jig
word: dance the Tyburn jig
word: dance upon nothing
word: dangle
word: hang
word: ride a horse foaled by an acorn
word: stretch hemp
word: string up
word: swing
word: take a ride to Tyburn
word: trine
word: truss
word: wag hemp
glosses: To be executed.
vitriolating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vitriolate
allonged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of allonge
allonging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of allonge
bolge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolgia
uncarbonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + carbonized.
Senses: glosses: Not carbonized.
warluck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warlucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of warlock.
warlucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warluck
LEAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Eucalyptus cloud, AppScale cloud computing framework, and Python programming language.
phonorecording
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonorecordings
Etymology: From phono- + recording.
Senses: glosses: A recording of sound or music.
Related terms: phonorecord
phonorecordings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonorecording
cloisterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cloister + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a cloister.
meanling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meanlings
Etymology: From mean + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: At them at once! and bring them to their senses. What ? recreants, cowards, meanlings, to refuse A fair return to whom you owe your shoes! Downcast, ashamed, they all before me creep, And do my bidding like a flock of sheep.
ref: 1876, Joseph Ellis, Cæsar in Egypt, Costanza, and other poems:
text: I was not burned at the stake like a meanling. And I did not, as prelude to my death, say the cute things that are attributed to me.
ref: 1982, Isaac Asimov, Alice Laurance, Speculations:
glosses: One who is mean or common; a commoner.
meanlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meanling.
syndicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syndick
latherable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more latherable
form: most latherable
Etymology: From lather + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Today the Navy is using this new latherable salt water "soapless soap" in millions of pounds.
ref: 1943, Steel, volume 113, page 91:
glosses: Capable of forming lather.
latherless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lather + -less.
Senses: examples: latherless shaving cream
glosses: Without lather.
astroship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astroships
Etymology: From astro- + ship.
Senses: examples: text: The astroships — as we have named the future space vehicles — will be much more comfortable than the Apollo cabins.
ref: 1969, Illustrated weekly of Pakistan, page 75:
text: But we'd need to coordinate our efforts with another astroship.
ref: 1999, Joseph Neil Schulman, Brad Linaweaver, Profile in Silver: And Other Screenwritings, page 472:
text: If these are astroships from someplace besides our specific, physical universe, maybe they come from a place where our laws of physics do not apply, where there is no such thing as velocity/momentum.
ref: 2007, Kelly D. Bell, Visitors: A New Look at UFOs:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A spaceship; a starship.
astroships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astroship
ufologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ufological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Very briefly described, my approach is to take whatever is anomalous, paranormal, or extraordinary and first determine whether or not it appears to be ufologically related. Then I rely on my intuition.
ref: 2005, Mark Dorio, Ufology: a very short introduction, page 2:
text: Way back then, in that ufologically more innocent era, when flying saucers seen in the sky and perhaps on the ground were essentially the whole story, I could not have known that numerous other cases of abduction would be reported […]
ref: 2007, Stanton T. Friedman, Kathleen Marden, Captured!, page viii:
glosses: In terms of ufology.
foreseest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: foresee + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of foresee
foreseeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: foresee + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foresee
archeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: arch + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arch
gourdfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gourdful
gourdsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gourdful
ruralizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruralization
nonurbanized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + urbanized.
Senses: glosses: Not urbanized.
slantiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slanty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being slanty.
scummered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scummer
scummering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scummer
propyleneglycol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propyleneglycols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of propylene glycol.
hurrah's nest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoorah's nest
Senses: examples: text: A perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen.
ref: 1869, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Folks:
text: "What's all this hurrah's-nest for'ard?" said Dan, pointing to a wild tangle of spare oars and dory-roding, all matted together by the hand of inexperience.
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
glosses: pandemonium (state of chaos and confusion).
cyberextortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + extortion.
Senses: glosses: Extortion by means of the Internet, such as with ransomware.
Derived terms: cyberextortionist
Related terms: cyberattack
cybercurrency
cyberdefense
cyberpower
cybersafety
cybersecurity
cyberspace
cyberterrorism
cyberwar
cyberwarfare
dishumor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishumors
Etymology: From dis- + humor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dishumour.
dishumor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dishumors
form: dishumoring
form: dishumored
form: dishumored
Etymology: From dis- + humor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dishumour.
dishumors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishumor
Mazatecan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mazatecan
form: most Mazatecan
Etymology: From Mazatec + -an.
Senses: examples: Mazatecan languages
glosses: Of or relating to the Mazatec people.
Mazatecan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mazatecans
Etymology: From Mazatec + -an.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Mazatec people.
creaky voice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: vocal fry
glosses: A special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together.
creaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krēkə
ipa: /kɹiːkə/
ipa: /kɹikɚ/
ipa: /kɹɪkɚ/
rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ)
homophone: creeker
Forms: form: creakers
Etymology: From creak + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] the bed was a creaker, and the kitchen was inhabited by a large colony of busy roaches […]
ref: 2004, Jack Nichols, The Tomcat Chronicles, page 186:
glosses: One who, or that which, creaks.
creaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krēkə
ipa: /kɹiːkə/
ipa: /kɹikɚ/
ipa: /kɹɪkɚ/
rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ)
homophone: creeker
Forms: form: creakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of krieker (“pectoral sandpiper”).
creakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creaker
snottered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snotter
snottering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snotter
snotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snotter
snotters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snotter
Mazatecans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mazatecan
backjump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backjumps
Etymology: From back + jump.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A jump from one level of an algorithm to another, used in backjumping.
backjumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backjump
semiproven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + proven.
Senses: examples: unproven or semiproven technologies
glosses: proven to a certain extent
nonadmissible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + admissible.
Senses: glosses: Not to be admitted; inadmissible.
bracketologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bracketologists
Etymology: From bracketology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in bracketology.
bracketologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bracketologist
carotidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carotid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the carotid arteries.
cosmonautical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cosmonaut + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cosmonautics.
Related terms: cosmonaut
cosmonautic
cosmonautics
dwyle flunking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dwile flonking.
fearscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fearscapes
Etymology: From fear + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: I escape into your escape / Into our very favorite fearscape
ref: 1992, Tori Amos, “Mother”, in Little Earthquakes:
text: Pidduck has observed the recurrent contemporary tendency to represent sexuality through the metaphor of war - from government reports, with titles such as The War against Women, to feminist texts on sexuality, with titles such as The War Zone - as something innately violent that threatens to undermine the social order and that evokes an apocalyptic fearscape (Pidduck 1994, 5).
ref: 1997, Lise Gotell, “Shaping Butler: The New Politics of Anti-Pornography”, in Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, editors, Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 56:
text: "It's a buddy comedy where what kids are afraid of turns out to be real, and our guys have to go into these fearscapes and battle all these monsters," said McG, who is eyeing a November start for the production.
ref: 2007 February 8, Borys Kit, “McG relocates Wonderland to Warner Bros.”, in The Hollywood Reporter:
glosses: A place or general atmosphere of fear.
fearscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fearscape
Britlyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Modern coinage from Brittany/Britney and names ending in Lyn.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
sustainabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sustainability
dishumored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dishumor
dishumoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dishumor
goadingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more goadingly
form: most goadingly
Etymology: From goading + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to goad or incite.
unobjectifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + objectifying.
Senses: glosses: Not objectifying.
subtradition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtraditions
Etymology: From sub- + tradition.
Senses: glosses: A tradition making up part of a larger tradition.
subtraditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtradition
Bristle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪs.ɫ/
Senses: examples: text: Correct Way to Speak Bristol.
ref: 1970, Krek Waiter, Peak Bristle:
glosses: Bristol, England (in imitation of the local dialect)
disimproving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disimprove
disimproves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disimprove
disimproved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disimprove
capturers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capturer
strayling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straylings
Etymology: From stray + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: […] yet, seeing it in its true light, manages to hold herself aloof from it; unconsciously conveying to one meeting her for the first time the impression that she was in San Pasqual on her own sufferance—a sort of strayling from another world who had picked upon the lonely little desert town as the scene of her sphere of action for something of the same reason that prompts other people to collect postage stamps or rare butterflies.
ref: 2008, Peter B. Kyne, The Long Chance:
glosses: A little waif or stray; a driftling.
straylings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strayling.
diddle for middle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of middle for diddle.
middle for diddle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: diddle for middle
Senses: topics: darts
games
glosses: The throw of a dart to decide who has first throw in a game darts: nearest the bullseye has first throw.
flags of convenience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flag of convenience
allopolyploidisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allopolyploidisations
Etymology: From allopolyploid + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of allopolyploidization.
allopolyploidization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allopolyploidizations
form: allopolyploidisation
Etymology: From allopolyploid + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of allopolyploid formation
Related terms: autopolyploidization
Broomhandle Mauser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Broomhandle Mausers
Etymology: From its distinctive wooden handle.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The Mauser C96 pistol.
Pugliesi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pugliesis
form: Pugliesies
Etymology: From Italian Pugliesi, from pugliese (“Apulian, Puglian”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian
Pugliesi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Pugliesi, from pugliese (“Apulian, Puglian”).
Senses: glosses: plural of Pugliese
Tosca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Toscas
Senses: glosses: A pear cultivar
XSD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of XML Schema Definition.
Servers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Server
cabining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cabin
relatednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relatedness
ancestorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ancestorships
Etymology: From ancestor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being an ancestor.
ancestorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancestorship
headlonging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of headlong
headlonged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of headlong
interallied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + allied.
Senses: examples: secure interallied communications
glosses: Between allied states.
sossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soss
sossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soss
aidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aid + -able.
Senses: examples: text: grant-aidable costs
glosses: Qualifying for financial aid.
examples: text: aidable hearing loss
glosses: Capable of being rectified with a hearing aid.
Derived terms: inaidable
unaidable
unentailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + entailed.
Senses: examples: an unentailed estate
glosses: Without an entail.
unentwined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + entwined.
Senses: glosses: Not entwined.
bass bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bass bins
Senses: examples: text: Backwards and then forwards, forwards and then backwards / Eezer is the geezer who loves to muscle in. / That's about the time the crowd all shout the name of Eezer / As he's kotchelled in the corner, laughing by the bass bin.
ref: 1992, The Shamen (band), Ebeneezer Goode (song)
glosses: A large speaker for bass reproduction; a woofer or subwoofer.
bass bins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bass bin
herying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of herye
elocuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of elocute
elocutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of elocute
elocuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of elocute
deepsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deepsome
form: most deepsome
Etymology: From deep + -some.
Senses: examples: text: This said; he dived the deepsome watery heaps; […]
ref: 1885, George Chapman, Works, page 334:
glosses: Characterised or marked by depth; deep
deerfold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deerfolds
Etymology: From Middle English *derfald, from Old English dēorfald (“an enclosure or cage for wild beasts, a deer-fold, a park, an enclosure for deer”), equivalent to deer + fold.
Senses: glosses: A fold or park for deer.
feoffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feoffed
form: most feoffed
Derived terms: unfeoffed
feoffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feoff
feoffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feoff
houndling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houndlings
Etymology: From hound + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Kidlings thus, and the goats I beheld, and the hound and the houndling, Alike in the make: wonder were not the greater and small I compar'd, Vainly, for Rome, magnificent Rome!
ref: 1840, The Gentleman's magazine, volume 169, page 406:
glosses: A small or young hound.
houndlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houndling.
cachaças
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cachaça
rins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rin
coalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coala
dinheiros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinheiro
lars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Formed within English as a plural form of lar, q.v.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lares.
lars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lar (“Etruscan title”).
shoppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopping
capoeiras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capoeira
elos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elo
dissolvingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dissolvingly
form: most dissolvingly
Etymology: From dissolving + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The drinks were in them dissolvingly, joiningly, now: […]
ref: 1952, Ernest Buckler, The Mountain and the Valley, page 307:
glosses: So as to dissolve or disappear gradually.
lerky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
Senses: examples: text: She raced wildly at lerky with the other young wild-cats of the Bottoms.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A variation of the kick the can game.
twi-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twi-minded
form: most twi-minded
form: twiminded
Etymology: From twi- (“double”) + minded.
Senses: examples: text: Stapledon refers to Star Maker as "twiminded" (SM 419) and speaks of his "twimindedness" (SM 420).
ref: 1975, Claremont Center for Process Studies, Process studies - Volumes 5-6 - Page 126:
text: And the final stanza: Meanwhile on him, her chief Expression, her great word of life, looks she; Twi-minded of him, as the waxing tree, Or dated leaf.
ref: 1997, John Hollander, The Work of Poetry:
text: Thus in assessing the occasion when he had shockingly burnt his hand the rear-gunner was twi-minded about it.
ref: 2009, Olaf Stapledon, Worlds of Wonder:
glosses: Double-minded; uncertain; doubtful.
Derived terms: twi-mindedness
twi-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twimindedness
Etymology: From twi-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Stapledon refers to Star Maker as "twiminded" (SM 419) and speaks of his "twimindedness" (SM 420).
ref: 1975, Claremont Center for Process Studies, Process studies - Volumes 5-6 - Page 126:
text: This research reveals the "twi-mindedness" that allowed Joyce to attack Irish nationalism and sectarianism and to break completely with Irish literary tradition while never entirely freeing himself from the traditions and feelings of his native Catholic culture.
ref: 2000, Willard Potts, Joyce and the Two Irelands:
text: This twi-mindedness at length gave rise to a new mode of creating.
ref: 2008, Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker:
text: Another example of twimindedness is worthy of slightly extended commentary "I noticed that the emotion gratified them, gave them some sort of pleasure, the way I saw it. [...]"
ref: 2011, J. Hillis Miller, The Conflagration of Community:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being twi-minded; double-mindedness.
twimindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From twiminded + -ness or twi- + mindedness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twi-mindedness.
tatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tatu
toas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toa
bonzos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonzo
mostardas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mostarda
tonfas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonfa
crioulos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crioulo
cumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cume
cicatrizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cicatrize
aldeias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldeia
rapaseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapaseeds
Etymology: From Latin rapa (“turnip”) + seed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rapeseed.
fazendas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fazenda
sobremesas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sobremesa
lemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leme
lemes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leme
milhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milha
friulanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friulano
jubas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juba
chocalhos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocalho
timbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timbo
barbeiros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barbeiro
tachism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tachisme
Etymology: From French tachisme, from tache (“stain”).
Senses: examples: text: This was particularly notable in early stages of impressionism—the 1866 Manet Affair for example—and later postimpressionism when tachism, pointillism, and cloisonism—as well as the term referring to the Italian impressionists, macchaioli—begin to create paintings where the surface overshadows the content (the sacrosanct subject of the work).
ref: 1992, Philippe Hamon, translated by Katia Sainson-Frank and Lisa Maguire, Expositions: Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-century France, University of California Press, page 146:
text: This breakdown is virtually complete in Art Informel, in the turmoil of tachism, and in similar tendencies in modern painting. And, as in tachism, where composition is left to chance, it is no longer possible to decide, in parallel cases, what is involved: a redundancy-free, qualitatively highest level of order or the lowest level of order (chaos).
ref: 1992, Rupert Riedl, “Schrödinger’s Negentropy Concept and Biology”, in Johann Götschl, editor, Erwin Schrödinger’s World View: The Dynamics of Knowledge and Reality, Springer, page 63:
text: By 1950, however, Tachism’s lyrical abstraction and the tragic pathos of l'art informel had taken precedence in Europe, prompting Bill to pursue the propagation of Concrete art overseas.
ref: 2017, Alexander Alberro, Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art, University of Chicago Press, page 22:
glosses: A French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
destage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destages
form: destaging
form: destaged
form: destaged
Etymology: From de- + stage.
Senses: examples: text: A root item of data is located, and then a working set of data is collected by identifying additional data in the cache that will be destaged to locations in the storage device adjacent to the root item of data.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To asynchronously write new or updated data from a cache or nonvolatile storage to a direct access storage device.
gods-fearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gods-fearing
form: most gods-fearing
Senses: examples: 2012, Gardner Dozois, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 13, Constable & Robinson Ltd, link
She shuddered fastidiously at the idea of being a Christian instead of a godsfearing Roman pagan and changed the subject
glosses: attentive and respectful of deities.
physiotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physiotherapy
oh my gods
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: oh my gods !
form: oh, gods
form: oh gods
form: gods
Senses: glosses: Said during shock or surprise.
Related terms: oh my God
oh my Goddess
godsdamn
masdars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masdar
sandling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandlings
Etymology: From Middle English sandeling, sandelynge, equivalent to sand + -ling.
Senses: glosses: sand eel
Mitsubishi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɪt.sʊˈbɪ.ʃi/
Forms: form: Mitsubishis
Etymology: From Japanese 三菱 (Mitsubishi).
Senses: examples: text: “I still marvel today at how those Toyotas and Nissans and Mitsubishis were able to cross the terrain that they did.” Away from the few paved roads in Afghanistan, vehicular travel is tortuous and perilous. The roads often appear to be no road at all.
ref: 2007, Nick Mills, Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle..., →ISBN, page 69:
text: Of course, it wasn't really a movie theater; […]. He vaguely recalled, with less acuity than a dream, watching an endless video of Saudi Arabian street racing on the big pull-down screen last night. […] He couldn't focus on anything except one hundred white Mitsubishis in a field. “You didn't throw up,” Kavinsky noted, from his perch two seats away. He held Ronan's phone. “Most people throw up after drinking that much.” Ronan didn't say the truth […]
ref: 2013, Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves, →ISBN:
glosses: A car manufactured by the Mitsubishi company (originally of Japan, but now with branches abroad).
examples: text: Lanphier gazed upward. A few thousand feet above them and about five miles off were faint outlines against a sky of blue. The faint outlines were interpreted to be six Zeros and two other Mitsubishis.
ref: 2003, A. Robert Hill, Stars of the Southern Cross, →ISBN, page 123:
text: If a plane was heard overhead, every man would kneel. An entire unit would vanish, as if it had never been. An enemy oculd be a meter from such a man and still not see him. So what chance did the Mitsubishis stand?
ref: 2013, Stuart Slade, The High Frontier, →ISBN, page 77:
text: At 10:05 am, having circled around, eight of the Mitsubishis were again approaching,this time from the port bow. They were trying to line the cruiser up to provide the maximum target for bombers, which was the opposite of the maximum target for torpedo aircraft.
ref: 2015, Jeffrey Cox, Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea, →ISBN:
glosses: A plane manufactured by this company, especially during the Second World War.
examples: text: “I don't know what kind of roll you guys are looking for, but the Mitsubishis are what's hot right now. Not too speedy, not too mellow, a nice high.
ref: 2006, Lynn Marie Smith, Rolling Away: My Agony with Ecstasy, →ISBN, page 26:
text: So how has Rule managed to go from gangsta rap's gun talk and bloody sagas of paranoia and revenge to loved-up ditties about nights rolling on Mitsubishis? Let's be honest, though. The E-influenced lyrics that have emerged […]
ref: 2011, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock, →ISBN, page 330:
text: It was a very rare E scene, everyone was doing — what were they called? — Mitsubishis, taking these pills called Mitsubishis. Very frenetic. I think it was on Wednesdays. I used to go to that regularly because I just thought he was an amazing DJ."
ref: 2014, Marc Weidenbaum, Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works, volume 2, →ISBN:
glosses: A (single dose of a) particular kind of ecstasy (drug).
shengnü
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shengnü
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sheng nu.
shengnu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shengnu
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sheng nu.
sheng nü
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheng nü
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sheng nu.
braconnières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braconnière
herye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heryeth
form: herying
form: heryed
form: heryed
form: herry
Etymology: From Middle English herien, heryen, from Old English herian (“to extol, praise, commend, help”), from Proto-Germanic *hazjaną (“to call, praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱens- (“to speak in a florid, solemn style, attest, witness”). Cognate with Middle High German haren (“to call, shout”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hazjan, “to praise”), Latin cēnseō (“inspect, appraise, estimate”, verb), Latin cēnsus (“estimation”); see censor, census.
Senses: examples: text: And Lord God, what herying is it to bilden thee a church of dead stones, and robben thy quicke churches of their bodilich liuelood?
ref: 1563, John Foxe, Fox's Book of Martyrs: The Acts and Monuments of the Church, volume 1, published 1851, page 563:
text: Thenot, now nis the time of merimake. / Nor Pan to herye, nor with love to playe.
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, “The Shepheardes Calender: November”, in Marie Loughlin, Sandra Bell, Patricia Brace, editors, The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose, published 2012, page 797:
glosses: To praise, to glorify, to honour.
Related terms: heryer
balistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balista
traineaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traineau
bandolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandolin
urubus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urubu
morros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morro
bridgetenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridgetender
bagres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bagre
zumbis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zumbi
rebites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebite