cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
semistratified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + stratified.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly stratified.
semistuporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + stuporous.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly stuporous.
Semiticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Semiticizes
form: Semiticizing
form: Semiticized
form: Semiticized
Etymology: From Semitic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Semitic.
Semiticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process or result of Semiticizing.
Semiticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Semiticize
Semiticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Semiticize
Semiticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Semiticize
Lithuanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lithuanic
form: most Lithuanic
Etymology: From Lithuania + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Lithuanian.
tarphycerid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarphycerids
Senses: glosses: Any member of the order Tarphycerida.
tarphycerids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarphycerid
loessland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loesslands
Etymology: From loess + land.
Senses: glosses: Terrain rich in loess.
loesslands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loessland
anonym.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of anonymous.
ignoramusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ignoramus
ignoramused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ignoramus
Mozart and Liszt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Brahms and Liszt
Senses: examples: text: Then I took them to the pub, where they both got Mozart and Liszt on gin-and-limes.
ref: 1979, Maureen Gregson, Hanover Street, page 48:
glosses: Pissed, drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
Lokapala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lokapalas
Etymology: From Sanskrit लोकपाल (lokapāla).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of a number of gods associated with specific cardinal and intercardinal directions.
Lokapalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lokapala
lonelihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lonely + -hood.
Senses: synonyms: word: ellingness
word: lonesomeness
word: ellingness
word: forlornness
word: lonelihood
word: loneliness
word: lonesomeness
word: monopathy
glosses: Loneliness.
half joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half jokes
form: half-joke
Senses: examples: text: "Well, let's wait. Perhaps the shooting will die out."
 "Maybe the soldiers and settlers will die out with it," I say, another half-joke.
ref: 2003, Suad Amiry, Earthquake in April, page 198:
glosses: A statement which contains elements of both jest and seriousness.
half joke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: half jokes
form: half joking
form: half joked
form: half joked
form: half-joke
Senses: examples: text: "You know why I think you're working with Cristos? Because once I was captured, once he got what he wanted, it would be far easier to pin it all on me, to kill my wife, dump her body where it would never be found, convince me and the world that I was crazy, no trial, just lock me up in a padded room until I succumbed to the cancer."
 "That sounds like a pretty good plan," Frank said, half joking.
ref: 2011, Richard Doetsch, Half-Past Dawn, page 278:
glosses: To make a half joke.
muxhe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muxhes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muxe.
muxhes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muxhe
Kalimantans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kalimantan
North Kalimantan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province of Indonesia.
ankle express
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the ankle express
Senses: examples: text: “[…] I had to use the ankle express to get here, ya see, because...”
“Don't tell me.” Seamus held up his hand and interrupted. “Your tractor's down again. Am I right?”
ref: 2012, Lord Reginald Quinton Leary, The Artful Lodgers:
synonyms: shanks' mare
glosses: One's own legs used for walking, instead of other forms of transport.
gentle lemur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentle lemurs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bamboo lemur.
synonyms: word: bamboo lemur
gentle lemurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentle lemur
bamboo lemur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bamboo lemurs
Senses: synonyms: gentle lemur
glosses: Any of the lemurs of the genus Hapalemur.
bamboo lemurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bamboo lemur
dwarf lemur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwarf lemurs
Senses: glosses: Any of the lemurs of the genus Cheirogaleus.
dwarf lemurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwarf lemur
zero prefix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero prefixes
Etymology: From zero + prefix.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: The digit 0 that begins all telephone numbers in the United Kingdom, which is substituted for the country code in the event of international calls.
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
synonyms: null prefix
coordinate_terms: zero suffix
glosses: A prefix which is a null morpheme, used in models of linguistic analysis to represent the lack of a prefix where one might otherwise be expected (for example, as one of several inflections that a stem can take, or the reduction of a historically vocalised prefix to the point that it is inaudible).
Related terms: english: representation of the zero prefix in linguistics
translation: representation of the zero prefix in linguistics
word: ∅-
zero prefixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zero prefix
lark bunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lark buntings
Senses: glosses: Calamospiza melanocorys, a medium-sized American sparrow native to central and western North America.
lark buntings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lark bunting
null prefix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: null prefixes
Etymology: From null + prefix.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
coordinate_terms: null suffix
glosses: Synonym of zero prefix.
synonyms: word: zero prefix
Related terms: english: representation of the null prefix
translation: representation of the null prefix
word: ∅-
null prefixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of null prefix
shared space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An urban planning approach that minimizes the segregation between pedestrians and other road users by removing features such as kerbs, road surface markings, and traffic lights.
standard theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The original Chomskyan model of generative grammar, based around two different representations of a sentence (deep structure and surface structure) linked by transformational grammar.
turn-based
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The most popular turn-based esport is the virtual card game Hearthstone.
ref: 2023 December 1, Evelynn Kersting, “GAMES AND TIME”, in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, page 225, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2025:
topics: games
gaming
antonyms: real-time
coordinate_terms: tick-based
glosses: In which players or characters take turns alternately, rather than acting simultaneously.
turns of foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn of foot
purebreed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purebreeds
Etymology: From pure + breed.
Senses: examples: text: There has been a strong movement for a number of years on the part of American poultry producers to pay progressively less attention to the traditional purebreeds.
ref: 2012, Douglas M. Considine, Foods and Food Production Encyclopedia, page 1561:
glosses: Synonym of thoroughbreed.
synonyms: word: thoroughbreed
purebreeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purebreed
Brahmoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brahmoists
Senses: glosses: A follower of Brahmoism.
Brahmoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brahmoist
Kangean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈka.ŋe.an/
Etymology: Borrowed from Kangean kangean or kangayan.
Senses: synonyms: Kangeanic
glosses: Of or pertaining to Kangeans.
Kangean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈka.ŋe.an/
Forms: form: Kangeans
Etymology: Borrowed from Kangean kangean or kangayan.
Senses: glosses: An Eastern Javanic person, whose forebears were from the Kangean
glosses: An inhabitant of Kangean
glosses: A member of an Eastern Javanic-speaking community
glosses: A Kangean chicken.
Kangean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈka.ŋe.an/
Etymology: Borrowed from Kangean kangean or kangayan.
Senses: synonyms: Kangean Island
glosses: An island of East Java, Indonesia.
synonyms: Kangean Archipelago
glosses: An archipelago of East Java, Indonesia consisting of Kangean Island and its surrounding islands.
synonyms: Kangeanic
Kangeanese
glosses: An Eastern Javanic language primarily spoken in Kangean Archipelago.
Derived terms: Kangean chicken
Kangeanese
Kangeanic
Kangeanish
Kangeans
non-Kangean
Kangeanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈka.ŋe.ɑˈniːz/
Etymology: From Kangean + -ese, from Dutch Kangeanisch or Kangeansch, from Kangean kangean or kangayan.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Kangean, its inhabitants, or their language or culture.
Kangeanese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈka.ŋe.ɑˈniːz/
Forms: form: Kangeanese
Etymology: From Kangean + -ese, from Dutch Kangeanisch or Kangeansch, from Kangean kangean or kangayan.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Kangean.
Related terms: Kangeanic
Kangeans
brothelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brothelly
form: most brothelly
Etymology: From brothel + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He led them on a tour: the ballroom with giant black chandelier, a dining room decorated with suits of armour and mounted deers'^([sic]) heads, more luxurious gaming parlours, a succession of brothelly bedrooms decorated with gilt and fur.
ref: 2015, Charlotte Grimshaw, Starlight Peninsula:
text: The actual brothelly bits are obviously much quieter and more private, most of the time. But nobody's forcing anyone to do anything they don't want to.
ref: 2016, Bardic Web Writers, Lineage:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a brothel.
cowardizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cowardize
cowardized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cowardize
niggerhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niggerhood
dwarfings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwarfing
dwarfmaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwarfmaid
Ejagham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ekoi (“ethnic group of Nigeria”).
synonyms: word: Ekoi
extra: ethnic group of Nigeria
ignorables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ignorable
chef's pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of saucier (“bowl-shaped pan”).
synonyms: word: saucier
extra: bowl-shaped pan
share economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: share economies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sharing economy.
synonyms: word: sharing economy
share economies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of share economy
shareables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shareable
upon a sixpence
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of on a sixpence.
synonyms: word: on a sixpence
tavern stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tavern stands
Senses: synonyms: stand
glosses: A roadside inn.
tavern stands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tavern stand
standardism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From standard + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The concept of standardism, when related to organizational theory, focuses heavily on the bureaucratic model of organization stressing the maximization of organizational stability, predictability, and reliability.
ref: 1972, John Joseph Koehn, A Study of the Interaction Patterns of the Formal and Informal School Organizations, page 70:
glosses: The practice of following or imposing standards.
Sudanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sudani
Bambuti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mbuti.
synonyms: word: Mbuti
Mbuti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Bambuti
glosses: One of several indigenous pygmy groups in the Congo region of Africa.
Iriomote tits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Iriomote tit
kirb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirbs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kerb.
kirbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirb
hot genocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot genocides
Senses: coordinate_terms: cold genocide
glosses: A fast-moving genocide taking the form of a sudden uprising.
hot genocides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot genocide
lossenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lossen + -ite, after Karl August Lossen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrated lead-iron sulpharsenate from the mines of Laurion in Attica.
wikipedia: Karl August Lossen
lostling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lostlings
Etymology: From lost + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A person who is lost or abandoned.
Related terms: foundling
lostlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lostling
lougheen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lougheens
Senses: glosses: A small lough.
Related terms: -een
lougheens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lougheen
loulu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loulus
Etymology: From Hawaiian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Any of various palms of the genus Pritchardia.
loulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loulu
brackishwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brackishwaters
Senses: examples: text: Recently, however, a system of fish and prawn farming has been developed in specially designed brackishwater ponds.
ref: 1991, V G Jhingran, Fish and fisheries of India, page 534:
text: Some 63.1 percent of brackishwater production consists of penaeid shrimps.
ref: 2006, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, State of World Aquaculture, page 10:
text: Hybrids between O. mossambicus and other less-tolerant strains also show relatively fast growth rates in brackishwater and full-strength seawater.
ref: 2006, Carl D Webster, Chhorn Lim, Tilapia: Biology, Culture, and Nutrition, page 371:
glosses: Alternative form of brackish water.
lucivee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucivees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lucifee.
lucivees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucivee
lucifee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucifees
form: lucivee
Senses: glosses: A lynx.
lucifees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucifee
luckful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luckful
form: most luckful
Etymology: From luck + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Here thrive the watery hordes which luckful sway, / And gaily sport the fishes, gold and grey.
ref: 1872, Israel Holdsworth, Literary Pic-nic: And Other Poems, page 132:
glosses: Lucky, fortunate.
Ludditism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Luddite + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Luddism.
synonyms: word: Luddism
lumberdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lumber + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The world of lumber and lumberjacks.
Lwo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Luo (“African ethnic group”).
Lwo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Luo (“Nilotic language”).
lyrichord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyrichords
form: lyrachord
Etymology: Blend of lyre + harpsichord.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A kind of vertical harpsichord.
lyrichords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyrichord
Lyncid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lyncids
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any meteor of a meteor shower appearing to originate in the constellation of Lynx.
Lyncids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lyncid
Lyonnesse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lyonesse.
Lyonesse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /liːɒˈnɛs/
Forms: form: Lyonnesse
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A kingdom mentioned in Arthurian legend, consisting of a long strand of land stretching from Land's End at the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England to what is now the Isles of Scilly in the Celtic Sea portion of the Atlantic Ocean. It was considered lost after being swallowed by the ocean in a single night.
zom-com
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zom-coms
Etymology: From the first three letters of zombie and comedy. Formed by analogy with romcom and sitcom.
Senses: examples: text: The gold standard of zom-com movies is still Shaun of the Dead, which had plenty to say about British middle class complacency while making us care deeply about its rather dim but endearing characters.
ref: 2019 June 14, Don Kaye, “The Dead Don’t Die Review: The Worst Bill Murray Zombie Movie”, in Den of Geek:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A movie genre combining elements of zombie horror and comedy.
examples: text: Edgar Wright famously popularized the zom-com, with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as best friends in the middle of a hilarious undead apocalypse.
ref: 2022 September 15, Brian Truitt, “Our 40 favorite movies of the past 40 years, from 'Back to the Future' to 'Get Out'”, in USA Today:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An individual movie of this genre.
Synonyms: zomedy
Related terms: rom-zom-com
Lysimachean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lysimachean
form: most Lysimachean
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Lysimachus (c. 360 BC – 281 BC), Thessalian officer and successor of Alexander the Great who in 306 BC became King of Thrace, Asia Minor, and Macedon.
zom-coms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zom-com
zomedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɑ.mə.di/
ipa: /ˈzɒ.mə.di/
Forms: form: zomedies
Etymology: Blend of zombie + comedy.
Senses: examples: text: If you don't believe there is such a thing, I urge you to go check out all the straight-to-DVD zomedies taking up valuable shelf space at your local indie video outlet.
ref: 2009 October 2, Marc Savlov, “Zombieland”, in Austin Chronicle:
glosses: Synonym of zom-com.
synonyms: word: zom-com
rom-zom-com
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rom-zom-coms
Etymology: Blend of romcom + zom-com.
Senses: examples: text: The British director emerged as a noteworthy filmmaker in 2004 with Shaun of the Dead, a "rom-zom-com" that chucked classic George A. Romero–style zombie movies in a blender with a comedy about a man-child who just needed to grow up.
ref: 2021 October 29, David Sims, “When a Film’s Message Doesn’t Match Its Spectacle”, in The Atlantic:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A romantic comedy movie featuring zombies.
Related terms: romcom
zom-com
rom-zom-coms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rom-zom-com
zomedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zomedy
zomdus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zomdu
half jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half joke
half jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of half joke
half joking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of half joke
half joked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of half joke
half-joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-jokes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half joke.
half-joke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: half-jokes
form: half-joking
form: half-joked
form: half-joked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half joke.
half-jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-joke
half-jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of half-joke
half-joking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of half-joke
half-joked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of half-joke
officesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of officeful
Cebuana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Bato, Leyte, Philippines.
hantkeninid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hantkeninids
Senses: examples: text: But la grande coupure occurred in two pulses about 350,000 years apart, just after the last hantkeninids found their eternal rest.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 82:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A member of the extinct family Hantkeninidae of planktonic foraminifera.
hantkeninids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hantkeninid
Lister's river snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lister's river snails
Senses: examples: text: Lister's river snail (Viviparus contectus)—a large freshwater species with a striped shell, which survives in lakes in Britain today—gives us a good idea of how its ancient relatives looked and lived.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 82:
glosses: A large freshwater snail of species Viviparus contectus.
cagesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cageful
like a cow on a flat rock
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: See like a cow pissing on a flat rock for other similar terms.
Senses: examples: text: "I better shake a leg before them clouds cut loose like a cow on a flat rock."
ref: 1974, Harold F. Warren, A Right Good People, page 87:
text: The rain alone could have been tolerated. The skies opened torrentially every morning, afternoon, evening and night. “Like a cow on a flat rock,” old Navy hands said. In between the sun shone and generated steam wherever water lay. Men's shirts were never dry save for one fleeting instant when the sun had finished evaporating rain water and sweat had not yet started to pour.
ref: 1983, James A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific, page 338:
text: "Get in here out of that."
"It's too late now," Winer said. "I don't see how I can get any wetter." […]
"It's fell a flood, ain't it?"
"Like a cow on a flat rock," Oliver agreed.
ref: 1999, William Gay, The Long Home, page 15:
text: I had to pee like a cow on a flat rock, but I wasn't getting down [off the top of the refrigerator] until she either put the demon [dog] outside or shot him with a tranquilizer dart. Even then, he'd have to twitch for five minutes before the coast could be considered clear.
ref: 2014, Linda Lael Miller, Deadly Gamble, page 145:
text: "At six [in the] morning, he's pissing like a cow on a flat rock, and at seven he's shitting like a wild elephant." "So what is the problem?" "He doesn't wake until eight!" "Ah!"
ref: 2019, Ian Wood, Merde on the Orient Express:
text: The other was holding her pants out of the way, because she was pissing like a cow on a flat rock, and the flat rock was Buck's WELCOME mat.
ref: 2010, Ben E. Terry, Dancing with the Devil, page 9:
qualifier: pissing; etc; pissing; etc
glosses: Heavily, copiously, with a great deluge.
raw_tags: of raining
Related terms: like a cow pissing on a flat rock
hell pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hell pigs
Senses: examples: text: As if hell pigs were not enough of a blight on the Oligocene landscape, Europe was home to two more groups of pig-like creatures.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 86:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any extinct pig-like mammal of the family †Entelodontidae; an entelodont.
hell pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hell pig
new agey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more new agey
form: most new agey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of New Agey.
new-agey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more new-agey
form: most new-agey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of New Agey.
new ager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new agers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of New Ager.
new agers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of new ager
Harralson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Russian desman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russian desmans
Senses: examples: text: The Russian desman, which can weigh half a kilogram, is by far the largest member of the mole family—large enough to be sought for its fur.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 88:
glosses: A semiaquatic mammal, Desmana moschata, native to eastern Russia.
Related terms: Russia musquash
tavernful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tavernfuls
Etymology: From tavern + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Why not give the proof? But not like Professor Patterson, of Philadelphia, who said: “Hahnemann contradicts Euclid’s axiom, ‘the whole is greater than the part,’ because he insists that parts are more than the whole;” and his class laughed at this like a tavernful of voters at a pettifogger’s jest.
ref: 1872 January, “Seven Notes on Hahnemann and his Absurdities”, in Rob[er]t J. McClatchey, editor, The Hahnemannian Monthly, volume VII, number 6, Philadelphia, Pa.: A. J. Tafel, page 252:
text: One night after having astonished a tavernful with his drinking powers he came upon a watchman peacefully slumbering in his box, and threw box and man over the wall of a burial ground.
ref: 1884 November 5, “Powerful Men. Some of the Feats Performed by Celebrated Characters.”, in The Daily Examiner, volume XXXIX, number 128, San Francisco, Calif.:
text: Humming the popular ballad we all had on the brain that winter (‘Tragic Johanna’, about a lass who took her broken heart to the banks of the Gudenæn: ‘deeper than Love ran that river, & deeper than Love did she drown’ – O, how little Johanna could set whole tavernfuls of grown men blubbing!), Herr Møller selected a loaf for me – not quite the best, I noted, but not the worst either, & wrapped it in a page of Berlingske Tidene.
ref: 2006, Liz Jensen, My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Later in the same act, references to war-activities, ‘documentary’ contributions, as it were, like radio talks on civil defence in the Second World War, are more business-like means than a tavernful of assorted accents of attracting interest and conveying practical suggestions.
ref: 2011, I. L. McClelland, “A Propaganda Play of 1808: F. Enciso Castrillón’s La defensa de Valencia y castigo de traidores”, in Ann L. Mackenzie, editor, Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America: Studies on Culture and Theatre in Memory of I. L. McClelland, Routledge:
glosses: Enough to fill a tavern.
tavernfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tavernful
arbitrary and capricious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Describing the action of committing a deed according to one's will or caprice and therefore implying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power.
hwatu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfwɑːtu/
ipa: /ˈhwɑːtu/
ipa: /ˈwɑːtu/
rhymes: -ɑːtu
Forms: form: hwatu
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 화투 (hwatu), a Sino-Korean word from 花 (“flower”) + 鬪 (“fight”).
Senses: examples: text: One of the most visible Korean amusements, on the other hand, is hwatu, or playing cards.
ref: 1979, Peter Hyun, editor, Introducing Korea: Historical Legacy, Acts of Creation, Way of Life, Food and Games, Discovering Korea, Jungwoo-sa, page 136:
text: The most popular pastime game in Korea is called Hwatu. People play hwatu cards almost anywhere there is a gathering.
ref: 2006, Ju Brown, John Brown, “Chapter Five: Points of Interest”, in China, Japan, Korea: Culture and Customs, BookSurge, →ISBN, page 171:
text: The deck or Hwatu, is divided into twelve suits with four cards per suit. Each suit is decorated with a different flower or tree.
ref: 2012, Matthew Waterhouse, “Everything but the kitchen sink”, in Konglish: The ultimate survival guide for teaching English in South Korea, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 281:
text: Halmoni loved to smoke, drink, and gamble, and especially loved partaking in all three around a deck of hwatu. Hwatu are small hard plastic cards roughly the size of a matchbook. The backs are a solid, brilliant red, and the faces are decorated with colorful illustrations of animals, flowers, and leaves.
ref: 2021, Michelle Zauner, “Double Lid” (chapter 3), in Crying in H Mart, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 29:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Hanafuda playing cards, especially hard plastic cards in a Korean style.
examples: text: Mother came and the four of us sat in a circle and played hwatu.
ref: 2002, In-hun Ch'oe, translated by Shi Chung Park Moore, Stephen Moore, Reflections on a Mask, Homa & Sekey Books, →ISBN, “Christmas Carol”, chapter 1, page 134:
text: In Korea we used to play Hwatu, which means, literally, “the battle of the flowers”, but there were also other games such as Koi-Koi and Go-Stop.
ref: 2015, Anthony Horowitz, “ ‘Pick a Card...’ ” (chapter 10), in Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel, Orion, →ISBN:
text: We played billiards during the daytime, and at night, he suggested me to play Hwatu (Korean poker).
ref: 2020, David Choi, “Thinking about stealing $20.”, in The Autobiography of a 25-year-old: From Prison to Seoul National University, David Choi Publishing Company, →ISBN:
text: "Have you ever played hwatu?" she asks as she deals their cards.
ref: 2024, Elaine U. Cho, Ocean's Godori, Zando, →ISBN:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Any game played using those cards, most commonly go-stop.
arbitrary-precision arithmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Any calculation that is performed on numbers whose digits of precision are limited only by the available memory of the host system.
Groom Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Groom Lake, a dry lake or salt flat next to its airfield, itself named after Groom Range, a mountain range wherein (its southern part) it was discovered, renamed in 1864 after Bob Groom, who discovered minerals in the range.
Senses: glosses: The Area 51 military base in Nevada, United States.
wikipedia: Groom Range
Homey Airport
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Area 51 military base in Nevada, United States.
nattie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of natty.
nattie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nattie
form: most nattie
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of natty.
jailful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jailfuls
form: jailsful
form: gaolful
Etymology: From jail + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The news of his approach struck terror into the hearts of the negroes, who immediately stopped preparing to massacre the whites, and in a few hours the only traces that could be found of the insurrection were several jailfuls of “ringleaders” arrested on suspicion, and swampfuls of followers who had run away to escape the vengeance of the whites.
ref: 1875 August 26, “The Week”, in The Nation: A Weekly Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume XXI, New York, N.Y.: E. L. Godkin & Co., page 125:
text: On the contrary, I served the civil government as loyally as I knew how, and broke down in health from working overtime, trying to properly dispose of overcrowded jailsful before people awaiting trial died.
ref: 1906, James Henderson Blount, Philippine Independence as a National Issue in 1908: An Address Delivered Before the General Assembly of Georgia, August 13, 1906, the Franklin-Turner Company, page 17:
text: You wouldn’t want a whole jailful of good Americans framed.
ref: 1939, Elliot Paul, The Mysterious Mickey Finn:
glosses: Enough to fill a jail.
jailfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jailful
jailsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jailful
cadaveric spasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadaveric spasms
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A rare form of muscular stiffening that occurs at the moment of death and persists into the period of rigor mortis.
cadaveric spasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cadaveric spasm
Tarren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
gaolful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaolfuls
Senses: examples: text: Besides, when Dr. Martineau compares Christ’s substitution to the substitution of a noble citizen in the room of gaolfuls of felons, he excites a prejudice against the Atonement by a false analogy.
ref: 1901, Marcus Dods, chapter IX, in The Atonement in Modern Religious Thought. A Theological Symposium., New York, N.Y.: Thomas Whittaker, page 191:
text: It is impossible to picture civilised, stable, progressive government in the country, side by side with military occupation, gaolfuls of prisoners, periodical destruction of transport, and the ever present fear of the assassin.
ref: 1986, J. Anthony Gaughan, Alfred O’Rahilly II: Public Figure, Kingdom Books, →ISBN, page 184:
text: ‘We like the longer-servers, with the one offence behind them—that is,’ she said to me, ‘your poisoners, your vitriol-throwers, your child-murderers, that the magistrates have turned kind on and kept from the rope. Had we a gaolful of such women, we might send our matrons home and let the convicts lock themselves up.[…]’
ref: 1999, Sarah Waters, Affinity, page 15:
glosses: Dated spelling of jailful.
gaolfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaolful
Hayashi limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hayashi limits
Etymology: Named after Japanese astrophysicist Chushiro Hayashi (25 Jul 1920–28 Feb 2010).
Senses: examples: text: When a star is fully within hydrostatic equilibrium—a condition where the inward force of gravity is matched by the outward pressure of the gas—the star can not exceed the radius defined by the Hayashi limit.^([Wikipedia])
text: However, the approximate locations of the Hayashi limits point to remarkably low masses for the three T Tauri stars investigated here. It should be noted, that the Hayashi limits are valid only for stars in hydrostatic equilibrium.
ref: 1977, Rudolf Kippenhahn, Walter Strohmeyer, The Interaction of Variable Stars with Their Environment, Remeis-Sternwarte, page 69:
text: Since the Hayashi limit approaches close to the main sequence at about 1 M⊙, the 'Hertzsprung gap' between the terminal main sequence and the Hayashi limit is much less marked than at high masses.
ref: 2006, Peter Eggleton, Evolutionary Processes in Binary and Multiple Stars, Cambridge University Press, page 75:
text: The latest-type RSGs^([Red Supergiants]) in the Magellanic Clouds are cooler than the current evolutionary tracks allow, occupying the region to the right of the Hayashi limit where stars are no longer in hydrostatic equilibrium.
ref: 2009, Donald Gerard Luttermoser, Beverly Joy Smith, Robert E. Stencel, editors, The Biggest, Baddest, Coolest Stars: Proceedings of a Workshop, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, page 33:
topics: astrophysics
glosses: A theoretical maximum radius of a star of given mass; the radius at which the inward force of gravity exactly balances the outward pressure of the gas of the star.
wikipedia: Chushiro Hayashi
Related terms: Hayashi boundary
Hayashi track
Hayashi limits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hayashi limit
Tenerife giant lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Tenerife giant lizard, Gallotia goliath, was a one-metre-long herbivore, with powerful jaws.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 98:
glosses: An extinct species of lizard, Gallotia goliath, that lived on Tenerife.
La Gomera giant lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: La Gomera giant lizards
Senses: examples: text: For over a century the La Gomera giant lizard (Gallotia bravoana) was thought to be extinct.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 98:
glosses: A large species of lizard, Gallotia bravoana, native to the island of La Gomera.
Chinese swamp cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese swamp cypresses
Senses: examples: text: […]the branchlets of the bald cypresses, and those of the smaller Chinese swamp cypresses growing with them, turned to a rusty orange colour and were shed.
ref: 1977, Dale A[lan] Russell, A Vanished World: The Dinosaurs of Western Canada (Natural History Series No. 4), Ottawa, Ont.: National Museum of Natural Sciences, →ISBN, page 81:
text: The Chinese swamp cypress is deciduous, and it occurs naturally only on riverbanks and in swamps.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 99:
glosses: A deciduous tree of species Glyptostrobus pensilis, native to subtropical parts of southeastern China.
odd couple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odd couples
Senses: glosses: Two people who have a special connection or are in a relationship but who are completely different from each other; mismatched couple.
Jolimont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A long hill in Seeland, Switzerland.
glosses: A neighbourhood within East Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A western suburb of Perth, in the City of Subiaco, Western Australia.
dwarrowdam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwarrowdams
Etymology: Coined by online Tolkien fans in the early 2010s, from dwarrow, an alternate word for the fantasy race of dwarves in Tolkien's legendarium, and dam (“female parent, mother”).
Senses: examples: text: Kiaran stands at the heart of the room, speaking to a dwarrowdam with fiery red hair.
ref: 2014 May 1, LineofDurin (@Tiorvi), Twitter:
text: Goodnight dwarrows and dwarrowdams. As well as all others. I am retiring to my chambers for the eve. Court shall be held tomorrow.
ref: 2014 December 16, King Thrór (@Actual_Thror), Twitter:
text: Samila smiled and he sensed that this dwarrowdam was tougher than flint and able to go whatever lengths necessary to save her people.
ref: 2017, Anne Olga Vea, A Dragonslayer's Tale, page 472:
topics: fantasy
synonyms: dwarfess
dwarfette
dwarfmaid
qualifier: chiefly Tolkien fandom slang
glosses: A female of the dwarf race.
wikipedia: Dwarves (Middle-earth)
Tolkien's legendarium
looking up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look up to
looked up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of look up to
CBBS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CBBSes
Senses: glosses: Initialism of computer bulletin board system.
barsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barful
Strain 121
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From strain and 121, the temperature (in Celsius) at which the organism lives.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Geogemma barossii, an archaea, one of the most resilient hyperthermophiles known.
sous chef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sous chefs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sous-chef.
sous chefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sous chef: alternative form of sous-chefs.
prisonful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prisonfuls
form: prisonsful
Etymology: From prison + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: When we shall have, as suggested by “A Briton,” thus once for all degraded ourselves to the level of savages, we shall undoubtedly have on our hands a furious and open Irish insurrection, with an American war, and then possibly certain savage deeds in India, perpetrated while suppressing a real insurrection, might rise up against us, and teach us that even that affair might have been managed by fair fighting alone without suffocating prisonsful of sepoys, and murdering peasantry on the line of march.
ref: 1868 January 5, Humphry Sandwith, ““Unspoken Words.””, in The Daily News, number 6,764, London, published 7 January 1868, page 5:
text: They remind us that we carry the load of national debt like a feather-weight; keep armies of paupers in plenty and prisonfuls of prisoners in luxury, and can count upon an indefinite elasticity of revenue.
ref: 1872 July 19, “Coal and the Civil Service”, in The Pall Mall Budget: Being a Weekly Collection of Articles Printed in the Pall Mall Gazette from Day to Day: With a Summary of News, volume VIII, London, page 9 [609]:
text: There have been prisonsful of similar dramas for Mrs. Peterson during her tours.
ref: 1977 March 5, Greg Clark, “Traveling singer has inside message”, in Record Searchlight, volume 125, number 305, Redding, Calif., page 6:
text: The officers, hoping to make their troops obey orders, massacred whole prisonfuls of captives.
ref: 2011, Will Whitaker, The King’s Diamond, HarperPress, →ISBN, page 311:
glosses: Enough to fill a prison.
prisonfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prisonful
prisonsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prisonful
Armidale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Armadale, Isle of Skye, Scotland, with a variation in spelling.
Senses: glosses: A city in the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A local government area in this area of New South Wales; in full, Armidale Regional Council.
breakfastcupsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakfastcupful
innful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innfuls
Etymology: From inn + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Nay, hotel-keepers might make up parties, or rather parcels, and send whole innfuls of guests as “goods.”
ref: 1846 August 8, “Railway Parcels”, in The Spectator. A Weekly Journal of News, Politics, Literature, and Science., volume the nineteenth, number 945, London: Joseph Clayton, page 757:
text: They would go straight to the Garden Room, amid the noise of an innful of diners, and hide in the hanging baskets.
ref: 1989, Joyce Gilmore, The Erwinna Witches and Other Stories, Carlton, →ISBN, page 18:
text: His unsparing terminology would keep an innful of libel lawyers in funds today.
ref: 2006, Thomas Dormandy, “The age of the cathedrals”, in The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part I (The Mists of History), page 80:
glosses: Enough to fill an inn.
innfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innful
wirelessless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wireless + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I've been stranded, utterly abandoned, left wireless—rather, wirelessless.
ref: 2015, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers:
text: We are wirelessless, or probably we should have enjoyed de la Mare's aperçu of Keats tonight.
ref: Quoted in: 2020, Carol Z. Rothkopf, Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 1919–1967
text: She also reflected that a jumpy, wool-gathering wireless operator might cause less confusion ashore. But the fact remained that the yacht was wirelessless.
ref: 2022, William J. Locke, Ancestor Jorico:
glosses: Without a radio set.
brackish waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brackish water
brackishwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brackishwater
unbrackish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbrackish
form: most unbrackish
Etymology: From un- + brackish.
Senses: glosses: Not brackish.
tunfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunful
tunsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunful
curlimacue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curlimacues
Senses: glosses: A curlicue (twisting or curling design).
curlimacues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curlimacue
Strathfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A local government area (Municipality of Strathfield) in Sydney, New South Wales.
freeze brand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeze brands
Senses: glosses: The marking of cattle by metal chilled with dry ice or liquid nitrogen, etc. instead of using a branding iron.
freeze brand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freeze brands
form: freeze branding
form: freeze branded
form: freeze branded
Senses: glosses: To mark (cattle) by this means.
freeze branded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of freeze brand
freeze brands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeze brand
freeze brands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of freeze brand
freeze branding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freeze brand
maenawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maenawls
Etymology: From Welsh maenawl.
Senses: glosses: A group of four trefs or hamlets in pre-Saxon Britain.
maenawls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maenawl